NUMBER:	STAF 3.05
SECTION:	Division of Student Affairs

SUBJECT:	Hazing

DATE:		June 1, 1992 (revised)

Policy for:	Columbia Campus
Procedure for:	Columbia Campus
Authorized by:	Dennis A. Pruitt
Issued by:	Student Life
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     I.     UNIVERSITY POLICY ON HAZING  
     
        No organization, registered or otherwise, officially or in 
        fact, may participate in the activity of hazing.
     
        Hazing is any activity undertaken by a group or organization or
        a member of that group or organization in which members or 
        prospective members are subjected to activities which harass, 
        intimidate, physically exhaust, impart pain, cause undue mental
        fatigue or mental distress, or which cause mutilation or 
        alteration of the body or parts of the body.  Such activities 
        include but are not  limited to, tests of endurance, submission
        of members or prospective members to potentially dangerous
        or hazardous circumstances, activities which have a foreseeable
        potential for resulting in personal injury, or any activity 
        which by its nature is so profound that it would have a 
        potential to cause severe mental anxiety, mental distress, 
        panic, human degradation, or public embarrassment.
     
        Registered organizations and groups shall be permitted certain 
        initiation ceremonies and activities, which when examined by 
        the ordinary University student, would seem reasonable under
        the circumstances and justified in view of the purpose for
        which they are conducted.
     
        It shall not constitute a defense to the charge of hazing that
        the participants took part voluntarily, that they voluntarily 
        assumed the risks or  hardship of the activity, or that no 
        injury in fact was suffered.
     
        For information on the South Carolina Hazing Law, the USC Hazing 
        Policy, or to initiate a complaint for alleged hazing, contact 
        the Director of Student Life.
     
 

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