Individuals cannot consent to being hazed because hazing is illegal.
Hazers have a need to feel powerful and in control.
Hazing is often about power and control.
82% of deaths from hazing involve alcohol, according to noted hazing expert Hank Nuwer.
Being dropped off and made to find the way back.
Withdrawal from normal activities or friends.
Appearance of sadness or expressions of inferiority.
Appearance of mental exhaustion or withdrawal from normal lifestyle change in personality.
Physical exhaustion from multiple sit ups, running, or other calisthenics.
Not being able to sit down or soreness from paddling.
Not coming home for days or weeks at a time.
Required attendance at late night work sessions, resulting in sleep deprivation.
Performing of special tasks for the members or others.
Required walking in groups to class, the dining hall, etc.
Required “greeting” of members in a specific manner when seen on campus.
Cutting, branding, labeling, or shaving parts of the body.
It includes physical injury, assault or battery, kidnapping or imprisonment, intentionally placing at risk of mental or emotional harm (putting “over the edge”), degradation, humiliation, the compromising of moral or religious values, forced consumption of any liquid or solid, placing an individual in physical danger (at risk) which includes abandonment, and impairment of physical liberties which include curfews or other interference with academic endeavors.
Involves or includes the willful destruction or removal of public or private property for the purpose of initiation or admission into, affiliation with, or as a condition for continued membership in an organization.
Involves ridicule of an individual or group.
Involves humiliation of an individual or group.
Involves degradation of any individual or group.
Involves harassment of any individual or group.
Causes embarrassment to any individual or group.
Causes discomfort to any individual or group.
Creates a risk of injury to any individual or group.
This includes, but is not limited to any situation which: Acts of hazing include acts inflicted by an individual onto one or more people. Acts of hazing only include those acts which are done for the purpose of pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, participating in, holding office in, or maintaining membership in any organization. 750.411t), includes the following willful acts, with or without the consent of the individual involved: physical injury assault or battery kidnapping or imprisonment physical activity that knowingly or recklessly subjects a person or persons to an unreasonable risk of physical harm or to severe mental or emotional harm degradation, humiliation, or compromising of moral or religious values forced consumption of any substance placing an individual in physical danger, which includes abandonment and undue interference with academic endeavors. Hazing as defined in Garret’s Law (M.C.L. Please report any inappropriate behavior or concerns about activities.