Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3361:40 - Students › Chapter 3361:40-5 - Conduct, Rights and Responsibilities › Section 3361:40-05-06 - Conduct, rights and responsibilities: anti-hazing policy

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								Statement on hazing.
Hazing is intolerable and presents a
				serious risk to the health and safety of students. University of Cincinnati
				prohibits hazing as set forth in this antihazing policy and the laws of the
				state of Ohio.
(B)
								Application.
This anti-hazing policy applies to all
				members of the university community, including faculty, staff, students,
				organizations, alumni, volunteers, as well as visitors and other licensees and
				invitees. "Organization" means registered student organizations; students
				seeking to register as a student organization; intramural, club and varsity
				athletic teams; fraternities, sororities; and other student
				groups.
(C)
								Jurisdiction.
This anti-hazing policy applies to
				conduct that occurs on or off campus, between two or more people who are
				affiliated with the university or any student or other organization associated
				with the university.
(D)
								Definition.
"Hazing" means doing any act or
				coercing another, including the victim, to do any act of initiation into any
				student or other organization or any act to continue or reinstate membership in
				or affiliation with any student or other organization that causes or creates a
				substantial risk of causing mental or physical harm to any person, including
				coercing another to consume alcohol or a drug of abuse, as defined in section
				3719.011 of the Revised Code.
(1)
									It shall not be a
			 defense to a charge of hazing that an individual consented to the conduct in
			 question.
(2)
									Actions and activities which constitute "hazing"
			 include, but shall not be limited to, the following:
(a)
										Any activity that
			 creates a substantial risk of physical or mental harm to the
			 individual.
(b)
										Enduring brutality of a sexual or physical nature,
			 including, whipping, paddling, beating, branding, calisthenics, or exposure to
			 the elements.
(c)
										Wearing anything designed to be degrading or to cause
			 discomfort.
(d)
										Depriving individuals of sleep or proper and adequate
			 means, or access to means, of maintaining body cleanliness.
(e)
										Activities that
			 interfere with an individual's academic efforts by causing exhaustion, or loss
			 of reasonable study time.
(f)
										Use of drugs.
(g)
										Eating or
			 drinking foreign or unusual substances, including alcohol or anything an
			 individual chooses not to eat or drink.
(h)
										Having any object
			 or substance thrown at, poured on, attached to or otherwise applied to the
			 bodies of individuals.
(i)
										Any activity or game that makes an individual the
			 object of amusement, ridicule, or intimidation or which cause the individual to
			 be degraded or humiliated.
(j)
										Kidnapping,
			 transporting and/or stranding anyone.
(k)
										Interrogations or
			 audible stress such as yelling or loud noises.
(l)
										Activities that
			 violate federal, state, or local law, regardless of whether an arrest is made,
			 or criminal charges are brought.
(m)
										Activities which
			 are contrary to the policies and rules of the university.