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Hazing Prevention

Hazing

As part of our commitment to creating a safe and welcoming campus environment, Skagit Valley College prohibits hazing WAC 132D-150-050.9, SVC OPPM 3070. Washington State law also prohibits hazing ().

秋葵视频 provides students and employees with educational programming on hazing that includes information on hazing awareness, prevention, intervention, and the College鈥檚 policies prohibiting hazing.

Any act committed as part of a person鈥檚 recruitment, initiation, pledging, admission into, or affiliation with a student organization, athletic team, or living group, or any pastime or amusement engaged in with respect to such an organization, athletic team, or living group that causes, or is likely to cause, bodily danger or physical harm, or serious psychological or emotional harm, to any student or other person attending a public institution of higher education in this state, including causing, directing, coercing, or forcing a person to consume any food, liquid, alcohol, drug, or other substance which subjects the person to risk of such harm, regardless of the person鈥檚 willingness to participate. 
 
鈥淗azing鈥� does not include customary athletic events or other similar contests or competitions. Consent is not a valid defense against hazing. (WAC 132D-150-050.9)

Examples of actions and activities which may be hazing include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Compelling someone to consume alcohol or drugs
  • Requiring someone to participate in activities (pranks, scavenger hunts, etc.) that encourage property damage or theft
  • Making someone engage in sexual behaviors or exhibitionism
  • Morally degrading or humiliating games or activities which make someone the object of amusement, ridicule, or intimidation
  • Sexual, racial, and other discriminatory harassment
  • Requiring someone to eat or drink unusual substances or large amounts
  • Compelling someone to engage in acts of personal servitude
  • Transporting someone against their will, abandoning someone at a distant location, or conducting any 鈥渒idnap,鈥� 鈥渄itch鈥� or 鈥渞oad trip鈥� that may in any way endanger or compromise their health, safety, or comfort
  • Causing someone to be indecently exposed or exposed to the elements
  • Requiring someone to remain in a fixed position for a long period of time
  • 鈥淟ine-ups鈥� involving intense shouting of obscenities or insults
  • Excluding someone from social contact for prolonged periods of time

If you are asked to take part in hazing activities or are uncomfortable with the instructions given as a new group member, you have the right to say no.

 

If you see or experience hazing, you can report your concerns at Incident Reporting 鈥� 秋葵视频 or contact the Manager of Student Conduct.

If an employee, student employee, or volunteer has 鈥渞easonable cause鈥� to believe hazing has occurred, they are required to report the incident. 鈥淩easonable cause鈥� means receiving a credible written or oral report alleging hazing or potential or planned hazing.

秋葵视频 had no reported cases of hazing during the 2020-2021 academic year.

Sam Martinez, a first-year student at Washington State University, died of alcohol poisoning while pledging a fraternity in 2019. In 2022, the State of Washington passed Sam鈥檚 Law (HB 1751). This law requires colleges and universities to provide hazing awareness and prevention education. As part of Sam鈥檚 Law, all 秋葵视频 students and employees need to complete online hazing prevention training. The College must also prepare a quarterly hazing report and maintain a Hazing Prevention Committee.

秋葵视频 provides an online training to students that includes information on hazing awareness, prevention, intervention, and the College鈥檚 policies prohibiting hazing.
All employees including student employees receive an online hazing prevention training on the signs and dangers of hazing, as well as the College鈥檚 prohibition against hazing.

Get Inclusive Hazing Prevention Course for SVC employees and students:

Hazing Policies and Procedures

Hazing Reporting

Passed in 2022,  requires Washington state colleges and universities to publish a report disclosing all student groups found responsible for engaging in hazing on a quarterly basis.

The report must be published at least forty-five (45) days before fall quarter commences and at least ten (10) days before the start of any other academic quarter. The report must contain the beginning and ending dates for the hazing investigation, the dates the student group was charged with hazing and the date it was found responsible for the violation, a description of the incident, and a description of the sanctions and the date they were imposed. Each report must be retained for at least five years and comply with the Family Educational Records and Privacy Act (FERPA).

Hazing Reports

  • There were no reports of, or investigations related to hazing during the 2022-23 academic year.

How to Report

If you see or experience hazing, you can report your concerns at Incident Reporting 鈥� 秋葵视频 or contact the Manager of Student Conduct.

Employees, student employees, and volunteers must report any incident where they have 鈥渞easonable cause鈥� to believe hazing has occurred. 鈥淩easonable cause鈥� means receiving a credible written or oral report alleging hazing or potential or planned hazing.