Hazing: Prohibited Behaviors
What follows are examples of prohibited actions and behaviors constituting hazing, initiation rituals, or physical punishment. This list is not meant to be exhaustive. Forcing, requiring, or pressuring an individual to engage, endure or participate in any of the following activities is explicitly prohibited:
● Consumption of alcohol or other drugs
● Ingestion of any substance
● Shaving any part of the body
● Any activity that is illegal, perverse, publicly indecent or contrary to the individual’s genuine moral beliefs
● Tampering with or damaging property
● Enforcing dietary restrictions of any kind unrelated to healthy nutrition
● Deprivation of sleep and waking up/disturbing individuals during normal sleep hours
● Creation of excessive fatigue unrelated to normal training expectations and activities
● Calisthenics or any type of physically abusive exercise unrelated to normal training
● Paddling, whipping, beating or physical abuse of any kind
● Forced performance of public stunts or buffoonery
● Forced tattooing or branding
● Road trips, kidnapping, drop-offs, or any other such unplanned activities
● Work projects without the participation of the full team membership as planned community service or club service activity
● Assigned or endorsed pranks, such as borrowing or stealing items, painting property or objects, or harassing other individuals or groups
● Subjecting a member to cruel and unusual psychological conditions
● Wearing of apparel in public which is conspicuous, not normally in good taste, or designed to humiliate the individual(s) wearing it
● Morally degrading or humiliating games or activities
● Verbal or cruel harassment, including yelling and screaming
● Line-ups, kangaroo courts or any interrogation not consistent with the legitimate testing for information about the purposes and history of the team
● Sexual rituals, assaults and/or required nudity
● Collective behavior such as marching that has no relationship to sport training or performance
● Activities that promote or encourage the violation of state laws or Vincennes University policies
● Requiring new members to “greet” initiated members
● Requiring the answering of phones or doors with songs, chants, or riddles
● Requiring yelling or screaming upon entering or leaving a facility
● Deception or threat contrived to convince the new member that he/she will not be permitted to join
● Mentally abusive or demeaning behavior