APPENDIX B

COLLEGE POLICY PROHIBITING HAZING

The College reserves the right to take disciplinary action against individual students and/or groups who are involved in hazing activities, especially those which endanger the physical &/or mental health of those involved.  Such disciplinary action may be taken independently of state or local prosecutorial actions regardless of the outcome of such prosecutorial actions. Hazing on the part of students, faculty, or staff is strictly forbidden, whether on or off campus. Any hazing activity described below this section upon which the initiation or admission into or affiliation with an organization sanctioned or authorized by LCC shall be presumed to be a forced activity, even if the student willingly participated in such activity.

For purposes of clarification:

1. Hazing means an activity that recklessly or intentionally endangers the mental health or physical health or safety of a student for the purpose of initiation or admission into or affiliation with any organization operating as an entity of LCC;

2. Endanger the physical health shall include but not be limited to any brutality of a physical nature, such as whipping, beating, branding, forced calisthenics, exposure to the elements, forced consumption of any food, alcoholic beverage as defined in Kansas Statues, low-point beer beverage as defined in Kansas Statutes, drug, controlled dangerous substance, or other substance, or any other forced physical activity which could adversely affect the physical health or safety of the individual; and

3. Endanger the mental health shall include any activity, except those activities authorized by law, which would subject the individual to extreme mental stress, such as prolonged sleep deprivation, forced prolonged exclusion from social contact, forced conduct which could result in extreme embarrassment or any other forced activity which could adversely affect the mental health or dignity of the individual.