Walk It Through: The Initiation
Endangering a student for a ritual, the Good Samaritan Act, and a felony on serious injury.
New members of a campus organization are told a ritual means drinking a bottle in an hour.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One initiation at a campus organization. School antihazing policies and penalties, the first degree misdemeanor grade in detail, and other crimes committed along the way are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Good Samaritan ActThe rule that any person, including a licensed physician, who gratuitously and in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency, without objection from the injured person, is not liable for civil damages where the person acts as an ordinary reasonably prudent person would have.
- Felony of the third degreeThe lowest felony degree, punishable by up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.
- HazingAny action or situation that recklessly or intentionally endangers a student's mental or physical health or safety for initiation, admission, affiliation or a tradition of an organization operating under a postsecondary institution.
- Serious bodily injuryA physical condition creating a substantial risk of death, serious disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of a bodily member or organ.