Walk It Through: The Initiation
Conduct that endangers a student, consent that is no defense, and CPR attempted in good faith.
Pledges are told initiation week means no sleep and forced exercise every night.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One pledge week. The separate duty to report hazing, school policies on hazing, 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.
- Emergency careCare a person attempts in good faith and without compensation, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation or defibrillation. The person is not liable for acts or omissions resulting from the attempt, other than gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.
- HazingAny conduct or method of initiation into a student organization, on public or private property, that wilfully or recklessly endangers the physical or mental health of a student or other person.