Walk It Through: The Initiation
Danny's Law, the first call for help, and aid given before help arrives.
Prospective members of a college organization are told that joining means drinking until they pass out.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One college organization's initiation. School antihazing policies, other crimes committed along the way, and what substantial risk to life means 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 lawThe protection for licensed physicians, nurses and emergency medical technicians who in good faith render emergency care without compensation at the scene of an emergency or accident, and for others trained in first aid who give care, without compensation, to the level of that training.
- First callerA person who was the first to call for someone who appeared to need immediate medical help, gave their name, the address and the medical issue, and stayed and cooperated until help arrived. That person is not guilty of hazing.
- HazingKnowingly and actively participating in, soliciting, causing or planning a willful act, on or off campus, against a student or a prospective, current or former member of a college organization, that recklessly endangers their mental or physical health or safety for initiation, admission or continued membership.