(1) Hazing: Is any act committed as part of a person's recruitment, initiation, pledging, admission into, or affiliation with a student organization, athletic team, or living group, or any pastime or amusement engaged in with respect to such an organization, athletic team, or living group that causes, or is likely to cause, bodily danger or physical harm, or serious psychological or emotional harm to any student at the university.
(2) Examples of hazing include, but are not limited to, causing, directing, coercing, or forcing a person to consume any food, liquid, alcohol, drug, or other substance which subjects the person to risk of the harm identified in subsection (1) of this section, regardless of the person's willingness to participate.
(3) Hazing does not include customary athletic events or other similar contests or competitions.
(4) Students may be held responsible for participating in hazing and/or for conspiring to engage in hazing.
(5) Student organizations, associations, athletic teams, or living groups that knowingly permit hazing to be conducted by its members or by others subject to its direction or control violate this rule.
[Statutory Authority: RCW
28B.35.120(12). WSR 23-01-027, § 172-121-315, filed 12/9/22, effective 1/9/23.]