WAC 504-26-206

(1) Hazing includes any act committed as part of a person's recruitment, initiation, pledging, admission into, or affiliation with a registered 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 psychological or emotional harm, regardless of the person's willingness to participate.

(2) Hazing activities may include, but are not limited to:

(a) Use of alcohol during activities targeted towards new members;

(b) Striking another person whether by use of any object or one's body;

(c) Creation of excessive fatigue;

(d) Physical and/or psychological shock;

(e) Morally degrading or humiliating games or activities;

(f) Causing, directing, coercing, or forcing a person to consume any food, liquid, alcohol, drug, or other substance regardless of the person's willingness to participate;

(g) Unreasonable or unnatural physical activity.

(3) Hazing does not include practice, training, conditioning and eligibility requirements for customary athletic events such as intramural or club sports and NCAA athletics, or other similar contests or competitions.

(4) Hazing is prohibited both on and off campus.

(1) Hazing includes any

activity committed in the course of initiation into, affiliation with, or maintenance of membership in a student organization, athletic team, or living group that:

(a) Causes or creates a risk of physical or psychological injury, above the reasonable risk encountered in the course of participation in the institution of higher education or the organization; or

(b) Endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student, regardless of the person's willingness to participate.

(2) Examples include, but are not limited to:

(a) Whipping, beating, striking, electronic shocking, placing of a harmful substance on someone's body, or similar activity;

(b) Causing, directing, coercing, forcing, or otherwise inducing sleep deprivation, excessive fatigue, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, extreme calisthenics, unreasonable or unnatural physical activity, or other similar activity;

(c) Causing, directing, coercing, forcing, or otherwise inducing another person to consume food, liquid, alcohol, drugs, or other substances;

(d) Causing, directing, coercing, forcing, or otherwise inducing another person to perform sexual acts;

(e) Any activity that places another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words or conduct;

(f) Any activity against another person that includes a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law;

(g) Causing, directing, coercing, forcing, or otherwise inducing another person to perform a duty or task that involves a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law;

(h) Use of alcohol during activities targeted towards new members;

(i) Morally degrading, humiliating, or embarrassing games or activities; or

(j) Creating, enforcing, or exploiting power imbalances between members.

(3) Hazing does not include practice, training, conditioning and eligibility requirements for customary athletic events, such as intramural or club sports and NCAA athletics, or other similar contests or competitions.

(4) Hazing is prohibited both on and off campus.