Hazing Awareness, Education and Prevention

Hazing Incident Report Form

 

As part of its commitment in providing a safe and healthy campus environment for all students, faculty, staff, and visitors, Dickinson State University prohibits all forms of hazing.

This website is offered in an effort to create awareness and bring hazing into the open so that it can be addressed. Realizing that unhealthy hazing traditions do not disappear easily, Dickinson State University is committed to providing education that will change cultures that support hazing and supporting students who have concerns.

DSU prohibits hazing in all forms as part of our commitment to fostering a safe and encouraging environment on our campus.  If you feel you or someone you know has been involved in a hazing incident, use the link above to report it or call Campus Safety at 701-290-1068.  

Hazing Policy

Campus Hazing Transparency Report

What is Hazing?

According to the Stop Campus Hazing Act Hazing is any intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a person (whether individually or in concern with other persons) against another person or persons regardless of the willingness of such other person or persons to participate, that is committed in the course of an initiation into, an affiliation with, or the maintenance of membership in, a student organization; and causes or creates a risk, above the reasonable risk encountered in the course of participation in the institution of higher education or the organization (such as the physical preparation necessary for participation in an athletic team), of physical or psychological injury including:
 

• Whipping, beating, striking, electronic shocking, placing of a harmful substance on someone's body, or similar activity;
• Causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, extreme calisthenics, or other similar activity;
• Causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to consume food, liquid, alcohol, drugs or other substances;
• Causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to perform sexual acts;
• Any activity against another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words or conduct;
• Any activity against another person that includes a criminal violation of Local, State, Tribal, or Federal law; and
• Any activity against another person that induces, causes, or requires another person to perform a duty or task that involves a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law.

State Law

NDCC Section 12.1-17-10 - Hazing

A person is guilty of an offense when, in the course of another person's initiation into or affiliation with any organization, the person willfully engages in conduct that creates a substantial risk of physical injury to that other person or a third person. As used in this section, "conduct" means any treatment or forced physical activity that is likely to adversely affect the physical health or safety of that other person or a third person, or which subjects that other person or third person to extreme mental stress, and may include extended deprivation of sleep or rest or extended isolation, whipping, beating, branding, forced calisthenics, overexposure to the weather, and forced consumption of any food, liquor, beverage, drug, or other substance. The offense is a class A misdemeanor if the actor's conduct causes physical injury, otherwise the offense is a class B misdemeanor.

Hazing prevention & Educational Resources

DSU facilitates hazing awareness training and programs on a yearly basis to raise awareness of hazing, gives clubs and groups the resources to choose not to participate in hazing, and encourages victims of hazing to speak out against hazing.

For additional resources follow the web links below

Gordie Center

Stop Hazing