Because of the weather forecast, we are CANCELING the
Sunday afternoon outdoors MIT Lindy Hop Society dance.
Sunday afternoon dances will return next year.
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P.S.:
ANTI-HAZING LAW
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In accordance with Massachusetts law, all student groups are
required to distribute a copy of these laws to their members
(see Section 19).
If you have any questions, concerns, or want to report
questionable behavior or violations of these policies,
please email asa-president@mit.edu (confidential,
non-archived) and/or Leah Flynn (laflynn@mit.edu, Director
of the Student Activities Office).
THE GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS
Chapter 269: Section 17. Hazing; organizing or participating; hazing
defined
Section 17. Whoever is a principal organizer or participant in the
crime of hazing, as defined herein, shall be punished by a fine of not
more than three thousand dollars or by imprisonment in a house of
correction for not more than one year, or both such fine and
imprisonment.
The term "hazing" as used in this section and in sections
eighteen and nineteen, shall mean any conduct or method of initiation
into any student organization, whether on public or private property,
which wilfully or recklessly endangers the physical or mental health
of any student or other person. Such conduct shall include whipping,
beating, branding, forced calisthenics, exposure to the weather,
forced consumption of any food, liquor, beverage, drug or other
substance, or any other brutal treatment or forced physical activity
which is likely to adversely affect the physical health or safety of
any such student or other person, or which subjects such student or
other person to extreme mental stress, including extended deprivation
of sleep or rest or extended isolation.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section to the contrary,
consent shall not be available as a defense to any prosecution under
this action.
Chapter 269: Section 18. Failure to report hazing
Section 18. Whoever knows that another person is the victim of hazing
as defined in section seventeen and is at the scene of such crime
shall, to the extent that such person can do so without danger or
peril to himself or others, report such crime to an appropriate law
enforcement official as soon as reasonably practicable. Whoever fails
to report such crime shall be punished by a fine of not more than one
thousand dollars.
Chapter 269: Section 19. Copy of Secs. 17 to 19; issuance to students
and student groups, teams and organizations; report
Section 19. Each institution of secondary education and each public
and private institution of post secondary education shall issue to
every student group, student team or student organization which is
part of such institution or is recognized by the institution or
permitted by the institution to use its name or facilities or is known
by the institution to exist as an unaffiliated student group, student
team or student organization, a copy of this section and sections
seventeen and eighteen; provided, however, that an institution's
compliance with this section's requirements that an institution
issue copies of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen to
unaffiliated student groups, teams or organizations shall not
constitute evidence of the institution's recognition or
endorsement of said unaffiliated student groups, teams or
organizations.
Each such group, team or organization shall distribute a copy of this
section and sections seventeen and eighteen to each of its members,
plebes, pledges or applicants for membership. It shall be the duty of
each such group, team or organization, acting through its designated
officer, to deliver annually, to the institution an attested
acknowledgement stating that such group, team or organization has
received a copy of this section and said sections seventeen and
eighteen, that each of its members, plebes, pledges, or applicants has
received a copy of sections seventeen and eighteen, and that such
group, team or organization understands and agrees to comply with the
provisions of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen.
Each institution of secondary education and each public or private
institution of post secondary education shall, at least annually,
before or at the start of enrollment, deliver to each person who
enrolls as a full time student in such institution a copy of this
section and sections seventeen and eighteen.
Each institution of secondary education and each public or private
institution of post secondary education shall file, at least annually,
a report with the board of higher education and in the case of
secondary institutions, the board of education, certifying that such
institution has complied with its responsibility to inform student
groups, teams or organizations and to notify each full time student
enrolled by it of the provisions of this section and sections
seventeen and eighteen and also certifying that said institution has
adopted a disciplinary policy with regard to the organizers and
participants of hazing, and that such policy has been set forth with
appropriate emphasis in the student handbook or similar means of
communicating the institution's policies to its students. The
board of higher education and, in the case of secondary institutions,
the board of education shall promulgate regulations governing the
content and frequency of such reports, and shall forthwith report to
the attorney general any such institution which fails to make such
report.
MIT Non-Discrimination Policy
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed to
the principle of equal opportunity in education and
employment. The Institute does not discriminate against
individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age,
genetic information, veteran status, ancestry, or national
or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational
policies, admissions policies, employment policies,
scholarship and loan programs, and other Institute
administered programs and activities, but may favor US
citizens or residents in admissions and financial aid.
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