Hazing is dangerous and demeaning to the individual targeted and contradicts Chemeketa Community College’s mission statement. Therefore, any act deemed hazing under Oregon law, the Stop Campus Hazing Act, or this policy is strictly prohibited. No individual, student organization, club, team, or any other college-affiliated student group is permitted to plan, engage in, or condone hazing, on or off Chemeketa’s owned and/or controlled property.

What is Hazing?

Chemeketa defines hazing as any intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a person (whether individually or in concert 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 physical preparation necessary for the participation in an athletic team), of physical or psychological injury.

Examples of hazing may include: 

• Subjecting an individual to whipping, beating, striking, branding, or electronic shocking, to place a harmful substance on an individual’s body or to subject an individual to other similar forms of physical brutality
• Causing, coercing, or otherwise subjecting an individual to sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, extreme calisthenics, or other similar activity that subjects the individual to an unreasonable risk of harm or adversely affects the physical health or safety of the individual
• Causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing an individual to consume food, liquid, alcohol, cannabis, controlled substances, or other substances that subject the individual to an unreasonable risk of harm or adversely affect the physical health or safety of the individual
• Any crime against another person that causes, coerces, or requires an individual to perform a duty or task that involves the commission of a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or Federal law
• Causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to perform sexual acts
• Any activity that places another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words or conduct

The college's official hazing policy is Policy #5230.

Additional hazing-related resources:

• National Research Study
• Joining a group? Ask these questions
• Signs of Hazing

How to Report Concerns About Hazing

Any person may report concerns about students including reports of hazing online through the Student Concerns Reporting Form. Reports may be anonymous, however, the reporting party should be aware that choosing to remain anonymous may inhibit the college's ability to perform a thorough investigation.

Investigation Process

Interim action may be taken to suspend the operations of a student group pending the outcome of an investigation. Individual students involved in the alleged conduct may also be removed as an interim action pending the outcome of the investigation. 

The Director of Student Conduct and Community Standards will conduct the investigation according the the Student Rights and Responsibilities handbook procedures.

Prevention & Education

• Healthy and Safe Campus Training for all students that includes Title IX and Anti-Hazing training
• Title IX Training for Athletes that also covers Anti-Hazing content
• Student Life annual education to presidents of student clubs and organizations
• Employee Campus Security Authority Training on Hazing Awareness
• Bystander Intervention

Transparency Report

This report is to be updated bi-annually or as information becomes available beginning July 1, 2025. The latest update was made on Dec. 1, 2025.

There were no findings of responsibility for hazing violations between July 1-Dec. 1, 2025.

Resources

• The college's annual Clery Act safety report on crime statistics can be found on the Public Safety webpage.
• Other campus resources:
  • Student Life Clubs & Organizations
  • Student Conduct & Community Standards
  • Confidential Counseling Services
• Clery Center
• Oregon State Law