The purpose of this policy is to maintain a safe and respectful campus environment by prohibiting hazing in any form. Hazing undermines the University’s core values of respect, dignity, and personal well-being. This policy aims to protect all students, staff, and faculty from the harmful physical, mental, and emotional effects of hazing activities, while promoting a culture of inclusion, respect, and teamwork. 

Full details about our University hazing policy can be found on the ISU Policies and Procedures webpage.

The state of Idaho defines hazing as subjecting a person to boldly danger or physical harm or the likelihood of bodily danger or physical harm, or to require, encourage, authorize, or permit that the person be subjected to any of the following:

(a)  Total or substantial nudity on the part of the person;

(b)  Compelled ingestion of any substance by the person;

(c)  Wearing or carrying of any obscene or physically burdensome article by the person;

(d)  Physical assaults upon or offensive physical contact with the person;

(e)  Participation by the person in boxing matches, excessive number of calisthenics, or other physical contests;

(f)  Transportation and abandonment of the person;

(g)  Confinement of the person to unreasonably small, unventilated, unsanitary or unlighted areas;

(h)  Sleep deprivation; or

(i)  Assignment of pranks to be performed by the person.

Full details about our state policy can be found on our Idaho Legislature website. 

The federal government defines hazing to mean 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–

(I) is committed in the course of an initiation into, an affiliation with, or the maintenance of membership in, a student organization; and

(II) 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–

(aa) whipping, beating, striking, electronic shocking, placing of a harmful substance on 

                      someone's body, or similar activity;

(bb) causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, 

confinement in a small space, extreme calisthenics, or other similar activity;

(cc) causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to consume food, liquid, alcohol, 

drugs, or other substances;

(dd) causing, coercing, or otherwise inducing another person to perform sexual acts;

(ee) any activity that places another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use 

of threatening words or conduct;

(ff) any activity against another person that includes a criminal violation of local, State, Tribal, or 

Federal law; and

(gg) any activity 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.''.

Full details about the Federal Stop Campus Hazing Act (H.R.5646) can be found on the U.S. Congress website.