[lifesaver]

Get out NOW.

I dont know about your state, but in Texas, as in other states the Hazing laws CLEARLY state, "Submission to an act of hazing does not constitute a defense against it." TRANSLATION: If you get hazed, by LAW you have an obligation to report it to the admin or police. Failure to do so leaves you in the same legal boat as the hazers. How would you feel if you decided to stick it out and another NM reported it and the actives AND you all got slapped with Class A misdomeanors and got fines and probation and had to go to court and got kicked outta school.

Heres an excerpt from my university's Code of Student Conduct and Policies

Under state law (V.T.C.A. Education Code, Section 51.936) individuals or organizations engaging in hazing could be subject to fines and charged with a criminal offense.

According to the law, a person can commit a hazing offense not only by engaging in a hazing activity but also by soliciting, directing, encouraging, aiding or attempting to aid another in hazing; by intentionally, knowingly or recklessly allowing hazing to occur; or by failing to report in writing to the Office of Student Life firsthand knowledge that a hazing incident is planned or has occurred. The fact that a person consented to or acquiesced in a hazing activity is not a defense to prosecution for hazing under the law.

In an effort to encourage reporting of hazing incidents, the law grants immunity from civil or criminal liability to any person who reports a specific hazing event to the Office of Student Life and immunizes that person from participation in any judicial proceeding resulting from that report.

The penalty for failure to report is a fine of up to $1,000, up to 180 days in jail, or both. Penalties for other hazing offenses vary according to the severity of the injury which results and include fines from $500 to $10,000 and/or confinement for up to two years. The law does not affect or in any way restrict the right of the University to enforce its own rules against hazing.

The law defines hazing as any intentional, knowing, or reckless act, occurring on or off the campus of an educational institution, by one person alone or acting with others, directed against a student that endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student for the purpose of pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, holding office in, or maintaining membership in any organization whose members are or include students at an educational institution. Hazing includes but is not limited to:

C. any activity involving consumption of food, liquid, alcoholic beverage, liquor, drug, or other substance which subjects the student to an unreasonable risk or harm or which adversely affects the mental or physical health of the student;

In Short... Get out Now.

Also know that we are here for you.