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Originally posted by Cream
Is the honor code a school thing or is it among these girls? If it is a school honor code, that cannot prevent students from being held accountable for their bad behavior.
A school can control what occurs off campus. If no one complained about it in the past and the school is unaware, then they can't prevent it. If a school knows that this occurs annually, they have an opportunity and a responsibility to speak out against it. If they were aware, they could have established a policy against hazing.
The answer is by establishing rules of conduct. The problem is that by not addressing and condemning the hazing, the school is condoning it. Regardless of whether or not the participants did so willingly, the school ought to have established an anti-hazing policy if they knew about this event. The fear of a parent filing a lawsuit should not stop a school from punishing a student who breaks a rule.
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You can't make rules for off campus behavior, besides drugs and alcohol. We have an anti hazing policy for our athletes. This wasn't affiliated with athletics, it was just something peers did to each other. The code of conduct is a school written thing.....but in all the past years if girls say "Hey I want to play powderpuff! And they willingly pay $$ to do it and no one gets upset each year, how are you going to write rules around that???? Legally, they did nothing wrong, thats my point. They're not afraid of pissing off lawyer parents, they know that the school has no jurisdiction among making rules for things people do willingly.
You can't say this has happened every year. It hasn't.
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