The state of Georgia’s current hazing law (G.S. 16-5-61) makes it “unlawful for any person to haze any student in connection with or as a condition or precondition of gaining acceptance, membership, office, or other status in a school organization.”
Any practices, ceremonies, behaviors, or rites of induction which tend to occasion, require or allow mental or physical suffering, are prohibited.
Specifically, hazing is defined as any action taken or situation created, intentionally or unintentionally, on or off campus, which could be reasonably expected to produce mental or physical discomfort, embarrassment, harassment, ridicule, the violation of college rules and regulations, the violation of the laws or policies of the parent organization and/or the violation of any local, state, and/or national laws. All rules and regulations of LaGrange College as well as local, state, and national laws shall supersede those policies of national or local organizations. All assessments as to the appropriateness of an action will be considered within the context of the standards of the total college community.
Activities considered to be hazing shall include one or both of the following elements: (a) Coercion, either overt or covert, and (b) production of physical or mental discomfort in either the participants or spectators. Such activities suggested by a group or a member of a group to current members will be considered covert coercion even if the activity is said to be "voluntary."
It shall be a violation for any person to haze any student in connection with or as a condition or precondition of gaining acceptance, membership, office, or other status in a school organization.