Hazing
The MGH Institute of Health Professions does not tolerate any form of hazing. In compliance with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' anti-hazing statute, the Institute provides each student with a copy of the state law. This law defines hazing as "any conduct or method of initiation into any student organization, whether on public or private property, which willfully or recklessly endangers the physical or mental health of any student or other person. Such conduct shall include whipping, beating, branding, forced calisthenics, exposure to the weather, (forced) consumption of any food, liquor, beverage, drug or other substance, or any brutal treatment or forced physical activity which is likely to adversely affect the physical health or safety of any such student or other person, or which subjects such student or other person to extreme mental stress, including extended deprivation of sleep or rest or extended isolation." Disciplinary action will be taken in cases of alleged hazing.