Student Handbook - Sweet Briar College

conviction. The College will not disclose any such report of conviction
except as provided by law and this policy.
8. Students must abide by the terms of the above policy, as a standard for
participation and completion of a program of study at Sweet Briar College.
9. The College will conduct a biennial review of its program to determine its
effectiveness, make changes where necessary, and ensure that sanctions are
consistently enforced.
10. Federal, state and local law enforcement officials, including the Department
of Safety, will be allowed to investigate and to conduct searches and
seizures to the extent permitted by law.
11. Due to the seriousness of the issue, this Policy is subject to change at any
time, as Sweet Briar College may deem necessary for the protection of
person or property.
12. Students found responsible for drug violations are subject to receiving a full
range of sanctions through the Judicial Process as outlined on pp. 46-51 in
the Student Handbook.
Smoking Policy
Smoking is NOT permitted in any College facility and is prohibited within 50
feet of any academic or administrative building. Smoking is also strongly
discouraged in covered walkways and stairwells where there is heavy foot
traffic (for example, the top of, or underneath the stairwells in the breezeways
between Dew and Reid halls and between Reid and Grammer halls).
The College community is encouraged to use common sense and common
courtesy when smoking outside residence halls. In addition, please use caution
when lighting, smoking, and extinguishing cigarettes or other smoking
materials. Students/community members are liable for any injury to others
and/or damage to property resulting from negligence.
Policy on Hazing and Standards of Group Behavior
PREAMBLE: Sweet Briar College’s Moral, Ethic, & Legal Obligations
The mission of Sweet Briar is to be a student-centered college that values
flexible learning and living experiences in a residential environment; that
encourages the physical well-being of all; ethical awareness; sensitivity to
others; responsibility for one’s actions; individual initiative and the assumption
of personal leadership.
Hazing is the abuse of power to degrade and diminish those who seek
membership into a group. Hazing is antithetical to our historical mission. At the
founding of the college in 1901, Dr. Mary Benedict took a principled stand
against hazing as divisive and regressive, preventing us from achieving our
potential as an intellectual community.
Hazing serves no constructive role within the College, and it is morally and
ethically intolerable as it teaches the wrong lessons. Hazing teaches that
dominion over another should be exercised not with regard to decency and
fairness, but arbitrarily and capriciously. It teaches that respect should be based
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