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CSU POLICY ON ALCOHOL, DRUGS, AND SMOKING
ALCOHOL
Maryland State Law is enforced in all facilities and on the campus. Alcohol may not be possessed or
consumed by anyone. No alcohol is allowed. This is a dry (non-alcohol) campus.
DRUGS
The use, cultivation, manufacture, sale, distribution, and/or possession of drugs or controlled substances
in violation of Federal, State, or Local law are prohibited by the University.
SMOKING
Coppin State University is a smoke-free campus. Smoking is not permitted in any facility. Students,
employees, and visitors are prohibited from smoking tobacco, chewing smokeless tobacco, or using snuff,
in any existing building.
CSU POLICY ON DESTRUCTIVE STUDENT GROUPS
Coppin State University encourages the formation and continued existence student organizations and
clubs, which provide students with the opportunity to participate in their educational experience beyond
the classroom. In making this opportunity available to the student population, Coppin has the obligation
to ensure the fundamental rights of individual members of the groups. Accordingly, Coppin prohibits
individuals or the groups collectively from engaging in verbal or physical abuse, threats, intimidation,
harassment, coercion and/or other conduct which threatens or endangers the mental or physical health or
safety of any person, or which destroys public or private property, for the purpose of recruitment,
initiations, decision into, affiliation with, or as a condition for continued membership in a group or
organization, including but not limited to acts of hazing which are prohibited by law.
Violations of the policy will result in withdrawal of the organization’s charter and/or institutional
recognition for un-chartered groups and will subject individuals who engage in prohibited behaviors to
the disciplinary procedures set forth in the Student Code of Conduct.
DEFINITION OF DESTRUCTIVE GROUPS
A destructive group (cult-like) is a group with a hidden agenda of power which is achieved by deceptive
recruitment and control over the minds and lives of its members.
CHARACTERISTICS OF DESTRUCTIVE GROUPS
As a general rule, be aware that every destructive group can be defined as a group having all of the
following five (5) characteristics:
1. It believes’ the end justifies the means’ in order to solicit funds and recruit people and therefore
uses deception, manipulation, and high pressure tactics when recruiting.
2. It creates a comprehensive environment and lifestyle that occupy the entire person’s attention,
monitors activities such as eating and sleeping, and defines all activities by absolute principles.
3. It forms an elitist totalitarian society and promotes an “us vs. them” mentality.
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