Colorado College

Harassment is a special form of discrimination. It may be based on a person's race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, or sexual orientation. It includes a wide range of abusive and humiliating verbal or physical behaviors that are directed against a particular person or persons. In some cases, the conduct may be such that it is clear that it is directed against a particular person or persons, even though the person(s) may not be explicitly identified. While the college considers all discriminatory slurs and conduct to be reprehensible, the creation of a hostile climate for the person(s) against whom the behavior is directed requires more than a casual comment or incidental behavior. The conduct must be sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the person's employment or educational experience at the college.

Behavior
that may constitute sexual harassment under this policy includes unwelcome sexual
advances, requests for sexual favors, and other unwelcome verbal or physical conduct
of a sexual nature where [...] such
conduct has the effect or purpose of substantially interfering with a student’s work or
academic performance or of creating an intimidating, hostile or demeaning employment
or learning environment.

Respect:
Behavior that violates this value includes, but is not limited to:
1. Threatening or causing physical harm, verbal abuse, or other conduct which threatens
or endangers the health or safety of any person;
2. Discrimination, intimidation, harassment [....]

While strongly condemning discrimination, Colorado College also affirms the principle that an academic environment is necessarily
an arena in which controversial points of view may be freely expressed. Freedom of thought and expression is essential to any
institution of higher education. Such institutions exist not only to transmit existing knowledge, but also to expand that knowledge by
testing the old and proposing the new. This mission often inspires vigorous debate on social, religious, economic, and political
issues that arouse the strongest passions. On a campus that is free and open, no idea can be banned or forbidden. No viewpoint or
message may be deemed so hateful that it may not be expressed. Nothing in this Anti-Discrimination Policy should be construed to
interfere with the academic freedom of all persons at the college to express and debate diverse ideas. Persons who object to the
expression of certain ideas should generally counter with refutation, not demands for sanctions or disciplinary action against the
person who has expressed the controversial ideas.

Academic institutions exist for the transmission of knowledge, the quest for truth, the development of students, and the general well-being of society. In the pursuit of these ends, all members of the college community have such basic rights as freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, freedom of personal beliefs, and freedom from personal force and violence, threats of violence and personal abuse. The exercise of such rights is subject to the college’s obligation to maintain an atmosphere consistent with the purposes of academic freedom, social responsibility, and civil order.

HARASSMENT:
Computing resources may not be used to intimidate, threaten, or harass other individuals.
1. Colorado College's computing resources may not be used for any activities that violate the College’s Anti-
Discrimination Policy, Student Code of Conduct, workplace standards, or state or federal laws.
2. Computing resources may not be used to store, print, or send obscene materials or slanderous, harassing, or
threatening messages.

[R]esidential Life staff will approve and post all notices intended for residents in conspicuous places [...] The department of residential life reserves the right to remove all communications that have not been approved for posting or are posted in any area other than the approved bulletin boards.