Supplemental Sexual Misconduct

Fort Lewis College

  • Speech Code Rating
    Red
  • Speech Code Category
    Harassment Policies
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Gender Based Harassment is prohibited under the Discriminatory Harassment Policy.  It includes conduct (verbal, gestures, written, graphic, physical, cyberbullying) directed against any person or a small group of persons because of basis of actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, that has the reasonably foreseeable effect of creating an offensive, demeaning, intimidating, threatening, or hostile environment for that person or a small group of persons.

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Sexual Harassment:  Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature, unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other visual, verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.

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  1. Examples of Sexual Harassment: (1) unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other visual, verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature; (2) nonconsensual observation, creation or use of images or audio of another person’s sexual activity, intimate body parts or nakedness in person, electronically, through social media, in person, or through physical public posting.
  2. Forms of Sexual Harassment: Sexual Harassment may be subtle and indirect or blatant and overt.  For example, it may (1) be conduct toward an individual of any gender; (2) occur between peers or between individuals in a hierarchical relationship; (3) be aimed at coercing an individual to participate in an unwanted sexual relationship or have the effect of causing an individual to change behavior; or (4) consist of repeated actions or may arise from a single or isolated incident if sufficiently egregious (such as an incident of sexual violence).
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