Policy 03.70.12: Student Conduct Code- Rules and Regulations

Relevant Excerpt

Bias-related Intimidation or Harassment. Conduct (including any gesture, written, verbal or physical act), or any electronic communication (which includes, but is not limited to, e-mail, text messaging, and internet posting on web-sites or other social media) that is directed by the Respondent at a person or group and is actually motivated, or reasonably perceived as being motivated, by another person’s or group’s actual or perceived membership in a “Protected Category,” and that a reasonable person under the circumstances should have known that their actions will:

a. Inflict bodily harm, or severe or pervasive emotional distress upon a person, or
b. Damage a person's and/or the university’s property, or
c. Place a person in reasonable apprehension of such physical, emotional, or property harm, or
d. Cause substantial disruption in or interference with the orderly operation of the University, or
e. Create a hostile educational environment by severely and pervasively infringing on the rights of one or more students and substantially interfering with one or more students’ education.

Examples include, but are not limited to, antisemitic, Islamophobic, anti-Arab, antiAsian, anti-Israeli, anti-Mexican, and/or other conduct that meets the above definition(s). A violation of this Code provision constitutes a Bias Incident and may result in an enhanced sanction.