Code of Student Conduct: Intimidation

Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: January 4, 2017

3.35 Intimidation

Conduct in any form that involves an expressed or implied threat to interfere or that has the purpose or reasonably foreseeable effect of interfering with an individual’s personal safety, safety of property, academic efforts, employment or participation in university sponsored activities, and causes the person to have a reasonable apprehension that such harm is about to occur, is prohibited.

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NDSU Bias Report Form

Speech Code Category: Policies on Bias and Hate Speech
Last updated: January 4, 2017

This web site provides NDSU students, faculty, and staff with a web form for reporting acts of bias, bigotry, or hate that occur at NDSU.

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Use this Web form to report an act of bias, bigotry, or hate.

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When NDSU receives a bias report, it will determine the appropriate manner to address and resolve the report in accordance with various options available at NDSU. These options include, but are not limited to:

• (1) Recording the report for tracking purposes and to assess trends (this option may be used, for example, if the reporter requests that no action be taken and NDSU deems the request appropriate or if an anonymous report impedes NDSU’s ability to fully respond);
• (2) Presenting the bias report to NDSU’s Bias Report Response Team to determine how to best handle a report; or
• (3) Responding to the bias report in accordance with NDSU Policy 156, Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Complaint Procedures, NDSU Policy 162, Sexual Harassment, and/or NDSU Policy 603, Sexual Misconduct and Title IX Compliance as necessary (please see below for further information).

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NDSU Policy Manual: Section 603- Sexual Misconduct and Title IX Compliance

Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: January 4, 2017

a) Sexual misconduct is prohibited in all forms, regardless of intent to harm. Sexual assault, sexual exploitation, coercion and sexual harassment are examples of sexual misconduct, and all are prohibited.

b) Also prohibited under Title IX is any rule violated on the basis of the recipient of the behavior’s sex/gender which is severe enough to cause a discriminatory effect. (Examples of this may include but are not limited to bullying, cyber-bulling, relationship violence and stalking.)

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Sexual Harassment: Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when: … 3. Such conduct has the effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work or academic performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment.

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Distribution of Literature: Demonstrations

Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: January 4, 2017

While the campus must be open to the free exchange of ideas, the University may limit the time, place and manner of protests, rallies, and demonstrations. All members of the community are expected to conduct dialogues with dignity and courtesy.

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Any protest, rally or demonstration must be registered with the Director of the Memorial Union and University Police prior to the event. Whenever possible, at least 24 hours lead time will be given.

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NDSU Policy Manual: Section 156- Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Complaint Procedures

Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: January 4, 2017

Harassment – A form of discrimination; unwelcome oral, written, graphic, or physical conduct, based on one or more of the protected classes (see 2.1.1) of an individual (or group), that is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive so as to unreasonably interfere with their education, employment, or other participation in educational programs or activities or that creates a working, learning, or educational program or activity environment that a reasonable person would find hostile, intimidating, or abusive. Harassment may include, but is not limited to, threats, physical contact or violence, offensive jokes, insults or put-downs, slurs or name calling, vandalism/graffiti, or offensive objects or pictures. Petty slights, annoyances, and isolated incidents (unless very serious) typically do not rise to the level of harassment.

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NDSU Policy Manual: Section 162- Sexual Harassment Policy

Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: January 4, 2017

Sexual harassment is defined as: “Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when

1) submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual’s employment or academic achievement,

2) submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions or academic decisions affecting such individual, or

3) such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work or academic performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment.”

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Code of Student Conduct: Other Acts of Harassment

Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: January 4, 2017

Any action or any series of actions that interfere with individuals’ academic efforts, employment, personal safety or participation in university-sponsored co-curricular activities is prohibited.

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Records reveal North Dakota State University’s responses to reports of ‘bias’

March 30, 2017

Christian student groups were often reported to administrators, as were comments by a professor that a student perceived to be anti-Christian. Some university records demonstrated a willingness to defend First Amendment principles, yet others indicate that administrators were willing to intervene and investigate clearly protected political and religious speech. University gave FIRE “the records” we requested, but we had proof that years’ worth of records hadn’t been turned over — until we asked a second time. Following our survey of “bias response teams” — systems created to encourage students to report offensive, yet protected, speech to university administrators — some […]

MySpace Has Administrators in a Frenzy

June 12, 2006

FIRE has been reporting the continued crackdown on students’ expression on Internet sites like MySpace and Facebook. While these sites have given students a new forum to express themselves and communicate with friends, they have also opened a new medium for administrative overview of students’ personal opinions and activities.   When the message boards contain advertisements for wild parties or descriptions of alcoholic exploits, then some might view administrative interference as warranted. Finding such incriminating information, however, involves administrators’ trolling students’ profiles for anything that looks illegal, dangerous, or otherwise unsavory. And there’s the rub.   At North Carolina State […]