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Saint Cloud State University
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Residential Life Policy Handbook: Discrimination Policies
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: October 6, 2021[P]hysical abuse, verbal abuse, threats, intimidation, coercion and other Code of Community Standards which threatens the health or safety of any person will not be tolerated in our University housing communities. Read MoreResidential Life Policy Handbook: Documentation and Disciplinary Meetings
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility
Last updated: October 6, 2021Any student directing verbally abusive language, insults, or derogatory statements toward a university staff member (including student staff members) involved in the normal course of duties, including documentation of alleged violations, will face Code of Community Standards action. Read MoreOutdoor Space Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: October 6, 2021Public Expression Areas St. Cloud State University recognizes the tradition of the “public square”; therefore, the university establishes the following outdoor areas for public expression: The mall between Atwood and the Performing Arts Center The mall area in front on the west side of Stewar... Read MoreMinnesota State Colleges & Universities: 1B.1 Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination in Employment and Education
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: October 6, 2021Discriminatory harassment. Discriminatory harassment means verbal or physical conduct that is directed at an individual because of his or her protected class, and that is sufficiently severe, pervasive, or persistent so as to have the purpose or effect of creating a hostile work or educational environment. As requir... Read MoreDisplay and Distribution of Information
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: October 6, 2021All materials physically distributed on campus such as handouts or flyers, or materials posted in reserved spaces such as display cases, easels, or non-public bulletin boards must clearly identify and provide contact information (at minimum a name and email or phone) for the department, program, student organizat... Read MoreE-Mail Acceptable Use Guidelines
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: October 6, 2021Do not send abusive, threatening, or harassing materials. Read MoreStudent Code of Conduct: Prohibited Student Conduct
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: October 6, 2021Intentionally, recklessly, or negligently interfering with, or causing disruption to, normal University or University sponsored activities including, but not limited to: teaching, research, University administration, fire, police or other emergency services, ceremonial events, scheduled interviews, co-curricular act... Read MoreMinnesota State Colleges & Universities: 1B.3.1 Response to Sexual Violence and Title IX Sexual Harassment
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: October 6, 2021For purposes of Title IX, sexual harassment means conduct on the basis of sex that occurs in a college or university’s program or activity in the United States that satisfies one or more of the following: … Unwelcome conduct determined by a reasonable person to be so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive... Read MoreStudent Code of Conduct: Rights and Responsibilities
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: October 6, 2021Individual students and student organizations shall be free to examine and discuss all questions of interest to them and to express opinions publicly and privately. They shall be free to support causes by orderly means that do not substantially disrupt the regular and essential operation of the college or university. Read More
Saint Cloud State University: Thought Reform and Suppression of Free Speech
April 18, 2000
At Saint Cloud State University the campus newspaper, the University Chronicle quoted student Christopher Monson, who argued that a public university had obligations to public access and legal equality: it would be illegal not to allow such persons as credit card companies on campus, just as “not allowing blacks on campus” would be illegal. Four… Read more
Lawless University President Tramples the First Amendment
April 18, 2000
ST. CLOUD, MN—The president of St. Cloud State University (SCSU) was prosecutor, judge, and jury in an unconstitutional assault upon the free speech rights of an undergraduate student. Christopher Monson was quoted in the student newspaper in favor of allowing credit card companies to solicit on campus. His words, unacceptable to the PC language police,… Read more