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P106: Sexual Misconduct and Reporting Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 18, 2020Sexual Harassment is: unwelcome sexual advances, unwelcome requests for sexual favors, or requests for sexual favors in exchange for some benefit and/or unwelcome verbal, physical or communicative (verbal, non-verbal and electronic) conduct of an abusive sexual nature which interferes with an individual’s work... Read MoreP109: Appropriate Use of Information Technology
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies
Last updated: September 18, 2020This Policy applies to all Users of IT Systems, including but not limited to University students, faculty, and staff. … The following categories of use are inappropriate and prohibited: … Harassing or threatening use. This category includes, for example, display of offensive, sexual material in the workp... Read MoreThe Code of Student Responsibility: Offenses Against Persons
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 18, 2020No student shall threaten, assault, haze, intimidate, bully or otherwise physically, psychologically, verbally, or in writing by electronic means or otherwise, abuse any other person. This includes, but is not limited to, incidents of bias-related acts of assault or abuse, or any incidents of verbal, written, physic... Read MoreTitle IX Grievance Policy and Procedure
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: September 18, 2020For the purposes of this Title IX Grievance Policy, “covered sexual harassment” includes any conduct on the basis of sex that satisfies one or more of the following: … Unwelcome conduct that a reasonable person would determine is so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a pers... Read MoreP107R: Public Assembly
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: September 18, 2020Free speech and peaceful assembly are rights of citizens and are fundamental to the University as a center for open inquiry in the search for knowledge and insight. The University is strongly committed to the protection of these rights for all members of the campus community. However, these rights bring with them a ... Read More
Stony Brook University Latest Combatant in War on Humor
October 8, 2012
While most of us see college athletics as a form of entertainment, many universities seem to take them a little too seriously. Stony Brook University (also known as SUNY-Stony Brook) in New York appears to be among that group. It seems the Seawolves’ athletic department didn’t think it was very funny when a campus publication,… Read more
Stony Brook Follows South Florida’s Playbook, Denies Funding to YAF
March 21, 2011
For the past few weeks, FIRE has been in contact with the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) at Stony Brook University in New York, after the group was denied recognition by Stony Brook’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG). The USG declared the group too similar to Stony Brook’s College Republicans. This puts us in territory remarkably… Read more
‘The New York Times’ Looks at Middle East Controversies on Campus
February 26, 2007
Karen Arenson has an article in The New York Times this morning about the film “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West,” which she calls “the latest flashpoint in the bitter campus debate over the Middle East.” The film shows anti-Western clips from Arab television programming and documentary footage of suicide bombers, at times… Read more