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Sexual harassment can include:

- personal jokes or negative comments about you personally or about you as a female or male (gender harassment) ....

Sexual harassment occurs when unwanted attention of a sexual nature interferes with a person's ability to obtain an education, work or participate in recreational or social activities at UCSB.

Verbal and nonverbal harassment made
directly or indirectly (via email, social networking sites, written messages etc.) is
not tolerated. This includes threats, malicious pranks, abusive name-calling, prank
phone calls racial, gender, or sexual orientation harassment.

Harassment, defined as conduct that is so severe and/or pervasive, and objectively offensive, and that so substantially impairs a person’s access to University programs or activities that the person is effectively denied equal access to the University’s resources and opportunities.

Residents and their guests are required to comply with official requests of University staff
members. Not answering doors, being uncooperative or verbally abusive, failing to provide
information, providing false information, or interfering with staff is prohibited.

Our community requires the respectful exchange of ideas. People should be passionate about what they believe and how they express that belief, but they must also be civil in both word and deed.

Mutual respect is a non-negotiable. What this means is that there are some boundaries that should not be crossed. Intolerant and disrespectful behavior, especially regarding race, sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, and religion, compromises our sense of community and our ability to live and learn together.

Everyone who chooses to live in or visit our residential communities
must understand that we will not tolerate any form of bigotry, threats,
intimidation, violence, or other forms of harassment against any member
of our community. In addition, we will not accept ignorance, humor,
anger, alcohol or substance abuse as an excuse, reason, or rationale for
such behavior. The disciplinary action that will follow such behavior may
include, but is not limited to, immediate removal from the residence
halls, exclusion from the activities of UC Santa Barbara, and/or legal
prosecution.

Free Speech Areas: ... a. University Center Lawn: All requests will be submitted to the University Center Scheduling Office.
Faculty Club Green, Student Affairs/Administrative Services Building Courtyard, and the Campbell Hall Plaza: All requests will be submitted to the Campus Scheduling Office. All space assignments will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis.
Storke Plaza: All requests will be submitted to the Campus Scheduling Office. All space assignments will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Each campus organization/department may request the plaza for three special events (i.e., speaker, cultural week, one-day rally, performing artist) each quarter as far in advance as desired. A series (related events throughout the quarter) is not defined as a special event. Thereafter, all additional requests may be scheduled no more than three weeks prior to the event.
Arbor Mall: Two types of activities can occur in the Arbor Mall.
Individual students, faculty, and staff and recognized campus organizations may use the tables in the Arbor Mall on a first-come, first-served basis for display and distribution of information and informal gatherings. The displays must fit on the table(s) provided. Free-standing displays must be approved by the Office of Student Life. Such approval will be based on safety issues, such as size of the sign, ability of the stand to withstand wind, location in relation to the fire lane, etc. Non-campus-affiliated individuals and groups may also exercise the constitutionally protected rights of free expression, speech, assembly, worship and distribution of literature incidental to the exercise of these freedoms. Use by campus-affiliated individuals and groups will be given priority. Additionally, any non-campus-affiliated individual or group wishing to place a free-standing display must have that display approved in advance by the Office of Student Life and will be judged on the same criteria as stated above.

The second type of activity allowed in this area is scheduled events. These events will be limited to information fairs that can include booths, tables, or large displays. All requests for such events will be submitted to the Campus Scheduling Office. All space assignments will be processed on a first-come, first- served basis. These events may NOT include any form of sound amplification or drumming.

Campus Green: All requests will be submitted to the Campus Scheduling Office. All space assignments will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis.

All postings must be approved by the Resident Director of the building. Posting materials
on room/suite, hallway, or floor lounge windows is prohibited. Any signs or objects
deemed offensive may be removed.

USER shall not use THE SERVICE to commit any nuisance, annoy, molest, defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.

Hate incidents are similar to hate crimes in that the act is directed against a person or persons based on the victim's actual or perceived race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation,
age, disability, or position in a labor dispute, and the victim is made aware that her/his status is offensive to another. The difference between a hate incident and a hate crime is that a hate incident is not a criminal act. Examples of hate incidents include:
* Offensive materials such as hate flyers placed in mailboxes or thrown on lawns.
* Hate materials, not resulting in property damage, such as demeaning caricatures depicting a certain group.
* Hate graffiti in public places not directed against a specific target such as an epithet on a vacant building.
... If you are the victim of a hate crime or incident, the Assistant Judicial Affairs Coordinator will present you with a variety of options over which you will have decision-making authority.

While first-person report are preferred and allow for the broadest range of response options, this form may also be completed anonymously
and submitted via campus or US Mail, or via email to the Assistant Judicial Affairs Coordinator.

The University is committed to assuring that all persons may exercise the constitutionally protected rights of free expression, speech, assembly, and worship.