Student Handbook: Anti-Discrimination

Relevant Excerpt

Discriminatory Harassment
In a student-on-student context, conduct based on a student's sex (including pregnancy), race, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or other protected categories, classes, or characteristics that is severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it adversely affects the individual's education or creates an intimidating, hostile, abusive, or offensive educational environment which interferes with the student's ability to realize the intended benefits of the University's resources and opportunities. Examples of inappropriate behavior that may constitute unlawful Harassment include, but are not limited to, the following, if related to an individual's protected category, class, or characteristic: 

1. Derogatory, disparaging, or disrespectful remarks, comments, slurs, or jokes about a particular person or protected category, class, or characteristic of persons based on, about, or because of a protected category, class, or characteristic;
2. Display of explicit or offensive posters, pictures, drawings, correspondence, digital, or broadcast content (including image(s), video(s)s, or audio), or any other physical, digital, or multimedia materials in any form that reflect disparagingly upon a category, class, or characteristic of persons or a particular person in a protected category or class; 
3. Loud or angry outbursts or obscenities in the workplace directed toward a member of the University Community;
4. Disparate treatment without a legitimate business reason.