Ram Student Handbook: Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Policy

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Examples of discriminatory harassment, all of which are prohibited by this Policy, include, but are not limited to:

• Physically harassing another individual or group because of that person’s or persons’ membership in a protected class by assaulting, touching, patting, pinching, grabbing, staring, leering at them, making lewd gestures, invading their personal space, blocking their normal movement, or other physical interference.
• Encouraging others to physically or verbally abuse an individual (or group of individuals) because of that person or persons’ membership in a protected class.
• Threatening to harm an individual or group because of that person or persons’ membership in a protected class.
• Directing epithets, slurs, derogatory comments, unwelcome jokes or stories at an individual or group because of that person or persons’ membership in a protected class.
• Displaying hostile, derogatory and/or intimidating symbols/objects, such as posters, cartoons, bulletins, drawings, photographs, magazines, written articles or stories, screen savers, or electronic communications, to an individual or group because of that person or persons’ membership in a protected class.

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Members of the academic community should not assume that any of the forms of speech described above are protected by the principles of academic freedom or the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.