Policy Prohibiting Title IX Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct, and Discriminatory Harassment: Discriminatory Harassment

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Discriminatory Harassment may include unwelcome conduct based on an individual’s or group’s, race, color, national origin, age, disability, familial status, height, weight, marital status, political affiliation, veteran status, military status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic that interferes with performance, limits participation in University activities, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or objectively offensive environment when viewed from the perspective of both the individual and a reasonable person in the same situation.

A. Discriminatory harassment includes, but is not limited to, the following types of conduct when such conduct is based an individual’s or group’s protected characteristic:

i. Verbal abuse, slurs, derogatory comments or insults about, directed at or made in the presence of an individual or group.

ii. Display or circulation of documents or pictures that are objectively offensive or degrading.

iii. Physical contact or threatening language or behavior.

iv. Damage to, trespass on, or theft of property.