Sanctions for students include probation, suspension and expulsion. Harassment on any grounds, directed against individuals, is proscribed. Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for educational, employment or similar decisions affecting an individual's ability to participate in or use an institutionally sponsored or approved activity, employment or resource. B. Sexual harassment may also be established by showing participation in the creation of an intimidating, hostile or demeaning environment established under Section II below. B. Conduct toward another person that has the effect of creating an intimidating, hostile or demeaning environment that adversely interferes with his or her ability to participate in or to realize the intended benefits of an institutional activity, employment or resource.
Harassment consists, in most cases, of more than casual or isolated incidents.
Consideration should be given to the context, nature, scope, frequency, duration and location of the incidents, whether they are physically threatening or humiliating as opposed to merely offensive utterances, as well as to the identity, number and relationships of the persons involved. Harassment shall be found where, in aggregate, the incidents are sufficiently pervasive or persistent or severe that a reasonable person with the same characteristics of the victim of the harassing conduct would be adversely affected to a degree that interferes with his or her ability to participate in or to realize the intended benefits of an institutional activity, employment or resource. If the victim does not subjectively perceive the environment to be hostile, the conduct has not actually altered the conditions of participation and there will be no violation of this policy. It is not necessary to show psychological harm to the victim to establish that the conduct would interfere with the person's ability to participate in or to realize the intended benefits of an institutional activity, employment or resource. C. Other conduct that is extreme and outrageous exceeding all bounds usually tolerated by polite society and that has the purpose or the substantial likelihood of interfering with another person's ability to participate in or to realize the intended benefits of an institutional activity, employment or resource.