on or towards another person without that person’s permission, except in reasonable selfdefense. The use of physical force includes both using one’s own body parts as well as using other items. 2.4.2. Brandishing, pointing, or using a knife, gun, or other weapon towards another person, except in reasonable self-defense. 2.4.3. Restraining or transporting another person without that person’s permission. 2.4.4. Making bomb threats. 2.4.5. Harassment, which includes, but is not limited to: Conduct towards another person that is severe or pervasive enough to create an objectively and subjectively intimidating, hostile, or demeaning environment that substantially interferes with the individual’s ability to participate in or to realize the intended benefits of an Institutional activity or resource; and 2.4.6. Sexual Harassment, which is conduct on the basis of sex that satisfies one or more of the following: 2.4.6.1. An employee of an institutional conditioning the provision of education benefits on participation in unwelcome sexual conduct (i.e., quid pro quo); or 2.4.6.2. Unwelcome conduct that a reasonable person would determine is so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the institution’s education program or activity; or 2.4.6.3. Sexual assault (as defined in the Clery Act), dating violence, domestic violence, or stalking as defined in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the definitions of which are set forth in BOR Policy 1:17.1. 2.4.7. Stalking, which is engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for the person’s safety or the safety of others, or suffer substantial emotional distress. 2.4.7.1. “Course of conduct” means two or more acts, including, but not limited to, acts in which the stalker directly, indirectly, or through third parties, by any action, method, device or means, follows, monitors, observes, surveils, threatens, or communicates to or about a person, or interferes with a person’s property. 2.4.7.2. “Substantial emotional distress” means significant mental suffering or anguish that may, but does not necessarily, require medical or other professional treatment or counseling 2.4.8. Hazing, which includes, but is not limited to, an act that, as an explicit or implicit condition for initiation to, admission into, affiliation with, or as a condition for continued membership in a group or an organization: • Is likely to, or would be perceived by a reasonable person as likely to, endanger the physical health of an individual or cause psychological discomfort or distress through treatment that a reasonable person would consider to be humiliating, intimidating, or demeaning; • Destroys or removes public or private property; • Involves the consumption of alcohol or other substances to excess; or • Violates any Board Policy or Institutional Policy. 2.4.8.1. The express or implied permission of the individual being hazed does not make the behavior acceptable. It is also a violation of this provision to solicit, aid, or attempt to aid another person in planning or committing Hazing. 73 NSU STUDENT HANDBOOK 2024-25
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