Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct: Responsibilities
Indiana University - Kokomo
Relevant Excerpt
Verbal abuse of another person, including the following:
a. An express or implied threat to:
1. Interfere with an individual鈥檚 personal safety, academic efforts, employment, or participation in university-sponsored activities and that under the circumstances causes the person to have a reasonable apprehension that such harm is about to occur; or
2. Injure that person, or damage his or her property; or
b. "Fighting words鈥 that are spoken face-to-face as a personal insult to the listener or listeners in personally abusive language inherently likely to provoke a violent reaction by the listener or listeners to the speaker.