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Discriminatory Harassment

Discriminatory harassment is defined as unwelcome and objectively offensive conduct that abuses, threatens, mocks, intimidates, bullies, diminishes, hazes, or disparages another person or persons, or that inflicts or attempts to inflict bodily harm or severe emotional harm upon another person or persons, because of one’s actual or perceived membership in a protected class, and that may contribute to a hostile education, work, or living environment. ...

A hostile environment is created when discriminatory harassment is:  severe or persistent or pervasive; and  objectively offensive, such that it  unreasonably interferes with, denies, or limits an individual’s or group’s ability to participate in or benefit from the University’s educational, employment, residential, or social program. ...

Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment

A hostile environment is created when sexual harassment is  severe or persistent or pervasive, such that it  unreasonably interferes with, denies, or limits an individual’s or group’s ability to participate in or benefit from the University’s educational, employment, residential, or social program.