Policy 03.70.12: Student Conduct Code- Rules and Regulations
Temple University
Relevant Excerpt
Bias-related Intimidation or Harassment. Conduct (including any gesture, written, verbal or physical act), or any electronic communication (which includes, but is not limited to, e-mail, text messaging, and internet posting on web-sites or other social media) that is directed by the Respondent at a person or group and is actually motivated, or reasonably perceived as being motivated, by another person鈥檚 or group鈥檚 actual or perceived membership in a 鈥淧rotected Category,鈥 and that a reasonable person under the circumstances should have known that their actions will:
a. Inflict bodily harm, or severe or pervasive emotional distress upon a person, or
b. Damage a person's and/or the university鈥檚 property, or
c. Place a person in reasonable apprehension of such physical, emotional, or property harm, or
d. Cause substantial disruption in or interference with the orderly operation of the University, or
e. Create a hostile educational environment by severely and pervasively infringing on the rights of one or more students and substantially interfering with one or more students鈥 education.