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Student Handbook: Title IX Policy and Guidelines

Virginia State University

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Sexual harassment is a form of discrimination based on sex. It is defined as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other conduct of a sexual nature including: verbal (e.g., specific demands for sexual favors, sexual innuendoes, sexually suggestive comments, jokes of a sexual nature, sexual propositions, or sexual threats); non-verbal (e.g., sexually suggestive emails, other writings, articles or documents, objects or pictures, graphic commentaries, suggestive or insulting sounds or gestures, leering, whistling, or obscene gestures); ...

The following acts are prohibited and therefore are policy violations: ...

FIRE and student organization will not engage in sexual harassment; obscene phone calls; indecent exposure; other electronic means or devices, including pictures, video, electronic messages and social media

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