Students may not engage in any behavior that limits the rights of others in the school community. Examples of violations of the Code involving others include, but are not limited to:
- Physical or verbal abuse that threatens or endangers the health, well-being, or safety of any member or guest of the CCSNH community and includes verbal abuse that is sufficiently serious to deny or limit the victim’s ability to participate in or benefit from the college’s educational programs;
- Intentionally or recklessly causing physical harm or abuse, injury, constraint on another’s physical movement or threat of harm (stated or implied) toward another person.
- Threats of harm or injury, either stated or implied, addressed directly to any member or guest of the CCSNH community or posted in an electronic medium to leave no doubt as to the intended target;
- Acts of intimidation or coercion, whether stated or implied;
- Offenses of domestic violence, dating violence and sexual assault; which would be referred to the campus Title IX officer.
- Acts of harassment and/or retaliation, including discriminatory harassment, directed toward any member or guest of the CCSNH community.
a. Discriminatory harassment refers to the verbal or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility toward an individual on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual identity or expression, national origin, religion, age, physical or mental disability, and sexual orientation; or because of opposition to discrimination or participation in the discrimination complaint process.
b. Retaliation is any adverse action related to participation in an education program taken against a person because a person has filed a report or participated in any in the filing of an incident report or complaint, investigation or hearing process related to student conduct;
7. Hazing, which is defined in NH RSA 631:7 as “any act directed toward a student, or any coercion or intimidation of a student to act or to participate in or submit to any act, when:
a. Such act is likely or would be perceived by a reasonable person as likely to cause physical or psychological injury to any person; and
b. Such act is a condition of initiation into, admission into, continued membership in or association with any organization;” and under this Code includes acts that endanger the mental or physical health or safety of a student, or that destroy or remove public or private property, for the purpose of initiation,
c. admission into, affiliation with, or as a condition for continued membership in, a group or organization.