Examples of sexual harasment

1. Physical contact of a sexual nature including unnecessary touching, patting, hugging, or brushing against a person’s body.
2. Explicit or implicit propositions to engage in sexual activity
3. Comments of a sexual nature, including:
   1. Sexually explicit statements or questions
   2. Sexually explicit jokes or anecdotes
   3. Remarks of sexual nature regarding a person’s clothing or body
   4. Whistling, ogling, barking, or leering
   5. Remarks about sexual activity
4. Inappropriate exposure to sexually oriented graffiti, pictures, posters, cartoons, or other such materials
5. Physical interference with or restriction of an individual’s movements
6. Sexual gestures
7. Sexually explicit emails, away messages, voice mails
8. Insistent invitations for dates
9. Quid pro quo –This is a Latin phrase that basically translates to “this for that”. This type of harassment occurs when someone (such as an employment supervisor or an academic instructor) offers a tangible benefit in exchange for sexual favors.
10. Being told intimate stories of marital problems/sexual exploits
11. Course Material, Classroom instruction, classroom environment, instructor that condones or promotes sexual harrassment
12. Inappropriate questions about your dates or your sexual partners.

1. A student finds that she does not enjoy going to class due to the fact that her professor frequently uses inappropriate language and makes sexually suggestive remarks in class. When the professor does this, many of the male students laugh and after class they repeat the professor’s comments. The student has started skipping class as the environment makes her uncomfortable. She talks to some of her male friends about it and they tell her that she is being “over sensitive”.
2. A female student turns down several requests for dates from her Resident Advisor. After the third request, she politely asks the RA not to ask her again. The RA begins to leave notes under her door and on her message board and comes by her room frequently.
3. A student asks for help from his teaching assistant. The TA answers many of his questions and then suggests that they go get a cup of coffee. While they are at the coffee shop, the TA suggests that the student’s grades might improve if he got to know the TA better and this might help his class participation grade. The student is confused by this suggestion and quickly leaves the coffee shop as he is beginning to feel uncomfortable. After this meeting, he finds that his TA no longer has time to help him.
4. A student is uncomfortable asking lab attendants for help in the computer lab because the attendants are frequently viewing pornography on the front desk computer.