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What is Sexual Assault?

Sexual Assault is any kind of sexually offensive act against another person, any verbally offensive demand or suggestion, and any intentional touching of another person's body without mutual consent. The University defines these acts as including, but not limited to, the following:

1. Rape/sexual assault (gang, acquaintance, stranger)
2. Acts on a person who is not conscious or able to give consent
3. Indecent exposure
4. Direct or indirect threats linked to sexual propositions or activity
5. Coerced sexual activity
6. Sexual propositions
7. Sexual battery, the unwanted touching of an intimate part of another person, such as a sex organ, buttocks, or breasts.
8. Use of intoxicants, including alcohol, which impair the victim's ability to give consent

What is Stalking?

Stalking is defined by repeated, unwanted attention, harassment, and contact. Stalking can include:

1. Following or laying in wait for someone
2. Repeated unwanted communication by phone, mail, e-mail, or harassment via public forums such as Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace
3. Damaging the victim's property
4. Making direct or indirect threats to harm the victim, the victim's family, friends, or pets
5. Sending gifts
6. Securing personal information about the victim

Stalking is by law willful, malicious, and repeated harassment. Stalking may seem flattering to outsiders, but when the stalker's behavior is unwanted and intrusive, it can be frightening because of induced fear and disruption to the victim's life.

 

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