WAC 132R-04-057   Student code of conduct violations.  Any student shall be subject to immediate disciplinary action provided for in code procedures and summary suspension rules who, either as a principal actor or aider or abettor:

     (1) Materially and substantially interferes with the personal rights or privileges of others or the educational process of the college.

     (2) Violates any provisions of the code of student rights and responsibilities.

     (3) Commits any of the following acts which are hereby prohibited:

     (a) All forms of academic misconduct and dishonesty including cheating, plagiarism, knowingly furnishing false information to the college, and forgery, alteration or use of college documents or instruments of identification with intent to defraud.

     (b) Failure to comply with lawful directions of faculty, administrators and other regularly employed personnel acting in performance of their lawful duties.

     (c) Conduct which intentionally and substantially obstructs or disrupts freedom of movement, teaching, disciplinary proceedings or other lawful activities on the college campus. Said conduct may be defined as:

     (i) Behavior that involves an expressed or an implied threat to interfere with an individual's personal safety, academic efforts, employment, or participation in college activities and causes the person to have a reasonable apprehension that such interference is about to occur;

     (ii) Threat to cause bodily harm at present or in the future to any person, or to cause physical damage to another's property, or to maliciously do any act which is intended to substantially harm another person's physical or mental health or safety;

     (iii) Intentional and repeated following or contacting another person in a manner that intimidates, harasses or places another in fear for his or her personal safety or the safety of his or her property.

     (d) Physical abuse of any person or conduct which is intended unlawfully to threaten imminent bodily harm or to endanger the physical or mental health and safety of any person on college-owned or controlled property or at college-sponsored or supervised functions.

     (e) All forms of sexual misconduct which includes sexual harassment, sexual intimidation, sexual coercion, sexual assault, and rape.

     (f) All forms of hazing which endangers, or is likely to endanger, the mental or physical health or safety of a student, or which destroys or removes public or private property, for the purpose of admission into, affiliation with, or as a condition for continued membership in a group or college organization.

     (g) Malicious damage to or malicious misuse of college property, or the property of any person where such property is located on the college campus.

     (h) Refusal to comply with any lawful order to leave the college campus or any portion thereof.

     (i) Possession or use of firearms, explosives, dangerous chemicals or other dangerous weapons or instrumentalities on the college campus, except for authorized college purposes; unless prior written approval has been obtained from the vice-president of student services, or any other person designated by the college president.

     (j) Intentionally inciting others to engage immediately in any of the conduct prohibited herein, which incitement leads directly to such conduct. (Inciting is that advocacy which prepares the group addressed for imminent action and steers it to the conduct prohibited herein.)

     (k) Possessing, consuming, being demonstrably under the influence of, or furnishing any form of alcoholic beverages on college-owned or controlled property or at college-sponsored or supervised functions where prohibited by the college's current alcohol policy.

     (l) Disorderly conduct, including disorderly conduct resulting from drunkenness.

     (m) Engaging in lewd, indecent or obscene behavior on college-owned or controlled property or at college-sponsored or supervised functions.

     (n) Using, possessing, furnishing or selling any narcotic or dangerous drug as defined in Washington statutes, except when the use or possession of a drug is specifically prescribed as medication by an authorized medical doctor or dentist.

     (o) Falsely setting off or otherwise tampering with any emergency safety equipment, alarm or other device established for the safety of individuals and/or college facilities.

     (p) Theft or conversion of college property or private property.

     (q) Entering any administrative office or any locked or otherwise closed college facility in any manner, at any time, without permission of the college employee or agent in charge thereof.

     (r) Possession, making or causing to be made, any key to operate locks or locking mechanisms on campus without proper authorization or using or giving to another, a key for which there has been no proper authorization.

     (s) Interfering with college computing or communication functions or with the work of another student, faculty member, or college official; gaining unauthorized access, altering data, misusing computing facilities to send harassing messages, or misuse of the campus network and/or computing facilities as defined by the current college technology use policy and procedures.

     (t) Disruptive classroom conduct including abusive language toward a classroom instructor and/or student and other acts of misconduct.

     (4) Single or repeated violation of the above code is relevant in determining an applicant's or a student's membership in the college.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 28B.50.140 and chapter 34.05 RCW. 03-15-063, § 132R-04-057, filed 7/14/03, effective 8/14/03.]