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Did a student win bid for reinstatement after a suspension?
Author(s) -
Gelpi Aileen
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
student affairs today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-7552
pISSN - 1098-5166
DOI - 10.1002/say.30223
Subject(s) - harassment , residence , suspension (topology) , class (philosophy) , psychology , mathematics education , sociology , social psychology , computer science , demography , mathematics , homotopy , pure mathematics , artificial intelligence
Michael Marshall and a female student were in the honors tutorial program at Ohio University. That program had small class sizes, and the two lived in the same residence hall. When Marshall and the female student were the only two students in one of the classes in 2014, he sent her several text messages in an attempt to engage in a relationship. She told a professor about Marshall's texts, claiming her “academic environment” had been disrupted. Marshall was charged with violating the university's policy, which defined “sexual harassment” as conduct that unreasonably interfered “with a person's work or academic performance.” A hearing panel found Marshall's conduct amounted to sexual harassment, and recommended suspension for one semester.