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Lincoln University values the well-being of its community members and recognizes that bullying on campus is unacceptable. Under this Policy, bullying is prohibited. Bullying prohibited by this Policy may include, but is not limited to, unwarranted physical contact, sabotage of another person’s work, abuse of authority, abusive expression directed at another person that is outside the range of commonly accepted expressions of disagreement or critique or other conduct that is severe, pervasive or persistent in that it caused the Complainant substantial emotional distress and would cause a reasonable person in the same circumstances substantial emotional distress.

The following behaviors may, in certain circumstances, constitute bullying within the context of the university: 

a. Mocking, berating, ridiculing, intimidating, or demeaning others; 

b. Name-calling and attacks on one's character, using a person as an object of ridicule, or using nicknames after being warned that the nickname is considered offensive; 

c. Making offensive remarks regarding a person's physical attributes; 

d. Persistently interrupting a person or otherwise preventing a person's legitimate attempts to speak; 

e. Undermining or sabotaging the work or university performance of others; 

f. Spreading false or inappropriately sharing sensitive information about another; 

g. Deliberately excluding, isolating, or marginalizing a person from workplace or university activities that affect their ability to do their job; 

h. Using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies, mobile phones, e-mail, social media, or other electronic sources to spread false rumors, threaten, make offensive remarks, inappropriately share sensitive information, insult, or ridicule others; 

i. Tampering with a person's personal effects or work equipment; damaging or destroying a person's work product, work area, or personal property, including electronic devices; 

j. Punishing or imposing negative consequences that foreseeably and unnecessarily lead to shame, exclusion, or negative attention from others; 

k. Making threats, either explicit or implicit, to the security of a person's job or position, other than as part of a legitimate process;