Rule 3335-11-02 | Disruption.
(A) No student, faculty, staff, visitor, or other person shall, with an intent to disrupt university authorized activities:
(1) Obstruct the lawful movement of any person or persons about the campus, into or out of any university building or facility, or within any university building or facility and fail to desist when so ordered by an authorized university official;
(2) Obstruct the movement of vehicular traffic on the streets of the university, and fail to desist when so ordered by an authorized university official;
(3) Occupy a university building or facility in such a manner as to prevent others from carrying out university authorized activities and fail to depart when informed by an authorized university official that they are disrupting university authorized activities and must depart;
(4) Interfere with the conduct of a class, office, laboratory, or other university authorized activity by shouting, chanting, marching, throwing objects, or otherwise creating such a disturbance that the authorized activity cannot, in the judgment of an authorized university official, be carried on, and fail to desist when so ordered by an authorized university official;
(5) Employ force or violence or the explicit threat of force or violence, to prevent any person or persons from carrying out university authorized activities
(6) Damage public address systems, video displays, laboratory equipment, computer systems, or other property used for the carrying out of university authorized activities;
(7) Solicit any person or persons to violate paragraphs (A)(1) to (A)(6) of this rule, knowing that there is a clear and present danger that such violations will occur (but a person shall not be charged with soliciting unless a violation of paragraphs (A)(1) to (A)(6) of this rule occurs as a result of this solicitation).
(8) This rule shall not be interpreted as proscribing peaceful demonstrations, peaceful picketing, a call for a peaceful boycott of classes or other forms of peaceful dissent.
(B) Any student found guilty of the conduct proscribed in paragraphs (A)(1) to (A)(7) of this rule shall be subject to maximum sanction of dismissal or any lesser disciplinary sanction pursuant to rule 3335-11-02.1 of the Administrative Code.
(C) Non-students charged with the conduct proscribed in paragraphs (A)(1) to (A)(7) of this rule shall be referred to an appropriate authority.
(D) Definitions.
(1) The phrase "with an intent to disrupt" shall be taken to mean that a person knows or reasonably should know that their act or acts will have the consequence of preventing others from carrying out university authorized activities.
(2) The phrase "to obstruct" shall be taken to mean making the movement of a person or vehicle from one place to another difficult or impossible; it shall not be taken to mean making that movement inconvenient.
(3) The phrase "university authorized activity" shall be taken to mean any activity that the university conducts, sponsors, or permits to be carried out on the campus or in any university building or facility.
(4) The phrase "an authorized university official" shall be taken to mean any person to whom the university has delegated authority to supervise a building or facility, or any part of a building or facility, or to supervise the movement of people and vehicles on the campus.
(5) The phrase "campus" shall be taken to mean university owned or controlled property.
Last updated October 16, 2023 at 9:22 AM
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