2021–22 CALENDAR AND STUDENT HANDBOOK 2021–22 CALENDAR AND STUDENT HANDBOOK TABLE OF CONTENTS

EMERGENCY/CAMPUS SAFETY ...... 4 Emergency Phone Numbers ...... 4 Emergency Procedures ...... 4 Safety and Security Tips ...... 5 Bi-Co Safety Risk ...... 5 Some Cautionary Words about Posting Online ...... 5 SGA/TRADITIONS/SGA CONSTITUTION/HONOR CODE ...... 6 Self-Government Association (SGA) ...... 6 Traditions ...... 7 The Constitution of the Self-Government Association of the Undergraduate School of Bryn Mawr College ...... 8 The Bryn Mawr College Honor Code ...... 25 Dean’s Panel ...... 34 STUDENT RESOURCES ...... 36 Academic Support and Learning Resources ...... 40 Access Services ...... 40 Athletics and Physical Education ...... 40 Dean’s Ofce ...... 41 Educational Studies Minor and Secondary Teacher Certifcation ...... 41 Health Professions Advising Ofce ...... 41 International Student and Scholar Services and Advising ...... 41 Career & Civic Engagement Center ...... 42 The Pensby Center for Community Development and Inclusion ...... 42 Pre-Law Advising ...... 43 Q Center: Quantitative Reasoning Project ...... 43 Religious and Spiritual Life ...... 43 Residential Life ...... 43 Student Accounts ...... 43 Student Activities and Orientation ...... 43 Study Abroad ...... 44 Summer Study Abroad ...... 44 Writing Center ...... 44 DORM LEADERS ...... 45 Activities and Orientation Assistants ...... 45 Community Diversity Assistants ...... 45 Customs People ...... 45 Dorm Presidents ...... 45 Hall Advisors ...... 44 Peer Mentoring Services (PMS) ...... 45 ESSENTIAL HEALTH INFORMATION ...... 46 Health and Wellness Center ...... 46 Medical Services ...... 46 Counseling Services ...... 47 Drug and Alcohol Education and Counseling Services ...... 47 Sexual Assault Counseling and Care ...... 48 LIBRARY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (LITS) ...... 51 Technology Labs ...... 51 Help Desk ...... 51 Libraries and Research ...... 51 Services Available to Students ...... 52 Buildings Quick Guide...... 52 Web Resources ...... 52 COMMUNITY POLICIES ...... 53 Billing and Payment Policy ...... 53 Bi-College Alcohol and Drug Policies ...... 53 Alcohol Policy ...... 53 Expectations of Students ...... 54 Drug Policy ...... 55 Policy on a Drug-Free Workplace ...... 57 Smoking Policy ...... 57 Student Club and Organization Policy ...... 59 Party Policy ...... 59 Hazing Policy ...... 63 Policies on Sexual Assault ...... 64 Equal Opportunity, Non-Discrimination, and Discriminatory Harassment Policies ...... 84 Freedom of Speech and the Limits of Dissent ...... 86 General Housing Policies ...... 89 Fire and Safety Policies ...... 91 Residence Living Policies ...... 92 Keys and ID Cards ...... 93 DIRECTORY ...... 95 Important Campus Phone Numbers Quick List ...... 95 Directory of Ofces and Services ...... 95 Year At-a-Glance ...... 97 A.B. REQUIREMENTS CHECKLIST...... 98 INDEX ...... 99 EMERGENCY/CAMPUS SAFETY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS Campus Safety—Emergency Only on-campus phone ...... 610-526-7911 of-campus or cell phone ...... 610-526-7911 Emergency Hotline—Recorded Messages ...... 610-526-7310 Health and Wellness Center ...... 610-526-7360 Undergraduate Dean’s Ofce ...... 610-526-5375 (M-F, 9 to 5) Residential Life ...... 610-526-7331 (M-F, 9 to 5)

EMERGENCY PROCEDURES A campus alert siren may be used as well, if warranted. The siren will be followed by Reporting a Crime instructions. When the crisis has passed, an Call Campus Safety immediately at x7911. all-clear will be sounded. All students are encouraged to go to the following links to Campus safety is a shared responsibility. All familiarize themselves with the alert siren and are encouraged to report crimes and unusual the emergency messages. activity to Campus Safety immediately. Campus Emergency Crimes may also be reported to any Campus Security authority, such as a dean, the director Warning Sound: www.whelen.com/outdoor/ or assistant director of Residential Life, a hall audio/Tone%20Wav%20Files/whoop.mp3 advisor, or an athletic coach. The Campus General Message: www.whelen.com/outdoor/ Security authorities work closely with Campus audio/Voice%20Library%20Wav%20Files/ Safety to ensure the safety of our community. GEC1.mp3 All reported incidents will be investigated. Test Message: www.whelen.com/outdoor/ Emergency Notification audio/Voice%20Library%20Wav%20Files/ In an effort to ensure that the community T2.mp3 is fully aware of any safety issues or For additional safety information, please refer emergencies, Campus Safety will activate to www.brynmawr.edu/emergency/. the emergency notification system when appropriate. This system has multiple levels, Fire tailored to the situation at hand, which include If a fire alarm sounds, evacuate the building posting of Campus Safety bulletins, campus- immediately. Do not re-enter the building until wide voicemails, and e-mails. In addition to Campus Safety or emergency personnel give these steps, a recorded message may be placed the all-clear. In the event of a fire, pull the fire on the Emergency Hotline, x7310 or 610-526- alarm, call Campus Safety at x7911 from any 7310, and information may be posted on the campus phone, or 610-526-7911, and evacuate College homepage. the building immediately. Familiarize yourself The College has also partnered with a leading with fire evacuation routes in buildings you provider in the field of emergency notification use frequently. to send out mass text messages. The system Medical Emergencies will only be activated when tests are conducted or in the event of a serious or imminent Call Campus Safety at x7911 campus phone or threat to community safety. In the event of 610-526-7911 immediately. an immediate hazard or a serious threat to Be prepared to give your location and the Campus safety, a notification message will be nature/severity of the injury. Stay on the sent out via text, voicemail, and e-mail. line until emergency personnel arrive or the dispatcher ends the call. 4 Maintenance Emergencies determines that a student must be barred from residence on its campus, either pending After hours and on weekends, Campus Safety investigation or after final resolution of that communications officers will contact Facilities investigation, the student also will be barred Services for requests that are from residence on the other campus. deemed emergencies. SOME CAUTIONARY WORDS ABOUT Emergency Hotline POSTING ONLINE Call x7310 or 610-526-7310 to hear recorded Remember that postings and communications information about current information, such online should be in keeping with the values of as cancellations or special instructions, during our community: concern for others, respect for severe weather or other emergencies. diversity, and commitment to dialogue. Blue Light—Yellow Emergency Telephones These values are the foundation of our Honor Yellow emergency telephones, most with blue Code and our interactions with one another, lights on top, are located around campus and whether these interactions are face-to-face or connect the caller with Campus Safety. Many conducted online. of these phones also provide your location for Managing your digital identity is important officers to assist you. and a key part of the Bryn Mawr Digital Campus Crime Awareness: Clery Act and the Competencies framework that you can use as a Annual Fire Report guide to developing digital fluency while at the Information regarding campus security and College. The Career and Civic Engagement personal safety as well as the annual fire report Center can assist as you think about how to set may be found at: up your LinkedIn profile and how to showcase your interests and accomplishments. http://www.brynmawr.edu/safety/act73.htm Keep in mind that with the increased SAFETY AND SECURITY TIPS effectiveness of search engines and the archiving of web pages, material posted online In the safest of environments, people may may be available years from now. Personal still become victims. Crime prevention is the and student organization home pages, entries, responsibility of every member of the Bi-Co and invitations on Facebook, Twitter, and community. Faculty, staff, and students are similar sites, as well as ideas posted on public encouraged to watch over the campus, to forums reflect on you and may be viewed by report any unusual activity to Campus Safety, prospective employers. and to follow basic safety practices that apply no matter where one lives. For additional Personal information and photographs may information as well as other Campus Safety be viewed by stalkers or others with less than services, consult www.brynmawr.edu/ safety/ positive intent. Such postings can seriously awareness.htm or www.brynmawr.edu/safety/. compromise your good name and even your safety. You should be aware of the dangers It is the responsibility of Campus Safety to posed by identity theft. If you post your promote the safety and welfare of the Bryn date of birth online, pictures of yourself, or Mawr College community. To help us do so, other forms of personal information, you are we ask students to carry their official college vulnerable to identity theft. Similarly, you identification cards at all times on campus and should not post photographs of others or to use them to identify themselves to Campus others’ writing without receiving permission

Safety or other officials when requested. to do so. BI-CO SAFETY RISK In short, posting any writing online should involve a heightened degree of care and Due to the bi-college relationship between responsibility. Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, if either college determines that the presence of an Remember—there is no such thing as privacy individual poses a safety risk to the campus on the Internet. community, that individual will be deemed a safety risk on both campuses. If either college 5 SGA CONSTITUTION

SELF-GOVERNMENT sga.blogs.brynmawr.edu ASSOCIATION (SGA) Contact: [email protected] Under the Bryn Mawr College Honor The Representative Council Code and Self-Government Association Access Services Representative: To be elected (SGA) Constitution, Bryn Mawr College Activities and Orientation Assistants undergraduates take responsibility for Representative: To be elected governing themselves in academic and social matters, as well as playing an active and Affinity of Multicultural Organizations (AMO) fundamental role in the life of the College. Leaders The oldest self-governing association in the Board of Trustees Representative(s): nation, the SGA is composed of all candidates Dounya Ramadan ’22, To be elected for a Bryn Mawr A.B. degree. As members of the association, undergraduates are entitled to Career and Civic Engagement Representatives: attend weekly assembly meetings and voice To be elected their opinions, participate in a variety of Class President(s) from each class year SGA-sponsored events, groups, film series, Class ’22 President(s): To be elected magazines, newspapers, and traditions, as Class ’23 President(s): To be elected well as vote in elections that send student Class ’24 President(s): To be elected representatives to various committees, the Class ’25 President(s): To be elected Board of Trustees and the SGA Assembly. It is the hope and expectation of self-governance Dorm President(s) from each residence hall at Bryn Mawr College that all students will other than Batten be able to find a place, group, or activity, Brecon: To be elected and raise concerns in the most effective, Denbigh: To be elected responsible and satisfying way possible. SGA Erdman: To be elected represents the concerns and needs of the Merion: To be elected undergraduate body to the administration. New Dorm: To be elected Pembroke East: To be elected The SGA’s organization includes the Pembroke West: To be elected Executive Board, Representative Council, Radnor: To be elected Honor Board, Appointments Committee, and Rhoads North: To be elected many appointed committees, boards, and Rhoads South: To be elected representatives. Enid Cook ’31 Center: To be elected The Self-Government Association will make Rockefeller: To be elected available meeting minutes to all students. Haverford College Representative: Brief announcements are also tweeted via the To be elected username @bmcsga and/or posted through Facebook via the Bryn Mawr College Self- Heads of Committees Government Association page. The Bryn Mawr Concert Series: To be appointed Leadership for the 2021-2022 year will be provided by: The Campus Safety Committee: To be appointed Executive Board President: Gabriela Capone ’22 The Committee on Institutional Memory: Vice President: Andreanna Papatheodorou ’22 To be appointed Secretary: Daisy Shepherd ’22 The Conflict Resolution Committee: Treasurers: Rania Dali ’22 and To be appointed América Nàjera ’22 Head of the Honor Board: Liz Burke ’23 The Constitutional Review Committee: Chair of Social Justice and Equity: Daisy Shepherd ’22 Fatmata Sesay ’23 The Elections Board: Bharati Ganesh ’22 and Shreya Bhutani ’22

6 The Film Series: To be appointed employs consensus decision-making. The Financial Aid Advisory Board: Appointments Committee: Andreanna To be appointed Papatheodorou ’22, members to be elected The Gender Inclusion Committee: Blog: appointments.blogs.brynmawr.edu To be appointed Contact: [email protected] The Green Ambassadors Committee: Honor Board To be appointed The Honor Board is responsible for the The Health and Wellness Center Advisory administration and facilitation of the Honor Board: Code. The Honor Code has two parts: the Jaclyn Lo ’22 Social Honor Code and the Academic Honor The Major Council: To be appointed Code. Members of the Honor Board outline the Honor Code and explain how it affects The Outreach and Communications one’s life as a Bryn Mawr student each year Committee: To be appointed for first-year and transfer students during The Plenary Committee: To be appointed Customs Week. Members of the Honor Board The Residence Council: To be appointed also participate in hearings when a possible infraction has occurred. When an infraction The Seven Sisters Committee: To be appointed has been determined to have taken place, the The Social Committee: To be appointed Honor Board’s role is to assess whether— and, if so how—the community member can The S.TEAM: To be appointed reconcile with the rest of the community. The Student Curriculum Committee: Honor Board Representatives: Liz Burke ’23, To be appointed members to be elected The Student Finance Committee: Blog: sga.blogs.brynmawr.edu/honor-board To be appointed Contact: [email protected]. The Traditions Committee: To be appointed Posting Policy Head(s) of Residence Council: The Posting Policy is a set of guidelines To be appointed for posting information about events, organizations, newsletters, listings, and general Independent Major Representatives: advertisements on campus at Bryn Mawr. To be elected Rules address removal regulations, sizing Members-At-Large: Kyle Blesdoe ’24, of posted literature, and specifications of Natalie Peterson ’24, Spencer Auerbach ’24 appropriate posting sites. McBride Representative: To be elected The Posting Policy focuses on three areas of campus: residence halls, outside grounds, and Pensby Center Representative: To be elected academic/administrative spaces. Off-Campus Representative: To be elected Blog: sga.blogs.brynmawr.edu/constitution/ Representative to the Faculty: To be elected bylaws-policies-procedures SGA Archivist: Aaliyah Joseph ’22 Contact: [email protected] Student Athlete Advisory Committee TRADITIONS Representative: Maya Schneider ’22 The purpose of Traditions is to promote, Appointments Committee encourage, and preserve the spirit of Traditions The Appointments Committee is a group of on campus. four elected students who, along with the At Bryn Mawr, the passage of the seasons is SGA Vice-President, appoint members of marked by a cycle of rituals that celebrate the the undergraduate community to the various College community with symbolic pageantry. committees on campus. Applications are Observers have described these traditions— submitted through Moodle and interviews which include Maypole dancing, a parade in are conducted. The Appointments Committee 7 Elizabethan costume, and a hymn to wisdom shall be the Self-Government Association sung in Ancient Greek—as both “beautiful” of the Undergraduate School of Bryn Mawr and “quirkily anachronistic.” To many Bryn College, hereafter known as SGA. The Mawr students, the College’s traditions are purpose of SGA shall be the governance of the more than entertaining, colorful spectacles that undergraduate student body and to uplift the divert participants from the intensity of study; voices of marginalized communities. they are ceremonial enactments of common Subsection B: The President and the Dean of values that help create a sense of community. the College shall, through the Honor Code, The major traditions are: entrust the SGA with exclusive management of Parade Night all matters concerning the conduct of students in their college life which do not fall under the Parade Night celebrates the completion of the exclusive jurisdiction of the authorities of the first week of classes. The first step sing of the College, the Faculty, or Residential Life. year is held the Friday night at the end of the first week. Subsection C: Any candidate for a Bryn Mawr A.B. degree and any undergraduate who Lantern Night resides on the Bryn Mawr campus shall be a First-years receive their lanterns (in their class member of SGA. Members of SGA shall have color) and the second step sing of the year voting rights in campus wide elections, dorm follows the ceremony. elections and at Plenary. WTF (Welcome The First-Years) Week Subsection D: Upon the recommendation of WTF Week takes place in the middle of two current members of SGA and approval February, but is preceded by first-years asking of the Assembly, honorary life membership upperclassmen to be their Roses (and for them may be conferred upon any past member of to be their Buds, respectively) and to provide SGA who has rendered notable service to Bryn them with a humorous schedule for the events. Mawr College. Honorary members shall have The most individualized Tradition of all, WTF none of the obligations but all of the privileges Week is where Bryn Mawr students are free of membership in SGA except those of making to be silly, have fun and strengthen the bond motions, voting, and holding office. between classes. Section II: Authority May Day Subsection A: All SGA members have the This all-day celebration takes place on the right and responsibility to vote in all general Sunday after the last week of classes. The last and dorm elections as outlined in Article VIII step sing of the year is held that night. and Article VII, Section I. The major traditions are joined by countless Subsection B: All SGA members have the minor traditions, such as presenting gift right and responsibility to attend Plenary. offerings to a sculpture of Athena and ringing Subsection C: Plenary shall be held twice the Taylor Hall bell when seniors’ final exams during each academic year (once each are finished. semester) in accordance with Article VI, Contact: [email protected] Section X. Plenary quorum shall be one-third of the undergraduate student body. At Plenary, www.brynmawr.edu/activities/traditions a simple majority of those present is required to pass all proposals, amendments to the THE CONSTITUTION OF THE Constitution, and resolutions. SELF-GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION OF THE UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOL Subsection D: All SGA members have the OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE right to submit resolutions for Plenary. Up-to-date as of Spring Plenary 2021. Subsection E: Plenary Resolutions may include, but are not limited to, efforts to amend ARTICLE I: THE ASSOCIATION the Constitution, recommendations to the Administration, ratification of school policy, Section I: Composition and Purpose overriding of decisions made in Representative Subsection A: The name of this association Council and creation or amendment of 8 campus-wide policies in accordance with all SGA reimbursements and payments for Article I, Section I, Subsection B. purchases after the date of Spring Plenary will not occur, the dissolution of academic and Subsection F: In addition to Plenary, any social practices as described in the Bryn Mawr proposed amendment to the Constitution College Honor Code, and the disbandment of may be referred to SGA for a campus-wide the SGA Representative Council. vote. Each member of SGA shall be informed two times of the proposed amendment. This ARTICLE II: THE ASSEMBLY proposal and subsequent voting process may occur electronically. Proposed amendments to Section I: Composition and Purpose the Constitution shall be adopted upon a two- Subsection A: SGA shall entrust its thirds vote of approval within two weeks of the governance to the elected members of first publication of said amendment(s), provided Assembly, which shall consist of the Executive a minimum of two-thirds of SGA votes. Board, the Representative Council, and the Subsection G: A time limit of 3 hours will Honor Board. The Assembly shall represent be maintained for reaching quorum at every the interest of SGA to the College. Plenary. If quorum is attained and later lost, Subsection B: The Executive Board shall a time limit of 30 minutes will be established consist of President of SGA, Vice-President to regain quorum. After these 30 minutes of SGA, Treasurer of SGA, Secretary of SGA, have elapsed the waiting period will cease. If and Head of the Honor Board, and Chair of quorum has not been reached the attendees Social Justice and Equity. will be dismissed. If quorum has been reached, plenary will proceed. If quorum is lost Subsection C: The Representative Council again, plenary has ended. There will be no shall consist of: subsequent waiting period. • Activities and Orientation Assistants Subsection H: If quorum is not reached at the Representative Fall Plenary, then resolutions will be tabled • Affinity of Multicultural Organizations until the next Plenary occurs to be brought (AMO) Leaders forth again at the resolution writers’ discretion. Plenary will not have been held that Fall • Student Athlete Advisory Committee semester. Representative Subsection I: If, before quorum is lost, any • Class President(s) from each class year resolutions have been presented and voted Class ’22 President(s) upon, the results of those votes stand. All Class ’23 President(s) other resolutions may be tabled until the next Class ’24 President(s) Plenary occurs to be brought forth again at Class ’25 President(s) the resolution writers’ discretion. Plenary will have been held at that time. • Dorm President(s) from each residence hall Subsection J: If quorum is reached at the Batten Spring Plenary, the Constitution is reaffirmed, Brecon and then quorum is lost, Plenary has been held. Denbigh All remaining resolutions will be tabled until Erdman the next Plenary occurs to be brought forth Merion again at the resolution writers’ discretion. New Dorm Pembroke East Subsection K: If quorum is not reached for Pembroke West Spring Plenary, then the newly elected SGA Radnor Executive Board, the immediately preceding Rhoads North SGA Executive Board Emeritae/i/a, Plenary Rhoads South Committee, and Representative Council will Enid Cook ’31 Center decide how to proceed. Consequences, which Rockefeller are up to the discretion of these parties as well • Haverford College Representative as the Dean of the Undergraduate College, may Heads of Committees include but are not limited to the following: 9 The Bryn Mawr Concert Series shall bind all matters connected with the The Campus Safety Committee Assembly. All matters not prescribed by the The Committee on Institutional Memory articles of this Constitution shall be subject to The Elections Board parliamentary authority, unless such authority The Major Council is inconsistent with this Constitution. The Plenary Committee Subsection B: Parliamentary Authority The Residence Council The Student Curriculum Committee The Assembly may adopt as its Parliamentary The Student Finance Committee Authority the Rights of Plenary in conjunction The Traditions Committee with the Social Honor Code Head(s) of Residence Council ARTICLE III: THE EXECUTIVE BOARD • Career and Civic Engagement Representatives Section I: Composition and Purpose • Members-At-Large Subsection A: The Executive Board shall meet regularly to discuss concerns, share • McBride Representative information, and review progress of the • Pensby Center Representative Assembly. Each member of the Executive Board shall attend meetings of the • Off-Campus Representative Representative Council. • Representative to the Faculty Subsection B: The President of SGA • SGA Archivist The office of the President may be held by Subsection D: The above officers shall be only one person at any one time. elected as specified in the Elections Bylaws The duties of the President shall include: and shall assume office immediately for a term of one year and/or until a successor takes 1. Calling and presiding over meetings of SGA office. The student shall be a candidate for a and the Assembly when necessary. Bryn Mawr A.B. degree. 2. Presiding over meetings of and the Subsection E: Each assembly member is Representative Council. expected to attend their respective meetings. 3. Acting as a liaison between faculty Subsection F: A person may concurrently hold and administration and students, and more than one position specified in Article representing the undergraduate body II, Section I, Subsections B and C of this whenever called upon to do so. Constitution but may not vote twice. Voting 4. Representing SGA at the Board of Trustees for the second position must be done via meetings. proxy. The proxy voter must be a person from the same committee, Dorm Leadership Team, 5. Ensuring Plenary takes place once a or AMO group. semester, ordering t-shirts, and Plenary packets. Subsection G: The Honor Board will serve as the vehicle for investigating all issues/matters 6. Ensuring the Big Cheese Forum takes concerning removal(s) from office, and then place once a semester, recruiting Cheeses, the issue goes to a student body vote. organizing facilitators and note-takers. This is a panel of administrators or other people Subsection H: As representative of the with power at Bryn Mawr College, with student body, members of the Representative the goal of creating more transparency for Council, Appointed Positions, Appointments students. Committee, Honor Board and the SGA Executive Board are held to the highest 7. Overseeing, organizing, and planning standards of the Honor Code. weekly meetings with SGA E-Board. Section II: Authority 8. Having frequent meetings with the Dean of the College to relay concerns of the student Subsection A: Constitutional Authority body. The authority of the Constitution and Bylaws 9. Holding weekly office hours in an 10 accessible location. 3. Calling and presiding over meetings of the Student Finance Committee, and Subsection C: The Vice-President of SGA representing them when called to do so. The Office of the Vice-President may be held The Treasurer(s)(s) also offers training and by only one person at any one time. supervision to SFC members. The duties of the Vice-President shall include: 4. Being a member of the Executive Board, 1. Overseeing and updating the SGA attending weekly e-board meetings, and

Appointments Blog. holding an office hour. 2. Hosting workshops outlining the 5. Assuming the responsibility of ensuring Appointments process before the April and/ that SGA funded events are free to all SGA or the November Round. members. The Treasurer(s) shall offer support, help, and advice to club leaders in 3. Establishing interview times for applicants dealing with financial matters. during appointments rounds; interviewing applicants in person, or on video chat. 6. Auditing the budgets of every club or committee, which receives SGA Common 4. Scheduling evaluation meetings at the Treasury Funds. end of each appointments round for the Appointments Committee. 7. Being responsible for allocating SGA budgetary funds to student activities, 5. Distributing midterm progress reports, including reviewing and holding interviews exit surveys and/or hold meetings with to assign club budgets, special event budget, committee heads. residential life budget, Plenary budget, etc. 6. Checking in with the last and current 8. Working closely with officers from Student appointed people for each position to Activities, Controller’s office, the Board of determine if the position description needs Trustees to deal with financial matters. to be updated towards the end of the Vice President’s term. 9. Calling a meeting of the financial officers of any and all campus organizations when 7. Scheduling meetings with an appointed necessary. student who does not respond to three emails checking in about the progress of 10. The Treasurer shall keep time at all the committee or board, to discuss the meetings of SGA. individual’s position and the future of the Subsection E: The Secretary of SGA committee or board. If the appointed student The Office of Secretary may be held by only does not respond to this request, they will be one person at any one time. removed from the position and the position will be reappointed during the next round of The duties of the Secretary shall include: appointments. 1. Being responsible for the following: giving 8. Ensuring appointed students are aware of notice of all SGA and open Assembly the resources they have at their disposal, meetings, keeping minutes and attendance, including leadership workshops, on-campus keeping the necessary records of the resources, and SGA Budgeting. Representative Council, correspondence as directed by the President, and keeping a Subsection D: The Treasurer(s) of SGA current list of Assembly members. The position of Treasurer(s) of SGA may 2. Setting the Agenda of the Representative either be held by a single person or co-held Council meeting and distributing by two. Representative Council minutes. The duties of the Treasurer(s) of SGA shall 3. Upholding the Attendance Policy. include: 4. Being a member of the Executive Board. 1. Administering the funds of SGA and serving as its adviser in financial matters. 5. Appointing an assistant if necessary. 2. Overseeing the SGA budget and keeping 6. Being an expert on the Constitution and track of SGA account activities. meeting procedures. 11 7. Working closely with the Webmistress(es) 1. Serving as a liaison between the Pensby / Master(s) / Mistex(es) appointed by the Center and the Representative Council. Appointments Committee to keep the 2. Voting in the Representative Council website or other means of distributing meetings and participating in achieving information up to date. Representative Council’s long- and short- Subsection F: The Head of the Honor Board term goals. The Office of the Head of the Honor Board 3. Spending at least one hour every two weeks may be held by only one person at any one in conversation with the full time and/or time. student staff of the Pensby Center. The duties of the Head of the Honor Board 4. Acting as a liaison between the shall include: administrative committees charged with equity and inclusion oversight and the 1. Calling and presiding over meetings of assembly. the Social and Academic Honor Boards. The Head of the Honor Board shall direct 5. Being responsible for guiding the Executive the consideration of cases arising from the Board and the Representative Council possible violation of the Honor Code. towards wider goals of diversity and inclusion. 2. Administering an arbitrary selection of the four rotating members of the Social Honor 6. Presenting briefly every semester on the Board. various talks, panels, and discussion groups that they convened including topic, number 3. Organizing the Academic and Social Honor of participants, and ideas on how to build on Code orientations for first-years during this work in. customs week. Section II: Authority 4. Attending, upon invitation, faculty meetings to discuss the Academic Honor Code and Presidential Authority how it relates to professors. The President shall have the authority to 5. Attending, upon invitation, Residence interpret the Constitution when necessary in Council meetings to discuss Social Honor consultation with the Head of the Honor Board Code concerns. and another member of the Executive Board. 6. Overseeing a committee of 8 students that ARTICLE IV: THE shall comprise the Honor Board. REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL 7. Having the responsibility to make known Section I: Composition and Purpose to SGA the procedures and decisions of the Honor Board, as well as the Academic Subsection A: The Representative Council and Social Resolutions, in the form of shall act as the Voting Body of the Assembly anonymous abstracts. These abstracts shall and SGA. be written shortly after resolution is reached Subsection B: Dorm President(s) and shall be released as prescribed by the Honor Code. The office of the Dorm President(s) may be held by up to two persons at one time. 8. Being a member of the Executive Board. The duties of the Dorm President(s) shall 9. Making the presentation slides accessible include: at weekly SGA meetings. 1. Voting in the Representative Council Subsection G: The Chair of Social Justice votes, attending all SGA meetings, and and Equity participating in achieving Representative The Chair of the Social Justice and Equity Council’s long- and short-term goals. Committee may be held by only one person 2. Reporting to their residence hall twice a at any one time. semester at Dorm Meetings and/or DLT The duties of the Chair of Social Justice and meetings. Equity shall include: 12 Subsection C: Members-at-Large 2. Being responsible for the representation of the non-resident members of SGA at each There may be no more than six Members-at- meeting of the Representative Council Large at any one time. and being responsible for communication The duties of the Members-at-Large shall between the Assembly and the non-resident include: members of SGA. 1. Voting in the Representative Council 3. Calling and presiding over meetings of the votes, attending all SGA meetings, and non-resident members of SGA and must participating in achieving Representative call at least one such meeting each semester Council’s long- and short-term goals. while in office. Subsection D: Haverford Representative(s) Subsection F: McBride Representative The office of Haverford Representative may be The Office of the McBride Representative may held by up to two people. be held by two people. If there are two people holding office, only If there are two people holding office, only one Representative is required to be present at one Representative is required to be present at meetings of the Representative Council. meetings of the Representative Council. The duties of the Haverford Representative(s) The duties of the McBride Representative(s) shall include: shall include: 1. Voting in the Representative Council 1. Voting in the Representative Council votes, attending all SGA meetings, and votes, attending all SGA meetings, and participating in achieving Representative participating in achieving Representative Council’s long- and short-term goals. Council’s long- and short-term goals. 2. Being responsible for communication 2. Being responsible for the representation between the Assembly and SGA members of the McBride Scholar Members at each residing at Haverford College. meeting of the Representative Council and 3. Calling and presiding over meetings of being the liaison between the Assembly, the SGA members residing at Haverford McBride Scholar Members, and SGA. College when necessary. The Haverford 3. Calling and presiding at all meetings of the Representative(s) must call at least one such McBride Scholar Members. The McBride meeting each semester while in office. Representative(s) must call at least one 4. Attending Haverford College Student such meeting each semester of the academic Council meetings at the discretion of the term. office-holder and at the request of the Subsection G: The Class Presidents Assembly. Occasions on which the student The office of Class President may be held by attends Student Council meetings instead of up to two people. Representative Council shall not be counted as absences from Representative Council. The duties of the Class Presidents shall include: Subsection E: Off-Campus Representative 1. Voting in the Representative Council The office of the Off-Campus Representative votes, attending all SGA meetings, and may be held by up to two people. participating in achieving Representative If there are two people holding office, only Council’s long- and short-term goals. one Representative is required to be present at 2. Being in charge of all class functions for meetings of the Representative Council. their respective classes. The duties of the Off-Campus 3. Being liaisons between their respective Representative(s) include: classes and the Assembly. 1. Voting in the Representative Council Subsection H: Head of the Elections Board votes, attending all SGA meetings, and participating in achieving Representative The Head of the Elections Board may be held Council’s long- and short-term goals. by up to two people. 13 The duties of the Head(s) of the Elections Subsection J: The Traditions Mistress(es) / Board shall include: Master(s) / Mistex(es) 1. Voting in the Representative Council The office of Traditions Mistress(es)/ votes, attending all SGA meetings, and Master(s)/Mistex(es) may be held by up to two participating in achieving Representative people. Council’s long- and short-term goals. The office of Traditions Mistress(es)/ 2. Administering SGA’s election system, Master(s)/Mistex(es) is a two-year long assisted by the members of the Elections commitment, the first year as Mistress(es)/ Board. Master(s)/Mistex(es) and second year in an advisory role as Traditions Mistress(es)/ 3. Convening, presiding over, and representing Master(s)/Mistex(es) Emeritus/a/um [i/ae/a]. the Elections Board. The duties of the Traditions Mistress(es)/ 4. Appointing one or more assistants if Master(s)/Mistex(es) shall include: necessary. 1. Voting in the Representative Council Subsection I: The Head of Residence Council votes, attending all SGA meetings, and The office of the Head of Residence Council participating in achieving Representative may be held by up to two people. Council’s long- and short-term goals. The duties of the Head(s) of the Residence 2. Organizing, executing, and perpetuating all Council shall include: traditions of Bryn Mawr College. 1. Voting in the Representative Council 3. Calling and presiding at meetings of the votes, attending all SGA meetings, and Traditions Committee. participating in achieving Representative 4. Being responsible for the administration Council’s long- and short-term goals. of the election of the First-Year Traditional 2. Calling and presiding over all meetings of Non-Transfer Student Songs Mistress(es)/ the Residence Council. Master(s)/Mistex(es) during Customs Week 3. Running Room Draw. each year. 4. Heading Residence Council’s Special Cases 5. Petitioning, if desired, SGA as defined in Committee. Article XI, Section I, if interest has been expressed to discontinue, modify, or create 5. Being the liaison(s) between the Residence a tradition. Council and the Assembly. 6. Coordinating with McBride Scholars’ 6. Serving as SGA’s representative(s) to the Traditions Mistress(es)/Master(s)/Mistex(es) Committee on Buildings and Grounds of the to facilitate the opportunity for full Board of Trustees. participation of the McBride Scholars in 7. Serving as SGA’s Representative(s)(s) to the undergraduate traditions of Bryn Mawr Housing Group. College. 8. Establishing and appointing the members of 7. The Traditions Mistress(es)/Master(s)/ such committees of the Residence Council Mistex(es)-Elect shall serve as an apprentice as they consider necessary, and being to the current Traditions Mistress(es)/ responsible for the functioning of these Master(s)/Mistex(es) until the Traditions- committees. Elect takes office on the May Day following election. The duties of the Residence Council Head(s)- Elect shall include: 8. The Traditions Mistress(es)/Master(s)/ Mistex(es)-Elect shall assist the current 1. The Residence Council Head-Elect shall be Traditions Mistress(es)/Master(s)/Mistex(es) apprentice to the current head, and shall take in the organization and execution of the

office following Room Draw. May Day Celebration. 2. Assisting the Residence Council Head 9. Following May Day, the outgoing Traditions during Room Draw. Mistress(es)/Master(s)/Mistex(es) (herein

14 referred to as the Traditions Emeritus/a/ Subsection M: The Head of the Campus Safety um [i/ae/a]) shall serve as advisors to the Committee current Traditions Mistress(es)/Master(s)/ The office of Head of the Campus Safety Mistex(es). Their duties will include Committee may be held by up to two people. meeting with the current Traditions Mistress(es)/Master(s)/Mistex(es) and the The duties of the Head(s) of the Campus Staff Adviser to Traditions, scheduling Safety Committee shall include: meetings, and setting agendas for meetings. 1. Voting in the Representative Council The Traditions Emeritus/a/um [i/ae/a] are votes, attending all SGA meetings, and not the final arbiters in any decisions on participating in achieving Representative traditions but are rather advisers to the Council’s long- and short-term goals. current Traditions Mistress(es)/Master(s)/ Mistex(es) and members of the Committee. 2. Calling and presiding over meetings of the Campus Safety Committee. Subsection K: The Representative to the Faculty 3. Being responsible for meeting regularly with the Administrative Head of Campus The office of Representative to the Faculty Safety. may be held by up to two people. 4. Being the liaison(s) between the The duties of the Representative(s) to the Administrative Head of Campus Safety, Faculty shall include: the Campus Safety Committee, and the 1. Voting in the Representative Council Assembly. votes, attending all SGA meetings, and 5. Serving on the Residence Council. participating in achieving Representative Council’s long- and short-term goals. 6. Serving as a liaison between the Assembly and the Department of Transportation, at the 2. Being responsible for the representation of discretion of the office-holder. SGA at each meeting of the Faculty. Subsection N: The Student Athlete Advisory 3. Being responsible for communication Committee Representative between the Faculty and its committees and the Assembly. The office of Student Athlete Advisory Committee Representative may be held by Subsection L: The Head of the Social only one person at any one time. Committee The duties of the Athletic Advisory Committee The Head of the Social Committee may be Representative shall include: held by up to two people. 1. Voting in the Representative Council The duties of the Head(s) of Social Committee votes, attending all SGA meetings, and shall include: participating in achieving Representative 1. Voting in the Representative Council Council’s long- and short-term goals. votes, attending all SGA meetings, and 2. Serving as liaison between the Assembly, participating in achieving Representative Department of Physical Education and the Council’s long- and short-term goals. Student Athlete Advisory Committee. 2. Organizing and facilitating campus-wide Subsection O: Career and Civic Engagement programming. Center Representatives. 3. Calling and presiding over meetings of the The offices of Civic Engagement committee. Representative and Career and Professional 4. Acting as liaison(s) between the Assembly Development Representative may each be held and organizations funded by SGA by only one person at any one time. and providing information about such The Civic Engagement Representative and organizations to the SGA in the form of a the Career and Professional Development booklet to be distributed to all members Representative will consult and share one vote of SGA. representing the Career and Civic Engagement

15 Center in the Self-Government Association 2.Attending meetings of the Representative Representative Council Council and will advise on issues relating to SGA. Sub-subsection A: The Civic Engagement Representative 3. Calling and presiding over meetings of the Committee on Institutional Memory. The duties of the Civic Engagement Representative shall include: 4. Presenting quarterly reports at Representative Council meetings on their 1. Attending meetings of the Civic findings that are relevant to current issues Engagement staff and serving as a liaison and discussions of the Representative between CE and the Assembly. Council and greater campus community. 2. Sitting in on SFC budgeting as necessary, 5. Assisting in carrying out the SGA’s long- with the capacity to be involved in the and short-term goals. transportation aspect of budgeting for Community Service and Activism groups as 6. Collaborating with the SGA Executive an informant, not as a decision-maker. Board and Representative Council to grow institutional memory continuously. Sub-subsection B: The Career and Professional Development Representative Section II: Authority The duties of the Career and Professional Subsection A: The Representative Council Development Representative shall include: may make recommendations to the Faculty, Administration, and other relevant members of 1. Attending meetings of the CPD staff and the campus community on behalf of SGA. serving as a liaison between the CPD and the Assembly. Subsection B: The Representative Council, at their own initiative, may establish long- and 2. Serving as a liaison to SGA-funded groups short-term goals for SGA. who might benefit from CPD resources, when necessary. Subsection C: The Representative Council may register a vote of confidence for a Subsection P: The Pensby Center committee’s change in Bylaws, a committee’s Representative recommendation to the Administration, or The office of Pensby Center Representative other matters brought to the Representative may be held by only one person. Council which are deemed prudent. The The duties of the Pensby Center Representative Council may, by a two thirds Representative shall include: vote, change its own Bylaws. 1. Voting in the Representative Council Subsection D: The Representative Council votes, attending all SGA meetings, and shall establish new committees by vote. participating in achieving Representative Subsection E: A meeting of all members of Council’s long- and short-term goals. SGA, not including Plenary, may be called by 2. Serving as a liaison between the Office of a vote of the Representative Council. Intercultural Affairs and the Assembly. Subsection F: A meeting of the Representative 3. Spending at least one hour every two weeks Council may be called by a vote of the in conversation with the full time and/or Representative Council, the President of SGA student staff of the Pensby Center. or by petition signed by 10% of the members of SGA. Subsection Q: SGA Archivist. Section III: Meeting and Voting Procedure The position of SGA Archivist may be an elected position, held by only one person. Subsection A: The Representative Council shall hold a weekly meeting open to all The duties of the SGA Archivist shall include: members of SGA to discuss campus concerns. 1. Voting in the Representative Council Issues for the meeting may be referred by votes, attending all SGA meetings, and members of SGA and Representative Council. participating in achieving Representative Council’s long- and short-term goals. 16 Subsection B: All meetings of the the results shall be placed in the minutes. Representative Council shall be publicly Subsection P: The Representative Council may announced and the agenda posted three days vote on proposals brought before it by any in advance. source. The proposals may be referred to the Subsection C: Minutes of each Representative appropriate committee. Council meeting shall be distributed to SGA Subsection Q: The Voting Options shall be: each week in accordance with the Bylaws. • In favor of the Motion Subsection D: At the beginning of each semester, the Representative Council shall • Against the Motion vote on an established meeting procedure to • Abstain, which shall be included in the be followed for the duration of the term of the count for quorum but shall count neither for Executive Board. nor against the Motion. Subsection E: A quorum shall be required for • Subsection R: No Vote any vote and shall consist of two-thirds of the voting members of the Representative Council. As a member of SGA, one has the right not to vote, which shall count against quorum. Subsection F: All members of the Representative Council, except the Executive ARTICLE V: THE HONOR BOARD Board, shall have one vote. Section I: Composition and Purpose Subsection G: The President shall vote in case of a tie. Subsection A: The Student members of the Academic Honor Board shall consist of eight Subsection H: An absentee vote on a specific undergraduates elected by all the members previously announced question may be of SGA each year in February. As specified submitted in writing to the Secretary of SGA in Article X, one shall serve as Head for a prior to the meeting at which the vote is to one-year term, one first-year traditional non- be taken, on the condition that significant transfer student will be elected to a two-year changes in the question have not been made. position, one first-year traditional non-transfer Otherwise, the absentee vote shall not be student will be elected to a one-year position, counted in the final tally. Neither a proxy nor one sophomore will be elected to a two-year an absentee vote shall be counted as being position, and two juniors will be elected to present. one-year positions. In the normal course of Subsection I: All voting shall be by simple events, six positions will be open each year. majority unless otherwise specified. All elected student representatives to the Honor Board take office immediately after the Subsection J: A two-thirds vote shall require election. The members of the existing board that two-thirds of those present vote and that shall serve until a quorum of the succeeding two-thirds of those voting agree. board is elected. That quorum, for both Subsection K: The Representative Council academic and social hearings, is defined as five shall approve, by two-thirds vote, any change of the eight permanent student members. Each in Common Treasury Dues. permanent member must be a candidate for the Bryn Mawr A.B. degree. Subsection L: The Representative Council shall approve, by two-thirds vote, the Bryn Subsection B: The Faculty members of the Mawr and Bi-College budgets at the beginning Academic Honor Board shall be the Dean of of each semester. the Undergraduate College and three members of the Faculty chosen by the Faculty. Subsection M: A decision by consensus may be requested by two-thirds of all members Subsection C: The members of the Social present. Honor Board shall be the eight permanent members of the Academic Honor Board and Subsection N: Voting may be done by hand or four rotating members, one from each class, written ballot at the discretion of the President. who shall be chosen at random from among Subsection O: A roll call vote may be the members of SGA whenever a case arises. requested by any member of the Assembly and 17 Subsection D: Any of the four rotating Subsection K: A Deans’ Panel consists of at members of the Social Honor Board may be least three members; generally up to three disqualified at the request of a student involved members of the Dean’s staff and/or other in a case, and shall then be replaced by another college administrators and up to two members member of SGA who shall likewise have been of the undergraduate Honor Board. It may also selected at random. A maximum of ten people include a random community member from may be drawn from each class and disqualified the class of the student involved, who will be in this manner. selected according to the same procedure as in a Social Honor Board Hearing. A Deans’ Subsection E: Any of the permanent members Panel will be conducted in the same manner as of the Honor Board may be disqualified at the Social Hearings. request of a student involved in an Academic or Social Honor Board Case. In the event Section II: Authority that the Head is disqualified, the Head shall See Honor Code. appoint the most senior permanent member of the Honor Board to act as Head. No more than ARTICLE VI: COMMITTEES, BOARDS, three permanent members of the Honor Board NON-VOTING ASSEMBLY MEMBERS, may be disqualified for an Academic or Social AND COUNCILS Hearing. Section I: General Procedures of Committees, Subsection F: Any of the permanent members Boards, and Councils of the Honor Board may choose to disqualify Subsection A: The Representative Council themselves from the hearing so long as shall act as the Voting Body of the Assembly quorum is maintained. and SGA. Representatives shall attend and Subsection G: The eight permanent student participate in the Representative Council members of the Honor Board shall be meetings. Representatives will vote on responsible for periodically meeting to assess behalf of the representative’s constituents the Honor Code and to provide for adequate in Representative Council meetings. familiarity with the Honor Code among Representatives may serve on committees members of SGA. They shall also make formed by the Representative Council. certain that prospective first-year traditional Representatives shall participate in achieving the Representative Council’s long- and short- non-transfer students are informed about the term goals. Honor Code in the College Calendar and in Admissions materials, and that the Customs Subsection B: Any committee, board, non- Week program includes Board-conducted voting member, or council may form its own seminars on life in the community under the Bylaws to be subordinate and compatible with Honor Code. this document. All committees operating under Bylaws shall submit them to the Executive Subsection H: The Honor Board shall hold Board. Any changes to those Bylaws shall regularly scheduled sessions, open to all be approved by a two-thirds vote of the members of the community, in which members Representative Council. of SGA may ask questions concerning non- confidential issues and discuss issues regarding Subsection C: All committee heads shall report the Honor Code and the community. to the Representative Council when called upon to do so and/or once a semester. Subsection I: The Honor Board head shall direct the revision and distribution of the Subsection D: All committee, board, and Honor Code rules for taking self-scheduled council meetings shall be open except as exams during exam period. specified below in Article V, Section I, Subsection E, unless otherwise specified in Subsection J: In the event that a social this document. situation involves too many legal issues, Subsection E: Any committee, board, or a Deans’ Panel may be convened at the council meeting may be designated closed discretion of the Honor Board Head and the by a two-thirds vote of the members of the Dean of the Undergraduate College. committee, board, non-voting member, or council. 18 Subsection F: All committees, boards, and Subsection I: The Committees will be councils shall be responsible for providing appointed on the basis of expressed needs information to and receiving suggestions from of the community members, the SGA voting the community in so far as the subject matter Assembly, and other College entities (Dean’s falls within their jurisdiction as stated in this office, Admissions etc.). document. Section III: The Student Finance Section II: The Appointments Committee Committee Subsection A: The Appointments Committee Subsection A: The Student Finance Committee shall consist of the Vice-President of SGA and shall consist of six members of SGA, to be four members of SGA who are not members appointed by the Appointments Committee of the Assembly to be elected conjointly with with the advice and consent of the Treasurer the Executive Board in accordance with the and approval of the Representative Council. elections bylaws. At the time of the appointment, the Student Finance Committee shall be composed of at Subsection B: The Vice-President shall least one member of every class. be responsible for the Committee’s report to the Representative Council and for the Subsection B: The Student Finance Committee Committee’s agenda. shall prepare the budget(s) for the expenditure of Common Treasury Dues in accordance with Subsection C: The Appointments Committee their Bylaws. The budget(s) shall be approved shall make all Association appointments in by a two-thirds vote of the Representative accordance with their Bylaws and promptly Council. inform the Representative Council of recent appointments. Section IV: The Residence Council Subsection D: The decision of the Subsection A: The office of Dorm President Appointments Committee may be recalled may be held by up to two people per dorm. through either of the following methods: Subsection B: Dorm Presidents shall oversee • SGA may submit a petition containing the the implementation of the Honor System at the

signatures of one-third of SGA stating their dorm level as specified in that document. opposition to the Committee’s decision. Subsection C: The Dorm Presidents may • The Representative Council may recall the call and shall preside over dorm and/or DLT appointment by a two-thirds vote. meetings. They must call meetings in their dorms at least two times each semester. It is Subsection E: If an appointment is recalled, the responsibility of the Dorm President to the Committee must re-appoint the position. make sure the Dorm Officers (especially the Subsection F: The Committee works by SGA representative) give regular reports at consensus, and, in extenuating circumstances, these meetings. The Dorm Presidents shall also one and only one member may step out of oversee party forms. the vote. If the Committee cannot reach a Subsection D: The Dorm Presidents must be decision, the appointment shall go before the candidates for the Bryn Mawr A.B. degree and Representative Council to be decided by a be residents of their respective halls. Customs simple majority vote. People and Hall Advisers shall not be eligible Subsection G: All proceedings and material of for the position of Dorm President, as these the Committee are confidential. Records will positions interfere with the President’s ability be kept for a period of five years. to mediate. They shall be elected by their respective halls each spring for a term of one Subsection H: Should an Appointments year beginning in the fall and/or until their Committee member be unable to fulfill successor(s) takes office. the obligations of the committee, and the committee does not have the requisite number Subsection E: The Residence Council shall of members to run a round of appointments, consist of the Head of the Residence Council, and the Dorm Presidents. then the Vice President may ask the Head of the Honor Board to sit in on the round. 19 Subsection F: The Residence Council shall Subsection C: The Student Curriculum deal with all residential aspects of the Committee shall consider and act on all community. problems relating to curriculum that are within their purview. Subsection G: The Residence Council shall establish standing committees to consider and Subsection D: The Student Curriculum act on the following matters concerning: Committee, in conjunction with the Honor Board, shall be responsible for organization • Buildings and Grounds of the proctoring system during final exams. • Special Case Procedure for Room Changes The Student Curriculum Committee shall be • Room Draw responsible for the recruitment of proctors for self-scheduled final examinations, and the Subsection H: Dorm Presidents shall Honor Board shall be responsible for revising coordinate social activities inside and among and distributing the Honor Code rules for the dorms. taking proctored exams during exam period. Subsection I: The Residence Council shall Section VI: The Major Council preside over the Residential Council Fund. Subsection A: The Major Council shall consist 1. The Purpose of the fund shall be to cover of one representative chosen the spring before lasting improvements, replacements or her/his/their senior year from among the senior repairs to dorm common spaces beyond majors of each of the academic departments what Facilities is able to provide. of the Undergraduate School of Bryn Mawr 2. The Residence Council Head(s) shall College. communicate and work with Facilities on all Subsection B: Major Council shall review all appropriate projects. curriculum issues as they pertain to specific 3. Proposals for spending from the fund major departments, and make suggestions as

shall be brought forward to the residence they see fit to the appropriate bodies. council by students, Dorm Presidents or the Subsection C: Major Council shall provide Residential Council Head(s). student input on departmental decisions. 4. Approval for spending from the fund must Subsection D: Major Council shall assist the be voted on by the Dorm Presidents, one Faculty in academic considerations. vote per residence, and shall require a two- thirds majority of quorum. Subsection E: The Major Council shall elect from its body up to two members to 5. The Residence Council Fund shall be serve as its Head(s). The Head(s) shall also allotted $1,000 each semester by the Student be a representative to the Student-Faculty Finance Committee and be collective. Curriculum Committee. 6. This Fund shall be capped at $8,000. Section VII: The Elections Board 7. When money is expended from this fund, Subsection A: The Elections Board shall be the Residence Council Head(s)must responsible for supervising publicity for all announce the decision at the next Assembly elected offices at the time of elections. meeting. Subsection B: The Elections Board shall Section V: The Student Curriculum organize and run the Candidates’ Forum before Committee each set of elections. Subsection A: The Student Curriculum Subsection C: The Elections Board shall be Committee shall consist of the Head of Student comprised of five members, one of which will Curriculum Committee and no more than two be the Pensby Center Representative, and the members elected from each residence hall. other four appointed by the Appointments Subsection B: The Student Curriculum Committee. Committee shall designate three students to serve on the Student-Faculty Curriculum Committee.

20 Section VIII: The Campus Safety three months before the date set for Plenary. Committee Subsection C: The Plenary Committee shall Subsection A: The Campus Safety organize and conduct Plenary as stated in Committee shall consist of no more than two Article I, Section II, Subsections C-F. Campus Safety Representatives from each Subsection D: The Plenary Committee shall undergraduate hall. review all resolutions and advise all resolution Subsection B: The Campus Safety Committee submitters on constitutional issues. shall be responsible for communicating Subsection E: Toward the end of the academic information about breaches of campus safety, year, the Plenary Committee shall review the campus safety precautions and any other progress and success of that year’s Plenary. pertinent information about campus safety to They shall then make recommendations to the Students in their respective hall. Representative Council for the following year. Section IX: The Traditions Committee Section XII: The Bryn Mawr Concert Series Subsection A: The Traditions Committee shall consist of the Traditions Mistress(es)/ Subsection A: The position of Bryn Mawr Master(s)/ Mistex(es), the Sophomore Class Concert Series Head may be held by up to two President(s), the Sophomore Traditions people, to be appointed by the Appointments Representatives, and the Class Songs Committee from SGA in the spring semester Mistress(es)/Master(s)/Mistex(es). The prior to their year of service. Mistress(es)/Master(s)/Mistex(es) shall be Subsection B: The Appointments Committee elected as specified below in Article VIII from shall, at their discretion, appoint up to three the sophomore class each year in the Spring people to serve on the Bryn Mawr Concert Semester for a term of one year as Traditions Series Committee. Members of the Bryn Mawr Mistress(es)/Master(s)/Mistex(es) and the Concert Series who are eligible to vote shall following year as Traditions Emeritus/a/um [i/ elect three other officers to serve on the Bryn ae/a]. The Traditions Head shall administer the Mawr Concert Series Committee. Eligibility to election of the First-Year Traditional Non- vote shall be determined by active membership Transfer Student Songs Mistress(es)/Master(s)/ for at least one semester. The duties of the Mistex(es) during Customs Week each year. Bryn Mawr Concert Series Committee shall be Subsection B: The Traditions Committee shall determined at the discretion of the Bryn Mawr be responsible for scheduling, publication, Concert Series Head(s). and organization of all Bryn Mawr College Subsection C: A Bryn Mawr Concert Series traditions. Event shall be defined as an event featuring Subsection C: The Traditions Committee shall a performing artist brought to campus at serve as consultants on all Bryn Mawr College the desire of SGA to fill a gap in campus traditions, past and present. programming and funded by the Bryn Mawr Concert Series Fund, as outlined in Article VI, Section X: The Plenary Committee Section XII, Subsection D. Subsection A: The Plenary Committee shall Subsection D: The Bryn Mawr Concert be comprised of up to two Plenary Committee Series Fund Heads, one member of the Honor Board, up to two members of the Representative 1. At the end of every semester, the Bryn Council, and up to two members of SGA, for Mawr Concert Series Head(s) shall a maximum total of six committee members. create a budget in consultation with the The President of SGA may participate in the Treasurer, including a list of events with an Plenary Committee in an advisory capacity. estimated date, genre, and cost, to then be approved by the Representative Council. Subsection B: The Plenary Committee Head(s) At the beginning of the next semester, the and SGA members shall be appointed by the Bryn Mawr Concert Series Head(s) shall Appointments Committee. The Representative present a more finalized schedule to the Council members shall be decided upon by a Representative Council. plurality vote of the Assembly. The Plenary Committee shall be appointed no later than 21 2. The source of funding for the Bryn Mawr Subsection D: The Committee shall submit Concert Series Fund can be derived from all changes to the Constitution to the approval any SGA account at the discretion of of the Representative Council by vote, and the Treasurer, also at the approval of the if desired, to the approval of SGA by vote at Representative Council. Plenary. 3. The Bryn Mawr Concert Series Head(s) ARTICLE VII: DORM GOVERNMENT shall be responsible for allocating the Bryn Mawr Concert Series Fund in accordance Section I: Dorm Elections with their Bylaws to events on campus that Subsection A: The Dorm Officers shall be fall under the definition of a Bryn Mawr residents of, and elected by their respective Concert Series Event as defined in Article dorms. VI, Section XII, Subsection C. Subsection B: Each spring, the Elections 4. The Bryn Mawr Concert Series Head(s) Board will coordinate the election of dorm may co-sponsor Bryn Mawr Concert Series presidents for the following academic year, in Events with other campus organizations but accordance with the Elections Bylaws. they will be held solely responsible for the allocation of the Bryn Mawr Concert Series Subsection C: The following positions: Green Fund. Ambassadors, Campus Safety Committee Representative, and Traditions representatives Section XIII: The Committee on for each class, including Head Traditions Institutional Memory Representative, shall be elected at the first Subsection A: The Committee shall be headed dorm meeting, to be held by the end of the first by the SGA Archivist, and comprised of week of classes, for a term of two semesters up to six additional members of the SGA. beginning immediately. Members of the Committee shall be appointed Section II: The Dorm Officers by the Appointments Committee in the spring Subsection A: The Dorm Officers shall be semester. students from their respective dorms elected Subsection B: The Committee will assist the to the following positions at the first all-form SGA Archivist in carrying out the SGA’s long- meeting and short-term goals. • Committee on Campus Safety Subsection C: The Committee shall be Representative (2) responsible for the preservation and utilization • Head Traditions Representative (1-2) of institutional memory in the Representative Council and the SGA. At least one member • Senior Traditions Representative (at least 2) of the committee shall be responsible for • Junior Traditions Representative (at least 2) collaborating with affinity organizations. Furthermore, the Committee will maintain a • Sophomore Traditions Representative (at public SGA Archive. least 2) Section XIV: The Constitutional Review • First-year Representative (3-5) Committee Subsection B: The office of Dorm President Subsection A: The position of the may be held by up to two people. Constitutional Review Committee Head shall Subsection C: The Dorm President(s) shall be held by one person as appointed by the represent their dorm on Residence Council. Appointments Committee. The Dorm President(s) shall act as a liaison Subsection B: The Committee shall be made between Residence Council and the dorm. up of no more than five members as appointed Subsection D: The Dorm President(s) will by the Appointments Committee. attend and be a voting member of the SGA Subsection C: The Committee shall have the Assembly with one (combined) vote. responsibility of updating the Constitution Subsection E: The office of Green to fit the current needs and structures of the Ambassadors may be held by up to Assembly and community at large. two people. 22 Subsection F: Green Ambassadors shall Board. An election can also be invalidated if comprise the Green Ambassadors Committee, the Head of the Honor Board and the President which shall be presided over by the Green of the Self-Government Association together Ambassadors Committee Head, to be determine that the election has not been appointed by the Appointments Committee. conducted in the spirit of the Honor Code. Subsection G: Green Ambassadors shall Subsection C: Appeals concerning elections oversee recycling in the dorms and other will be heard by the Honor Board. activities the committee undertakes. Subsection D: Class Presidents, Dorm Subsection H: The office of Campus Safety Presidents, Residential Representatives, Committee Representative may be held up to Off-Campus Representatives, Haverford two people at any one time. Representatives and McBride Representatives shall be elected by their specific constituencies Subsection I: The Campus Safety Committee as specified in this document and under the Representative shall serve on the Student direction of the Elections Board. All other Campus Safety Council. positions shall be filled in general elections in Subsection J: The Campus Safety Committee accordance with the following guidelines in Representative shall serve as a liaison between Section III of this Article. the hall and the Campus Safety Committee. Subsection E: Any member desiring to resign Subsection K: The office of Sophomore from the SGA Assembly shall submit a written Traditions Representative may be held by at resignation, no less than three weeks prior to least two people. official resignation, to the Secretary of SGA Subsection L: The Sophomore Traditions who shall present it to the Assembly for action. Representative(s) shall help organize and Section II: Eligibility direct all Traditions for the Dorm. Subsection A: To be eligible to run for a Subsection M: The Sophomore Traditions position a candidate must be a current member Representative(s) shall serve on the Traditions of SGA and a candidate for a Bryn Mawr A.B. Committee. degree or a non-matriculated McBride. Subsection N: The office of First- Subsection B: To be eligible to run for Year Traditional Non-Transfer Student a position a candidate must meet the Representative may be held by three people. specifications of the office for which the Subsection O: The First-Year Traditional student is running. Non-Transfer Student Representative shall Section III: General Elections represent the First-Year students in their Subsection A: Elections shall be held the respective dorms in SGA meetings. They will Monday and Tuesday following publication assist in the running of dormwide activities of candidate statements, to allow for run-off such as Trick or Treat, Bryn Mawr Unplugged, elections as specified in Article VIII, Section Done is Good and other dorm activities, at the IV, Subsection C. Dorm President’s discretion. They will meet with the SGA Executive Board at least once Subsection B: A majority of fifty percent plus per semester. They are encouraged to volunteer one vote (50% + 1) of the ballots cast shall be at Plenary. necessary for election to an office, with the exception of the Appointments Committee, ARTICLE VIII: ELECTIONS which requires additional approval from the Section I: Election Policy Vice-President of SGA. Subsection A: Unless otherwise specified, all Subsection C: If no candidate receives a officers of SGA shall be elected according to majority of 50% + 1 vote of the ballots cast, the Bylaws of the Elections Board. a run-off election between the two candidates receiving the greatest number of votes shall Subsection B: Any violation of the following be held within forty-eight hours. The write-in elections procedures should be considered option will not be allowed on the run-off grounds for invalidation of any election at election ballot. All candidates shall be notified. the discretion of the Head(s) of the Elections 23 Subsection D: In the event of a tie in an Subsection D: In case of a special election election, a second election shall be held within to fill a vacancy, an individual who already forty-eight hours between the two candidates. holds an office in the Assembly may run in Write-ins will not be allowed on the run- the election and still retain the previously-held off election ballot. Both candidates shall be office. notified. Subsection E: In the event a new office of the Subsection E: In an unopposed race, if no Assembly is created, a special election may be candidate receives 50% + 1 of the ballots cast, held under the direction of Elections Board to a run-off election will be held within forty- fill that office. eight hours between the previously unopposed Subsection F: All other special elections shall candidate and the write-in candidate receiving be held under the direction of the Elections the largest number of votes, provided they Board. accept the nomination. Write-ins will not be allowed on the ballot in the event of a run-off Section V: Terms Used in a Vote election. Adequate publicity of the proceedings Subsection A: An abstention does not figure shall be the responsibility of the Head of the into the percentage count of votes, but does Elections Board. count towards quorum, if quorum is being Subsection F: In the event the write-in considered. candidate receiving the greatest number of Subsection B: Write-ins shall be a valid means votes does not wish to participate in the run- of registering preferences. A write-in candidate off election or no write-in candidate is offered, must fulfill the eligibility requirements as the unopposed candidate shall take office for specified above in Article VIII, Section II. the term of one semester. A special election If a write-in candidate does not fulfill the shall be held within the first three weeks of the eligibility requirements, the vote for the next semester for that office. candidate shall be considered an abstention. Subsection G: All election results shall be Before a write-in candidate can be declared a publicized by the Head of the Elections Board participant in a run-off election, or the winner as soon as the results have been tabulated by of an election, the student shall be notified the Elections Board and after all candidates by the Head of the Elections Board and must have been contacted. accept the nomination. A write-in vote figures in the percentage count of the vote. Section IV: Special Elections Subsection C: No-votes shall be a valid Subsection A: In a Member-at-Large election, means of registering preferences only in an if the number of candidates exceeds the election to an office for which a candidate number of open positions, voters are allowed runs unopposed. A no-vote is a vote against to vote only for the number of positions to the unopposed candidate and figures in the be filled. percentage count of the vote. Subsection B: The Traditions Head shall Subsection D: It is the responsibility of the administer the election of the First-Year voter to make arrangements to cast an absentee Traditional Non-Transfer Student Songs ballot, e.g. by proxy or notifying the Head of Mistress(es) / Master(s) / Mistex(es) during the Elections Board. An absentee ballot must Customs Week each year. be returned on the same day as the election or Subsection C: With the exception of the at the discretion of the Head of the Elections office of President of SGA (see Article III, Board. An absentee ballot will be counted in Section I, Subsection C), all vacancies shall the percentage of the vote. be filled through a special election which shall take place no later than two weeks after the vacancy occurs, under the direction of the Elections Board.

24 ARTICLE IX: RIGHT TO PETITION AND THE BRYN MAWR COLLEGE HONOR IMPEACHMENT CODE (AS OF SPRING PLENARY ’21) Section I: Right to Petition Whereas, we, the members of the Undergraduate College of Bryn Mawr College, Members of SGA have the right to present a demonstrate our interest in each individual’s petition signed by one-third of the members of capacity for personal integrity and our belief in SGA to the Secretary of SGA in order to: the principles of self-governance by affirming • Convene a meeting of SGA our student community on a system of • Convene a special meeting of the Assembly academic and social honor; Whereas, this system depends for its success • Convene a special meeting of any on continuing support from every member of committee or body of officers the Association, from those attending classes at • Request any matter of concern be referred Bryn Mawr, and those visiting our community; to a vote of SGA Whereas, this demands that each student live • Address matters involving SGA Common with integrity and discretion in their own life Treasury Dues and with respect and concern for others within Section II: Removal from Office the larger cooperative community; therefore Subsection A: Grounds for removal from Be it resolved, that we, the members of office include embezzlement, fraud, the Self-Government Association of the Undergraduate College of Bryn Mawr College, malfeasance in office, neglect of duty, actions do hereby adopt this Honor Code: in violation of the Constitution, and actions in violation of the Honor Code. Malfeasance We, the members of the Undergraduate in office includes misrepresentation of any College of Bryn Mawr, have come together portion of the student body and violations in this community in order to create an against the Honor Code. environment in which each member is able to realize their full potential — a potential which Subsection B: All charges which could result is realized through intellectual and social in removal from office shall be referred to growth. Such an environment is possible in the Honor Board and be subject to the Honor a community that values respect and concern Board’s rules and procedures. Honor Board for individuals and with this respect and can refer social cases that affect the greater concern, a commitment to communication. community to the student body for a majority We have founded our community on the vote. honor and integrity of its members. We trust Subsection C: Removal from office can also that each student will be guided by the values be accomplished by a two-thirds vote of the of this community. Such trust is essential Officer’s constituency, providing that two- to maintaining the reciprocity on which our thirds of the constituency votes. community is based. ARTICLE X: BYLAWS OF THE Our intellectual and social development ASSEMBLY requires freedom born from trust. For growth requires more than blind adherence Section I: Authority to a code of conduct, it requires reflection upon our actions and how our actions affect Subsection A: Any matter not specified in, and those with whom we share the community. not in violation of the Constitution shall be Such reflection is only possible when one’s determined at the discretion of the Assembly judgment is trusted. in their Bylaws. Growth also requires that we take Subsection B: The Assembly shall compose, responsibility for our judgments, actions, and revise or reaffirm their Bylaws at the also for our student community. At the heart beginning of each academic year. of growth is the process of learning. Learning Subsection C: Bylaws shall be approved by is dependent upon an exchange of ideas, a a two-thirds vote of the Assembly, providing dialogue that can only occur when there is two-thirds of the members vote. mutual trust, respect, and concern. These 25 qualities are natural in a community where and community needs. Because of the diverse the members are aware of their interrelation experiences and backgrounds of the members and interdependence. Through the community of this community, conflicts centering on we are able to create an atmosphere for differences among individuals develop. We growth and learning as the maintenance of recognize that acts of discrimination and the community has the identical requirement harassment, including, but not limited to, acts for success as does the process of learning- of racism, homophobia, classism, ableism, and dialogue. discrimination against religious and political minorities are devoid of respect and therefore, The quest for the realization of potential by definition, violate this Code. that has spawned this community has an intellectual component that extends to a Our student community does not stand mastery of academic subjects. Fundamental alone — it is part of the larger Bryn Mawr to intellectual development is a social one community. The web of interdependence in which the members of this community that characterizes our community includes reflect upon citizenship and what it means to all students taking courses at Bryn Mawr belong to this community, or any community. and extends to faculty, administration, and The environment for learning that we have staff. While the jurisdiction of a student endeavored to create rests upon our sense of Honor Board does not extend beyond the responsibility to the community, our peers undergraduate student community, this within the community, and to ourselves. community is enriched when the principles Required for this learning process and the that govern student interactions form the basis growth of this community and its members are for our interactions with all those with whom a respect for and value of each member as an we share the community. individual and also for the wealth of diverse We recognize that in our interactions with experiences and backgrounds each of us brings members of our community, problems to our community. and conflicts do arise. We have developed Although we entered into a community procedures by which such problems that existed before our arrival, we recreate can be resolved, which are based on the the community through our participation. principles of self-governance and the need Our continued commitment not only to our for communication. Fundamental to these own development, but to that of our fellow procedures is a dialogue between the parties community members, results in the enrichment involved in the conflict. If such a dialogue of our atmosphere, the strengthening of our does not result in the resolution of a problem, foundation, and the constant reaffirmation of a student Honor Board will assist the parties in our community. Although our community is arriving at a resolution of the situation. based on mutual respect and trust, tensions often arise between the interests of individuals

I. THE HONOR BOARD A. The Honor Board is responsible for the administration and facilitation of the Honor Code. This includes an orientation for new students each fall, open meetings where the student body can discuss non-confidential matters relating to the Honor Code, and the periodic review of the Honor Code itself. B. Composition of the Board 1. The Academic Honor Board consists of the Dean of the Undergraduate College, members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences elected as Faculty Representatives, and eight students from the Undergraduate College: three students from the senior class (at the beginning of the fall semester), two students from the junior class (at the beginning of the fall semester), two students from the sophomore class (at the beginning of the fall semester), and one student elected as Head of the Honor Board by members of the Association.

26 2. In the case that most current representatives of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are compromised because of conflicts of interest or scheduling, the Dean’s Office will request that a faculty member who has previously served on the Honor Board be asked to serve on a hearing. 3. The Social Honor Board consists of four permanent members who sit on the Academic Honor Board and four rotating members (one from each class) selected at random from the Association. 4. There are three specialty appointments on the Board: the Senior Counsel, the Secretary, and the Conflict Resolution Committee. The Senior Counsel serves as the support person for the confronted party in that the Senior Counsel makes clear the procedure of the hearing to the confronted party. The Secretary takes minutes at meetings, writes abstracts, and takes care of the Honor Board budget. The Conflict Resolution Committee works closely with the mediation intake coordinators to schedule mediation and to organize the mediation program. Because it is important for both the Senior Counsel and the Secretary to have an understanding from the experience of the hearing procedure, the Head of the Honor Board, in consultation with the Honor Board, shall appoint elected members of the Board to these positions based on the length of term and/or total time served on the Board. The Conflict Resolution Committee shall likewise be appointed with regards to experience with the Conflict Resolution Committee. C. The jurisdiction of the Honor Board extends to all members of the Undergraduate College. The Board has the authority to justify any sanction up to failure of an examination or paper, failure of a course, exclusion from a residence hall, exclusion from campus housing, or expulsion from the College. II. PROCEDURES A. Academic Cases 1. Confrontation a. If a student or another member of the community (including members of the faculty) suspects that the actions of another student are not consistent with the academic aspects of the Honor Code, they should talk in person with the student who committed the alleged violation to determine whether or not a potential violation has occurred. If the confronting party is satisfied that no violation has occurred, no further action is needed. If, after the conversation, the confronting party still believes that a violation may have occurred, the confronting party should ask the confronted student to report themself to the Honor Board (preferably, in writing). This process of confrontation should be conducted in a completely confidential manner. b. The confronted student is obligated to contact the Head of the Honor Board within 48 hours to report that an infraction may have occurred. If the confronting party has not heard from the Head of the Honor Board within 48 hours, they should report the possible infraction and the student’s name to the Head. This should be done in writing, if possible. c. Both the confronting and confronted parties must write separate statements explaining the circumstances as they perceive them. In ordinary circumstances the statements should be submitted to the Honor Board within 72 hours after the confronted student and the Honor Board have made contact. d. The Head of the Honor Board and the Dean of the Undergraduate College, or their designee from the Dean’s Office, will read both statements to determine if a hearing is warranted. If it is unclear whether a matter should be addressed 27 by the Academic or Social Honor Board, the Head of the Honor Board in conjunction with the Dean of the Undergraduate College, or their designee from the Dean’s Office, shall decide to whom the matter will be referred. e. In the event that after reading the statements of the confronting and confronted parties, the Head of the Honor Board and Dean of the Undergraduate College determine that both parties are in agreement about the infraction and the consequence, they can decide that an informal hearing is necessary. The informal hearing will consist of the Head of the Honor Board, Dean of the Undergraduate College, confronting party, confronted party and their Dean. The Head of the Honor Board and Dean of the Undergraduate College act as representatives of the Bryn Mawr community. 2. Hearing Procedures a. If the confronting party is a student, they may be represented during the hearing by the professor involved. The confronting student, however, may be asked to write a statement for the hearing. b. The Senior Counsel and/or the Head of the Honor Board talk to the persons involved prior to each hearing. At the hearing, the statements previously submitted to the Honor Board will be read by Board members before the arrival of the confronting and confronted parties. Both parties (confronting and confronted) may read all written statements. c. In the hearing, the confronted student has the option to be present for all testimony given. The student’s dean is present during the entire hearing, but does not have a vote in the final decision. The hearing is conducted in an informal manner. As soon as the hearing is over, the student is informed of the Board’s decision by the Head of the Honor Board and the Dean of the Undergraduate College or their designee from the Dean’s Office. The Dean of the Undergraduate College, or their designee from the Dean’s Office, informs the professor of the confronting party. d. When the Head of the Honor Board deems it necessary, the Honor Board may call expert witnesses to testify about the materials in question. To ensure impartiality, this witness may not currently be the student’s professor. e. Each record includes all written statements and the Honor Board’s final decision in the case. f. At the end of each semester, the Head of the Honor Board will release a final report of the hearings that took place to the Bryn Mawr Community. This report will include the number of academic hearings, the reason why they were brought to the Honor Board, and a broad description of the decision of each hearing. In addition, the Head of the Honor Board will present this information at the end of each semester to the SGA Assembly. Included in the published report, the Head of the Honor Board must also include five to six random abstracts from no earlier than two semesters ago and no older than six. This random selection should be representative of cases that are still relevant to campus life. All members of the Self-Government Association have the right to ask the Head of the Honor Board for as many abstracts from hearings that have happened as they want from no earlier than two semesters ago and no older than six semesters. g. Appeals of decisions of the Academic Honor Board may be made to the President of the College within one week of the conclusion of the hearing. Appeals may only be made in cases where the procedure followed is questionable. The appeal must be presented in writing. The President will review all materials from the hearing, and the decision of the Honor Board 28 in respect to the complaint of the confronted student. The President will not hear new evidence. The President may uphold any decision of the Honor Board, reverse that decision, or call for a new hearing. Decisions involving separation and exclusion are automatically appealed. B. Social Cases 1. Confrontation a. If a student is offended by the actions of another student, either personally or because the student believes them to be detrimental to the community, the student must confront the student directly as the first step toward conflict resolution. This conversation must take place in person unless the option is not available (i.e. the student is abroad). Confrontation is not a hostile action. The two students should engage in a constructive discussion to try and reach a common understanding. This does not imply an agreement but an “exchange of values” or “expression of concerns” which results in a viable solution for both parties. An Honor Board member may act on behalf of another student if this process would place the student involved in physical danger. In the case of an Honor Board member assisting in the confrontation, a clear line of communication must be maintained between the students involved in the confrontation. b. In conflicts where a third party may be helpful, the following resources are available: i. The Hall Adviser’s role is that of advising the students on how to use the Honor Code. Hall advisers may, if asked by one of the conflicting parties, help facilitate, but not mediate, the resolution of prolonged disputes. They are a part of the support network during repeated attempts at confrontation; they may give advice to both sides. ii. If the problem remains unsolved, a formal mediation may be desired. Mediation is a process by which a trained, neutral third party assists the parties in a conflict to arrive at a resolution through facilitating communication. The Conflict Resolution Committee, along with Facilitated Dialogue, can be utilized to foster communication and help solve prolonged disputes with complete confidentiality. Contact information for both resources can be found in the student handbook and on the College’s Website. iii. Customs people, because it is necessary that they maintain good relations with both sides of a dispute, are asked not to participate in mediation or confrontation between first year students on their halls. They may refer conflicting parties to the appropriate resources. iv. Honor Board representatives, assigned by dorm, are available to address concerns regarding the Honor Code and confrontation. c. Confidentiality is vital to the success of the Social Honor Code; knowledge of the problem must be confined to as limited a group of people as possible (ie: the persons involved, HA’s, mediators, counselors, 1-2 confidants, etc.). d. If the issue cannot be resolved, the Head of the Honor Board should be contacted. e. Both the confronting and confronted parties must write separate statements explaining the circumstances as they perceive them. In ordinary circumstances, the statements should be submitted to the Honor Board within 72 hours after the confronted student and the Honor Board have made contact. 29 f. The Head of the Honor Board, along with the Senior Counsel and with one other Board member, will collect written statements and determine if a hearing is warranted and which witnesses will be heard. 2. Hearing Procedures a. The Head of the Honor Board informs the confronted student of their option to seek advice from the Senior Counsel. b. The Senior Counsel and/or the Head talk to the parties involved prior to each hearing. At the hearing, the statements previously submitted to the Honor Board will be read by Board members before the arrival of the confronting and confronted parties. c. In the hearing, the confronted student has the option to be present for all testimony given and, in the event that the confronted student decides to speak, speaks last. The hearing is conducted in an informal manner. As soon as the hearing is over, the student is informed of the decision of the Board by the Head of the Honor Board and Senior Counsel. d. Social hearings are confidential. Each record includes all written statements and the Honor Board’s final decision in the case. e. At the beginning of the spring semester, the Head of the Honor Board must release Social Honor Board Hearing abstracts from no earlier than two semesters ago and no older than ten. These abstracts should be presented to the SGA assembly and will be released to the Bryn Mawr community. The Head of the Honor Board should take into consideration issues of confidentiality while selecting these abstracts as there still may be collective memory over the incident. The Head of the Honor Board will consult the Dean of Undergraduate Students when doing so. If the Head of the Honor Board does not have any Social Honor Board abstracts to release, then they must state this to the SGA Assembly at the beginning of the spring semester. 3. Appeal a. Appeals of decisions of the Social Honor Board must be directed to the President of the Self-Government Association, in writing, within one week of the conclusion of the hearing unless the confronted student is a current member of the SGA assembly. Appeals may only be made in cases where the procedure followed is questionable; decisions involving separation and exclusion are automatically appealed. The President of the SGA will appoint two members of the SGA Assembly to an Appeal Committee. The student bringing the appeal selects one member of the SGA Assembly to serve on the Appeal Committee. Those three choose two more members from the SGA assembly; the five elect a chairperson. The Appeal Committee invites the Head of the Honor Board to respond in writing to the complaint and reviews this and all other written materials. It may interview the student bringing the appeal and the Head of the Honor Board. The Appeal Committee may uphold the Honor Board’s decision, reverse the decision, or order a new hearing. It reports in writing to the President of the SGA. The Appeal Committee must complete its work in one sitting. b. Final appeal may be directed in writing to the President of the College and the President of the SGA within three days of receipt of the decision of the Appeal Committee. The Presidents will review all materials from the hearing and the appeal. They may uphold the decision of the Appeal Committee, reverse it, or order a new hearing. c. If the confronted student is a current member of the SGA assembly, appeals must be directed to the President of the College, in writing, within one 30 week of the conclusion of the hearing. Appeals may only be made in cases where the procedure followed is questionable. The President will review all materials from the hearing, and the decision of the Honor Board in respect to the complaint of the appealing student. The President will not hear new evidence. The President may uphold any decision of the Honor Board, reverse that decision, or call for a new hearing. Decisions involving separation and exclusion are automatically appealed. C. Reporting to Other Higher Educational Institutions a. When students and alums apply to graduate and professional schools, they must report whether they have been involved with a “disciplinary hearing,” which includes Honor Board hearings, both social and academic. It has been resolved that there can be exceptions to this rule for minor violations of the Honor Code and will be taken up on a case-by-case basis by the current Dean of the Undergraduate College and Head of Honor Board. III. DEAN’S PANEL A. Matters that are beyond the ability of the Honor Board to resolve, including criminal matters, shall be brought before a Dean’s Panel. In determining whether a Dean’s Panel is indicated, the Dean of the Undergraduate College (or their designee) shall consult with the Head of the Honor Board. B. Procedures for the conduct of a Dean’s Panel are found in the Student Handbook. IV. POLICIES A. Academic Resolutions These resolutions are to preserve and ensure the integrity of the College and of the individuals within it. Each student is responsible for the integrity of their own academic work. Thus, it is important that each student read and understand these academic resolutions, as each student will be held responsible for them. 1. Examinations and Quizzes a. Students are not to reveal the form, content, or degree of difficulty of any examination or quiz. Discretion should be used in discussing the examination and in disposing of the examination. b. Examinations at the end of each semester will be conducted without proctors in the examination rooms. However, one or more student proctors will remain in each building to be called in case of emergency and to maintain quiet. c. There should be no talking in the examination rooms. A student may leave an examination but should not create a disturbance. On completion of examinations, students are requested to leave the building promptly and quietly. Examinations will be written in blue books or on other paper provided by the College. Students are urged to occupy alternate seats where space permits. Students should not bring books and papers into the examination room unless told to do so by the instructor. d. In a scheduled examination, the instructor or the instructor’s representative may stay in an examination room for about fifteen minutes at the beginning of an examination to answer questions, and may return at the close of the examination to collect papers. Students, upon completing, shall leave all blue books on the instructor’s desk or as otherwise instructed. e. Quizzes will be conducted in the same manner except that the instructor may remain in the room. Quizzes will ordinarily begin at ten past the hour, and 31 students are responsible for observing time limits. f. In self-scheduled examinations, students must stop writing at the time specified by the instructor. Both the self-scheduled examination questions and the blue books and/or other paper used will be returned to the exam pick- up location after the students complete them. The same standard of integrity is expected of students in cases of take-home or open book examinations, or any type of examination. The time allowed for a take-home examination or quiz is considered to run from the time the student opens the examination through the time limit specified by the instructor. A student may not use course materials, or seek any other outside help, unless specifically instructed to do so. 2. Other Academic Work a. In reports and other written work, sources of information and of ideas and opinions not the student’s own must be clearly indicated; the source of direct quotations must be acknowledged. Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism. b. In laboratory work, each student, unless otherwise directed, is expected to make all the necessary measurements, drawings, etc., independently, from their own observations of the material provided. All records, including numerical data for working out results, are to be used by the student independently and as initially recorded. c. Collaboration among students in the preparation of work may take place as approved by the instructor. d. Permission must be obtained in advance from all professors concerned if a paper is to be submitted for credit in more than one course. If the paper has been used in a previous course or another school, the current professor should be made aware of the fact. e. Any student who is uncertain about the application of the preceding rules to any particular assignment should ask the instructor for more explicit directions. 3. Library: Use of library resources is subject to the Honor Code, as well as normal library regulations. It is the responsibility of the students to acquaint themselves with the regulations regarding the use of library materials, especially those materials on reserve. If a student fails to return a library book on time, despite requests from the librarian, it will be considered an infraction of the Academic Honor Code, and will be dealt with accordingly. 4. Faculty: Members of the faculty are not under the jurisdiction of the but may participate in confrontation. Complaints about a faculty member should first be made to the professor in question and then to the Dean of the Undergraduate College. B. Social Resolutions of the Honor Code The Social Honor Code attempts to reconcile the often-conflicting demands of community and personal responsibility to create an atmosphere in which individuals interact effectively. Policies approved by the vote of the Self-Government Association are the only policies that fall under the jurisdiction of the Honor Board. The social resolutions represent guidelines for conduct in areas where a need for community agreement on behavior exists, and may at times restrict the maximum freedom of each individual. Confrontation is appropriate whenever a student feels that their rights have been infringed upon. The following resolutions do not exhaust all situations in which confrontation may be appropriate. 1. Confidentiality: The right of each student to privacy shall be preserved except 32 in cases of dire emergency. When answering phones, no information concerning any student may be released without an express directive from the student. This same concern should be considered when replying to written or verbal requests for information about another member of the Association or the larger community. 2. Guests: Every guest on the campus is bound by the Honor Code regulations while staying on the campus; future visits by guests who have violated these regulations may be restricted. Each student is responsible for seeing that their guests are acquainted with the resolutions of the Association. The student will not be penalized for a guest’s failure to comply with the resolutions if the guest has been informed of them. This statement refers only to the student Social Honor Code procedures. The student and their guest may be subject to College administrative procedures and penalty. Guests may be received in students’ rooms at any hour. For the security of the halls, any stranger should be escorted to the public rooms, to the room of the person being visited, or out of the hall. The use of bathrooms by any non-Bryn Mawr student shall be determined by each hall. It is a College rule that guests may stay in halls for short visits only. Violations may be reported to the Dean of the Undergraduate College. 3. Dormitory Life: Decisions pertaining to the specific door-keeping practices, and quiet hours of each dormitory will be determined at the first dorm meeting of each academic year. 4. Policies on Alcohol and Drugs: The College’s policies on alcohol and drugs are also included in this Honor Code. V. OTHER INSTITUTIONS A. If a Bryn Mawr student is in violation of the honor system of another institution, including those with which Bryn Mawr has cooperative agreements (except Haverford, with whom there is a special agreement), that violation will be adjudicated at that institution. The student should report the case to the Bryn Mawr Honor Board, but ordinarily no action will be taken at Bryn Mawr. B. Special Agreement with Haverford College (College A may be either Bryn Mawr or Haverford College, depending on where the case originates.) 1. When College A concludes a hearing of a case involving a student from College B with a recommendation for action which requires enforcement by College B, the student will have five days to appeal to the President of College A, using College A’s appeal procedures. If, after the appeal period, there remain some results which must be enforced by College B, that recommendation is forwarded by the appropriate person in College A to the appropriate person in College B (i.e. when an appeal was heard, by the President of College A to the Dean of College B; when there was no appeal, by the Dean of College A to the Dean of College B). 2. At College B, an inquiry will be made by the dean and the student head of Honor Board or Council. It is understood that this should not constitute a second hearing of the case, but all materials from the hearing should be available to the inquiry, which may also call upon anyone involved for further questioning. The inquiry will not affect the resolution of the case in those areas where enforcement is within the authority of College A, but will only decide whether the recommendation for action referred to College B will be accepted, modified, or rejected. The student has five days to appeal the results of the inquiry to the President of College B, whose decision is final. 3. Students should be familiar with both the Bryn Mawr and the Haverford Honor Codes, as one is expected to adhere to the Code of the campus one is on. There are several significant differences between the Colleges’ Honor Codes of which each student should be aware. 33 4. The Bi-Co Liaison will be utilized as appropriate. a. The purpose of the Bi-Co Liaison is to keep the home institution informed, as well as serve as a source of knowledge about the home institution. The liaison will be responsible to attend any necessary meetings, transporting any necessary documents back to the home institution, and bringing up relevant points that the jury may have thus far neglected to consider. b. The liaison at both institutions will be governed by the same set of procedures that were consented by both, the Bryn Mawr Honor Board and the Haverford Honor Council, and will be made readily available to the community. Changes to these guidelines that do not conflict with what has already been stated can only be changed with the consent of both the Bryn Mawr Honor Board and Haverford Honor Council. DEAN’S PANEL A Dean’s Panel is conducted in the spirit of the values affirmed in the Bryn Mawr Honor Code: a belief in the integrity of each individual, a concern for others, and a commitment to dialogue. A Panel may be convened to investigate and resolve certain concerns about a student’s behavior raised by students, faculty or professional staff. Being called before a Dean’s Panel in no way implies a presumption of guilt. A. Purpose In general, a Dean’s Panel will be convened to deal with (a) disciplinary issues inappropriate to the Honor Board; (b) circumstances in which the well-being or safety of undergraduate students is in jeopardy; or (c) circumstances in which College resources, policies or property have been abused. In determining whether or not a Dean’s Panel is appropriate, the Dean (or her designee) will consult with the Head of the Honor Board and such members of the professional staff of the College as circumstances indicate. The Panel should be convened in a timely manner, soon after a concern about a student’s behavior has become known. Should an event which requires a Dean’s Panel take place during a summer or winter break, it may be necessary to schedule the Panel at the start of the following term. B. Composition of the Dean’s Panel The Dean’s Panel shall be appointed by the Dean (or her designee) and composed of at least three members. Generally the panel will include up to three members of the Dean’s staff and/ or other College administrators and up to two undergraduate members of the Honor Board. If the Dean believes that particular circumstances make the inclusion of student representatives inappropriate, she will consult the head of the Honor Board to decide whether student representation may be waived. If the Dean is to be a member of the panel, she will be the chair. Otherwise, she will appoint an Associate or Assistant Dean as chair. C. Notification Each student brought before a Dean’s Panel will be notified by letter or email from the chair that a Dean’s Panel is being convened. This letter will specify the behavior or issue that gave rise to the concern and direct the student to schedule a meeting prior to the hearing with the chair or her designee. This meeting shall be for the purpose of (a) reviewing the Dean’s Panel procedures with the student; (b) obtaining from the student the name of a support person from the Bryn Mawr community to be present at the hearing; and (c) obtaining from the student the names of people that she would like the Dean’s Panel to consider including in the slate of witnesses. D. Scheduling The hearing will be convened as soon as practicable after the student’s initial meeting with the chair or her designee. In the event that the student does not schedule this meeting, the Dean’s Panel process will be obliged to proceed without her. Any student notified of a Dean’s 34 Panel hearing is required to appear when instructed. The Dean’s Panel will make reasonable efforts to take into consideration the scheduling preferences of any student being brought before it; however, if these preferences cannot reasonably be honored, the student or students will nevertheless be expected to appear for the hearing. Should a student fail to appear, the Panel will be convened as announced and proceed without her, and she will be bound by any of its resolutions. E. Fact-Finding Procedures 1. The members of the Panel will determine whether or not to solicit a written statement from any student brought before it. 2. The members of the Panel will determine a slate of witnesses who will ordinarily be members of the Bryn Mawr College community. In general, the Panel will obtain statements from witnesses either through submission of written statements in advance of the Panel or through fact-finding interviews at the Panel itself. 3. A student brought before the Panel will have access to any written statements submitted by witnesses. A student called before the Panel has the right to be present, with a support person, during fact-finding presentations which take place at the hearing. 4. Witnesses will be interviewed individually at the hearing. Members of the Dean’s Panel will first question each witness. The student brought before the panel will then also have the opportunity to question each witness. Any harassing, intimidating or irrelevant question will be disallowed by the Chair. If a student persists with such questions, the Chair may judge that she has forfeited the right to question the witness. Ordinarily, a witness will not question the student brought before the Panel, but may suggest to the Panel questions that should be addressed to the student. 5. The student brought before the Panel will be questioned after all other witnesses (if any) have appeared. 6. The support person of any student called before a Dean’s Panel will ordinarily not be allowed to address the Panel or to serve as a witness. 7. If the Panel chooses to interview witnesses in private, separate from the hearing, the student brought before the Panel will have the opportunity to submit questions for the witnesses to the Dean’s Panel members. A summary statement of private interviews will be given to the student at the hearing. f. Dean’s Panel Deliberations After gathering information, the Panel will meet in private to deliberate and formulate its resolutions. A student brought before the Panel will be informed of the Dean’s Panel’s resolutions orally at the first opportunity. In addition, soon after the Panel’s deliberations, the chair will send the student a written summary of the Panel’s resolutions. The Panel will determine which others should also be informed of the resolutions. g. Finality of the Decision The resolution of the Dean’s Panel is final and binding on the student brought before the Panel unless (1) the student submits a valid written appeal to the President within ten calendar days after having received the formal letter setting forth the Panel’s resolutions; or (2) the Panel’s resolution was that the student brought before the Panel is to be separated or excluded from the College, in which case the Panel itself shall automatically submit the matter to the President of the College for review. The decision of the President on appeal is final and binding. h. Valid Grounds for Appeal; Scope of Decision on Appeal A student’s appeal may be made only (a) on procedural grounds, which the student shall specifically identify in her appeal; or (b) when relevant new evidence not reasonably

35 available at the time of the hearing becomes known to the student who had been called before the Panel. The student’s appeal shall identify the new evidence and its relevancy as well as explain when it became available. In making a decision on a student’s written appeal, the President will review all materials from the hearing, the Dean’s Panel’s resolution, and the written appeal submitted by the student. The President may uphold the Panel’s determination, reverse its determination, or require a new Dean’s Panel hearing. i. Record There will be no record of an appearance before a Dean’s Panel in a student’s file unless the Panel creates such a record as part of its resolutions. The materials from the hearing before the Dean’s Panel and the Dean’s Panel resolutions will be kept separately and confidentially by the Dean. A summary of the resolutions of a Dean’s Panel will be made available to the community in the semester following the investigation. j. Confidentiality All witnesses and all parties to the Dean’s Panel proceedings are required to keep all proceedings strictly confidential.

STUDENT RESOURCES

Question or Concern Next Step Toward Resolution I’m having an issue with my Your Hall Adviser (HA) and/or Customs People can offer roommate or someone else in immediate advice. You may also consult the Associate my dorm. or Assistant Dean for Residential Life, your dean, or a counselor in Counseling Services at the Health and Wellness Center. I’m worried about a friend. If you aren’t ready yet to talk directly with your friend about your concern, talk with your Hall Adviser, a Customs Person, your dean, a counselor at the Health and Wellness Center - after hours, please call ProtoCall to talk with a counselor or access the BMC MySSP app for support.) I’ve forgotten my password. Contact the Help Desk (x7440) in Canaday Library or visit www.brynmawr.edu/computing. If you haven’t already done so, set up password reset questions that allow you to reset your password yourself any time, any place. Visit password. brynmawr.edu. Something in my room is Call Facilities (x7930) or put in a Service Request to broken and needs repair. Facilities using the online form. I lost my OneCard. Immediately report the loss to Campus Safety at 610-526- 7911. They will temporarily deactivate the card so your account cannot be used. Go to the OneCard office (Cartref Building) during business hours to replace your card. Campus Safety can give temporary building access until the card is permanently replaced. I want to host a party. Talk with Student Activities and your Dorm President. I want to go off-campus. Customs People, your Activities and Orientation Assistant, Student Activities, or the Career and Civic Engagement Center can provide advice. 36 Question or Concern Next Step Toward Resolution I’ve got a cold. The Medical Services at the Health and Wellness Center provides a “do-it- yourself” cold care center if you need some over-the-counter medicine. When the Health and Wellness Center is closed, please call TeamHealth Medical and Nurse On-Call at 610-517-4921. My dorm bathroom is flooded Call Campus Safety at x7911. and the facilities office is closed. I’m sick. Call or go to the Health and Wellness Center! When the hours, students can call TeamHealth Medical and Nurse On- Call at 610-517-4921. Don’t hesitate to call Campus Safety (x7911) if you aren’t well enough to get there on your own. You can also go to Urgent Care Centers or Walk-In Clinics at nearby drugstores, CVS and Rite Aid. Check the Health and Wellness Center website - https://www.brynmawr.edu/ healthcenter/local-urgent-care-centers I want to reserve a room for a If the room is in your dorm, contact your dorm president. If meeting or party. it’s not in a dorm, use the online room reservation system at http://ems.brynmawr.edu/VirtualEMS/Default.aspx. You can also contact the Conferences and Events Office in the Campus Center. I lost something. Report it to Campus Safety (x7911). I need to get a document Go to the College Counsel’s office on the third floor of notarized. Taylor Hall. I need passport/visa photos. Go to Bryn Mawr Post Office, 16 N. Bryn Mawr Ave Bryn Mawr, PA I’m homesick. Finding friends takes time. Try talking to your HA, your Customs People, your Activities and Orientation Assistant, or your dean. I’m being harassed. Contact Campus Safety (x7911). You can also contact the Bias Incident Response Team ([email protected]) by email and a member of the team will contact you. Consider talking with a counselor in Counseling Services. If the harassment is sexual or gender-related, contact the College’s Title IX Coordinator (titleix_ [email protected]). I want to talk to someone about Your deans, HAs, CDAs, and staff at Pensby are good questions I have about gender listeners and trained sources of support. Another safe and sexuality. and confidential place to discuss sexuality and/ or gender identity is the Health and Wellness Center – Counseling and Medical Services. I’ve been sexually assaulted. Go to the Health and Wellness Center or Bryn Mawr Hospital to receive confidential medical attention. Talk with a counselor at Health and Wellness Center for confidential emotional support. To report the assault and to ensure an investigation takes place, contact Campus Safety, the Police, the Title IX Coordinator, (titleix_coordinator@ brynmawr. edu), your dean, or your HA. Reporting your assault to Campus Safety does not mean you have to talk with the police. You may also use the online Sexual Misconduct 37 Reporting Form. https://www.brynmawr.edu/titleix I think I might be pregnant. Seek medical attention and emotional support at the Health Question or Concern Next Step Toward Resolution I’m having problems paying my Make an appointment with someone in Student Accounts to College bill. discuss your concerns: 610-526-5500 or studentaccounts@ brynmawr.edu. I’m thinking about suicide. Seek immediate help from the Health and Wellness Center - Counseling Services at 610-526-7360 or from Campus Safety at 911 from any campus phone. If calling from a cell phone or off-campus phone, call 610-526-7911. Reach out to someone you trust and let that person know that you are struggling. Contact the Suicide Hotline: 1-855-634-HOPE (4673) Crisis Text Line - Text HOME to 741741. I want to find a spiritual There are a number of student religious organizations and community or place of worship. also welcoming religious communities nearby. Contact the Interfaith Chaplain or the Pensby Center for advice. https://www.brynmawr.edu/pensby/programs-and-services/ religious-life. I am an undocumented student Contact the Associate Dean of Equity, Inclusion and who needs support. Community Life in the Pensby Center. She is Bryn Mawr’s contact person and can help to connect you to other campus supports as appropriate. I have a financial emergency. Contact your dean or the Dean's Office for advice and resources. Academic Matters: For all academic matters, consult the Dean’s Office website at www.brynmawr.edu/deans/.

Question or Concern Next Step Toward Resolution I want to take a course credit/ Consult your dean. You must sign up in Bionic (starting no credit. after Confirmation of Registration ends) to declare a course credit/no credit. The deadline to sign up for a full semester course is by the end of the sixth week of classes. This deadline is strictly enforced. See Registrar’s website for more information: https://www.brynmawr.edu/registrar/ creditno-credit-faq I have a question about my Consult your professor or talk with your dean if you’re not grade. sure how to proceed. I want to study abroad. Studying abroad can have tremendous value for your academic, personal, professional, and intercultural growth. To get started: Come to the office in Guild Hall and talk with a Study Abroad Student Coordinator to explore program options. Attend an information session. Talk with your dean, your major adviser, and Director of Global Education Tracy Weber. It is never too early to start planning, and we want to help you find the program that is the best fit for you! I need a tutor. First, talk with your professor about your difficulty with the material and utilize class resources. If you think you need a tutor, consult the Peer Tutor site: https://www.brynmawr. edu/academicsupport/academic-and-student-support- services/peer-tutors

38 Question or Concern Next Step Toward Resolution I can’t seem to get all my work If it is a one-time problem with a particular assignment, done on time. talk with the professor whose work you are having trouble completing to request an extension. If you often experience this problem with your assignments, talk with a peer mentor, your dean or the Director of Academic Support Services for a referral to the appropriate academic support service. I need an accommodation due Consult the Director of Access Services, Deb Alder (x7561). to a disability. Your dean can help with this referral. I want to take a course at See Swarthmore registration information on the BMC Swarthmore. Registrar’s website. I want to take a course at Penn. See Penn Registration information on the BMC Registrar’s website. I need an extension during the Ask your professor for an extension before the due date. If term. you are having trouble completing the work for more than one class, you should talk with your dean as well. I need an extension after the Contact your professor and your dean. Extensions into the last day of classes. exam period require permission from both of them. Note that Haverford and Bryn Mawr have different policies on extensions beyond the last day of class. I’d like to take a summer Consult your dean. See the Registrar’s website for policies course. and procedures about transferring credits. I need to miss classes because Bryn Mawr supports students in their religious observances. of a religious holiday or Consult your professors at the beginning of the semester to observance. alert them well in advance and to discuss options. You are entitled to observe your religious holiday, but you are also responsible for the course content and assignments on that day. I want to apply for an external Consult the Fellowships page on the Dean’s Office Website. fellowship. See https://www.brynmawr.edu/fellowships/ I think I or someone else may Contact the head of the Honor Board and your dean. have violated the Honor Code. I think a professor has treated See section "Resources in the Event of Suspected me or someone else unfairly or Discrimination or Bias," under Community Policies. in a biased way. I need to order academic See the information on the Registrar’s website. transcripts. I want to go to law school. Consult with the pre-law advisor in the Career & Civic Engagement Center. I want to apply for graduate Consult professors whom you know well, your dean, and a school. career counselor in the Career & Civic Engagement Center. I am interested in a health Consult your dean and the Health Professions Adviser. profession. I’m interested in studying Consult professors in the Physics Department and your engineering. dean. I’m having a problem with my Talk with your supervisor. If that doesn’t resolve matters, on-campus job. consult your dean and/or the Student Employment Office. 39 Question or Concern Next Step Toward Resolution I’d like to get an internship this Consult a team member in the Career & Civic Engagement summer. Center and talk with Peer Mentors and faculty. I am interested in learning Consult a team member in the Career & Civic Engagement about my career options after Center and make use of the alumnae/i network. college.

ACADEMIC SUPPORT AND LEARNING the Director of Access Services by calling RESOURCES 610-526-7516 if you wish to discuss your situation and determine if you are eligible for Guild Hall, ground floor, x5375 accommodations. The information that you brynmawr.edu/academicsupport share is kept strictly confidential. The Director of Academic Support Services helps students identify and implement ATHLETICS AND PHYSICAL techniques for more effective learning, EDUCATION studying, test-taking and note-taking. They Bern Schwartz Fitness and Athletics Center, also help students explore effective techniques x7305 for time and stress management so that they athletics.brynmawr.edu feel confident and motivated in their academic work. The Director of Academic Support The Department of Athletics and Physical Services collaborates with students to identify Education offers a variety of opportunities and adopt methods that utilize their unique promoting self-awareness, confidence, and strengths and promote success. the development of skills and lifelong habits that will enhance the quality of one’s life. ACCESS SERVICES The Department offers a comprehensive program including a competitive varsity Guild Hall, ground floor, x7561 intercollegiate athletics program and diverse brynmawr.edu/access-services physical education. Bryn Mawr student- Bryn Mawr College welcomes students with athletes compete in 12 intercollegiate varsity disabilities to the campus community. Access sports, with club varsity participation offered Services provides reasonable accommodations in a variety of activities through the Student for eligible students protected under the Activity Office. Drop-in instructional fitness Americans with Disabilities Act due to classes are available to Bryn Mawr students, documented learning, physical, medical or faculty and staff at no cost through the Bryn psychological disabilities. If you think you Mawr Fit Club. might be eligible for academic adjustments in the classroom (e.g. extended time for tests is a possible example), housing modifications in the residence halls (e.g. an air conditioner due to a significant medical condition is one possible example) or other modifications, please contact the Director of Access Services as early as possible. For additional information about Access Services, including the eligibility criteria, documentation requirements, and procedures for requesting accommodations, please check the Access Services website. Make an appointment with

40 DEAN’S OFFICE option five should also reach out to Maureen Cotterill, Program Manager of the Penn GSE Guild Hall, lower level, x5375 Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program, at brynmawr.edu/deans [email protected]. Your dean is a valuable source of advice on academic and non-academic matters HEALTH PROFESSIONS ADVISING OFFICE throughout your years at Bryn Mawr. Whether you want to talk about choosing courses or Canwyll House East, x7350 deciding on your major, roommate issues brynmawr.edu/health-professions-advising or homesickness, your dean can help you The Health Professions Advising Office consider your options, find the support you provides information, advising and assistance need, and develop a plan that works for you. to students and alumnae who are interested You will at times need to see your dean for in careers in the health professions. We offer official permission or approval on various guidance with making a decision to pursue a academic matters. But beyond this, a dean career in healthcare, choosing courses, getting should be among the first people you consult clinical volunteer experience, and applying if you have questions about any aspect of life to professional schools. Students who wish to at Bryn Mawr. While it is your responsibility receive announcements about health-related to familiarize yourself with the rules and workshops, lectures and internships should procedures that shape your experience at Bryn contact the health professions advisor. Bryn Mawr, your dean can help you understand this Mawr’s information and manage your concerns more effectively. Your dean’s name is displayed on Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program is your Student Center page in BiONiC. If you designed for individuals, including alumnae/i cannot access BiONiC and need to know who of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, who your dean is, call the Dean’s Office (x5375). did not fulfill the premedical requirements as undergraduates, but who now want to apply to EDUCATIONAL STUDIES MINOR schools of medicine, dentistry, or veterinary AND SECONDARY TEACHER medicine. Admission to this program is highly CERTIFICATION MINOR selective. Bettws-y-Coed, x5010 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AND brynmawr.edu/education SCHOLAR ADVISING HEALTH Students may choose among the following PROFESSIONS ADVISING OFFICE options available through the Bryn Mawr/ The Pensby Center, x6592 Haverford Education Program: (1) take brynmawr.edu/pensby/international/ courses that are open to all; (2) pursue a minor in educational studies; (3) pursue a minor in International Student and Scholar Advising education leading to certification to teach at supports international students on our campus. the secondary (grades 7-12) level as part of the We specifically offer advising to students four-year undergraduate program; (4) complete on F-1 or J-1 visa status regarding U.S. a secondary teacher education program after immigration regulations and nonresident alien they graduate; (5) apply to sub-matriculate taxation during their study at the College. as juniors or seniors into the University of We also provide support in academic, social, Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education’s personal and cross-cultural adjustment. elementary or secondary education Master’s program; or (6) in a five-year program, complete both the A.B./M.A. program in physics or mathematics (or possibly other departments that offer the AB/MA option) and the secondary teaching certification program. Students interested in option one through six should meet with a program adviser as early as possible. Students interested in

41 CAREER & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT more aware of their values and how they CENTER can use those values to make meaningful differences in their local and global 202 Campus Center, x5174 communities. Community-Based Work Study Gateway, 3rd Floor, x6523 and the Praxis Program are two examples Cambrian Row, Dolwen, x7320 of the variety of curricular and co-curricular brynmawr.edu/career-civic programs offered. Students, faculty, staff, and community partners collaborate with The mission of the Career & Civic the Center to create direct service initiatives, Engagement Center (the Center) is to prepare project-based learning, skill development and and support liberal art students and alums to capacity building opportunities. become effective, self-aware leaders in their All members of the Career & Civic chosen life pursuits. Students should utilize the Engagement Center team look forward to Center’s team of 17 staff members to facilitate working with you from your first year through connections with a number of experiences graduation and beyond. and resources that will allow them to test their interests and passions and construct THE PENSBY CENTER FOR their resumes. From the day students arrive COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND on campus, the Career & Civic Engagement INCLUSION Center provides integrated and coordinated services, programs and opportunities in career 229 Roberts Road (Cambrian Row), x6592 exploration, internships and summer internship brynmawr.edu/pensby/ funding, civic engagement, leadership, The Pensby Center addresses issues of equity, professional and personal skill-building, power and privilege, including but not limited networking and alumnae/-i programs. to race, ethnicity, country of origin, class, Career Engagement provides opportunities gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, for students to maximize their liberal disability, and intersectionality, with a goal of arts education, preparing them to make improving the campus climate and enhancing intentional decisions about their futures. community life at Bryn Mawr. The Pensby The Center offers a comprehensive set of Center’s staff develops and coordinates services to help students navigate the career educational and community-building development process and learn more about programs, guides student affinity groups, themselves. Some of these services include coordinates College programs to mentor career counseling, self-assessment, graduate/ and support students from underrepresented professional school exploration (including pre- groups, supervises the Community Diversity law), information on searching for internships, Assistants, and provides informal advising to experiential learning opportunities, and all students around issues of identity, social permanent employment, as well as help with justice, anti-racism, and inclusion. The Pensby the creation of resumes and cover letters to Center envisions a campus culture that affirms document key experiences. One-on-one career and supports the identities, backgrounds, counseling appointments and/or workshops experiences, and perspectives of all students are both viable ways to engage in career in a way that informs College efforts to exploration, no matter where students are in create equity across student identities and their processes. A comprehensive recruiting experiences. program for both the full-time permanent job search as well as information about internships is also available. Civic Engagement works with community- based organizations to prepare students to be socially responsible leaders and citizens through purposeful action, reflection, and learning. The Center helps students become

42 PRE-LAW ADVISING RESIDENTIAL LIFE Career & Civic Engagement Center, Guild, Lower level, x7331 202 Campus Center, x5174 brynmawr.edu/residential-life brynmawr.edu/career-civic/graduate- The Residential Life Office is responsible for school-resources/pre-law the administration of all residence halls and The pre-law advisor provides aspiring student housing. They work closely with the attorneys with advice about preparing for Dorm Presidents, Residence Council, Hall Advisors, and other DLT Members. and applying to law school, information on registering for entrance examinations STUDENT ACCOUNTS (LSATs), and information about letters of recommendation, timelines and essays. Cartref, second floor, x5500 Students considering a career in the law brynmawr.edu/studentaccounts should take advantage of events sponsored by The Student Accounts division of the the Career & Civic Engagement Center, the Controller’s Office assists students and Dean’s Office and the Pre-Law Club. Submit their families in navigating the nuances of your name/email to Jennifer Beale (jbeale@ understanding and paying their tuition bill. brynmawr.edu) to receive notices for all pre- law activities or to meet. Student Accounts administers the Nelnet billing system and payment plan. Student Q CENTER: QUANTITATIVE Accounts manages the International Student REASONING PROJECT Loan program and works closely with the Financial Aid Office to ensure a positive Canwyll House West experience for our students and their families. brynmawr.edu/qproject The Q Center supports students engaged in STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND quantitative problem solving in introductory ORIENTATION courses across the social science and science Guild, Lower Level, x7331 curriculum. The Q Center is staffed by trained brynmawr.edu/activities peer mentors who host in-person and online collaborative study sessions. Q mentors help The Office of Student Activities and students develop problem solving strategies, Orientation strives to create a vibrant, and improve quantitative, computational, and purposeful, and supportive college community data analysis skills. Please visit the Q Project where students make a difference, develop website for more information, including hours healthy and meaningful relationships with of operation, appointment scheduling, and others, advocate for their interests, learn about mentor interests. themselves, and develop leadership and life skills. Student Activities and Orientation RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL LIFE works with student organizations, advises Traditions, and plans the Customs new student The Pensby Center, 229 Roberts Road orientation program. The Customs People (Cambrian Row), x6592 and Activities and Orientation Assistants are brynmawr.edu/pensby/religion/ part of the Office of Student Activities and Religion and faith are significant aspects of Orientation. many students’ lives, and the free exercise of religion is important to the quality of student life on campus. The Interfaith Chaplain offers pastoral guidance and conversation to individuals and student groups. We also extend hospitality and assistance to our contacts from local religious organizations and to student religious groups. Additionally, the Pensby Center employs student Interfaith Coordinators who organize programs promoting interfaith exploration and dialogue. 43 STUDY ABROAD WRITING CENTER Guild Hall lower level, x5375 Canaday Library, first floor brynmawr.edu/studyabroad/ brynmawr.edu/writingcenter Bryn Mawr students can expand their horizons The Writing Center offers free, individual by taking courses in another country and consultations on writing assignments of cultural context - an incredible opportunity any kind: essays, research papers, lab for academic, personal, professional, and reports, senior theses, and applications for intercultural growth. Study Abroad provides graduate school or fellowships. We also guidance for undergraduate students who want offer consultations on public speaking and to study abroad during the academic year. professional tutoring for multilingual (ESL) Bryn Mawr accepts credit from an approved writers. All writers, list of more than seventy programs and experienced and inexperienced, can benefit universities in over thirty countries. The Study from constructive conversation about their Abroad Committee, which consists of faculty work with trained readers, and students may members as well as staff in the Undergraduate come in at any point in the writing process, Dean’s Office, approves programs, reviews even without a draft. Visit the Writing Center study abroad applications, and makes final Web site to make an appointment or to decisions about a student’s eligibility to study learn more about our services. Walk-ins are abroad. helped on a first-come, first-served basis, and SUMMER STUDY ABROAD consultations start on the hour. Summer is a great time to study abroad! Students interested in studying abroad in the summer must obtain pre-approval from the Registrar for courses they wish to take abroad for credit. Students who participate in a Bryn Mawr summer program (e.g., Institut d’Etudes Francaises d’Avignon, Russian Language Institute, and International Summer School in China) do not need to obtain pre-approval for their courses.

44 DORM LEADERS (BRYNMAWR.EDU/RESIDENTIAL-LIFE/DORM-LEADERS) ACTIVITIES AND ORIENTATION DORM PRESIDENTS ASSISTANTS Dorm Presidents serve as elected The Activities and Orientation Assistants representatives to Residence Council and as (AOAs) are a vital part of the undergraduate representatives to SGA. Residence Council program at Bryn Mawr College. They live is responsible for addressing residential and in the residence halls and provide a support campus issues that involve dorm life, including network for the Customs People and new but not limited to building maintenance issues, students. They work closely with the First- student safety, energy conservation, and fire Year Experience Coordinator and Assistant safety. Dean of the Undergraduate College and Residence Council also plans campus-wide Director of Student Activities and Orientation dorm events such as the annual Halloween to provide dorm-based programming for Dorm Trick or Treat and implements the new students and help to develop and staff annual Room Draw process for room selection programming for the community across each spring semester. campus. The Activities and Orientation Assistants are part of the Office of Student HALL ADVISORS Activities and Orientation. Undergraduate Hall Advisors (HAs) work COMMUNITY DIVERSITY ASSISTANTS closely with members of their dorm leadership team, particularly Customs People, on behalf Community Diversity Assistants (CDAs) of their fellow residents. The HA has special serve as educational and community- responsibilities to the residents on the assigned building resources at Bryn Mawr. They help hall where they live. HAs provide information students explore issues of diversity, equity, about the College and its services and refer and inclusion in residence halls and on students to resource persons when appropriate. campus. Together with other members of the As members of the Residential Life office Dorm Leadership Team, affinity groups, the staff, HAs promote a community atmosphere Pensby Center, and community members, conducive to learning and personal growth. CDAs implement educational programming and help students have conversations and PEER MENTORING SERVICES (PMS) explore diversity across a variety of areas, including race, socioeconomic status, class, Peer mentors are trained to help their fellow gender identity, sexuality, abilities and more. students identify and implement techniques Theyhold office hours to discuss questions for more effective learning. These techniques raised by residents about these issues. The include developing strategic study routines, goal of the CDA program is to promote a taking notes from lectures and readings, community where difference is valued through seeking help from the instructor, analyzing a communication, mutual respect, and empathy course syllabus as well as texts and working towards one’s peers. CDAs are supervised by with a study group. Mentors also assist the Pensby Center. students with course selection and planning. Students can visit their peer mentor during CUSTOMS PEOPLE workshops and drop-in hours, as well as in one-on-one sessions. Customs People (CPs) are students who have been selected to live on the halls with new students. They provide orientation during Customs Week as well as continued guidance throughout the year to assist first-year and transfer students with a successful transition to the College. CPs are part of the Office of Student Activities and Orientation.

45 ESSENTIAL HEALTH INFORMATION

HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER PE courses) about your health, and you will x7360, brynmawr.edu/healthcenter be asked what information you wish to have shared and with whom. The Health and Wellness Center provides a full array of primary medical and psychological However, in the case of life-threatening counseling services for students. During the emergency, such as accident, severe injury, academic year: hospital admission, emergency surgery, statement of suicidal intent or suicide Available 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday–Friday attempt, the College administration and its and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., on Saturday. On other Health Service personnel will intervene at days and times when the Health and Wellness their discretion and inform the emergency Center is closed contact as follows: contact person or others who may need to For Medical Concerns: be involved to assure the student’s safety. FOR NON-LIFE-THREATENING Student health services are available to all EMERGENCIES: call TeamHealth Medical matriculated undergraduate, graduate, and and Nurse On-Call at 610-517-4921 post-bac students. All students are required to have a completed admission health history and FOR LIFE_THREATENING physical exam form on file at the Health and EMERGENCIES: call Campus Safety at Wellness Center to receive services. 610-526-7911. MEDICAL SERVICES FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING SERVICES: Health and Wellness Center, x7360 brynmawr.edu/healthcenter medical- FOR NON-LIFE-THREATENING services EMERGENCIES: Students can speak with an on-call counselor whenever classes are in • Nurse walk-in hours whenever the Health session and the Health and Wellness Center is and Wellness Center is open. open (9am-5pm, Monday-Friday, 9am-2pm • Physician or nurse practitioner appointments on Saturday). When the Health and Wellness available Monday through Friday. Center is closed, students can reach the on-call • Routine gynecologic care, provided by counseling service by calling 610-526-7778 nurse practitioners, including contraception for concerns that cannot wait until the Health counseling, education about sexuality and and Wellness Center reopens at 9am. Students sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy can also access counseling services through tests and confidential testing and treatment our BMC MySSP app which is available for for sexually transmitted infections. free to all students enrolled at BMC. Through the app, students can access a counselor by • Self-Care Center, which provides education text, phone, teletherapy 24/7. and treatment for simple ailments. FOR LIFE_THREATENING Most physician, nurse practitioner and nursing EMERGENCIES: call Campus Safety visits are provided free of charge to students. at 610-526-7911. No student will be denied needed care due to inability to pay. However, there are charges for Policy on Confidentiality some services including the following: The confidentiality of the health care provider/ • Contraceptive supplies student relationship is respected at all times. No information regarding your health will be • Over-the-counter medications released without your permission. Matters of • Missed appointments and late cancellations health become practical issues when questions of extensions and absences from class arise. • Psychological counseling after the 10th visit of the academic year At such times you may want us to inform your dean or the Department of Athletics and • Laboratory tests Physical Education (if you are enrolled in • Prescriptions dispensed at the Health and

46 Wellness Center BMC students - undergraduate, graduate, and post-bac students - when classes are in Although the Health and Wellness Center does session during the academic year. Students not participate in any insurance plans, many are typically seen within a week of requesting of these services will be covered by insurance an appointment (immediately if there is a if the student submits their receipt of services crisis). While a students can be seen for up and the proper paperwork to their insurance to 10 sessions at no cost, sessions beyond 10 company. are billed at $75.00/session. Importantly, no Preventive medicine services are provided at student is ever denied service due to financial no cost to the student except for the cost of constraints. Students should discuss any recommended vaccinations and laboratory financial concerns with their counselor or the studies. A recommendation for vaccine may be Counseling Director. indicated at the time of visit. The Health and In emergency situations, students can access Wellness Center may or may not always have an oncall counselor whenever classes are in the recommended vaccine available on site. session and the Health and Wellness Center The cost of the vaccine provided at the time is open (9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday–Friday; 9 of service may be submitted to the insurance a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday). When company by the student for full reimbursement the Health and Wellness Center is closed, on the student health care plan or the student students can reach the on-call counseling may choose to use the local commercial service by calling 610-526-7778 for concerns pharmacy i.e. CVS or Rite Aid pharmacy to that cannot wait until the Health and Wellness receive the recommended vaccination. The Center reopens at 9 a.m. Additionally, students commercial pharmacy would bill the student’s can access counseling services through the medical insurance for reimbursement. Health app MySSP which is available for free to all and Wellness Center staff are readily available students enrolled at BMC. Through the app, to assist the student with any questions they students can access a counselor by text, phone, may have about their medical insurance plan. or teletherapy at any time. Please check the Health and Wellness Center DRUG AND ALCOHOL EDUCATION website, brochure, or call the Health and AND COUNSELING SERVICES Wellness Center for more information. Educational Programming: Entering first- COUNSELING SERVICES year students are required to complete the Health and Wellness Center, x7360 multi-section online alcohol education https://www.brynmawr.edu/healthcenter/ program, Alcohol-Wise, which begins during counseling-services the summer before the start of the first year with the completion of part one. The Bryn Mawr College Counseling Services remaining sections are completed during is dedicated to delivering excellent clinical the first semester of the academic year. The care to the College’s diverse student online program is the first part of an ongoing population. The college years are a time of discussion about campus norms that continues accelerated growth, significant challenges during the THRIVE course which all first- and considerable stress. In a confidential years are required to take during their first setting, our counselors and psychiatrists listen semester. Throughout the academic year, carefully to student concerns and help them educational programs are offered for students address issues large and small. Each year, about the physical, emotional and social approximately a third of our student body uses consequences of alcohol and other drug use for our services. the individual and the College community. The Counseling Services provides brief goal of these programs is to empower students assessments, short-term psychotherapy, with the information they need to make teletherapy, psycho-educational groups, responsible choices and to develop healthy workshops and webinars, crisis intervention, social skills. case management, mediation, outreach, Party-host trainings are offered throughout the advocacy, psychiatric medication evaluation semester for those who choose to host parties. and management, and referral services for These trainings review the Bryn Mawr College 47 alcohol and party policies, the Pennsylvania • Do you feel depressed or irritable after state laws concerning the distribution and drinking a lot? consumption of alcohol, and the risks and • Do you become defensive when someone liabilities of anyone, regardless of age, who mentions your drinking? serves minors. Also included in the training are low-risk guidelines for drinking, information • Do you avoid eating on a day when you are about how blood- alcohol content affects going out drinking? behavior and judgment, and how to care for an • Do you sometimes miss classes or intoxicated person. appointments because of drinking or Counseling can be arranged through the Health hangovers? and Wellness Center by calling 610-526-7360. • Do you feel social only when you drink? Confidential individual counseling/information sessions are also available, by appointment, If you have answered YES or SOMETIMES to for any student who has questions or concerns several of these questions, you should contact about their own use of alcohol or other drugs, the drug and alcohol counselor for further or that of a friend or family member. Students information by calling the Health and Wellness can talk to the counselor about someone they Center at 610-526-7360. care about without revealing the person’s identity. Confidentiality is assured unless the SEXUAL ASSAULT COUNSELING situation is life-threatening. AND CARE Support groups may be offered throughout the Bryn Mawr is committed to helping any year on a variety of drug and alcohol issues, student who has experienced sexual assault. depending on student interest. Counselors, health center personnel, residential life staff, campus safety officers, Resource and Referral: A drug and alcohol and deans will support a student through counselor is available as a resource to students. the recovery process. Title IX requires that The Health and Wellness Center has books the College address reported and suspected and educational videos on addiction and cases of sexual assault. The College is also related topics. These materials are available committed to assisting a student in lodging to students for both personal or research charges with local police, if the student so purposes. Also, an alcohol self-assessment is desires; holding disciplinary hearings to provided below to help you determine whether adjudicate formal accusations; and disciplining you should be concerned about your alcohol any student found to have violated the Sexual use. Misconduct policy. • Do you drink when you feel depressed, The College recognizes that many incidents hoping it will make you feel better? of sexual misconduct involve people who • Do you need alcohol to feel sexy or to flirt? are acquainted with one another. Coercive or violent acts between people who, because of • Do you regularly use alcohol to relieve their membership in the College community, menstrual cramps? To help you sleep? To must continue to interact with each other are calm your nerves or handle stress? particularly traumatic to the victim and violate • Do you sometimes feel uncomfortable if the trust that is essential to the College’s alcohol is not available? mission and sense of community. In instances where sexual misconduct is reported and • Do you sometimes feel guilty about your involves College community members, the drinking or worry that your friends/family College shall take reasonable action to limit know how much you drink? contact between the parties until the incident • Do you sometimes forget what happened can be addressed. after a night of drinking? • Do you do things when you’re drinking that you normally wouldn’t do?

48 Options for Students Who Have Been as evidence that an assault has taken place. Sexually Assaulted If you think you may wish to press charges at any time, the Health and Wellness Center Any student who experiences any form of personnel will recommend that you go to Bryn sexual violence is strongly encouraged to Mawr Hospital, where medical evidence can seek help from resources available through be preserved for the police. the College and/or from outside sources. The following is a short list of options available The Health and Wellness Center is able to to students seeking help at Bryn Mawr. More check for internal injuries, test for pregnancy detailed information about each option is and STIs and provide someone with whom you provided below. You may: can talk. The Health and Wellness Center can also provide information and testing for HIV • Contact the Bryn Mawr College Health and (HIV testing at the Health and Wellness Center Wellness Center (610-526-7360) to receive is confidential). The Health and Wellness medical care, speak to a counselor, and/or Center can provide medication to help prevent discuss other options confidentially. STIs. In addition, emergency contraception is • Go to Bryn Mawr Hospital (130 South available to prevent pregnancy if you go to the Bryn Mawr Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010) Health and Wellness Center within 72 hours of to receive a medical examination, which the assault. is admissible in court as evidence of an The Health and Wellness Center will keep assault. all information confidential; the assault will • Call Bryn Mawr College Campus Safety not be reported to the police, Campus Safety, (x7911, 911 in emergencies) to arrange for parents or other College personnel without transportation to the Health and Wellness your permission. If it is determined that you Center or to Bryn Mawr Hospital, and/or to or another member of the College community report an incident. is in danger, necessary information will be • Contact the Bryn Mawr College Title IX released to the appropriate administrators Coordinator, Kimberly F. Taylor (610-526- and every effort will be made to protect your 7863 or [email protected]), to report identity. that an incident and initiate the College’s The Health and Wellness Center can assist you investigation. in finding any medical or emotional support • Call Lower Merion Township Police that you need, including counseling on or off (610-642-4200) to arrange transportation campus. to Bryn Mawr Hospital, to report a sexual Bryn Mawr Hospital is able to provide assault or to request emergency medical medical services that fulfill legal standards assistance. of evidence—a “rape-kit” examination. Medical Care: You are strongly encouraged The rape-kit examination preserves medical to receive medical care after an assault. evidence that can be used in court. Having Because sexual assault can be physically and a rape kit exam done does not require you emotionally traumatic, you may not know to press charges. It merely gathers evidence whether you have been injured. Medical should you wish to prosecute at some time. personnel at the Health and Wellness Center It is recommended that you do not shower, or the hospital can answer questions you may bathe, douche, or change clothes if you want have about health concerns. A follow-up exam to preserve evidence. You should bring a is recommended to retest for pregnancy and change of clothes to the hospital in case your sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and to clothing is needed by the police. Bryn Mawr be sure that no other injuries were sustained Hospital will test for pregnancy and STIs, during the assault. offer medication to prevent STIs, and prescribe emergency contraception. The hospital is The Health and Wellness Center is able to required to notify the police that a sexual counsel you on your options for medical care assault may have occurred. after an assault. An examination done at the Health and Wellness Center is NOT the same Montgomery County Victim Services (610- as a rape kit and is not admissible in court 277-5200) has crisis-intervention counselors who are able to explain procedures and answer 49 questions you may have. A 24-hour hotline For questions or concerns about Title IX at is available for anyone with questions or Bryn Mawr, contact the College’s Title IX concerns about sexual assault, or who would Coordinator: like to speak to a crisis counselor. Kimberly F. Taylor Legal Issues: You are not required to report a Office location: Cambrian Row: Aelwyd, sexual assault. If you do talk to the police and/ 2nd floor or Campus Safety, they can inform you of your 610-526-7863 legal rights and options should you decide to [email protected] prosecute. The College is strongly committed Survivor’s Bill of Rights: If you are to providing medical and emotional support sexually assaulted, you have basic rights and to victims and survivors of sexual assault considerations as a crime victim (including but regardless of whether they decide to take legal not limited to): action. • Have any allegations of sexual assault taken Bryn Mawr College Campus Safety can seriously and without any suggestion that provide transportation to the Health and survivors are responsible for sexual assault. Wellness Center or to Bryn Mawr Hospital. You may wish to notify Campus Safety that a • Be treated with respect and dignity, sexual assault has occurred. If you choose to regardless of gender, gender identity, make a report, the Department and you will race, age, income level, physical abilities, then determine whether the assistance and/ cognitive abilities, or sexual, medical and or intervention of the police is necessary to mental health history. protect other members of the community and/ • Have timely access to emergency and crisis or to arrest the assailant. counseling services. Campus Safety will inform the Title IX • Be accompanied by an advocate while Coordinator that an assault has been reported. receiving victim services. If it is necessary to alert the community at large that an assault has been reported, the • Be informed of legal rights and available Department of Campus Safety, the Title IX resources. Coordinator and the Dean’s Office will make • Be informed of safety planning and every effort to protect your privacy. protection services. Lower Merion Township Police can provide • Be informed of appropriate follow-up transportation to Bryn Mawr Hospital and treatment, medical testing and counseling. emergency medical care if necessary. If you do decide to report the assault to the police, the • Be notified of options for and assistance College will provide a support person if you with changing academic and/or living would like help through the process. Making situations if so requested and if such a police report concerning the assault does not changes are reasonably available. mean that you must prosecute the assailant. • Have the College conduct a prompt and • If you are assaulted or need help in thorough investigation of the allegation, Philadelphia, call Women Organized preserving the privacy of the survivor to the Against Rape at 215-985-3333. extent possible within the requirements of Title IX. • If you are assaulted or need help at Haverford, call Campus Security at • Be able to give testimony in a campus 610- 896-1111. hearing by means other than being in the same room with the accused. • If you are assaulted or need help at Swarthmore, call 610-328-8333. • Have a support person present during campus disciplinary proceedings. • You can also call Delaware County Women Against Rape at 610-566-4342. • Be informed of the outcome of the sexual assault disciplinary proceedings.

50 LIBRARY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (LITS)

TECHNOLOGY LABS • Want to know about available software Computers in Libraries • Need advice about buying a new computer or upgrading an old one Computers and printers are available for student use in Canaday, Carpenter, and Collier LEARNING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY libraries. Computers are equipped with MS Office, Adobe CC, and a variety of academic Digital Competencies Program software. Log in with your College Password. The Digital Competencies Program helps you 24-Hour Access identify your digital skills, seek curricular and co-curricular opportunities to hone your Use your OneCard to enter the A floor of digital skills, and develop ways of articulating Canaday 24/7. Here you’ll find computers, and demonstrating your digital competencies printers, and the Lusty Cup. to various audiences (including prospective Digital Media and Collaboration Lab employers). The Digital Media and Collaboration Lab To learn more and explore opportunities, visit in Carpenter is available for individual and brynmawr.edu/digitalcompetencies collaborative work on technology-based LinkedIn Learning projects. Stop by to get help with image editing and to use scanners and specialized Use your Bryn Mawr email to access LinkedIn software for design, GIS, 3D modeling, Learning for free. LinkedIn Learning is an and more. online library with thousands of high-quality video courses that allow you to develop a Remote Access variety of skills at your own pace. Lab computers and software are also available Visit https://bit.ly/3wVznkr to get started. virtually. See https://techdocs.blogs.brynmawr. edu/9708 for instructions. Tech Docs Makerspace Visit http://techdocs.blogs.brynmawr.edu/ for a wide variety of technology how-to’s and The Makerspace (Park Science Center, tips, including: 157) provides tools for critical making activities such as 3D printing, laser cutting, • Accessibility woodworking, and textiles. • Moodle HELP DESK • Microsoft Office Canaday Library, first floor • Email and Calendar [email protected], 610-526-7440 • Image and video editing The Help Desk is your first point of contact for technology-related problems and questions. • Web editing and blogs Call or email the Help Desk if you: LIBRARIES AND RESEARCH • Are having trouble with any of your accounts Use Tripod, the Tri-colleges library catalog to locate print and electronic books, videos, • Cannot connect to the network and journals (tripod.brynmawr.edu). Visit • Need help with your personal computer or the research guides (https://guides.tricolib. advice about information security brynmawr.edu/) for recommendations. • Think you have a virus or other computer Bryn Mawr has three libraries. Canaday is the problem main library, primarily for the humanities and social science collections. Carpenter houses • Want to report a problem with a campus collections in history of art and architecture, computer archaeology, and classics. Collier (located in

51 Park Science) is Bryn Mawr’s science library BUILDINGS QUICK GUIDE Collier is currently under renovation, but Canaday Collier library items are available by request. You can also request and borrow books and • Library Borrowing and Research Help journals from the Haverford and Swarthmore • Help Desk libraries through Tripod. • Humanities and social science materials Research Help • Computers and printers Stop by any library and talk with a librarian for help with your research. Drop in or visit • 24-hour computers (A floor) https://www.brynmawr.edu/lits/library-help to • Special Collections (second floor), make an appointment. exhibitions throughout the library E-ZBorrow and Interlibrary Loan • Lusty Cup Can’t find what you need in the Tri-Co? Use Carpenter E-ZBorrow and Interlibrary Loan to request materials from libraries worldwide. • Art History, Archaeology, Cities, and Classics Materials Special Collections • Computers and printers Bryn Mawr has a wide variety of art, artifacts, rare books, manuscripts, and college archives • Digital Media and Collaboration Lab that can be used for original research. • Digital Scholarship and Digital Collections Collections materials are exhibited regularly in various locations on campus, often in Park Canaday Library. Collections are digitally • Collier Library Science collections searchable; see https://www.brynmawr. (available by request) edu/lits/special-collections/search. Visit the Reading Room on the second floor of Canaday • Makerspace or email [email protected] to make an WEB RESOURCES appointment. • Password Reset: Digital Scholarship http://password.brynmawr.edu Digital scholarship specialists can help with • Office 365 (email and calendar): digital research and web publication http://webmail.brynmawr.edu — including digital exhibitions, GIS, • Tech Documentation : data visualization, 3D modelling, and http://techdocs.blogs. brynmawr.edu more. To make an appointment, email [email protected]. • Tripod Library Catalog: http://tripod.brynmawr.edu • LITS Website: brynmawr.edu/lits

52 COMMUNITY POLICIES

BILLING AND PAYMENT POLICY that concern and, if appropriate, encourage that student to seek confidential help from Fall Semester Bills are sent during the first one of the counselors, nurses, or physicians week of July and payment is due on or on either campus or off campus. A student before August 1. Spring Semester Bills are with questions about how best to confront sent during the first week of December and or intervene on behalf of another student payment is due on or before January 2. Online should seek guidance from a drug and alcohol payment is available. counselor, counselor or dean. Advice may be The College reserves the right to prevent a sought without revealing the identity of the student from registering for classes, attending student needing help, if that seems best. class or entering residence until payment of the College charges has been made each ALCOHOL POLICY semester. No student may preregister for the The Alcohol Policy, in conjunction with next semester, participate in room draw, order planned educational activities and support a transcript, participate in summer internships, services, is designed to achieve the following employment or fellowships, hold leadership goals: positions, participate in graduation, or receive a diploma until all accounts are paid, including • to remind students of the laws of the the activities fee assessed by the student Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and of the Self-Government Association officers. This Social Honor Codes, both of which govern fee covers class and hall dues and support for their behavior with respect to alcohol; student organizations and clubs. All resident • to stress moderation, safety, and individual students are required to participate in the accountability for those who choose to College meal plan. drink; BI-COLLEGE ALCOHOL AND DRUG • to maintain a Bi-College social atmosphere POLICIES that is free of coercion for those who choose not to drink and a climate in which alcohol All students are responsible for acting in is not the focus of parties or other social accordance with the College’s Alcohol events; and Drug Policies, which are found in this Handbook. Each student is responsible for • to maintain a Bi-College community in conducting themselves in accordance with which alcohol abuse and its effects are federal, state and local laws, for following minimal; College party rules, and for assisting others • to provide confidential and effective impaired by alcohol or drugs in the interests guidance for those with specific needs of their health and well-being. Impairment due related to alcohol use and addiction; and to alcohol or drug use is never an excuse for misconduct. The College will not contribute • to provide information and education about to the cost of a legal defense for those who the effects of alcohol for all students. violate drug or alcohol laws and rules. Alcohol All members of the Bi-College community are or drug policy infractions may result in a expected to be familiar with and abide by the Dean’s Panel, Honor Board proceeding, or principles of the Alcohol Policy. other College or SGA disciplinary action. It is the duty of all students to conduct The care and concern for other individuals themselves in a manner consistent with the which are embodied in the Social Honor Honor Codes, in addition to helping others to Code should govern a student’s response to a do the same. With regard to the consumption violation of the Bi-College alcohol and drug of alcohol, students are responsible for their policies. When a student is concerned about own well-being. Behavior that puts students another student’s alcohol or drug use or its at mental, physical and/or legal risk cannot be self-destructive potential, they may express condoned.

53 EXPECTATIONS OF STUDENTS 3. Students who consume alcohol where it is forbidden under Section 2 of this Policy, 1. Students who choose to consume, provide and thereby place the hosts, the Colleges, or serve alcohol, with an understanding and the students who administer party funds of the responsibilities imposed by at risk and in jeopardy, should be asked Pennsylvania law, should do so with a to refrain from violating the Policy by the sense of responsibility and concern for host or other party guests. In incidents themselves and others. Students also where students feel that a violation of the have the responsibility to confront others Alcohol Policy has occurred and where whose behavior under the influence of the confronting party and the confronted alcohol is inconsistent with their welfare individual fail to reach a resolution, and concern for others in the community. they should follow the procedure of the When community members lose their campus on which the incident occurred. At ability to reason and control their actions Haverford, disregard for these Alcohol and due to excessive alcohol consumption, it is other Party Policies should be brought to the threatening to them, to those around them, attention of the joint Student-Administration and ultimately to the community as a whole. Alcohol Policy Panel, composed of Students are urged to accept responsibility three members of Student Council, three for preventing themselves and others from members of Honor Council, two appointed ever reaching that point. members at large, and two deans. This panel 2. The legal drinking age in the will address strictly procedural violations Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is 21, of the Policy. Referrals can be made by the therefore alcoholic beverages are not to Honor Council. At Bryn Mawr, disregard be served or consumed at student parties for these Alcohol and other Party Policies open to and/or advertised in the College, should be dealt with under the procedures Bi-College, or Tri-College community. outlined in the Social Honor Code. Additionally, alcoholic beverages can 4. Inebriation shall not be seen as an neither be served nor consumed at open acceptable or justifiable excuse for parties held in public spaces. These include: disruptive behavior and confrontation for a. At Bryn Mawr: Cambrian Row, the such behavior shall be dealt with as in the Campus Center, Guild Hall, College realm of each campus’s Social Honor Code. Hall, Goodhart, Schwartz Gymnasium, 5. When confronting an individual does not or all corridors, stairwells, landings, cannot lead to a satisfactory resolution of basements, attics and courtyards, a problem, the individual whose behavior laundries, all dining halls, Arnecliffe allegedly violates the Codes and expected Studio, Pembroke Dance Studio, conduct of the Colleges, in accordance with classroom buildings, the Dorothy the procedures of the Social Honor Codes, Vernon Room, Canaday Library, shall ultimately be brought to the attention outdoors on College grounds. of the Honor Board or Honor Council. b. At Haverford: Founders Great Hall and 6. The Honor Board/Council will bring a Common Room, the Dining Center, case to the attention of the Office of the Lunt Party Room, the Old Gymnasium Dean of the appropriate College if there is and Alumni Field House, Marshall a threat to the lives or safety of individuals Auditorium, MacCrate Recital Hall, all or of damage to College or private property corridors, stairwells, roofs and attics, resulting from inebriation or a violation of Stokes Auditorium, classroom buildings, the Alcohol Policy. Flagrant or repeated Magill Library, outdoors on College violations of party guidelines could grounds. With special permission, constitute such a case. Such behavior may parties at which only those 21 years of result in separation or exclusion of the age and older are served alcohol may be confronted person(s) from the Colleges. held in public spaces.

54 7. In some cases, the Honor Board/Council • to stress individual accountability for those or the Office of the Dean will consult who choose to use illegal drugs; counselors who have expertise in alcohol • to maintain a Bi-College community where abuse and alcoholism if such expertise is the harmful effects of drug use can be deemed relevant. Such consultation will minimized; take place only with the confronted person’s knowledge. • to inform the members of the Bi- College community of the availability of 8. Coordinators of parties and other social confidential and effective guidance and events must abide by the Party Policy of the resources for those with questions and host campus. concerns related to drug use, dependence 9. It is expected that hosts will inform their and abuse; and guests of the provisions of the Honor Codes, • to encourage all members of the Bi-College including the Alcohol Policy. Should the community to become familiar with the provisions of this Policy be violated by non- physiological, psychological and legal Bi- College members, their further access to aspects of drug use, dependence and abuse. these campuses may be restricted. All members of the Bi-College community 10. Faculty and staff members who are expected to be familiar with and abide by entertain students should be aware of the principles of the drug policy. This policy the responsibilities and risks to the stresses prevention and concern; it charges Colleges and to themselves as individual the community with the responsibility for social hosts under the laws of the drug education, intervention and heightened Commonwealth. awareness of campus resources for dealing 11. Groups sponsoring social events must with drug problems. It also asks us to consider abide by the host campus’ Party Policy. If the relationship between the individual and the party guidelines are not followed by guests community, and the question of responsibility or hosts, it is the responsibility of students to one’s peers. In many cases, choosing not to aware of the violation to approach those in intervene in another person’s abuse of drugs violation and seek a resolution. is not a neutral position. By not interfering, we become an enabler. In claiming to allow Services and Referrals abusers their individual freedom of choice, Both Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges we may in fact be limiting their choices by provide services and referral for individuals reinforcing their attitudes and behavior. In who need help with an alcohol-related summary, we have a responsibility not to problem. For confidential assistance, contact: withdraw from the community either by • Polly O’Keefe, Director of Counseling, abusing drugs or by ignoring the abuse of Bryn Mawr College Health Services, The drugs. Health and Wellness Center, 610-526-7360 • The illegal possession, use, sale or • Alcoholics Anonymous Information Center, distribution of drugs is in violation of 444 N. 3rd St., Suite 3E, Philadelphia, 215- the law, and the Colleges will not protect 923-7900 students from prosecution under federal, • Students have the responsibility to confront DRUG POLICY and/or intervene on the behalf of individuals The drug policy, in conjunction with planned whose use of drugs or actions under the educational activities and support services, is influence of drugs presents a danger to designed to achieve the following goals: themselves and/or to the community at large. • to remind students that the Social Honor Codes, the federal laws and the laws of the • The Colleges as educational institutions, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do apply being concerned about the harmful effects to their behavior with respect to the use of of the illegal use, possession, sale or drugs; distribution of drugs on the individual, and on the integrity, safety and security of this academic community, do not condone the 55 illegal use, possession, sale or distribution individual go to a counselor for evaluation of drugs. The administrations of Bryn Mawr and help with any underlying substance abuse. and Haverford Colleges reserve the right Problems with behavior related to drug use to act when they have reason to believe that involve Bryn Mawr graduate students that involvement with drugs is having an or special students who are not bound by the adverse effect upon the life and/or academic Social Honor Code should be referred to the performance of students or adversely affects Deans of the Graduate Schools if they cannot or legally implicates others in the academic be resolved by the individual concerned. If community. College action may take such an individual’s involvement with drugs is forms as education, counseling, referral to such that it, or behavior associated with it, outside agencies, separation or exclusion, is violent or life-threatening, it should be depending on the situation. brought to the attention of a dean or College physician without delay by any member of Procedures the community who becomes aware of the A student’s response to a violation of the situation. Thus, a counselor, peer educator, Bi-College drug policy should be governed, dean, physician, or Honor Board/Council first of all, by the care and concern for other member who was working with a student on individuals which are embodied in the Social any aspect of his or her involvement with Honor Codes. The following guidelines are drugs would, as in any other life-threatening not meant to cover all situations. They are situation, be bound to report the problem to intended, instead, to remind students of the the Dean of the appropriate college when the variety of resources available and to reassure potential for violence or loss of life requires them about the consequences of seeking help. immediate administrative action. Some cases, When a student is concerned about another such as the sale or distribution of drugs, student’s drug use and its self-destructive may not present immediate danger to life potential, they should express their concern but may have legal implications which are and, if appropriate, encourage that student administrative concerns, as well as social to seek confidential help from one of the consequences which are student concerns. In counselors, nurses or physicians on either these situations, joint action by the Dean and campus or from a professional off campus. If the Honor Board/Council may be necessary. confrontation does not seem appropriate or Policy on Drug-Free Schools proves ineffective, the concerned individual should turn to the drug and alcohol counselor, The unlawful possession, use or distribution a counselor, the counseling director, the of illicit drugs and alcohol poses a threat to medical director or dean for advice on how the health and safety of all members of the to intervene and help. Advice may be sought Bryn Mawr College community and is not without revealing the identity of the student permitted. The sanctions for the unlawful needing help. possession, use or distribution of illicit drugs and alcohol are defined in the Pennsylvania If a student’s behavior as a result of drug use Controlled Substance, Drug, Device and has disturbed or harmed other individuals or Cosmetic Act (35 P.S. Sections 780-101 to the community in a more general sense, the 780-144); Controlled Substances Forfeiture behavior itself should be dealt with through (42 Pa.C.S. Sections 6801-6802); the the usual Honor Code procedure at either Pennsylvania Crimes Code (18 Pa. C.S. 6307- mediation is necessary, the members of the 6314); the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code Bryn Mawr Honor Board or the Haverford (75 Pa. C.S. 1546-1547; 3715, 3731); and the Honor Council should be consulted. The drug Lower Merion Township Code (Article IV, use that may have caused the behavior should Section 111-4). These statutes are on file at the not be viewed as an excuse, but as a second reference desk in Canaday Library. A summary problem for which the individual may be of federal law and relevant sanctions is also encouraged to seek help from a professional on file. counselor. In cases where the Honor Council or Board is asked to intervene, they will The College’s policies on disciplinary deal with the specific behavior that has been sanctions for students are stated in this brought to them and may recommend that the Handbook. Policies on sanctions for faculty

56 and staff are stated in the handbooks through the Health and Wellness Center, the appropriate to them. This policy is instituted campus physician and Crossroads. All of the effective immediately, to comply with the insurance programs offered to staff, faculty Drug Free Schools and Communities Act and students through the College provide some of 1989 (P.L. #101-226). No institution will form of support to persons in various forms receive federal financial assistance of any of treatment for substance-abuse problems. kind after October 1, 1990, unless it has This policy is instituted, effective immediately, certified that it has “adopted and implemented to comply with federal laws and regulations. a program to prevent the unlawful possession, Federal agencies cannot legally award any use, or distribution of illicit drugs and alcohol contract over $25,000 or any grant monies by students and employees.” without certification that the College has implemented a drug-free workplace program. The College will conduct a biennial review of its program to determine its effectiveness, The College also complies with the Drug- implement needed changes, and ensure that it Free Schools and Communities Act of 1989 is consistently enforced. (P.L. #101-226). Information on federal and state law imposing sanctions for unlawful POLICY ON A DRUG-FREE possession, use or distribution of illicit drugs WORKPLACE and alcohol is available at the reference desk

The College, as an employer, and students as of Canaday Library and in the Dean’s Office. employees of the College have obligations Information on counseling, treatment and under the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 rehabilitation programs is contained in the (41 U.S.C. Section 701). The College’s College’s drug and alcohol policies. statement of compliance is reproduced here. This Handbook’s statements on policies and The use of illegal drugs poses a threat to procedures relating to alcohol and controlled the health and safety of members of the substances form part of the College’s Bryn Mawr College community. Therefore, compliance with the Drug-Free Schools and the illegal use, possession, dispensation, Communities Act. distribution or manufacture of controlled substances (as defined in federal statutes) by SMOKING POLICY any faculty, staff or student employees in the In accordance with the Pennsylvania Clean workplace is not permitted. Indoor Air Act and to enable students, faculty, As a condition of College employment, every staff, and visitors to avoid exposure to employee shall abide by the terms of this second-hand smoke, the College has enacted policy, and he or she shall notify his or her a smoking policy that prohibits smoking supervisor of any criminal conviction for a in all College owned and leased buildings, violation occurring in the College workplace College athletic facilities (including fields and no later than five days after such conviction. spectator areas), and College-owned vehicles. Any employee found in violation of these The smoking of any material, included but not prohibitions and regulations may be required limited to tobacco and marijuana is prohibited. to participate in a drug-abuse assistance or Smoking is also prohibited on the plazas in rehabilitation program and shall be subject front of Canaday Library, the Campus Center, to disciplinary action, which action might and the Park Science Building. include dismissal. Information regarding such assistance or rehabilitation is available

57 HEALTH RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF ILLICIT DRUGS Physical Psychologi- Effects of Withdrawal Drugs Depen- cal Depen- Possible Effects Overdose Syndrome dence dence Narcotics Heroin High High Euphoria Slow and shallow Yawning Morphine High High Drowsiness breathing Loss of appetite Codeine Moderate Moderate Respiratory Clammy skin Irritability Hydrocodone High High depression Convulsions Tremors Hydromorphone High High Constricted pupils Coma Panic Nausea Possible death Oxycodone High High Cramps Methadone, Nausea High High LAAM Runny Nose Fentanyl and High High Chills and Analogs sweating Other Narcotics High-Low High-Low Watery eyes Depressants Chloral Hydrate Moderate Moderate Slurred Speech Shallow Anxiety Disorientation respiration Insomnia High- High- Barbituates Clammy skin Moderate Moderate Drunken behavior Tremors without the odor of Dilated pupils Benzodiaz- Delirium Low Low alcohol epines Weak and rapid Convulsions pulse Glutethimide High Moderate Possible death Coma Other Moderate Moderate Depressants Possible death Stimulants Cocaine Possible High Increased alertness Agitation Apathy Euphoria Increased body Long periods Amphetamine/ temperature of sleep Methamphet- Possible High Increased pulse amine rate and blood Hallucinations Irritability pressure Convulsions Depression Methylpheni- Possible High Excitation date Possible death Disorientation Insomnia Other Possible High Stimulants Loss of appetite Cannabis Euphoria Fatigue Occasional Marijuana Unknown Moderate Relaxed inhibitions Paranoia reports of Tetrahydro- insomnia Unknown Moderate Excitation Possible cannabinol Hyperactivity Increased appetite psychosis Hashish and Unknown Moderate Decreased hashish oil Disorientation appetite Hallucinogens LSD None Unknown Illusions and Longer, more Unknown Mescaline and hallucinations intense “trip” None Unknown Peyote Altered perpcep- episodes Amphetamine tion of time and Psychosis Unknown Unknown Variants distance Possible death Phencyclidine Unknown High and Analogs Other None Unknown Hallucinogens 58 This policy applies to all faculty, staff, PARTY POLICY students, contractors and visitors. In addition: Bryn Mawr College is committed to • Smoking is prohibited outdoors within 25 maintaining a social atmosphere that stresses feet of the perimeter of any College building, the safety of all students, whether or not they including arches and covered entrances, to choose to drink. Moderation, concern for ensure that second-hand smoke does not others, and individual accountability should be enter the area through entrances, windows, characteristic of all social activities on campus. or ventilation systems. The responsibilities and procedures outlined • Cigarette butts are to be extinguished and in the attached Party Policy are in addition placed in appropriate outdoor receptacles. to those required by the Social Honor Code, Throwing cigarette butts on the ground or the Bi-College Alcohol Policy, state and pavement is considered littering. federal law. These policies are available in this • “Smoking” also includes the use of Handbook. electronic cigarettes and other devices that Violations of the Bi-College Alcohol and create a vapor. Drug Policies and/or Bryn Mawr College The College is committed to assisting Party Policy that come to the attention of students, faculty and staff in making healthy Campus Safety, Residential Life, Student lifestyle choices. Students can go to the Activities or the Dean’s Office will result in an Health and Wellness Center for information investigation by these departments. They may and assistance. Faculty and staff who are result in a Dean’s Panel, by which sanctions interested in smoking cessation programs may will be issued on a case-by-case basis. obtain information from Human Resources. In In the event that law enforcement officials addition, residents of Pennsylvania can access confront students for unlawful behavior services available through the PA Free Quitline alleged to have occurred, the College will at 1-800-Quit-NOW (784-8669) or www. cooperate fully with their investigation. determinedtoquit.com/. Party Definition Penalties for violation of the College’s A Party is an event, wet (with alcohol) or dry smoking policy shall be disciplinary action in (without alcohol), where 30 or more people accordance with general College provisions gather at one time in a residential dorm space. for misconduct. Wet parties cannot be held in public spaces. STUDENT CLUB AND ORGANIZATION POLICY Public spaces include: The Campus Center, College Hall, Goodhart, Cambrian Row, Bryn Mawr College is committed to Schwartz Gymnasium, all corridors, stairwells, supporting a variety of student clubs and landings, basements, attics and courtyards, organizations which are consistent with the laundries, all dining halls, Pembroke Dance educational philosophy and mission of the Studio, classroom buildings, The Dorothy College. Social fraternities or sororities are Vernon Room, Canaday Library, and outdoors not permitted at the College. The College has on College grounds. determined that students are better served by To hold a dry party in a public space, you should the numerous non-exclusive student clubs reserve the space at least two weeks in advance and organizations which exist on campus. through the Office of Conferences and Events Bryn Mawr College does not recognize the (x7329, e-mail: [email protected]). charter of any social fraternity or sorority. No College facilities (including all public and Completion of the Party and Public Space private spaces, bulletin boards, and campus Notification Forms mail) can be used for any social fraternity or Any student (i.e., party host) in the College sorority activities. Violation of this policy by community who wishes to host a social event any student constitutes a violation of the social in a dorm living room or an individual’s room honor code and may result in disciplinary with more than 30 people in attendance should sanctions. read and complete the party notification form in order to help throw a safe and responsible 59 party that abides by the conditions stated in the advertising for dry parties should be attached Bi-College Alcohol and Drug Policies and in to the notification form when submitted. the Bryn Mawr Party Policy. Advertising for the party may not begin until the event is approved. The form is required for both wet and dry parties held in dorm spaces. Dry parties are not open to the public and cannot be advertised outside of the Tri-College Any student in the College community who community or on any online or social media wishes to host a social event in a public platform. space must reserve the space two weeks in advance through the Office of Conferences and Party Levels Events and must complete the Public Space To help promote the safety of all guests, those Notification Form. wishing to host a party must select a party Parties and Events which require a Party level. Party levels were developed, along with or Public Space Notification Form are not defined roles, to make it easier for students permitted to occur after the last day of classes. to throw a successful party that ensures compliance with the Bryn Mawr College Party Reading and completing these forms will Policy, the Bi-Co Alcohol Policy, and federal help to inform party hosts of their legal and state law. liabilities under Pennsylvania state law and allow College officials to help minimize risk Level 1 to hosts, their guests, and the entire College • 30-60 guests expected community. • 2 hosts and 2 servers must be present at Party Training all times Any student wishing to act as a host, server, or • Batten, Brecon, Denbigh, Merion, bouncer at a party must complete the in person Pembroke East, Pembroke West, and Party Training Course. Radnor living rooms have a capacity of Completion of the course will permit a student 60 people and can host Level 1 parties. to host, serve or bounce parties during the Level 2 academic year in which the session was attended. Students must be retrained each • 61-100 guests expected academic year. • 2 hosts, 2 servers and 3 bouncers must be The Course will cover the following present at all times information: 1) Pennsylvania state and other • Erdman, Rhoads North, Rhoads South, and applicable laws and liability concerning the Rockefeller living rooms have a capacity of distribution and consumption of alcohol; 2) 100 people and can host Level 1 and Level The potential for legal liability and potentially 2 parties. the award of damages for party hosts, servers, bouncers, guests, Bryn Mawr College and its Level 3 agents; 3) tips to ensure safety and respect of • 101+ guests expected residents who live in the dorm where the party will be held. • Hosts wishing to have a Level 3 part must meet with Student Activities and Party Advertisement Campus Safety two weeks prior to party Because the majority of students are not 21 to determine needs. Hosts should be aware years of age, the legal drinking age, mass that an increased level of support may be advertisement for wet parties is not permitted. necessary. Mass advertisement includes signs, fliers, • Guest sign-in required posters, mass e-mails, all campus invitations, • Wristbands required for identifying those and all online and social media advertisements over 21 and postings. • Parties held in multiple dorm lounges within Dry parties may be advertised using printed the same dorm at the same time will be and electronic material. A copy of the considered level 3 parties. 60 Health and safety concerns in relation • Purchase food and beverages, including to specific parties or events may require non-alcoholic beverages. additional restrictions. During the party: Staffing • Hosts must make sure that servers and No more than two shifts are permitted for any bouncers understand the role they are to party or event. Shift one is the first two hours play in the party and should check in with of the party or event and shift two is the last them throughout the party. two hours of the party or event. • Hosts must prominently display a sign Alcohol Limits stating “You must be 21 years of age to consume alcoholic beverages in the Party hosts, servers, bouncers and guests Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” should keep in mind the legal drinking age is 21 years old in the United States. Students • All hosts wear the party host button under 21 must not be served alcohol. provided by the Student Activities Office. Guests at wet parties must be served no more • Hosts must post the approved party than 4 drinks at any party. Common source notification form near the entrance. containers (other than kegs) are not permitted. • Hosts must be sober at all times and must Party Host Responsibilities not be drinking during the party. The following are the responsibilities that • One host who is 21 years of age must be party hosts must take on at a party. Please be present at all times if alcohol is to be served. aware that the only people permitted to act as • Hosts must provide food and non-alcoholic party hosts at the party are those who are listed beverages. on the party form as party hosts. • Must designate a bathroom for party guests Before the party: and designate areas that are off-limits to • Discuss with the dorm president specific guests. dorm policies concerning quiet hours, • Hosts must end the party by 2 a.m. bathrooms, use of common areas, smoking, Parties must not exceed more than 4 hours etc. in length. • Discuss the party with Housekeeping in After the party: order to determine pre-existing damage to the party space and obtain supplies for the • Hosts must clean up immediately and post-party clean up. thoroughly. They must not leave the mess overnight. • Obtain signatures of the appropriate dorm president on a party notification form and Server Responsibilities submit the form to Student Activities by 9 • The following are the responsibilities that a.m. the Tuesday prior to the event date. servers must take on at a party. • If party is a wet party, hosts must identify • Servers are responsible for setting up, at least one host who is 21 years-old and a maintaining, and serving from a designated 21-year old host must be present at all times area from which all alcohol will be served. during the party if alcohol is to be served. As a server, you are the only person • Read the Bi-Co Alcohol Policy and permitted to distribute alcoholic beverages. statements concerning applicable • Servers must be clearly identified and Pennsylvania state law in this Handbook. should wear the server button provided by • Notify dorm residents that a party will the Student Activities Office at all times take place by posting signs that include during the party. the party’s date, time, location, and hosts. • Servers must be sober at all times and must Residents should be notified 72 hours in not be drinking during the party. advance and should be able to contact hosts with questions or concerns. • Servers must ensure that no one under the age of 21 is served alcohol. 61 • Servers must refuse to serve people who are • Guest Responsibilities visibly intoxicated and/or seems in danger of • Guests must be members of the Tri- hurting themselves or someone else. College community or guests of a Tri-Co • Servers must mark the hand of those they community member. distribute drinks to each time they serve a • Tri-Co community members are not drink and serve no more than four drinks permitted to bring more than 3 guests to a per party attendee. party. Bouncer Responsibilities It is the responsibility of the Tri-Co The following are the responsibilities that community member to ensure that guests abide bouncers must take on at a party. Bouncers by College policies, the Honor Code, and may switch positions with other bouncers Pennsylvania state law; behave responsibly, during the party if they wish and should be keeping in mind their own personal safety aware that they may be called upon to perform and the safety of others; cooperate with the the following duties at any time during the requests of party hosts, bouncers and servers party: and College personnel to ensure that order and student well-being are maintained; attempt to • Bouncers must be clearly identified and intervene when individuals seem in danger should wear the bouncer button provided of hurting themselves or anyone else; and by the Student Activities Office at all times notify hosts about potential problems and alert during the party. Campus Safety if assistance is needed. • Bouncers must check ID’s at the door. Substitutions Bouncers must check to make sure that everyone attending the party is either a Tri- Should someone scheduled as a host, server Co member or a guest of a Tri-Co member. or bouncer not be able to work the party, the main party host must inform the Student • Guests must be signed in at the door (for Activities Office by noon on the day before level 3 parties). A guest is someone other the party. It is the responsibility of the main than a Tri-Co student. party host to make sure the substitution • Bouncers must keep track of the party space meets all qualifications and is aware of the capacity with a counter (provided by the responsibilities involved. Student Activities Office). Bouncers must Substitutions can be e-mailed to know and enforce the capacity of the party [email protected]. space and should stop admitting guests to the party once capacity is reached. Violations • Bouncers must be stationed at every Students are encouraged under the Honor entrance point to the party and must make Code to report violations occurring at parties. sure that party guests only enter through the Students wishing to report violations should designated entrance way. contact either the Honor Board or any member of the Dean’s staff to report the violation. • Bouncers must be stationed in any hallway leading to the party location and must Violations may be investigated by the Honor prevent access to the dorm from the party. Board and/or any member of the Dean’s staff. They must make sure the party remains in Depending on their severity, violations may the reserved party space. be referred to the Honor Board and/ or may be subject to a Dean’s Panel. • Bouncers must make sure that no one brings in or leaves the party with alcohol Sanctions for violation of the Party Policy and must turn away people who are visibly may include but are not limited to escalating intoxicated. monetary fines, all campus educational programs and/ or campaigns, and/or revocation • Bouncers must assist the host when she of party host, server and/or bouncer privileges wants to eject someone from the party. for the duration of the violator’s time at the • Bouncers must be sober at all times and College. must not be drinking during the party.

62 Party Fund harm. What may seem like harmless fun to some may be deeply humiliating to others After the party, hosts can submit one original and affect them in other negative ways. receipt with a party fund reimbursement Students should be aware of their rights, request to the Student Life Office to receive a responsibilities, and resources available refund for non-alcoholic beverages and food. to them so that they can make informed Reimbursement is only available for registered decisions. We expect all students to educate parties and is based on the party level selected. themselves about this policy and its rationale Level 1: $30, Level 2: $60, Level 3: $90. and understand what constitutes hazing under the Bryn Mawr College hazing policy, other HAZING POLICY College policies and Pennsylvania State Law. Bryn Mawr College is committed to providing Pennsylvania State Law a welcoming, inclusive and respectful environment for all community members. § 5352. Definitions: The following words and We value the community and relationships phrases when used in this act shall have the that traditions help to build among current meanings given to them in this section unless students and the connections to past and future the context clearly indicates otherwise: generations they create. Because we value “Hazing.” Any action or situation which relationships that are founded in respect, it is recklessly or intentionally endangers the incumbent upon each generation of students mental or physical health or safety of a student to evaluate not only traditions but all student- or which willfully destroys or removes public run activities, including those designed to or private property for the purpose of initiation welcome new members to clubs, teams, and or admission into or affiliation with, or as a dorms, to eliminate any elements that may be condition for continued membership in, any construed as hazing. organization operating under the sanction Hazing, in all forms, on- or off-campus, is of or recognized as an organization by an expressly prohibited by the College under institution of higher education. The term shall state law, College policies, and the Honor include, but not be limited to, any brutality of Code. The infliction of mental or physical a physical nature, such as whipping, beating, discomfort, embarrassment, harassment branding, forced calisthenics, exposure to the or ridicule on a community member for elements, forced consumption of any food, the purposes of initiation or entry into any liquor, drug or other substance, or any other organization, club or group is inconsistent with forced physical activity which could adversely Bryn Mawr’s values and will not be tolerated. affect the physical health and safety of the individual, and shall include any activity Allegations of hazing will be investigated which would subject the individual to extreme and may lead to a Dean’s Panel and/or mental stress, such as sleep deprivation, forced criminal charges. Procedures for the conduct exclusion from social contact, forced conduct of a Dean’s Panel are found elsewhere in which could result in extreme embarrassment, this Student Handbook. In addition to the or any other forced activity which could educative measures and warnings important adversely affect the mental health or dignity to all responses to misconduct or insensitivity, of the individual, or any willful destruction sanctions for individuals who violate this or removal of public or private property. For policy may include restorative action such as purposes of this definition, any activity as community service or education assignments, described in this definition upon which the separation from the College, and/or referral initiation or admission into or affiliation with to law enforcement. Furthermore, individual or continued membership in an organization student organizations such as clubs or athletic is directly or indirectly conditioned shall teams may be sanctioned and prohibited from be presumed to be “forced” activity, the hosting events or participating in activities as willingness of an individual to participate in a group. such activity notwithstanding. The College recognizes that there are activities “Institution of higher education” or which can help to build community and that “institution.” Any public or private institution there are other activities which may cause

63 within this Commonwealth authorized to grant • If no one opts out or objects to an activity, an associate degree or higher academic degree. is that evidence that it’s not hazing? Remember that hazing is by nature socially § 5353. Hazing prohibited: Any person who coercive. Just because someone consents to causes or participates in hazing commits a participate in an activity and has the choice misdemeanor of the third degree. of opting in or out of it does not mean that Guidelines: Recognizing Hazing the activity is not hazing. Peer pressure Hazing includes not only actions or situations and the desire to belong may undermine a which cause pain, injury, physical stress, person’s ability to provide true consent. fatigue or discomfort; it includes those • Where can I get guidance if I’m uncertain? that may produce embarrassment, ridicule, Any of the deans, coaches, or student harassment, anxiety, mental or emotional life staff would be glad to help, as would discomfort, or be threatening or frightening. members of the Honor Board and the Activities that constitute hazing can be hard to Traditions Committee. recognize, especially by those who participate in those activities themselves. If you are POLICIES ON SEXUAL ASSAULT planning an activity or event for your peers, Introduction ask yourself the following questions. If you answer “yes” to any of them, your event may Title IX involve hazing. Title IX of the Educational Amendments of • Would you hesitate to describe this activity, 1972 prohibits any person in the United States or to show photos or videos of it, to your from being discriminated against on the basis parents, dean, professor, or employer? of sex in seeking access to any educational program or activity receiving federal financial • Would you be uncomfortable if the details assistance. The U.S. Department of Education, of the activity were made public or appeared which enforces Title IX, has long defined on the local news? the meaning of Title IX’s prohibition on sex • Does the activity involve deception? discrimination broadly to include various forms of sexual harassment and sexual • Does the activity involve nudity or clothing violence that interfere with a student’s ability that is conspicuous or in poor taste? to equally access educational programs and • Is the activity physically uncomfortable? opportunities. Does it involve physical exertion, noise, U.S. Department of Education Final Rule heat or cold? under Title IX • Will the activity cause embarrassment or On May 19, 2020, the U.S. Department of anxiety? Education issued a Final Rule under Title IX • Are there any safety issues or risk of injury? of the Education Amendments of 1972 that: • Does the activity interfere with academic • Defines the meaning of “sexual harassment” work, sleep, or self-care? (including forms of sex-based violence), • Does the activity run counter to any law or • Addresses how an institution must respond College policy? to reports of misconduct falling within that

• What if someone doesn’t want to definition of sexual harassment, and participate? In a community of respect like • Mandates a grievance process that an Bryn Mawr, it’s assumed that one would institution must follow to comply with the respect and listen to any student who opts law in these specific covered cases before out of or speaks out against activities that issuing a disciplinary sanction against a others consider the norm. Doing anything person accused of sexual harassment. else, such as ostracizing someone for failing See, 85 Fed. Reg. 30026 (May 19, 2020). The to participate, might in itself constitute full text of the Final Rule and its extensive hazing. Preamble are available here: http://bit.ly/ TitleIXReg.

64 Bryn Mawr College (“the College”) remains misconduct as acts described in one or both of committed to addressing any violations of its the following broad categories: policies, even those not meeting the narrow 1. “Title IX Sexual Harassment,” in standards defined under the new Title IX Final accordance with the U.S. Department Rule, and retains authority to investigate and of Education Final Rule, includes any adjudicate allegations under the policies and conduct on the basis of sex that is alleged procedures defined within this Bryn Mawr to have occurred in a College Education College Sexual Misconduct Policy. Program or Activity, and is alleged to have Bi-College Policy Development been perpetrated against a person in the United States. The conduct alleged, if true, Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges must satisfy one or more of the following (“the Colleges”) have a long-standing conditions: collaborative relationship which offers students comprehensive access to academics, a. A College employee conditions the student organizations, residence hall and provision of an aid, benefit, or service dining facilities and social activities on both on an individual’s participation in campuses. A free “Blue Bus” shuttle service unwelcome sexual conduct; makes regular stops at each campus every 30 b. Unwelcome conduct a reasonable minutes, providing easy and frequent access person would determine to be so severe, to all community members. Some academic pervasive, and objectively offensive programs and departments are provided such that it effectively denies a person only on one campus or structured to share equal access to the College’s Programs resources between the two institutions. In or Activities; 2016, the Colleges codified the Bi-College (“Bi-Co”) relationship with a Memorandum c. Sexual Assault, as defined in 20 U.S.C. of Understanding to provide a formalized § 1092(f)(6)(A)(v), meaning any sexual framework for ongoing collaboration. Due to act directed against another person, the complexity of the Title IX requirements, without the consent of the victim, specific language in the Final Rule, and the including instances where the victim sometimes overlapping nature of the Colleges’ is incapable of giving consent (such Education Program and Activities, Bryn Mawr as incapacitation, age, family relation and Haverford Colleges will implement Sexual to the other party, or intellectual or Misconduct Policies which are substantially other disability). Sexual Assault can the same, effective August 14, 2020. The be committed by or against individuals Colleges will jointly administer the procedures of any sex or gender and can occur set forth in the Resolution Process of these between individuals of the same sex/ Policies, as mutually agreed by the Colleges, gender or different sexes/genders. As if a Complainant is a student or employee of required by the Title IX Final Rule, one College and the Respondent is a student the College will rely on the following or employee of the other College, if the definitions of Sexual Assault: Complainant is a student or employee of one i. sexual intercourse with another College and the location of the alleged Sexual person, including oral or anal Misconduct is the other College, or if other sexual intercourse, or the use facts and circumstances set forth in a Formal of any body part or an object Complaint or in the investigation of such or instrument to unlawfully Formal Complaint suggest the need for joint penetrate, however slightly, the administration of the Resolution Process. genital or anal opening of the Sexual Misconduct Policy body of another person, without consent of the victim, including Bryn Mawr College is committed to ensuring instances where the victim is that all members of the College community incapable of giving consent have a learning and working environment that because of their age or because is free from sexual misconduct. For purposes of their temporary or permanent of this policy, the College defines sexual mental or physical incapacity;

65 ii. touching of the private body 2. “Other Gender-Based Misconduct,” defined parts of another person for the as acts which do not meet the narrow purpose of sexual gratification, definition of “Title IX Sexual Harassment,” without the consent of the victim, as defined above, but nevertheless could including instances where the constitute discrimination on the basis of sex. victim is incapable of giving Other Gender-Based Misconduct, which consent because of their age or is alleged to have occurred by or against because of their temporary or any member of the College community, permanent mental or physical regardless of the location of the alleged incapacity; action, includes: iii. sexual intercourse between a. Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, persons who are related to each Domestic Violence, and Stalking as other within the degrees wherein defined in 1c, d, e, and f (above). marriage is prohibited by law; or b. Unwelcome conduct of a sexual iv. sexual intercourse with a person nature, including but not limited to who is under the statutory age of unwelcome sexual advances, requests consent. for sexual favors, or other verbal or nonverbal conduct of a sexual nature d. Dating Violence, as defined in 34 U.S.C. that is sufficiently serious, pervasive, or § 12291(a)(1)), meaning any act of persistent as to create an intimidating, violence committed by a person who is hostile, humiliating, demeaning, or or has been in a social relationship of sexually offensive working, academic, a romantic or intimate nature with the residential, or social environment victim and where the existence of such under both an objective and subjective a relationship is determined based on a standard. consideration of the length, type, and frequency of interactions between the c. Sexual exploitation, defined as occurring persons involved in the relationship. when a person abuses or exploits another person’s sexuality for the e. Domestic Violence, as defined in 34 purpose of sexual gratification, financial U.S.C. § 12291(a)(8), meaning a felony gain, personal benefit or advantage, or misdemeanor crime of violence or any other non-legitimate purpose committed by a current or former spouse without that person’s consent. The act or or intimate partner of the victim, by a acts of sexual exploitation are prohibited person with whom the victim shares a even though the behavior does not child in common, by a person who is constitute one of the other sexual cohabitating with or has cohabitated misconduct offenses. with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner, by a person similarly situated Examples of sexual exploitation include: to a spouse of the victim under the • observing another individual’s nudity domestic or family violence laws of the or sexual activity or allowing another to jurisdiction receiving grant monies, or observe consensual sexual activity in a by any other person against an adult place where that person would have a or youth victim who is protected from reasonable expectation of privacy, without that person’s acts under the domestic or that person’s consent; family violence laws of the jurisdiction. • recording, and/or distributing (including f. Stalking, as defined in 34 U.S.C. streaming) of images, photography, video, 12291(a)(30), meaning engaging in a or audio recording of sexual activity or course of conduct directed at a specific nudity, or distribution of such without that person that would cause a reasonable person’s consent; person to fear for their safety or the safety of others or suffer substantial • prostituting another individual; emotional distress. • exposing one’s genitals in non-consensual circumstances;

66 • knowingly exposing another individual or after August 14, 2020. Formal Complaints to a sexually transmitted disease or virus brought prior to August 14, 2020 will be without that individual’s knowledge; and investigated and adjudicated according to previous College policies. • inducing incapacitation for the purpose of making another person vulnerable to non- Non-Discrimination in Application consensual sexual activity. The requirements and protections of this General Rules of Application Policy apply equally regardless of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, The above-referenced acts are considered or other protected classes covered by federal or sexual discrimination. Title IX of the state law. All requirements and protections are Educational Amendments of 1972, 20 equitably provided to individuals regardless U.S.C. §§1681-1688 (“Title IX”), prohibits of such status or status as a Complainant, discrimination on the basis of sex in Education Respondent, or Witness. Individuals who Programs and Activities operated by recipients wish to file a complaint about this Policy or of federal financial assistance, including processes set forth herein may contact the Bryn Mawr College. This Policy is intended Department of Education’s Office for Civil to meet the College’s obligations under Title Rights using contact information available at IX; the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus https://ocrcas.ed.gov/contact-ocr. Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (“Clery Act”), as amended by the Violence Disability Accommodations Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 This Policy does not alter any College (“VAWA”), with respect to its application to obligations under federal disability laws sex-based misconduct; and other applicable including the Americans with Disabilities Act law and regulations. of 1990, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Consistent with Title IX requirements, Bryn Act of 1973. Parties may request reasonable Mawr College does not discriminate on accommodations, that do not fundamentally the basis of sex in its Education Programs alter the Resolution Process, for disclosed or Activities (including in admissions and disabilities to the Title IX Coordinator at employment). College community members any point before or during the Process. The have the right to be free from all forms of Title IX Coordinator will not affirmatively sexual harassment and violence. All College provide disability accommodations that have community members are expected to conduct not been specifically requested by the Parties, themselves in a manner that does not infringe even where the Parties may be receiving upon the rights of others. The College has accommodations in other College programs zero tolerance for sexual misconduct, and this and activities. Policy applies to all employees and students. Alcohol and Drug Use Amnesty Non-members of the campus community who engage in discriminatory actions within The health and safety of every student is of College programs or on College property are utmost importance. The College recognizes not under the jurisdiction of this policy, but that students who have been drinking and/or can be subject to actions that limit their access using drugs (whether such use is voluntary or and/or involvement with College programs as involuntary) at the time Sexual Misconduct the result of their misconduct. occurs may be hesitant to report such incidents due to fear of potential consequences for their Reports of Sexual Misconduct committed by own conduct. The College strongly encourages any student or employee (including faculty and students to report incidents of Sexual staff) of the Bryn Mawr community will be Misconduct. An individual who experiences resolved according to the procedures outlined Sexual Misconduct, or a Witness to such in this Policy, unless otherwise noted. Sexual Misconduct, acting in good faith, who Effective Date discloses any incident of Sexual Misconduct to College officials or law enforcement will This Sexual Misconduct Policy is effective not be sanctioned under College codes of on August 14, 2020 and will apply to Formal conduct for violations of alcohol and/or drug Complaints of Sexual Misconduct brought on use policies occurring at or near the time 67 of the incident(s) of Sexual Misconduct. of sexual activity prior to initiating such The College may request that the individual activity. Consent to one form of sexual attend an approved alcohol or drug education activity does not constitute consent to program, without assessing any charges for engage in all forms of sexual activity. such program. This amnesty provision also • Either party may withdraw consent at any applies to student groups making a report time. Withdrawal of consent should be of Sexual Misconduct. Amnesty does not outwardly demonstrated by words or actions preclude or prevent action by police or other that clearly indicate a desire to end sexual legal authorities pursuant to relevant state or activity. Once withdrawal of consent has federal criminal statutes. been expressed, sexual activity must cease. Policy Definitions • Consent consists of an outward Advisor demonstration indicating that an individual has freely chosen to engage An Advisor is any individual who has been in sexual activity. Relying on non- chosen by a Party or designated by the College verbal communication can lead to to provide support and guidance during the misunderstandings. Consent may not be resolution process. The specific role of the inferred from silence, passivity, lack of Advisor is explained under the Resolution resistance, or lack of an active response Process section of the Policy. alone. A person who does not physically Complainant resist or orally refuse sexual activity is not A Complainant is any individual who has necessarily giving consent. reported being or is alleged to be the victim • When consent is requested orally, absence of conduct that could constitute Sexual of any explicit oral response constitutes lack Misconduct as defined under this Policy. of consent. An oral “no” constitutes lack Confidential Resource of consent, even if it sounds insincere or indecisive. A Confidential Resource is a College employee who is not required to report notice of sexual • If at any time during the sexual activity, harassment to the Title IX Coordinator. any confusion or ambiguity arises as to References made to confidentiality refer to the willingness of the other individual to the ability of identified confidential resources proceed, both parties should stop and clarify to not report crimes and violations to law orally the other’s willingness to continue enforcement or College officials without before continuing such activity. permission, except for extreme circumstances, • Individuals with a previous or current such as a health and/or safety emergency or intimate relationship do not automatically child abuse. Lists of Confidential Resources give either initial or continued consent are available on the Bryn Mawr College to sexual activity. Even in the context of webpage. a relationship, there must be mutually Consent understandable communication that clearly indicates a willingness to engage in each Consent to engage in sexual activity must be sexual activity. informed, knowing and voluntary; consent must exist from the beginning to end of each • Consent to engage in sexual activity with instance of sexual activity and for each form one person does not imply consent to of sexual contact. Consent is demonstrated engage in sexual activity with another through mutually understandable words and/ person. or actions that clearly indicate a willingness • Consent is not effective if it results from the to engage freely in sexual activity. Consent is use or threat of physical force, intimidation, active, not passive. or coercion, or any other factor that would Guidance for Consent: eliminate an individual’s ability to exercise their own free will to choose whether or not • Prior to initiating a sexual encounter, one to have sexual contact. is expected to obtain consent to each act

68 • An individual who is physically Investigator incapacitated from alcohol or other drug The Investigator is the individual or consumption (voluntarily or involuntarily) individuals appointed by the College to gather or is asleep, unconscious, unaware, or evidence and facts related to the allegation of otherwise physically helpless is considered Sexual Misconduct. The Investigator(s) will unable to give consent. provide an investigative report summarizing • In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, all relevant evidence for review by both the the age of majority is 18. Under state law, Complainant and Respondent. consent cannot be given by minors under Privacy the age of 13 and can only be given by a minor under the age of 16, if the other party References made to privacy mean the actions is less than four (4) years older than the of College employees, who cannot guarantee minor. confidentiality, to maintain privacy to the greatest extent possible. Information disclosed Education Program or Activity includes: will be relayed only as necessary to investigate • Any Bryn Mawr College on-campus and/or seek a resolution and to notify the premises Title IX Coordinator or designee, who is responsible for tracking patterns and spotting • Any off-campus premises over which the systemic issues. The College will limit College has substantial control over the disclosure as much as practicable, even if the Respondent and the context in which the Title IX Coordinator determines that a request Sexual Misconduct occurred. This includes for confidentiality cannot be honored. buildings or property owned or controlled by a recognized student organization. The privacy of student education records will be protected in accordance with the Family • Any activity occurring within computer Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and internet networks, digital platforms, as outlined in the Bryn Mawr College FERPA and computer hardware or software owned policy. Employee privacy will be protected in or operated by, or used in the operations of accordance with Bryn Mawr Faculty and Staff College programs and activities over which Handbooks. the College has substantial control. Resolution Process Formal Complaint The Resolution Process is a formal resolution A Formal Complaint is a document – process to address reported conduct that may including an electronic submission—filed be a violation of this Sexual Misconduct by a Complainant with a signature or other Policy. indication that the Complainant is the person filing the Formal Complaint, or a document Respondent signed by the Title IX Coordinator, alleging A Respondent is any individual who has been Sexual Misconduct against a Respondent reported to be the perpetrator of conduct that within the College’s Education Program could constitute Sexual Misconduct as defined or Activity and requesting initiation of the under this Policy. College’s Resolution procedures consistent with this Sexual Misconduct Policy Reporting Sexual Misconduct to the College to investigate the allegation of Sexual Any person may report Sexual Misconduct in Misconduct. person, by mail, by telephone, or by electronic Hearing Panel mail, using the contact information listed for the Title IX Coordinator, or by any other The Hearing Panel is the group of individuals means that results in the Title IX Coordinator appointed by the College with authority to receiving the person’s oral or written report. determine responsibility and sanctioning (if applicable) for violation of this Sexual Such a report may be made at any time Misconduct Policy. (including during non-business hours) via the Bryn Mawr Online Reporting Form, or by mail to the office address listed for the Title

69 IX Coordinator. The Online Reporting Form Activity, protect the safety of all Parties and will provide a link to this Policy, as well as the College’s educational environment, and/ encourage individuals to review this Policy or deter Sexual Misconduct, while not being for more information about procedures and punitive in nature or unreasonably burdening resources. any Party. Individuals who report Sexual Misconduct in Both Complainants and Respondents have Pennsylvania will also be informed of their the right to receive Supportive Measures rights as a victim of crime under Pennsylvania from the College regardless of whether a law. Formal Complaint has been filed. The Title IX Coordinator will contact a Complainant Once an individual provides a report of Sexual after receiving notice of possible violation Misconduct, the report will be reviewed by of this Policy (1) to discuss the availability the Title IX Coordinator. At this stage, only of Supportive Measures and (2) to explain the Title IX Coordinator will have access to that Supportive Measures are available with the report, and they will share the information or without the filing of a Formal Complaint on a limited basis as required to take the of Title IX Sexual Harassment. The Title IX appropriate next steps. Using the information Coordinator will consider the Complainant’s gathered through the Online Reporting wishes with respect to implementation of Form, the College will promptly contact the Supportive Measures. Complainant to discuss appropriate Supportive Measures and to explain the process for filing Depending on the level of information a Formal Complaint and that Supportive available about the incident or the individuals Measures are available with or without the involved, the College’s ability to respond to an filing of a Formal Complaint. Complainants anonymous report may be limited. The College are not required to respond to outreach from will, however, take whatever steps it deems the College and the College will respect this appropriate and in the best interest of the decision, with limited exceptions where it is overall College community, consistent with the obligated by law or to act in the safety interest information available. The College will never of the community. refuse to respond on the grounds that a report was made anonymously. Only individuals authorized by the College may enter, update, access, share, or Information collected through the anonymous disseminate the electronic data collected, reporting line will be shared only with created, or maintained from the Online necessary College officials in order to respond Reporting Form. to the reported concern. Information is kept confidential and no personally identifiable Anonymous Reports information is shared, except as necessary An individual may make a report of Sexual to follow this Policy, without the reporting Misconduct to the Title IX Coordinator, and if party’s consent. preferred, may do so without disclosing one’s Title IX Coordinator name using the online reporting form listed above and here: https://brynmawr.qualtrics. The Title IX Coordinator provides supervision com/jfe/form/SV_bemH6hX9kSLX9Zz and management of the College’s efforts to address and resolve incidents of sexual and SUPPORT AND RESOURCES gender-based discrimination. The Bi-College Supportive Measures Title IX Coordinator is: Supportive Measures are non-disciplinary, Kimberly F. Taylor non-punitive, and individualized services Bi-Co Title IX Coordinator that the College offers and may put in place, Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges without fee or charge, after receiving notice of [email protected] possible violations of this Policy. Supportive Bryn Mawr College Measures are designed to restore or preserve Office location: Cambrian Row: Aelwyd, access to the College’s Education Program and 2nd floor; Phone: 610-526-7863

70 At Bryn Mawr College, the Title IX • Dean’s Office Coordinator has reporting responsibilities to: 610-526-5375 Jennifer Walters Regional Resources Dean of the College • Victims Services Center of Bryn Mawr College Montgomery County [email protected] 888-521-0983 www.victimservicescenter.org To determine the appropriate Supportive Measure(s) to be implemented, the College • The Crime Victims’ Center of will conduct an individualized assessment Chester County based on the unique facts and circumstances 610-692-7273 of a situation. Whether a possible Supportive www.cvcofcc.org Measure would unreasonably burden the other • Delaware County Women Against Rape Party is a fact-specific determination made 610-566-4342 by the College in its discretion that takes into www.delcowar.org account the nature of the Education Program and Activity, opportunities and benefits in • Network of Victim Assistance which an individual is participating. (Bucks County) 1-800-675-6900 Examples of Supportive Measures may www.novabucks.org include, as appropriate and as reasonably available: • Berks Women in Crisis (Berks County) 610-372-9540 • referral to counseling or medical services www.berkswomenincrisis.org • extensions of deadlines or other course- related adjustments • Women Against Abuse (Philadelphia) 866-723-3014 • modifications of work or class schedules www.womenagainstabuse.org • campus escort services • Women Organized Against Rape • restrictions on contact between the Parties (Philadelphia) (no contact orders) 215-985-3333 www.woar.org • changes in work or housing locations National Resources • leaves of absence • RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National • increased security and monitoring of certain Network) areas of the campus 800-656-HOPE (4673) Supportive Measures will remain private to the www.rainn.org extent possible. Some College officials will be Online chat: English: online.rainn.org; notified of Supportive Measures as needed for Espaola: rain.org/es implementation. • National Sexual Violence Resource Center The Title IX Coordinator will ultimately serve www.nsvrc.org/ as the point of contact for any individual Emergency Removal requesting Supportive Measures. The College may remove a Respondent from Supportive Resources the College’s Education Program or Activity On-Campus Resources on an emergency basis, where the College (1) • Counseling Services undertakes an individualized safety and risk 610-526-7360 (M-F, 9am-5pm) analysis and (2) determines that an immediate 610-526-7778 (After hours counselor threat to the physical health or safety of any on call) student or other individual arising from the allegations of Sexual Misconduct justifies a • Campus Safety removal. 610-526-7911

71 If a College official determines such removal notice of outcome. At no time will the College is necessary, the Respondent will be provided coerce or retaliate against a Complainant or notice and an opportunity to appeal the any Party or Witness in order to convince decision immediately following the removal. the Complainant or any Party or Witness to participate in the Resolution Process. Administrative Leave Nothing in this Sexual Misconduct Policy The College retains the authority to place prevents a Complainant from seeking the a non-student employee Respondent on assistance of state or local law enforcement administrative leave during the pendency alongside the appropriate on-campus process. of the Resolution Process, consistent with Bryn Mawr Faculty and Staff Handbooks. An A Complainant who files a Formal Complaint employee will not be placed on administrative may elect (if all Parties and the College agree), leave unless and until a Formal Complaint of at any time, to address the matter through an Sexual Misconduct has been filed with the Alternative Resolution Process. College Multi-Party or Multi-Allegation Situations RESOLUTION PROCESS In its discretion, the College may consolidate Formal Complaints alleging Filing a Formal Complaint Sexual Misconduct against more than one The timeframe for the College’s Resolution Respondent, or by more than one Complainant Process begins with the filing of a Formal against one or more Respondents, or by Complaint. The Resolution Process will be one Party against the other Party, where the concluded within a reasonably prompt manner, allegations arise out of the same facts or and in ordinary cases no longer than ninety circumstances. In addition, the College has (90) business days after the filing of the discretion to consolidate allegations of other Formal Complaint. The phrase “business days” forms of misconduct should they occur in the shall refer to those days ordinarily recognized same incident. If Formal Complaints involving by the College’s administrative calendar as multiple Complainants, multiple Respondents, workdays. The Process may be extended or multiple allegations are consolidated, each for a good reason, including but not limited Party will have access to all of the information to the absence of a Party, a Party’s advisor, being considered including as provided by or a Witness; concurrent law enforcement all involved Complainants, all involved activity; or the need for language assistance Respondents, and all involved Witnesses. The or accommodation of disabilities. Parties may decision to consolidate Formal Complaints is submit a written request for an extension to the not subject to appeal. Title IX Coordinator. Determining Jurisdiction and Mandatory To file a Formal Complaint, a Complainant Title IX Dismissal must provide the Title IX Coordinator a The Resolution Process will apply to a written, signed complaint describing the facts Formal Complaint if, in the reasonable alleged. If a Complainant does not wish to determination of the Title IX Coordinator, make a Formal Complaint in connection with the alleged conduct fits the definition of a report of Sexual Misconduct, the Title IX Sexual Misconduct as defined in this Policy, Coordinator may, in their discretion, determine i.e., the alleged conduct is “Title IX Sexual a Formal Complaint is necessary and sign Harassment” and/or “Other Gender-Based the Formal Complaint. When the Title IX Misconduct,” as defined herein. In addition, Coordinator signs a Formal Complaint, the a Complainant filing a Formal Complaint Title IX Coordinator is not the Complainant of Title IX Sexual Harassment must be or otherwise a Party. The Title IX Coordinator participating, or attempting to participate, will inform the Complainant of this decision in the College’s Education Programs and in writing, and the Complainant need not Activities at the time the Formal Complaint participate in the process further, but the is filed in order for the Formal Complaint to Complainant will still be treated as a Party be considered Title IX Sexual Harassment entitled to inspect and review evidence and for purposes of the Resolution Process. If the to receive all notices, including the notice of Complainant is not participating or attempting allegations, the notice of Hearing, and the 72 to participate in a College Education Program It is the responsibility of Parties to regularly or Activity, the College will dismiss the check their email accounts. Complaint for Title IX purposes and treat the Any Party may appeal a dismissal Formal Complaint as one of Other Gender- determination using the process set forth in Based Misconduct. “Appeals” section of this Policy. If the alleged conduct does not meet Withdrawal or Resignation While Charges are these definitions, the Title IX Coordinator Pending will, in consultation with the Dean of the Undergraduate College (for student-related Should a student withdraw from the College or Complaints) or the Director of Human refuse to participate in the Resolution Process, Resources (for employee-related Complaints) the College reserves the right to continue with determine the appropriate process for the Formal Complaint in the student’s absence. resolution. A determination of responsibility that results in a student’s suspension or expulsion will be Discretionary Title IX Dismissal noted on that student’s official transcript. of Complaint Should an employee resign with unresolved The Title IX Coordinator may, in their allegations pending, Human Resources records discretion, dismiss a Formal Complaint will reflect that status, and the College reserves brought under this Sexual Misconduct Policy, the right to continue with a Formal Complaint or any specific allegations raised within that in the employee’s absence. Formal Complaint, at any time during the Investigation or Hearing, if: Notice of Allegations • A Complainant notifies the Title IX The Title IX Coordinator will draft and Coordinator in writing that they would like provide the Notice of Allegations to any Party to withdraw the Formal Complaint, or any to the allegations of Sexual Misconduct. Such allegations raised in the Formal Complaint; notice will occur as soon as practicable after the College receives a Formal Complaint of • The respondent is no longer enrolled or the allegations if there are no extenuating employed by Bryn Mawr College or, circumstances. • If specific circumstances prevent the The Parties will be notified simultaneously College from gathering evidence sufficient by their College email accounts if they are a to reach a determination regarding the student or employee, and by other reasonable Formal Complaint or allegations within the means if they are neither. The College will Formal Complaint. provide sufficient time for the Parties to The College retains discretion on a case-by- review the Notice of Allegations and prepare a case basis to dismiss a Formal Complaint response before any initial interview. based on any of the above reasons. Just Contents of Notice because one or all of the conditions above are satisfied, does not mean the College will The Notice of Allegations will include the automatically dismiss the Formal Complaint. following: Instead, the College will determine if • Notice of the College’s Sexual Misconduct such a decision is appropriate under the Policy and a hyperlink to a copy of the circumstances. Policy. Notice of Dismissal • Notice of the allegations potentially Upon reaching a decision that the Formal constituting Sexual Misconduct, and Complaint will be dismissed, the College will sufficient details known at the time the promptly send written notice of the dismissal Notice is issued, such as the identities of the of the Formal Complaint or any specific Parties involved in the incident, if known, allegation within the Formal Complaint, and including the Complainant, the conduct the reason for the dismissal, simultaneously allegedly constituting Sexual Misconduct, to the Parties through their College email and the date and location of the alleged accounts if they are a student or employee, and incident, if known. by other reasonable means if they are neither. 73 • A statement that the Respondent is cannot agree to extensive delays solely to presumed not responsible for the alleged accommodate the schedule of an Advisor. The conduct and that a Determination Regarding determination of what is reasonable shall be Responsibility will be made at the made by the Title IX Coordinator or designee. conclusion of the Resolution Process. The College will not be obligated to delay a meeting or Hearing under this process more • A statement that the Parties may have an than five (5) days due to the unavailability Advisor of their choice, who may be, but is of an Advisor, and may offer the Party the not required to be, an attorney. opportunity to obtain a different Advisor or • A statement that before the conclusion of utilize one provided by the College. the Investigation, the Parties may inspect The College will provide the Parties equal and review evidence obtained as part of the access to Advisors and support persons; any Investigation that is directly related to the restrictions on Advisor participation will be allegations raised in the Formal Complaint, applied equally. including the evidence upon which the College does not intend to rely in reaching Alternative Resolution a Determination Regarding Responsibility, Parties who do not wish to proceed with an and evidence that both tends to prove or Investigation and live Hearing, and instead disprove the allegations, whether obtained seek the College’s assistance to resolve from a Party or other source. allegations of Sexual Misconduct, may elect • Information regarding the availability of to enter the Alternative Resolution Process. support and assistance through College Generally speaking, these resolution options resources and the opportunity to meet with are less time intensive than an Investigation the Title IX Coordinator in person to discuss and Hearing, while still affording an resources, rights, and options. opportunity to actively participate in a process for resolution of Complaints. • A statement that the College explicitly prohibits Retaliation by or against the Parties may elect to enter an Alternative Complainant, the Respondent, and Resolution Process at any time after the Witnesses, that the College will take filing of the Formal Complaint and prior to prompt action if Retaliation is reported, and a Determination Regarding Responsibility instructions regarding how to report acts of through an informed written consent. This alleged Retaliation. informed written consent will include all terms of the elected alternative process, including a Advisors statement that any agreement reached through Parties participating in the Formal Resolution the process is binding on the Parties. Process as a Complainant or Respondent All Parties must agree on the form of may be accompanied by an Advisor to any Alternative Resolution, and the Title IX meeting or hearing to which they are required Coordinator or designee must approve or are eligible to attend. The Advisor is not the decision to commence an Alternative an advocate. Except where explicitly stated in Resolution Process and may determine that this Policy, as consistent with the Department Alternative Resolution is not appropriate under of Education’s Final Rule, Advisors shall not the circumstances. Factors in considering the participate directly in the process. appropriateness of the Alternative Resolution The College will reasonably attempt to Process include, but are not limited to, the accommodate meetings and hearings on dates gravity of the allegations, whether there when Advisors are available, provided that an is an ongoing threat of harm or safety to Advisor acts reasonably in providing available the campus, whether the Respondent is a dates and works collegially to find dates and repeat offender, and whether the Parties are times that meet all schedules. participating in good faith. This determination The College’s obligation to investigate and is not subject to appeal. adjudicate in a prompt timeframe under Title Alternative Resolution is only permitted to IX and other College policies apply to matters address allegations of student-on-student governed by this Policy, and the College sexual harassment and is never allowed as an 74 option to resolve allegations that an employee Alternative Resolution Options sexually harassed a student. The College offers the following Alternative At any time after the commencement of the Resolution options for addressing Formal Alternative Resolution Process, the College Complaints of Sexual Misconduct: may determine that the Alternative Resolution Administrative Resolution Process is not an appropriate method for resolving the matter and may require that Should the Parties mutually determine to enter the matter be resolved through the Formal the Alternative Resolution Process, and the Process. This determination is not subject to Respondent elects to accept responsibility for appeal. In addition, either Party may elect to the allegations of the Formal Complaint at leave the Alternative Resolution Process at any point during the Alternative Resolution any point prior to reaching a resolution. If a Process, the College may administratively Party elects to leave the Alternative Resolution resolve the Formal Complaint. Process, the Formal Resolution Process may Where the Respondent admits responsibility, recommence, if necessary. the Parties will receive simultaneous written Role of the Alternative Resolution notification of the acceptance of responsibility, Facilitator and a Hearing Panel will convene to determine the Respondent’s sanction and other Alternative Resolution Processes are managed remedies, as appropriate and consistent with by Facilitators, who must not have a conflict College policy. The Parties will be given an of interest or bias in favor for or against opportunity to be heard at a sanctions hearing, Complainants or Respondents generally or including but not limited to the submission regarding the specific Parties in the matter. of impact statements. Parties may be Facilitators have training in the definitions of accompanied by their Advisor but questioning Sexual Misconduct, the scope of the College’s of Parties or Witnesses will not be permitted. Education Program or Activity, how to conduct The Parties will receive simultaneous written Alternative Resolution Processes, and how notification of the decision regarding sanctions to serve impartially, including by avoiding and remedies, which may be appealed prejudgment of the facts at issue, conflicts of according to the Appeal Process. interest, or bias. Facilitated Resolution Confidentiality The purpose of Facilitated Resolution is for In entering the Alternative Resolution the Parties who are in conflict to identify Process, the Parties agree that any testimony the implications of a student’s actions and, and evidence (including admissions of with the assistance of a trained Facilitator, responsibility) they share or receive during identify points of agreement and appropriate the Alternative Resolution Process concerning remedies to address them. Either Party the allegations of the Formal Complaint is can request Facilitated Resolution to seek confidential. No evidence concerning the resolution; however, Facilitated Resolution allegations obtained within the Alternative will be used only with the consent of both Resolution Process may be disseminated to Parties. The Parties will be instructed not to any person, provided that any Party to the contact one another during the process. The Alternative Resolution Process may generally Title IX Coordinator will review any request discuss the allegations under investigation for Facilitated Resolution and may, in their with a parent, friend, advisor, or other source discretion, decline to mediate based on the of emotional support, or with an advocacy facts and circumstances of the particular case. organization. As a condition of entering the Either Party has the right to terminate the Alternative Resolution Process, any evidence Facilitated Resolution process and choose or shared or received during the Alternative resume another option for resolution at any Resolution Process may not be used in any time. subsequent Formal Resolution Process or During Facilitated Resolution, any potential College Appeal. Investigation will halt, and calculations for time frames will be stayed. If the Facilitated Resolution results in a resolution, the 75 disciplinary process will be concluded, and the INVESTIGATION matter will be closed. If a resolution cannot General Rules of Investigations be reached, the matter will be referred back to the Title IX Coordinator to re-evaluate other The Investigator(s) will perform an options for resolution, including Investigation. Investigation under a reasonably prompt timeframe of the conduct alleged to constitute During Facilitated Resolution, a Facilitator Sexual Misconduct after issuing the Notice of will guide a discussion between the Parties. Allegations. The College, and not the Parties, In circumstances in which the Parties do not bears the burden of proof and the burden of wish to meet face-to-face, either Party can gathering evidence, (i.e., the responsibility request “caucus” Facilitated Resolution, and of showing a violation of this Policy has the Facilitator will conduct separate meetings. occurred). This burden does not rest with Whether or not the Parties agree to meet face- either Party, and either Party may decide not to-face, each Party will be permitted to bring to share their account of what occurred or may an Advisor of their choice to any meetings. decide not to participate in an Investigation The Advisor may provide private guidance or Hearing. This does not shift the burden of during the Facilitated Resolution but may not proof away from the College and does not actively participate in the discussion between indicate responsibility. The College cannot the Complainant and Respondent. access, consider, or disclose medical records At the conclusion of the Facilitated Resolution, without a waiver from the Party (or parent, if the Facilitator will memorialize the agreement applicable) to whom the records belong or of that was reached between the Parties. The whom the records include information. The Title IX Coordinator maintains records of any College will provide an equal opportunity for resolution that is reached, and failure to abide the Parties to present Witnesses, including fact by the resolution can result in appropriate and expert Witnesses, and other inculpatory enforcement actions. and/or exculpatory evidence (i.e., evidence that tends to prove or disprove the allegations, FORMAL RESOLUTION PROCESS respectively), as described below. Notice of Meetings and Interviews Ongoing Notice The College will provide, to a Party whose If, in the course of an Investigation, the participation is invited or expected, written College decides to investigate allegations notice of the date, time, location, participants, about the Complainant or Respondent that and purpose of all Hearings, investigative are not included in the original Notice of interviews, or other meetings with a Party, Allegations and otherwise fall within this with sufficient time for the Party to prepare to Sexual Misconduct Policy, the College will participate. notify the Parties whose identities are known Request for Delay of the additional allegations by their College email accounts or other reasonable means. Each Party may request a one-time delay in the Resolution Process of up to five (5) days for The Parties will be provided sufficient time to good cause (granted or denied in the judgment review the additional allegations to prepare a of the Title IX Coordinator, in consultation response before any initial interview regarding with the Dean of the College or Director of those additional charges. Human Resources, as appropriate), provided Review of Evidence that the requestor provides reasonable notice and the delay does not overly inconvenience Prior to the completion of the Investigative other Parties. Report, the Parties and their Advisors will have an equal opportunity to inspect and The Title IX Coordinator shall have sole review the evidence obtained through the judgment to grant further pauses in the Investigation. The purpose of the inspection Process. and review process is to allow each Party the equal opportunity to meaningfully respond to the evidence prior to conclusion of the Investigation.

76 Evidence that will be available for inspection Investigative Report and review by the Parties will be any evidence The Investigator will create an Investigative that is directly related to the allegations raised Report that accurately summarizes relevant in the Formal Complaint. It will include any: evidence. The Investigative Report is not 1. Evidence that is directly related to the intended to catalog all evidence obtained allegations in the Formal Complaint, even by the Investigator, but only to provide an if that evidence does not end up being accurate summary of the relevant evidence. relied upon by the College in determining Only relevant evidence (including both responsibility; inculpatory and exculpatory) will be 2. Inculpatory or exculpatory evidence that is referenced in the Investigative Report. directly related to the allegations, whether The Investigator may redact irrelevant obtained from a Party or other source. information from the Investigative Report All Parties must submit any evidence they when that information is contained in would like the Investigator to consider prior to documents or evidence that is/are otherwise when the Parties’ time to inspect and review relevant. evidence begins. HEARING The College will send the evidence made available for each Party and their Advisors to General Rules of Hearings inspect and review. The College is not under The College will not issue a disciplinary an obligation to use any specific process sanction arising from an allegation of Sexual or technology to provide the evidence and Misconduct without holding a Hearing and shall have the sole discretion in terms of permitting an Appeal, unless otherwise determining format and any restrictions or resolved through an Alternative Resolution limitations on access. Process. The Parties will have ten (10) business days to The Hearing may be conducted with all Parties inspect and review the evidence and submit a physically present in the same geographic written response by email to the Investigator. location, or, at the College’s discretion, any or The Investigator will consider the Parties’ all Parties, Witnesses, and other participants written responses before completing the may appear at the Hearing virtually through Investigative Report. video conference. This technology will enable Any evidence subject to inspection and review participants simultaneously to see and hear will be available at any Hearing, including for each other. At its discretion, the College purposes of questioning. may delay or adjourn a Hearing based on technological errors not within a Party’s The Parties and their Advisors must sign control. an agreement not to disseminate any of the evidence subject to inspection and review or Continuances or Granting Extensions use such evidence for any purpose unrelated to The College may determine that multiple the Resolution Process. sessions or a continuance (i.e., a pause on the Evidence obtained in the Investigation that continuation of the Hearing until a later date is determined in the reasoned judgment of or time) is needed to complete a Hearing. If the Investigator not to be directly related so, the College will notify all participants and to the allegations in the Formal Complaint endeavor to accommodate all participants’ will be included in the appendices to the schedules and complete the Hearing as Investigative Report and may be appropriately promptly as practicable. redacted before the Parties’ inspection to Participants in the Hearing avoid disclosure of personally identifiable information of a student. Hearings are not public, and only the following individuals are permitted to participate:

77 Complainant and Respondent (“the Parties”) • The Hearing Panel will be trained on topics including how to serve impartially, issues of • The Parties cannot waive the right to a relevance, how to apply the rape shield Hearing except by participating in an protections provided for Complainants, and Alternative Resolution. any technology to be used at the Hearing. • The College may still proceed with the • The Parties will have an opportunity to raise Hearing in the absence of a Party and any objections regarding a Hearing Panel may reach a Determination Regarding member’s actual or perceived conflicts of Responsibility in their absence, including interest or bias at the commencement of the through any evidence gathered that does not Hearing. constitute a “statement” by that Party. Advisors For example, an oral or written statement constituting part or all of the Sexual • The Parties have the right to select an Misconduct itself is not a “prior statement” Advisor of their choice, who may be, but that must be excluded if the maker of the does not have to be, an attorney. statement does not submit to questioning • The Parties’Advisors may accompany the about that statement. In other words, a prior Parties to any meeting or hearing they are statement would not include a document, permitted to attend, but may not speak for the audio recording, audiovisual reading, and Party, except for the purpose of questioning digital media, including but not limited to text during a Hearing, where appropriate. (See messages, emails, and social media postings, Questioning Procedure #1). that constitute the conduct alleged to have been the act of sexual harassment under the • If a Party does not select an Advisor, the Formal Complaint. College will select an Advisor to serve in this role at the Hearing at no fee or charge • The decision-maker cannot draw an to the Party. inference about the Determination Regarding Responsibility based solely on a • The Advisor is not prohibited from having Party’s absence from the Hearing or refusal a conflict of interest or bias in favor of to answer questions. or against Complainants or Respondents generally, or in favor or against the Parties • Advisors shall be subject to this Policy’s to the case. Rules of Decorum and may be removed in the discretion of the Hearing Panel upon • If a Party does not attend the Hearing, violation of those Rules. the Party’s Advisor may appear and ask questions on their behalf. The Hearing Panel • If neither a Party nor their Advisor appears • The Hearing Panel will consist of three (3) at the Hearing, the College will provide trained decision-makers, a Panel Chair and an Advisor to appear on behalf of the non- two Panel members. The Panel Chair may appearing Party. be a College administrator or an outside consultant, contracted by the College. Panel • Advisors shall be subject to this Policy’s members will be appointed administrators Rules of Decorum and may be removed or faculty members. upon violation of those Rules. • No member of the Hearing Panel will also Witnesses have served as the Title IX Coordinator, • Witnesses cannot be compelled to Title IX Investigator, Advisor to or Witness participate in the Hearing and have the right for any Party in the case. not to participate in the Hearing, free from • No member of the Hearing Panel may serve retaliation. on the Appeals body in the case. • If a Witness does not submit to questioning, • No member of the Hearing Panel will have as described below, the Hearing Panel a conflict of interest or bias in favor of cannot rely on any statements made by or against Complainants or Respondents that Witness in reaching a Determination generally, or in favor or against the Parties Regarding Responsibility, including any to the case. statement relayed by the absent Witness 78 to a Witness or Party who testifies at the The Panel Chair retains the discretion to Hearing. determine what constitutes a “relevant” question. For example, questions that are • Witnesses shall be subject to this Policy’s duplicative of those already asked may be Rules of Decorum and may be removed deemed irrelevant if they have been asked and upon violation of those Rules. answered. Hearing Procedures If a Party does not submit to questioning Any Hearing conducted under this Resolution during Procedure #1, the Hearing Panel cannot Process will follow the procedure below: rely on any prior statements made by that • The Panel Chair will open and establish Party in reaching a Determination Regarding rules and expectations for the Hearing. Responsibility, but may reach a Determination Regarding Responsibility based on evidence • The Parties will each be given the that does not constitute a “statement” by that opportunity to provide opening statements. Party. • Panel members will ask questions of the Procedure #2: For all other Hearings, Parties, Parties and Witnesses. and not their Advisors, must conduct any • Parties or their Advisors, as applicable, will questioning of Witnesses. With respect to be given the opportunity to ask questions questioning of the other party, the Panel Chair of the other Party and Witnesses after the will conduct the questioning based upon Panel members conduct their initial round written questions submitted by the Party. The of questioning. Panel Chair will only ask the written questions submitted by the other party if they determine, • During the Parties’ questioning, the Panel in their discretion, that the question is deemed Chair will have the authority to pause at any “relevant.” Irrelevant questions will not be time for the established Rules of Decorum. asked at the Hearing. • Should a Party or the Party’s Advisor Hearing Recording and Transcript choose not to question the other Party or any Witness, that Party shall affirmatively All Hearings will be recorded, and a transcript waive their right to questioning through a will be available to the Parties for inspection written or oral statement to the Panel Chair. and review. Requests to review the recording A Party’s waiver of questioning does not and/or transcript must be made in writing to eliminate the ability of the Hearing Panel to the Title IX Coordinator. Prior to obtaining use statements made by the Party. access to a Hearing transcript, the Parties and their Advisors must sign an Agreement not Questioning Procedure to disseminate any of the testimony heard The questioning procedure may differ or evidence obtained in the Hearing or use according to the allegations presented at the such testimony or evidence for any purpose Hearing. unrelated to the Resolution Process. Once signed, this Agreement may not be withdrawn. Procedure #1: At a Hearing convened Hearing transcripts will be available within 7 to resolve allegations of “Title IX Sexual business days of the conclusion of the Hearing Harassment,” as defined above in this Policy, unless there are extenuating circumstances. each Party’s Advisor will conduct questioning of the other Party or Parties and Witnesses. Determination Regarding Responsibility During this questioning, the Advisor may Standard of Proof ask the other Party or Parties and Witnesses relevant questions and follow-up questions, The College will use a “preponderance of the including those that challenge credibility evidence” standard in deriving conclusions for directly, orally, and in real time. Parties are not its Determination Regarding Responsibility for permitted to ask questions of the other Party Formal Complaints brought under this Policy. or Witnesses in Hearings convened under this This standard means that the facts uncovered Procedure #1. during the Investigation and Hearing determine whether it is more likely than not Before any question is answered, the Panel that a violation of the Policy occurred. Chair will determine if the question is relevant. 79 Considerations for Evaluating Testimony may testify and be questioned, the Hearing and Evidence Panel will be instructed to afford very low weight to any non-factual character testimony Determinations Regarding Responsibility for of any Witness. an allegation of Sexual Misconduct may be based in part, or entirely, on documentary, oral, Where a Party’s or Witness’ conduct or audiovisual, and digital evidence, as warranted statements demonstrate that the Party or in the reasoned judgment of the Panel Chair. Witness is engaging in retaliatory conduct, including but not limited to Witness tampering Hearing Panel members shall not draw and intimidation, the Hearing Panel may inferences regarding a Party’s or Witness’ draw an adverse inference as to that Party’s or credibility based on the Party’s or Witness’ Witness’ credibility. status as a Complainant, Respondent, or Witness, nor shall they base their judgments Written Determination Regarding in stereotypes about how a Party or Witness Responsibility would or should act under the circumstances. The written Determination Regarding Generally, credibility judgments will rest on Responsibility (“the Determination”) will the demeanor of the Party or Witness, the be issued simultaneously to all Parties plausibility of their testimony, the consistency through their College email account, or of their testimony, and the reliability of other reasonable means, as necessary. The the testimony considering corroborating or Determination will include: conflicting testimony or evidence. 1. Summary of the allegations of Sexual Conversely, credibility judgments will not rest Misconduct. on whether a Party’s or Witness’ testimony 2. A description of the procedural steps taken is non-linear or incomplete, or if the Party or from the receipt of the Formal Complaint Witness is displaying stress or anxiety. through the Determination, including any Decision-makers will afford the highest notifications to the Parties, interviews with weight relative to other testimony to first-hand Parties and Witnesses, site visits, methods testimony by Parties and Witnesses regarding used to gather other evidence, and Hearings their own memory of specific facts that held. occurred. Both inculpatory and exculpatory 3. Findings of fact supporting the evidence will be weighed in equal fashion. Determination. Except where specifically barred by the Title 4. Conclusions regarding which section of IX Final Rule, a Witness’ testimony regarding the Sexual Misconduct Policy, if any, the third-party knowledge of the facts at issue will Respondent has or has not been found to be permitted, but generally will be accorded have violated. lower weight than testimony regarding direct knowledge of specific facts that occurred. 5. For each allegation: Parties may call “expert witnesses.” While a. A statement of, and rationale for, the the expert witness will be permitted to testify Determination Regarding Responsibility. and be questioned, the Hearing Panel will be b. A statement of, and rationale for, any instructed to afford lower weight to non- disciplinary sanctions the College factual testimony of the expert relative to fact imposes on the Respondent; and witnesses, and any expert testimony that is not directed to the specific facts that occurred c. A statement of, and rationale for, in the case will be afforded lower weight whether remedies designed to restore or than testimony of fact witnesses, regardless preserve equal access to the College’s of whether the expert witness testimony is Education Program or Activity will be the subject of questioning and regardless provided to the Complainant; and of whether both Parties present experts as 6. The College’s procedures and the Witnesses. permitted reasons for the Complainant and Parties may call character witnesses to speak Respondent to appeal the Determination on their behalf. While the character witness (described below in “Appeal”).

80 Timeline of Determination Regarding • Revocation of leadership or supervisory Responsibility position If there are no extenuating circumstances, • Disciplinary probation the Determination Regarding Responsibility • Community service or other work will be issued by the College within ten (10) assignments business days of the completion of the Hearing. • Writing assignment The Determination becomes final either on the • External program attendance or facilitation date that the College provides the Parties with • Warning – Written or oral the result of any Appeal, if such Appeal is filed consistent with the procedures and timeline • Revocation of degree outlined in “Appeals,” below, or if an Appeal • Withholding of diploma and/or transcripts is not filed, the date on which the opportunity to file an Appeal expires. • Prohibition from participation in Commencement and/or Senior Week Sanctions activities When a Respondent accepts or is found Appeals responsible for violating this Sexual Misconduct Policy, factors considered when Each Party may appeal (1) the Dismissal of a determining a sanction/responsive action may Formal Complaint or any included allegations include, but are not limited to: and/or (2) a Determination Regarding Responsibility. A Party must submit a written • The nature of, severity of, and Appeal within five (5) business days of circumstances surrounding the violation(s) being notified of the Dismissal of a Formal • The Respondent’s conduct history Complaint or Determination Regarding Responsibility, indicating the grounds for the • Previous allegations against or allegations Appeal. involving similar conduct by the Respondent The grounds for Appeal are limited to: • The impact on the Parties • Procedural irregularity that affected the outcome of the matter (i.e., a failure to • Any other information deemed relevant by follow the College’s own procedures). the Hearing Panel • New evidence that was not reasonably The sanctions will be implemented as soon available at the time the Determination as feasible, either upon the outcome of Regarding Responsibility or dismissal was any Appeal or the expiration of the Appeal made, that could affect the outcome of the window. Possible sanctions described in this matter. Policy are not exclusive of, and may be in addition to, other actions taken, or sanctions • The Title IX Coordinator, Investigator(s), or imposed by external authorities. decision-maker(s) had a conflict of interest or bias for or against an individual Party, or The following sanctions may be imposed upon for or against Complainants or Respondents any member of the College community found in general, that affected the outcome of the to have violated the Sexual Misconduct Policy: matter. • Permanent separation The submission of an Appeal stays any • Time-limited separation sanctions for the pendency of the Appeal. Supportive Measures and remote learning • Deferred separation opportunities remain available during the • Performance improvement plan pendency of the Appeal. • Loss of campus housing or other privileges If a Party appeals, the College will as soon as practicable notify the other Party in writing of • Removal from organization, team and/or the Appeal; however, the time for Appeal shall committee be offered equitably to all Parties and shall not

81 be extended for any Party solely because the Record Retention other Party filed an Appeal. The College shall retain for a period of seven Appeals should be submitted in electronic years after the date of case closure: the official form to the President of the College (of the file relating to a formal resolution, including campus on which the hearing was held). any Investigation, Hearing, Determination Regarding Responsibility, sanctioning, and/ The outcome of an Appeal will be provided or Appeal processes involving allegations in writing simultaneously to both Parties and of Sexual Misconduct. In cases in which a will include the rationale for the decision. The Respondent was found to have violated the Appeal decision is final, and no subsequent Policy and was separated from the College, Appeals are permitted. the College may retain such official case files Retaliation indefinitely. The College will keep the identity of any Appendix I: Rules of Decorum for individual who has made a report or complaint Resolution Process Hearings of Sexual Misconduct confidential, including Purpose of the Rules of Decorum the identity of any individual who has made a report or filed a Formal Complaint of Sexual Title IX Hearings are not civil or criminal Harassment under this Sexual Misconduct proceedings and are not designed to mimic Policy, any Complainant, any individual formal trial proceedings. They are primarily who has been reported to be the perpetrator educational in nature, and the U.S. Department of Sexual Misconduct under this Policy, of Education (“the Department”), writing any Respondent, and any Witness, except as about Title IX in the Final Rule, “purposefully permitted by the FERPA statute, 20 U.S.C. designed these final regulations to allow 1232g, or FERPA regulations, 34 CFR part recipients to retain flexibility to adopt rules 99, or as required by law, or to carry out of decorum that prohibit any party advisor the purposes of 34 CFR Part 106, including or Hearing Panel Chair from questioning the conduct of any Investigation, Hearing, witnesses in an abusive, intimidating, or or judicial proceeding under this Sexual disrespectful manner.” 85 Fed. Reg. 30026, Misconduct Policy. 30319 (May 19, 2020). The Department has determined that institutions “are in a better No person may intimidate, threaten, coerce, position than the Department to craft rules or discriminate against any individual for of decorum best suited to their educational the purpose of interfering with any right or environment” and build a hearing process that privilege secured by Title IX of the Education will reassure the Parties that the institution “is Amendments of 1972 or its implementing not throwing a party to the proverbial wolves.” regulations. Id. No person may intimidate, threaten, coerce, To achieve this purpose, Colleges may provide or discriminate against any individual because for reasonable rules of order and decorum, the individual has made a report or complaint, which may be enforced through the removal testified, assisted, or participated or refused to of an Advisor who refuses to comply with participate in any manner in an Investigation, the rules. Id., at 30320. As the Department proceeding or Hearing under this Sexual explains, the removal process “incentivizes Misconduct Policy. a party to work with an advisor of choice in Any intimidation, threats, coercion, or a manner that complies with a recipient’s discrimination, for the purpose of interfering rules that govern the conduct of a hearing, with any right or privilege secured by Title IX and incentivizes colleges and universities to or its implementing regulations, constitutes appoint advisors who also will comply with retaliation. This includes any charges filed such rules, so that hearings are conducted with against an individual for code of conduct respect for all participants.” Id. violations that do not involve Sexual At base, these Rules of Decorum require that Misconduct under this Policy, but that arise all Parties, Advisors, and College staff treat from the same facts or circumstances as a others who are engaged in the process with report or complaint of Sexual Misconduct respect. under this Policy. 82 The Rules of Decorum and processes set forth Warning and Removal Process herein apply equally to all Parties and their The Hearing Panel Chair shall have sole Advisors regardless of sex, gender, or other discretion to determine if the Rules have been protected class, and regardless of whether they violated. The Chair will notify the offending are in the role of Complainant or Respondent. person of any violation of the Rules. Rules of Decorum Upon a second or further violation of the The following Rules of Decorum (“the Rules, the Hearing Panel Chair shall have Rules”) are to be observed in the Hearing and discretion to remove the offending person or applied equally to the Parties (meaning the allow them to continue participating in the Complainant and Respondent) and Advisors: hearing or other part of the process. 1. Questions must be conveyed in a neutral Where the Chair removes a Party’s Advisor, tone. the Party may choose a different Advisor, or (in cases involving Title IX Sexual 2. Parties and Advisors will refer to other Harassment) accept an Advisor provided Parties, Witnesses, Advisors, and College by the College for the limited purpose of staff using the name and gender used by the questioning at the Hearing. Reasonable delays, person and shall not intentionally mis-name including temporary adjournment of the or mis-gender that person in communication Hearing, may be anticipated should an Advisor or questioning. be removed. A Party cannot serve as their own 3. No Party may act abusively or Advisor in this circumstance. disrespectfully during the Hearing toward The Hearing Panel Chair shall document any other Party or to Witnesses, Advisors, any decision to remove an Advisor in the or Hearing Panel members. Determination Regarding Responsibility. 4. The Advisor may not yell, scream, badger, For flagrant, multiple, or continual violations or physically “lean in” to a Party or of the Rules, in one or more proceedings, Witness’ personal space. Advisors may Advisors may be prohibited from participating not approach the other Party or Witnesses in future proceedings at the College in the without obtaining permission from the Advisor role, on a temporary or permanent Hearing Panel Chair. basis. Evidence of violation(s) of the Rules 5. The Advisor may not use profanity or will be gathered by the Title IX Coordinator make ad hominem attacks upon a Party or and presented to the Dean of the College Witness. Questions must be interrogative for proceedings involving students or to statements used to test knowledge or the Director of Human Resources for cases understand a fact; they may not include involving employees. The Advisor in question accusations within the text of the question. may provide an explanation or alternative 6. The Advisor may not ask repetitive evidence in writing to appeal the prohibition questions. When the Hearing Panel Chair from participation. This appeal must be determines a question has been “asked and submitted to the appropriate Dean or Director answered” or is otherwise not relevant, the within fifteen (15) calendar days of receipt. Advisor must move on. There shall be no right to a hearing, oral testimony, or questioning. 7. Parties and Advisors may take no action at the Hearing that a reasonable person The Dean of the College or Director of Human in the shoes of the affected Party would Resources shall consider the evidence, using see as intended to intimidate that person a preponderance of the evidence standard, and (whether Party, Witness, or official) into not issue a finding in writing regarding removal. participating in the process or meaningfully The finding shall be issued in writing to all modifying their participation in the process. Parties and Advisors (if there is a current case pending) within thirty (30) days, unless extended for good cause. There is no appeal of this finding.

83 Relevant Questions Asked in Violation of interactions of all members of the community. the Rules of Decorum The pursuit of these goals and the preservation of this civil atmosphere depend on the active Should an Advisor ask a relevant question commitment of all community members to in a manner that violates the Rules, such as making the College’s programs and resources yelling, screaming, badgering, or leaning-in as inclusive as possible. to the Witness’ or Party’s personal space, the question will not be deemed irrelevant by Statement of Policies Concerning the Hearing Panel Chair simply because of Sexual Harassment and Other Forms of the manner in which it was delivered. Under Harassment and Discrimination that circumstance, the Hearing Panel Chair It is the policy of Bryn Mawr College to will notify the Advisor of the violation of maintain a work and academic environment the Rules, and, if the question is relevant, free from discrimination and offensive or will allow the question to be re-asked in a degrading remarks or conduct. Unlawful respectful, non-abusive manner by the Advisor discrimination, including sexual harassment (or a replacement Advisor, should the Advisor and sexual violence, will not be tolerated. This be removed for violation of the Rules). policy covers all staff members and faculty EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, NON- members as well as students. The College will DISCRIMINATION, AND not tolerate, condone or allow harassment or DISCRIMINATORY HARASSMENT discrimination, whether engaged in by fellow POLICIES staff members, students, faculty members or non-employees who conduct business with the Statement of Principles College. Bryn Mawr College is firmly committed to a Definition of Discrimination policy of equal opportunity for all members Discrimination is unequal or disparate of its faculty, staff, and student body. Bryn treatment of groups or individuals, including Mawr College does not discriminate on the their exclusion from any of the College’s basis of race, color, religion, national or ethnic programs or activities, or any attempt to hinder origin, sexual orientation, age, or disability in access to the College’s resources on the basis the administration of its educational policies, of race, religion, color, age, national origin, scholarship and loan programs, athletic and physical ability, sex or sexual orientation. other College-administered programs, or in Prohibited sex discrimination includes both its employment practices. In conformity with sexual harassment and sexual violence. It is the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, important to recognize that not all conduct and Title IX of the Education Amendments that might be offensive to an individual or a of 1972, it is also the policy of Bryn Mawr group necessarily constitutes discriminatory College not to discriminate on the basis of conduct. Whether a specific act constitutes sex in its employment practices, educational discrimination must be determined on a programs, or activities. The admission of case-by-case basis in light of all relevant only women to the Undergraduate College is circumstance. in conformity with a provision of the Civil Rights Act. The provisions of Title IX protect The College is committed to maintaining an students and employees from all forms of environment in which all members of the illegal sex discrimination, which includes community, staff, students and faculty, are sexual harassment and sexual violence, treated with respect and dignity. It is the policy in College programs and activities. The of the College not to discriminate on the basis College is firmly committed to academic and of sex, including sexual harassment, in any professional excellence and to freedom of of its programs, activities or employment inquiry and expression for all members of practices. Unwelcome sexual advances, the College community. In order to preserve requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or an atmosphere in which these goals can be physical conduct constitute sexual harassment pursued, certain norms of civility, based on when: mutual respect and appreciation of differences, A.Submission to such conduct is made either recognition of the rights of others and explicitly or implicitly a term or condition sensitivity to their feelings, must govern the 84 of an individual’s employment or academic who will help the student find appropriate treatment, or is accompanied by implied or College officials with whom to discuss the overt threats concerning one’s job, grades, concern. letters of recommendation, etc.; The College encourages prompt reporting B. Submission to or rejection of such conduct of complaints so that a rapid response and by an individual is used as a basis of appropriate action may be taken. No retaliation employment or academic decisions against students who make a good-faith report affecting such individual; or of a violation of this policy will be tolerated C. Such conduct has the purpose or effect Investigating the Complaint of interfering with an individual’s work The College will investigate promptly all performance or academic performance or complaints of violations of sexual harassment creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive and discrimination policies. The investigation environment. will include interviews with the parties who The College also prohibits this type of are directly involved and possibly with behavior when it is based on race, color, age, others. These interviews may be conducted national origin and religion or on any other by the Equal Opportunity Officer, the Title basis prohibited by law. Harassment on the IX Coordinator, deans, Staff Issues Liaison, basis of one’s sexual orientation can also Campus Safety officers or others as the constitute discrimination on the basis of sex. circumstances warrant. Both parties will have an opportunity to present any information Sexual harassment can include verbal that they have to those investigating a behavior such as unwanted sexual comments, complaint, and both will be kept informed in suggestions, jokes or pressure for sexual a timely manner of information used in the favors; nonverbal behavior such as suggestive investigation to the extent possible, consistent looks or leering; and physical behavior such with FERPA and confidentiality constraints. as pats, where such behaviors are severe, Both parties will be updated periodically offensive, and occur repeatedly unless a single regarding the status of the investigation. In instance is so severe that it warrants immediate its investigation, the College will find that action. Some specific examples of behavior harassment and/or discrimination has occurred that are inappropriate include: if the information collected indicates that it is • Continuous and repeated sexual slurs or more likely than not that sexual harassment sexual innuendoes. or sexual violence occurred. The College will • Offensive and repeated risqué jokes or complete its investigation within 60 days after kidding about sex or gender-specific traits its receipt of a complaint, unless circumstances not within the reasonable control of the • Repeated unsolicited propositions for dates College require additional time, in which case and/or sexual relations. both parties will be informed of the delay Reporting a Complaint of Harassment or and the reason therefor. Each situation will Discrimination be responded to promptly and handled as expeditiously and discreetly as possible. If any student believes they are being harassed or discriminated against by staff members, Resolving the Complaint students or faculty members or any other If the College determines that this policy person at the College, or if a student is aware was violated, it will take corrective action as that another College community member has warranted by the circumstances. Resolution been harassed or discriminated against, it of complaints against Bryn Mawr College is the student’s responsibility to take action students and employees can include transfer, immediately by discussing concerns with a direction to stop the behavior, counseling dean, the Equal Opportunity Officer, or the or training, suspension without pay or Title IX Coordinator. termination of employment, or in the case of If a student is uncomfortable for any reason students, temporary separation or permanent in discussing this issue with these individuals, exclusion from the College. Both parties they may contact the President of the College, involved will receive written notice of the resolution of the complaint within one week 85 of the conclusion of the investigation. If it is FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE determined that sexual harassment or sexual LIMITS OF DISSENT violence did occur, the College will include Bryn Mawr College currently has in place in its resolution steps to prevent a recurrence various policies addressing issues related to of harassment and, when applicable, steps freedom of speech and the expression of ideas. to correct the discriminatory effects on the Chief among these are the hazing policy (page complainant and others. 62) and the policy on solicitation on campus, If an investigation results in a finding that available from College Communications. The the complainant falsely accused another Honor Code (page 26) establishes procedures of harassment knowingly or in a malicious that can be used to address issues of free manner, the complainant will be subject to speech and dissent when they arise from appropriate sanctions, up to and including interactions between undergraduate students. termination of employment or, in the case The College also has a statement governing of students, up to and including permanent the conduct of religious groups, advisers, and exclusion from the College. representatives on campus, which can be found Policy Concerning Sexual Relationships at the Pensby Center. The policy outlined Between Students and Faculty or Staff here assumes the framework created by these Members other policies and procedures and addresses particularly the conduct of both curricular Fulfilling the mission of Bryn Mawr College and extracurricular gatherings that feature to provide a rigorous education and to speakers, films, performances, exhibits, or any encourage the pursuit of knowledge as other forms of artistic expression, whether preparation for life and work depends upon the these gatherings are open or closed. For the existence of a relationship of trust, respect and purposes of this policy, the term “speakers” fairness between faculty or staff members and should be understood to mean performers, students. Romantic and/or sexual relationships exhibitors, presenters of films, and others between faculty or staff members (including involved in any form of artistic expression teaching assistants) and students threaten as well as those delivering, introducing, or this relationship. Further, the unequal nature responding to speeches, talks or lectures. of their respective roles calls into question a student’s ability to fully consent to a romantic As an educational institution Bryn Mawr is and/or sexual relationship with a faculty or committed to the free expression of ideas. In staff member. The College considers such a practice, this commitment means that speakers relationship, even if believed to be consensual, who conduct themselves within the guidelines to violate the integrity of the student/faculty or of the policies mentioned above are entitled student/staff relationship, and to be unethical to express their ideas without hindrance, no and unacceptable. matter how unpopular or controversial their ideas might be. Students and other persons In acting on complaints regarding sexual who choose to attend events on campus are relationships that come to the College’s entitled to hear and see speakers without attention, it will be presumed that any interference or intimidation. Bryn Mawr’s complaint by a student against a faculty or commitment to the free expression of ideas staff member is valid if sexual relations have extends to the expression of dissenting occurred between them. In addition, third ideas; the College recognizes that the free parties, including other students, parents, representation of dissenting points of view is and other faculty/staff members, may necessary to the climate of open and vigorous report suspected violations of this policy. debate essential to its educational mission. All complaints will be investigated and Those who wish to dissent from or protest the should allegations of such a relationship be views of others are entitled to do so, within the substantiated, the College will take appropriate limits set forth here, without interference or disciplinary action against the involved intimidation. faculty or staff member, up to and including termination of employment. Essentially, while the College recognizes the rights of both speakers and dissenters to the civil expression of their ideas, it also

86 recognizes that these rights cannot always be • Appointing a faculty or administrative exercised at the same time and in the same moderator for the event who will be space and therefore sets forth the guidelines responsible for reminding participants of below. the guidelines contained in this policy, for making sure that the rights of all are Finally, the College takes seriously its respected during the event itself, and for obligation to ensure the physical safety of its directing response in case the guidelines are students, faculty, staff, and invited guests. violated; This policy is intended to reflect these three commitments and protect the rights and safety • Making sure that the event is scheduled of speakers, dissenters, and audiences alike. for a physical space which will allow for freedom of movement and security Guidelines for the Conduct of Meetings measures adequate to the size and nature of Before the event: It will not always be the gathering; possible for the organizers or sponsors of • Arranging for special Campus Safety events to recognize potential controversies. measures, which may include but are not However, anticipating and planning for the limited to making sure that officers are possibility of dissent or protest is among the available during the event, requiring those responsibilities of an organizer or sponsor attending the event to check their bags of a campus event. Organizers or sponsors and outerwear before entering, restricting who fail to conscientiously assume this admission to the event to members of responsibility may be subject to administrative the College community, or establishing sanctions, including the loss of the privilege of limits to the number of persons who may organizing future events and liability for losses attend an event. In cases where it might or damages. be appropriate, for example, if a highly When any member of the community expects controversial speaker were to speak in that a scheduled event may give rise to Goodhart and many members of the general protest, she or he should notify the Dean of public were expected, the Director of the Undergraduate College or, in the case of Campus Safety may consult with the Lower events intended primarily for graduate students Merion Police on appropriate traffic, crowd or events held at the Graduate School of control and security measures. Social Work and Social Research, the Dean During an event: If, during an event, the of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences appointed moderator believes that the conduct or the Dean of the Graduate School of Social of persons present poses a threat to the rights Work and Social Research. This notification or safety of other members of the community would most likely come from a member of or of guests, she or he will ask such persons the sponsoring organization, from a person to cooperate in restoring order and remind involved in planning to protest, or a staff them of their responsibilities under this policy. member assisting in planning or organizing Should she or he be unable to restore order by the event. This notification is requested so that so doing, she or he may the Dean can take responsibility for seeing that the rights of dissenters and speakers alike • Ask Campus Safety to remove any persons are respected and that appropriate safety and who are posing a threat to the public order. security measures are taken. • Decide to move the event to another The Dean will determine whether the physical space. protection of free speech and safety for all • Decide to end the event and disperse the involved requires any special measures. gathering. Should she determine that this is the case, she may consult with other College In the event that protests disrupt an event at officials, including the other deans of the which there is no appointed moderator, any College and the director of Campus Safety, faculty member, administrator or Campus Communications or Conferences and Events, Safety officer present may assume the role of to decide what measures will be appropriate. moderator. If an event at which only students Among the possible courses of action they are present is disrupted, and the students feel may take are: that they need assistance to restore order, they 87 should call on the Dean’s Office or the Office interference with the freedom of movement of Campus Safety for support. of another person; defacing of signs; tampering with audio- visual equipment; Guidelines for Dissent and Protest throwing objects; and other gestures that These guidelines are meant to suggest the threaten physical harm to persons or principles governing appropriate dissent or property. protest and the limits protesters or dissenters Sanctions are expected to respect. A variety of sanctions could follow from 1. Distributing literature in advance of or protests that violate these guidelines. At the outside a meeting is acceptable and must time, such protesters can be expelled from a not be hindered when those distributing meeting or event, and if their protest involves the literature are members of the College illegal or violent activity, they may be subject community. Those distributing literature to arrest. must not impede access to the meeting and must not harass people wishing to attend. After the event, individual undergraduate Distributing literature inside a meeting students who feel that the conduct of other before the meeting is called to order and undergraduates has been inconsistent with after it is adjourned is also acceptable and the values of the Honor Code may confront must not be hindered. Persons who are not their fellow students and initiate proceedings members of the community are allowed to under the Social Honor Code. Undergraduate distribute literature under the terms of the students may also be subject to administrative Policy for Visitors to Campus, available sanctions imposed by a Dean’s Panel; any from College Communications. student or member of the faculty or staff can consult the Dean of the Undergraduate College 2. Silent protests such as the displaying of about the appropriateness of initiating this signs or symbols, the wearing of expressive process. Haverford students will be subject clothing or insignia, standing, gesturing to the same procedures and sanctions as Bryn or otherwise protesting noiselessly is Mawr students. acceptable and will not be hindered unless the ability of others in the audience to see Cases involving members of the College or hear is impeded. For this reason, such community who are not undergraduate protests as the display of large signs or students will be referred to the appropriate banners should be confined to the back of faculty or staff committees or College officers. the meeting space. For safety reasons, signs Disruptive persons who are not members of and banners should not be affixed to sticks the Bryn Mawr community may be banned or other sharp or hard objects. from future events or from the campus generally. 3. Noise that expresses spontaneous and temporary response to particular statements Resources in the Event of Suspected will be acceptable; for example, cheering Discrimination or Bias: or booing a particular remark, applauding If you think you or someone else have been or hissing, and so on. Sustained or repeated treated unfairly or is a biased way by a noises that substantially interfere with the professor, you have several options. audience’s ability to hear the speaker will not be acceptable, whether the noises are Under the Honor Code, direct confrontation produced inside or outside the meeting; and conversation is the preferred first step. examples of this would be chanting, If that does not result in resolution or is not sustained booing, foot-stamping, singing, possible, there are additional options. and so on. 1. Talk with your dean about the situation. 4. Force or the threat of force is never an Your dean can advise about an approach acceptable form of protest. “Force” is to the confrontation as well as other meant to include assault on any individual, institutional options. whether speaker, audience member, 2. Contact the chair of the faculty member’s dissenter, or staff member; physical department.

88 3. Contact the Provost. The Provost is the charges should be assessed. All charges will be senior academic administrator at the posted to the student’s BIONIC account within College and is available to address concerns three weeks of commencement. If you wish about faculty-student relationships. (610- to appeal any room damage charge, you must 526-5167). contact Facilities Services prior to June 15 to dispute any charge you believe was made in 4. File a “Bias Incident Report” error. Questions about fines should be directed (www.brynmawr.edu/bias-response). to Facilities Services. 5. Contact the Dean of the Undergraduate Entering Student Rooms: Residential Life College or the President. The Dean staff (including Hall Advisers), Campus Safety and President are available to talk with officers, Facilities Services staff and other students about their concerns regarding College personnel may enter student rooms discrimination, bias, or unfair treatment. only: GENERAL HOUSING POLICIES • At the request of the resident (e.g., if Emergencies: In an emergency, call Campus locked out) Safety at x7911 from on campus. If calling • In case of emergency from off campus or from a cell phone, call • At the start of winter vacation so that rooms 610-526-7911. For dorm or facilities problems may be checked for security or conservation that occur Monday through Friday between 8 risks a.m. and 5 p.m., call Facilities Services at 610- 526-7930. After hours, call Campus Safety at • In order to enforce Housing Policy 610-526-7911. violations Damaged or Missing College Property: • In case of physical-plant difficulties with Students are expected to take responsibility the building or room. Usually, such entries for any damage they cause to individual rooms are at the request of the resident. However, or common areas of the hall and to hold one College personnel may be required to enter another accountable for such damage through a room to solve a physical-plant problem the Social Honor Code. Anyone causing that affects all or part of the building. damage, whether intentionally or by accident, In all cases, students’ right to privacy and the should report the situation to the Department College’s rights and responsibilities must be of Facilities Services and pay the costs of respected. If a room must be entered without repair or replacement. The College accepts advance knowledge of the resident, a note will no responsibility for damages to student be left on that student’s door. The note will belongings. Damages to common areas that are state that the room was entered, by whom and not reported to the College will be considered for what reason. If rooms must be entered as the joint responsibility of all residents of the part of some planned project or for another hall. The repair/replacement costs will be purpose, written notice will be posted in the charged to all hall residents by dividing the hall in advance. total cost by the number of residents. Opening of Residence Halls/Early Return: Repairs or replacement of room damages, beyond normal wear and tear, and missing There are three ways you may return to furniture are fined according to cost. The campus in the fall: College reserves the right to charge the • or after the official opening of dorms, for residents of the hall to replace missing items no charge and prorate the cost to all residents. It is the responsibility of the hall residents to • early return for personal reasons, for a fee demonstrate to the College that no member of • as a member of a College-sponsored the hall is at fault if this sort of charge is to be program, as described below avoided. The official first day for all upperclass (non- Immediately after commencement, Facilities frosh) student move-in is the Friday before Services and Housekeeping personnel will classes begin. There is no extra charge for inspect each room to determine whether any

89 students moving in on or after this day. in the Office of Residential Life by June 15 Dorms will open at 9 a.m. before the beginning of the academic year. Once written notice is received, you will be If a student must return before that date charged a $100 cancellation fee. If notification for personal reasons, they must make is not received until after June 15, you will be arrangements with the Office of Residential charged a $500 fee. Life to return as early as the Wednesday before classes begin. No personal early returns will be Leaving in Mid-Semester: Students who allowed before this day. There is a charge of leave residence after classes have begun must $50 per day for a personal early return. remove all belongings from the residence halls and return keys to Facilities Services. For A student may return as a part of a College- more information, contact the Residential Life sponsored program, such as Athletics, Office or your dean. Customs, Hall Advising, or working in a campus office. The sponsoring office must Summer Residency: Summer housing make arrangements for the early return of arrangements must be made through the Office these students no later than July 15 to avoid of Conferences and Events. charges. After this date, an office may request Moving On-campus: Moving from off- new or additional early returns, but will be campus to on-campus residence halls is subject charged a fee per request. After August 1, to availability, and arrangements must be made an additional fee will be applied. Either the with the Residential Life Office. student or the office must be prepared to cover this charge. Off-Campus Housing: The opportunity for students to live and learn together is an Vacation Closing: All dorms will remain integral part of the Bryn Mawr educational open during fall, Thanksgiving, and spring experience. As a residential college, students breaks, but not during winter break. Students are expected to live in campus housing and who must remain on campus during winter participate fully in the College meal plan for break may apply for winter housing in advance all four years. through the Office of Residential Life. During vacation breaks, campus services including In an effort to both balance enrollment, as transportation, dining services and health well as to provide a more independent living services may not be provided. option for students, the College offers a limited number of releases from the College Summer Housing: Summer residence is a housing requirement each year as part of privilege made available by College programs the student organized spring housing lottery and the Office of Conferences and Events on process. Students who are interested in living a space-available basis. Students residing at off campus must apply to do so. Some students Bryn Mawr during the summer are expected (typically seniors) are approved to live off to abide by all College policies, as well as campus through the off-campus housing local and state laws, without exception. As lottery process, coordinated through the during the academic year, summer residents student Residence Council and Residential are encouraged to resolve disputes via Life office. individualconfrontation and communication, as well as through community dialogue. It is very important that students keep in Should these attempts fail, residents should mind that signing a rental agreement with a contact the Campus Safety to report concerns landlord prior to being approved through the involving policy violations. These reports will formal application process does not guarantee be investigated and reported to the Residential that a student will be approved to live off Life Office. On the first report of violation, campus. Any agreement that a student signs a notice will be issued to the resident. poses financial and legal risks which are the Ordinarily, on the second report of violation, responsibility of the student and/or parents/ the individual will be evicted from housing. guardians who signed the agreement. Residential Status: Cancellation of Housing Any student wishing to live off campus must Agreement: If you would like to cancel your request permission to do so by submitting an room, written notification must be received Off-Campus Housing Petition to the Office of

90 Residential Life or by choosing the off-campus denial of College housing and exclusion option in Room Draw. Students considering from the College, as well as civil and living off campus should be aware of local criminal liability. In addition to the following zoning regulations that apply to student policies, students are expected to keep all houses. Lower Merion Township regulations their belongings inside their dorm rooms. define a “student home” as: “A living Hallways must be clear of clutter to provide arrangement for students unrelated by blood, clear pathways for egress in the event of an marriage or legal adoption attending or about emergency. to attend a college or university, or who are on Cooking Appliances: Coffee makers and a semester or summer break from studies at a electric water kettles with automatic shutoff college or university, or any combination of are permitted in dorm rooms. Cooking such persons. Student homes shall not include appliances, including, but not limited to, fraternities, sororities or community residential toasters, toaster ovens, rice cookers, hot plates, programs.” panini makers, grills, and microwaves are not Bi-College Safety: Due to the Bi-College permitted. The cooking of raw foods is not nature of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, permitted in residence halls, as this poses fire if either College determines that the presence and food safety risks. If any appliances not of an individual poses a safety risk to the adhering to this policy should be brought to campus community, that individual will be the attention of the college administration, the deemed a safety risk on both campuses, and if student will be responsible for the immediate either College determines that a student must removal of the prohibited appliance and incur be barred from residence on its campus, either a $250 fine. The Residence Council advises pending investigation or after final resolution all students to limit the number of energy- of that investigation, the student also will be consuming appliances in their rooms. barred from residence on the other campus. Air Conditioning: Air conditioning is Accommodations for Persons with not available in all Bryn Mawr dorms Disabilities: Students with disabilities or or in all rooms within a dorm. Housing chronic medical conditions who require accommodations for room air conditioners modifications in housing arrangements should will be provided for those students with contact Access Services for procedures and documented disabilities through the Access documentation requirements. Services Office. If an accommodation for air conditioning is approved, Facilities Services Bryn Mawr College is committed to providing will install the air conditioner unit. Students equal access for all qualified students with may not install their own units. Due to the disabilities in compliance with Section 504 nature and design of our residence halls, all of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the dorms and rooms do not accommodate air Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. conditioning units. Students are encouraged Reasonable accommodations are provided for to request modifications in housing and qualified students who disclose a disability to provide the required documentation as that causes substantial limitations in a college early as possible to allow sufficient time environment. Accordingly, the College will for consideration and planning. Otherwise, consider modifying housing arrangements, housing options may be limited. when appropriate, to help a student compensate for a disability or chronic medical Space Heaters: For fire safety reasons, condition that has a significant impact in a students are not permitted to bring space residential setting. heaters for their dorm rooms. Any concerns about room temperature or heating should be FIRE AND SAFETY POLICIES directed to Facilities Services. In order to provide maximum safety and Dangerous Articles, Substances and security for resident students, buildings, and Activities: The items and activities specified property, students must abide by the following below are prohibited on the College campus. safety policies. Students who violate these Violators will be subject to disciplinary action, policies will be subject to disciplinary action including but not limited to fines, relocation, including but not limited to fines, relocation, denial of College housing and exclusion from 91 the College, as well as civil and criminal Smoking: Smoking is prohibited in all liability. If dangerous articles or substances are residence halls and at the main entrances to all discovered in a room, they will be impounded. campus buildings. • Possession or use of weapons, including but Smoke Detectors: Under no circumstances not limited to air rifles, pellet guns, pistols, may students cover, disable, or otherwise firearms, ammunition, hunting equipment, tamper with room smoke detectors. A student knives and swords, is expressly prohibited. who engages in such behavior will be subject to disciplinary action including but not limited • Possession or use of dangerous substances, to fines, relocation, denial of College housing including but not limited to gunpowder, and exclusion from the College, as well as fireworks, explosives, gasoline and civil and criminal liability. kerosene, is expressly prohibited. Sprinklers: Under no circumstances may • Possession or use of illegal or controlled students hang objects from or otherwise substances, including but not limited to tamper with room sprinklers. A student illegal or controlled drugs, is expressly who activates a sprinkler will be subject to prohibited. disciplinary action including but not limited to Fire Emergency: In the event of a fire fines, relocation, denial of College housing and alarm (real or drill), evacuate the building exclusion from the College, as well as civil immediately until given clearance to return and criminal liability. by Campus Safety officers or the Fire Tea Pantries: Tea pantries are equipped with Department. Be familiar with fire evacuation refrigerators, microwave ovens, and toasters routes, fire alarms and fire extinguishers. and are available for student use. The pantries Information is available through Campus are designed for heating already prepared Safety. Report all fires or fire hazards to foods such as frozen meals, canned or dried Campus Safety immediately 610-526-7911. foods, soups, and hot beverages. Preparation Fire Safety: No open flames, including and cooking of raw foods is strictly prohibited candles and incense, are permitted in the in the tea pantries, as well as all other dorm residence halls. No fires are permitted in the spaces, due to fire and food safety risks. fireplaces. Extension cords under rugs are Additional cooking appliances may not be serious fire hazards. Take special care in using brought to the tea pantries, including personal electrical outlets. Do not overload outlets; do microwaves and toasters. not use more than two electrical appliances per outlet. No fire extinguisher may be discharged RESIDENCE LIVING POLICIES except to fight a fire. There is a charge of $50 for each improper use of a fire extinguisher. Cleaning: Housekeeping will clean common Such improper use of a fire extinguisher areas and bathrooms. Students clean their own poses an extreme danger to life and property. rooms. Halogen lamps are potential fire hazards. Do Decorating: Only student rooms and bedroom not place one near flammable items and never doors may be decorated, not hallways or leave a burning lamp unattended. common areas. Students may decorate their IDs: Students are expected to carry their doors using appropriate adhesives that do not official identification card at all times damage paint or other surfaces. Residents are on campus, and can be used to identify responsible for damage to walls, ceilings and themselves to Campus Safety or other officials doors. Damages will be charged to student when requested. accounts. The College reserves the right to remove without warning any decorations that Roofs: Students are not permitted on the roofs violate these rules. of College buildings for any reason. Terraces, balconies, and other structures accessible by Flashlights: To comply with a Lower Merion windows are defined as roofs under this policy. Township ordinance, all students who reside Violators are subject to action by the dean and at the College must have flashlights in their will be fined. rooms. Bring one flashlight with you.

92 Furniture: All furniture should remain in after 5 p.m. on weekdays or on the weekend, student rooms. Please do not leave furniture you must go to the Campus Safety Office to be in hallways; it constitutes a fire hazard. Any let into your room. furniture-related problems should be reported During your stay: If you are locked out of to Housekeeping at 610-526-7930. On final your room, you may contact Campus Safety. inspection, a replacement charge will be They will respond in as timely a manner as assessed for each item missing from student possible, but they may be delayed by other rooms. circumstances on campus. Lockout calls do Guests: Residence spaces are not available not have priority status. to accommodate spouses, partners, family Lost Keys: Students who lose their keys members, children or other dependents of or whose keys do not work properly should College resident students. Overnight guests promptly request replacements at Facilities are permitted only with the consent of all Services. There is a charge of $50 for each roommates and for a maximum stay of three replacement key. nights. Hosts are responsible for assuring that their guests comply with all College One Cards: One cards are used for campus policies and the Honor Code. In fairness to building access, library services, photo all residential students and their hallmates, ID, meal plan authorization, and access to repeated and/or frequent guests (including declining balance accounts. Lost one cards other Bryn Mawr students) are strongly must be reported to the One Card Office as discouraged. This includes guests who visit soon as possible. A replacement fee will be frequently who do not necessarily stay charged. overnight. Guests— whether fellow Bryn Moving Out: Room keys must either be Mawr students or off- campus visitors—are returned to the Facilities Services office in the not permitted to sleep or stay overnight Ward Building or left in the Facilities Services in dorm common spaces for any reason. drop box in the Campus Center. Keys may not The spirit of the guest policy applies to all be returned to the offices of Campus Safety or residential students, including those who live Residential Life. in single rooms. Violations of the spirit of the guest policy could result in administrative Laundry: Cashless laundry machines are action that may result in loss of guest, as well located in each dorm. For repair, call Facilities as campus housing privileges. Services. Heating: The optimum room temperature Lofts: Students are not permitted to construct during the winter months is between 68 and lofts in their rooms because they are fire and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Should you feel that safety hazards and cause structural damage. there is a problem with the heating unit in your Violators are subject to administrative action. room, contact Facilities Services, 610-526- Meal Plan: All resident students except those 7930. in Batten House are required to participate Insurance: The College does not insure the in the board plan. Please see the section on contents of student rooms or storage areas. The Dining Services for further information. College assumes no responsibility for loss due Painting: Note that student room painting is to fire, theft or any other cause. Students are chargeable damage. Residents will be charged therefore urged to obtain a rider to their family for repainting and for tape, paint, poster putty, homeowner’s insurance or a separate policy decals, and/or nails in/on room (including to protect against loss through theft and other doors) and/or corridor walls. risks. Pets: Because of the College’s concern for KEYS AND ID CARDS the health and well-being of all, pets are not allowed in the residence halls. Violations of Moving In: Keys must be picked up at the the pet policy may result in administrative Facilities Services office in the Ward building action that may include, but is not limited to, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., charges for cleaning and/or pet removal or Monday through Friday. If you are moving in

93 boarding costs, as well as loss of on-campus Room Changes: One of the practical results housing privileges. An appropriately trained of Bryn Mawr’s principle of individual Service Animal, as defined by the American responsibility is the Residence Council’s with Disabilities Act as amended in 2008, will policy on room changes. The main premise of be permitted if necessary to ensure access this policy is that a change in room assignment for a student with a disability. For additional is a special case based on unusually information, please contact the coordinator of problematic circumstances. Roommates are Access Services at 610-526-7351. expected to do their best to make a success of their placement. We encourage the resolution Room Assessment Procedure: Facilities of problems and of difficult situations Services conducts room-condition checks at according to the principles of the Honor the beginning and end of each academic year. Code and through consultation with resource Students complete a form and return it to the people in the halls. Students who have not College on each occasion. College staff verify demonstrated this effort will not be granted these reports and charge residents for any room changes. damage to the room or its furnishings. You should complete an assessment form to protect Room change forms are available from the yourself from charges for damage that you did Residential Life Office. Please note that no not cause. room changes are acted upon until Oct. 1. No change may be made without talking to Room Assignments: Residence on campus one’s roommate and working with Residential is required of all undergraduates except Life Office staff, including your Hall Adviser those who live with their families in the and the Residential Life Coordinators. immediate vicinity, and those who live in Students must try to work out conflicts or houses or apartments off campus after having problems before requesting a room change. received permission from the College and Trading of rooms is not allowed in any their parents to do so. A Room Draw system case. Confidentiality is strictly observed by based on class priority and computer-assigned the Special Cases Committee and by the random numbers has been established by the Residential Life staff who work with the Residence Council. Room Draw takes place group. in April. Single rooms are not guaranteed. Room Draw merely provides an opportunity There is a $30 charge to be shared by all to select a room. Residence selections, once roommates for all room changes. Unauthorized made, remain in effect for the entire academic moves result in a $50 charge and the students year. Students may not unofficially trade one involved must return to their original rooms. room or space for another. Rooms and places in specific halls are not automatically retained from year to year. Room Draw rules are posted online in mid-March. Make sure to read and understand them.

94 DIRECTORY IMPORTANT CAMPUS PHONE NUMBERS QUICK LIST Emergency/Campus Safety: Dial 911 from a campus phone, or 610-526-7911 Access Services ...... 610-526-7516 Campus Safety Non-emergency ...... 610-526-7911 Computing Help Desk ...... 610-526-7440 Counseling Services ...... 610-526-7360 Dean’s Office ...... 610-526-5375 Facilities Services ...... 610-526-7930 Health and Wellness Center ...... 610-526-7360 Housekeeping ...... 610-526-7930 Medical Emergencies (Campus Safety) 911 (on-campus phone) or 610-526-7911 Pensby Center ...... 610-526-6592 Weather Emergencies (hotline) ...... 610-526-7310

DIRECTORY OF OFFICES AND SERVICES

Alumnae Association Career & Civic Engagement Center Helfarian, first floor, 610-526-5227 Campus Center, second floor, 610-526-5174 Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. www.brynmawr.edu/career-civic brynmawr.edu/alumnae Conferences and Events Arts Program Campus Center, ground floor, 610-526-7329 Goodhart Hall, 610-526-5300 brynmawr.edu/conferences Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. brynmawr.edu/arts Controller’s Office Cartref, second floor, fax 610-526-7879 Athletics and Physical Education Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bern Schwartz Gymnasium, 610-526-7348 brynmawr.edu/finance athletics.brynmawr.edu/ Dean’s Office Bookshop Guild Hall, lower level, 610-526-5375 Campus Center, ground floor, 610-526-5323 Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. brynmawr.edu/deans Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. bookshop.brynmawr.edu/ Dining Services Cartref, first floor, 610-526-7400 Monday–Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. brynmawr.edu/dining

95 Facilities Services Post Office Ward Building, 610-526-7930 Campus Center, first floor, 610-526-7336 Monday–Friday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday–Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. brynmawr.edu/facilities Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. brynmawr.edu/postoffice Emergency: Contact Campus Safety 610-526-7911 Registrar’s Office Non-emergency: Leave a message at the Call Guild Hall, lower level, 610-526-5142 Center, 610-526-7930 Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. brynmawr.edu/registrar Fitness Center Bern Schwartz Gymnasium, 610-526-7348 Residential Life athletics.brynmawr.edu Guild Hall, lower level, 610-526-7331 brynmawr.edu/residential-life Housekeeping Ward Building Student Accounts Routine problems 610-526-7930 Controller’s Office, Cartref second floor, Questions or concerns 610-526-7929 610-526-5500 Nights and weekends: Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (emergencies only) 610-526-7911 brynmawr.edu/studentaccounts

International Student and Scholar Services Student Activities and Advising Guild Hall, lower level, 610-526-7331 Pensby Center for Community Development, brynmawr.edu/activities 610-526-6592 brynmawr.edu/pensby/international Student Employment Office Human Resources, 610-526-5218 Lost and Found brynmawr.edu/humanresources/jobs/student- John J. Maloney Building, 610-526-7911 employment-office Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Student Financial Services Lusty Cup Café Benham Gateway, second floor, 610-526-5245 Canaday Library, Floor A Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. brynmawr.edu/dining/locations/lusty-cup brynmawr.edu/financial-aid

OneCard Study Abroad Lost/stolen cards: Campus Safety Guild Hall, lower level, 610-526-5375 John J. Maloney Building, 610-526-7911 www.brynmawr.edu/studyabroad Other inquiries: [email protected] Transportation Parking Campus Safety and Transportation, Campus Safety and Transportation John J. Maloney Building, 610-526-7570 John J. Maloney Building, 610-526-7911 Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. brynmawr.edu/safety/parking www.brynmawr.edu/transportation

Uncommon Grounds Café Campus Center, first floor, 610-526-7413 brynmawr.edu/dining/locations/uncommon- grounds

96 YEAR AT A GLANCE July (1st wk): Fall tuition bills posted. Dec. 11-12: Review Period Aug. 1: Fall tuition bill payment due. Dec. 13-17: Examination Period (ends at Aug. 24: Customs Week begins 12:30 p.m. on Dec. 17). Aug. 24: International Students move in. Dec. 17: Winter Break begins (dorms Aug. 25: All other New students move in. close at 6 p.m.). Aug. 25: Dorms open for new students Jan. 2: Spring tuition bill payment due. (9 a.m.). Jan. 12: Classes begin at Penn (Monday Aug. 27: Dorms open for returning schedule). students (9 a.m.). Jan. 14: Dorms reopen at noon. Aug. 30: Classes begin at Bryn Mawr, Jan. 17: Martin Luther King Day. Haverford, and Swarthmore Jan. 18: Classes begin at Bryn Mawr, (Including THRIVE). Haverford, and Swarthmore. Aug. 31: Classes begin at the University of Jan. 18-26: Add/Drop Period. Pennsylvania. Feb. 4: Last day to declare Cr/NC for Sept. 6: Labor Day: No classes at Bryn first quarter courses (5 p.m.). Mawr or Haverford. Classes will Last day to drop a fifth course at be held at Swarthmore. Bryn Mawr and Haverford. Sept. 3: Parade Night Feb. 16: Welcome the First Years Week. Sept. 7: PE classes begin. Feb. 25: Last day to declare Cr/NC for Sept. 8: End of Add/Drop Period. full semester courses (5 p.m.). Sept. 17: Last day to declare Cr/NC for March 4: Spring break begins after last first quarter courses (5 p.m.). class. First quarter (including PE) Last day to drop a fifth course at courses end. Bryn Mawr and Haverford. March 14: Classes resume (8 a.m.). Second Oct. 8: Last day to declare Cr/NC for quarter (including PE) courses full semester courses (5 p.m.). begin. Oct. 8: Fall break begins after last class. March 18: Last day to add a second quarter Oct. 18: Classes resume (8 a.m.). course. Oct. 22: First quarter (including PE) March 25: Last day to drop a second quarter courses end. course. Oct. 24: Lantern Night April 1: Last day to declare Cr/NC for second quarter courses (5 p.m.). Oct. 25: Second quarter (including PE) courses begin. April 27: Last day of classes at the University of Pennsylvania. Final Oct. 29: Last day to add a second quarter Exams May 2-10. course. April 29: Last day of classes at Bryn Nov. 5: Last day to drop a second quarter Mawr, Haverford, and course. Swarthmore. All written work Nov 5-7 Family and Friends Weekend due 5 p.m. Nov. 12: Last day to declare Cr/NC for Apr. 30-May 1: Review period. second quarter courses (5 p.m.). May 1 May Day. Nov. 24: Thanksgiving break begins after May 2-7: Examination Period for seniors last class. (ends at 5 p.m. on May 7). Nov. 29: Classes resume (8 a.m.). May 2-13: Examination Period (ends at Dec.(1st wk) Spring tuition bill posted. 12:30 p.m. on May 13). Dec. 8: Last day of classes at Swarthmore May 14: Commencement. (Exams: Dec. 11-19). May 15: Dorms close at 12 noon. Dec. 10: Last day of classes at Bryn Mawr and Haverford: all written work due 5 p.m.. Last day of classes at 97 Penn (Exams: Dec. 15-22). A.B. REQUIREMENTS CHECKLIST

Required in the fall of the frst year: ___Emily Balch Seminar (1 academic unit) ___THRIVE (2 PE credits)

Required within the frst year: ___ Quantitative Readiness • Satisfactory score on AP/SAT/ACT exam, or • Satisfactory score on Quantitative Readiness Assessment, or • Satisfactory completion of Quantitative Readiness Seminar ___ Swim Profciency Requirement (1 PE credit) • Passing the swim test, or • Completing one beginner swim class

Required within the frst 3.5 semesters: ___Three additional elective PE credits (3 PE credits)

Required before the fall of the senior year: ___Quantitative and Mathematical Reasoning: one course identifed as “QM” (1 academic unit) ___Foreign Language: any two foreign language-based courses (2 academic units) • Two sequential semester-long courses in one language at the elementary or intermediate level, or • (for students prepared for advanced work), two advanced semester-long courses in the foreign language(s) in which they are profcient. ___Four Approaches to Inquiry (4 academic units) comprised of one academic unit in each of the following: ___Critical Interpretation (CI): critically interpreting works, such as texts, objects, artistic creations and performances, through a process of close reading. ___Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC): analyzing the variety of societal systems and patterns of behavior across space. ___Inquiry into the Past (IP): inquiring into the development and transformation of human experience over time. ___Scientifc Investigation (SI): understanding the natural world by testing hypotheses against observational evidence. Only one course within the major department may be used to satisfy both the Approaches to Inquiry and the requirements of the major. No more than one course in any given department may be used to satisfy Approaches to Inquiry.

Required by the end of the senior year: ___Major Requirements (requirements vary by major) ___32 units of academic credit, of which 24 were earned in residence. Note: all academic requirements require minimum grades of 2.0.

98 INDEX A.B. Requirements Checklist ...... 98 Health Risks Associated with the Use of Academic Support and Learning Resources .. 40 Illicit Drugs ...... 57 Access Services...... 40 Help Desk ...... 51 Activities and Orientation Assistants ...... 45 Honor Board ...... 28 Alcohol Policy ...... 53 Important Campus Phone Numbers Quick List ...... 95 Athletics and Physical Education ...... 40 International Student and Bi-Co Safety Risk ...... 5 Scholar Services and Advising ...... 41 Bi-College Alcohol and Drug Policies ...... 53 Keys and ID Cards ...... 93 Billing and Payment Policy ...... 53 Libraries and Research ...... 51 Bryn Mawr College Honor Code ...... 25 Library and Information Technology Career & Civic Engagement Center ...... 42 Services (LITS) ...... 51 Community Diversity Assistants ...... 45 Medical Services ...... 46 Community Policies ...... 53 Party Policy ...... 59 Constitution of the Self-Government Peer Mentoring Services (PMS) ...... 45 Association of the Undergraduate School Pensby Center for Community Development of Bryn Mawr College ...... 8 and Inclusion ...... 42 Counseling Services ...... 47 Policies on Sexual Assault ...... 64 Customs People ...... 45 Policy on a Drug-Free Workplace ...... 57 Dean’s Ofce ...... 41 Pre-Law Advising ...... 43 Dean’s Panel ...... 34 Q Center: Quantitative Reasoning Project ...... 43 Directory ...... 95 Religious and Spiritual Life ...... 43 Dorm Leaders ...... 45 Residence Living Policies ...... 92 Dorm Presidents ...... 45 Residential Life ...... 43 Drug and Alcohol Education and Counseling Services ...... 47 Safety and Security Tips ...... 5 Drug Policy ...... 55 Self-Government Association (SGA) ...... 6 Educational Studies Minor and Secondary Sexual Assault Counseling and Care ...... 48 Teacher Certifcation ...... 41 SGA/Traditions/SGA Constitution/ Emergency Phone Numbers ...... 4 Honor Code ...... 6 Emergency Procedures ...... 4 Smoking Policy ...... 57 Emergency/Campus Safety ...... 4 Some Cautionary Words About Posting Online .....5 Equal Opportunity, Non-Discrimination, and Student Accounts ...... 43 Discriminatory Harassment Policies ...... 84 Student Activities and Orientation ...... 43 Essential Health Information ...... 46 Student Club and Organization Policy ...... 59 Expectations of Students ...... 54 Student Resources ...... 36 Fire and Safety Policies ...... 91 Study Abroad ...... 44 Freedom of Speech and the Limits of Dissent .... 86 Summer Study Abroad ...... 44 General Housing Policies ...... 89 Technology Labs ...... 51 Hall Advisors ...... 45 Traditions ...... 7 Hazing Policy ...... 63 Web Resources ...... 52 Health and Wellness Center ...... 46 Writing Center ...... 44 Health Professions Advising Ofce ...... 41 Year At-a-Glance ...... 97

99 2021–22 CALENDAR

PLEASE NOTE: ALL DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE PENDING UPDATES TO PUBLIC HEALTH GUIDELINES COLLEGE COLORS Yellow and White

COLLEGE MASCOT Owl

COLLEGE FLOWER Daisy

COLLEGE MOTTO veritatem dilexi, cherish truth

COLLEGE CHEER Anassa Kata Anassa kata, kalo kale, la ia ia Nike, Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr!

Queen, descend, I invoke you fair one. Hail, hail, hail, victory, Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr!