Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3335 - Ohio State University
Chapter 3335-11 - Discipline of Students
Section 3335-11-02 - Disruption
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 3335-11-02
Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) No student, faculty, staff, visitor, or other person shall, with an intent to disrupt university authorized activities:
(1)
Obstruct the lawful movement of any person or persons about the campus, into or
out of any university building or facility, or within any university building
or facility and fail to desist when so ordered by an authorized university
official;
(2) Obstruct the movement
of vehicular traffic on the streets of the university, and fail to desist when
so ordered by an authorized university official;
(3) Occupy a university building or facility
in such a manner as to prevent others from carrying out university authorized
activities and fail to depart when informed by an authorized university
official that they are disrupting university authorized activities
and must depart;
(4) Interfere with
the conduct of a class, office, laboratory, or other university authorized
activity by shouting, chanting, marching, throwing objects, or
otherwise creating such a disturbance that the authorized activity cannot, in
the judgment of an authorized university official, be carried on, and fail to
desist when so ordered by an authorized university official;
(5) Employ force or violence or the explicit
threat of force or violence, to prevent any person or persons from carrying out
university authorized activities
(6) Damage public address systems,
video displays, laboratory equipment, computer
systems, or other property used for the carrying out of university authorized
activities;
(7) Solicit any person
or persons to violate paragraphs (A)(1) to (A)(6) of this rule, knowing that
there is a clear and present danger that such violations will occur (but a
person shall not be charged with soliciting unless a violation of paragraphs
(A)(1) to (A)(6) of this rule occurs as a result of this
solicitation).
(8) This rule shall
not be interpreted as proscribing peaceful demonstrations, peaceful picketing,
a call for a peaceful boycott of classes or other forms of peaceful
dissent.
(B) Any student found guilty of the conduct proscribed in paragraphs (A)(1) to (A)(7) of this rule shall be subject to maximum sanction of dismissal or any lesser disciplinary sanction pursuant to rule 3335-11-02.1 of the Administrative Code.
(C) Non-students charged with the conduct proscribed in paragraphs (A)(1) to (A)(7) of this rule shall be referred to an appropriate authority.
(D) Definitions.
(1) The phrase "with an intent to disrupt"
shall be taken to mean that a person knows or reasonably should know that
their act or acts will have the consequence of
preventing others from carrying out university authorized activities.
(2) The phrase "to obstruct" shall be taken
to mean making the movement of a person or vehicle from one place to another
difficult or impossible; it shall not be taken to mean making that movement
inconvenient.
(3) The phrase
"university authorized activity" shall be taken to mean any activity that the
university conducts, sponsors, or permits to be carried out on the campus or in
any university building or facility.
(4) The phrase "an authorized university
official" shall be taken to mean any person to whom the university has
delegated authority to supervise a building or facility, or any part of a
building or facility, or to supervise the movement of people and vehicles on
the campus.
(5) The phrase "campus"
shall be taken to mean university owned or controlled property.
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