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Student Conduct Code.
EW made multiple attempts to reach out to the male
student but received no response before press time. Since
the male student was not charged or convicted, EW is not
naming him.
Klinger says he could not go into the specifics of Han-
sen’s case, but rather described to EW via email the school’s
general process in dealing with complaints of this nature.
He says, in most cases, that within three business days of
receiving a sexual misconduct claim, the director of Student
Conduct and the Title IX coordinator will consult and deter-
mine whether the complaint would violate the Student Con-
duct Code, and if the school has jurisdiction over the claim.
“If the conduct would not violate the Student Conduct
Code or university policy, then the incident would instead
be assessed for alternative methods of follow up includ-
ing training, education opportunities, mediation, facilitated
conversations and other mechanisms,” Klinger says.
Hansen’s situation, however, would seem to indicate a
violation of the Student Conduct Code.
In section 16 of UO’s Student Conduct Code, harass-
ment is defined as: “Intentionally subjecting a person to
offensive physical contact,” abusive words or insults and
sexual harassment in the form of gendered harassment
such as physical harassment or “discrimination on the ba-
sis of sex or gender.”
After hearing that the alleged perpetrator would not be
charged, Hansen arranged a mutual “no-contact directive”
through the school. Nonetheless, she says, the male student
violated that order multiple times by choosing to continu-
ously sit next to and interact with her in class.
Hansen says she made a complaint to the UO Police
Department and talked with an officer about her situation,
but nothing immediately came of it.
Hansen says she contacted the UOPD around the sec-
ond week of April.
“They pulled me out of my Earth Physics class to dis-
cuss the situation and the terms of the no contact order
which were being violated, and the officer left without at-
tempting to contact [the male student], though he was right
there in the class at the time,” she says.
“In short, the administrative no-contact directives are
not a police-enforced legal document like a court-issued
restraining order,” says Kelly McIver, UOPD public infor-
mation officer.
Klinger adds: “If a person notified UOPD of an al-
leged violation of a No Contact Directive, UOPD would
normally take the information and forward it to the Office
of Student Conduct and Community Standards for further
investigation and possible disciplinary follow-up.”
Hansen says that the male student finally ceased contact
with her after he met with the Title IX coordinator in early May.
Throughout dealing with the alleged harassment, Han-
sen says the school’s process was extremely disorganized.
In March, shortly after the decision not to charge, Han-
sen’s case was passed from Weintraub, the former director
of the Office of Student Conduct and Community Stan-
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