APPENDIX A

COLLEGE POLICY PROHIBITING DISRUPTIVE ACTIVITIES

The College reserves the right to take disciplinary action against individual students and/or groups who are involved in disruptive activities. Such disciplinary action may be taken independently of state or local prosecutorial actions regardless of the outcome of such prosecutorial actions.

Persons engaging in certain disruptive activities on the College campus, including extension sites, will be subject to prosecution:

A. No person or group of persons acting in concert may willfully engage in disruptive activity or disrupt a lawful assembly on the campus property or extension sites of LCC.

B. For the purposes of this section, disruptive activity means:

1. Obstructing or restraining the passage of persons in an exit, entrance, or hallway of any building without the authorization of the administration of the school;

2. Seizing control of any building or portion of a building for the purpose of interfering with any administrative, educational, research, or other authorized activity;

3. Preventing or attempting to prevent by force, violence or threat of force or violence a lawful assembly authorized by the school administration;

4. Disrupting by force or violence or the threat of force or violence a lawful assembly in progress; or

5. Obstructing or restraining the passage of any person at an exit or entrance to said campus or property or preventing or attempting to prevent by force or preventing or attempting to prevent by force or violence or by threats thereof the ingress or egress of any person to or from said property or campus without authorization of the school administration.

6. Activity/behavior, which prevents the academic process from proceeding in an orderly fashion and which continues after the college official has requested the behavior of the student to cease and/or the student has been issued a written statement to refrain from such behavior.  (An instructor can dismiss a student from that class session for disruptive behavior.  The student is to meet with the Vice President of Student Affairs prior to returning to class, if so directed by the instructor.

The following are some examples of disruptive behavior that can result in disciplinary sanctions:

· Persistent or gross acts of willful disobedience or defiance toward college personnel.

· Verbal abuse towards a student or college employee.

· Disorderly, lewd, indecent or obscene conduct.

· Breach of peace on college property or at any college sponsored or supervised function.

· Failure to comply with socially acceptable standards of personal hygiene, e.g. body odor, lice, smelly clothing.

· Behavior when taken by itself may not normally be perceived as disruptive, but when viewed in the overall context of the situation, especially as it relates to repetitive behavior, noticeably impedes the learning environment.

C. For the purposes of this section, a lawful assembly is also disrupted when any person in attendance is rendered incapable of participating in the assembly due to use of force or violence or due to a reasonable fear that force or violence is likely to occur.

D. Any person who violates this section a second time shall not thereafter be eligible to attend LCC for a period of two years from such sanction. Other infractions or disruptive activities will be reviewed by the Vice President of Student Affairs for appropriate action.

E. Nothing herein shall be construed to infringe upon any right of free speech or expression guaranteed by the Constitutions of the United States or the State of Kansas.