Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Resources
Options for Action
- Counseling Center (available 24/7), 315-859-4340
- Health Center, 315-859-4111
- YWCA 24-hour Domestic and Sexual Violence Services hotline 315-797-7740
- RAINN National Sexual Assault 24-hour Hotline 1-800-656-4673 or 24-hour live chat online
Any faculty, staff, coach, or community advisor not listed in the offices above is required to report an incident of sexual misconduct to the Title IX Coordinator.
Speak with Rachel Koegel, Interim Director of Title IX & Civil Rights Compliance (rkoegel@hamilton.edu, 315-859-4245) to report the incident and/or discuss pursuing a formal complaint through College procedures.
Conversations will be kept private, but the Director of Title IX is required to take some form of action in order to prevent further acts from occurring on our campus.
Contact Campus Safety or the Title IX Director to arrange for a meeting with the New York State Police or the Oneida County Sheriff.
Contact the New York State Police directly at 1-844-845-7269.
This can happen simultaneously with filing a complaint with the College. Filing a police report does NOT obligate you to follow through with legal action but it can preserve physical evidence.
Hamilton College prohibits harassment, which is defined as:
Verbal or physical conduct based on a person’s race, color, religion, creed, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, age, sexual and affectional orientation/associations, or mental/physical disabilities that is sufficiently severe, pervasive, persistent or patently offensive that it has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with that person’s work or academic performance, or that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working, educational, or living environment, from both a subjective (the complainant’s) and an objective (any reasonable person’s) viewpoint.
Hamilton College prohibits sexual misconduct, which includes:
- Sexual Harassment
- Non-Consensual Sexual Contact
- Non-Consensual Sexual Act
- Sexual Exploitation
- Domestic Violence
- Dating Violence
- Stalking
- Retaliation
The importance of affirmative consent
Affirmative consent is a knowing, voluntary, and mutual decision among all participants to engage in sexual activity. Consent can be given by words or actions, as long as those words or actions create clear permission regarding willingness to engage in the sexual activity. Silence or lack of resistance, in and of itself, does not demonstrate consent. The definition of consent does not vary based upon a participant’s sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
- Consent to any sexual act or prior consensual sexual activity between or with any party does not necessarily constitute consent to any other sexual act.
- Consent is required regardless of whether the person initiating the act is under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.
- Consent may be initially given but withdrawn at any time.
- Consent cannot be given when it is the result of any coercion, intimidation, force, or threat of harm.
- When consent is withdrawn or can no longer be given, sexual activity must stop.
- Consent cannot be given when a person is incapacitated, which occurs when an individual lacks the ability to knowingly choose to participate in sexual activity.
Incapacitation may be caused by the lack of consciousness or being asleep, being involuntarily restrained, or if an individual otherwise cannot consent. Depending on the degree of intoxication, someone who is under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or other intoxicants may be incapacitated and therefore unable to consent.
Contact
Interim Director of Title IX & Civil Rights Compliance
