{"id":1671,"date":"2025-09-08T12:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laverne.edu\/student-affairs\/?page_id=1671"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:02:41","slug":"definitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/laverne.edu\/student-affairs\/definitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Definitions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Affirmative Consent<\/h3>\n
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Explicit, informed, and voluntary agreement to participate in a sexual act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Bystander Intervention<\/h3>\n
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The act of stepping in to prevent or stop harmful, inappropriate, or dangerous behavior.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Confidential Reporting Source<\/h3>\n
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University employee who is clergy, or a licensed medical, clinical or mental health professional and those performing services under their supervision or as their administrative or operational support, when acting in their professional role in the provision of services to a patient (ULV Policy).<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Domestic Violence<\/h3>\n
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A pattern or behavior used by one person to gain power and control over another person in an intimate or family relationship. This can include physical harm, threats, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, or other behaviors that create fear, intimidation, or coercion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Dating Violence<\/h3>\n
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Violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim, where the existence of such a relationship is determined by the length, type and frequency of interaction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rape<\/h3>\n
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An act of sexual penetration, however slight, of the genitals committed with a person <\/span>against their will by means of:<\/span><\/p>\n