The University of Colorado is investigating nine reports of bias-motivated harassment since Nov. 1.
For context, the school’s Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance received zero such reports through the first half of November last year, campus spokeswoman Deborah Mendez Wilson said.
Federal law protects the privacy of those who report to the university as victims of or witnesses to these incidents, but campus spokeswoman Deborah Mendez Wilson said the nine reported this month can be broadly characterized as having been “directed at CU community members based on their appearance, their way of dressing, perceived gender identity, skin color, accent or political orientation.”
One of the nine incidents was confirmed by a student to have involved the school’s Women and Gender Studies department. Someone left fliers with discriminatory language — the exact content of which was unspecified — in the department offices, Mendez Wilson said. She did not comment on the other eight reported incidents.
Other incidents reported to the Camera include a class that was interrupted by a man who entered the room and yelled at the Latina professor to “shut up” and “go back to Mexico” and a female student who reported being groped by a man who told her there’s now nothing she can do about it.
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