before the HCO and Title IX were separated

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Back before the HCO and Title IX were separated, I was a TA for the Computer Science dept. I had a student say sexually inappropriate things to me on 2 separate occasions and I brought it up during a TA meeting, which a few professors were in. They encouraged me to report it to Title IX and also asked if they could tell them for me.

I consented, they reported it, and I was called into the HCO. There were 3 people there. 2 from the HCO and 1 representative from Title IX office. Even though this was reported to Title IX, it was being handled by the HCO.

I recounted the 2 experiences and the 3 people there came to the conclusion that the student would no longer be able to attend any TA hours or use the computer labs for CS students (so I wouldn’t run into them).

A couple days later, they got the offending student’s recount of events, and then the HCO sent me another email amending their decision, saying that the student was allowed to be on the computer labs and attend TA hours, just not ask help from me or talk to me because I “worked too many hours and would be disadvantageous to the student to not have access to the computer lab or TA help.”


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