YOU CHOOSE: Hate Crimes or Bias Hate Incidents Scenarios
These scenarios, taken from training materials prepared by StopHate.org, are being reprinted with the express written permission of StopHate.org. They are intended to provide examples of incidents that could occur at Northwestern or elsewhere, but the University does not intend to convey a determination regarding whether these scenarios would or would not constitute a violation of University policy. Such a determination would depend on the precise circumstances surrounding a particular incident.
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 The automobile of a prominent gay student leader on campus is "keyed" in the parking lot. The phrase, "Die faggot!" is carved into the car's finish. |
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Two students, one African-American and another Latino, have an argument in a hallway of the student union over a monetary debt. The
argument escalates when ethnic and racial epithets are used. Soon the two are involved in
a fist fight. Both suffer minor injuries. |
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A Sukkah, an outdoor tabernacle that celebrates the Jewish holiday of Sukkoth, is defaced overnight with a Swastika. There are no
suspects. |
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Members of a campus sports team attack a group of Asian-American students on campus a few hours after they had gotten into a verbal altercation
at an off-campus bar. Both groups were inebriated and include under-age drinkers.
One of the Asian students suffers a fractured skull and is taken to the
hospital in a comatose state. |
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A sorority refuses to accept an openly lesbian pledge. The sorority claims that there was nothing personal in this decision, but that the Christian values of the sorority require them to reject any and all lesbian applicants. |
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During a demonstration protesting Israeli policies towards Palestinians, a large rock is thrown through a glass window of the campus Hillel building. |
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A group of students taunt a Muslim woman wearing a hijab(a head covering). One of them pulls it off her head, runs away with it
and throws it into a trash receptacle. The Muslim woman trips and hurts her knee while trying to run
after her assailant and recover her garment.
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An African-American student receives repeated e-mail messages warning him to get off campus and threatening violence against him if he stays. |
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The Black Student Union invites a well-known African-American writer, with extremist leanings, to speak on campus. In his talk, he encourages Black students to attack the "white power structure" on campus. After the lecture, a group of Black students who had attended, get into an argument over the lecture with a group of white students who had picketed the talk outside the hall. Several on both sides are injured.
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