Identifying concerning or threatening behavior
The following behaviors or a combination of them (though not an exhaustive list) may indicate that a person could be a concern to the campus community.
- Explicitly making a threat of violence toward another individual or oneself
- Speaking about possessing or acquiring firearms, or practicing with firearms, and exhibiting other concerning behavior
- Expressing a justification for violence
- Exhibiting hostile, aggressive, intimidating, threatening, or violent behavior
- Communicating ideas that suggest dangerous or violent alternatives to reasonable problem-solving and a willingness to accept the consequences
- Inappropriate or unusual interest in previous violent events and those who committed them
- Feelings of hopelessness or desperation and ideas of harming others
- Making known a grievance followed by words or actions that indicate a desire for revenge or "making things right," possibly through violence
- Threatening, menacing, or harassing behavior by phone, electronic means (social media, text, email), in-person surveillance, or using other people to take these actions
- Continuing to pursue unreasonable paths after being directed to cease (e.g., persisting in pursuing a sanction reversal after exhausting the established appeal process)
- Drug and/or alcohol use or abuse, particularly in combination with other factors mentioned above