DCB Student Handbook 2023-2024

23 | P a g e D C B S t u d e n t H a n d b o o k regularly scheduled classes are suspended due to emergent situations. If a deadline defined in this chapter falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or Dakota College at Bottineau holiday that deadline will be moved to the next day. Room or space includes any room or space, indoors or outdoors, owned or controlled by Dakota College at Bottineau. General Provisions Dakota College at Bottineau recognizes that students and faculty have a fundamental right to free speech and expression under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 4 of the North Dakota Constitution, and, as a result, the SBHE and institutions under its control shall ensure that students have the freedom to speak, write, listen, challenge, learn, and discuss any issue, subject to reasonable and constitutionally recognized limitations. Non-faculty staff of Dakota College at Bottineau are also free to exercise their right to free speech and expression, as set forth above, provided that such activities do not substantially interrupt or inhibit their duties, and such exercise of free speech and expression shall be subject to the Political Activities Policies of the SBHE and Dakota College at Bottineau. Dakota College at Bottineau will not engage in viewpoint- or content-based discrimination or suppression of speech, and will, to the greatest extent possible, permit and facilitate the open discussion and debate of ideas and issues, regardless of the content of those issues. As a general rule, Dakota College at Bottineau will not use the concept of civility or mutual respect as a basis to suppress or limit the discussion of ideas, regardless of content, except as reasonably necessary to an educational activity. Dakota College at Bottineau and its faculty and employees shall generally not seek to shield individuals from the free speech or expression of others, except as reasonably necessary to an educational activity. Except as set forth elsewhere in this policy, the generally accessible, open, outdoor areas of the campus are traditional public for a for free speech by both Dakota College at Bottineau and off-campus persons and organizations, subject to reasonable and constitutional time, place, and manner restrictions. Dakota College at Bottineau designates the following areas as restricted or designated forums: • those areas inside buildings which have not otherwise been treated as traditional public fora; • areas within a 50 foot radius from residential buildings during evening and overnight hours; • areas within a 50 foot radius from academic buildings during times when classes are held in that building; • areas which must be restricted due to reasonable safety and security concerns, as designated by the Campus Dean; • areas which must be restricted to enable the flow of pedestrian or vehicle traffic, as designated by the Campus Dean; • areas within a 50 foot radius from building entrances and exits to provide for safe and convenient ingress and egress from those buildings. Dakota College at Bottineau may require reservations or permits for the exercise of free speech or expression, including assemblies, within these restricted or designated forums. Dakota College at Bottineau designates the following areas as closed to free speech, expressive activity, and public assembly: • all academic buildings/classrooms/offices • all residence halls • the College dining center Prohibited Items at Assemblies Dangerous weapons, as defined by N.D.C.C. § 62.1-01-01(1) as any switchblade or gravity knife, machete, scimitar, stiletto, sword, dagger, or knife with a blade of five inches or more; any throwing star, nunchaku, or other martial arts weapon; any billy, blackjack, sap, bludgeon, cudgel, metal knuckles, or sand club; any slingshot; any bow and arrow, crossbow, or spear; any weapon that will expel, or is readily capable of expelling, a projectile by the action of a spring, compressed air, or compressed gas, including any such weapon, loaded or unloaded, commonly referred to as a BB gun, air rifle, or CO2 gun; and any projector of a bomb or any object containing or capable of producing and emitting any noxious liquid, gas, or substance. Firearms, except as permitted by law. See NDCC Chapter 62.1-02- 05. Body-armor or makeshift body-armor, helmets and other garments, such as sporting protective gear, that alone or in combination could be reasonably construed as weapons or body- armor, without written permission from the Campus Dean. Open flame, unless approved in advance by the Campus Dean. General Rules on Means of Expression Disruption • No speech, expression, or assembly may be conducted in a way that disrupts or interferes with any teaching, research, administration, or other authorized activities on the campus; free and unimpeded flow of pedestrian and vehicular traffic on the campus; or signs, tables, exhibits, public assemblies, distribution of literature, guest speakers, or use of amplified