Human Rights On Campus

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• Human Rights On Campus
• July 2006

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Prohibited Grounds

• race
• ancestry
• place of origin
• colour
• ethnic origin
• citizenship
• creed

• sex
• sexual orientation
• disability
• age
• marital status
• family status
• record of offences

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Human Rights Self-Awareness Quiz

• 1. Sexual Harassment is no longer an issue for
  University campuses.
  True or false
• 2. Only women are sexually harassed. True
  or false

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Human Rights Self-Awareness Quiz

• 3. Which of the following behaviours may
  constitute sexual harassment
• (a) flirting with colleagues
• (b) complimenting a man (woman) that he (she)
  looks beautiful
• (c) someone has a habit of touching others while
  talking to them
• (d) a student tells a sexist joke during class.

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Human Rights Self-Awareness Quiz

• 4. Racism no longer exists in Canada. True
  or false
• 5. A professor can make attendance mandatory for
  all classes, labs and tutorials and assign
  students a zero for any missed class, etc.
  True or false

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Human Rights Self-Awareness Quiz

• 6. Which of the following could be an
  accommodation for a student who is unable to
  attend a mandatory lab where the date for the lab
  conflicts with a holy day
• (a) allow the student to do the lab on another
  day
• (b) allow the student to do an assignment
  related to the lab
• (c) exclude that lab when determining the grade
  for the course.

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Human Rights Self-Awareness Quiz

• 7. A student has provided you with a letter from
  the Special Needs Office indicating that the
  student requires an additional 30 minutes to
  complete all in class assignments and tests. You
  can ask the student why they require this
  accommodation. True or false

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Top Ten

• 6. Do nothing when a student in your class tells
  a sexist or racist joke.
• 7. Ask a student to remove a scarf that covers
  her face so that you can verify her identity at a
  midterm or final exam.
• 8. Single out one student for disrupting the
  class when others were participating in the
  disruption.
• 9. Ask students in your class if anyone is
  prepared to share their notes with Bill,
  explaining that Bill has a learning disability
  and needs assistance.
• 10. Tell students that if they miss a lab for any
  reason, they will get zero for that lab.

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Top Ten

• 1. Date one of your students.
• 2. Discuss your past sex partners and /or sexual
  fantasies with a student.
• 3. Circulate an email to colleagues in your
  department asking them to sign a petition against
  a law that allows marriages between persons of
  the same sex.
• 4. Ask a student who appears to be Native
  Canadian what her or his views are on treaty
  rights.
• 5. Tell sexist jokes before or during
  departmental council meetings.