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POLICIES 85 II. REPORTING SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AND REQUESTING INTERIM MEASURES The college encourages individuals who have experienced sexual misconduct to report those incidents to the college's Title IX coordinator, or any responsible employee with whom the person who experienced the sexual misconduct feels comfortable. The college will address incidents that take place on college owned or controlled property, and all college departments, programs and college sponsored activities, including off-campus when the vice president of student services or designee determines that the off-campus conduct affects a substantial college interest. A substantial college interest is defined to include any situation where it appears the student's conduct may present a danger or threat to the health or safety of self or others; and/or any situation that significantly impinges upon the rights, property or achievements of self or others or significantly breaches the peace and/or causes social disorder; and/or any situation that is detrimental to the educational mission and/or interests of the college. A. Complainant Reporting The college will offer complainants options for reporting the misconduct and requesting interim measures. The Title IX co-coordinators and Title IX deputies are responsible for ensuring the implementation of appropriate interim measures and coordinating the college's response with the appropriate offices on campus. The options for reporting sexual misconduct and requesting interim measures include: • The complainant reports the misconduct to the Title IX coordinator or another college employee whom the college has designated as responsible for receiving or responding to reports of sexual misconduct. The complainant should be notified of the interim measures available and requests for interim measures can be made by the complainant to the Title IX coordinator or responsible employee. Reports of sexual misconduct to responsible employees will be forwarded to the Title IX coordinator who will determine what steps need to be taken. Generally, the college will investigate the report to determine what occurred and the college will provide interim measures during the investigative process and any disciplinary process. • The complainant discloses the misconduct to an advocate through the office of the vice president of student services, the office of human resources, or the office of counseling and career services, who in turn can request interim measures from the college on the complainant's behalf. Under the second option, complainants should be aware that when an advocate obtained through one of the above offices requests interim measures on their behalf from a responsible employee of the college and discloses that the reason for the request is sexual misconduct, the request may trigger the college's Title IX obligation to investigate. To the extent the advocate through the office of the vice president of student services, office of human resources, or the office of counseling and career services makes such a disclosure, but, consistent with the complainant's wishes, asks that the college not