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uals can provide students an opportunity to explore, in a private, one-on-one discussion, the full range of legal, medical, and counseling options available to them, both on campus and in the Saratoga Springs community.

Students may file formal charges with the police. If desired, Skidmore’s Department of Campus Safety will provide students with information to help them with that decision. Campus safety officers or representatives of the College are available to accompany the vic-tim to the police station to file formal charges. The College has no control over criminal in-vestigations and criminal processes. Students may pursue a College judicial hearing by filing formal charges with the College, whether or not they pursue the case via formal charges through the New York State criminal system.

Enrolled students who believe they have been victims of bias-related crime may file formal charges with the Skidmore judicial system if the alleged perpetrator is an enrolled student. Although there is no time limit on the filing of formal charges with the College, a prompt formal charge is likely to result in a more satisfactory investigation. For more information on the campus judicial system, see the Student Handbook .

(4) Availability of counseling and other support services for the victims of bias-related crime

If you believe that you have been the victim of a bias-related crime, remember that the Counseling Center and Health Services are available to all students free of charge. All con-sultations are fully confidential, and counseling is available whether or not you decide to report an incident of bias-related crime.

(5) Nature of and common circumstances concerning bias-related crime on college campuses

Such crimes can involve racial epithets, disparate treatment based on racially or gender-related assumptions, sexually discriminatory behaviors in terms of “hostile environment” (sex-ual harassment), and intolerance toward openly gay students (in language and action). The cat-egories include 1.faculty/staff-to-student incidents; 2. faculty-to-faculty, staff-to-staff incidents; and 3. student-to-student cases that come to the director of institutional diversity as appeals.

(6) The methods the College employs to advise and update students about security procedures

Safety orientations are conducted each year for first-year students during New Student Orien-tation and for all students at meetings held in the fall semester in each residence hall. In addi-tion, numerous educational and awareness programs are sponsored throughout the year by student affairs staff members, student clubs and organizations, and the Center for Safer Sex-ual Relations. The Department of Campus Safety issues safety alerts when appropriate with information provided in a timely fashion to all members of the College community. These alerts may be transmitted via the College network, phone message system, and posted flyers.

Complete information can be obtained at www.skidmore.edu/campus_safety/bias.php