As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1.“Benefit” with respect to a student organization at a public institution of higher
education means any of the following:
c.Use of facilities for meetings or speaking purposes.
d.Use of channels of communication.
e.Access to funding sources that are otherwise available to other student groups.
2.“Campus community” means students, administrators, faculty, and staff at a public
institution of higher education and guests invited to a public institution of higher education
by the institution’s students, administrators, faculty, or staff.
3.“Materially and substantially disrupts” means when a person, with the intent to or
with knowledge of doing so, engages in violent or other disorderly cond
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Benefit” with respect to a student organization at a public institution of higher
education means any of the following:
a. Recognition.
b. Registration.
c. Use of facilities for meetings or speaking purposes.
d. Use of channels of communication.
e. Access to funding sources that are otherwise available to other student groups.
2. “Campus community” means students, administrators, faculty, and staff at a public
institution of higher education and guests invited to a public institution of higher education
by the institution’s students, administrators, faculty, or staff.
3. “Materially and substantially disrupts” means when a person, with the intent to or
with knowledge of doing so, engages in violent or other disorderly conduct that significantly
hinders a previously scheduled or reserved activity occurring on university grounds,
buildings, and facilities. “Materiallyandsubstantiallydisrupts” does not include conduct that
is protected under the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States, including
but not limited to lawful protests and counterprotests.
4. “Outdoor areas of campus” means the generally accessible outside areas of campus
where students, administrators, faculty, and staff at a public institution of higher education
are commonly allowed, such as grassy areas, walkways, or other similar common areas and
does not include areas outside health care facilities including both stand-alone facilities and
mixed-use facilities that are embedded within another facility, veterinary medicine facilities,
afacilityoroutdoorareausedbytheinstitution’sathleticsprogramorteams, orotheroutdoor
areas where access is restricted to a majority of the campus community. In recognition of the
healing environment that is essential to its clinical purposes, the areas outside health care
facilities, including both stand-alone facilities and mixed-use facilities that are embedded
within another facility, are not designated public forums.
5. “Public institution of higher education” means a community college established under
chapter 260C or an institution of higher learning governed by the state board of regents.
6. “Student” means an individual who is enrolled on a full-time or part-time basis at a
public institution of higher education.
7. “Student organization” means a group officially recognized at or officially registered
by a public institution of higher education, or a group seeking such official recognition
or official registration, comprised of students who are admitted and in attendance at the
public institution of higher education, and who receive, or are seeking to receive, student
organization benefits or privileges through the public institution of higher education.