Sexual assaults violate the University's policy prohibiting sexual harassment. If there is a reason to believe that sexual assaults of any kind have occurred, on or off campus, the administration will pursue disciplinary action.

SEXUAL ASSAULT includes all forms of unlawful sexual acts and contact including rape, forced anal intercourse (sodomy), forced oral sex, forced penetration of genital or anal openings by a foreign object, sexual harassment, incest, and unlawful sexual contact as defined as the unwanted touching, directly or through clothing, of an intimate part of another. Sexual assault can occur when the victim is unconscious, intoxicated, or otherwise incapable of resisting and has not consented to the act.

RAPE is forced sexual intercourse against the will of the victim, including physical violence, physical coercion, or the threat of physical harm.

ACQUAINTANCE RAPE is rape by a boyfriend, girlfriend, casual friend, or acquaintance. Acquaintance rape is as serious as stranger rape and the same criminal laws and penalties apply. Marital rape is also a crime under Maine law.

The UNIVERSITY CONDUCT CODE specifically prohibits sexual assault. Sexual assault will result in law-enforcement notification and maximum sanctions under the conduct code including suspension or dismissal from the University.

MAINE LAW considers gross sexual assault (rape) and unlawful sexual contact to be serious crimes that are punishable by imprisonment, probation, a criminal record, and monitory fines. The maximum term of imprisonment for gross sexual assault is a definite period not to exceed 40 years.