To provide a clear definition of terms as defined at Colorado State University for all individuals who review this report, we have created an appendix of some of the terms contained within the Clery requirements not otherwise defined in the full Annual Security Report. We have developed a reasonable interpretation for some of the terms and intend to provide the plain meaning of said terms as we have interpreted them here in this appendix.

• Campus security authority:
  • A campus police department or a campus security department of an institution – members of CSUPD staff, sworn and civilian.
  • Any individual or individuals who have responsibility for campus security but who do not constitute a campus police department or a campus security – a building proctor.
  • Any individual or organization specified in an institution’s statement of campus security policy as an individual or organization to which students and employees should report criminal offenses – Title IX Coordinator.
  • An official of an institution who has significant responsibility for student and campus activities, including, but not limited to, student housing, student discipline, and campus judicial proceedings. If such an official is a pastoral or professional counselor, the official is not considered a campus security authority when acting as a pastoral or professional counselor.
    • Pastoral counselor: A person who is associated with a religious order or denomination, is recognized by that religious order or denomination as someone who provides confidential counseling and is functioning within the scope of that recognition as a pastoral counselor.
    • Professional counselor: A person whose official responsibilities include providing mental health counseling to members of the institution’s community and who is functioning within the scope of the counselor’s license or certification.
    • Significant responsibility: CSU reasonably defines this term to mean a level of leadership or consistent involvement, thus, significant refers to the significance of the responsibility within the institution not the significance within their role. For example, a CSA in offices within student affairs and inclusive excellence would include all staff at the level of a director and above. There are some rare instances in athletics, conduct, Title IX, and case management where the threshold may be slightly lower and include assistant or associate directors. This will be noted and re-evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
• Clery Geography – For the purposes of collecting statistics and inclusion in an institution’s annual security report, Clery geography includes:
  • On-campus property: all properties that the university owns or controls within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area that are used in any manner related to the institution’s educational purposes, including the residence halls and apartments. This counts all university campuses.
    • On–campus property further defined: At CSU our on-campus property boundaries are W Laurel St to the north, S College St to the East, W Prospect Rd to the South, and S Shields St to the west. Branches to note are the Howes Street Business Center and various properties directly to the north, University Center for the Arts and Trial Gardens to the east, the Vet teaching hospital and various properties leading up to W Drake Rd to the south, and University Village/International House to the west.
  • Public property: all public property, including thoroughfares, streets, sidewalks, and parking facilities, that is within a campus, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from a campus, not including private homes and businesses.
  • Non-campus buildings and property: all other property that the university owns or controls that is used in direct support of, or in relation to, the institution’s educational purposes, is frequently used by students, and that is located outside of the reasonably contiguous campus area, including buildings or property owned or controlled by a student organization officially recognized by CSU.
• Owns or controls: CSU has defined these terms to mean exclusive control of the space where a rental agreement or lease has been signed. This would not include hotel rooms, campsites, research trips, international locations, or similar locations where stays are a duration of seven days or less.
  • Where the institution has a direct written agreement for use of space with the provider of the classroom, housing, or other space.
• Frequently used: In a specific location more than once in a calendar year and for seven days or more.
• Reasonably contiguous: CSU has defined this term to be within and up to a one mile radius from the center of campus.
• Officially recognized: To qualify as an officially recognized student organization, the organization must be registered and in good standing with the Student Leadership, Involvement & Community Engagement (SLiCE) office.
• Patrol jurisdiction: areas within the patrol jurisdiction of the campus police or the campus security department.
• Crime log: An institution that maintains a campus police or a campus security department must maintain a written, easily understood daily crime log that records, by the date the crime was reported, any crime that occurred within its Clery geography and that is reported to the campus police or the campus security department. CSU’s daily crime and fire log combined can be found at https://police.colostate.edu/daily-crime-and-fire-log/.
• Dating Violence, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Consent:
  • The definitions of these, both the Violence Against Women Act and Colorado state legislature definitions can be found in the report’s Interpersonal Violence: Definitions and Reporting Options section.
• Emergency Notifications and Timely Warnings:

• Hate Crimes:
  • Colorado State University is required to report statistics for hate (bias) related crimes by the type of bias as defined below for the following classifications: murder/non-negligent manslaughter, negligent manslaughter, sex offenses (forcible and non-forcible), robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson and larceny, vandalism, intimidation, and simple assault. Only when hate crimes occur will the following be counted for Clery purposes.
    • Larceny: The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another.
    • Vandalism: To willfully or maliciously destroy, injure, disfigure, or deface any public or private property, real or personal, without the consent of the owner or person having custody or control by cutting, tearing, breaking, marking, painting, drawing, covering with filth, or any other such means as may be specified by local law.
    • Intimidation: To unlawfully place another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words and/or other conduct, but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack.
    • Simple Assault: An unlawful physical attack by one person upon another where neither the offender displays a weapon, nor the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible internal injury, severe laceration or loss of consciousness.
      • NOTE: A hate or bias related crime is not a separate, distinct crime, but is the commission of a criminal offense which was motivated by the offender’s bias.
  • Hate Crime Bias Categories – Although there are many possible categories of bias, under Clery, only the following categories are reported:
    • • Race: A performed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of people who possess common physical characteristics, e.g., color of skin, eyes, and/or hair; facial features, etc., genetically transmitted by descent and heredity which distinguish them as distinct division of humankind, e.g., Asians, blacks or African Americans, whites.
      • Gender: A performed negative opinion or attitude toward a person or a group of people based on their actual or perceived gender.
      • Gender Identity: A performed negative opinion or attitude toward person or a group of people based on their actual or perceived identity, e.g., bias against transgender or gender non-conforming individuals. Gender non-conforming describes a person who does not conform to the gender-based expectations of society.
      • Religion: A performed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of people who share the same religious beliefs regarding the origin and purpose of the universe and the existence or nonexistence of a supreme being.
      • Sexual Orientation: A performed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of people based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation.
      • Ethnicity: A performed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of people whose members identify with each out through a common heritage, often consisting of a common language, common culture (often including a shared religion) and/or ideology that stresses common ancestry. The concept of ethnicity differs from the closely related term “race” in that “race” refers to a grouping based mostly upon biological criteria, while “ethnicity” also encompasses additional cultural factors.
      • National Origin: A performed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of people based on their actual or perceived country of birth. This bias may be against people that have a name or accent associated with a national origin group, participate in certain customs associated with a national origin group, or because they are married to or associate with people of a certain national origin.
      • Disability: A performed negative opinion or attitude toward a group of persons based on their physical or mental impairments, whether such disability is temporary or permanent, congenital or acquired by heredity, accident, injury, advanced age or illness.
• Primary Crimes:
  • Murder/Non-Negligent Manslaughter: the willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another. NOTE:  Deaths caused by negligence, attempts to kill, assaults to kill, suicides, accidental deaths, and justifiable homicides are excluded.
  • Manslaughter by Negligence: the killing of another person through gross negligence.
  • Robbery: the taking or attempting to take anything from value of the care, custody or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.
  • Aggravated Assault: an unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury.  This type of assault usually is accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm.  It is not necessary that injury result from an aggravated assault when a gun, knife or other weapon is used which could or probably would result in a serious potential injury if the crime were successfully completed.
  • Burglary: The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft.  For reporting purposes this definition includes: unlawful entry with intent to commit a larceny or a felony; breaking and entering with intent to commit a larceny; housebreaking; safecracking; and all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned.
  • Motor Vehicle Theft: The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. (Classify as motor vehicle theft all cases where automobiles are taken by persons not having lawful access, even though the vehicles are later abandoned – including joy riding)
  • Arson: The willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, or personal property of another kind.
  • Weapon Law Violations: The violation of laws or ordinances dealing with weapon offenses, regulatory in nature, such as: manufacture, sale, or possession of deadly weapons; carrying deadly weapons, concealed or openly; furnishing deadly weapons to minors; aliens possessing deadly weapons; all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned.
  • Drug Abuse Violations: Violations of state and local laws relating to the unlawful possession, sale, use, growing, manufacturing, and making of narcotic drugs. The relevant substances include: opium or cocaine and their derivatives (morphine, heroin, codeine); marijuana; synthetic narcotics (Demerol, methadones); and dangerous non-narcotic drugs (barbiturates, Benzedrine).
  • Liquor Law Violations: The violation of laws or ordinance prohibiting: the manufacture, sale, transporting, furnishing, possessing of intoxicating liquor; maintaining unlawful drinking places; bootlegging; operating a still; furnishing liquor to minor or intemperate person; using a vehicle for illegal transportation of liquor; drinking on a train or public conveyance; all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned.  (Drunkenness and driving under the influence are not included in this definition.)
    • NOTE: The above listed crime definitions from the Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook
  • Sex offenses – Any sexual act directed against another person, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent:
    • Rape: The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim, including instances in which the victim is incapable of giving consent.
    • Fondling: The touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or, not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her youth or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental incapacity.
    • Incest: Nonforcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
    • Statutory Rape: Nonforcible sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent.
      • NOTE: The above listed crime definitions from the Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook, 2013 Revised UCR definition of Rape, as prescribed by 2014 VAWA Negotiated Rulemaking Final Consensus Language.