The university has circulated a Safe Place flyer — with the tagline, “Be a part of the solution. Make your space a Safe Place” — that encourages students to be inclusive and make no assumptions about others. The form says that students should “affirm LGBTQ identities and lives and promote an affirmative and supportive environment,” and “use inclusive language, avoid stereotyping, and not assume everyone is heterosexual.” Cornell’s LGBTQ Resource Center also encourages students to use gender-friendly pronouns like “zie,” “sie,” and “zirs.”

Students that join Cornell’s inclusion programs like “Ally Support” and “Trans Inclusion” will become part of the larger Safe Place group that seeks to make all students feel comfortable in the places they occupy. Members of this umbrella group will receive cards or pins to wear to signify that they don’t discriminate and won’t tolerate discrimination around them. The pamphlet does not address cases in which non-discrimination and free speech might clash.

The flyer — first obtained by Campus Reform — says that if anyone “reacts negatively” to students in these groups, they should report the reactors immediately to the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Life Quality by using a Bias Reporting Team member. The flyer encourages students to sign up to be part of the inclusive safe place initiative by joining its signature programs and attending its events.

The pamphlet comes in addition to the nondiscrimination policy the university already enforces. The university “is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful learning, living, and working environment for its students, faculty, and staff members … to address bias, discrimination, harassment, and sexual and related misconduct,” according to the policy.

Cornell also has its own definition of bias, written as “an act of bigotry, harassment, or intimidation … directed at a member or a group of the Cornell community because of that individual’s or group’s actual or perceived age, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any combination of these or related factors.”

Cornell University did not respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment in time for publication.

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