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Timely Notice 1/27/2023: Sexual Assault
In compliance with the 'Timely Notice' provision of the federal Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1998, Augsburg University Department of Public Safety hereby provides notice of the following:
On 1/27/23, Augsburg's Department of Public Safety received a report that a student was sexually assaulted by another student in Sverdrup Hall earlier in the day. The assault involved intimate touching without consent. Through information provided and investigation DPS identified the student alleged to have been involved, and that student has been restricted from campus pending a Title IX investigation.
Augsburg Public Safety and the Augsburg Title IX office are investigating. If you have any information about this incident, please contact the Augsburg Department of Public Safety or the Title IX office.
Augsburg uses 'Timely Notice' as its brand name for Clery timely warnings — slightly distinct from the more common 'Timely Warning' nomenclature
Same-day report-to-incident timing is unusual for sexual-assault Clery alerts; most arrive days or weeks later. Same-day reporting compresses Clery's 'continuing threat' analysis
Disclosing that the suspect has been identified and 'restricted from campus pending a Title IX investigation' inside the Clery notice itself is unusual — most institutions keep Clery alerts and Title IX interim measures separate to avoid commingling channels
The phrase 'intimate touching without consent' is a Clery-compliant way to describe non-rape fondling — it satisfies the disclosure requirement without using the legal term 'fondling' which can sound clinical
Sverdrup Hall is a [Norwegian-heritage academic building](https://www.facebook.com/AugsburgUniversity/posts/the-sverdrup-family-has-a-storied-history-with-augsburg-including-georg-sverdrup/10155433760943174/), not a residence — disclosing the building name signals to readers that the assault occurred in a daytime academic-building context
Augsburg cites the 1998 Higher Education Amendments year for the Clery Act — institutional precision peer schools rarely show