A school district adopts the following policy: “A student or faculty member may be suspended or expelled for any behavior, verbal or physical, that stigmatizes an individual on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, creed, ancestry, age, marital status, handicap, or veteran status.” Decide whether the following actions violate the above policy. If they do, should the student or faculty member be punished?

1.)After writing a limerick for an assignment, a student reads it aloud in an English class. It makes fun of the reported homosexual acts of a politician.

2.)Wearing white robes and hoods, a white supremacist student group stages a silent march on campus.