The college has instituted a zero-tolerance policy for resident assistants who have been found guilty of crimes like sexual assault, Director of Residential Life Bonnie Solt Prunty announced at a campus meeting Tuesday.

Prunty, who made the announcement with the college’s Sexual Assault Work Group, said some of the details are still being finalized. If a resident assistant has been accused of sexual assault but has not yet had a judicial hearing, Prunty said the student would probably be suspended from the position.

“We would need to remove the person from their responsibilities pending an investigation,” Prunty said. “We would need to make sure we’re not allowing them to continue in their role and then ultimately finding them responsible and removing them.”

Prunty said the group has been meeting in response to concerns raised after recent incidents of sexual assault on campus.

About 20 people attended the meeting in Textor 102, where the group updated the campus community on work it has accomplished since it formed in February. Junior Dan Wald, president of Students Active for Ending Rape, said the group wanted feedback on the college’s sexual assault policies, which are being reviewed.

Patty Sinclair, a member of the group and resident director of Terraces 5 through 8, said the meeting was successful.

“I felt excited just to hear [the community’s] knowledge,” Sinclair said. “It gives us some new challenges and also another perspective.”

The group that met consisted of Sinclair; Wald; senior Alison Bliss, president of IC Feminists; junior Sarah Brylinsky, a board member of IC Feminists; Prunty and Mike Leary, assistant director of the Office of Judicial Affairs.

Wald said the group has been focusing on two main areas to present to the Board of Trustees:  changing the judicial affairs hearing board process and changing the conduct code and sanctioning process. He said the modifications to the hearing board process should be finalized later this week, with the conduct code changes expected in May.

Brylinsky said the responses the group received were exactly what she was looking for.

“We wanted to get feedback before we had solidified too much ourselves,” Brylinsky said.

One of the proposals the group is considering is a minimum set of sanctions for sexual assault cases. Brylinsky said the group began with open-ended questions, instead of a pre-determined set of ideas, which helped the group get positive responses.

The group also discussed the right of a sexual assault survivor to appeal the outcome of a judicial case. Currently, the survivor has no recourse and can’t appeal, no matter what the verdict is.

Sinclair is also working with resident assistants in a group to create a sexual assault program. The group has met weekly to discuss how to educate residents about sexual assault. The group has talked about putting up bulletin boards and creating a quiz on Facebook. Sinclair said they would soon start handing out wallet-sized resource cards.

Wald said Tuesday’s meeting would probably be the last one of the semester, but he would try to keep students aware of the group’s progress.

“We’ll definitely get [information about] whatever we decide out, and whatever happens in May, we’ll somehow get that information out,” he said.