… Title IX Glossary … Title IX Glossary … Sexual Misconduct / Title IX Glossary Appeal Committee: A committee is formed to hear a Student’s proper appeal, which may follow a determination of Responsible or … the affirmative Consent of the other, or others, to engage the sexual activity. Lack of protest, or resistance, or silence does not mean Consent. There is no Consent when there is force, expressed or implied, or when coercion, intimidation, … other forms of emotional, sexual, or economic abuse directed towards (a) a current or former spouse or intimate partner; (b) a person with whom one shares a child; or (c) anyone who is protected from the Respondent’s acts under the domestic or …