Membership
Failing to meet any of the membership expectations below may result in loss of membership
- Members are expected to support one another with respect, encouragement, constructive feedback, and positive attitudes.
- Members are expected to make the safety of themselves and those around them their first priority. This includes the person they are dancing with. Safety guidelines are set forth by the instructors at lessons/workshops, and/or the officers in charge of an event.
- Members are expected to place themselves in lessons that are appropriate for their skill level. If you don’t know which level is appropriate, ask one of the instructors. Members may be asked to not take specific class levels if they do not demonstrate the appropriate prerequisite skills.
Conduct
Definitions and Rules Governing the Conduct of Los Sabrosos Members.
Use best judgment in all situations.
Please feel free to ask the officers or instructors about what this means for you.
PART I – Class Conduct
When taking classes or workshops from Los Sabrosos or guest instructors, members must follow all instructions given by instructors, unless doing so would cause injury. Failure to follow an instruction or repeated failure to follow instructions may result in being removed from the class, or losing membership.
PART II – Sexual Favors as a Basis for Actions Affecting an Individual’s Welfare as a Student, Staff, or Member
A member is subject to losing membership if he or she behaves toward another person in any of the following ways:
- Uses, offers to use, or threatens to use one’s status as a member of the organization to bring about decisions or assessments affecting an individual’s welfare on the basis of submission to, or rejection of, requests for sexual favors.
- Accepts an offer of sexual favors in exchange for an agreement to use one’s status as a member of organization to bring about favorable decisions or assessments affecting an individual.
PART III – Flagrant or Repeated Sexual Advances, Requests for Sexual Favors, and Physical Contacts Harmful to Another’s Work, Performance, or Dance or to the Work, Dance, or Service Environment
A member is subject to losing membership if he or she makes sexual advances, requests sexual favors, or makes physical contacts commonly understood to be of a sexual nature, and if
- the conduct is unwanted by the person(s) to whom it is directed, and
- the actor knew or a reasonable person could clearly have understood that the conduct was unwanted, and
- because of its flagrant or repetitious nature, the conduct either
- seriously interferes with work or learning performance of the person(s) to whom the conduct was directed, or
- makes the organization work, learning, or service environment intimidating or hostile, or demeaning to a person of average sensibilities.
