NY Times Harvard University
has adopted a ban on professors’ having sexual or romantic
relationships with undergraduate students, joining a small but growing
number of universities prohibiting such relationships. The move comes as
the Obama administration investigates the handling of accusations of
sexual assault at dozens of colleges, including Harvard.
The
ban clarifies an earlier policy that labeled sexual and romantic
relationships between professors and the students they teach as
inappropriate, but did not explicitly prohibit professors from having
relationships with students they did not teach.
Harvard
said Thursday that the change had been made after a panel reviewing the
institution’s policy on Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex
discrimination in education, determined that the university’s existing
policy language on “relationships of unequal status did not explicitly
reflect the faculty’s expectations of what constituted an appropriate
relationship between undergraduate students and faculty members.” It
said the policy had been revised “to include a clear prohibition to
better accord with these expectations.” [...]
“Our
rule is that if you are supervising, evaluating or grading someone, you
should not have a sexual relationship with that person,” said Alison
Johnson, a history professor who led the committee. [...]
After
the courts found in the 1990s that universities could be financially
liable for sexual harassment, many institutions — among them, the
University of California and Yale — adopted formal policies forbidding
sexual or romantic relationships between faculty and students.
"Harvard University
ReplyDeletehas adopted a ban on professors’ having sexual or romantic
relationships with undergraduate students, joining a small but growing
number of universities prohibiting such relationships."
Good joke, which continues right here as well:
"The
ban clarifies an earlier policy that labeled sexual and romantic
relationships between professors and the students they teach as
inappropriate, but did not explicitly prohibit professors from having
relationships with students they did not teach."
This is what happens when society secularizes and drops and mocks the moral codes of the Bible. As long as there was a nominal deference to Biblical morality such nonsense as a university re-inventing "morality" would just be a big joke! But now that "the bay has been thrown out with the bathwater" meaning the moral codes of the Bible have been thrown out with the Bible itself, this is what you get, a rudderless morally blind and floundering society.
There have been a small group of professors who have tried to introduce notions of "moral education" but have gained no notice or traction. Universities have been too busy pandering to all sorts of loony-tune trends. This is just a token attempt and hypocrisy because the colleges and universities are now facing legal and governmental scrutiny. Who knows where the new-found Obama's "morality" is coming from? Is it from FEMINISM's point of vie "defending" women's rights? Or is it from the influence of SHARIA-like thinking that has a radical view opposing immorality it deems "sinful"? Or both? Or neither? Maybe it's just grandstanding and making a lot of noise knowing that nothing will really change.
The only thing that can end this wave of campus rapes and all sorts of seductions and free-sex is by a student and parent rebellion against this outlook, but that is not about to happen because people are convinced that going to college and living in co-ed dorms and sleeping around and partying and open sex with "consenting adult partners" is okay? So why pick on the profs, they are only doing what comes naturally?
Crazy world we live in!