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...course, UVA has achieved the highest level,winning national title after national title andattracting the most talented players...
...University of Virginia's president is currently married to one of his former English students. In a month, he will vote on whether to allow current UVA faculty members to pursue similar relationships...
...UVA isn't the first institution to engage in such hypocrisy. In 1984, Harvard banned all sexual relations between faculty-this included professors and teaching fellows-and the students they supervised. Harvard was one of the first American universities to institute such a rule, in spite of the fact that one of its most prized professors, John Kenneth Galbraith, was also married to a former student...
Today, other top universities-not limited to UVA-have decided that they, too, must regulate the private affairs of their employees and pupils. Recently publicized case of sexual harassment, including the Navy's Tailhook scandal and University of Oklahoma Professor Anita Hill's allegations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, may have led to increased concern about sexual intimidation by authority figures...
Some have voiced a second argument against sexual restriction codes which relates directly to constitutional freedom. How can any university justifiably dictate morality to its students? Harvard's policy, though more lenient than the one on which UVA officials will vote next month, still reflects the University's narrow-minded view of sexuality. Though it has never seemed to stop determined students before, Harvard forbids males and females from rooming together. Should it also have the power to tell people with whom they can and cannot sleep...