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...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...
...professor at the University of Virginia once said he thought students came to UVA with the sole ambition of walking up and down Rugby Road--a kind of frat row--drunk, and with cups on their heads. At Harvard, there are those who are as proud of soberly donning their black "FCS" hats (Final Clubs Suck) as those who delight in sporting their crimson "H" hats. Other walk around wearing "X" hats, while a few wear "XTS" hats. Blake said it well, "Without Contraries is no progression." Harvard is a hundred competing parades with only two shared themes: direction...
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