And what about the undergrads who are in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s? There are many. I was one.

And I did “sleep with” a professor (anthro no less). She had direct “pedagogical authority” over me and I can assure you that our “bedtimes” and other social interactions had no effect on my grades. If I was singled out for anything academic it was for turning in “lazy and shoddy work.” (direct quote from one essay that came back marked “F” and was covered in “blood” (comments, corrections, questions, etc.).

In my 8 years of university that ONE shock registered more deeply with me than anything any other prof did to or for me. It takes a lot of guts and ethics to separate the personal from the professional as she did.

The “authorities” at Yale and other institutions who actually allow valuable committee time to be used in this manner should be ashamed of themselves if, for no other reason, it is none of their business who is sleeping with whom.

This action reveals to those in the mature world that Yale has chosen to join the rest of the educational “system” in the process of social conditioning of the populace. I would expect this sort of mindless meddling from fantasy-based, phoney-baloney organizations such as Oral Roberts University, etc., but from Yale?

And NYCartist - your typical hetero “marriage” is a far better example of “Unfair and unbalanced power…” than this Yale fiasco.

Unfair and unbalanced power to have faculty sleep with students.

OO oh! wonderful America academy—land of
see/saw & foo foo- Sex is fine after 18 (most
often earlier) and in dorms but one is not fully
adult till 21 or 22 when it comes to boos and
money and now a student with a thing for him
or her. 
  So sad that common sense and sensitive
behavior must be reduced to rules. Are not Yale Faculty mature adults?
  My concern is his statement; “most turn out
fine”  and then justifying with; “protect students
from behavior that is damaging to them”. I see
trouble ahead with this policy.
  God where is flexibility and oh yes;  Was it not
New England (boston) where “The Scarlet Letter”
took place.

Hmmm. I see fewer Yalies getting As….