Case Western Reserve policy on consensual relationships

Case Western Reserve has developed a rather detailed consensual relationships policy for students, faculty and staff.  It is essentially of the boilerplate genre, but it does include a couple of patently “absurd” statements; examples follow and then the dankprofessor comments.

Faculty, staff, and students may not use, in a sexual

harassment proceeding, a defense based upon

consent when the facts establish that a real and/or

implied supervisory power differential existed within

the relationship.

Wow! Consent is impossible in power differentiated relationships.  Case has

bought into the hardcore feminist position that differential power precludes consent, no exceptions. Ideologues rule here.

Compliance

It is expected that all members of the university

community comply with the Consensual Relationship

Policy. When relationships covered by this policy develop,

responsibility for reporting the relationship falls to the

person with greater supervisory authority. Relationships

covered by this policy that go unreported will be

investigated by the Faculty Diversity Office, Employee

Relations, and/or the Office of Student Affairs.

Now this one beyond the fringe, so to speak.  How can relationships that go unreported be investigated?   Will the university have undercover persons on campus who will forward secretly info on suspected couples, but such will not be reported?  The dankprofessor confesses to be totally baffled by this one.

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