Martin Anderson

About the author: Martin Anderson was a senior adviser on the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board during the Reagan Administration. He is currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California.

As long as college professors are left unencumbered by regulations regarding sex with their students, a potential for the abuse of power and what some consider "authority rape" exists. The uneven power relationship between student and professor has created a situation where any argument supporting sexual relations between consenting adults (i.e., a professor and a student who is "of age") becomes specious. What is needed are policies promulgated by individual colleges and universities prohibiting studentfaculty sexual relationships.

If there are any residual doubts about the low moral and intellectual state of universities...