Those are all real complications! A big one is students have far more to lose. “Solutions” are generally worse than the problems they address. Grad-student /

Those are all real complications! A big one is students have far more to lose. “Solutions” are generally worse than the problems they address. Grad-student / professor-advisor relationships are extremely personalized as well as career impacting. And not hot swappable. Losing an advisor and getting any kind of rep can be disastrous. Degrees can flounder and die in an awkward aftermath. I have no idea how faculty & peers should help, after the fact. In both examples above, people knew & didn’t approve. But stepping in would have been war - with the probability of everyone regretting everything. A culture that emphasized ethical student treatment, with specific examples about research and going into business with students, might be preventative. But on the going into business side, a lot of universities want to parasitically insert themselves into that too. To me that is a conflict of interest with their educational mandate, but administrations think they must feed to grow & grow to feed.