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Presumably after an event like that, both of the two students will have lots of thoughts, opinions, and feelings about the event and one another. Not all of the
by margalabargala 1y ago
Presumably after an event like that, both of the two students will have lots of thoughts, opinions, and feelings about the event and one another. Not all of these should be indulged, and it's entirely possible that doing so would in fact get in the way of the university's mission by adding new roadblocks and considerations to the day to day life of multiple students.
Part of being a young adult is learning how to operate in a society composed of people, something that developing teenage brains are not innately good at. And part of that learning process is not having all whims indulged, especially when they may be harmful to others.
- tptacek 1y agoStudents at universities are not necessarily young adults. It makes sense to me that the institutions would enact policies that safeguard their core mission at the least possible expense.
- margalabargala 1y agoShould we take bets as to whether the two students in this particular story were young adults? No Contact orders are a useful tool. This isn't a case where they were the correct one to use. Universities here are simply doing what requires the least possible amount of administrative effort to protect the university from legal liability. Not uncommon among schools in the US, university or otherwise.
- tptacek 1y agoIt's not clear to me that there's an inappropriate time to use an NCO, so long as they're mutual and institution reasonably believes continued contact is going to cause drama, and thus expense. That's really all there is to the analysis as far as I'm concerned.
- jncfhnb 1y agoA lot of people in adult society would shoot that guy dead on the spot or sue him penniless
- margalabargala 1y agoNot in the civilized world generally, no.