He found the relevant policy language at eleven at night, which was, he was starting to notice, roughly the hour at which he did all of his most honest thinking these days, as though daylight hours belonged to the careful, professional version of himself and only the dark permitted the rest.
Faculty members are prohibited from entering into or maintaining a romantic or s****l relationship with any student over whom they exercise direct academic authority, including but not limited to instruction, grading, advising, or committee oversight. He'd read the clause a hundred times over the years, mostly in the abstract, the way anyone reads a rule that has never once felt like it might apply to them personally. He read it now with an entirely different kind of attention, hunting not for the pro
