The State - News from May 8, 1986

A move to ban any University of California faculty member from “engaging in a romantic or sexual relationship with a student under circumstances which compromise student-faculty relationships” failed to pass in the nine-campus Assembly of the UC Faculty Senate, after several professors argued that it would be impractical. “Romance is not equal to sexual harassment,” said Ramon J. Rhine, a psychology professor at UC Riverside. “It’s possible to have a romantic relationship without harassment.”