Look and supervise but don't.....well, just don't.

Attention University of Georgia faculty members, graduate students, lecturers and staff: if you’re teaching and supervising a student,you're prohibited from having an intimate relationship with that person.

It doesn’t matter if the student is a graduate, professional or undergraduate. There should be no dating or sexual contact while a “power relationship” is going on.

Anyone involved in or who starts a “dating or sexual relationship” with someone they’re supervising, say a spouse, has to disclose the relationship to his or her supervisor.

This is one of several changes contained in UGA’s new Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy. The policy was discussed and approved at Thursday’s meeting of UGA President Michael Adams’ cabinet.

Others changes include not guaranteeing complainants confidentiality; and directing harassment cases involving students to the Equal Opportunity Office instead of the student judiciary.

Officials also learned at the meeting and press briefing:

UGA has hired 100 tenured and tenure-track faculty members. Some of these are filling positions that have gone unfilled for years, while others are new.

Provost Jere Morehead said the university is still dealing with a faculty deficit, one brought about by the budget shortfall. There are still 75 to 100 positions that could be filled.

President Adams said he’s “still studying” what to do with historic Rutherford Hall—whether to keep and repair it or demolish it and replace it with a larger, more efficient building. Students added their voices last week to the chorus of preservationists calling for the stucture to be saved.

President Adams said that two months ago, he heard rumors that Gov. Deal might replace State Climatologist David Stooksbury, a UGA faculty member, with someone from the State Environmental Protection Division. He said Deal was “within his rights” and that he hasn’t spoken to him about Stooksbury’s removal.