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Students at North Central University (NCU) have a wide variety of opinions when it comes to student-professor dating on campus.

Most of the neutral opinionated students didn’t care whether a professor dated a student or not because they knew that they personally wouldn’t date a teacher. Sarah Lundberg said, “Either way is fine, I’m not going to date a faculty member, so I don’t care.” Jaron Kissner had another reason for his neutral opinion. He said, “I think it depends on the ages of the teacher and the student. If the student is older or the teacher is younger, it shouldn’t matter. That’s why they have rules though, to make sure everyone has a safe learning experience.”

There were a few “No’s” in the poll at NCU. Most of the students who said “No” didn’t really have a reason why teachers shouldn’t date students. Donovan Carson said, “Nope, professors definitely shouldn’t date their students. It makes the classroom unsafe.”

For being a Christian university, it is interesting to find that so many students have such a huge difference in opinions. Surprisingly, there were more students for teachers dating students than there were against. “If a student wants to date a faculty member, then do it,” Michael Netherton said. Anacari Jankowski also said, “I think that if they keep the relationship outside of the classroom, it is fine.” Formerly known as “North Central Bible College”, Dan Lauder said that it was okay for students to date faculty members because around the university “it’s called ‘North Central Bridal College’ for a reason.”