ity for its own actions and to be adults in every other sphere of college life.
In addition, such a policy is nearly impossible to enforce without instituting a massive spying system, which would again treat residents more as children than any college would want to do and which would not be effective in any case. Indeed, passing such a rule might bring out the naturally rebellious nature of many students and cause them to seek ways around the ban. The rule could thus encourage more sexual activity than it stops and would foster an atmosphere of mistrust and rule-breaking, something else a college does not want to do.
The college's parental role has limitations, especially for students of this age, and indeed the more the college asserts a parental role, the more the college becomes responsible for human actions over which it has no control and for which it does not want to be liable. Attempting to control sexual activity to this degree makes the college responsible for its own inevitable failure in this area and thus opens the institution to legal action.
It is resolved that athletes should be allowed to live in special facilities at a college or univer
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