A weak policy at the University of Colorado system is failing to protect students from unwanted sexual advances and consensual sexual relationships. Professors, coaches, and other university employees are technically allowed to use their positions of authority to develop intimate relationships with students and athletes. There is always an imbalanced power in these sexual relationships, and many universities across the nation have already banned them following the direction of the NCAA. CU has a long-winded policy about such relationships – discouraging them but ultimately allowing them as long as it is “disclosed.” If the student is not in a professor’s class or if the athlete is on a different team, the relationship never even needs to be disclosed. CU President Todd Saliman referred to Administrative Policy Statement 5015 as a robust policy to protect students during an editorial board meeting with The Denver Post on Tuesday.