http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/01/11/single-university-president-signs-school-contract-restricting-her-love-life/?hpid=z4
How’s this for an unusual agreement between a school and its president?Gwendolyn Boyd, the new president of Alabama State University, signed a contract with the school’s trustees that forbids her from allowing a lover to “cohabitate” with her in the presidential home being provided to her by the historically black university in Montgomery.The contract, signed Jan. 2, 2014, was obtained by The Birmingham News and posted here. It provides Boyd with an annual salary of $300,000, starting Feb. 1, 2014, plus a number of standard fringe benefits such as insurance. It says that Boyd, an engineer, must provide her own car but will receive a car allowance of $1,000 a month. And it requires that Boyd live in the school-provided presidential house located on campus and equipped with things such as a toll-free phone line, cable television, computer equipment and more.It also says:For so long as Dr. Boyd is President and a single person, she shall not be allowed to cohabitate in the President’s residence with any person with whom she has a romantic relation.Inside Higher Ed"> Inside Higher Ed quoted lawyer Raymond Cotton, an expert on contracts, said he has never seen such a proviso written into a contract for a university president. He said:
I don’t know of any state that has the right to invade someone’s residence even if the state owns that residence. To convey that residence and dictate what kind of romantic relationship you can have in that facility – I mean, she’s not in prison.
what is it with this morality crap that usurps Americans rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. do they think the cohabitation would harm the social view of the damn near grown students or is it a board of holier than thou's making the decision of her private life.
since they didn't say whether mate was same sex, it leaves to wonder why?
unless they have cameras in the house they don't expect to be involved in her personal time at home so what the fuss?
Boyd was born and raised in Montgomery and earned a bachelor’s degree from Alabama State. She then went to Yale University where she earned a master’s in mechanical engineering and worked for years at Johns Hopkins University. She was appointed by President Obama to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
historically Black uni. not boarded by all Black trustees is their something there?
