Going to extremes
Your article about the Nova no-contact rule was interesting, but seemed to overlook (or at least de-emphasize) one important aspect of the rule. It not only prevents Nova employees from having romantic or potentially romantic contact with any Nova student from any branch, but it also forbids nonromantic contact, to a sometimes silly degree.
If a teacher finds an English-speaking dentist and then finds out he is a Nova student, the teacher is expected to abandon the dentist and find a new one. Why the need for such a policy? -- Jennifer, ex-Nagoya
I feel that Tony McNicol's article was slightly one-sided. I think that a company of any size has to have some kind of guidelines. If it was a free-for-all, who would benefit? I have met a lot of people from a lot of places . . . and I would not want them all teaching my kids. -- Mark