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The Case Of Legal Drinking Age

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The final situation I have had concerning unclear boundaries involved me and a professor. This individual was someone I had grown to know and respect and took several courses under. The incident occurred after I had graduated from Western Carolina University with my bachelor’s degrees while I was living in Cullowhee over the summer. I was invited to the professor’s house along with another former student to eat dinner with him and his wife. While we were eating the meal, the professor gave me and the other student a glass of wine to go with dinner. Even though I was of legal drinking age and was no longer a student of the professor’s, it felt strange to have a professor provide me alcohol.
Also, I felt uncomfortable being in the professor’s home since it was the first time I had socialized with a professor outside of a school environment. I later discussed the event with the other student to inquire if the situation also made her uncomfortable. The individual disclosed that she did not feel uncomfortable since this was not her first time having dinner with the professor and his wife. I did not talk about how this incident made me feel with my professor. The reason the boundaries were unclear in this situation was that there was a multiple relationship. I was now the professor’s former student as well as an individual who had a social relationship with the professor.
Unlike the two previous examples, I was not the individual with a position of power. Since the second person

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