I work as a lecturer at a large university in Scotland and sleeping with students not allowed. However, at graduation they cease to be students.
A few years ago, just before the covid19 pandemic, we were graduating a class of our students. Usual thing with families, friends, partners, etc all milling around, walking across the stage and getting degrees. Afterward we had a reception in the department. Receptions are a chance for graduates, their family, and faculty to mix over cheap, kinda warm prosecco and low-quality canapes.
One student, let’s call her Vicki, had been my supervisee for the year. She was a half-Asian, half-white girl from Hong Kong about 23 years old, and we got on pretty well. She was slim built, maybe 5’5. We had done the usual thing of working together, some late nights in the lab but nothing that I would even consider flirting really. She was graduating with her parents and sister visiting, all of them beaming with pride. Vicki was wearing this long red dress with a split in the side, which was pretty unusual as people tend to dress down for these types of events.