Author Topic: Penn State's 98-Year-Old Outing Club Is No Longer Allowed to Go Outside (SNOWFLAKE ALERT)  (Read 374 times)

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"Student safety in any activity is our primary focus."
By Lenore Skenazy
http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/22/penn-state-outing-club-safety

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What's more dangerous: rugby, or a walk in the woods? At Pennsylvania State University, the administrators apparently think it's the latter.

The student "Outing Club," which has gone backpacking, kayaking, and hiking in state parks over the course of its 98-year-existence, will no longer be allowed to host outdoor events after administrators conducted a risk assessment, according to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

"The types of activities in which [Penn State Outing Club] engages are above the university's threshold of acceptable risk for recognized student organizations," according to an official announcement.

A key issue for administrators was that the Outing Club frequently visit locations with poor cell phone coverage. This wasn't an issue during the Coolidge administration, but now that cell phones exist, students are apparently expected to remain glued to them at all times.

"Student safety in any activity is our primary focus," Lisa Powers, a Penn State spokeswoman, told The Post-Gazette.

And yet the treasurer of the Outing Club said that he hadn't heard of any injuries sustained on club outings in recent years . . .
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If Penn State has a bicycling club, are they going to mandate training wheels? Ban them from riding their bikes off campus because someone might be out of
cell phone range when they fall and scrape their little knees?---EA.


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