Post by robeiae on Apr 24, 2018 8:39:27 GMT -5
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2018/04/24/Nanny-state-at-Penn-State-Outing-Club-gets-grounded-by-lawyerly-caution/stories/201804240010
I guess--I hope, actually--that this is about liability, though it seems like that could be handled with some legal forms, no? My high school-aged son went to Grad Night at Universal Studios in Orlando last weekend on a bus, a trip organized by Miami-Dade County Schools that was basically unsupervised. Seems to me there was a lot more risk in that...
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Cell phones? It's truly amazing that the human race survived and grew for thousands and thousands of years without the help of cell phones.
Beginning next month, the members of the Penn State Outing Club can no longer go out. The university says the threat to life and limb is just too great.
More precisely, the assessors of risk have determined that the “types of activities in which the PSOC engages” — hiking, kayaking, backpacking — “are above the university’s threshold of acceptable risk for recognized student organizations.”
More precisely, the assessors of risk have determined that the “types of activities in which the PSOC engages” — hiking, kayaking, backpacking — “are above the university’s threshold of acceptable risk for recognized student organizations.”
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Well, in this case, Penn State was going through a routine evaluation of recreation-supported student groups. The evaluators looked at the Outing Club and said it was taking students too far out — beyond range of cellphone contact, and too far from medical facilities.
