A US college outdoors club is being disbanded because its activities, which include hiking, running and backpacking, are deemed too risky.
Pennsylvania State University officials said the group will be reconstituted to focus more on safety.
The 98-year-old Outing Club is one of three that will be disbanded from next semester: the caving and scuba clubs have also been deemed unsafe.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @11:23PM (2 children)
I was going to give you a -1 flamebait, but then remembered that PA is a very conservative (and mostly Republican) state, so I just think you are wrong.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @11:35PM
Last I looked, PSU was a public university. Are university faculty mostly republican? [washingtonpost.com]
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Friday April 27 2018, @06:45PM
Not really.
Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with Alabama in between. Population wise it is kind of like the whole of the country, 50% of the population of the state is in the big cities.
I think PSU is a reflection of that split.
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