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Pennsylvania State University orders student groups to disband
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.
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Pennsylvania State University Disbands "Outing Club" Due to Safety Concerns
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday April 27 2018, @11:27AM
Penn State is in State College, in a very hilly part of Pennsylvania (having grown up in the Rockies myself I refuse to call them "mountains"). It is mild terrain that I take my 8- and 9- year old kids hiking in. That's the same terrain the college is saying these young adults can't handle.
Furthermore this is the college that has the really big football team, and so should be all for athletic endeavor. Also, it's the same college and the same football team who turned a blind eye for years to the activities of their football coach, Jerry Sandusky [wikipedia.org], who was molesting and raping the players. You'd think the college would be trying harder than this to draw bad press.
My uncle, who was such a Penn State fan that he forced my mother's sister to learn their fight song, must be rolling in his grave.
Washington DC delenda est.