University Bureaucrats Keeping you Safe

[volinbham]

Good Lord

Penn State's 98-Year-Old Outing Club Is No Longer Allowed to Go Outside - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Penn State Lets Students Keep Their Scuba Club, But Only After They Swear Never to Host Scuba Trips Again - Hit & Run : Reason.com

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.

Penn State recently decreed that three student-led outdoor adventure groups—the hiking club, the cave exploration club, and the scuba club—would have to disband due to safety liability concerns, even though none of the long-running clubs had ever reported a problem. Reason's Lenore Skenazy bemoaned this joy-killing paranoia in a recent post here at Hit & Run.

Now the scuba club has been granted a reprieve—but with a significant caveat: Nittany Divers Scuba is no longer allowed to organize scuba-diving trips.

Litigation shy much PSU?

 

[joevol33]

The wussification of America continues 🙄

 

[tumscalcium]

Our future looks amazing.

 

[Grand Vol]

Seems like Penn State is leading the charge into idiocy as of late.

 

[golfballs]

Why not have members sign waivers releasing the university from liability?

 

[SamRebel35]

Why not have members sign waivers releasing the university from liability?

Seriously! Wtf! So damn stupid!

 

[LouderVol]

Why not have members sign waivers releasing the university from liability?

I remember having to sign one of those to play in organized rec leagues on campus.

 

[McDad]

Why not have members sign waivers releasing the university from liability?

I suspect some attorney(s) has successfully pierced a waiver at other university(ies) and found compensation from the college.

 

[McDad]

I remember having to sign one of those to play in organized rec leagues on campus.

With your knees?

 

[Grand Vol]

I suspect some attorney(s) has successfully pierced a waiver at other university(ies) and found compensation from the college.

Or...

It's just the bubble-wrap-the-children liberal mindset that just because something might happen, however remote, we have to BAN IT!

 

[McDad]

Or...

It's just the bubble-wrap-the-children liberal mindset that just because something might happen, however remote, we have to BAN IT!

Could be, sure. Colleges are VERY competitive for enrollees. They usually want to offer more extracurricular; not less.

 

[Grand Vol]

Could be, sure. Colleges are VERY competitive for enrollees. They usually want to offer more extracurricular; not less.

I'd dare say there is more to it than the article portrayed.

 

[hog88]

I suspect some attorney(s) has successfully pierced a waiver at other university(ies) and found compensation from the college.

Lawyers are good at ****ing things up.