[BBell]

THIS IS NOT THE ONION!!!

In these groups, many outdoor activities were taking place in high-risk environments such as unsupervised or lightly-patrolled areas with unreliable or no cell phone service. Proximity to emergency services also is a consideration, Powers said.

[PLMerite]

“Outing Club”

Apparently not what I thought it was at first...

[Cowboy Bob]

I thought a “outing club” was the ones where you publicly identify the Homo.

[blueplum]

Is Penn State going to reject international students also? I mean, they’re so far from home and America is such a scary place one cannot be allowed “outside” where one can’t be supervised and protected from themselves.

We might as well lock this generation in the padded rooms now, because this kind of mental manipulation is sending them there anyway.

[Pollster1]

All universities need to eliminate all funding for non-academic diversions. As much as I approve of this rare positive group, we should not include support for an “outing club” in tuition - and we also should not include support for the other 1033 student organizations funded by students who should be there for an education.

[Ciexyz]

So much for climbing Mt. Nittany.

[sphinx]

Do the “high risk” clubs that are being shut down have a record of injuries? Or does the idea of being outdoors without a full bubble wrap suit and a personal nanny scare some pencil neck administrator who has never worked up a sweat?

[Vaquero]

There is Greenwich Village and Fire Island around here. But I assume people living there have already been ‘outed’ by others or more likely by themselves.

[trebb]

Unless of course the “outings” are to protest guns, the Constitution, or the Bible....

[mewzilla]

Betcha they’d let them go if the students signed liability waivers....

[pepsi_junkie]

Staff diddling with boys was not considered a high risk activity, however. That they let go on for years.

[niteowl77]

I used to be involved with an organization that trained adults and teenagers in an eclectic curriculum of emergency services. It was a comparatively effective steppingstone for people joining police and fire departments as well as a catalyst for younger members going into a military career. The last two years in which I was active, the PTB made it abundantly clear that there were to be no more "high risk adventure" activities without almost insurmountable obstacles (approvals, plans, add'l safeguards, etc).

It killed the enthusiasm of nearly everyone.

[Fresh Wind]

Afraid of lawsuits.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Why? Are there coaches that go with them and molest them?

[9YearLurker]

Snowflake effect?

[Vaquero]

Here’s a Penn State outing we’d like to see. What happened to Ray Gricar

[buffaloguy]

College is for girls.

[tired&retired]

They should apply the same risk assessments to the gender identity, gay & lesbian student organizations.

[tired&retired]

Now I understand why they put “Beaver Stadium” in “Happy Valley!”

[sten]

Adults go to college, right?

[cyclotic]

My son graduates college in 3 weeks. He didn’t need the school’s permission to introduce several of his buddies camping.