Taking risk assessment a tiny bit too far methinks.
"A university in the US state of Pennsylvania has ruled its Outing Club’s activities too risky to continue.
Pennsylvania State risk assessment officials said events like hiking, running and backpacking were too dangerous for a student group.
The 98-year-old club is one of three that will allegedly be disbanded from next semester as a result."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43899183
Sausa
25 April 2018 18:37
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Have you never walked across a meadow in shorts? Some grasses have really sharp edges. Then there's mosquitos, sunburn, gopher holes, hillsides, ticks, snakes, rabid raccoons...
Nonono, it's in the student's best interest.
You could always give each one a gun.
Sausa
25 April 2018 18:50
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Oh come on, how on earth are mosquitos, ticks, snakes or raccoons going to pull a trigger?
No, but I did lay on the ground in a US national park once and got a load of chigger bites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombiculidae
Sorry, I thought they were worried about the students. Silly me. We should know better by now.
Sausa
25 April 2018 18:57
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This is exactly the kind of mortal danger that students need to be protected from.
I thought that was booze, drugs and sex.
Sausa
25 April 2018 19:13
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Communism, you forgot communism.
There's all kinds of subversive stuff in nature.
If that isn't subversive then what is?