MR. MCGUIRE: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
BENJAMIN: Yes, sir.
MR. MCGUIRE: Are you listening?
BENJAMIN: Yes, I am.
MR. MCGUIRE: Bubblewrap.
MR. MCGUIRE: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
BENJAMIN: Yes, sir.
MR. MCGUIRE: Are you listening?
BENJAMIN: Yes, I am.
MR. MCGUIRE: Bubblewrap.
No cell phone coverage? That is their excuse?
I did not know that the football and basketball players carried their cell phones while they played? Can they call their mama when they get slammed to the ground and concussed?
No cell phone coverage is a weak excuse. If this group would follow the lead of that young lady that was in the news last week and carry pistols with them then they would all be just fine. Cells phones are only used to call cops who are always too late to the scene, pistols are much more effective to deal with the problem yourself.
/loves triggering SJWs
I have this image of this decision being made by overweight administrators with degrees in womyn’s studies who have seen pictures of the out of doors and decided that it looks horribly dangerous and patriarchal.
Many years ago, when I was finishing my second master’s degree, we had a post-doctoral fellow from Europe in our lab. He was a rather prissy sort and he kept going on about how he liked to go to “the mountains”, though, apparently, he didn’t spend much time, if any, in the Alps. (Maybe they were bulldozed flat or something.) I got the impression that his idea of roughing it was to stay in a hotel that didn’t get top billing in the Michelin Guide or some such publication.
Pssst…you’re a rather prissy sort.
Me, prissy? I’ve done my share of camping out in the boonies on family fishing trips (and not with an RV, either) plus I’ve stayed in places that could have been the inspiration for the Bates Motel.
The post-doc I referred to was a typical Euro weenie, considering North Americans as unsophisticated, uncultured bumpkins but good enough to provide him with tourist entertainment such as whale watching trips off the coast of Lotusland.
I hope the Penn state administrators and others like them have not and never will procreate.
Excluding a possible comment on any topic by Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, this has to qualify as the World’s dumbest ‘thing’ for the rest of this week.
A wise qualification G.
If it’s such a concern then the school should provide the group with a satellite phone. End of problem.
“satellite phone”…… I had the same thought. Something else going on, hidden as usual.
maybe they just need to wear CSA approved helmets?
They’ll be outside after all…
No cell phone coverage while I was camping in Viet-Nam.
My daughter “forced” me to get a cell phone when I took up mototcycle-riding in 1999. It was assuredly good advice. But lotsa and lotsa times I’d think ‘geez, wouldn’t want to be stranded here’ and out of interest pull over and pull out the phone: no cell service.
The best riding I found were in no cell service areas.
Another discovery I made – and I believe I coined this rule – the more bullet holes in the road signs, the better the ride.
Made me laugh, Mack – good one :-))
Do you think they have good cell coverage in the men’s locker room showers? Too soon?
They’ll have to get someone to write them computer games of hiking, climbing, kayaking, etc. Maybe when you get to the top levels you can “see” a bear.
Penn State has reached the state of STUPIDITY!!!
Forget the children. The administrators are our future. At this rate, we won’t have one.
The “children” are to be lauded. They’re the ones that insist on being in the healthy outdoors, out of range of their
propaganda devicecellphone.So rugby and football are risk-free activities at Penn State and nobody ever gets injured? Do the students wear bubble-wrap when they play those sports? I’ve been hiking and kayaking all my life, and I never had a problem, even long before cell phones were invented. This is the most stupid decision I’ve heard of in a long time.
I think they had to ban it because someone got caught smuggling tide pods along on an adventure. Yep .
Then there’s this kid, who decided life wasn’t interesting enough, so he booked himself a trip to Bali.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/23/boy-12-steals-credit-card-and-goes-on-bali-holiday-after-fight-with-mother
Oh, the irony. You are actually much safer in the outdoors than in the city.
Not many white vans running amok in the woods.
All parents who take actual children on nature outings are rolling their eyes and shaking their heads in disbelief. Universities seem to be unaware that their students are adults. If our “educated class” thinks outdoor nature activities and adventures are too dangerous for young adults in the prime of their life then no further evidence is needed that universities have completely lost their minds. If anything, young adults and children have too little exposure to nature. Hiking, canoeing and camping without any electronic distractions are great, healthy ways to gain perspective, slow down and have fun. I joke with my kids that long walks through the woods and late 80s/90s country music (which they are forced to endure on summer breaks and road trips) will always remind them of me and their childhood.
P.S.- I wonder what the real reason is to stop the outdoor club because the reason given is too ridiculous to be true, even for university level thinking. There has to be more to the story.
To hazard a guess to my own question, I think it’s either a cutting funding for clubs exercise and/or discouraging clubs with too few of the right kind of people or too many of the wrong kind. Clubs that encourage grievance-mongering and segregation by race, religion, sex and sexual orientation seem to be the type that are most encouraged and funded. Next in line are ones that promote progressive/leftist politics. Everything outside of those types of clubs is under suspicion of being alt-right, white supremacist or having toxic masculinity so administration is justified in getting rid of them by any means. Preferably, quietly so as not to create a backlash from alumni and other donors.
In my family of eight children, we given breakfast and sent out the door, preferably out of range, until lunch.
Despite such barbaric treatment bereft of risk assessment, we survived.
Universities are becoming day care indoctrination camps for grown up infants. Some graduates might even eventually have kids and can you imagine the coddling they’ll get.
I blame the lawyers. Which reminds me … how in THE wide wide world of sports … are Fraternities still allowed to exist on campus? What with all the “rape” allegations, dead pledges from alcohol poisoning … and whatnot …
MY Frat Years were a textbook for an entire law school seminar! And oh what years those were!!! Loved my multiple “little sisters” (Pi Phi’s, esp.)
As far as I am concerned, smart people and stupid people can kill themselves at any rate they wish. It will in no way change the planet or our personal well being. Now if we could get rid of those who have the power to screw things up, I will be willing to lend a hand.
pffft.
the more bubblewrappers there are, the less competition when the end times arrived unexpectedly.
seriously. do you really want hordes of skilled outdoors types swarming your self sufficient remote hideaway?
Im NOT a ‘survivalist’ btw, but do try to keep certain scenarios and contingencies in mind.
and the thing about fooball and rugby being okie dokie, any stats on the # of brain injuries vs deaths by nature hike?
https://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/NCAA_Football_Injury_WEB.pdf