{"id":44083,"date":"2018-06-14T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T21:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=44083"},"modified":"2018-06-14T14:18:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T21:18:20","slug":"penn-state-responds-to-pedophilic-showers-by-banninghiking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/penn-state-responds-to-pedophilic-showers-by-banninghiking\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State responds to pedophilic showers by banning\u2026hiking."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44087\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/scubadiving.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/scubadiving.jpg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/scubadiving-250x141.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor: \u201cWe\u2019re cancelling your column.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Me: \u201cWhy? I thought it was very popular, to judge by reader\u2019s comments.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor: \u201cOh it is, and we like it quite a bit, too. But we\u2019re worried that you won\u2019t be able to continue to be as good, so we\u2019re ending it before that happens. Sorry.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Back when I wrote for magazines, back when there were magazines, this is how I lost one of my side jobs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The corporate mentality is incredibly risk-averse once the corporation reaches a certain size. It\u2019s often a self-destructive trait, as a willingness to take risks often was the main reason the company achieved that size in the first place. Nevertheless, once a business gets large enough to support a middle management, those guys do whatever they can to make sure nothing happens to shrink the company back down to the point they don\u2019t need middle managers any more.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, this risk aversion is a core value of our largest corporations, leading to far more sequels than new ideas in our movies, for example, and it seems every few years we see another large company simply obliterated because it failed to take even a small risk by way of adapting to possible changes in the world (hi Blockbuster!).<\/p>\n<p>Stumbling over to higher education, our administrative caste is filled with people trying to adopt the corporate mentality. Not just in the \u201cinnovative\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/student-customer-failure\/\">student-as-customer<\/a> paradigm or endless self-promotion to get more student loan loot, but also in shutting down anything that might bring risk to campus, especially in a way administration can\u2019t control or profit from.<\/p>\n<p>A recent example highlights this mentality:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/23\/penn-state-scuba-outdoor-safety\">Penn State Lets Students Keep Their Scuba Club, But Only After They Swear Never to Host Scuba Trips Again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, you can join the campus scuba club\u2026but only if you don\u2019t actually scuba. It\u2019s so weird; I\u2019ve seen fraternities disbanded over a single hazing incident gone wrong, and we\u2019ve seen plenty of horrific injuries (and vicious criminal behavior) regarding sportsball players without the teams being shut down. Surely there was some huge accident slaughtering dozens of scuba aficionados, to justify this action?<\/p>\n<p><em>No one at Pennsylvania State University has ever drowned on a scuba-diving trip,\u2026club has existed for 50 years and has never had a safety issue.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, nothing has actually happened in decades of operation, admin is simply afraid something might happen at some point, and then possibly an administrator might lose her job.<\/p>\n<p>The club can still meet, mind you, but no more trips for them. Well, to clarify:<\/p>\n<p><em>Penn State&#8217;s recreation department has promised to organize scuba trips on behalf of interested students. These trips would happen under administrative supervision.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wait\u2026what? Administrative thinking is just so weird. We\u2019re supposed to accept that students are responsible enough to check a box damning them to a lifetime of student debt, but can\u2019t organize scuba trips, not even with a 50 year track record of being able to successfully do so?<\/p>\n<p>Why do our campuses even have \u201crecreation\u201d departments, anyway? Clearly they mainly exist simply to justify yet another administrative fiefdom, ever eager to expand its own power regardless of how it impacts anything else.<\/p>\n<p>You can bet the administratively organized trips will be laughable\u2014scuba diving in swimming pools, perhaps, and certainly nothing more than 6 feet deep (if that much) in any event.<\/p>\n<p>It is actually pretty generous of the university deanlings to even allow students to get together and discuss this risky behavior all by themselves. Other \u201cdangerous\u201d clubs are being disbanded entirely:<\/p>\n<p><em>Penn State recently decreed that three student-led outdoor adventure groups\u2014the hiking club, the cave exploration club, and the scuba club\u2014would have to disband due to safety liability concerns, even though none of the long-running clubs had ever reported a problem.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The hiking club? Seriously? This university is admitting students so reckless that they cannot be trusted to walk without administrative supervision? It\u2019d be easier to believe the university\u2019s concerns as legitimate if, you know, there had been an actual problem.<\/p>\n<p>I feel the need to point out that <a href=\"https:\/\/theeyeopener.com\/2014\/09\/academic-satanists-want-a-club\/\">Satanists can form clubs<\/a> on campus, and there are even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-satanic-after-school-20160928-snap-story.html\">\u201cAfter School Satan\u201d meetings at grade schools<\/a>\u2026but hikers can\u2019t form a club. Too risky, you see. Something might go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>We really, really, need to ask ourselves if the \u201cleadership\u201d in higher education belongs on campus.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, the scuba club had to beg permission to still exist on this campus, which was generously granted provided they didn\u2019t actually do any scuba diving on their own. I suppose the other clubs had too much pride to grovel before these self-proclaimed masters of the universe, and kudos to them.<\/p>\n<p>I remind the gentle reader that this is happening at Penn State, notorious for \u201cafter school\u201d activities going on in the showers\u2026to date, those showers are still there, and there\u2019s no interest in shutting down showering on campus, even though there\u2019s a clear liability issue.<\/p>\n<p>The comments section righteously laughs at this administrative push for more control and one comment highlights a possibly more important issue than simple risk aversion:<\/p>\n<p><em>it is all about Penn State&#8217;s Adventure Recreation office charging students money for trips that they used to do for free. The Scuba Club had a sizable endowment and could pay for trips for their members. Now the members must pay Penn State.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I concede there\u2019s some truth in the above, but the way how funding and pay is handled on campus is so bizarre nowadays. The administrator who changed these clubs so that the members will end up paying hundreds of dollars to Penn State to \u201corganize\u201d things they used to do all on their own, will probably get a $20,000 pay raise for his \u201cbold\u201d plan to increase revenues.<\/p>\n<p>While the above is my primary explanation for this particular bizarre behavior by our leaders at Penn State, I do concede another possibility: lowering insurance premiums. I hate to keep referencing what went (goes?) on in the showers at Penn State, but I suspect their insurance company, upon finding out just how severe the corruption is there, and rightfully suspecting the place still has many pedophiles leading to future lawsuits, decided to raise their premiums. While I\u2019m no fan of insurance companies, I see their point here, as they set their original premiums assuming, as the university puts in writing, that the university will act with integrity. Now that it\u2019s common knowledge that Penn State doesn\u2019t act with integrity, the risks for lawsuits are far higher. So, shutting down these \u201crisky\u201d student organizations is a means to lowering those premiums.<\/p>\n<p>And so I puzzle over the reasoning behind yet another strange plan by the leaders in higher ed. Meanwhile, bold plans to improve education and restore integrity to higher education are still non-existent, and will likely continue to be so. Such a plan would risk losing all those sweet student loan checks, after all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorconfess.blogspot.com\/\">www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor: \u201cWe\u2019re cancelling your column.\u201d Me: \u201cWhy? 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