You communicate fat.

You sound fat.

That's pretty stupid. Come on, college kids are supposed to be adults. There is no reason for the university to tell them how to be healthy. But this does not seem like a big deal. If you are fat, take that Fitness For Life class in your final semester.

The lawyers are starting to line up at Lincoln University.

Cyborg77: You communicate fat.

Ah GODDAMNIT!

Longer story. With pictures of what fatties may look like.

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Academia in this country has become such a farking joke.

I love how once again somebody is using the BMI as some sort of correct and indisputable measure of body fat. There is a strong correlation but it's all statistics.

On one hand this is a pretty ridiculous rule, but on the other hand I have little sympathy for people who didn't take a one semester class necessary for graduation.

They instituted this in 2006, so you had four years to lose some farking weight.

At Cornell you have to pass a swimming test to graduate. At Boston University you have to sleep with an obnoxious rich guy in his sports car.

Don't like that requirement, go to a different school.

PhysicsJunky: I love how once again somebody is using the BMI as some sort of correct and indisputable measure of body fat. There is a strong correlation but it's all statistics.

BMI is only statistically significant because so many Americans are lumbering fat asses.

/knows how to use fat fold calipers and get within 1% accuracy of a DEXA scan

Seems like a perfectly cromulent criteria for judging a persons readiness for the real world.

PhysicsJunky: I love how once again somebody is using the BMI as some sort of correct and indisputable measure of body fat. There is a strong correlation but it's all fatstatistics.

If you signed up with the understanding that you'd have to meet all the university's requirements to graduate, you better get on that stairmaster pronto.

Cyborg77: You communicate fat.

I'd like to see a fat guy try semaphore.

/Heathcliff! Heathcliff!

PhysicsJunky: I love how once again somebody is using the BMI as some sort of correct and indisputable measure of body fat. There is a strong correlation but it's all statistics.

And of course, it was never intended to be used for individuals. (new window)

what_now: At Boston University you have to sleep with an obnoxious rich guy in his sports car..

You mean I also get college credit for that?

Mordis: You mean I also get college credit for that?

Nah, it's more of an extracurricular.

uh uh girl. You know you ain't go be graduate-in

I remember in college they use to encourage people to take the stairs, and leave the elevator for disabled people. I would always snarkle at all the fatties congregated around the elevators. Farking mouth breathing fatties!

BMI is BS, obviously, but it's easier than doing all that hard work to figure out if someone is healthy or not. Doctors don't go to medical school to do hard work!

Ready_Cents: uh uh girl. You know you ain't go be graduate-in

SeamusFerrell: That's pretty stupid. Come on, college kids are supposed to be adults. There is no reason for the university to tell them how to be healthy. But this does not seem like a big deal. If you are fat, take that Fitness For Life class in your final semester.

See the problem? This is becoming a society where there is no such thing as an adult as you use the term. Everyone must be told how to live, how much they should weigh, etc. because we couldn't possibly be responsible for our own lives, both in the benefits of proper health etc and take responsibility for the repercussions of the effects otherwise.

A nation of children, isn't that why we call it the nanny state?

Meh, they don't even have to slim down, just take one silly class. This is no different than all other colleges that require one phys ed credit to graduate. They're just trying to make their requirement more directly health-related.

Where I went we had a physical education requirement which I thought blew donkey balls. For starters, all of the classes were early in the morning and I was usually hung over. Freshman year: Badminton. I figured that would be easy and kind of fun. Nope, the asswipe teaching it had us run laps around the track before playing for some sadistic reason. Sophomore year: High Wires. This is a one day class where you climb in trees and fly down zip lines and whatnot. Kind of fun and took care of the requirement in one day. Junior year: Some hiking class. We all drove to Wisconsin and walked around for two days and had huge parties in the hotel. My university is banned from staying at the hotel because of us. It was fun, except for the part about getting your ass up early in the morning with a hangover to walk around in cold weather. Senior year: didn't have a senior year. I graduated early. I be smart.

That's...well that's just pretty retarded. I bet lots of that college's football players have "overweight" BMIs. Who wants to go tell them they're too "fat"?

Is the university too stupid to realize that many people with a BMI over 30 are actually quite thin and in excellent shape?

I swear that at first glance, I thought that the headline read, "University bars 30+ students from graduating due to their bestiality.". Now that would have been a story.

Must be all that pizza, beer and takeout. Maybe antidepressants as well.

Interesting, the one-semester fitness class is apparently being offered by the nearby Human Cosmetics Research Center and Rendering Factory, headquartered in central Peru. Seems like a strange choice of venue.

Dr. Nick Riviera: Academia in this country has become such a farking joke.

Universities have focused on physical fitness since before this country existed.

I like it. Parents are obviously not parenting properly, so these kids need to learn the hard lessons now.

You have no "right" to get the diploma.

Terms were laid out, and you chose not to follow them, you lose.

If you don't change a damn thing other than cut out the junk(or at least cut back), sub-30% BMI is easily attainable and manageable.

/Yes, I am a big person 6' 6" 260lbs
//So, shut the f*@k up and be an adult

Dr. Nick Riviera: Academia in this country has become such a farking joke.

FTFY

2 dozen != 30+. Smitty must solve word problems by randomly adding or multiplying the numbers.

Why don't they just require every one to take a P.E. class every semester? Heck you could offer bowling to the freshmen. I don't mind fat folks, my girlfriend is fat and I like seeing her naked. However requiring P.E. isn't a bad thing. is it?

//you could always get a doctors note.

The nicest building by far on the campus of my school was our gym.

A state-of-the-art athletic center will certainly in of itself help encourage some fat asses to do something.

/ran and played racquetball there pretty much everyday, even when hungover.
//not a fat ass

drewkumo: Longer story. With pictures of what fatties may look like.

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Are they "historically Black" fatties?

I was required to take 2 credits of Phys Ed to graduate. Know what I did? Took a gorram Hiking/Backpacking/Orienteering course.

I have no pity for these whiny fatties.

/is 6-1, 350 lbs.
//No sympathy for whiny babymen.

I had to take several PE classes the first time I went to college, I think one a year. But my memory is foggy, since that was back in the dark ages.

I didn't mind, but I bet I'd mind it now if I had to pay big bucks to go run around a track or something. I can do that on my own.

I never took a physical fitness class in college, but I did have a 15-20 minute walk every morning, because the ^$@%@* green line sucks.

lose weight or take one class ffs

a graduation requirement stipulating that students who enter college with a BMI over 30 must either prove to the school that they've lost weight, or take a one-semester class called "Fitness for Life."

Otherwise known as "University has a phys ed requirement, like every other university in the country"... But that's not as sensational.

I fulfilled my university's "Health and Physical Education" requirement by taking a human sexuality class. It was pretty amazing.

So if somebody actually DOES have a medical condition that induces obesity, this makes a differential requirement for graduation based on their medical condition.

Sweet, sweet, discrimination settlement money.

/drtfa

GolemGolem: my girlfriend is fat and I like seeing her naked.

Hmm. You sound fat.

what_now: Don't like that requirement, go to a different school.

THIS

I had to take some shiat I didn't like or see the point in at college, and have never used since. I sucked it up and did it. That lesson alone helps you be ready for the world past college. People who fail at life love to biatch about how the system screwed them over, when the system, sucky as it is, is actually pretty trivial to deal with. You get shiat done and move on. If you're 30 and you're still biatching about the 'system', you're going to die at the angry old guy shaking his fist at clouds.

Lattices aren't Distributive: 2 dozen != 30+. Smitty must solve word problems by randomly adding or multiplying the numbers.

I thought the same thing until I actually read the article.

LoneVVolf: a graduation requirement stipulating that students who enter college with a BMI over 30 must either prove to the school that they've lost weight, or take a one-semester class called "Fitness for Life."

Otherwise known as "University has a phys ed requirement, like every other university in the country"... But that's not as sensational.

It's because they're Blaaaack. Somebody is trying to make an "equal rights" case out of this.



/Ii gaurantee I do.

a BMI over 30 must either prove to the school that they've lost weight


Good. Here's why: the BMI is totally inaccurate and it needs to be thrown out. Insurance companies also use BMI to determine your coverage.

I was denied insurance for being 6'1' 210 pounds and they wanted me to be 180. This was; however, in the middle of wrestling season when I was my lowest weight.


Hopefully this will spawn some lawsuit that causes the BMI to get barred from ever being used.