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Just to add some more info; it was the student union that was running the yoga class and cancelled it, the university administration had no part in its cancella
by jbob2000 11y ago
Just to add some more info; it was the student union that was running the yoga class and cancelled it, the university administration had no part in its cancellation. This was wholly done by students.
- zwily 11y agoThat doesn't seem to change how ridiculous it sounds, does it?
- 300zxkyle 11y agoNot in the least.
- jbob2000 11y agoNope, it's more ridiculous, I think. I'm used to misguided administrations; that's par for the course. But students policing themselves, and it's worse than any misguided administration could do? Unbelievable.
- hobs 11y agoFor some reason I am strongly reminded of the book "Interesting Times" “The Empire's got something worse than whips all right. It's got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them what to do. Freedom just means being told what to do by someone different.” ― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
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- wpietri 11y agoAnd honestly, I'm fine with that. Universities are for learning, and real learning comes from doing. The questions the students were grappling with are real ones. I expect they misapplied them here, as the yoga traditions I'm familiar with are mostly conscious Indian exports, their effort to share something with the world. But students should frequently get things wrong, because that's how real learning happens.
- merpnderp 11y agoLearning only happens when there are consequences for being wrong. Aside from being ridiculed by people they disagree with and thus don't care about being ridiculed by, they have faced no consequences.
- tankenmate 11y agoRidicule is a consequence, bring back the stocks I say! (only half joking...)
- wstrange 11y agoI think the modern equivalent is called Twitter
- intortus 11y agoYou're trying overly hard to rationalize something here.
- afarrell 11y ago> Learning only happens when there are consequences for being wrong If I'm writing a toy project to teach myself WebGL, what are the consequences for doing something incorrectly and later having to debug it?
- merpnderp 11y agoAren't the bugs the consequence? Or it not working correctly? The framerate being to low? I taught myself WebGL by making planet sized spherical terrains. There were consequences just about every single moment I was doing this.
- programmarchy 11y agoThe consequence is your toy project won't work, and you'll have to find a solution. In doing so, you probably won't make the same mistake again, hopefully having learned something.
- mfoy_ 11y agoFurthermore, I don't believe they outright cancelled it, but they suspended it temporarily to look into whether or not they should cancel it. Still ridiculous, but less so than it's being represented as.
- asift 11y agoAnyone who has worked in student organizations should be able to attest that students don't have full autonomy from administration/faculty/university governance. I have no idea what role, if any, that any of these influences played on this situation, but I think it's a bit simplistic to assume students made this decision solely on their own.