> one WLU professor wrote that anyone who wished to use foam noise-cancelling ear plugs must “in plain view of your webcam … place the ear plugs on your desk an

> one WLU professor wrote that anyone who wished to use foam noise-cancelling ear plugs must “in plain view of your webcam … place the ear plugs on your desk and use a hard object to hit each ear plug before putting it in your ear—if they are indeed just foam ear plugs they will not be harmed.” Nitpick but noise-cancelling is by definition an active electronic process, and so will never be a purely foam ear plug. This is Vice misreporting what the professor said (professor's words were "ear plugs for noise reduction").