Lincoln University makes fat students lose weight and/or take a fitness class or they wouldn't graduate. I just can't grasp the idea of denying someone their education purely based on their weight. This isn't a matter of it taking physical fitness which is a requirement of all students, this is outright targeting of a certain group because they don't fit into the cookie cutter of "normal." I hope some of them will lawyer up and overturn this stupid and outright discrimatory law. I hope potential students choose to take their college dollars to a school other than Lincoln. Fat people are already stagmatised enough, they shouldn't be told they can't graduate college because they are too fat. Are underweight students forced to take a class on eating more?
When I went to college, I took the require PE courses (Aced both) and I used the rec centers to swim, run and weight lift. Yet if I had being going to this college, I would have still had to take this moronic course.
Just the idea of a COLLEGE where ADULT pay to go and learn forcing a portion of their students to do something other students don't have have too is so, excuse my language, fucking ridiculous.
And just a reminder for those in the New York Area, I will be reading my essay in the Fat Studies Reader at Re/Dress along with Kathleen LeBesco and Elena Andrea Escalera. Kelli Dunham will be reading the late and missed Heather MacAllister's essay.
I couldn't agree with you more. I say hit them where it hurts...in the wallet. If you're a student here, transfer to a school where they value your brain, and not your thigh size.
Can you imagine if this school targeted gays and told them a class on how to be heterosexual was required? Or what if the school insisted that black students take a class on how to be white? Oh, the shiznet would hit the fan, and rightly so.
Posted by: Sarah R | December 02, 2009 at 07:39 AM