From the news....

[Budget]

SALT LAKE CITY — A Brigham Young University physiology professor will no longer be offering students the chance to drink what they think is real urine as part of a class demonstration.

 

Assistant professor Jason HansenBrigham Young University 

Assistant professor Jason Hansen has been told to just explain the lesson next time rather than offering a mixture of water with vinegar and food coloring and calling it urine, Dixon Woodbury, chair of BYU's department of physiology and developmental biology, said Wednesday in a statement.

Hansen will not be disciplined.

Hansen said in a statement that he didn't mean to offend anyone when he recently offered a student the chance to drink urine in class to learn about the principles of hydration and dehydration. The woman didn't know it was fake urine. The second-year professor says he has done the same exercise in the past with no complaints.

"This is usually a fun way to teach this concept to the class," Hansen said in an email.

This year, however, an anonymous student reached out to Salt Lake City TV station Fox 13 to complain the lesson went too far.

No other students or parents have complained, Woodbury said.

The concept of the demonstration has been used for years in physiology courses to teach about critical aspects of kidney function and urine formation, Woodbury said.

"The apparent requirement of drinking someone else's urine is inappropriate, but it was neither required nor actually urine, so was considered a learning opportunity," Woodbury said in an emailed statement

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Not even getting into the topic behind the news story...  one of the first things I thought and wondered about was this;

"This year, however, an anonymous student reached out to Salt Lake City TV station Fox 13 to complain the lesson went too far."

 

So the one student who questioned this and wanted to complain... didn't go to the teacher.  Didn't go to the school.  Went directly to a TV station before anyone else. 

 

 

 

 

 

[anatess2]

BYU is caving in to special snowflakes now too?

Onwards, millennial wimpification!

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, Budget said:

So the one student who questioned this and wanted to complain... didn't go to the teacher.  Didn't go to the school.  Went directly to a TV station before anyone else. 

Yup.  

How could it be considered "required"?  He OFFERED it to the class -- (as scant as the article is, it's hard to tell.  But it appears to be the same as any other unusual option).

When I was in high school, my social studies teacher offered blood milk to the class.  Yes, milk with blood in it.  We were studying the Masai.  The three LDS students and several non-LDS students opted out.  The remaining 85 to 90% of the class had no problem with it.  We didn't go complain about it to the media.  We just opted out.  The teacher was fine with it.

[NightSG]

Well, there goes her chance at a date with Bear Grylls.

[LeSellers]

4 hours ago, Budget said:

So the one student who questioned this and wanted to complain... didn't go to the teacher.  Didn't go to the school.  Went directly to a TV station before anyone else. 

Should be kicked out (yes, anonymous makes it harder) for failing to use Gospel principles in resolving issues. There are several passages in scripture that speak of this kind of thing, none of them require the news media.

Lehi

[Budget]

 

This seems to be indicative of our society in general today.  

(I'm glad to read the school wasn't going to punish and fire him because of the one person who was offended or bothered.  THAT was refreshing for once.) 

[Backroads]

My 2nd graders totally could have handled this lesson on urine. With lots of giggling and someday pouring it on another kid's head, but there would have been no complaints! What's wrong, college students?