Oral Roberts University Forcing Freshmen To Wear FitBits
NBC – An Oklahoma university is taking a novel approach to fighting the “Freshman 15″: Require all incoming students to wear fitness trackers.
Oral Roberts University, a Christian university in Tulsa, announced earlier this month that all first-years must wear Fitbits — watches that track how much activity a person does. Their fitness data will be tracked by the school and will affect students’ grades.
While mandatory for all incoming freshman this year, Oral Roberts said it “has opened the program up to all students,” and said the campus bookstores have already sold more than 550 of the popular gadgets.
“ORU offers one of the most unique educational approaches in the world by focusing on the Whole Person — mind, body and spirit,” ORU President William M. Wilson said in a statement. “The marriage of new technology with our physical fitness requirements is something that sets ORU apart.”
The Fitbit requirement is a first of its kind for colleges and universities, Oral Roberts said.
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Umm is this even legal? This is America right? Last I checked? Listen I’m far from fat, and fat people are kind of gross, but as an American I 1000000% support your right to be as fat as your heart desires. ESPECIALLY in college. I mean I guess I could get on board with forcing older people whose obesity is clogging up doctor’s offices and driving up insurance premiums to wear these things and get fined for being fat. Or put them on little kids and fine their parents for being irresponsible. But I’m almost positive Thomas Jefferson wrote it directly into the Constitution that it’s your inalienable right to gain 15 pounds your first year of college. Definitely not have to deal with this bullshit:
The Fitbits will track students’ activity wherever they are — on campus or anywhere else in the world — and send the data, which includes details on exercise, food, sleep, and body weight, into Oral Roberts’ learning management system.
It’s unclear how much physical activity the university requires of students. The university did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News.
According to The Tulsa World, the students must walk 10,000 steps each day. University officials told the paper that Fitbits will enable students to get graded based on their weekly exercise rather than relying on the end-of-semester field test, which is typically a 1-1/2-mile run for freshmen.
“Exercise” “sleep” and “body weight” are words that shouldn’t even be in your freshman year of college vocabulary. It’s all about drinking, smoking, partying, fucking and ordering a whollleeeeeee mess of late night delivery. Learning the limits of your mind and body before you hit the real world and actually have responsibilities, not being forced to hike your ass up and down hills to stay “fit” and “healthy.” You know who else forced rules and regulations on people to get them to conform and all look the same?
Get your Nanny Campus out of my face, Oral Roberts.