Chaperones

• From: BGSU Academic Quiz Team <bgquizteam_at_bgquizteam2.yahoo.invalid>
• Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:56:18 -0000
• Message-ID: <dvsdli+4cpr_at_...>

Here's a change of pace for the message board.

I'll start this post by saying, "I'm not kidding."  BGSU's Student 
Affairs (who runs dining services, Residence Life, Student Orgs, 
etc ...) is really trying to implement this policy.  This IS the 
school whose dormitory agreement says that one has to pay for a room 
even if utilities (heat, electricity, water) are not provided.  

So Student Affairs is going to implement a policy that states that 
all university-funded trips will require a chaperone, and the last I 
heard, this meant someone over 25 who isn't a part of the activity.  
Their reasoning, as cited in the link below, can be paraphrased 
as "Everybody else has a policy like this."  So, I'm wondering, do 
other schools have this policy?  Replies can be taken as emails to 
bgquizteam AT yahoo DOT com to avoid boring readers of this Group.  
I'm just curious.

Although our quiz bowl club can probably circumvent such a policy by 
attending tournaments as unofficial a BGSU squad, this would require 
independence from our yearly stipend given by the university.  


Here's the article in our school newspaper:

media.www.bgnews.com/media/paper883/news/2006/03/20/Campus/New-
Travel.Policy.Could.Deter.Plans-1690030.shtml?
sourcedomain=www.bgnews.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com