The lunatics have taken over the asylum

Tabnabs

University bans graduates from throwing hats due to injury risk
Students urged to ‘mime’ throwing action and have hats digitally added to photographs

The university told the student newspaper that the throwing of hats posed an “unacceptable risk”.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/university-bans-graduates-from-throwing-hats-due-to-injury-risk-1.2652013

What a time to be alive!

cowboyBuilder

I was just about to post about this, madness - nanny state, not surprised at all that this is in the UK

me_irl

It's political correctness gone mad Joe!.

GLaDOS

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mahoganygas

That's just begging for somebody to photoshop d1cks instead of hats.

osarusan

They're not the first university in the UK to do it.

Apparently the mortarboards being damaged had something to do with it also - the companies renting/supplying gowns and mortarboards were fed up with the damage.

ScumLord

What's to stop them doing it anyway? They're graduating, it's not like they can get detention.

I think there should be a definition on the use of injury. Boo Boos, slight scrapes and slightly reddened skin shouldn't count as an "injury".

My name is URL

ScienceNerd wrote: »

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Careful now, you might have your eye out

They should really look into banning facepalms at this stage

My name is URL

ScumLord wrote: »

What's to stop them doing it anyway? They're graduating, it's not like they can get detention.

Do people get detention at University these days? =/

Merrion

"But students could have a mortarboard added digitally to photographs afterwards - for £8."

Ban something then charge for the reinstatement of an inferior equivalent. Probably an artificial monopoly too, eh?

osarusan

ScumLord wrote: »

What's to stop them doing it anyway? They're graduating, it's not like they can get detention.

I think there should be a definition on the use of injury. Boo Boos, slight scrapes and slightly reddened skin shouldn't count as an "injury".

One student needed stitches after it years ago, apparently. Sounds more like it was fizzed right at them rather than falling from the sky.

Yale was sued for the same reason more than 30 years ago, but successfully defended iself.

whiskeyman

Was about to setup a business, but it's already been done!


Problem Solved!

Alf Stewart.

Is there a gap in the market for polystyrene mortar boards anyone

whiskeyman

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

Is there a gap in the market for polystyrene mortar boards anyone

see my link above your post... inflatable ones already exist! :pac:

frag420

I blame those Peakey Blinders.....

Aglomerado

Hard hat under the mortar board?

????

Profit!

conorhal

It's an 'unacceptable risk' aparently.... Has there been a raft of lawsuits from 1 eye'd arts graduates lately?(I'm guessing the BSC crowd have some basic understanding of gravity) Are we sick of reading endless articles about students injured by mortar boards with the same frequency they loose fingers to fireworks?

I think not, what are the odds of sombody getting injured, has it ever happened? A quick google isn't telling me that it has with any kind of frequency that constitutes an 'unacceptable risk'. If an 100 milion to one risk counts as unacceptable these days none of us is getting out of bed in the moring.....

tomofson

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

I was just about to post about this, madness - nanny state, not surprised at all that this is in the UK

Not surprising you dont see the risk sure you dont see the risk in dropping bombs on buildings crowded with civilians

the evasion_kid

Maybe they should round the corners of them and a chamfered edge..

BorneTobyWilde

No one told me April fools day was moved from 1st of April to the 18th of May .

endacl

frag420 wrote: »

I blame those Peakey Blinders.....

I'll throw me hat into the ring and say we might as well throw our hat at it.

Anesthetize

ScienceNerd wrote: »

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You can't do that either. It poses an injury risk.

Lyaiera

No one was throwing anything but shapes at my graduation.

Capt'n Midnight

conorhal wrote: »

It's an 'unacceptable risk' aparently.... Has there been a raft of lawsuits from 1 eye'd arts graduates lately?.

Actually the eye damage might explain a lot of modern art

gramar

mahoganygas wrote: »

That's just begging for somebody to photoshop d1cks instead of hats.

There are plenty of dicks in the photo already I'd say.:pac: