Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Japanese university worries about classes!

In a stunning new development in Japanese higher education, a Japanese university---where most go for a four-year vacation before joining the drudgery of the salaryman life---has suddenly become concerned about its classes!

Tokyo's Meiji U. has pulled the plug on an on-campus screening of "The Cove" that was to have been followed by a Q and A with pic advisor and dolphin activist Ric O'Barry.

University officials said they feared Thursday's screening would interfere with classes. Variety

Perhaps students who might go to the screening and the following discussion would compare that to the content of the lecture they face should they for some reason actually attend a class. Or it might cause them to get too stimulated to sleep in said class.

2 comments:

  1. Pathetic, isn't it? But unfortunately par for the...ah...course.

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  2. But, as courageous as Meiji's stand is in preventing confusion and such, it seems that the students will be able to watch it online. Not that any would skip class to do so.

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