You're Too Fat. No Diploma!

This was interesting. Apparently Lincoln University in Oxford, PA (USA) now requires students to have a BMI (body mass index) of 30 or less or they have to take a one-credit health course.

Apparently this is the first class for whom the requirement means if they haven't fulfilled the requirement from their freshman year, they won't graduate, and nearly two dozen seniors fit that requirement.

My personal feeling is that if you're going to college to specialize in a career, why do you need to have a requirement that has nothing to do with the career? Worse, why is it focusing on fat people to tell them that they're unhealthy? Are normals honestly so stupid that they think fat people don't know they're tired, short of breath, unable to walk well, or any of the other host of fat-related problems are because they're fat and unhealthy?

I find it to be stupid in that they don't encourage this policy of forced behavior through requirements on no smoking, or undereating (bulimia/anorexia), in addition to the you're-too-damn-fat requirement.

Maybe they should force a particular religion (or non-religion) onto the students as well. After all, studies have shown some evidence that spirituality improves the quality of life for students, and if you're going to preach the gospel of skinny to students why not also throw this in for good measure, since the justification for telling students that they're too fat is that it affects their quality of life?