Post by Logan on Jun 2, 2016 4:56:13 GMT -6
BYU professor agrees to stop inviting students to drink what he said was urine
SALT LAKE CITY — A Brigham Young University physiology professor will no longer be offering students the chance to drink what they think is real urine as part of a class demonstration.
Assistant professor Jason Hansen has been told to just explain the lesson next time rather than offering a mixture of water with vinegar and food coloring and calling it urine, Dixon Woodbury, chair of BYU's department of physiology and developmental biology, said Wednesday in a statement.
Hansen will not be disciplined.
Hansen said in a statement that he didn't mean to offend anyone when he recently offered a student the chance to drink urine in class to learn about the principles of hydration and dehydration. The woman didn't know it was fake urine. The second-year professor says he has done the same exercise in the past with no complaints.
"This is usually a fun way to teach this concept to the class," Hansen said in an email.
Read more: www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2016/06/utah_professor_to_stop_inviting_students_to_drink_what_he_said_was_urine.html
SALT LAKE CITY — A Brigham Young University physiology professor will no longer be offering students the chance to drink what they think is real urine as part of a class demonstration.
Assistant professor Jason Hansen has been told to just explain the lesson next time rather than offering a mixture of water with vinegar and food coloring and calling it urine, Dixon Woodbury, chair of BYU's department of physiology and developmental biology, said Wednesday in a statement.
Hansen will not be disciplined.
Hansen said in a statement that he didn't mean to offend anyone when he recently offered a student the chance to drink urine in class to learn about the principles of hydration and dehydration. The woman didn't know it was fake urine. The second-year professor says he has done the same exercise in the past with no complaints.
"This is usually a fun way to teach this concept to the class," Hansen said in an email.
Read more: www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2016/06/utah_professor_to_stop_inviting_students_to_drink_what_he_said_was_urine.html