College's Too Fat to Graduate rule under fire.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by LionTamer

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that Lincoln is a historically black university, and correlated the requirement to the crazy levels of diabetes and kidney disease among african-americans

Someone did.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I heard an interview with someone from Lincoln (it may have been DeBoy) a week or two ago, and he made a big deal about part of the impetus for this requirement being the problem of obescity among African-Americans, which can lead to other health problems (heart issues, diabetes, etc.). He was laying it out as an HBCU's responsibility to the African-American community, but if that's the reasoning behind it, then it seems everybody should have to take the class, because it's not just about your own health and making good choices for yourself -- it's also about the health of those around you and how you can support healthy choices by others.