Ohio State May Not Excuse Students For Missing Class To Go To The National Championship
This time last week, Alabama fans were planning their trips to Dallas, as they were convinced their team had a shoo-in spot in the national championship game at Jerry World. However, Ohio State came roaring back from a 21-6 deficit to defeat the Crimson Tide. Now, the Buckeyes will play in their first national championship game since getting blown out in 2008. Ohio State fans and students began booking hotels, buying tickets, and celebrating heavily, and deservedly so — they earned it.
However, the Ohio State administration has more pressing matters to attend to on Monday, such as the first day of classes for the spring semester. With that in mind, the administration sent out the following email to the student body as a reminder that academics come first:
Students traveling to National Championship Game may not be excused from classes. Huh pic.twitter.com/KGzxbjK3qt
— Jordan Wagner (@JWagnerOSU) January 6, 2015
Erroneous! Erroneous on both accounts! You can’t just hang your students out to dry like that just because they have school spirit. Hell, if anything, they should just cancel classes on Monday because the students should be pregaming all day, whether they are in Dallas or Columbus.
What really grinds my gears about this whole situation isn’t the fact that teachers may or may not excuse their students who say they are going to the game, it’s the fact that these kids can be disenrolled for missing a class during the first week. You have to be shitting me. It’s syllabus week — no one’s doing any real work.
What benefits Ohio State more: a national title or attendance on the first day of class? According to its administration, the school would rather have more students in their seats than cheering on Urban Meyer’s squad at the game. That, my friends, is a damn shame..
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They tried pulling this bullshit on the students at UF in 2008. The administration quickly backpedaled when the student newspaper ran an article pointing out that nearly every top school administrator attended the game and skipped work that day.
11 years ago at 11:58 amCue disgruntled TCU/Baylor fans bitching about how OSU still doesn’t deserve to be there.
11 years ago at 12:04 pmI think MSU invalidated any TCU “shoulda been us” bullshit.
11 years ago at 4:06 pm*Baylor, dammit.
11 years ago at 4:08 pmExcuse or no excuse to miss class, I’ll still booze.
11 years ago at 12:12 pmJust curious, but who is everyone rooting for in this game?
11 years ago at 12:51 pmDidn’t FSU try to pull this shit last year?
11 years ago at 2:58 pmCommunists.
11 years ago at 3:01 pmBoulevard, I know you like to hate on Ohio State and dick ride whatever school/conference you were a part of, but this is pretty out of context. Five minutes after the email was sent, two of my professors canceled class. They don’t give a shit. The administration is just trying to cover their ass so they don’t look bad, but they know no one is going to class. It is true though that if you don’t show up to class the first week and they take attendance, you can get disenrolled from that class. But a simple email to the professor saying you got the clap and can’t make it to class can clear that up
11 years ago at 3:13 pmAlabama would’ve cancelled classes for the entire week.
11 years ago at 5:54 pmLast year, they cancelled classes because it was cold, twice if I remember correctly, and everything ended up just fine (I got a 2.4!) so I think they can postpone the pointless ass explanatory lecture for one day.
11 years ago at 8:48 pmThis letter is just to cover their asses. OSU also sends emails every year telling us not to jump in Mirror Lake before the Michigan game knowing damn well we’re still gonna do it.
11 years ago at 7:30 pm