Penn State's 98-Year-Old Outing Club Is No Longer Allowed to Go Outside
I’m a Penn State grad and have been hearing about this from a couple of people, glad to see it’s getting wider attention.<p>If the “no cell service” issue is really the problem, this is even more embarrassing. Satellite phones are a thing, and if they can’t afford the subscription for that, then get a subscriptionless emergency satellite beacon instead. They cost a few hundred dollars.<p>It’s even run by an international treaty with many satellite networks listening for these alerts and forwarding them to local authorities. Works pretty much anywhere in the world and costs less than most cell phones.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cospas-Sarsat_Programme" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cospas-Sarsat_Pr...</a><p>Risk management my ass. If they were really concerned about the safety of students it wouldn’t be a football school.