Canadian University Suspends Student Team After Racy Photo !??!

[A930Rocket]

All you Canucks can't be this bad, right?



Canadian University Suspends Student Team After Racy Photo

Published April 15, 2011

Michael Strickland, a spokesman for the University of Waterloo, said the temporary suspension is in response to an "inappropriate and denigrating" photograph, seen above, that appeared online and elsewhere. (Mike Seliske)
The University of Waterloo in Canada has suspended a team of students who built a racecar after a female member was photographed posing next to the car in a bikini and high heels.

University spokesman Michael Strickland said the temporary suspension is in response to an "inappropriate and denigrating" photograph that appeared online, as well as in Tuesday's edition of the Waterloo Region Record.

"The decision also considered the guidelines in place to ensure the safety of students," Strickland wrote in an email to FoxNews.com. "The university's engineering design centre, where the photo was taken, has rules covering the type of equipment that can be brought in as well as the manner in which it can be used."

Students on the Formula SAE team will now be unable to enter the car in an international contest to be held in Michigan next month since the suspension lasts until June 1, the Waterloo Region Record reports.

In a memo sent to all engineering students, Adel Sedra, dean of engineering, said the suspension through June 1 stems from "misuse of the student design centre space for an unauthorized photo shoot" involving the Formula SAE vehicle.

Sedra praised the "remarkable work" of student teams and assured students they would still receive credit for their work.

Steve Lambert, the group's faculty adviser, told the newspaper that students -- 30 of whom were planning to travel to Michigan for the contest -- were "obviously" disappointed.

"One of the bitter ironies of the present situation is that the photo shoot was intended to promote women," Lambert said in a statement on the group's website.

The woman depicted in the photo was a key member of the team, Lambert said. She was entering a contest to appear in a calendar to raise money for charity and needed the photo as part of her application, he said.

"I knew that particular student, and she had been thinking about whether she could be feminine and an engineer at the same time," Lambert told the newspaper.

Lambert said university officials were concerned that the engineering faculty's student design center was used for the photo shoot without permission.

"Engineering remains committed to creating experiential learning opportunities where all members of the community can achieve academic success and personal growth," Strickland's statement concluded.

[Tobra]

I thought engineers were smart.

To be clear, I am denigrating the administration of the school, not the students.

[MotoSook]

Load of crap! The SAE team put a lot work into that car. The suspension is one insecure person's agenda.

[azasadny]

Political correctness run amuck...

[scottmandue]

The plaid bikini is kinda in bad taste... and the high heels don't match the outfit... should have went with basic black

So high school students are posting necked pics of themselves on the Internet and this is deemed inappropriate?

[Burnin' oil]

Originally Posted by Soukus

. . . The suspension is one insecure person's agenda.

For a couple minutes, I thought you were talking about the car's suspension. Then it dawned on me. I am an idiot . . .

[masraum]

Wow, what a beyotch

[widgeon13]

I don't think they would have been suspended if she had gone to the tanning parlor for a couple of days.

[ckissick]

Couldn't they just put them on double secret probation?

[Gogar]

Wow! Apparently Canadians DO want to be more like Americans.

[Por_sha911]

Although I wouldn't want my daughter posing for the pic, I think that their political correctness is going over the top. Dear Lord, you'll see far worse than that around the swimming pool or outdoor fountain at any university on a warm day.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Gogar

Wow! Apparently Canadians DO want to be more like Americans.

They are way too polite and never will get a taste for light beer... not going to happen.

Do I really need green type for that?

Besides, that bikini would have a 80% reduction in fabric if that was an American girl.

[JJ 911SC]

Ontario university...

If she was attending a Quebec university, she would have been ask if they could use the photo as recruting poster

[rhogg]

Hmmm.... I asked my wife to read this. She is an engineer that went to an Ontario university. Her comment was that the student hadn't figured it out yet. That the association of a woman in a bikini and a car did not convey feminine power but did represent what men want to possess, hence objectifying women.

Having said that political correctness is over the top at Canadian universities, but we do have a lot of clear thinking, educated, independent, accomplished women.

And yes my wife does drive my SC, and I must say that does project feminine power !

Oh yeah - don't hate on the plaid - It is never out of place in Canada!

[wdfifteen]

I can't describe inappropriate, but I know it when I see multiple color glossies of it. I need to see better pictures. Close ups of the offensive female would be helpful. What is that, some kind of car or something she's standing on? Get rid of it. It distracts from the potential offensiveness of the photo.

[fred cook]

The background and most of the car are under exposed and thus can't be seen properly. The model standing in front of the car, however, is very, very properly "exposed"! The admin at Waterloo U. need to get a life!

[s_morrison57]

Originally Posted by Gogar

Wow! Apparently Canadians DO want to be more like Americans.

No we don't!
Suspension for something like this is absurd and just goes to show you that no matter where or no matter what country, there is always someone with their head up their azz. Thats so stupid, makes me embarrassed to be a proud Canadian.
Finn

[onewhippedpuppy]

Engineering administration = engineers with PhDs that never left school. Any surprise that they have no common sense?

I don't recall any students that looked like that in my engineering classes.....

[slow&rusty]

Haha...I went to that University and got my Engineering degree there. There were no hotties like that when I was there (let alone in Engineering...50 guys to 1 homely looking girl ratio!). I also helped out on the Honda SAE team too...great fun.

Way to go Waterloo..sweet.

Yasin

[sammyg2]

There are stoopid people everywhere.