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College Orientation Includes Shotguns

August21

I should have planned a gun training to element to orientation programming when I ran it at my alma mater.

Students in Svalbard, Norway, are taught how to use a shotgun and ammunition to fend off polar bears at the beginning of every school year.

Since polar bears can outrun a human in a matter of seconds, every student at the University Center undergoes weapons and arctic survival training, Aftenposten reported Monday.

“It’s absolutely necessary,” said UNIS director Gunnar Sand.

The school loans weapons, ammunition, tents, sleeping bags, survival suits, snow scooters and other equipment out as well.

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“College Orientation Includes Shotguns”

  1. On August 21st, 2007 at 8:12 pm Jen Says:

    That’s freakin’ awesome!

  2. On August 21st, 2007 at 11:07 pm straightarrow Says:

    Just think Norwegian students are taught to protect themselves from polar bears, while here in America we teach our students to helpless in the face of bi-polar monsters. :mad:

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