Brigham Young University assistant professor Jason Hansen can no longer offer glasses of artificial urine to his physiology students.
From ABC7Chicago:
Assistant professor Jason Hansen has been told to just explain the lesson next time rather than offering a mixture of water with vinegar and food coloring and calling it urine, Dixon Woodbury, chair of BYU’s department of physiology and developmental biology, said Wednesday in a statement.
Hansen will not be disciplined.
Hansen said in a statement that he didn’t mean to offend anyone when he recently offered a student the chance to drink urine in class to learn about the principles of hydration and dehydration. The woman didn’t know it was fake urine. The second-year professor says he has done the same exercise in the past with no complaints.
“This is usually a fun way to teach this concept to the class,” Hansen said in an email.