University of Oregon Offering ‘Election Week Therapy’ Events Featuring Cute Animals
“To promote well-being and lessen anxiety”
If Trump wins the election, it’s going to be like 2016 all over again but the meltdown will be worse.
Campus Reform reports:
University of Oregon to offer ‘election week therapy’ featuring dogs, goats, and even ducks
The University of Oregon will offer several “election week therapy” events featuring a range of animals.
The University of Oregon’s University Health Services is hosting the event on Tuesday, which is Election Day.
According to three event pages, the university’s heath services department will bring therapy goats, dogs, and even “Quacktavious the Therapy Duck.”
”To promote well-being and lessen anxiety during election week, University Health Services is bringing therapy dogs from F.E.T.C.H. to campus,” the event page states.
Several schools including the University of Michigan and Virginia Tech University are hosting similar election day therapy events, which will feature therapy dogs, free yoga, and art.
During the general election in 2020, several universities hosted similar events and even canceled class.
At Syracuse University, officials organized a “Rock Balancing for Mindfulness” event on Election Day to help students de-stress.
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Comments
I wonder if they’ll have any squirrels?
You know what animal is really cute? Velvet ants.
At least we didn’t have to clean up after teddy bears and coloring books.
Much.
While I understand the emotional side of life, I think the universities are neglecting this opportunity as a unique teaching moment. Just perhaps they could discuss why over 70% of this country thinks we are on the wrong track, why VP Harris is certainly part of the problem, why VP Harris never declared that she would have done things differently even in hindsight, and why VP Harris even with over $1B was never able to even define what an “opportunity economy” was or when and why she changed her positions so radically over the past 5 years.
Extra credit would go to assessing the performance of the media and why for basic credibility journalists need to get back to objectivity rather than advocacy.
The students might then learn some critical thinking skills.