ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY IS NOW
FORCING ALL INCOMING FRESHMEN TO
USE A FIT BIT AS PART OF THEIR WHOLE PERSON EDUCATION PROGRAM.
IF YOU DON'T WANT TO WEAR ONE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO YOU CAN JUST
LOG IN
YOUR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY.
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF STUDENTS WORRIED
ABOUT THE PRIVACY ISSUES
INVOLVING THE FIT BIT.
IT HAS A GPS TRACKING DEVICE.
SINCE THE
SCHOOL IS A RIGHT WING RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION THAT DOES NOT
BELIEVE IN PREMARITAL SEX, THEY'RE WORRIED THAT THE BITS
WILL BE
USED TO KEEP TRACK OF STUDENTS THAT MAY NOT BE FOLLOWING
THE UNIVERSITY'S HONOR CODE.
WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK?
>>MARK, GO AHEAD AND TALK.
>> I DO THINK IT IS A VIOLATION AND AN ABSURD BIG BROTHER-ISH-
AND WHEN YOU THROW IN THE PURITANISM YOU CAN EASILY BE IN
A SITUATION WHERE YOU ARE BUSTING PEOPLE ñ AND THAT CAN
TAKE ON ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT MANIFESTATIONS WHEN YOU ARE IN
COLLEGE.
THEY CAN DRAG YOU BEFORE THE HONOR COMMITTEE FOR A NUMBER
OF
THINGS.
>> I REMEMBER A FEW YEARS AGO, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY WENT
AFTER ONE OF THEIR BASKETBALL
PLAYERS FOR HAVING PREMARITAL SEX.
IT IS NOT RARE THAT STUFF
LIKE THIS HAPPENS AT RELIGIOUS
INSTITUTIONS.
IT HAPPENS.
IF THEY HAVE A RELIGIOUS OR HONOR
CODE, THEN IF THERE IS A WAY FOR THEM TO FIND OUT WHEN YOU ARE
BEING UNFAITHFUL OR WHATEVER
THEN THEY ARE GOING TO FIND YOU.
I DON'T KNOW IF THEY WILL USE
THE FIT BIT TO DO THAT, BUT I DO HAVE A FIT BIT AND I KNOW HOW IT
WORKS.
IT DEFINITELY DOES KEEP TRACK OF YOUR HEART RATE.
IF YOU
ARE LEAVING YOUR DORM ROOM AT
THREE IN THE MORNING AND THEY CAN TRACK VIA GPS WHERE YOU ARE
GOING AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOUR
HEART RATE SPIKES, ARE YOU WORKING OUT?
OR ARE YOU GETTING IT IN?
>> MAYBE YOU SAW A SPIDER?
>> I REMEMBER THAT BYU STORY VAGUELY.
I THOUGHT THE THING
THAT WAS DISTURBING WAS THAT THERE WAS A SHAMING ASSOCIATED
WITH IT.
THAT COMMUNITY SHAMING IS REALLY DISTURBING.
THAT CAN
HAPPEN WITHOUT SOME FORMAL COMMITTEE.
THAT CAN BE A
CONTROLLED LEAK.
THIS THING THAT SEEMS LIKE BIG BROTHER CAN TAKE
ON A FORMAL SORT OF REPRIMAND OR TAKE ON A SHAMING IN THAT
COMMUNITY.
THAT CAN BE WORSE.
>> THERE WAS A SHAMING WHEN IT INVOLVED A MALE BASKETBALL STAR
ON CAMPUS.
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW
BAD IT WILL BE IF IT IS NOT AN ATHLETIC STAR AND IT IS A WOMAN?
WE KNOW THAT KIND OF SLUT SHAMING HAPPENS MORE OFTEN
TOWARDS WOMEN.
IT IS EVEN EXACERBATED WHEN YOU ARE IN A
RELIGIOUS SITUATION.
I THINK IT MAKES IT EVEN WORSE IF YOU ARE
ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS THAT HAS
THIS KIND OF HONOR CODE.
I THINK IT IS BAD ALL AROUND.
THE
UNIVERSITY HAS RESPONDED TO
THESE ACCUSATIONS.
THEY SAID THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN
TRACKING PEOPLE.
AND IF THEY WANT TO FORGO THE FIT BIT
COMPLETELY AND JUST LOG THINGS MANUALLY THEY CAN DO THAT AS
WELL.
WHO KNOWS.
>> ONCE A YEAR I WOULD GO TO TULSA, OKLAHOMA AND GO DOWN TO
THAT UNIVERSITY.
THEY HAVE THESE HUGE HANDS THAT ARE PRAYING,
GIGANTIC HANDS.
WE WOULD ALL GO TAKE PICTURES THERE AND DO
SOMETHING SACRILEGIOUS.
>>LIKE WHAT, JIMMY?
>> COME ON, GIVE ME A BREAK.
AND I REMEMBER WE GOT REVIEWED.
THERE WAS SOMEONE FROM THE COLLEGE THAT REVIEWED THE SHOW
AND THEY HATED ME.
THEY SAID IT WAS JUST FILLED WITH PROFANITY
AND OTHER STUFF.
SO I GO BACK
AND SAID THAT HE CAME ON THE SWEARING CONTEST NIGHT.
I WAS
DOING GREAT FOR THE SWEARING
CONTEST.
SO, THAT WAS MY FIRST BAD REVIEW AT ORAL UNIVERSITY.
>>THAT IS AMAZING.
ALSO, I FEEL LIKE IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE KIND
OF STUFF THAT THE UNIVERSITY BELIEVES IN THEN YOU PROBABLY
SHOULDN'T GO TO A COMEDY SHOW.
COMEDY SHOWS ARE USUALLY SUPER VULGAR AND AWESOME.
>>THEY BREAK RULES.
ORAL ROBERTS WAS THE GUY THAT SAID HE NEEDED
$1 MILLION OR HE IS GOING TO KILL HIM.
THAT WAS THE GUY.
I
REMEMBER SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE DID
THE BEST SKETCH ABOUT HIM.
IT WAS LIKE, 'HELLO GOD?'
AND HE WAS LIKE, 'WHERE IS THE MONEY?'
>> HE ALSO HAD THIS LONG SPEECH ABOUT ORAL SEX AND ABOUT HOW
GOOD IT FEELS AND TASTES.
YOU GUYS REMEMBER THAT?
>>NO.
>>A LONG TIME AGO WHEN I FIRST STARTED WORKING AT TYT CENK HAD
UNCOVERED AUDIO OF ROBERTS SPEAKING ABOUT ORAL SEX AND
ABOUT HOW SACRILEGIOUS IT WAS.
THAT IS WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO
GET THROUGH WHEN TALKING ABOUT
IT.
INSTEAD HE DOES WHAT A LOT OF ANTI-GAY RIGHT-WINGERS DO,
WHILE TALKING ABOUT GAY SEX HE MAKES IT SEEM LIKE HE WANTS IT
SO FUCKING BAD, BUT I CAN'T, IT IS WRONG.
PEOPLE WHO ARE
STRAIGHT DON'T TALK ABOUT GAY
SEX LIKE THAT.
I DON'T REALLY EVER THINK ABOUT GAY SEX.
IT IS JUST NOT INTERESTING TO ME.
I DON'T MIND WHEN PEOPLE DO IT, THAT IS YOUR LIFE, I HAVE
MY LIFE, IT IS COOL.
THE WAY RIGHT-WINGERS TALK ABOUT ANAL SEX IS AMAZING.