IdaGriz01 said:
EverettGriz said:
66volvo said:
How is it that practices are closed to the public? Isn't this a public university funded with public tax dollars? This subject comes up all the time and I'm still confused. Is this a little like violating "public meeting laws"? I need help understand this...
Seriously?
As a scheduled school event, a practice session is equivalent -- technically -- to a class session. I do not know of a campus where a member of the "general public" would freely wander into a classroom while a prof is giving a lecture. You have to be registered as a student, and (probably) specifically registered for that class. Could be wrong, but suspect that would be case.
Reminds me of a funny story: A homeless dude came to our Anthropology lectures for an entire semester. He even took the quizzes. The professor would always say something like, "I have one more quiz to give back that had a blank student ID number, again." He was apparently doing OK.
Years later, I followed my now wife around on fellowship interviews. I would go to classes while she was in interviews. I have officially attended classes at Michigan, Stanford, UCSD, UW, and UCLA without being enrolled at any of them. I even took a quiz in a Physics class at UCSD. The look on the other students' faces when I didn't have any books, didn't take any notes, and handed in the quiz five minutes after getting it was priceless. I obviously was not smart enough to know what the f*** was going on in any of these classes.