Sacramento State Professor Told To Stop Requiring Students To Bring Snacks

SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) - A professor at California State University, Sacramento has been told he can no longer demand snacks from students taking his psychology classes.

Professor George Parrott has had a policy of students bringing in snacks for 39 years. Students were told of the snack demand on the first day of class. But two weeks ago he walked out of his Psychology 101 lab class because there were no snacks.

Parrott told CBS 13 earlier this month that his snack policy is to promote class teamwork. He said the snack rules are simple: twice a semester students are expected to bring in homemade goods.

"For the second week in a row, nobody brought and connected with and checked on each other to show up with the expected shared snacks," Parrott said.

Sacramento State spokeswoman Kimberly Nava said members of the psychology department at decided Parrott's decision to walk out of class was unacceptable and the dean told him to end the behavior and to discontinue the policy of requiring snacks from students until the university decides if it conforms with fee policies.

But Parrott told CBS13 he doesn't care what the university administration thinks about his policy because he's in the process of accepting a Fulbright grant to teach overseas next year in Poland.

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