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Oral Roberts Punishes Students via FitBits

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Oral Roberts University, a Christian school in Oklahoma, is taking health to a new level by requiring incoming freshmen and transfer students to walk about five miles per day as measured by Fitbit fitness trackers that they must purchase.

The tech-enabled mandate is an update to a previous policy that required all students to manually log aerobic points in a fitness journal.

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