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UK Architectural Students Recruited To Build Torture Devices
Published: Saturday, February 2, 2008 | 11:34 AM ET
Canadian Press: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON - Homework is not meant to be comfortable.

But one British professor's efforts to get his students to create fully operational torture devices has even some of his colleagues wincing.

Students at Kent University School of Architecture in southeast England were asked to manufacture the devices as part of an attempt to sensitize them to the principals of ergonomics - the science of reducing fatigue and discomfort.

A copy of the assignment - entitled "Torture" - was carried on the website of The Architect's Journal

The journal said the assignment was written by Kent University tutor Mike Richards.

No one at the university or the Royal Institute of British Architects immediately responded to phone and e-mail messages seeking comment Saturday. But The Guardian newspaper quoted one of the institute's former presidents, Paul Hyatt, as saying he was appalled.

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