Students No Longer Need To Give Sac State Professor Snacks

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS13/AP) — A California university professor can no longer demand snacks from students taking his psychology classes.

Sacramento State professor George Parrott has demanded snacks from his students 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 CBS13's Ben Sosenko earlier this month that his snack policy is to promote class teamwork. He says the snack rules are simple: twice a semester students are expected to bring in homemade goods.

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"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.

University spokeswoman Kimberly Nava says members of the psychology department at California State University, Sacramento decided Parrott's decision to walk out of class was unacceptable and the dean told him to stop.

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.