Posted on 10/17/2014 4:19:06 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
In light of the recent global Ebola outbreak, the University has placed restrictions on travel to West Africa, the University said in an email sent to Cornellians Thursday evening.
The University guidelines prevent students, faculty and staff from traveling for study abroad, research, internships, service, conferences, presentations, teaching, performances, recruiting or athletic competitions in the West African nations under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention travel warnings. Currently, those nations include Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the University.
The message to all students was authored by Fredrik Logevall, vice provost for international affairs, Janet Corson-Rikert, associate vice president for campus health- and director of Gannett Health Services, and Craig McAllister, director of risk management and insurance and chair of the Student Insurance Advisory Committee.
Ebola is a highly infectious, incurable viral disease that is currently thought to only be spread through direct contact with body fluids, according to the message.
According to the University, travel to those countries for personal reasons — as well as hosting visitors from those countries — is “strongly discouraged.”
Students who have traveled to affected countries or had contact with individuals who have been exposed to Ebola are required to contact Gannett by phone to “establish plans for monitoring [their] health and protecting others” before returning to campus, according to the University.
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This is the extension of Frieden’s “sitting on a bus rule.” You can get it by going there, but they can’t give it to you by coming here.
now that the horse is gone, we need to shut the barn door...
Understanding how ‘liberals’ think (or don’t, actually), I’m confident that many thousands of current Cornell students, professors, and alumni simultaneously believe that the Cornell administration is smart to have done this, and that Republicans are evil, stupid racists when they advocate travel bans to West African countries (and at any other time as well).
The airlines will be very sorry they didn’t do the same
Upstate bump
RACISS!
Amazing. Though not really. When in can affect them directly, that is the only time anything matters.
I agree. They’d better rethink that really fast. I know of people cancelling travel plans as I type.
But not everyone of them. There are a surprising number who are consistent—many of them are also insane, but being consistent is highly compatible with the more interesting forms of insanity. Attending Cornell can be quite an educational experience, though it is not for everyone.
100%
Someone from the Medical School from down state must have called.
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