Posted on 09/20/2020 9:08:58 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
After quarantining students in their dorms for days, Gettysburg College decided to send most of its resident students home in early September.
On September 4, Gettysburg College President Bob Iuliano sent a message announcing that the Pennsylvania institution would implement a "de-densification" plan, citing high rates of COVID-19 transmission. More than 1,000 students were required to move off-campus, according to Gettysburg’s administration.
A limited number of students were allowed to remain on campus. Students who have research or teaching responsibilities, freshmen, and international students were given priority. A small number of students not meeting these criteria were aso allowed to remain on campus, but all students who wanted to remain in college-sponsored housing had to petition the administration to do so.
This "de-densification" comes at the tail end of an “all-student” quarantine which began on September 1.
The restrictions put in place were some of the strictest yet. This caught the attention of national media outlets like The Washington Post, which reported that Gettysburg was rarely allowing students to leave the confines of their dorm rooms. Students were only permitted to leave their rooms to retrieve food or use the restroom. Activities like strolls outside or use of fields and facilities for exercise were strictly prohibited.
The restrictions detailed on Gettysburg’s website stated that students who needed to travel off campus would need to gain permission, and suggested that it may be difficult to be allowed back after traveling. Gettysburg College’s abrupt decision to quickly push students off-campus was met with near-immediate blowback from frustrated students...
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This is all insane and even rots the brains of some Freepers. The conditioning and control is working as planned.
Class of 1982 here.
I remember.
How far Gettysburg has fallen .
“Breschard also expressed a sentiment that many other student leaders and dissenters at the College have expressed: that the administration cares more about public image and financial gain than the fiscal and academic well-being of its students. He believes that “the college is putting money over health by sending us home early, cutting their own expenses, in exchange for risking the lives of our parents and loved ones.”
I picked up the college newspaper at the college I walked at. One opinion writer discussed how “unsafe” she felt. She complained that the college has all these pain in the ass restrictive policies for students but allows prospective students and their parents to visit seemingly at will because all the college cares about is getting money.
The students are mad because there is no serious discussion among administrators about prorating tuition.
Of course there isn’t.
on this matter, the colleges are caught between a rock and a hard place
if they open campus, SOME people will get ill (if only from flu season or regular colds). The students are mostly of ages that CoV does no known serious harm (mostly asymptomatic, some get cold or flu like symptoms and it then goes away just fine). Faculty are older and thus more susceptible.
But, if you assemble several thousand people anywhere for anything, some will get sick a few days later.
And there are attorneys lined up to file large (or even class action) lawsuits against the colleges. With the smell of free $$$$ in the air, there will be lawsuits on behalf of students, on behalf of faculty, and on behalf of staff. Litigation (and attorney fees) everywhere. And thus far, Congress has refused to grant the colleges any legal immunity (yes, the lawyers’ lobbyists are damned good, effective!)
On the other hand, if the colleges stay shut down, some of them complain about the LACK of in-person instruction. They complain that internet (distance education) instruction is not as good. They demand refunds of their tuition (and yes, lawsuits are on the horizon).
SO now more and more colleges are announcing that they will stay closed at least until Fall 2021 (about a year from now). Why? Because the demands for fee refunds are more manageable, tolerable than having to defend against class action lawsuits alleging “you made me deathly sick by having to attend the real classes I voluntarily signed up for in the first place”
Also, faculty have some (limited) influence and some faculty unions have been advising their colleges that they will not cooperate (and may sue) if “forced to return to campus” — (their members include a number of over-60-agers that statistically are more vulnerable to the illness).
So, go figure!
I can’t believe how many students and parents did not choose to just go the community college route this year. I wonder how many regret it.
I was seriously expecting to be barraged with phone calls from our local community college begging me to teach a class. It didn’t happen.
Actually, come to think about it, I haven’t read or heard anything in local media about enrollment being up.
I wonder if that will change dramatically come spring semester.
Prison planet dystopia imposed by anarchism-terrorist leftists.
When the dust settles and the truth about this covid-con comes out and America realizes it has been shafted by government I wonder if you will be honest enough to feel shame? My apologies for not quacking in fear of a virus that is no more deadly than a typical bad flu season.
The lockdown has decimated the American middle class, by malevolent design, and yet you post support in this forum. It is beneath contempt.
“Students who have research or teaching responsibilities”
So who’s left to teach?
community colleges usually offer much smaller classes than many high-cost colleges
some CC’s are so good that their graduates do better in upper division studies than universities’ own frosh-admittees do
with some exceptions, I always recommend students get their Associate degrees and all the units they can transfer into the university. Smaller classes mean more professor help is available. Example: local community college biology class has 28 students (range from 20 to 35). local university same class has 900 students in a big auditorium.
which students get to ask their study questions ?
And don’t forget about the millions of poor around the world who will die because the rich nations are now less rich and can’t afford the same level of charity (clean well digging, vaccination programs for vaccinations that actually make sense, such as TB, etc.).
Coronaphobia
Screw the virus
screw the stupid politicians
and screw these lockdowns
Want to know how I really feel?
My friend’s son is a Freshman and ASU (Arizona State) and he went to the dorm, bought his food card package. Now they are sending them home with a note saying you can not be reimbursed for ANY OF IT. Big big class action lawsuits coming.
How many universities students have been hospitalized for COVID 19? How many university students have even had symptoms? On the other hand, how many university students get mononucleosis each year?
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