Posted on 09/07/2020 7:31:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Eleven students were suspended from Northeastern University for the rest of the fall semester after staff members found them congregated in a temporary dorm room at the Westin Hotel in Boston. According to the Boston Globe, the students’ $36,500 tuition and housing charges will not be refunded due to the policies of a “first-year international experience” program called N.U.in.
Northeastern has dismissed 11 first-year students after they gathered together inviolation of university andpublic health protocols that prohibit crowded gatherings. https://t.co/4bSTi9AejF
— Northeastern U. (@Northeastern) September 4, 2020
The N.U.in. students and their parents were informed of the suspension on Friday and asked to “be tested for COVID-19, enter quarantine if they test positive, and then leave” within 24 hours.
According to the university, the students violated a policy banning “guests, visitors, or additional occupants… including neighbors within your residential building” inside each other’s rooms
“The students were required to acknowledge that they had reviewed the program handbook, which included details of the COVID-19 requirements that are meant to keep everyone safe,” Northeastern wrote in a news release detailing the suspension.
Like some universities around the nation, Northeastern attempted to prevent transmission of COVID-19 by notifying students that if they elected to return to campus in the fall, they would be suspended if they did not actively practice “physical distancing, avoid crowds, and wear masks in the presence of other people.”
“Students who host an unsafe (no masks and without healthy distancing) gathering, social or party, either on or off-campus can expect suspension,” Madeleine Estabrook, senior vice chancellor for student affairs at Northeastern, said in a letter to the students in late August. “Students who attend an unsafe gathering, social or party, either on or off-campus, can expect suspension.”
Even though the university maintains “regular testing for everyone who lives and works on campus,” providing “wellness housing for those who test positive,” Estabrook said that “testing negative for COVID-19 is not enough” and that students should have followed the rules.
“We must practice all of the public health guidelines in order to keep ourselves and the community healthy. Together, we can keep each other safe, but it will require everyone’s consistent cooperation,” she said.
The university claims that the suspended students “will have the right to contest their dismissal at an expedited hearing.”
“Bye, and thanks for the money!”
RE: “Bye, and thanks for the money!”
Let’s modify that : “Bye, and thanks for the money! SUCKERS!”
Wow. “Make big money and stay at home! How? Run a University”!
There is more freedom today in communist Wuhan, China.
RE: There is more freedom today in communist Wuhan, China.
Heck, they are partying like crazy in Wuhan even as we speak with NO MASKS or SOCIAL DISTANCING !
SEE HERE:
They won’t refund the money ?
Why would any rational person pay $70,000/year to attend a poor to mediocre university like Northeastern?
We had a similar experience when we took our Weinerdog, Anthony to Petco U. We took him there for socialization and to try and get him to become less obnoxious and be quieter around other dogs. He has never bitten anyone or any other animal but he barks constantly and tries to hump everything in sight. We gave him a stuffed dachshund named Huma but he humped the stuffing out of her after just a few nights. But Anthony got kicked out of class on his third night and they said that we would not receive our money back because it was our fault that we would could not keep him quiet and keep him from trying to humping everything in sight.
A great time saver, beats taking 4 years to throw your money away.
Gotta love that name... Anthony .. lol. Very creative. Creepy, but creative.
Expecting young people to cower in isolation in fear of a disease that they have statistically ZERO chance of dying or becoming seriously ill from is idiocy. This ridiculous scamdemic has gone on long enough.
“To keep everyone safe” is beginning to sound like the words of a totalitarian dictator.
These budding rocket scientists allegedly signed papers, that informed them of the consequences. I’d say they’re out of luck.
Inconvenient subject called contract law.
Democratic are corrupt scum.
“ Why would any rational person pay $70,000/year to attend a poor to mediocre university like Northeastern?”
Hi f you are not going there to study physical therapy there is no point to go there.
No Kidding!!! Take that 70K and buy a d*mn house then, go get a job at Burger King....
Lawsuits will be filed soon. With interest compounding. They may want to rethink their untenable position.
And...can you believe they TORE DOWN the Boston Opera House to build dorms for that overpriced left-wing moron factory.
(My beloved late hubby was a graduate but that was before they went all politically correct.)
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