Posted on 03/29/2021 9:01:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Rutgers University has announced that all students who wish to attend the school in the fall must get a vaccination. There is a terrible idea for a couple of very important reasons.
Rutgers was a very prestigious school. Founded in 1766 as Queen’s College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, it’s given some important people to the world. The most important was Milton Friedman, who received a B.A. from Rutgers in 1932. Its least distinguished, but somehow still famous, is Elizabeth Warren, who went there for law school. The actor and singer Paul Robeson was a graduate, as was Peter C. Schultz, the coinventor of fiber optics, and Stanley N. Cohen, who pioneered gene splicing.
Rutgers has almost 69,000 students. Last week, all those students learned that they will be required to show proof that they received a Wuhan virus vaccine if they wish to attend the university:
The university will require all students to be vaccinated before arriving on campus in the fall
Read More Rutgers University will require the COVID-19 vaccine for students who are enrolled for the 2021 fall semester.
Assurances from the federal government that vaccines will be available for all Americans by the end of May and assessments by public health experts prompted university leaders to adjust the vaccine requirements for the fall semester.
“We are committed to health and safety for all members of our community, and adding COVID-19 vaccination to our student immunization requirements will help provide a safer and more robust college experience for our students,” said Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway.
The only exemptions will be for medical or religious reasons. Students who never step foot on campus will also be excused from the requirement. Even students who are still under 18 must have a vaccination,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What about faculty and adminsistration? I will bet they do not go there. And suddenly HIPAA is not a thing anymore.
Interesting. I can smell the liability lawsuits now.
Oh... Rutgers thinks they will get waivers for requiring an unapproved, experimental medicine? As an addendum to the already approved admission requirements?
I’m not arguing the vaccine is dangerous, but rather that making it voluntarily available with a waiver is a far different matter legally than making it a new requirement for attendance. Under those circumstances, I’m not sure a waiver is viable.
Be accepted to Rutgers (not so hard, I’m told), decline other colleges that accepted you, make your plans, put your money down, and uh-oh, suddenly they demand you submit to injection with an experimental “vaccine.”
Way to make NJ college-bounders religious.
Not to mention a whole bunch of lawyers.
RE: Be accepted to Rutgers (not so hard, I’m told),
Rutgers was the alma mater of the great Nobel Prize winning Economist, Milton Friedman. Things have changed in just one generation.
What part of emergency and experimental approval do they not understand? Do they take personal liability in requiring students to take the vaccine? And if they can require this, what other potentially politically or socially motivated vaccines can they also require?
No kidding. I remember when Chris Moltisanti and Jackie Aprile Jr. robbed the Jewel benefit concert at Rutgers and Jackie was selling X on campus.
Einstein taught at Rutgers. There was a table at the Metuchen Inn where he engraved his name.
Buddy of mine has a daughter going there. She’s dropping out to go somewhere else.
Interesting fact - Rutgers is the only state university in the US without the state name in it’s school name.
I suppose this is what allows them to apply such a COVID rule, being a state university. In this case, it’s a state requirement (to go to a state university, a recipient of state (and federal?) operational funding).
Mister Magoo was an American animated television series which was produced from November 7, 1960 to February 2, 1962.
Mr. Magoo is an alumnus of Rutgers University, Class of 1928.
In one episode, Mr. Magoo’s nephew, Waldo (voiced by the late Casey Kasem), reads a letter from Rutgers University inviting Magoo back to his alma mater. Magoo mistakes the Rutgers campus for a zoo he had driven in to but still manages to cheer on the “football team” and toast his old “friends” and Rutgers as the episode ends.
“Oh, Magoo.... you’ve done it again!”
~ shoptalk, RU ‘75
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