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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On a serious note, I chose "weird" as one of the keyword because the coronavirus reaction is just getting too bizarre.
I am hoping the FR staff comes up with all-encompassing keyword for it.
How many university students have died so far?
Coviphobia.
You have no idea how contagion works, do you?
Of alcohol poisoning or alcohol-related accidents? Or the ‘rona?
I wonder how nearby Mount Saint Mary’s University and Hood College are doing just 30 minutes south.
How many university students have died so far?
Of course, it was just a college just then, so maybe that doesn’t count.
Maybe modern universities make people immortal, so long as they can avoid COVID.
The solution here is once a Freshman is accepted, just send him/her a Bachelor’s Degree in the field of study of their choice. That solves the residency issue and nobody gets the virus. College Degree Curbside Pickup !
‘Rona.
Cal State closed all of its dorms on campus 7 Sept.
Every class went online.
Students living in non campus housing could stay until the fire hazards sent them home. They still only had online classes.
If a bunch of people who have a fairly low risk can be herded together and get through it while almost only contaminating each other, they won’t be spreading it later when they are encountering a more diverse group of people.
One would think that having it rip through a university quickly and widely, so long as one can keep the thing from hitting the nursing homes, would be a really good thing for building up “herd immunity.”
But maybe you could explain what is wrong with this scenario.
Are they sending the students’ tuition money home with them?
Or are they keeping that in their endowment funds where it’s safe?
International students given priority over US citizens. No way. Pack those international students up and send them home. Oh, wait, it’s more about the $$$$ they bring to the school, uh huh.
RBG was a top lawyer; her final wishes should have been put in writing.
Gettysburg is stupid. The ONLY numbers they should have concerned themselves with is/was NOT “cases” but only deaths and hospitalizations. Why? Think about it. If it were seasonal flu, would they seriously be concerning themselves with “cases” (test positive) or would they MOSTLY and PRIMARILY be concerned about deaths and hospitalizations?
And out of all the “positive” cases among the college’s students and employees, just how many, what %, were hospitalized or died????
Maybe you can enlighten us.
I am visiting my father this weekend. My S.O. and I took a walk on the campus of the private residential social justice academy/college in his town.
There were a few kids walking on the track without masks. There are signs that masks are mandatory. No one was in the college center but the two of us. All the couches had been removed and chairs put six feet apart. The bulletin board was completely empty, but then again, I guess there is no point advertising meetings and events that shouldn’t be taking place according to the college’s rules.
We only saw about three kids walking from someplace on campus to another place.
We didn’t see anyone in town who looked like they were a student from the college.
It was so eerie. It would have been less eerie-feeling to have seen an actual ghost.
It’s been absolutely lovely weather-wise.
Shame on my alma mater. Back in my day there was enough alcohol flowing on campus to kill most any germs.
“Coviphobia”...LOVE IT!
This article doesn’t mention how many students tested positive in the “outbreak”.
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