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Post by gks on Sept 3, 2020 8:23:34 GMT -5
Did they send something home to parents?
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Post by gks on Aug 14, 2020 19:37:12 GMT -5
Actually freshmen began moving in Wednesday and upper-classmen on Thursday Saturday is the last scheduled move-in date, I think. Classes begin Monday, which is a week earlier than normal. Classes end the Friday before Thanksgiving, with finals and term papers the week after Thanksgiving. In addition to the two tests, which were required before arriving, students will be tested every ten days during the semester, on average. Hopefully things go well, although there is always a real potential of 20-year olds not following the rules. Not sure 20-year olds are more or less likely to follow the rules regarding face coverings, masks and social distancing if they are home out with pals or on campus. More likely to 'follow the rules' in a somewhat controlled setting as a college campus.
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Post by gks on Aug 14, 2020 17:55:28 GMT -5
I don't know if this has been posted. Bucknell moving in this weekend. Each student tested twice before arriving on campus.
Some colleges have put in the effort.
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Post by gks on Aug 12, 2020 15:26:35 GMT -5
“What”s your deal?” Refrain from ad hominem attacks! I did not launch a personal attack against you, nor will I as it violates our ethics and rules. Since I am “ignorant”, please educate me how Brown and UConn are different than HC. I try to keep an open mind to learn. I am fully aware of the nuance in how those institutions are handling their campus residency requirements for this fall. Both announced this week that that on campus residency would not occur. Brown couched it by stating at least until October 5, 2020 and UConn is not allowing out of state students to reside on campus. FYI, my daughter attended college and law school 3,000 miles from home. She is now a very successful lawyer and a trained design engineer who was taught and was mentored by the current Chairman of Alphabet, and by a former US Secretary of Defense while he was in residence at the Hoover Institution, a leading international policy think tank. But that was 20 years ago, when she launched her academic career, and not in the maelstrom of a global pandemic. If you have such a grievance against the HC administration and some of us on this board, maybe you should talk to your family and have your child enrolled in an institution that would allow them to live in a Petri dish and possibly catch a life altering disease. Several new categories have been created for the Darwin Awards for 2020, candidates are being nominated every day. I suggest you get some professional advice regarding your perceived grievance with HC. I do not have a sympathetic ear. Please take it some where other than Crossports. Ignorance. Plenty of colleges have set into motion thorough plans to mitigate and control this the best they can. Holy Cross did not. They didn't want to go the extra steps to get kids back on campus. BTW, everywhere you go is a "petry dish". Unless you've stayed home since March you've been in plenty.
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Post by gks on Aug 11, 2020 8:20:46 GMT -5
ND will be in a heap of trouble if the on-campus approach blows up and they have no remote learning infrastructure up and running. They should pray to Touchdown Jesus that everything works according to plan. I make the virus a ten point favorite. It's a long season, er semester. At least they and others are trying. Not folding up shop...after sending the tuition bill.
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Post by gks on Aug 11, 2020 8:19:46 GMT -5
For those who think HC is a peer of Notre Dame, the latter conducted 12,000 tests of the students they in have on campus, with 99.7% of them testing negative. HC students, instead, will be at home. Failed leadership Many colleges have done this. Those with a plan.
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Post by gks on Aug 10, 2020 12:56:31 GMT -5
Will all other schools that are using Broad now go to an online-only format? Several did earlier, Harvard for example. But Harvard also predicated, at the time, that it would limit students in residence to one per room. At the time the contracts were 'signed' between Broad and the several dozen schools, Broad had a testing capacity of 35,000 tests a day. It was doing about 7,000 tests a day for various entities, e.g., hospitals, nursing homes, etc. In my mind, I figured Broad was reserving 10,000 daily tests for the non-academic 'community', and 25,000 daily tests for the schools. To be somewhat equitable, I figured that Broad was limiting each school to about a 1,000 tests a day. HC had said it would initially test students at a frequency of every 2-3 days, which would be a rate consistent with my premise that each academic contract has a daily cap. Reading between the lines, it appears that Broad will not have a daily testing capacity of 35,000 tests, but a capacity that is substantially less, perhaps 15-18,000. It is not that Broad lacks the physical equipment to do the test, but rather is experiencing a shortage of reagents. From reading Fr. Borough's missive, it appears the current shortage is so acute that HC would be unable to test every student on arrival on campus, and secure test results within the 24-36 hours called for under the contract. Even if HC administered the test to every student on-arrival (whether living off-campus or on-campus) it could not obtain timely test results. Illustratively, if Broad said the average wait for test results is seven days, and complete results for all students might not be available until 11 days, then one could have significant community spread occurring on College Hill while the college awaits test results. HC's strategy was to detect and isolate any returned students who were actively infected; the 24 hour test result turnaround allowed that. Then good hygiene, mask-wearing, social distancing, reinforced by frequent testing to detect new infections in a timely way, would keep the campus community relatively safe, and contagion-free. I checked Wellesley's COVID site this morning, and no change. The Boston Globe's on-line edition headlines HC's decision, and with a focus on the Broad 'problem'. www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/10/metro/college-holy-cross-will-be-online-this-fall/. If Holy Cross had been pro-active they could do full testing. Plenty of college have thorough testing plans in place.
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Post by gks on Aug 10, 2020 10:26:17 GMT -5
as a parent of a rising sophomore, who just signed a lease for an off campus apartment, you can imagine how we feel. this will impact our willingness to make future contributions. our student is now considering transfer options to Southern schools. the other parents with whom we are in communication have had the same reaction. we just sent the tuition payment based upon the information we were provided for the last several weeks. just a tragic development. Feel bad for your son or daughter. This is broken down into two categories. Schools that had a plan and schools that didn't.
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Post by gks on Aug 10, 2020 10:25:14 GMT -5
This just comes down to whether schools want to spend the money and allocate the resources to deal with this. Schools have had ALL SPRING and SUMMER to figure it out. This is nothing but a giant screw job to parents and students who made plans to travel to Worcester. Will rental cars, plane tickets, etc be reimbursed? Kids/parents who were going to be off campus still have leases; perhaps they can be broken, perhaps not (most likely not). Will most of those students come back? What control does HC have over them except in most cases keeping them off the grounds? They have zero control over off campus. What you're going to have is kids moving into apartments. Doing minimal college work online and then bored out of their minds and you know what happens then. If you make this announcement at the beginning of the summer that's fine. I wouldn't agree with it, but I'd understand. This late, last minute decision is ridiculous. If I was a parent of an HC student I'd be pissed.
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Post by gks on Aug 10, 2020 9:54:32 GMT -5
This just comes down to whether schools want to spend the money and allocate the resources to deal with this. Schools have had ALL SPRING and SUMMER to figure it out.
This is nothing but a giant screw job to parents and students who made plans to travel to Worcester. Will rental cars, plane tickets, etc be reimbursed?
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Post by gks on Jul 31, 2020 11:16:40 GMT -5
IMO noting is more useless than the total number of cases. Tell me what's going on right now in a certain area. Tell me the 14 day trend. Cases in March on a college campus are meaningless. My town in Massachusetts had 6 positive tests in the past 14 days out a population of about 18K. Ridiculous that we're still treating things like it's March and April.
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Post by gks on Jul 29, 2020 21:03:58 GMT -5
It will be VERY interesting how BC and Syracuse are going to get around the quarantine rules for travel both to them and when they leave. They will likely get a special exemption but still. If they get an exemption then so should everyone else. Getting tired of different rules for different groups.
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Post by gks on Jul 17, 2020 13:42:56 GMT -5
The only good thing I can think coming out of this mess is that I think it's going to turn the clock back 15-20 years on street and highway congestion. More people will work remotely on a regular basis. More remote learning. On the flip side, it will be a long time before the push for people to use more public transportation will bear fruit. True but commercial real estate will take a huge hit. Unum today announced they are pulling out of their brand new building in Downtown Worcester. I think 400 positions now work from home. Real tough spinoff coming from this.
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Post by gks on Jul 13, 2020 17:27:35 GMT -5
And at present, half the PL teams + Georgetown can't travel to MA because they're from states, visitors from which are supposed to quarantine for 14 days. Have not yet seen or heard that MA has exempted college teams from the 43 states + DC that are subject to this policy. I think this MA restriction is more exclusionary than those in the other PL states, at the moment. You are "urged' to Quarantine. There's no law.
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Post by gks on Jul 13, 2020 13:09:20 GMT -5
This has been discussed in Massachusetts. Fear is that if flip is done and something happens and the fall season needs to be scrubbed baseball, softball, etc would get bagged twice.
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Post by gks on Jul 13, 2020 13:07:29 GMT -5
This stinks. Send the students to campus but cancel their activities. Hoping for spring football. It’s July 13. They have no idea how the virus will be in October. Only on campus activity this fall will be drinking!
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Post by gks on Jul 8, 2020 18:05:11 GMT -5
If you're going to cancel the fall season why are you allowing winter teams to practice? That makes no sense to me.
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Post by gks on Jul 1, 2020 17:06:26 GMT -5
No mention of Yale athletics in that piece (I don't think...quickly scanned)....but I'm having a hard time seeing the Yale of today making exceptions for the football team i.e. allowing them on campus and not other students. Really doubting the Ancient VIII will have (a full anyway) football season sadly. If sophomores are not on campus how would they play football?
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Post by gks on Jun 29, 2020 13:54:22 GMT -5
All Williams College fall sports teams will not travel or compete. The decision affects more than football. Expect more schools to follow. The surge in Covid cases with the demographic trending to a younger age will impact the decisions to cancel collegiate sports. While the mortality rate may not be as high, the infection rate will still have an impact on overall health, at a level that is still unknown. While many rip Clemson they did it right. Get the kids on campus early and any cases will do its thing and they'll be ready for the season.
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Post by gks on Jun 29, 2020 9:24:20 GMT -5
In today’s atmosphere it will be a challenge for the elite eight to say no, if asked So by this logic..... So a school can just ask the Ivy League to join and they have to take them?
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Post by gks on Jun 26, 2020 13:26:38 GMT -5
If campus' and dorms are open to students then this is a very hypocritical decision.
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Post by gks on Jun 25, 2020 19:54:04 GMT -5
The email to HC faculty and staff from Fr. B. did not indicate that coaches would be among those furloughed. Kevin Shea was reading something into the announcement that wasn't there. That does not mean that members of athletic department might not be furloughed; e.g., those individuals indirectly involved with a sport; illustratively, someone who sells advertising for game day programs but there are no programs being printed. Kevin has pretty good sources.
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Post by gks on Jun 25, 2020 11:56:19 GMT -5
Wonder what NCAA rules, if any, would address efforts by parents, alumni or others create a GoFundMe page to raise funds to help assist those coaches who are financially impacted by this decision? How pathetic is it that we have to consider a Go Fund Me page for coaches at a school with nearly a BILLION dollar endowment? This upcoming move could have been done in the spring. The timing of this really, really stinks. Just another example of how little the college thinks of athletics.
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Post by gks on Jun 25, 2020 11:40:14 GMT -5
NJ high schools are seeing a growing controversy over nicknames. Pascack Valley Regional Schools has two high schools (Pascack Hills and Pascack Valley) that were split from one district when student population grew in the 1960s. To show a connection, they were nicknamed the Cowboys (Pascack Hills) and the Indians (Pascack Valley). "Indians" is on the objectionable list for several districts with movements to change the "Indian" nickname for Passaic, Weehawken and Wayne Hills. Indian Hills High School is part of that group since the school name is a problem but their nickneme "The Braves" has not drawn much criticism. Opponents of the Cowboys (Pascack Hills) seem not to know much about history. One opponent said it showed bias because it excluded people color. In fact, a very large percentage of cowboys (and law enforcement agents) in the Old West were men of color. Apparently history can be rewritten to suit one's own bias. The story swill continue.(BTW, The Knights of St Joseph Reg. and the Crusaders of. Bergen Catholic are not currently targets for mascot renaming.) If the name Cowboys bothers you then you have way too much free time on your hands.
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Post by gks on Jun 25, 2020 11:32:22 GMT -5
The term victim insinuates that these people are all dying or gravely ill. Truth is far, far from that.
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