<sarcasm> I'm so happy my daughter finished school in 3.5 years and is now living back home, where she's safe.</sarcasm>

pledging a frat, they had to go to intensive care at the hospital and make out with 10 covid patients

They should setup a no masks needed glory hole area on every floor

Hah, I called daughter to ask that exact question even as you posted this. Expelled students were hosting an underground party of more than 15 people. Hosts/organizers were expelled; attendees fined $500 each. I did not think to ask my daughter if she had been invited.

I wholly support that result.

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I think he's saying that his daughter is an uggo?

Interesting. The other source I saw (can't recall where) said he was an advisor to the task force. No mention of him heading it.

democracynow def comes at the news from the left, but they very rarely get facts wrong like saying a guy is head of a task force when he is just an advisor

it happens. they do make retractions. but it's rare

school not going well at all in georgia

Who could have seen that coming?

After planning all the usual convoluted solutions like hybrid, small groups of students staying together entire year, no lunch, etc, the local HS just voted to go remote on day 1. And that is with day 1 being already pushed back to Sept 16th or something. That will probably set the tone for lower grades too.

I am ok with this.

Yeah, our elementary school which was looking at the main 3 options is all remote and all kids have access to their own laptop to pick up from school.

Presumably the person* whose room it isn't just has to wear a mask.

*(for sports teams read "the people whose....")

jfc that's actually awesome imo that they are taking it so seriously, possibly knew going into the year there would be a few sacrificial lambs to set the tone of seriousness

do you know if that's the standard or is it more that tulane is jesuit that they can better implement draconian safety measurements

also, i believe the in the parlance of our times we now call it a face for podcasting/blogging

Other daughter is at USC, whose response has been very poor -- inconsistent messaging, poor organization and a final ruling a couple of weeks ago that all fall classes will be online. USC is much larger, though, with a bit over 20,000 undergrads as opposed to Tulane's 7,000 or so. And USC has a large graduate student body as well. That's doubtless part of the difference -- but our experience thus far is that Tulane administration is far more organized and disciplined. Over the summer, Tulane built temp classrooms on open green spaces on campus to permit better student physical spacing in classrooms. It obviously also helps that the average class size at Tulane is 21 students; from what I understand, there are very few large survey classes.

Possibly a repost, but I thought this article about coronavirus (or the lack thereof) in Africa was really interesting
Africa's pandemic puzzle: why so few cases and deaths?

As a Tulane alum, I've been getting lots of emails about the college's social distancing efforts and they look intense.

On the other hand, I feel sad for those students as the first week at Tulane every year is a verifiable bacchanal.

I'm sure most undergrad institutions are like this, but there's something about New Orleans and the students it attracts.

I am a graduate of Tulane, and Tulane is NOT a Jesuit university.

It looks like Tulane recently bought Loyola University which was a Jesuit university. So presumably they have quite a few Jesuits there.

What? Do you have any links or articles that say Tulane bought Loyola?

When you say 'expelled', do you mean 'expelled' as in can never return to the school (even next year) and that said expulsion will be noted on their transcripts.

I was just told "expelled" and no more and interpreted that to mean "instructed to leave campus with no right to return." I don't know if it is permanent and don't know what transcripts will read, although the incoming freshman has no transcript yet. I'll see if daughter knows.

weird so convinced i was right that i googled it and you know what the the first suggestion is when you type "is tulane"

nice to be reassured I wasn't alone in thinking that but 100% recall considering it back in the day but ruling it out for being religious

This is one of the reasons I think college should be online for at least one more semester until we know if a vaccine is imminent. If it is, we wait one additional semester and come back Sept 2021, once everyone gets vaccinated.

Online college is not ideal but the comparison should not be with normal in-person college. Sitting in class with masks on, no parties, no friends in dorms, etc. Boxed to-go meals in the cafeteria. Some hybrid classes where you're online from your dorm room part of the time. No dating or sex too? Come on. None of it is a normal college experience. And students in dorms WILL spread the disease, the only question is how much.

The thought that “everyone” will be vaccinated by 9/21 strikes me as a bit overly optimistic. Consider:
1) we still need a working vaccine
2) it would need to be produced at scale
3) it would need to be distributed at scale
4) some significant % of our population won’t wear a mask because Obama is a foreign born Muslim - and they already skew anti-vaccine, anti-Expertise, and anti-science - you really think these people are going to be getting a Bill Gates microchip vaccine?