Tales From America's Covid Campuses

[33girl]

Originally Posted by thetalady

And now they go home all across the state, if not the nation, spreading it wherever they go.

Did they test them as soon as they got there? A lot of them probably came in with it.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by MSKKG

Bless his heart and yours! I hope he fully recovers.

Originally Posted by TLLK

Hope that he is feeling better soon.

Originally Posted by *winter*

Wishing your son a speedy recovery!

Originally Posted by PGD-GRAD

Speedy recovery to him! This is a year his generation will discuss all their lives.

Thank you all! He's slowly but surely coming back. This is the boy who had to leave for college the day of his sister's memorial service, then had a bad concussion from cheerleading last year, and now this. I can't believe he's had 3 major occurrences in 3 years of college.

[Xidelt]

UGA also is saying for students to return home to quarantine. They are renting hotel rooms and contracting with private housing providers to provide places for students to quarantine if they can't return home. The problem is how to get meals. My friend's daughter is a freshman. There's an outbreak of COVID in her dorm and she was supposed to get test results today. But her daughter doesn't know how she is supposed to get meals from the dining hall while waiting to find out. She doesn't want to leave and be around others to go pick up food from the dining hall, but she can't live on delivery alone. So frustrating. Also, she's an OOS student. So if her mom goes and picks her up, she brings COVID home to her mom and sibling.

[carnation]

My youngest son is now recovering from Covid at college. His brother says that somehow, robots are delivering meals to him. He feels like he was run over by a bus but no longer feels "sick" per se.

[MSKKG]

Bless his heart and yours! I hope he fully recovers.

[TLLK]

Originally Posted by carnation

My youngest son is now recovering from Covid at college. His brother says that somehow, robots are delivering meals to him. He feels like he was run over by a bus but no longer feels "sick" per se.

Hope that he is feeling better soon.

[*winter*]

Wishing your son a speedy recovery!

[PGD-GRAD]

Speedy recovery to him! This is a year his generation will discuss all their lives.

[Sister Havana]

Poor guy! Thinking good healing thoughts for him.

[ASTalumna06]

Fraternity members ignore safety guidelines on bid day

https://thedmonline.com/fraternity-m...es-on-bid-day/

Health guidelines issued by the university and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life’s #MaskUpFSL campaign did not stop fraternity members from hosting several in-person bid day events without following mask and social distancing guidelines.

In photos obtained by The Daily Mississippian, members of Kappa Alpha, Sigma Chi, Sigma Pi, Delta Psi and Phi Kappa Psi gathered in large groups in front of their respective houses. The university’s Interfraternity Council (IFC) released guidelines in August outlining virtual recruitment, which state that there is “zero tolerance for any social gatherings violating university and Oxford policies…”

Oxford has jumped to #4 in the country with the greatest number of cases per capita in the past two weeks, according to the New York Times.

[ChioLu]

Texas Tech
https://www.tmz.com/2020/09/10/texas...y-coronavirus/

Miami (OH) University
https://www.tmz.com/2020/09/10/covid...y-coronavirus/

SMDH

[GreekOne]

An update on the situation at IU

https://www.idsnews.com/article/2020...IN5VyspAEY3h9E

[TLLK]

California State Universities to remain online for the 2021 Spring term. Also my son who has started his first semester our local community college received notice today that his spring semester will also be online. It's possible that any California private universities on the semester system might consider doing the same for the spring term. As noted in the article, no word yet on the UC campuses.



https://edsource.org/2020/csu-chance...ng-term/639954

In May, CSU became the first university system in the country to announce that most classes would be held online to limit the coronavirus spread. In July, White told a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee that he anticipated CSU classes remaining virtual for the entire 2020-21 academic year. His announcement on Thursday makes him the first university leader in California to limit nearly all courses to online for the spring term. Nationally, he’s among the university leaders to make such an early decision which affects the nation’s largest public university system of about 500,000 students and staff.
“This decision is the only responsible one available to us at this time,” White said. “And it is the only one that supports our twin North Stars of safeguarding the health, safety and well-being of our faculty, staff, students and communities, as well as enabling degree progression for the largest number of students.”
A spokesperson for the 10-campus University of California system said it does not have an update for 2021.

[ASTalumna06]

Temple University students move out amid COVID-19 concerns

https://abcnews.go.com/US/temple-uni...e_hero_related

Many students at Temple University headed back home this weekend, less than a month after they moved into their dorms, as COVID-19 concerns forced the school to switch almost all of its fall semester classes online.

Between Aug. 10 and Aug. 28, 333 coronavirus cases were confirmed on campus, according to Temple's COVID-19 tracker. The positivity rate increased from 0.71% to 10.12% during that period, according to the Philadelphia school's data.

On Sept. 3, school officials announced that due to the rising cases, it was going to shift all "non-essential" fall semester classes, roughly 95% of all courses, to online only. It gave students who lived on campus the option to leave by Sept. 13 with a full refund of their housing and meal plan charges.

[AGDee]

Michigan State is open and just quarantined 23 Fraternity and Sorority Houses. https://nbc25news.com/news/local/fra...-to-quarantine