COVID-19

[Shellfish]

Originally Posted by KatieKate1244

The chapter houses on my campus are staying open but with caveats. Most are only allowing residents to be in the house, along with minimal "essential" staff (cleaners, cooks). No guests or out of house members allowed. Some houses are making their residents fill out a form to stay in the house and only those who with a form on file will be allowed in. Meal service will be abbreviated to some extent, again it'll vary from house to house.

Thanks for this. After my alma mater announced yesterday that it was going online only for the rest of the semester and everyone has to leave their dorm, I wondered what it would be like had a similar situation happened when I was in school back in the stone age. We were the rare Greek group that owned our house, so those of us who lived in the house could have stayed if the house corporation allowed it. It would have been strange, but I think I would have preferred that to trying to study back at home, where between my parents and sisters, it would not have been quiet enough.

[Kevin]

My younger brother was at the Jazz-Thunder NBA game last night where they shut down the game at half time because one of the Jazz players tested positive. Now other Jazz players are testing positive.

[ASTalumna06]

Our Greater Chicago Alumnae Chapter just posted this to Facebook with the message: Are you tired of singing Happy Birthday? Try saying The Creed when washing your hands instead. 💚⚓💛

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Our Greater Chicago Alumnae Chapter just posted this to Facebook with the message: Are you tired of singing Happy Birthday? Try saying The Creed when washing your hands instead. 💚⚓💛

How perfect! Ours is a bit long, but then, my hands would surely be clean.

ACC tournament cancelled, along with others.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Our Greater Chicago Alumnae Chapter just posted this to Facebook with the message: Are you tired of singing Happy Birthday? Try saying The Creed when washing your hands instead. 💚⚓💛

Going around Alpha Delta Pi circles is this same meme to our "Boom Boom" Recruitment song1

Our Centennial Celebration, scheduled for April 3-5, has been cancelled. At Pitt, classes are cancelled and no group over 25, students or alumni, is permitted.

The real kicker is that Heinz Chapel, which hosts 5-6 weddings each Saturday, has cancelled all weddings until further notice. This is causing mass hysteria on wedding sites.

[Rod D]

With all these schools going online, will the internet keep up?

[aephi alum]

... And COVID-19 is the official winner of the NCAA tournaments. They've been cancelled.

[msbeta]

My University starts spring break tomorrow afternoon. As of today, spring break has been extended to a two week period to provide faculty an opportunity to convert all of our face to face classes to an online format. This will be the most difficult two weeks of work for me since the aftermath of Katrina. Rest assured, if the University has invested in training and preparation, students will not be teaching themselves. For faculty who have never taught online and/or have large class sections, teaching online will likely be more difficult than teaching face to face. We would absolutely prefer to see our students on-campus and for life as we knew it to continue. I feel sad for our students and student-athletes and our faculty. This is not what we signed up for and never anticipated such an event.

[carnation]

So most Georgia districts, as well as the University System of Georgia schools, are out for at least 2 weeks. My sons will come home from their university for that period--no idea if they'll get online work because 1 week was their break. My husband and I will be off and I guess we're keeping grandkids because most of our children who live in town don't teach.

[ForeverRoses]

COVID-19 in the age of Helicopter Parenting. Sounds like an amazing thesis paper in a few years.

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

COVID-19 in the age of Helicopter Parenting. Sounds like an amazing thesis paper in a few years.

No kidding.

[naraht]

I'm at work from Home until at least two weeks from Today. School is cancelled for my kid (HS Sr.) until that point. Still wondering if he'll get Prom or Graduation.

[AGDee]

All K-12 public schools in Michigan have been closed until April 6th. Many start Spring Break that day so are really closed until April 13th. Closed. Not moved to online.

Most of the universities and colleges have gone to all online courses until late April. That's the week before finals for most. I think they'll go back in to take a final and leave. But my friend whose son is at Brown has to figure out how to get him out of a dorm and get all his stuff out of the dorm in the next week. Thankfully she has a brother in Connecticut who is going to help out.

My son is all online and I'm hoping his master's graduation ceremony isn't canceled. My work gave us the "work from home" direction today. Everything is canceled everywhere- theater tickets, sports, museums.

My daughter in DC is not so lucky. She's still going in to work (Dept of Education is her current project) and has practically no food and is panicking because store shelves have been wiped out. She's a bit anxious about everything.

Our cruise to Italy and Greece is definitely not happening for us.

[Cheerio]

All of my region's public libraries are temporarily closed or closing, most for four weeks.

[aephi alum]

All Louisiana public and Catholic K-12 schools are closed until mid-April. They are going to try to do online classes, but, according to the paper, 71% of public school children come from economically disadvantaged families, and I'm sure many of them don't have internet at home.

Officials are trying to come up with a way to distribute lunches to students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. For some students, their free lunch is the only solid meal they get all day.