Tales From America's Covid Campuses

[Sister Havana]

PGD-GRAD, you beat me to it. Here’s the story from the IDS. And here’s the IU website with information on COVID-19 in communal living environments. (Mostly Greek houses, but also includes Evans Scholars and Christian Student Foundation. This does not include any of the unhoused chapters.)

I wouldn’t be surprised if IU goes all virtual sooner rather than later.

[AGDee]

It would be ridiculous to turn these students who have now all been exposed out to the community to infect others. And if they think the same thing isn’t going to happen in dorms, they are really kidding themselves.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by AGDee

It would be ridiculous to turn these students who have now all been exposed out to the community to infect others. And if they think the same thing isn’t going to happen in dorms, they are really kidding themselves.

Exactly. Barn door, horse, yadda yadda yadda.

[PGD-GRAD]

I just spoke to a member of the IU Fiji chapter Housing Corporation. He said things are unfolding so quickly...they have called an emergency House Corp meeting at 5. He said they ALL feel that going virtual with classes...at least till Thanksgiving...and leaving everybody to sequester in their own houses makes the most sense. But now that the Monroe Co. Board of Health is involved...who knows? He’s not overly fond of the IU President right now....

The whole situation should be in Urban Dictionary as the definition for SHIT SHOW!

[carnation]

Our Asian exchange students are shocked because their countries masked and did all the right things and they're still having high rates of Covid. Like here, the harshness of it seems to have abated somewhat, but they're still having lots of new cases daily.

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by PGD-GRAD

The whole situation should be in Urban Dictionary as the definition for SHIT SHOW!

^ exactly

IFC released a statement this afternoon criticizing IU's decision for being short sighted and not really thinking through the impact of these Greek students having to find off campus housing risking further contamination or being sent home to family members who may be a high risk.

[*winter*]

Isn’t housing hard to come by in Bloomington?

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by *winter*

I actually went to Basic at Ft Jackson.

I didn’t say it’s safer (obviously since people are still getting deployed), but to me, it would be better than sitting in my hometown working a minimum wage job and taking substandard classes.

But maybe I think that way because I always wish I’d have gone on active duty?

I just feel so bad for this generation.

Small world!

Originally Posted by AGDee

It would be ridiculous to turn these students who have now all been exposed out to the community to infect others. And if they think the same thing isn’t going to happen in dorms, they are really kidding themselves.

Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap

IFC released a statement this afternoon criticizing IU's decision for being short sighted and not really thinking through the impact of these Greek students having to find off campus housing risking further contamination or being sent home to family members who may be a high risk.

Fauci and Birx literally just said not to send infected college students back home and that they should continue to quarantine on campus.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fauc...tbreaks-2020-9

[Duffy2012]

One thing that many students are not thinking about is what happens with student loans if they take a semester or more off. While there is a grace period of 6 months once a student drops below half time, that grace period can only be used once. So if a student takes it now in the middle of their academic program, under current guidelines, they do not have one when they graduate. Payments will have to begin immediately upon graduation.



https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment

https://www.studentloanborrowerassis...grace-periods/

[*winter*]

These kids are so screwed

[Ace23]

Wouldn’t it make more sense for all these houses to just quarantine maybe followed by testing to make sure they are all clear. That way it does not spread further in the community.

[Sister Havana]

Yes. Even more so since IU has contracted with at least one apartment complex (and some hotels) to house students who otherwise would have been in dorms this year. (Most dorm rooms only have 1 person living in them this year, so there was a lot less dorm space.)

[Sister Havana]

30 of the houses were already under quarantine as of yesterday.

[chi-o_cat]

Another campus has shut down due to the virus getting out of hand:

https://news.yahoo.com/few-students-...121626660.html

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by chi-o_cat

Another campus has shut down due to the virus getting out of hand:

https://news.yahoo.com/few-students-...121626660.html

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