[ April 22, 2024 ]
The over-reaction is mind-blowing and deliberate – to undermine Trump’s re-election. That said, theur are some unintended benefits. Like this, no ugly leftist commencement speaker rants.
US colleges cancelling graduation over coronavirus fears
By NY Post, 13, 2020:
Some colleges across the US have already canned graduation ceremonies because of the coronavirus pandemic — but dozens of others have left their students in limbo as they grapple with the difficult decision.
Story continues below advertisementMany schools say they are following the advice from the Centers for Disease Control and state health officials who have recommended against large gatherings as the virus spreads. Governors in some states have called for limits on large events — including in New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned gatherings of more than 500 people.
While some schools say it’s too soon to tell where things will stand in two months, others, like Berea College in Kentucky, say they’re cancelling now so that parents won’t have to back out of travel plans at the last minute.
“[Students have] worked hard and we want to recognize all that they’ve accomplished. But we want to do that in a way that protects them and doesn’t jeopardize their safety,” school spokesman Tim Jordan said, adding the ceremony would be rescheduled “to a date when such a gathering can be conducted safely.”
Brigham Young University in Utah and the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia have also cancelled ceremonies.
Cornell University is hopeful that commencement can go on as scheduled, but “it is unknown at this time whether that will be possible.” Florida International University is hoping for the same, but officials are working on “possible alternative plans.”
Iowa’s Grinnell College, which is sending students home this month, said there will be no “traditional” graduation ceremony. Officials at the private school of 1,700 students are mulling how to honor graduates in an online ceremony.
They are also considering bringing this year’s graduates back in 2021 for a two-in-one ceremony.
“We want to be celebrate and cherish our students,” dean and vice president for academic affairs Anne Harris said. “But we were following the logic: If we’re sending everybody out, why would we bring everybody back in?”
Wesleyan University in Connecticut is still weighing options. Senior Melisa Olgun, the first in her family to graduate from a US university, said she wants her mother to see her accept her diploma.
“This diploma is not just for myself,” said Olgu, whose parents are immigrants from Turkey. “It’s for my family, it’s for my parents. That ability to stand on that stage, to do that, is something I’ve been thinking of and dreaming of since I was a young girl.”
The decision is still blowing in the wind at Harvard University, which sent students home this week and is working on contingency plans, but said it’s too soon to make a decision.
Senior psychology student Tom Osborn’s family plans to come in from Migori, Kenya to attend the ceremony — and now he’s left unsure whether they should cancel their plans.
“It was going to be my family’s first time to campus. They were all excited,” Osborn said. “It’s unfortunate. I hope things will still work out.”
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15 Comments
4 years ago
No problemo! Our Universities and education system are producing morons anyway; the less out there in public, the better.
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
It depends. The hard sciences, such as math and computer science are less vulnerable to soul destroying propaganda. My younges one is shielded from that. She has a dual major, math and cs. She truly earned it. She has the grades and test scores to prove it. She is especially gifted with spatial reasoning which is unusual for a female. It’s normally the male brain the excels at this.
The best part is she is on a Trustee Merit Scholarship. The university is picking all of it up. She commutes from home so we can keep an eye on her. Occassionally I see the tug of war and jump on it to make sure she doesn’t get sucked in to garbage. The pressure is there.
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
Anyone willing to chance a gathering of that size in these times is in fact a excellent example of the caliber of people you are describing .
4 years ago
This is the foreign meddling in our election that everyone is yapping about: China, in collusion with the Democrats and the media, working together to take down a sitting President. Remember, Trump has been on China’s case with regard to their trade policies and outright theft of U.S. intellectual property – and the Chi-Comms clearly want an NWO puppet (read: Biden) installed into the White House come November, who will do their bidding without question.
4 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
Absolutely. Biden is in such bad shape, he has openly stated he only wants one term.
Then we have P.M. Boris Johnson not facing reality! This was a dissapointment. I was hoping he saw the light on this global farce. At some point Trump will have to cut off the UK since they are continuing to allow open borders and drawing people in from the EU hotspots. Does anyone know if they are checking people at the airports or the tunnel?
Coronavirus: Boris Govt Throws Travel Ban Exception Back in Trump’s Face
JACK MONTGOMERY 12 Mar 2020
President Trump offered a lifeline to the United Kingdom by exempting it from an anti-coronavirus ban on travel from Europe, but Boris Johnson’s government has thrown it back in his face, claiming the restrictions won’t work and complaining about their economic impact.
“The advice we are getting is that there isn’t evidence that interventions like closing borders or travel bans are going to have a material effect on the spread of the infection,” complained Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson’s Chancellor of the Exchequer.
(No common sense displayed with that statement.)
“That is why we have taken the decisions we have,” he said in comments to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 reported by The Times.
British government ministers have, as yet, taken little direct action on the pandemic besides advising people to wash their handsfor as long as it takes to sing the first two verses of God Save the Queen, several times a day.
(This should be normal hygiene!)
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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/12/coronavirus-boris-govt-throws-travel-ban-exception-back-in-trumps-face/
I guess it can be summed up this way, Trump is a nationalist and Johnson is still a globalist.
Enforcing borders and having travel bans CONTAIN it rather than SPREADING it. What is so difficult to understand about that? You need to put PEOPLE in your country first over MONEY. Accommodations can be made with trade but not with people in a high risk category.
Even Mongolia gets it! It is the prudent thing to do! “Mongolia, for example, closed its border with China in late January and restricted travel from Japan and South Korea shortly thereafter.”
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
This is one of many reasons some have said that ‘Brexit’ would be ineffectual without a check on Muslim immigration which is already claiming British culture.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
All good points. Does anyone still deny this is a real virus and IS at a pandemic level?
Regardless of how this started – bats or labs – nature, mistake or purposeful – it is here now and it is spreading rapidly.
Trump gets vilified for banning infected country flights, yet it was undoubtedly a smart, preemptive move to protect US citizens, and a move that many others should have done as well (if they had the guts).
The WHO drags its feet for weeks. The virus checks off every condition on their ‘pandemic’ checklist; then they change the criteria on the list and only weeks late (too late) do they then declare it a pandemic.
Countries all across Europe, the UK, Australia, Canada, do nothing but ‘react’ to the virus. Almost none of them take any ‘proactive’ steps. In my country, Canada, the airports remained completely open to travel from anywhere with no steps whatsoever taken to assess anything – medical condition, travel logs, nothing. The UK is currently in just about complete contradiction to the now up-to-date WHO’s ‘action recommendations’ (see Dr John Campbell’s March 14 YouTube), and is putting its population at undue risk.
I know this is essentially ‘new’ to all of us (1918 was a long time ago), and maybe some of the ‘failures’ to respond could be excused on that basis, but if I were a ‘conspiracy’ guy (obviously some conspiracies are real, but it can appear at times that people overuse it), I would start to wonder that even if this virus was natural, it would still fit the bill as an ‘event’; an event to be capitalized on. It certainly could be used to bring the world economy crashing down (a chaos made to order for usurping even more ‘central’ control), but it could also have a more sinister motive.
Most of the people affected the worst are over 60. Who are the most likely to hold ‘traditional’ views? Views that are an impediment to a ‘new order’? Has a western leader ever expressed any disdain for OLD, white, European stock (Trudeau?)? Is there a not-so-hidden agenda to replace western populations? Are there not curious statements made about world population reduction?
I know, I know, all true points, but to conflate them all under this virus and the baffling failures to take proper proactive measures?? Conspiracy?? Is it just me or is it getting harder to tell the players apart.
4 years ago
just a loss of social workers……justice seekers
too many professors need teaching with canoe paddles
edgewise across brow
Eddie
4 years ago
Reply to
ed de fonzo
Allot of them are foreign and hard to understand. They are here on VISAS because they work cheap.
4 years ago
Reply to
ed de fonzo
coronavirus is hype and B.S.
common cold.
don’t watch tv esp news
think healthy just remember to ssh hands and sneeze into tissue and throw in bin.
Keep calm.
4 years ago
Reply to
thin lizzie
Agreed. I took a flu shot in ’69, back when they injected the live virus into you. You supposedly got a mild case, got over it, and were protected thereafter.
Mild, my ass, I got sicker than a dog, but employed an old Navy trick I learned in the 7th fleet. Drink V.O. and water until the symptoms are killed out.
Enjoy!
4 years ago
I say, cancel the ceremonies, clubs & schools.
& cancel Trump’s disastrous missile defense-system-& weapons deal with Africans-enslaving, girls declitorizing & vocal Non-muhammadists killing Saudi Arabia.
To call Trump the first black president is absolutely not appropriate & I’d say it was the pre-Globalfirm education that led to this name-misappropriation.
Party Arty quotes come to mind:
“F*** ALL THE PREZIDENTS, AIN’T NONE OF’EM BLACK,
PARTY ARTY FOR PRESIDENT, WHAT’S F***IN’ WITH THAT?” &
“DISRESPECT HIP HOP, THEN PUNK YOU GET SHOT.”
4 years ago
I can only speak for NJ but some high schools are ramping up internet learning with lectures on line and unversities are doing the same thing. Our corrupt DEM Governor declared NJ in a state of emergency and that prompted more of this. He did leave it as an option for K-12 and higher education on how they want to handle it.
Our local high school has made no changes yet. The university, our youngest attends, is making arrangements for lectures and help on line. She is a TA and a lab assistant there so we will know more when plans are finalized.
4 years ago
Now we know how Republicans can win the war- just take away all the toilet paper. The Demonuts will surrender in record time.
How come we aren’t hearing stories of a record number of homeless dying from coronavirus? Does pooping on the street, alcohol or shooting up inoculate you from the virus? The CDC must do a study on this ASAP.
