Tough day for anyone trying to argue athletes aren’t more than regular students, assuming football will still be on campus.
The revised class schedule will be available by July 8. This schedule will reflect that a majority of undergraduate classes will be available solely online. There will also be courses that will be offered in a hybrid format (combining in person and online course sessions). We anticipate that 10-20 percent of our classes will be conducted in person, on campus. These will be primarily face-to-face labs, studios, performance, and other courses involving hands-on work, and independent research studies that require facilities and equipment only available on campus. Even these courses, for the most part, will also be available online this semester. https://coronavirus.usc.edu/2020/07/01/7-1-letter-on-student-housing-and-course-schedules/
UCLA also said 15-20% of classes will be in-person, mostly the labs required for sciences I'd imagine
Yep and it's so disingenuous. It's an attempt to say "Hey there's still a reason to pay your tuition to us!" with the implication that the "important" classes will still be on campus. But it's really the 4-5 person labs or independent study courses. But it's a better sell than doing a % of students per class as either online or in person.
Yes, I know. But there will still be people on campus. You cannot do all classes online, that’s why there will be hybrid classes occurring. I’m not schilling for a full return to campus; I’m just saying that there won’t be 100% online at the majority of higher education institutions.
The regular students take easy online classes and the athletes have to show up on campus. The sham is complete
Not sports related, but higher ed related. Thought this was interesting. https://insidehighered.com/news/202...ial&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=IHEbuffer
They need to come out with the unpopular decision and just cancel or postpone the fucking football season. They aren't even buying time for fall sports by pushing shit back 2 weeks at a time. It's all so obvious to anyone that has been following this pandemic.
This research seems really fucking dubious. For one, they assume students will return (in large numbers) to Ithaca in spite of the decision to go remote with instruction. Why? There are social reasons, sure, but don't they imagine a significant number might actually be deterred if the situation is serious enough to warrant cancelling in person instruction at their school? Might parents have a role? What about all of the students that were relying on side jobs that don't for the time being exist in order to pay rent or room and board/tuition? I don't feel a need to immediately question the integrity of the researchers, but we also can't forget that they work for the institution and their jobs ultimately depend on its existence, so...
Lol at NBA saying “you know what, we’re having so much success trying to get this bubble in Florida going, let’s do a second bubble in Chicago for the nbas worst teams while we’re at it!”
Notre Dame and supposedly OSU are doing great too. The fact that it's possible to be doing great, almost makes you think Dabo is legit going for herd immunity.
If so, we'll probably leave dozens of positive tests out in plain view for some photographer to easily take a picture of at some point.
Players getting a daily test while people having to schedule tests days in advance would be so American.
I posted in another thread that if access to tests is already becoming a problem, what happens to that access when sports teams and universities start to demand tests?
Lol god. Excerpt from The Athletic Spoiler Sometime Wednesday night, four transactions were inputted into Major League Baseball’s public database and posted for the world to see: Tommy Hunter, Scott Kingery, Héctor Neris and Ranger Suárez were placed on the injured list, according to the league’s website, without a specific injury, prompting speculation and confusion. It was yet another step into the gray area pandemic baseball occupies. The Athletic’s policy is not to report that a player has tested positive for COVID-19 unless the player, his representation, the team or league has announced it publicly. MLB has established a COVID-19 injured list for players who test positive or are exposed to someone who has, but teams are prohibited from announcing a placement on that list because the virus is not considered an employment-related injury and teams must adhere to health privacy laws. The Phillies never announced the four transactions. They did not expect the league to post the transactions on a public website, according to a source. The team’s front office did not inform the agents of the four players about the roster moves. Everything about this is uncharted water. At least one of the players, according to two sources, could return to the active roster by this weekend.
Honest question because I don’t know the answer. How would it be different than the European leagues that are playing soccer and other sports right now?
As far as I understand, the main difference would be that their additional testing isn’t impacting regular people from getting tested, largely because they have the virus somewhat under control now.