Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus
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Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus
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Re: Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus
#2Meanwhile, my alma mater is still resuming in person.
I wonder what the difference is...
[0]: https://abc11.com/coronavirus-classes-nc-state-college/63640...
Re: Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus
#3Have any universities stated how they will handle all of the fees that are tacked on to tuition, such as the parking fees?
Re: Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus
#4I was always under the impression that the word "frosh" was weird slang for freshmen, not a word considered just as proper for written communication.
Re: Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus
#5I hope universities die. Along with the insurance market, for-profit medicine, the US Petro-Dollar cartel and software patents.
The system is broken. The very existence of Stanford is a symptom of the problem.
Re: Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus
#6I was always under the impression that the word "frosh" was weird slang for freshmen, not a word considered just as proper for written communication.
Although frosh refers to a first-year student and has a resemblance to fresh, freshman is not believed to be the source of the word. More likely, frosh is from the dialectic German word for a frog, Frosch. ... Students already had a slang term for freshman, the diminutive freshie.
Re: Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus
#7Have any universities stated how they will handle all of the fees that are tacked on to tuition, such as the parking fees?
I think by this point we can guess what their intent, generally, is: to keep the money. Schools have had plenty of time to say that tuition will be reduced if the campuses are closed, but I have yet to find a single major school announcing this.
Re: Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus
#8Meanwhile, my alma mater is still resuming in person. I wonder what the difference is... [0]: https://abc11.com/coronavirus-classes-nc-state-college/63640...
I lived in Cary for a long time and also attended NCSU for grad school. I've been following the conversation on related sub-reddits and it seems like the biggest concern is what students are doing when they're not on campus: parties, crowded gatherings down Hillsborough St, etc. Community spread will still happen ... just that campus activities will not be the main driver.
Re: Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus
#9My son's state university is forcing students to return in person.
I fully expect a notable outbreak in some college to start a wave of media noise, followed by all the universities sending everyone back home again.
Sucks because students are signing leases, moving crap, buying meal plans, etc, right now. Aside from the obvious safety issues.
Re: Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus
#10I was always under the impression that the word "frosh" was weird slang for freshmen, not a word considered just as proper for written communication.
My immediate thought to your comment was that "frosh" is actually very common and accepted slang for "freshmen". That said, I did not expect to see it in the article's lede – or in the president's official statement [0]:
> We will continue planning with the hope and expectation of bringing undergraduates back to Stanford at the earliest possible time. If public health conditions allow, we plan to invite frosh, sophomores and new transfer students to be in residence on campus for the winter quarter, and juniors and seniors for the spring quarter.
[0] https://healthalerts.stanford.edu/covid-19/2020/08/13/autumn...