Quite an expen$ive le$$on in tyranny:
"Northeastern dismisses 11 first-year students for partying. They won’t get their $36,500 tuition back; The students were caught violating COVID-19 distancing requirements; their $36,500 tuition for the semester will not be refunded" by Laura Krantz Globe Staff, September 4, 2020
Northeastern University has dismissed 11 first-year students after they were caught violating social distancing rules, the school announced Friday, the latest and most aggressive attempt to prevent the pandemic from disrupting plans to return to Boston’s campuses this fall.
The students were caught at the Westin Hotel, which is being used as a temporary dormitory this semester, on Wednesday night without masks and not social distancing, according to university spokeswoman Renata Nyul.
That's the thanks they get after they set you kids up in the lap of luxury (yeah, the food isn't that good, but what can you do?)
The dismissed students will not be allowed to take courses from home this semester but will be permitted to return in the spring, Nyul said. They were part of a special one-semester program for freshmen that was prepaid and cost $36,500. That money will not be refunded.
That's your second lesson: theft.
I'll bet they get a hiding from their parents, right?
The students were asked to move out immediately, be tested for COVID-19, enter quarantine if they test positive, and then leave. Their university housing payments will not be refunded, per university rules.
Northeastern is one of several large universities in Boston that have brought students back to campus this semester, amid strict guidelines that aim to prevent an outbreak of the virus like the ones that have shut down schools elsewhere in the country like the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Mimi Chapman, faculty chair at UNC and dean for doctoral education in the School of Social Work, said the Northeastern gathering sounds different than the large parties and gatherings that they contended with, many of which originated in fraternities and sororities.
“That feels a little extreme on the one hand,” she said of the dismissals. “On the other hand, if you are bringing students back, and if they really want to be on campus, it doesn’t take very much for a situation to start spiraling out of control,” she said.
Myron Cohen, an epidemiology professor at UNC directly involved in that campus’s response to the virus, said the most effective way to prevent outbreaks is by changing behavior, but that can be difficult among strong-headed 18-year-olds.
“We don’t have a biological tool, we only have behavior change, and we now know that students are an extremely vulnerable population. If you want to keep your campus open, how do you inspire behavior change?”
If I didn't know better I would say he is talking about totalitarian brainwashing, but that can't be the case and the Gates vaccine will get you there.
Last month, Northeastern sent stern letters to 115 freshmen and their parents after the students indicated on social media that they intended to attend parties this fall.
That was around the time the vaccinations were mandated.
The return of students has troubled many neighbors who live near the schools and worry the students will put them at risk. Several city councilors have called on the schools to remain online this semester. Mayor Martin J. Walsh has said he is concerned about the return of students. He has urged students not to party and asked the schools to share with the city their plans for testing and safety protocols.
Tell them the New York Times Estimates 90% of ‘Positive’ COVID Test Results Really Are Negative and see what they say.
The students dismissed this week will have the right to contest their dismissal at an expedited hearing, according to Northeastern.
The 11 students were part of a special program at Northeastern that allows first-years to study abroad during their first semester of college. The program was modified to take place in Boston this year because of the pandemic.
Oh, they are RIPPING OFF FOREIGNERS at FULL PRICE!
Your THIRD LE$$ON is it is ALWAYS about the $$$, kids!
There were 818 students enrolled in this program this year, all staying in two-person rooms at the Westin, less than a mile from the Northeastern campus. Northeastern is one of a handful of universities that rented out space in city hotels to put more space between students and decrease the likelihood of coronavirus outbreaks. University staff discovered the student gathering as they were making rounds in the hotel.
They didn't warn you of the chaperones?
The university said students in this program were notified on multiple occasions over the past week that they must practice social distancing, wear masks, and avoid crowds. They were required to acknowledge that they reviewed the program handbook, which included these rules, the school said. Northeastern has barred guests from student rooms this semester.
Unless, of course, you want to go protest for social justice and tear down statues and our society while sack cities and calling for communi$m.
The students were also notified in an Aug. 28 letter from Madeleine Estabrook, senior vice chancellor for student affairs, that informed them that they would be suspended if they host or attend an unsafe gathering.
“Cooperation and compliance with public health guidelines is absolutely essential. Those people who do not follow the guidelines ... are putting everyone else at risk,” Estabrook said in a news release from the school.
At risk of what?
A virus that has a 99.96% survival rate and that you don't even know you have and are not infectious because the positive test was the cold you had last year?
C'mon, folks, smarten up!
Trickling in and out of the entrance of the Westin on Friday afternoon, students said they were less surprised by the fact that there were rules violations than by the swiftness with which they occurred — within a day or two of many students moving into the hotel.
That's your fourth lesson of the day, the swiftness with which fun-killing, freedom-destroying totalitarianism can be applied by even the most petty potentate such as a college president ruling his/her little fiefdom.
Most said they agreed with the severity of the punishment, noting that it will take universal adherence to the safety guidelines to ensure the semester goes on as planned. Students signed several forms saying they understood the policies, students said.
“The university was very clear what they expected,” added Kayla McCann, a freshman studying nursing.
Here is the key to your own cell, now lock it up tight.
I gave you kids too much credit. You not so think as I dumb you are.
The university held a virtual town hall Friday afternoon to discuss the incident, students said. They said the swift action sent a strong message.
I think that wraps up today's lessons, and I hope you kids got the message.
Anybody have anything to say?
“I was upset because it’s just really stupid to go around and still have these social gatherings. Those kinds of things are just going to ruin everything for everyone else,” said Darren Ng, a first-year from New York City studying mechanical engineering.
Expelling is too good for them.
Should be crucified.
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Related:
"Ahead of the Labor Day holiday, both Mayor Martin J. Walsh of Boston and Governor Charlie Baker this week implored Mass. residents to avoid large gatherings to stop the spread of COVID-19, especially in communities with high rates of the virus. “The last thing we should do is give it opportunities,” Baker said at a press conference on Thursday....."
That is really going to leave the kids depressed, so the BPD is adding 15 more clinicians to help with mental health calls.
Also see:
In embrace of W.E.B. Du Bois, Great Barrington names middle school after the civil rights icon
Seems innocent enough, right?
Who could be against that?
Well, according to the article, "Du Bois’ embraced socialist politics late in life. In the 1950s, Du Bois eulogized Joseph Stalin and met with Mao Zedong. In 1961, at the age of 93, he joined the Communist Party."
In light of the fact that he endorsed the two greatest mass-murders of the 20th-century, with one using a famine that is again being set up as I type and the other famous for a mass-murdering orgy under the banner of a Cultural Revolution that we again seem to undergoing, I find the naming of the school offensive -- although one can clearly see the education system for what it is, the poisoner of minds and full-blown Communist.
It should thus be no surprise who is behind the agenda:
“Back in 2004, in this community, it seems there was an ’us’ versus a ’them.’ ‘Them’ being the town itself and ‘us’ being the DuBoisians,” said Randy Weinstein, founder of the Du Bois Center at Great Barrington, which abuts the Mahaiwe Cemetery, where Du Bois buried his son, daughter, and first wife. The controversy still stung Du Bois’s supporters, who felt the movement opposing Du Bois was steeped in racial bias. Great Barrington, with a population of less than 7,000 people, is nearly 88 percent white, according to Census data and roughly 4 percent Black.
Not at all, it's kind of a cla$$ thing.
“We know Du Bois is a global icon. We know of the trailblazing he did and how he broke ground with the NAACP and Harvard and everywhere else,” said Gwendolyn VanSant, CEO and founding director of BRIDGE, a Berkshire-based nonprofit that provides cultural literacy and competency training. “All these truths are known and it’s still not good enough because of his communism and it’s like, people didn’t have the curiosity or the care to look into that or probe that or understand it better.”
I wish people would probe those murderous monsters and what happened over there!
It's people like her who have obfuscated and ignored the Bolshevik slaughter of epic proportions, the worst in human history according Solzhenitsyn.
Behind the scenes, VanSant, Weinstein, and others worked tirelessly to champion Du Bois.
Maybe someone should expel them.
