Coronavirus Epidemic at Claremont Colleges Leave Hundreds of Students Facing Homelessness [claremontindependent.com]

The flava:
The Pomona College administration released through school email channels on Thursday (March 12) a decision to shift academic endeavors to online mediums and mandate that students leave campus by 5:00 PM PST on the upcoming Wednesday (March 18). 

Students, who were given the opportunity to apply to remain safe on campus from their respective situations at home, were notified throughout the week of their respective colleges’ decisions. 

The article:
https://claremontindependent.com/claremont-pomona-college-coronavirus-eviction-homeless/

Why Experts Are Urging Social Distancing to Combat Coronavirus Outbreak [UCSF]

UC San Francisco epidemiologists Jeff Martin, MD, MPH, and George Rutherford, III, MD, explained why these public health measures are being taken and what each of us can do to slow the outbreak and help to save lives. . . .

Above all, keep your distance.


Social distancing now is one of the greatest calls for altruism. People aren’t asked to do this to protect themselves, it’s really to protect those who are most susceptible.

Many people think they have a fever without taking their temperature.  Get a thermometer. Take your temperature.

This is not just a bad flu.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/03/416906/why-experts-are-urging-social-distancing-combat-coronavirus-outbreak

Coronavirus (COVID-19) [Harvard]

https://www.harvard.edu/coronavirus

"Is it summer yet?" asks Wombat of the Copier.

The day before spring break I received the following e-mail from an adjunct I supervise:

Hi, Wombat, 
     I don't know what to do with my Science101 class.  They are horrible and won't participate and they sit with their arms crossed staring at me.  What should I do?
--Adjunct XYZ

Today I received another, unrelated, e-mail from this same adjunct:

Hi, Wombat, 
     I just received this e-mail from the [administrator] about school closures related to COVID-19.  Will we be having class next week?
--Adjunct XYZ


Here is the opening sentence of the e-mail from the [administrator].  Literally from the beginning, nothing has been left out:

As you know, classes will resume without interruption Monday March 9....


I strongly suspect I know why her class is disengaged.

--Wombat of the Copier

Professor Julius Sumner Miller

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College admissions scandal: Heir to Hot Pockets fortune sentenced to 5 months [Los Angeles Times]

The flava:
Michelle Janavs, heiress to a frozen foods fortune, was sentenced Tuesday to five months in prison for paying $100,000 to fix her daughters’ college entrance exams and agreeing to pay twice that amount to sneak one girl into USC as a bogus beach volleyball player.

Janavs, a resident of Newport Coast, pleaded guilty in October to conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering, admitting she paid William “Rick” Singer, a Newport Beach college admissions consultant, to rig ACT exams for her daughters and bribe a USC administrator to misrepresent the older girl as an elite beach volleyball player.

The article:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-25/college-admissions-scandal-michelle-janavs-hot-pockets-sentenced

Why every bathroom on campus should be all-gender [Ari Page, UMBC]

Make every bathroom gender neutral. Or at the very least, don’t place a gendered bathroom right next to a gender-neutral bathroom. At least in Sherman, they’re on opposite ends of the hallway.

Now don’t get me wrong — I’m very proud of UMBC for making strides toward inclusivity. This is a huge step in making this campus trans and nonbinary friendly, and I know I, as a trans person, feel considerably more comfortable at this school with more bathroom options. But there is more that can be done, and it’s as simple as sticking more of these new signs over the old ones. So, why not go ahead and do that to every bathroom on campus? I would love to think that we have come to the point in society, especially on a college campus like ours, where we’re no longer weird about peeing next to someone who doesn’t present their gender in the same way as us. So let’s go stick up some new signs, join hands and pee together in perfect, gender-neutral harmony.

Source:

https://retriever.umbc.edu/2020/02/why-every-bathroom-on-campus-should-be-all-gender/

4 Questions for 2020 NYU MLK Humanitarian Award Winner Deb Willis

"I was an undergraduate student when Dr. King was killed and I will never forget the emptiness I felt going into my class in an attempt to unravel my hurt. I tried to make photographs and tried to listen to music, but I felt then and still feel that my research and writings on photographers who were documenting the movement's activities were crucial to my understanding of visualizing the quest and desires for black people to vote and live in their communities without fear. I spent my entire career retelling their stories in order to show how the civil rights movement transformed my understanding of what it means to love."

          --Deb Willis, University Professor, NYU

Source:

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2020/february/3-questions-for-2020-nyu-mlk-humanitarian-award-winner-deb-willi.html