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“ Northeastern has dismissed 11 first-year students after they were discovered together in a room at the Westin Hotel in Boston on Wednesday night, in violation of university and public health protocols that prohibit crowded gatherings.”
No refunds of tuition will be provided. https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/09/04/northeastern-dismisses-11-students-for-gathering-in-violation-of-covid-19-policies/ Good for Northeastern. Massachusetts didn’t shut down so Logan airport could open up and let the students come in to party. |
| Nearly 1,000 parents paid $70,000 a year for their kids to live in a freaking hotel in Boston? |
That’s nuts. I’d never. Love the school that loves you back. |
Everyone gets a single plus own bathroom and weekly housecleaning. As a college student, I’d love this. |
Those hotels are probably nicer than the dorms. |
They expelled th for a gathering of 11 off campus?? Freaking insane. I would be irate. |
Rules are rules. If you don’t like them don’t come to campus! |
This. Students are adults. They all had to sign saying they would follow the rules, and they didn’t, so they are facing the outlined consequences. I am glad to see someone actually enforcing the rules they set out. |
+1. This is the only way residential colleges stay open. If you don’t like it, your kid is free to go to UNC, JMU, Ohio State, Alabama, Auburn, USC, UGA— where there are no rules enforced. Residential colleges can succeed in COVID. But only if all the kids are required to follow all the time and the colleges strictly enforce it. No fun? Yep? Boring? Yep. I don’t know who promised your kid a perfect college experience in a pandemic. But it doesn’t exist. Its follow the rules— to the letter. Rules be damned and home in 3 weeks. Or remote learning. I’m sorry you are just now figuring out what the rest of us wrestled with and discussed with our kids and agonized over in June and July. I wrote a $26,000 check for fall semester. And I would be livid if my kids campus went on lockdown like Note Dame or Gettysburg and he lost access to in person instructor or worse, they had 1000 cases and got sent home because your kid was too bored to follow the rules. And ruined it for all the kids that did. Rules are boring. A pandemic sucks. But, here we are. |