The penalty is out of the proportion for the offense.

Total overreaction. Kids should be sent home to do semester on-line. That is penalty enough for this offense.

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Anonymous wrote:The school way overreacted and I"m not sure they are legally allowed to keep the tuition based on student behavior in an off campus hotel.

Agree. Is a gathering of 11 people legal in Boston? I bet it is.

An indoor gathering of 25 in an enclosed space is allowed IF everyone is masked AND if they are 6 feet apart at all times.

The university was right. People of all ages thinking they are exceptions or this little o won’t matter are part of what has gotten us into this protracted mess.

Kid signed the agreement which outlined the punishment for violations of the policy — including expulsion. Just because no one imagined they’d enforce it, doesn’t mean it isn’t valid.

Northeastern has gone to huge expense setting up one of the best surveillance testing programs — but as UIUC show — it isn’t enough if students don’t also do their part.

Also all of this really sucks.

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Anonymous wrote:“ 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.

They expelled th for a gathering of 11 off campus?? Freaking insane. I would be irate.

Good, you *should* be irate (at your idiot child).

I would not be happy with my kid, no. But the school should have suspended them, sent them home for online only this year. Expelling **freshman** for a gathering of 11 in a hotel that is not even on their campus when they are lonely and on their own for the first time, and then keeping all the tuition on 9/4, is outrageous. Kids make errors. Adults are making all kinds of errors--none of us has lived in a pandemic pretty much, and it is not even an Ebola pandemic. The kids are facing what is basically going to be a bad cold for them. So any school that expels for this mistake is greedy and stupid. Northeastern is a subpar school anyways--always has been too.

IF the hotel is a dorm, then its on college property. They know the rules, they choose not to follow them. This is a kid failure and a parenting failure if you think its ok. That was not an Error.

Are you always this rigid? I feel sorry for your kids, if so. Remember: these are freshmen. They have never lived away from home until a week or so ago. They are in a hotel. No one they know has gotten seriously ill, most likely. They have no friends yet. They are in a large city. And they gathered in a group of 11, not 50. Please. Suspension and online until the campus opens regularly is the correct punishment here.

Wow, this poster ("these are freshmen. They have never lived away from home...") stands in total opposition to those who say, "They are adults. Cut the apron strings. Stop being a helicopter parent...."

If they are legal adults, and they signed a document that warned of these consequences for those actions...it is a done deal. And they have learned a valuable (albeit expensive) lesson about contracts along the way.

And if it were my kid, it would be an expensive less for them. We can do 8 semesters at a SLAC with no student loans. But that’s it. If this were my kid, they would be taking out loans and/or working the rest of this semester and saving for the 9th semester, or overloading or paying for summer community college to make up the classes.

"A University like no others"

Northeastern charges 70k a year but with a graduation rate only 84%, which is lower than 87% at UMD?

Looks like a bad deal through and through.

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Anonymous wrote:The school way overreacted and I"m not sure they are legally allowed to keep the tuition based on student behavior in an off campus hotel.

The school needed to send a message to the prevent other selfish imbeciles from ruining the year for everybody. They did the right thing.

By illegally keeping the tuition and the boarding?

I will not pay my kids to apply there.

They’ll fine without you.

If NEU is like my kids college, then the kids signed a contract before they returned spelling this out. And if they had decent parents, the parents sat down with the kids and went through the schools requirements and the consequences for not complying. Our says discipline action for any violation, suspension without tuition returned for serious violations or ongoing violations. One of which is hosting or attending party of more than 10 kids.

As my child knows, this is serious stuff. His getting sick might be minor, but he could infect someone who dies. He could also become part of a cluster that sends his whole campus home.

My child also knows that he was not heading into that college experience he or we had hoped for. But, the best chance he has this school year for any freedom and in person learning. The only other options we found were LOA to work at a low wage, low skill job or classes in my basement.

There are no good option here for college kids. Residential education with adherence to a lot of strict rules is the best that’s out there. I’m surprised how many parents and kids seem to feel like college students are entitled to ignore the pandemic. They aren’t. When they do, they put my kids health and residential education at risk.

If your kid doesn’t have the maturity to follow the rules, keep him or her at home. Please. Give the kids who can follow rules and are willing to do so a shot.

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Anonymous wrote:“ 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.

They expelled th for a gathering of 11 off campus?? Freaking insane. I would be irate.

Good, you *should* be irate (at your idiot child).

I would not be happy with my kid, no. But the school should have suspended them, sent them home for online only this year. Expelling **freshman** for a gathering of 11 in a hotel that is not even on their campus when they are lonely and on their own for the first time, and then keeping all the tuition on 9/4, is outrageous. Kids make errors. Adults are making all kinds of errors--none of us has lived in a pandemic pretty much, and it is not even an Ebola pandemic. The kids are facing what is basically going to be a bad cold for them. So any school that expels for this mistake is greedy and stupid. Northeastern is a subpar school anyways--always has been too.

IF the hotel is a dorm, then its on college property. They know the rules, they choose not to follow them. This is a kid failure and a parenting failure if you think its ok. That was not an Error.

Are you always this rigid? I feel sorry for your kids, if so. Remember: these are freshmen. They have never lived away from home until a week or so ago. They are in a hotel. No one they know has gotten seriously ill, most likely. They have no friends yet. They are in a large city. And they gathered in a group of 11, not 50. Please. Suspension and online until the campus opens regularly is the correct punishment here.

Wow, this poster ("these are freshmen. They have never lived away from home...") stands in total opposition to those who say, "They are adults. Cut the apron strings. Stop being a helicopter parent...."

If they are legal adults, and they signed a document that warned of these consequences for those actions...it is a done deal. And they have learned a valuable (albeit expensive) lesson about contracts along the way.

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Anonymous wrote:The school way overreacted and I"m not sure they are legally allowed to keep the tuition based on student behavior in an off campus hotel.

The school needed to send a message to the prevent other selfish imbeciles from ruining the year for everybody. They did the right thing.

By illegally keeping the tuition and the boarding?

I will not pay my kids to apply there.

Anonymous wrote:The school way overreacted and I"m not sure they are legally allowed to keep the tuition based on student behavior in an off campus hotel.

The school needed to send a message to the prevent other selfish imbeciles from ruining the year for everybody. They did the right thing.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“ 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.

They expelled th for a gathering of 11 off campus?? Freaking insane. I would be irate.

Good, you *should* be irate (at your idiot child).

I would not be happy with my kid, no. But the school should have suspended them, sent them home for online only this year. Expelling **freshman** for a gathering of 11 in a hotel that is not even on their campus when they are lonely and on their own for the first time, and then keeping all the tuition on 9/4, is outrageous. Kids make errors. Adults are making all kinds of errors--none of us has lived in a pandemic pretty much, and it is not even an Ebola pandemic. The kids are facing what is basically going to be a bad cold for them. So any school that expels for this mistake is greedy and stupid. Northeastern is a subpar school anyways--always has been too.

IF the hotel is a dorm, then its on college property. They know the rules, they choose not to follow them. This is a kid failure and a parenting failure if you think its ok. That was not an Error.

Are you always this rigid? I feel sorry for your kids, if so. Remember: these are freshmen. They have never lived away from home until a week or so ago. They are in a hotel. No one they know has gotten seriously ill, most likely. They have no friends yet. They are in a large city. And they gathered in a group of 11, not 50. Please. Suspension and online until the campus opens regularly is the correct punishment here.

Clearly they do have friends! I’d be pissed my freshman wasted my r&b money. Heck I consider it “wasting” if a school kicked everyone out of the dorms after a month.

Anonymous wrote:The school way overreacted and I"m not sure they are legally allowed to keep the tuition based on student behavior in an off campus hotel.

Agree. Is a gathering of 11 people legal in Boston? I bet it is.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“ 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.

They expelled th for a gathering of 11 off campus?? Freaking insane. I would be irate.

Good, you *should* be irate (at your idiot child).

I would not be happy with my kid, no. But the school should have suspended them, sent them home for online only this year. Expelling **freshman** for a gathering of 11 in a hotel that is not even on their campus when they are lonely and on their own for the first time, and then keeping all the tuition on 9/4, is outrageous. Kids make errors. Adults are making all kinds of errors--none of us has lived in a pandemic pretty much, and it is not even an Ebola pandemic. The kids are facing what is basically going to be a bad cold for them. So any school that expels for this mistake is greedy and stupid. Northeastern is a subpar school anyways--always has been too.

IF the hotel is a dorm, then its on college property. They know the rules, they choose not to follow them. This is a kid failure and a parenting failure if you think its ok. That was not an Error.

Are you always this rigid? I feel sorry for your kids, if so. Remember: these are freshmen. They have never lived away from home until a week or so ago. They are in a hotel. No one they know has gotten seriously ill, most likely. They have no friends yet. They are in a large city. And they gathered in a group of 11, not 50. Please. Suspension and online until the campus opens regularly is the correct punishment here.

The school way overreacted and I"m not sure they are legally allowed to keep the tuition based on student behavior in an off campus hotel.

So glad my kid is not at Northeastern. What a freak show!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“ 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.

They expelled th for a gathering of 11 off campus?? Freaking insane. I would be irate.

Good, you *should* be irate (at your idiot child).

I would not be happy with my kid, no. But the school should have suspended them, sent them home for online only this year. Expelling **freshman** for a gathering of 11 in a hotel that is not even on their campus when they are lonely and on their own for the first time, and then keeping all the tuition on 9/4, is outrageous. Kids make errors. Adults are making all kinds of errors--none of us has lived in a pandemic pretty much, and it is not even an Ebola pandemic. The kids are facing what is basically going to be a bad cold for them. So any school that expels for this mistake is greedy and stupid. Northeastern is a subpar school anyways--always has been too.

IF the hotel is a dorm, then its on college property. They know the rules, they choose not to follow them. This is a kid failure and a parenting failure if you think its ok. That was not an Error.