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Post by mbabeav on Aug 28, 2020 10:26:12 GMT -8
OSU has pledged to require students to limit outdoor, as well as indoor, gatherings to 10 people. What are the odds that this is going to be successful and enforceable......
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Post by fishwrapper on Aug 28, 2020 10:48:55 GMT -8
If this is a good plan, then maybe I should start playing lottery games, too...
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Post by mbabeav on Aug 28, 2020 11:26:06 GMT -8
If this is a good plan, then maybe I should start playing lottery games, too... Your odds of winning are better than that promise holding serve. |
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Post by Werebeaver on Aug 28, 2020 11:49:01 GMT -8
OSU has pledged to require students to limit outdoor, as well as indoor, gatherings to 10 people. What are the odds that this is going to be successful and enforceable...... By and large I have more confidence in the youth of today than I have in the baby boom generation of which I am a part. |
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Post by irimi on Aug 28, 2020 14:37:04 GMT -8
OSU has pledged to require students to limit outdoor, as well as indoor, gatherings to 10 people. What are the odds that this is going to be successful and enforceable...... Really depends on the number bodies on campus. Last spring, I didn’t see gatherings of students on campus because most had left. With 90% of classes online again, I doubt many students have to be there. |
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Post by mbabeav on Aug 28, 2020 14:46:18 GMT -8
OSU has pledged to require students to limit outdoor, as well as indoor, gatherings to 10 people. What are the odds that this is going to be successful and enforceable...... Really depends on the number bodies on campus. Last spring, I didn’t see gatherings of students on campus because most had left. With 90% of classes online again, I doubt many students have to be there. there are a lot of students coming into Corvallis - they will I guess be taking online classes in town. It's not filling up like normal, but there are more college aged people than one might think, and besides I would expect most of the grad students to be here since a lot of what they do is tied more directly to campus facilities. |
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Post by irimi on Aug 30, 2020 8:26:57 GMT -8
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Post by fishwrapper on Aug 31, 2020 7:53:11 GMT -8
Really depends on the number bodies on campus. Last spring, I didn’t see gatherings of students on campus because most had left. With 90% of classes online again, I doubt many students have to be there. The letter from Dan Larson to the campus community included, "... regardless of whether the get together is related to University business or on University property." Perhaps it is worth noting that the emphasis was included in Larson's letter. From students I know there have been snickers of resentment, along the lines of, "What are you going to do, go patrol the neighborhoods...?" I, too, didn't see many - actually, any - gatherings on campus this past spring, or over the summer, save for a number of nicely social-distanced circles of young people gathering on the various lawns in states of repose. However, it is worth noting that in my daily perambulations campusward through neighborhoods to the north of Olmsted's idyllic oasis since the lockdown began (or whatever the hell it's called) I regularly witnessed several gatherings of youth in backyards and garages, sans masks or social distancing, and many, many times in groups of twenty or more. Those who stayed in town - so very many left at Spring Break - clearly had a good time. That said, since June 30 those numbers have gone down somewhat; I would assume that they just stayed in their rentals until the lease was up. I have heard (purely anecdotal evidence) of a number of people who either found a way out of their lease for this fall and are not returning, due to the 90% online announcement, as well as those who could not, but are staying away anyway at their parents' insistence. A good number of community members are terribly nervous right now - how many students will make the trek to town to be here, since those were their plans anyway, to take advantage of the college experience without the in-person classes; I know a few who will be here because the situation is fluid and they want to be the first ones in the building when it finally opens. The numbers in Benton county have been pretty good; all it might take is a number of people traveling here from away... |
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