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| DATE | 2021-10-27 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] [ Docs ] backlash-on-college-campuses
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On 10/27/21 21:28, Liz Moore via Docs wrote:
> So now the kids sneak off campus. Cool. The vaccine experiment was a failure in abolishing Covid. People are either in the position where they are exposed to Covid regularly and want protection or don’t want anything to do with it. Forcing people is not working. At this point let nature take its course.
https://newzlane.com/covid-19-precautions-prompt-backlash-on-college-campuses/
Highlights:
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, many universities were already recording
students’ faces with video surveillance cameras, tracking their
movements with GPS and monitoring their messages on social media and
email. Schools also regularly detail students’ study habits through
digital textbooks, record when they enter buildings, log their presence
in class, the library and even the football game. All of these
relatively new tracking technologies are in addition to years-old
systems that leverage students’ IDs to monitor how frequently
individuals are entering gyms, dorms and cafeterias.
Seems like the same article
Covid-19 Precautions Prompt Backlash on College Campuses
October 16, 2021 Author
Life on college campuses is as close to pre-pandemic normalcy as it has
been in 18 months, but as the semester progresses with few
interruptions, some students are pushing back, calling the mitigation
measures schools have imposed an overreach.
Student complaints include objections to restrictions on their travel on
and off campus, increased surveillance and what they consider erosion of
civil liberties. Student-led petitions have prompted some schools to
drop the use of location-tracking apps and requirements to wear sensors
that monitor vital signs.
At the core of their concerns is a fear that universities are
constructing a bureaucracy designed to control a generation just coming
of age.
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“It feels like the school is blackmailing me, they get all this personal
information and in exchange I get an education,” said Dan Smith, a
graduate student studying labor history at Wayne State University in
Detroit. “It’s the growth of the surveillance state.”
When Covid-19 forced colleges and universities to send millions of
students home last year, it hampered their ability to teach and cost
them billions of dollars in revenue from room and board and athletic
events. This year, in an effort to stay open and safe, about 1,000
schools have mandated vaccines, according to the Chronicle of Higher
Education. Outbreaks are far lower than last year and hospitalizations
among students are rare. Only a handful of schools have so far reverted
to remote learning.
Around three-quarters of students are in favor of vaccine mandates,
according to surveys. University faculty are also broadly supportive of
them and have protested at schools where vaccines aren’t required.
This fall, what is riling up students are precautions they see as going
too far, especially on campuses where vaccination rates are nearly
universal.
Protests and petitions have popped up at at least 40 schools pushing
back against vaccine and mask mandates. Some are coming from the same
groups that complained before the pandemic that their schools are
becoming as heavily surveilled as prisons.
College students during move-in day at Oakland University in Rochester,
Mich.
and this:
“We’re in what I think is the messy part of the pandemic. We’re trying
to figure out over the next six to nine months, how do we transition to
managing this as an endemic disease?” she said. “How do we back off
while also still protecting our community, and I don’t think any of us
know.”
OBVIOUSLY YOU TRACK EVERYONE LIKE A PRISION AND KEEP EVERYONE IN MASKS -
FOREVER. Don't like it? Fuck your education.
Remember these are kids at their most impressional age. In the future,
they will grow up thinking this is NORMAL.
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Photo:
Emily Elconin/Bloomberg News
At the University of Southern California, 95% of students are vaccinated
but they need proof of a weekly negative Covid-19 test to enter campus.
Students must leave classrooms to take a sip of water, rather than just
sliding their masks down. Security guards circulate in the library and
student union reminding students to cover their noses and mouths with
their masks, said sophomore Marin Ruiz.
“It just feels like overreach,” Ms. Ruiz said. “You wonder, where is all
this medical information going? Can professors see it?”
Since July, about 1,000 of the 60,000-member USC community have tested
positive for Covid-19, said Dr. Sarah Van Orman, chief health officer of
USC Student Health. Of those cases, about three-quarters were
symptomatic, and a handful required hospitalization. All medical
information collected by the school is protected by privacy laws, she
said. Professors aren’t privy to students’ specific medical information.
“We’re in what I think is the messy part of the pandemic. We’re trying
to figure out over the next six to nine months, how do we transition to
managing this as an endemic disease?” she said. “How do we back off
while also still protecting our community, and I don’t think any of us
know.”
Recent studies have shown that the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines is
decreasing, though experts say the shots still work well. WSJ explains
what the numbers mean and why they don’t tell the full story. Photo
illustration: Jacob Reynolds/WSJ
Michigan has seen its share of reprisals: Students at Oakland University
near Detroit successfully pushed back against a wearable “bio button”
designed to monitor heart rate, temperature and respiration, and warn
the school if a student was showing signs of Covid-19. At Albion College
in Albion, Mich., students petitioned the school to drop an app that
monitored their location—on and off campus. Last week, Western Michigan
University lost a federal appeal to require student athletes to be
vaccinated to play.
Montana State University instituted a policy to place students on
probation who have twice been reported by a professor for not wearing a
mask. A third complaint results in a semester suspension. A fourth mask
offense is grounds for expulsion.
The expansion of video proctoring inside student homes during the
pandemic has also prompted a backlash. Millions of college students now
take exams online while monitored through their computer camera by an
employee of a proctoring company or software designed to detect any
movement that could be construed as cheating.
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conversation below.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, many universities were already recording
students’ faces with video surveillance cameras, tracking their
movements with GPS and monitoring their messages on social media and
email. Schools also regularly detail students’ study habits through
digital textbooks, record when they enter buildings, log their presence
in class, the library and even the football game. All of these
relatively new tracking technologies are in addition to years-old
systems that leverage students’ IDs to monitor how frequently
individuals are entering gyms, dorms and cafeterias.
Mandates have added an additional level of scrutiny, even for those not
on campus. A New Jersey student was barred from taking classes at
Rutgers University because he hasn’t been vaccinated, even though he is
taking all of his classes online from his home.
A spokeswoman for the school said even if students are registered for
remote classes, they are still required to get a vaccine because “they
will very likely at some point come to campus.”
Rutgers student Sara Razi, the New Jersey chair for Young Americans for
Liberty, a libertarian organization with chapters at colleges across the
country, helped organize two protests against vaccine and mask mandates
at Rutgers where she sees “a creeping authoritarianism.”
The vaccination rate among students at the school is about 98%.
Recently, Ms. Razi took off her mask in the library to take a sip of
coffee and a librarian reprimanded her, she said.
“This woman said, ‘You’re violating the mask policy,’” Ms. Razi said. “I
told her, ‘What’s the problem, I’m drinking a cup of coffee?’ She said,
‘I don’t care, put it on.’”
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