Straight Line of the Day: Rutgers is banning an unvaxxed student from taking classes via computer. The reasoning here is…
Rutgers Bars Unvaccinated Student From Attending Virtual Classes
NY Post | 09 07 2021 | Lee BrownA New Jersey student has said he is barred from taking classes at Rutgers University because he has not been vaccinated — even though he is only studying virtually from home.
Logan Hollar, 22, told NJ.com that he largely ignored the school’s COVID mandate “because all my classes were remote” from his Sandyston home, some 70 miles from Rutgers’ campus in New Brunswick.
But he was locked out of his Rutgers email and related accounts when he went to pay his tuition at the end of last month — and was told that he needed to be vaccinated even though he has no plans to attend in person.
Hollar has now been forced to miss classes that started Sept. 1 — and has been warned it could be weeks before a decision is reached on his application for an exemption to the vaccine mandate, he said.
“I’ll probably have to transfer to a different university,” Hollar told NJ.com, saying he knows of at least one other student in the same position.
“I find it concerning for the vaccine to be pushed by the university rather than my doctor,” he told the outlet.
“If someone wants to be vaccinated, that’s fine with me, but I don’t think they should be pushed,” he insisted, saying he doesn’t “find COVID to be scary” because he is healthy and “not in an at-risk age group.”
“I don’t care if I have access to campus. I don’t need to be there. They could ban me. I just want to be left alone,” he said.
Hollar’s stepfather, Keith Williams — who has been vaccinated — told the outlet he is “dumbfounded” at Rutgers’ stance.
“I believe in science, I believe in vaccines, but I am highly confident that COVID-19 and variants do not travel through computer monitors by taking online classes,” Williams told NJ.com.
“He chose to remove himself from an on-campus experience so he would not need to be vaccinated,” Williams said.
“Now to be removed and shut down from his Rutgers email and online classes during the start of his senior year seems a bit crazy.”
Rutgers spokeswoman Dory Devlin insisted that the university has “provided comprehensive information and direction to students to meet vaccine requirements through several communications channels.”
She noted that Rutgers’ policy differentiates between a “fully online degree-granting program” and “classes that are fully remote” but part of a course where other students are on campus, as in Hollar’s case.
If that last paragraph is kind of confusing to you, you are not alone.
Nuking him from orbit is not currently a viable option.
McAfee software flagged him a a computer virus risk.
…John McAfee has allegedly passed, therefore computer viruses (viri?) could spread exponentially.
All those artist renditions of the Coronavirus looks like they would easily fit through the Intertoobs
The reasoning here is..
The Fiber Optic Variant
It is well known that the Staff at Rutgers are all so much smarter than any silly student and therefore smugness is validated ….. and ….. shut up!
… “We can’t have students here who don’t spend their money for parking passes, locker rentals and buying overpriced items at the Student Union and the food courts…”
It gets even more idiotic, my buddy’s daughter had to pay $40 to take a class
on proper usage of the parking lot at school. It’s nothing but a money grab.
$40? I could do it for $20: “Read the contract / read the parking pass. It’s printed somewhere.”
The school could make more money by not publishing any parking rules and passing out tickets on a Calvinball basis. Is he sure he wants his kids going to a school that dumb?
Why the f*** not?
The Bluto philosophy.
Because the purpose of a Rutgers education is learning conformity.
Rutgers is banning an unvaxxed student from taking classes via computer. The reasoning here is…
…to quote Karl Spackler, “We can do that. We don’t even have to have a reason.”
Haven’t you science deniers heard of computer viruses? They spread through the internet.
COVID-19 is a virus. It could spread through the internet, just like a computer virus. We are doing our part to work towards having ZERO COVID cases!
“We Socialists have the reasoning capabilities of Doltin’ Joe Dementio and our reason is we’re a$$holes and we’re in charge.”
Who knew Rutger Hauer had a university?