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The ACC will delay the start of competition for all fall sports until at least Sept. 1
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<blockquote data-quote="mtodd30" data-source="post: 728310" data-attributes="member: 5293"><p>The issue with sending the international students away is if classes end up online in the middle of the semester. Many countries have already enacted travel bans on the US, just as we have with other countries. It makes sense, it’s a pandemic, it needs to be done.</p><p></p><p>If that decision is made in September with an uptick in cases, international students may be left with nowhere to go and would be in violation of immigration policies.</p><p></p><p>It might make sense to keep international students from coming into the country if colleges are online anyway, if they decide to go online before the semester starts. But once they’re here, they’ll either be stuck (due to travel bans) in violation of US law, or might have to pay lots of money in lost rent and changing plane tickets to go home to their country and risk spreading the virus further. </p><p></p><p>Or if their country in in worse shape than the US (IE Brazil, where one of my active fraternity brothers is from), they could potentially be in much more danger.</p><p></p><p>To bring it back to football, Sylvain Yondjouen might be stuck in the US, seeing as the EU is putting travel bans in place for the US. I’m not sure whether that applies to Belgian nationals like Sylvain, but if things get worse worldwide it is a possibility.</p><p></p><p>TLDR, I don’t see why we should send international students home in the event of online classes. That’s 1,000,000 students who contribute billions of dollars to local college towns’ economies (who are probably hurting really badly due to the virus). If they’re already here, we should let them have the option to stay when they’ve already paid rent and are taking legitimate online schedules</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mtodd30, post: 728310, member: 5293"] The issue with sending the international students away is if classes end up online in the middle of the semester. Many countries have already enacted travel bans on the US, just as we have with other countries. It makes sense, it’s a pandemic, it needs to be done. If that decision is made in September with an uptick in cases, international students may be left with nowhere to go and would be in violation of immigration policies. It might make sense to keep international students from coming into the country if colleges are online anyway, if they decide to go online before the semester starts. But once they’re here, they’ll either be stuck (due to travel bans) in violation of US law, or might have to pay lots of money in lost rent and changing plane tickets to go home to their country and risk spreading the virus further. Or if their country in in worse shape than the US (IE Brazil, where one of my active fraternity brothers is from), they could potentially be in much more danger. To bring it back to football, Sylvain Yondjouen might be stuck in the US, seeing as the EU is putting travel bans in place for the US. I’m not sure whether that applies to Belgian nationals like Sylvain, but if things get worse worldwide it is a possibility. TLDR, I don’t see why we should send international students home in the event of online classes. That’s 1,000,000 students who contribute billions of dollars to local college towns’ economies (who are probably hurting really badly due to the virus). If they’re already here, we should let them have the option to stay when they’ve already paid rent and are taking legitimate online schedules [/QUOTE]
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