One Week Into Semester UNC Announces All Undergrad Course Work Will Transition to Online
August 17th, 2020 at 4:59 PM ^
Sweet. We will have a new license plate choice in NC. We have First in Flight, First in Freedom and now First in Clusterfuck
August 17th, 2020 at 9:30 PM ^
As much as I hate Ohio, to call the Wright brothers' work a product of NC is some kind of shameless stealing.
August 18th, 2020 at 8:59 AM ^
The flight took place in NC.
The license plate does not say anything about birthplace, work habits or requests for click bait opinions.
You are going to be really upset Bo’s best body of work does not feature his Ohio experience either....
August 18th, 2020 at 9:06 AM ^
The flight took place in NC.
The license plate does not say anything about birthplace, work habits or requests for click bait opinions.
You are going to be really upset Bo’s best body of work does not feature his Ohio experience either....
August 17th, 2020 at 6:04 PM ^
Upvoted you twice...once here, and once in your prior post on the same topic (1 minute differential - you win!). I'll congratulate the current OP on a more descriptive title, but I honestly like yours better. It's deliciously smarmy.
August 18th, 2020 at 9:09 AM ^
I’m at a noon kegger (a bit early) in Chapel Hill and my soaked and wet mask got tangled up with my solo cup and I double posted.
Sorry.
August 17th, 2020 at 10:56 PM ^
I now love The Daily Tar Heel. In your face journalism at its finest.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:05 PM ^
Football is totally gonna happen though
there’s a lot of online signatures supporting it
August 17th, 2020 at 5:45 PM ^
Yeah, let's leave the decision to football coaches and Justin Fields. I'm sure they'll make the most judicious, selfless decision. And these fucking football parents -- what victims they are.
August 17th, 2020 at 6:36 PM ^
You gotta feel bad for them on some level. Their kids have devoted their entire lives to the sports and some of them have a good shot at making a professional league but won't get to showcase their talent. Consider a guy like Chris Evans who lost last season due to a poor decision but spent the entire year doing everything he needed to get back on the team and this happens. Not everyone has everything set up for the NFL and is as annoying as online student Justin Fields. I think it's okay to acknowledge that this sucks for a lot of people who are sacrificing a lot.
August 17th, 2020 at 7:50 PM ^
My kid plays college baseball. He missed last season, summer training, and who knows what's going to happen this year. It may seem trivial compared to what a lot of other people are going through right now but these guys have a very small window of playing time, whether they're trying to play at the next level or not. There will be an end date and it will be over, sooner rather than later. So yeah, I do feel for these guys. It really sucks.
August 17th, 2020 at 8:21 PM ^
While I get your point, I might be inclined to look at the bigger picture and think that a) they are all still pretty healthy, b) they mitigate the risk of any injury during the football season, and c) while I know this is a sports blog and I love sports just as much as anybody else, the players' loss pales in comparison to the 160k families who have lost a loved one due to the 'rona AND the countless more who have recovered, but still face physical challenges for the rest of their lives.
August 17th, 2020 at 8:50 PM ^
It absolutely does not compare to the loss of life. But I do think we can have sympathy for those who are losing important things in their lives because of the pandemic while also understanding there are people who are experiencing greater losses. For me, it's not an either/or proposition.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:05 PM ^
I suspect they won't be alone.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:08 PM ^
I get that there are clusters of cases, etc. but I’m also wondering just a little if this wasn’t the plan all along and the “in-person” return was to retain as much attendance (and tuition) as possible for the semester.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:13 PM ^
Fuck yes it was
August 17th, 2020 at 4:22 PM ^
FYI: UNC's registrar website says tuition, room & board bills are all due today. So, at least UNC got their cash.
I'd be utterly surprised & impressed if they refunded the students any % of that money.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:32 PM ^
I totally get the skepticism, but I'd be willing to bet that they will refund room and board. Maybe it's pro-rated (but how long have they been on campus?) or they don't get back some percentage, but I'll bet they get back most of it. That's my guess anyway.
August 17th, 2020 at 6:11 PM ^
I sure wish off-campus rentals would be pro-rated. But leases signed last December for the current academic year are quite unforgiving.
If my daughter comes home from Ann Arbor in the next month or two and is told to stay there until next spring, it will sicken me to pay a shit ton of money to a large Ann Arbor property management company that, to my best estimates, is collecting at least $50K per month for a bunch of students to live in an aging apartment complex near State and Packard.
I sure wish she had opted for the res hall this year - there's at least a modicum of hope for a partial housing refund from the university.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:44 PM ^
If tuition and such are due today and they haven’t paid then they can just not pay and skip the semester. If they don’t refund original payments after going on list at the last minute look for the lawsuits to commence.
This whole Covid virus is turning into the ambulance chasers Utopia.
August 17th, 2020 at 5:36 PM ^
That would be the cynical conclusion, and it is a completely justified one.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:10 PM ^
As soon as those tuition checks clear we're going online....
August 17th, 2020 at 4:23 PM ^
True story: The registar's website at UNC says fall bills were due TODAY.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:33 PM ^
I think its beneficial to allow people who already have too much money, to have a little bit more. What could it hurt....
Back to the fields peasant...
America Fuck Yeah
August 17th, 2020 at 4:46 PM ^
I wouldn't want to be a peasant anywhere else. 'Murica, baby!
August 17th, 2020 at 4:57 PM ^
I can't seem to find the pertinent info for this year but last fall (classes started 9/2) and a student had until 9/23 to drop classes for a 100% refund minus registration fees and a disenrollment fee.
If UM goes online after the first week and doesn't offer refund, as I said above, the lawsuits are going to start flying. We "lost" about $1300 when our son had to leave his dorm and they only sent us a check for less than a prorated amount. I was more than willing as an alum myself to eat the $1300 and chip in to help the University along. I WON'T be so willing a second time.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:12 PM ^
Alternatively they could expel all the dumbasses until theyre left with just serious students with half a brain remaining.
Would be nice to live in a grown up country. A friend of mine's brother just moved to Taiwan for a year (well his wife and kids will be there for a year as they have dual citizenship, he can only stay for 3 months). Theyre basically on house arrest for two weeks. They have government sim cards in their phones and they make sure they dont leave the apartment. They have daily random checks to make sure theyre still in the apartment. The security guard goes home at 7pm so they cant get food delivered after that so they had a friend who lives in the apartment building bring them food and their neighbor called the cops on them who came to make sure they weren't breaking the rules (they weren't). After two weeks are up hes going to go out to a steak dinner, to a bar, and to a baseball game and going to live his life normally because hes in a country that isnt ruled by and populated with children.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:27 PM ^
I do not consider what you've just described a "grown up country".
August 17th, 2020 at 4:32 PM ^
Maybe not grown-up, but a country with some seriously strict parents.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:47 PM ^
No, you think freedom means anarchy and the freedom to kill other Americans.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:55 PM ^
You’ll have to take my word that I’m a mask-wearing, precaution/rule cooperating, sensible individual. But man, this place has gotten... weird? Would not surprise me to see praise of the Chinese govt for welding people suspected of having the virus in their apartments. They have it under control so that must be what “grown-up” countries do after all.
August 18th, 2020 at 12:48 AM ^
I just got back to Korea and I was in quarantine. Yes, I had to have an app with location tracking on at all times. It's just to make sure I don't leave my apartment. Conflating that with having my door welded shut is ridiculous. I uninstalled the app the second I was done with quarantine. No one outside of quarantine is being tracked for anything. Then I almost immediately got a haircut (with no mask on), and took a flight to Jeju (the vacation island in the south) and went to the beach and went surfing for a few days. I'd say maybe 10 percent of the people there wore masks. Even people in convenience stores weren't wearing one. Having been back home recently, it's hilarious that people think things are more restrictive in Korea than America.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:40 PM ^
The country "ruled by and populated by children" is the only reason Taiwan isn't under the ChiCom boot.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:49 PM ^
I would ask if this was sarcasm, but your posting history seems to point towards you actually believing this, which is terrifying.
August 17th, 2020 at 8:05 PM ^
You need to read up on the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty and the Taiwan Relations Act.
It's not a question of belief it's an established fact.
August 17th, 2020 at 10:05 PM ^
It’s almost as if a lot can happen to a country’s population over a forty year period.
August 17th, 2020 at 10:40 PM ^
Demographics have unquestionably changed in the past 40 years in this country, not sure what that has to do with Taiwan though.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:48 PM ^
Our country is a shit hole and has been for decades. We're uneducated, uncultured, selfish, have a crumbling infrastructure, and a government loaded with hacks who are only there to make money (both sides). Our education system blows. And before someone tosses out the stat that more Americans have a college education than ever before, trust me, I went to graduate school abroad. The four Americans in the program (who all graduated from top 20 schools in the USA), were lost in the math based classes. Things that we touched on in college math, the global students learned either before or at the beginning of high school. Moreover, a college degree means nothing for 90% who have one in this country. It's just a piece of paper. Most people lack any critical thinking skills and get their news from FB and Twitter. Add in the fact that in the1970s, the Republican party made the decision to cater to the religious right, and it's no wonder why half our country operates like a first world religious state. The only thing separating their mindsets from the religious zealots in other countries like Afghanistan is the perceived wealth of our nation. We have corporations who have shifted to a gig economy that strip all benefits from workers, real wages have flatlined, there's almost no middle class, 40% of Americans are one paycheck away from poverty, and public debt is about to crush most Americans. The drivel and whining about "no college football" just reinforces how this country is done. And I didn't even bring up issues of racism, health care, and the lack of concern for the environment. Personal freedoms go hand in hand with sacrifice and responsibility. Without the latter two, our social experiment fails. In my mind, it already has. Christ, people can't even wearing a fucking mask. Buckle up...doesn't matter who wins the next election...the next decade is going to be rocky at best.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:58 PM ^
Maybe the hillbillies who got suckered into believing that fighting a non-existent cultural war was more important than jobs, roads, insurance, etc. will wake up before the billionaires who run this country and publicly make fun of them have fleeced them to the bone, but I doubt it. Yes, we're weak selfish cowards. We wouldn't fight the Nazis today.
August 17th, 2020 at 4:59 PM ^
I was anticipating negging this, based largely on its length, but s/he's right.
August 17th, 2020 at 5:04 PM ^
What garde said...a million times over.
Being at home and having more time to reflect has made me realize that this is far from the greatest country on earth...for the reasons you've enumerated and many more.
August 17th, 2020 at 5:15 PM ^
What is the best country?! I mean it, I have doubts and likely agree this country isn't and has a lot if work to do (still)...but I do wonder, where should I start looking to move. Scandinavian/Nordic regions? Canada? Australia? Zaire? East Timor?
August 17th, 2020 at 6:13 PM ^
New Zealand.
August 17th, 2020 at 6:15 PM ^
Canada and the Scandinavian countries consistently rank higher than us in every desirable metric (economic mobility, education, life expectancy). Germany does pretty well, too. But if you want the country with the highest overall GDP, percent population imprisoned, and firearm-related deaths, boy, you can't get much better than the US of A!
August 17th, 2020 at 7:01 PM ^
Zaire hasn't existed for decades, so you can cross that one off (DRC since 1997).
August 17th, 2020 at 5:16 PM ^
I can’t for the life of me understand why the US continues to spend so much money on defense, while our infrastructure crumbles.
The US spends more than the next 10 countries COMBINED in defense.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison
August 17th, 2020 at 11:11 PM ^
It’s a major economic driver. The last time I looked at these figures, it was over 2 million employed by the defense and aerospace industry. High paying jobs too. We’re basically a full-time war economy.
August 17th, 2020 at 5:21 PM ^
Word. I was just wondering yesterday how America has become so derailed since1945.
Thank God for nukes and our military weapons budget, because our citizens wouldn't have the stamina for a war waged by draft or on our own shores.