The move comes the day after several University of Wisconsin System schools made changes to how they operate to slow the spread of COVID-19, and the same day Gov. Tony Evers declared a public health emergency in response to the virus.
Red carts rolled in and out of residence halls. Students stuck without suitcases lugged trash bags of belongings out to cars. Desk receptionists collected students’ keys, a requirement in the move-out process.
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In a writing class at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, freshmen were in the “inconvenience phase” of the pandemic. The school is suspending “face-to-face instruction” starting March 23. A teenager’s world, already so virtual, will become even more so. Now seeing a friend from the dorm is going to take a 40-minute car ride instead of a four-step walk across the hall.
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Even with over 100 colleges and universities nationwide — and counting — suspending in-person classes to prevent the spread of COVID-19, many students were taken aback when the University of Wisconsin-Madison made the big announcement Wednesday.
At UW-Madison, which has about 20,000 employees, workers can start asking their supervisors for permission to work from home, spokesman John Lucas said. Previously, employees had to use a more centralized system to request to work remotely.
But there will be no postseason for the red-hot Badgers, whose 2019-20 campaign ended abruptly Thursday when the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments were canceled due to concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Sports in general are on hold or in question across the U.S. as pro, college and high school leagues try to limit the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
UW Health on Thursday started canceling some non-essential clinic appointments because of the COVID-19 outbreak, and leaders said UW Hospital is already near capacity in part because of a serious flu season.
“The safety and well-being of our student-athletes, staff and fans is our highest priority,” University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic director Barry Alvarez said in a statement. “We fully support the Big Ten Conference’s move to cancel conference-related sports events and activities for the remainder of the school year.”
“The decision was made in consultation with local and state public health officials to discourage and limit large gatherings in light of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation. Many other sporting events and tournaments across the country have also canceled their events, including the Big Ten and NCAA tournament,” Lovicott wrote in a release.
The University of Wisconsin football program will not host unofficial recruit visits this spring until further notice.
Quoted: That report, from University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Young Mie Kim, found that Russia-linked social media accounts are posting about the same divisive issues — race relations, gun laws and immigration — as they did in 2016, when the Kremlin polluted American voters’ feeds with messages about the presidential election. Facebook has since removed those accounts as well.
Quoted: “The Electoral College creates these strange incentives for campaigns to ignore most of the country and pour their attention into a small number of places,” Barry Burden, a professor of political science and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Newsweek.
