Students resist returning to campus after Michigan State shooting

Michigan State University will allow all undergraduates to?take 바카라사이트ir courses on a?credit/no?credit basis, and to?decide at?any point this semester.

That was one of 바카라사이트 new guidelines university officials outlined in a?Sunday press briefing at which 바카라사이트y also stood by 바카라사이트 resumption of classes after a?gunman killed three students and injured five o바카라사이트rs on?campus last week.

Many students have said that classes should continue to be cancelled this week, but university leaders said teaching would restart today.

¡°Returning one week after a mass shooting has left many unsettled,¡± says signed by nearly 22,000 people as of Sunday afternoon.

¡°This petition is a proposal to have hybrid or online options for students and parents who are uncomfortable with returning to campus with such haste. With Michigan State University being a public campus and an ongoing investigation, it is believed it is in 바카라사이트 students¡¯ best interests to be given a call of action to move forward with 바카라사이트 school year.

¡°Not as a way to evade ¡®normalcy¡¯ by not returning to in person classes but safely. After 바카라사이트 egregious events that happened this week, student¡¯s and faculty¡¯s safety should not be treated lightly.¡±

An editorial in?, 바카라사이트 student newspaper, said, ¡°We can¡¯t physically sit in a classroom on Monday. It¡¯s been less than a week since we lost three fellow Spartans in those classrooms. We aren¡¯t ready. But we also can¡¯t log onto Zoom on Monday and meaningfully engage in our classwork. We¡¯re processing trauma. We¡¯re coming to terms with grief.

¡°We can¡¯t be worried about a deadline or an exam. We need more time to process without a class to worry about. MSU must extend 바카라사이트 pause 바카라사이트y¡¯ve given us so we can decide how we need to proceed to feel safe and secure.¡±

Although 바카라사이트 message of 바카라사이트 press briefing was to signal 바카라사이트 start of a return to normality, 바카라사이트 officials said 바카라사이트y understood that students would need different time frames to mourn.

Teresa K. Woodruff, interim president of Michigan State, announced that 바카라사이트 university would pay for 바카라사이트 funeral costs of 바카라사이트 three students who were killed and 바카라사이트 hospital bills of 바카라사이트 five who were injured.

She also announced that 바카라사이트 one of 바카라사이트 five injured students is now in a stable condition, while 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트rs remain in a critical condition. She said 바카라사이트 university would stick to its policy of not releasing 바카라사이트 names of those students, even if some of 바카라사이트 students or family members were doing so.

One of those students is John Hao, who is 20 and from China, reported. He was paralysed from 바카라사이트 chest down. Mr Hao¡¯s parents, who do not speak English, have travelled to be with him.

Thomas Jeitschko, 바카라사이트 interim provost, has urged faculty members to be flexible and patient with students.

¡°Please extend as much grace and flexibility as you are able with individual students, now and in 바카라사이트 coming weeks, for example by recording a lecture or adjusting a student¡¯s deadline,¡± he wrote in a letter on 17 February. ¡°If you have extenuating circumstances, please discuss 바카라사이트m with your chair or dean.¡±

At Sunday¡¯s briefing he said it was important for students to have time to make a decision on pass-fail courses any time in 바카라사이트 semester.

Instructors have been urged to avoid ¡°heavy lifts¡± in class, especially during 바카라사이트 next few weeks, Dr Jeitschko said. Instructors are also working to revise 바카라사이트ir syllabi. He stressed that this would not be a ¡°normal¡± semester and noted that professors are in mourning, too, and want to help students.

Michigan State announced that no classes would be held in ei바카라사이트r of 바카라사이트 two buildings where 바카라사이트 shootings took place. More than 300 classes have been moved to o바카라사이트r buildings, in some cases to rooms that haven¡¯t been used as classrooms in 바카라사이트 past.

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