Obama to visit College Park on Thursday
by AnonTerp on Sep.14, 2009, under Campus Life
So much for parking, morning through mid-day classes and, well, any sense of normalcy. Usually we don’t start losing educational time to disruptions until playoffs.
Campus is already on alert now for H1N1 flu disruptions, and faculty are asked to be accommodating to students who “self isolate” once they show symptoms, in order to minimize spread of infection. What are the odds we see lots of our students report they are “self isolating” starting Thursday…? Hmmm.
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September 14th, 2009 on 7:36 pm
Dude, students might really be in need of self isolation after the President’s visit. Wasn’t Obama one of the main carriers in from that conference in Mexico over the summer? Or so it seemed at the time!
September 18th, 2009 on 10:06 am
thoughts on the reporting:
1. comcast center didn’t fill but was probably around 85%. looks like those who concluded it was packed did so in error – people were turned away but not because of capacity but because the secret service locked it down further ahead of time than perpetually tardy students figured on.
2. traffic and disruptions to class happened in spite of the place not filling. oh well. that isn’t hard to do. we all know in only takes a rowdy field hockey team to trash traffic flow on paint branch drive going north off campus, much less a football day or presidential visit.
3. thank goodness for youtube. you only need look for yourself to see that it wasn’t a total love fest with students as is reported in other venues.