Rutgers Rule: So Sciency
Is Rutgers University an actual institution of higher learning?
Someone check the academic credentials of administrators. They appear to be idiots.
Never mind that Hollar lives 70 miles from the school’s New Brunswick campus and is taking courses online. Intransigent administrators don’t care about that. They’re demanding that he take a vaccine in order to enroll.
Rutgers spokeswoman Dory Devlin insisted that the university has “provided comprehensive information and direction to students to meet vaccine requirements through several communications channels.”
She noted that Rutgers’ policy differentiates between a “fully online degree-granting program” and “classes that are fully remote” but part of a course where other students are on campus, as in Hollar’s case.
Devlin told the site that staff “continue to work” helping students apply for waiver requests for medical or religious reasons — while conceding they “should expect a two-to four-week turnaround, during which time they will not have access to university systems.”
Classes started Sept. 1. Hollar’s already missed an entire week and could be hopelessly behind by the time his waiver is approved.
If it’s approved, that is.
Rutgers was the first college in the country to demand that all students be vaccinated. It’s safe to assume that the rule is in place to prevent outbreaks of Covid on campus. Fine. Hollar isn’t on campus and says he has no plans to venture onto that sacred soil.
“I don’t care if I have access to campus. I don’t need to be there. They could ban me. I just want to be left alone,” said the psychology major.
Like so many draconian rules imposed by those drunk with power - from governors to college presidents - this one makes absolutely no sense.
Unless, of course, Rutgers believes Covid-19 is a computer virus.
