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(Provost Joseph) Heble cited “noncompliant social interactions — particularly those where people are not wearing masks or observing adequate physical distancing” as the probable cause for the outbreak, imploring community members to continue to follow College COVID-19 guidelines as the pandemic continues.
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In a Valley News story students tell the local daily some of those "noncompliant social interactions" have been parties. From the story (LINK):
“It’s the reason people are getting COVID,” (Ash Mitcham) said, but added that many students are critical of the parties. “There’s a kind of animosity to people who are blatantly not following the rules.”
Her roommate and fellow sophomore Jenna Myers agreed, saying that the spikes in cases likely started with parties and “permeated out.” After last week’s news, though, the attitude among students has changed, she said.
“After the outbreak, people kind of sobered up to the reality,” Myers said, likening the campus to a “ghost town.”
Per the story, Hanover restaurants have had to be diligent about enforcing dining rules because students have been trying to gather in larger numbers in town than are allowed on campus.
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Considering what has been happening on campus this headline in The D should be no surprise: In-person athletics on hold following COVID-19 spike. (LINK)
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Back to a little spring football. North Dakota State's loss last Saturday ended a run of 32 straight weeks at the top of the STATS Perform poll. The Bison are sixth this week, their lowest ranking since 2015:
Rank | STATS PERFORM TOP 25 | Votes | LW |
1 | James Madison (2-0) | 992 (34) | 2 |
2 | Weber State (1-0) | 945 (4) | 4 |
3 | UNI (1-1) | 855 | 5 |
4 | North Dakota (2-0) | 846 (2) | 14 |
5 | Villanova (0-0) | 788 | 6 |
6 | North Dakota State (2-1) | 784 | 1 |
7 | Nicholls (2-0) | 756 | 9 |
8 | South Dakota State (1-1) | 736 | 3 |
9 | Kennesaw State (1-0) | 714 | 8 |
10 | Jacksonville State (4-1) | 597 | 16 |
11 | Southern Illinois (2-1) | 594 | NR |
12 | Sam Houston (1-0) | 552 | 17 |
13 | Albany (0-0) | 456 | 13 |
14 | New Hampshire (0-0) | 382 | 15 |
15 | Illinois State (0-1) | 374 | 7 |
16 | Southeast Missouri State (1-1) | 329 | 21 |
17 | Furman (1-1) | 277 | 10 |
18 | Chattanooga (1-1) | 268 | NR |
19 | Idaho (1-0) | 267 | NR |
20 | Wofford (1-1) | 229 | 11 |
20 | South Dakota (1-0) | 229 | NR |
22 | Eastern Washington (0-1) | 228 | 12 |
23 | Monmouth (0-0) | 165 | 20 |
23 | Southeastern Louisiana (0-1) | 165 | 18 |
25 | Delaware (0-0) | 101 | 25 |
Who you meet at a school like Dartmouth can be almost as important as what you learn. Today is the birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel – Doctor Seuss – and as this excerpt from today's edition of Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac points out, children's literature would be a lot poorer if not for a chance encounter in New York City. Keillor writes about Geisel's struggle to get anyone to publish his first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (LINK):
One day, after receiving yet another rejection, he finally decided to give up and burn his manuscript. He was thinking about this as he walked down Madison Avenue in New York when he bumped into an old classmate from Dartmouth who had recently become a children’s book editor for Vanguard Press. After hearing his story the classmate took Geisel back to his office and introduced him to some executives, and it wasn’t long before he had a book deal. He said later, “If I had been walking down the other side of Madison Avenue, I’d be in the dry-cleaning business today.”
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EXTRA POINT
After walking Griff the Wonder Dog this morning I went out to clear the snow off my car, which I foolishly left outside last night. After removing the snow and scraping the windshield, I started the car to move it into the garage. The thermometer in the dashboard read exactly "0" degrees, but that didn't tell the story.
When I turned on the TV to see the headlines the local meteorologist reported that the wind-chill in these parts was 25-to-35 degrees below zero.
With that I shuddered and went off in search of the ESPN Top10 from Monday only to come across the replay of a spring training game from yesterday afternoon. It was a helpful reminder that spring is indeed coming even if it doesn't seem that way.
