Today's Clips (3/9/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Jon Axel Gudmundsson’s career was one of the greatest in Davidson basketball history.

CORONAVIRUS

Scarsdale, N.Y., also announced it was closing its public schools for the week after a teacher tested positive for the virus.

The University of Washington is moving to online classes for its 50,000 students. With colleges nationwide about to empty for spring break, students fear they might not be coming back.

The NCAA’s worst-case scenario for staging its March Madness tournaments in the time of coronavirus involves barring spectators from games, with players screened for illness before competing, the association’s chief medical officer told The Wall Street Journal.

The NCAA said on Friday that it was not advising the cancellation of sporting events at U.S. colleges and universities, amid a global coronavirus outbreak that has prompted school closures and orders to work from home in some communities.

Seven Trinity College students are in self-quarantine following possible exposure to coronavirus, the school said on Sunday.

There are the logistics, like getting food to quarantined residential students, and then there’s the question of how to ensure people keep to quarantines that aren’t legally mandated.

As the coronavirus spreads across the United States and the world, colleges are deciding how to protect not only their students, but their wallets.

Sessions for admitted students are going online, and graduate programs are worried, as are undergraduate programs that are well-known enough to have applicants from far away. And then there's next year.

Colleges shift classes online, more conferences are canceled and basketball games are played in empty stadiums. A roundup of the latest COVID-19 developments in higher ed.

IN OTHER NEWS

Judge Nathaniel Gorton has doled out long sentences and harsh words to parents in the college admissions scandal. Now he will preside over two trials.

A photo of a sign with homophobic messaging directed at one of the Siena players emerged from the Monmouth student section on Friday.

After Brigham Young University two weeks ago dropped a section from its strict code of conduct that had prohibited all expressions of homosexual behavior, bisexual music major Caroline McKenzie felt newfound hope that she could stop hiding and be herself. She even went on a date with another woman.

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