NC State has paused all athletic activities after a spike in COVID-19 cases, and the school is asking students to move out of on-campus housing.
Chancellor Randy Woodson announced a reduction in campus housing today. Woodson says the school was hopeful it could keep residence halls open, but a spike in new coronavirus cases “made our current situation untenable.”
Last week, NC State transitioned its remaining in-person and hybrid classes to fully-online models after coronavirus cases increased. Woodson referenced reports of large off-campus parties associated with COVID-19 clusters that affected at least seven Greek houses (fraternities and sororities), among other students.
Now, NC State has instructed all students living on-campus to schedule a move-out date before September 6. The announcement references potential exceptions that students could be granted, but it’s unclear what the reducing of dorm housing will mean for student-athletes living on campus.
In the short term, though, student-athletes will also be affected by a pause in all athletics-related activities. ESPN reports that the school identified 27 positive COVID cases within the athletic department. The school’s announcement doesn’t give any specific timeline for how long the pause will remain in effect, only noting that the school will work with “all appropriate parties to evaluate the most responsible path moving forward and will provide further details when available.”
NC State is the latest in a growing list of schools to adjust academic or athletic plans this fall based on the coronavirus pandemic. A few of the more recent announcements:
- UNC & Missouri State temporarily suspend athletics, including swimming
- Miami (OH) to quarantine all student-athletes for 14 days after 27 COVID cases
- UNC switches to remote learning amid COVID spike
- AAC & C-USA postpone fall sports (but not football) to spring 2021
- Notre Dame moves classes online as COVID positives rise to 15%
Live FREE or die
Freedom comes with significant responsibilities. If you want to use trite comments, how about ‘Freedom isn’t free.’ While that is bandied about for our military it applies to all of us as well. Freedom is a shared outcome that can’t be enjoyed purely individually when it brings negative outcomes on many in society. Just think about everyone around you and we could beat this quickly. Keep putting individual ‘liberty’ above Our collective freedom and we’re stuck in this stupid purgatory.
I absolutely agree with some of your sentiments. “Freedom is never free”. Live free or die is not a trite comment. It is an official motto of one NE State and was the battle cry of many indigenous groups for centuries.
Yeah! Screw any automobile laws too! While we’re at it, let’s let felons, minors, and underage kids buy AR-15s! Laws are an inherent restriction on my freedom! ANARCHY!!!!
Re: Automobile laws I assume you NEVER break the law by exceeding speed limits?? No way let minors or felons purchase AR-15 weapon. I, in fact own an AR-15, as is my constitutional right.
Concern for others and public health is tyranny!!! I do what I want and my grammy gonna die next. woohoo
Concern for others and public health are necessary in our society.
If only these kids were wearing their 2mm thick masks to stop the spread of the virus lol
What if in 6 months, 1 year this thing doesn’t go away, or there is no vaccine found, or it’s only partially effective….then what? Do we continue to isolate ourselves, these kids? When does it end?
Asking for a friend.
What do you mean “what if?” Trump said one day it will just disappear. And we all know he would NEVER tell a lie!
One day Trump will disappear.
It wont last 6 months. Itll either be just under 3 months or about 4 years a 3 months.
Hahahaha
NC State has sports?
Only sports that cost money and not sports that make money.
School sending students home meaning all these who may be infected are traveling. Why not just quarantine in their dorms and go online for a while???
In March all the college kids were sent back and traveled home. Could this be one of the virus spreading reasons at that time?
Yes. Either you might have had it at school and brought it home and spread it or were safe at school and potentially exposing yourself by going home.
How exactly do you quarantine in dorms? Let alone the difficulty with enforcing it among a bunch of 18-22 year olds, you’ve got things like food and mail (food to eat and mail to get the other things they might need) which are generally housed in different buildings than the dorms.
LISTEN: Every school is living in fear. Yes it will spread! Let it! Top virologists in Texas and DC say the virus has weakened. Testing kits are not valid to the point they are registering a simple cold virus.
Stop freaking out about every case that is registered as “Covid”. Our immune systems are weakening by the week with all the isolation. No matter when students go back… they will get sick! Maybe not with Covid…. but they get sick with colds, the flu, mono, etc.
Why didn’t we shut down college campuses when the Norovirus hit? Why didn’t we shut down campuses when H1N1 hit?
Fine you don’t want to go back? Don’t. I can respect… Read more »
“Dr.”
Tell em Doc!
Who doesn’t know the difference between “coarse” and “course.”
An international person fluent in 6 languages for whom English is a secondary language sometimes confuses our language.
I think you forgot to switch usernames
Paranoia much?
hahahaha… If you just signed up as Dr. J I would count this post as a missed layup. But, doctor you are not. Anyway, did you notice information above that 45 faculty got infected. I don’t know if that is true or not but we would/will end up with many staff and faculty sick and some dead. How many dead faculty is a tolerable number for you, to enjoy football or swimming? If one of them is your wife or husband and they die, would you still think it was worth it? Don’t be stupid.
So you KNOW FOR A FACT that “some” of the 45 faculty will die from Covid-19? Is that scare speculation on your part or are you a Medical Actuary?
46 employees now tested positive, since March. That’s one more than yesterday.
.5% of staff positive. Frightening stuff indeed.
HOW MANY of the 46 employees have died?
Doctor of what exactly?
Propaganda
At this point I think every school should just go virtual. We can’t trust these kids to be serious about safety measures.
It’s ridiculous to expect anything else. They know they are not likely to have any serious issues from this virus. And they are living their life or trying to. If we had let them do this in March we’d be past it by now.
LISTEN: Every school is living in fear. Yes it will spread! Let it! Top virologists in Texas and DC say the virus has weakened. Testing kits are not valid to the point they are registering a simple cold virus.
Stop freaking out about every case that is registered as “Covid”. Our immune systems are weakening by the week with all the isolation. No matter when students go back… they will get sick! Maybe not with Covid…. but they get sick with colds, the flu, mono, etc.
Why didn’t we shut down college campuses when the Norovirus hit? Why didn’t we shut down campuses when H1N1 hit?
Fine you don’t want to go back? Don’t. I can respect… Read more »
Are you assuming the liability that these schools will have to take on? I’m sure they would appreciate that
i really wonder how many of these people, like this DR and HISWIMCOACH are just trolls.
Definition of “trolls” by some on this site = Any person who takes a counter position to the opinions of others.
Ok sure, but you were a troll on this site for years before the COVID-era, by any definition of the word. It’s pretty clear that you quite relish that roll, in fact.
We all mature at some point. Well maybe not all of us, but we should!
I wonder when the good Dr. is attending his next COVID-19 party?
Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark.
What a wonderful compliment! I am grateful for the opportunity of posting my contrary opinions which challenge mediocre thinkers beyond their capacity.
Dr. Quack
Stop listening to the media? What do you think you’re speaking on? A social media site of swim news. Don’t make a comment if you don’t want anyone to “listen to it.” 🥺
This is all so stupidly predictable. Might as well put college kids on a cruise ship with an open bar.
Sounds like a good time, where do we sign up?
At the RNC.
Yes ask Rand Paul and his wife.