UMass among schools mandating vaccinations for students
Updated Apr 22, 2021;
Posted Apr 22, 2021
4/24/2020 - Smith College in Northampton is among those that will require students to be vaccinated before coming to campus this fall, but some local other institutions have not taken that route - at least not yet. (Hoang Leon Nguyen / The Republican)
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Students at community colleges in Massachusetts will not.
Other public and private colleges and universities are watching trends, monitoring government requirements and weighing options before declaring whether vaccination will be simply encouraged as all schools are doing or mandatory, with enforceable consequences.
Every institution is preaching health and safety. Whether to make vaccination a requirement, however, is complicated.
Chopped
The current season of
Chopped hosted by Martha Stewart and shot at a resort in Kennebunkport, Maine features several local chefs, including Not Your Average Joe’s executive chef Kristen Harlach and 50Kitchen chef and owner Anthony Caldwell. Joining them is Saba Wahid, a food television personality, cooking teacher, and recipe developer who was born and raised in Framingham, Massachusetts. Unlike the other competitors, Wahid never had any expectations of appearing on this season of the
Food Network’s popular cooking competition because she didn’t apply.
“They contacted me through Instagram,” says Wahid. “That’s how the casting process started.”
Jack Walsh
Special to the USA TODAY Network
Earlier this spring, I introduced a bill in the Delaware General Assembly to gradually raise our state’s minimum wage to $15 dollars an hour legislation supported by every Democrat in the State Senate.
Already we’ve seen pushback from corporate special interests and their lobbyists, whose job is to fight any wage increases for our lowest-paid workers. They will do their best to make you believe that the very people deemed essential during this pandemic do not deserve $15 an hour, or that businesses can only survive if they pay these workers a starvation wage. These voices aren’t simply arguing against popular opinion and the greater good, they’re wrong on the facts too.
Last month, the University Park Undergraduate Association decided to approve Resolution #56-15, setting forth a bold demand â Penn State s divestment from the fossil fuel industry in all its smog-tainted glory.Â
As it turns out, the university has a small but by no means negligible investment in coal, gas and oil, perhaps explaining why its vision of the future appears so hazy and short-sighted. In mathematical terms, about 6% of Penn State s assets lie in fossil fuels.Â
While Resolution #56-15 is not binding upon the university and administration officials can ignore it altogether, the proposal still ops for concessionary realism. Rather than demanding that all requested processes wrap up by next year, UPUA recommends a gradual approach that aims for total divestment by 2026.