Subj : Re: game permits
To   : NANCY BACKUS
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Tue Apr 07 2020 06:38:06

  Nancy wrote --

>  JM> Yeah, and quickly swallow whatever I'm eating.  :)
>  
> So as to be able to talk semi-intelligibly, eh....?   ;)

  Yeah about the way I usually talk, semi-intelligibly.  :)
  When I make my rounds checking out who has what and putting that in the
order I want to hit that table, I will limit myself to only something that is
bite size.
  It never failed early on nothing would be going but the minute I took a
bite of something someone drove up, had a question, etc.  :)
  I stay till half time and once the game starts I can make my rounds and
pile up the plate.  :)
  A lot of the tailgaters have people who don't go to the game, but hang
around keeping an eye on the food, grills, etc.  Some people pack everything
and put it away in their cars.  Those are the ones I hit early.
  I have my HQ at a tent near the gate where I can keep an eye on it and
eat there.
  Its strange.  Almost all the time the tailgaters will have the same
things: hamburgers one week, chili another, etc.  I jokingly ask if they have
meetings to plan their menu's.  :)

> Is the University shut down, too...?  Or are they also doing all the
> classroom stuff online now...?

  Yes to both.
  The university shut down almost a month ago, a week before spring break,
so the students got two weeks instead of one.  After break everything was on
line. 
   The week before break all was set up by IT and during spring break
instructors were taught how to use the system.  (Students learned on line).  
   Some instructors like it, since they don't have to dress and leave home. 
Some dislike it saying there could be students without net access, or
pc/laptop/tablet/phone.  
   I remind them this is 2020 not 1990 and being online all the time the
students probably know more about this then the faculty (in general, not that
one person).  
  I often get a distasteful look from faulty when I mention the kids
probably know more than they do about this stuff. 
  Some things there are able to be done remotely from home so things are
still getting done on the general business end.  A lot of things were done
online before this, such as registration, tuition payments, etc.
  I've asked faculty how finals will be handled.  No idea.
  It could be the students will receive as their final grade whatever they
had before this.
  Joe
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