Subj : Re: game permits
To   : NANCY BACKUS
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Tue Apr 14 2020 06:07:48

  Nancy wrote --

> One of the variations of Murphy's Laws... ;)  Similar to the waitress
> always comes by to ask how your meal is when you've just put a mouthful
> in... ;)

  Ain't that the truth!
  Every time.  Every time!

> And by then, the tailgaters are mostly disposing of what would be
> leftovers anyway, so you are merely doing them a favor.... :)

  I do it as a service.
  After all, as I always say, someone has planned the menu, bought the
food, prepared it with love and care, and brought it to offer to others.  If 
its
not eaten the cook/host feelings will be hurt.  So I eat to spare them this. 
:)
  Besides, there's a little voice in my head from my childhood of all the
poor starving children in Germany, Japan and Korea.  :)
  (Never have understood how my eating helps them).

>  JM> The university shut down almost a month ago, a week before spring
>  JM> break, so the students got two weeks instead of one.  After break
>  JM> everything was on line. 
> 
> Sounds like they'd done a bit of advance thinking/planning... saw the
> writing on the wall and took heed... :)

  I can see in less than 20 years for students in liberal arts, will seldom
see a campus and a lot of buildings will be redundant. 
  Some classes will need to be on campus such as chemistry, and other
hands-on classes.  But for things like history, English, etc will be on line.

> There is at least a slim chance that some students might not have the
> full resources needed

  I would imagine the odds of that today is pretty slim.
  If they can spend time on their smartphones checking their social media
accounts every two minutes, they can have access to learning.

> when the schools were declared closed, within 15 minutes they were able
> to distribute Chromebooks to the middle and high schoolers, 

  Marshall has free (well, paid for somewhere in fees I'm sure) tablets for
all students, that are assigned at the start of the semester.
  I think, don't quote me, even for those who already have one.

> I'd heard that there were provisions for doing tests and such online...
> one would just have to make them open book tests,

  To me an open book test doesn't test if the student knows the answer but
how to look up the answer.
  Joe
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