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Do we want Bama?

Lane Kiffin says he has no advantage over Nick Saban

2021 spring break canceled ELIZA NOE HADLEY HITSON

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JAMES MINZEHEIMER thedmsports@gmail.com

Lane Kiffin and the Ole Miss Rebels will take on Kiffin’s former boss Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide on Saturday. Kiffin served as the offensive coordinator at Alabama from 2014-2016 before becoming the head coach at Florida Atlantic University.

At a press conference on Monday, Kiffin did not seem optimistic about his chances against Saban.

“Everyone thinks it’s an advantage that I’ve worked with (Saban). But if it’s an advantage, why is he 20-0 against his former assistants? If you think it’s an advantage, you’re not a very good gambler,” Kiffin said.

Coming off the heels of a tough overtime victory against a run heavy Kentucky offense, the Rebels’ defense will see something similar to the passing scheme they saw in week one against the University of Florida. Last week, Alabama quarterback Mac Jones threw for 435 yards with four touchdowns.

With the Rebel defensive struggling heavily against the run and the pass this season, it is likely that Alabama will put up a lot of points on Saturday, similarly to how they did against Texas A&M last week.

The Daily Mississippian spoke with Crimson White sports reporter Robert Cortez about his expectations for the upcoming game.

“I don’t think Bama needs to be afraid of anything. Player for player, Bama is better than Ole Miss, and that shows, but I think people should look out for trick plays and special offensive schemes from Lane Kiffin. The Bama defense has shown some lapses, and using these trick plays or special offensive schemes is a way that Kiffin will try and exploit that.”

Robert also predicted that the game would be 35-10

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Spring 2021 semester will not have a week-long spring break, according to an email Chancellor Glenn Boyce sent to the UM community. The class of 2021 will have an in-person commencement on May 1, and the class of 2020 will finally have its in-person commencement on May 8.

According to the email sent from Boyce, administrators cancelled spring break “to complete the semester as quickly as possible while mitigating risks associated with travel.”

The university will still uphold Martin Luther King Day on Jan. 18, and classes will begin on Jan. 19 as originally scheduled. Additionally, the university will close on April 2 for Good Friday.

Spring semester will end on April 23, a week earlier than previously scheduled. Final exams will be completed by April 30.

In addition to the spring schedule clarifications, the email said that Spring 2021 class formats will be clarified for students before they register for classes — a different approach than the university took with fall semester registration.

“We will offer as many classes as we can with a face-to-face component, up to the protocol-adjusted capacity of our classroom spaces,” Boyce said in his email. “There will be many opportunities for faculty to engage with students in every course.”

The Spring 2021 calendar states that priority registration for students will begin on Nov. 2.

Students want pass/fail grades KENNETH NIEMEYER thedmnews@gmail.com

A petition urging the Uuniversity of Mississippi to install a pass/fail grading system for Fall 2020 has gained nearly 4000 signatures. The petition calls on the university to ensure that students do not lose any academic progress they may have made by receiving bad grades this fall because of course delivery changes.

The petition, posted on

Cchange.org by social work major Jay Lee, has gained 384827 signatures of its 5000 signature goal. Beneath the post, there is a section for signers of the petition to leave a comment explaining why they chose to leave their signature. The comments range from quips such as “I can’t read,” from sports and recreation administration major Nevin Wells to more serious concerns.

“I struggle with online

classes, but I had no choice this semester as my in-person classes suddenly got changed to remote without notifying me,” art major Haleigh Hillman wrote. “Not only that, but one of my professors has no clue how to use the technology needed for us to have our class remotely. It’s affecting our entire class. I’m a senior with two classes left to graduate … and I would love for these two classes not to destroy my GPA

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‘Different from the traditional’

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As the coronavirus forced much of the world into quarantine and isolation, most people took up hobbies such as baking or reading.

This year’s Miss Ole Miss, Lilli Gordon, has a different story.

For the first half of 2020, Gordon was in Australia studying abroad. In March, she was faced with a choice: go home immediately or stay in Australia indefinitely. Gordon chose the latter, so that she could continue working and traveling throughout the country.

Gordon said it was interesting seeing how Australia handled the pandemic and watching it unfold in the United States from the other side of the world. She considers herself lucky to have had the experience, but she also reflected on the other struggles Australia faced while she was there.

“I was very lucky to get to stay there. I ended up staying longer than I would have if I had just studied abroad casually, so it definitely put us through it because we had the bushfires when we got there, and then there were all these

floods, and then the pandemic hit,” Gordon said. “I was like, ‘I’m never gonna catch a break.’”

Kylie Cockrell, one of Gordon’s best friends, said she and co-campaign manager, Ian Pigg, joked with Gordon about visiting her in Australia upon learning that she was studying abroad for the spring semester; they followed through less than a month later, buying plane tickets and booking a trip.

Cockrell said that on one of her and Pigg’s last nights in Australia, while on a sunset cruise in Sydney Harbor talking about spring elections, she told Gordon that if she ran for Miss Ole Miss, they would be her campaign managers.

“We made a little pact that night between us three that we wanted to do this together, even though not one of us had an idea what to do or where to start,” Cockrell said. “Lilli and Ian are the friends that push you out of your comfort zone and to jump in head first. I know we will never in a million years forget that boat ride.”

Pigg said that he considered Gordon to be the perfect candidate for Miss Ole Miss.

“While her Ole Miss experience had been different from the

traditional one since she had taken advantage of a lot of opportunities to study abroad, she was still somehow plugged into campus and the people there while she was halfway across the world,” Pigg said.

Gordon loves traveling and considers it to be a hobby of hers.

Last summer, Gordon was a recipient of the Freeman Foundation grant, allowing her to work at dental clinics in Thailand and Vietnam for the summer.

“The whole premise of it is they want you to be familiarized with Southeastern culture and integrate American students into Southeast Asia,” Gordon said. “So, I worked in a dental clinic in Vietnam for four weeks, then in Thailand for four weeks and then just did some traveling.”

Cockrell said that Gordon has shown her what a true friend should be, and she considers Gordon a constant in her life.

“She has pushed me, encouraged me and made me appreciate the little things. I love watching her love her people here at Ole Miss,” Cockrell said. “She has shown me how to tackle life head on, and I wouldn’t trade her friendship for

anything.”

Gordon said she looks forward to collaborating with Cade Slaughter, this year’s Mr. Ole Miss on their service project. Her campaign supported the Boys and Girls Club, where she’s volunteered for the past three years, and she would like to continue that support as Miss Ole Miss.

“I feel like we take over (Oxford) every year for nine months

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and then just leave, and we get wrapped up in things going on on campus, so if we could do something for the Boys and Girls Club, that would be incredible,” Gordon said. “I know a lot of the kids struggle with getting the nutrition that they need every week, so anything with a food drive. I think it would be really fun just to give the kids something to look forward to.”

‘18 years coming’ Cade Slaughter reflects on becoming Mr. Ole Miss becomes a place that acts as a home away from home for many students, especially those in their first-year.

“Especially with my dad, it’s kind of an extension of what home had been for me for 18 years, coming from Hattiesburg and moving to Oxford,” Slaughter said. “But I think the cool idea of home is that it gets to look different for everybody.”

Around campus, Slaughter is known as a charismatic, engaging campus leader with a not-so-subtle affinity for Taylor Swift’s music; he even wrote an extensive album review of ‘Folklore’ for The Daily Mississippian.

Slaughter describes himself as a people person and likes to be intentional in all of his interactions.

He spends most of his free time playing tennis and being around his friends, but recently, he has taken up a new hobby.

“One thing people actually don’t know about me is that I’m an artist, which is kind of crazy,” Slaughter said. “Most people don’t associate me with that, but I spend a lot of time with myself and just watercoloring.”

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Senior integrated marketing and communications major Cade Slaughter was named Mr. Ole Miss last week. Slaughter, a native of Hattiesburg, is the first member of his family to attend the university, though no one would tell you they were surprised he chose Ole Miss.

Slaughter’s father, though not an alumni university, raised him to be an Ole Miss football fan. When his father died during Slaughter’s senior year of high school, he knew that attending the university was something that he would have wanted.

“Once he passed away, it was like this is a hardship I’m going through, but in a way, he had always trained me for that next step and really instilled that love for Ole Miss in me, even though he didn’t go to school here,” Slaughter said.

Slaughter’s campaign for Mr. Ole Miss focused on the idea of the university being a home for its students. His campaign slogan was “This is Home,” and he wanted to emphasize the idea that the college experience and campus

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Since the pandemic, Slaughter began painting more out of an abundance of free time and space that became available during quarantine. “(I was) trying to keep up with a lot of friends who, quite literally, were spread across the country,” Slaughter said. “So I started watercoloring some comforting words and images of campus and other things and would mail them to people.”

The idea of the campus as “home” was important to Slaughter because so much of his college experience was based around family although he didn’t actually have any familial connection to the university. He said he wanted to emphasize to students that they have a unique opportunity to create a home for themselves at the university.

“This is really the first time in your life that your community and who you’re surrounded by is completely up to you,” Slaughter said. “You don’t have an authority or higher power dictating the way your life looks, and it’s a really cool idea that it’s completely up to you to decide what you’re home looks like.”

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Boyce and deans speak at Freshman Convocation

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Traditionally, a guest is invited to impart outside wisdom unto the entering class of students at the University of Mississippi during Freshman Convocation, but this year, incoming students were invited to listen to various university deans and Chancellor Glenn Boyce.

Dean of Students Brent Marsh hosted Freshman Convocation via Youtube and Facebook Live video on Tuesday, Oct. 6. However, the video was pre-recorded. Marsh began by riding in on a skateboard and donning a grey facemask.

“I am impressed by your resilience thus far and would encourage you to keep pressing on,” Marsh said.

In his section of the video, Boyce described how important the university is to him and how he hopes that all students will feel the same way n while attending.

“Each and every one of , you have something very spen cial in common. You chose - Ole Miss,” Boyce said. “Your choice creates a common bond that will never be broken.” d Boyce also discussed the

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Instead of inviting a guest to the freshman convocation, Chancellor Glenn Boyce emphasized how important the university is to him. freshman class’s common reading book, “What the Eyes Don’t See” by Mona Hanna-Attisha, which explores the lack of clean water in Flint, Mich. Boyce related the con-

tent of the book to the coronavirus, noting that the essential message is that everyone has responsibility to value and protect public health.

“While COVID-19 is very

different from the water crisis in Flint, the similarity lies in the need to see the problem from a community-wide perspective, rather than focusing only on how an issue affects or

does not affect us as individuals,” Boyce said.

Charlotte Fant Pegues, who currently serves as the interim vice-chancellor for student affairs, also presented the challenge coin. The phrase “Stronger Together” is on the back of the coin. Pegues discussed how important it is that the student body is stronger together by lifting each other up.

“You are a part of the Ole Miss family, and a good family takes care of one another,” Pegues said.

While convocation is not a tradition exclusive to the University of Mississippi, Provost Noel Wilkin emphasized how symbolic it can be in one’s academic career. He also thanked the freshman class for its willingness to participate around campus.

“Your presence here makes us a stronger university,” Wilkin said.

As chief academic officer, Wilkin also encouraged students to use their resources on campus and get involved in student organizations.

“Excellence is a critical part of our community and a critical part of the experience for both faculty and students,” Wilkin said.

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Brown receives SEC honor

Cooper Manning on his son, his sports broadcast and the UM experience KELBY ZENDEJAS

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Cooper Manning, UM alumnus and the eldest son of football legend Archie and Olivia, has made a name for himself outside of his parents’ and siblings’ reputations. He hosts his own sports comedy broadcast called The Manning Hour on Fox Sports NFL Kickoff, and he holds a businessman profile as Principal and Senior Managing Director of Investor Relations for AJ Capital Partners.

In a Q&A format on Monday, a pair of Ole Miss Talbert Fellows — a cohort of student journalists at the university — asked Manning about his time at Ole Miss, his creative process for The Manning Hour and his high school football star son Arch Manning.

The following conversation has been edited for brevity and clarity.

Emma Harrington, integrated marketing and communications major: Thinking back on the choices you made in regards to classes and your major, how has that shaped the way you’ve been able to work in your career path?

And what, if you could, go back and do anything different to help you in the future?

Manning: I really got a lot of value out of doing the things I

didn’t particularly like, like being a cameraman or being the behind-the-scenes folks. I was always really comfortable in front of the microphone and real comfortable just talking when I didn’t have anything planned. I wasn’t great — and I’m still not great — at script.

I am far more at ease when it’s adlib and reacting to questions. I would love to be better at memorizing things and saying them. I’m also very very appreciative of the guys on the editing side. I was not very good at editing. I always had to bring in someone to teach me how to do it.

One other thing I regret is that I was never a DJ when they had the local music. I’ve been working on my DJ voice. (Speaking in his “DJ voice”) But, you always have regrets.

Virginia White, integrated marketing and communications major: Can you tell us about the creative process for the ‘Manning Hour’?

Manning: It’s been amazingly fun — the amount of rope they give me to just do whatever I want. We always have a script, but it’s kind of loose. Sometimes we follow it. Sometimes I get kind of sideways and way away and totally go off the rails.

They never tell me, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. Come on, get back

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here.’ They let me go further. I let the guests dictate the nonsense and the humor, and I ask a lot of stupid questions hoping to get something different than what the viewers anticipate. We’re in our sixth year of The Manning Hour.

Who woulda thunk?

Harrington: I wanted to ask you a little bit about your son, Arch. He’s definitely shaping up to be the next great Manning family quarterback. How has your experience with your brothers and father helped you to guide your son with what he’s doing, especially looking at college in the future?

Manning: I think it’s been very helpful just to kind of know how the media works a little bit and know that everything gets blown out of proportion a little bit — good and bad. I knew things would get cranked up. So, we kind of kept him a little more behind the scenes this freshman year, and then he had way more success than I think we thought.

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where can turn into 30 articles somewhere else. So, fortunately, Arch has got a really good outlook and is a humble guy and thinks all of this attention is undeserved and kind of silly.

If my other son Heid was getting this attention, we’d be in big trouble because he would be wearing a cape to school, probably. And, dear goodness, I can’t imagine how big his head would be. The right thing is happening to the right son at the right time. Look out.

White: With all of your knowledge now, what advice would you give yourself when you were a student at Ole Miss?

Stay in school. Never graduate.

I think going outside of the box is, in ways, so good. If something is presented to you and you’re thinking, “I dont think I’m going to be very good at it,” I learned more and got more out of things that went wrong than things that went right.

Manning was set to play football at Ole Miss before he was diagnosed with spinal stenosis and graduated with a degree in Broadcast Journalism from Ole Miss in 1996.

While the Rebels collected a nail-biting win last Saturday against Kentucky, Ole Miss punter Mac Brown collected another win this week as the Southeastern Conference (SEC) named him SEC Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance in the game.

The redshirt senior out of Eden Prairie, Minn. adds this to his extensive list of accolades that include the Dean’s Honor Roll and the SEC Academic Honor Roll.

Against Kentucky, Brown punted five times for 245 yards, and this season, he is averaging 49 yards a punt. Brown ranks second in the nation this year, and he is only trailing the University of Georgia’s Jake Camarda, who took the Special Teams Player of the Week title after a successful week one game against Arkansas.

Brown’s field time will likely increase this Saturday with the Rebels taking on the University of Alabama Crimson Tide in VaughtHemingway stadium. Alabama has forced opponents to punt five times this year, but with Alabama’s tough defense, it is possible that the Rebels may elect to punt more than that.

This would give Brown an opportunity to climb up the NCAA punting leaderboard and try to knock Camarda out of the top spot.

Brown has pinned three of his eight punts inside the 20-yard line this season, and four have been over 50 yards. At this rate, Brown is likely to break the 60-yard mark this season with his longest punt being 59 yards against Kentucky.

“I knew last year I obviously had a lot more punts at this point in the season, but getting a couple of opportunities compared to eight or nine, it’s actually more calming for me because I know I am not going to have an overload work day,” Brown said.

The offense is also putting Brown in a good place. With the trouble the Rebels defense has been having, Brown has given the team some room to breathe.

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Suliman named SEC Men’s Runner of the Week KELBY ZENDEJAS

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continued from page 1 Bama in the first half, and 42-23 at the end.

When it comes to this week, the Crimson Tide offense has proven itself on multiple occasions and should have no problem putting up 50 or even 60 points against the lacking Rebel defense.

The defensive players will likely try the best they can to prevent 50 points from Bama, but the reality setting in for Ole Miss is that this may just not be the year for an upset.

Kiffin never got the chance to get a solid recruiting class before this fall, but with the recruiting period now in full swing, Ole Miss is making every effort to grab

defensive players.

Tywone Malone, the number one defensive tackle in New Jersey, announced via Twitter that he has shortened his list to six schools, including the University of Mississippi.

When it comes to the Ole Miss offense, fans and pundits expect more implementation of the run game. Neither Snoop Conner nor Jerrion Ealy, who are effectively splitting snaps at starting running back, have had a chance to break free in the open field yet.

It is also likely that Kiffin will implement some of the dualquarterback sets with Plumlee and Corral on the field to throw off the often-disorganized Alabama defense.

Kickoff is at 5 p.m. at VaughtHemingway Stadium.

Ole Miss senior cross country runner Waleed Suliman was named the SEC’s Men’s Runner of the week by the conference on Tuesday.

The Rebel led the team last weekend to victory after he finished runner-up at Louisville’s Live in Lou Classic with a 23:36.8 time for his second-straight top-five finish.

With the help of Suliman, the men’s team finished the race with a 41-point margin over Charlotte in the Men’s Gold 8k.

The two-time All-American runner is the only Rebel to hold the All-American status in two consecutive seasons in cross country after securing 36th place in the 2018 NCAA Championships and 20th place in 2019.

As a junior, Suliman received numerous honors, including NCAA South-All Region after placing 9th at the NCAA South Regional 10k. In addition, Suliman placed third at the SEC Championship and helped the Rebels to their second-straight championship

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Waleed Suliman was named the SEC Men’s Cross Country Runner of the Week after posting a second top-five finish. win in 2019.

In his previous race, Suliman secured a fourthplace seat at LSU’S SEC Preview on Sept. 19., clocking

in at 17:27.9.

Ole Miss will be off this week before traveling to Birmingham for UAB’s Blazer Classic on Friday, Oct. 16.

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In the 2019-2020 season, Ole Miss women’s tennis held a 9-5 overall record with a 1-3 record in conference play.

The Rebels faced the Tennessee Volunteers during their last match on March 8, just before the coronavirus prohibited play for the rest of the FILE PHOTO: KATE KIMBERLIN / THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN regular season.

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OPINION For the sake of doctors, say no to universal healthcare HELEN CLAIRE MCNULTY thedmopinion@gmail.com

Throughout the presidential debates, campaigns and now the pandemic, healthcare has become a hot-button issue. Self-proclaimed Democratic-Socialist Bernie Sanders has painted an idyllic picture of what he believes healthcare should be in America: universal coverage for everyone with low to no out-of-pocket costs for prescriptions or copays. On the surface, this sounds like a pretty sweet deal, but what few talk about — Democrats or Republicans — are some of the problems that impact medical professionals in transitioning to this socialized haven.

As an aspiring physician

myself, there have been many potential issues that I see with this proposed model.

First is the issue of doctor shortages. With baby boomers nearing retirement age, a large outflow of doctors are leaving the profession, which is leaving many more openings than what can currently be filled.

With an average medical school debt of $201,490 and the extreme competitiveness to obtain acceptance into virtually any medical school, it wards off a lot of potential doctors.

Some justify this burden by being able to pay off the six-figure debt through the handsome salaries that they could potentially earn. Physician salaries in the U.S. are among the highest in the world, while countries

that have socialized medicine pay their doctors a fraction of the salary.

According to MedScape, the average doctor in the U.S. makes $381,000 per year compared to the next highest-paid doctors. German doctors earn $163,000 per year, and the United Kingdom’s physicians make around $138,000 USD per year. The best-paid doctors in Europe make under half of what the average American doctors do.

With the introduction of universal healthcare, current physicians could see a large pay cut, and potential medical students would think twice about taking on that much debt as they would not be able to pay it off as quickly. This would re-

quire a total overhaul in the secondary education system where all undergraduate and graduate studies are paid, which is a tall order for the current state of public universities funding.

We as Americans are also accustomed to a certain experience while at a hospital — nice accommodations, short wait times, etc. In a video by PragerU, a Canadian citizen spoke about how his pregnant wife, who had a high-risk pregnancy, had to wait several days to get an ultrasound for two reasons: the ultrasound machine was all booked up, and ultrasound technicians in hospitals don’t work on weekends. In the U.S., that would be completely unacceptable. In countries where socialized medicine takes prec-

edent, wait times are extremely long. Going from a setting where care is administered quickly and in a lovely setting to something quite the opposite would certainly face backlash and frustration from many Americans.

I am not saying that privatized healthcare is perfect. It certainly has room for improvement, but socialized healthcare is not the answer. Congress needs to put their differences aside and work together to improve the healthcare system in this country.

Helen Claire McNulty is a senior biology major from Holland, Michigan, and West Palm Beach, Florida.

Medicine is about helping people, not making money RICHARD EASTERLING thedmopinion@gmail.com

This week, The Daily Mississippian published a column titled, “For the sake of doctors, say no to universal healthcare,” which criticized the possibility of universal healthcare in the United States.

Universal Health Care (UHC) is a system proven by almost every other first-world nation. America is unique in our archaic, profit-focused system, and I believe moving to a single-payer system is vital for the health of our nation.

At the core of medicine is helping others, not a paycheck. A career in medicine is a career of dedicating one’s life in the service of helping

patients and their families through the most difficult times in their lives. UHC would lead to patients having greater ease in seeking and receiving care and would lead to less administrative burnout on physicians, allowing them to focus more on patient care.

According to Medscape, the average overall physician salary was $313,000, with primary care receiving an average of $237,000 and specialists receiving $341,000. This data is from a self-report survey, representing 2% of U.S. physicians; actual income statistics are almost impossible to find.

The major physician shortage we have is for primary care phy-

sicians, not specialists. We’re having too many physicians choose to pursue the higher-paying but less-needed specialties due to the fact that they will receive higher financial compensation.

Physicians for a National Health Program goes into great detail about how physician salaries would actually not change with a single-payer system and would be better off overall thanks to the reduction in administrative hurdles put forth by the private insurers. The APHA published an article in 2011 on The Impact of Single-Payer Health Care on Physician Income in Canada and found that overall Canadian physicians ended up having faster in-

come growth compared to other professions.

America is far behind other first-world countries in our healthcare statistics, and a large reason for this is financial barriers to seeking care. In the interest of my future patients, I support UHC.

Richard Easterling is a second-year medical student at UMMC and an alumnus of the University of Mississippi.

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Lee said he decided to write the petition because he was struggling in his online classes and because he felt college students have already been left out of certain COVID-19 relief measures, such as government stimulus checks that independents could not qualify for.

“I just don’t really think it’s fair,” Lee said. “I know that we have to take our precautions, and I feel like — if we’re at least going to have to take those precautions — the university could stand by us and be like ‘we understand that

nobody asked for this.’”

Lee said that he has not been in contact with any university administration regarding the petition, but he has spoken to Associated Student Body President Joshua Mannery about it, and Mannery plans to make sure his concerns are advocated for.

“He hasn’t, of course, made his own stance on the issue, but he has let me know that he will listen to us because he just wants to listen to us, and that’s all we want,” Lee said.

Associate Provost Richard Forgette did not directly answer whether the university was made aware of the petition or if the university plans to respond to it. Instead, he noted that Z and P grade options were offered as a response to classes moving online mid-se-

mester in the Spring and said the university is continuing to listen to student concerns about course delivery.

“During the Spring 2020 semester, the P and Z grade options were offered in large part in response to the mid-semester disruption that students and faculty experienced in the shift from in-person delivery to remote delivery of classes,” Forgette said. “The University’s faculty are sensitive to student concerns about remote and online course delivery formats, and recognize that these formats present real challenges to student learning. The University’s Keep Teaching and Keep Learning teams are working actively to address these challenges.”

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