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Protest at Popeyes
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Continued Distress Over Police Mess
5 A group of protesters gathered at the Popeyes on Ritchie Station Court in Capitol Heights, Md., on Sept 7, to show support for a woman who was brutally assaulted by an off-duty police officer working as a security guard at the restaurant, according to a video that went viral. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)
5 Edward Burroughs, Prince George’s County Public School board member, and Ashanti Martinez, an advocate, join the protest to show support for a woman who was brutally assaulted at the restaurant by an off-duty police officer working as a security guard, according to a video that went viral. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer) 5 Tyesha Kay, the sister of Deon Kay, the young man killed by police as he was releasing a gun, tearfully speaks during a candlelight vigil for her brother at the intersection of Mellon Street and Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue in Southeast. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
5 Friends and family of Deon Kay, the young man killed by police as he was releasing a gun, gather at the intersection of Mellon Street ad Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue in Southeast for a candlelight vigil. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
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5 Kyle and Ashley (who chose not to give their last names) join protesters at a Popeyes in Capitol Heights after a viral video shows a security officer brutally assaulting a woman at the restaurant. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)
COLLEGE from Page 26
national level, there is a lot of chaos, there is a need for consensus building.” Thornton said. “From Prince George’s County to parents of students in Alabama people need to have faith in the people who making decisions about their children.” Times have been particularly hard for high school graduates who have received college scholarships to play football and other sports in college. There are reports of players contracting the virus, being forced into isolation and then getting better. In addition to this stress one parent of a college player at West Liberty University is not sure if her son will return in January because the school may also go online. “As a parent of a student, whether they are freshman or a senior, you want the complete college experience but the main thing is safety,” said Allison Prince, a Montgomery County pupil personnel specialist. “During these times a college athlete must have a mindset of resilience because of the layers of concerns.” Student life is almost non-existent, according to Tai Talbot, a senior at Delaware State University, “They (the school faculty) created time slots for lunch. The café will be open but now one will be able to sit down and talk to their friends; they’re doing a takeout lunch kind of deal. Clubs and Organizations will be pushed back to the spring semester and homecoming will be pushed back until April or May.” Delaware State is not the only institution to go virtual or hybrid in the fall. Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Lafayette College, University of Delaware, and St. Johns College of Nursing are also going mostly virtual as well, COVID-19 Roundup: Colleges Tilt Toward Online Openings says. Even more, institutions are closing altogether, and may not reopen. “The trend of colleges closing absolutely has been accelerated. Without significant state or federal intervention, we’re going to see a lot of colleges close,” said Aaron Rasmussen, co-founder of MasterClass, an online education platform. Clayton Christensen, a professor at the Harvard Business school, backs this notion up in his 2011 book “The innovative University.” Half of the U.S. college campuses will either shut down or go bankrupt in the next 10 to 15 years, he said. Devynne Johnson contributed to this article. WI
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