07-08-2020, 01:00 PM
Yeah, this order affects more than an international student-athlete's ability to complete their non-classroom responsibilities. Many international--and domestic--students participate in research activities that can't be fulfilled online. That wasn't a big deal at my school in the spring, since a lot of research was shut down and international students were actually sent home while the university sorted out how to make the campus safer. But over the summer research labs are slowly reopening, and, at least in certain fields, they'll need to be staffed with a number of international graduate students.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)