{"id":20833,"date":"2021-03-31T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=20833"},"modified":"2021-04-01T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:37:21","slug":"student-editors-letter-returning-to-campus-in-september-impulsive-and-unstable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/03\/31\/student-editors-letter-returning-to-campus-in-september-impulsive-and-unstable\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Editor\u2019s Letter: Returning to campus in September impulsive and unstable"},"content":{"rendered":"

The clock is ticking, and every day I get more doubtful that everything is going to be ready for the fall semester. I can only imagine how the higher-ups at Camosun are feeling as they\u2019re slogging through what I\u2019m sure are many overtime hours working to create a plan that could change at any moment.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t going to be easy for us: international students, for example, need to book tickets, get visas and study permits, maybe get a COVID test, set up isolation accommodations, and find a place to live once they get here\u2014only then can they start to feel like they might be settled. I can\u2019t imagine a world in which an international student isn\u2019t stressed about the prospect of travelling across the globe for a semester that is as up in the air as the fall 2021 term is.<\/p>\n

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A scene from Camosun College during COVID-19 (file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is an insurmountable amount of political pressure to get back on campus for the fall semester, but at this point, for the government to say all systems are go seems unkind considering how much effort it takes the college to get things running again for September. Frankly, as each day goes by and places us closer to the fall semester with a lack of details about how this is going to play out, it\u2019s irresponsible.<\/p>\n

Travelling across the globe isn\u2019t exactly easy to do right now. I\u2019ve spoken to international students who are coming back this April for the start of term in the fall, and they have concerns. For example, there\u2019s the possibility of getting here in April and finding out that classes for September will stay online. And they\u2019re not the only ones who want to find some footing before September hits.<\/p>\n

To aim for a partial return in the fall and a full return in January if all goes well seems like the more stable option to me. I realize nothing about this pandemic is stable, but the government has an opportunity here to show some confidence by putting forward a more solid plan. Impulsivity doesn\u2019t make for a nice start to our post-pandemic world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The clock is ticking, and every day I get more doubtful that everything is going to be ready for the fall semester. I can only imagine how the higher-ups at Camosun are feeling as they\u2019re slogging through what I\u2019m sure are many overtime hours working to create a plan that could change at any moment. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-views"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20834,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20833\/revisions\/20834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}