{"id":1235054,"date":"2022-01-24T11:23:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1235054"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:23:52","slug":"priorities-university-held-basketball-games-at-100-capacity-shut-down-in-person-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/priorities-university-held-basketball-games-at-100-capacity-shut-down-in-person-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Priorities: University Held Basketball Games At 100% Capacity, Shut Down In-Person Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpriorities-university-held-basketball-games-at-100-capacity-shut-down-in-person-learning%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1235054&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A prominent university has made it\u2019s choice: Basketball is more important than learning.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State University allowed basketball games to continue \u2014 at 100% attendance capacity \u2014 even though the school had shut down in-person learning for students for almost all of January, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttendance at all of Michigan State University\u2019s home basketball games in the month of January at the Breslin Center was at 100% capacity with 14,797 fans in attendance, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/game\/_\/gameId\/401364382\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN<\/a>,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/michigan-university-held-basketball-games-at-100-capacity-despite-shutting-down-in-person-learning-in-january\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported.<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cHowever, in a Dec. 31&nbsp;message&nbsp;to the campus community, Michigan State University President Samuel Stanley Jr. said that classes would begin remotely for the spring semester due to \u2018the state of Michigan reaching an all-time high in cases per day.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven this intense surge in cases, we now feel the best decision for our campus is to start classes primarily remotely on Jan. 10 and for at least the first three weeks of the semester,\u201d Stanley wrote in the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The university does requires proof of vaccination or a negative test to attend basketball games, but does have an indoor mask requirement.<\/p>\n<p>One student told Fox it is \u201cwildly hypocritical\u201d for the university to keep allowing thousands to jam its arena while barring students from attending classes (for the record, the school charges more than $50,000 per year for out-of-state students for tuition alongside room and board and more than $25,000 for in-state students).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that students can fill the [Breslin Center] packed shoulder to shoulder for hours before the game, for the entirety of the game and be together for, you know, probably three hours at night with no social distancing, not even including all the outsiders being brought in to campus for the game, it\u2019s wildly hypocritical\u201d Blake Maday said, adding the decision is \u201cmore of a revenue decision than a health and safety decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dan Olsen, deputy spokesman for the university, told Fox athletic events are optional for students, while classes are not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAthletics events are optional events that students or the pubic [sic] can attend, unlike classes which are required for our students to progress toward their degree and graduate. Our decision to start the first three weeks remotely was difficult and was influenced by two key factors. One factor was the uncertainty at the time of Omicron and having some time to understand it and its impact better,\u201d Olsen said.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman also said fearing of forcing students to quarantine if classes were held in person was another factor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other factor was recognizing we would have a significant increase in cases that would result in hundreds of students and employees needing to be out of the classroom quarantining or isolating, we wanted to ensure consistency in the first weeks of our spring semester so everyone had an equal opportunity to learn with as less of a disruption to their education as possible,\u201d Olsen said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent university has made it\u2019s choice: Basketball is more important than learning. Michigan State University allowed basketball games to continue \u2014 at 100% attendance capacity \u2014 even though the school had shut down in-person learning for students for almost all of January, according to a new report. \u201cAttendance at all of Michigan State University\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}