{"id":610609,"date":"2021-08-04T07:36:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T11:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=610609"},"modified":"2021-08-04T07:36:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T11:36:36","slug":"citing-lack-of-federal-funds-alabama-college-fines-unvaccinated-students-the-school-received-over-4-million-in-ppp-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/citing-lack-of-federal-funds-alabama-college-fines-unvaccinated-students-the-school-received-over-4-million-in-ppp-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"Citing Lack Of Federal Funds, Alabama College Fines Unvaccinated Students. The School Received Over $4 Million In PPP Loans."},"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\">38<\/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%2Fciting-lack-of-federal-funds-alabama-college-fines-unvaccinated-students-the-school-received-over-4-million-in-ppp-loans%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=610609&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Masks-and-Money.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama is mandating that unvaccinated students pay a $500 fine to cover the cost of weekly COVID-19 testing.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In an email to students, Birmingham-Southern College\u2019s President Daniel Coleman announced that unvaccinated students will be charged $500 for the fall semester \u201cto offset continual weekly antigen testing and quarantining\u201d costs. The email cites a \u201clack of federal funds\u201d to balance the costs.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/covidbailouttracker.com\/company\/birmingham-southern-college-birmingham-al-35254\"><span>COVID Bailout Tracker<\/span><\/a><span>, Birmingham-Southern College received $4.41 million in PPP bailout loans.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While students are being financially punished for refusing to get inoculated, the university has yet to institute a vaccine mandate. Coleman announced that if the vaccination rate for students, faculty, and staff hits 85 percent, the school will lift its pandemic restrictions.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhile more than 500 colleges and universities around the country are requiring vaccines of its students, we will not. Notwithstanding, we strongly encourage vaccination for the safety of our community,\u201d Coleman\u2019s email read. \u201cMoreover, if we hit a vaccination rate of 85% for students, faculty, and staff, we should be able to return all aspects of our day to day lives to pre-pandemic norms.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Unvaccinated students will also be subjected to a handful of other restrictions, including arriving on campus later than vaccinated students. Unvaccinated students will also be required to quarantine if \u201ccontact tracers find them to be \u2018exposed\u2019 to the virus.\u201d They must wear masks indoors and in public areas.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Coleman\u2019s email also announced that it\u2019s up to the discretion of professors to decide whether each class will be masked or unmasked. Professors can ask even their vaccinated students to wear face masks while in the classroom.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf the class is not 100% vaccinated, professors, at their discretion, may require that 100% of the class wears a mask,\u201d the email reads.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Consequences for failing to follow unvaccinated student protocols can result in removal from online access to \u201cplatforms essential to academic success,\u201d or removal from campus.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The College Republican Federation of Alabama (CRFA) condemned the university\u2019s move, calling it an \u201c attack\u201d aimed at shaming students.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is a blatant attack meant to shame students who are not vaccinated,\u201d said CRFA Chairman Clint Reid. \u201cWhile vaccines are a vital tool in the fight against COVID-19, we are still a free society where one should not be held at ransom to the tune of $500 if they do not feel the vaccine is the best course of action for them.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Universities are grappling with how to safely return to on-campus and in-person learning as the CDC warns of the \u201cDelta\u201d variant of the novel coronavirus. Many universities have opted to institute vaccine mandates for students who wish to return to campus learning, including large public universities such as Indiana University, Rutgers University, and Michigan State University.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Birmingham-Southern College did not respond to The Daily Wire\u2019s request for comment.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Related: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-tale-of-two-universities-indiana-university-sued-for-vaccine-mandate-university-of-wisconsin-declines-mandate\"><b>A Tale Of Two Universities: Indiana University Sued For Vaccine Mandate, University Of Wisconsin Declines Mandate<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama is mandating that unvaccinated students pay a $500 fine to cover the cost of weekly COVID-19 testing.\u00a0In an email to students, Birmingham-Southern College\u2019s President Daniel Coleman &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610609","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\/610609","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=610609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610609\/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=610609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}