College students admitted to police they had COVID-19. They threw a house party anyway.

[OnlinePoker]

More than 1,100 students at Miami University in Ohio have tested positive for coronavirus since mid-August. But even after testing positive, a group of students was caught on camera hosting a large house party over Labor Day weekend, breaking quarantine rules.

An officer with the Oxford Police Department arrived to break up a house party over the weekend that violated capacity rules, which currently allow gatherings of no more than 10 people. When police arrived at the house, several students were sitting on the porch, unmasked, drinking and listening to music.

Despite allowing 20 people inside the house, the hosts of the party maintained they were following guidelines. According to the officer's body-camera footage, he warned the students that they were violating safety guidelines before running one student's license.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/miami-university-covid-positive-students-party-police-cam-video/

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The stupidity of these people makes me wonder how they qualified for higher education to begin with.

[Vinca]

1. Idiots. They should be ousted if they can't be responsible.

[JT45242]

2. Myth of Miami

I will give full disclosure. I got a master's degree from Miami.

Miami is where rich white kids go to party, period. When I was there in the early 2000s they were overly privileged, spoiled , rich kids. The median family income on campus was more than double the national average. When I left Ohio a few years ago the campus was still over 90 percent white.

It was easy to tell just from the parking lot. As a teacher, I took evening and summer classes. The lots with grad students like me had older cheap cars. The lots for undergraduate students had new or late model Audi, BMW, Lexus, etc.

I sent a lot of poor white kids there as a teacher. Many complained about being looked down on as poor. One former student related that at least one fraternity didn't want him because although his dad was rich...he got rich being an auto mechanic, so that didn't count.

Not surprising at all that this is occurring at Miami.

[appalachiablue]

3. A real shame but interesting, what rotten culture that

needs to be broken up. Family donations could be an influence but too bad. I would have disliked that place for sure.

I watched the video, didn't medical personnel stress how the students should quarantine? Or they violated it anyway.

The police officer seemed quite fair and calm, more than you would think for a serious violation like that.

[Stallion]

5. Miami University is the Birthplace of Many of the Earliest Fraternities (the Miami Triad)

including my fraternity Phi Delta Theta (at another school). These days a fraternity might hold 40+ residents with common areas where members are going to congregate with on campus and off campus members. You couldn't design a more perfect petri dish for covid. Very revealing that when the kid is asked who had covid he says that every one in the house had it


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad_(American_fraternities)

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. I'm not surprised by the infections there or UD (Dayton).

Both have reputations as party schools.