Despicable behaviour, really. The sadder part ist that the university shouldn’t have adjusted its rules. As an academic institution, they should well know that swine flu is neither fatal nor more dangereous than a regular flu. It’s just that chances of getting sick are higher because of more flu viri floating around.
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Arjun Muralidharan writes about productivity, academics and technology.
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At my school (in Canada), for the whole of October and November, there was a form on the website that you could simply fill out to say you had swine flu (no need for a doctor’s note), and you could get deferrals from your exams and papers or extended due dates.
I know at least one person who had a cold (everybody gets colds this time of year right), and went ahead and filled out the form and contacted the faculty, and got a three day extension on a paper. I also had a cold but being honest and all, wrote my paper while sniffling and popping cold medicine, but handed it in on time and got a shitty grade.
The thing that was going on is that the university stopped required doctor’s notes because they were scarred that encouraging people to go to the doctor’s would mean people wouldn’t stay home and would make more people sick. Pretty unfair. Thank God they removed it and went back to doctor’s notes for the final exams otherwise I would have been pissed.
Posted by marie on December 15th, 2009.
The plural of virus is not viri. See website linked in my name.
Posted by Cristiano on July 5th, 2010.