UMass Amherst Parents Say School Suspended Students Over Maskless Off-Campus Photo
On 5/8/21 at 11:16 AM EDT
The parents of three University of Massachusetts Amherst students who were blocked from online classes over an outdoor and maskless off-campus photo slammed the school ruling as devastating.
UMass Amherst school administrators enacted a zero-tolerance, high risk COVID-19 pandemic stance in February that led to three female freshmen being cut off from online classes and having their $16,000 in tuition voided for the entire semester. The suspended students parents on Friday blasted the school s decision, which was made after someone handed administrators a photo that showed the freshman friends posing outside without masks at an off-campus event.
Communities take different approaches to relaxing mask requirements
Guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Northampton’s top health official said this week she is “within days” of relaxing the city’s mask-wearing rules, which require people, like those pictured here, to wear masks downtown. The state relaxed its mask-wearing rules as of Friday. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Northampton is about to relax its mask-wearing rules, which require people, like those pictured here, to wear masks downtown, in parks and on the bike path. The state relaxed its mask-wearing rules as of Friday. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Gov. Baker’s easing of outdoor face-covering does not apply in Downtown Amherst; $300 fine eliminated
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
The new gubernatorial order says the $300 fine to enforce it will be eliminated.
According to public health information posted on the municipal website, following Baker’s new order eliminating requirement to don a mask when adequate physical distancing is possible, Amherst Board of Health will review the matter during a remote meeting scheduled for May 13 at 5 p.m.
For now, masking is required in the section of downtown, within the following borders:
North boundary at Massachusetts Avenue between Lincoln Avenue and North Pleasant St.
The town of Amherst will keep in place capacity limits and a business curfew, both of which were set to loosen on Monday, as part of efforts to contain a.