Courtesy of Sewanee: The University of the South
Sewanee: The University of the South finished the in-person portion of the fall semester with 16 positive cases among students.
The liberal arts college in Tennessee credits its relatively low case numbers to weekly required COVID testing for the approximately 1,600 students on campus combined with a “bubble” approach that largely prohibited students from leaving campus except for essential activities such as medical appointments. Students had to formally request approval from the dean of students office for any off-campus trips, and a student caught violating the rules by breaching the bubble and leaving the campus without permission, or hosting a guest from off campus, would have to leave campus to quarantine for two weeks and be retested before rejoining the bubble.
In North Pole, Alaska, Santa Claus is a bastion of blue on a city council as red as Rudolph’s nose Published December 15, 2020
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Print article First things first: Yes, Santa Claus is his legal name. It’s on his government identification, and the mail that arrives at his apartment. A long time ago, he was called Thomas O’Connor. He doesn’t answer to that name anymore. If someone shouted it in the North Pole Safeway, “I wouldn’t even turn my head,” he says.
This Santa Claus is a 73-year-old medical-marijuana-using, Bernie-supporting vegetarian monk who lives at the poverty line, does not drive and thinks truth be told that Christmas is a “crass commercial secular spectacle.”