Freshman Jasmine Patel was riding the train on her one-hour and 40-minute commute to Lincoln Park from the northern suburbs when she got a notification: A required in-person class review session was suddenly rescheduled. Patel finished her commute to Lincoln Park, but did not have a class to go to. She will have to ride.
Faculty committees continue to debate the idea of expanding the KU excused student absent policy, which currently only codifies religious observances as a reasonable excused absence.