The student life has fallen far short of expectation over the last year
In the first of a three-part series on how the pandemic has affected university life, Helen Chandler-Wilde explores how the current cohort of university students have suffered
They were so desperate that they pinned pleas for help in the windows: “SOS”, read one; “Send food”, read another. All 500 students in Parker House, Dundee, were confined to their tiny bedrooms for two weeks after an outbreak of Covid-19 in the halls of residence last September.
It was a particularly severe lockdown. The safety-proofed windows only opened a crack, so fresh air was at a premium. The laundry room was shut down, so students spent two weeks in dirty clothes. If they wanted to use their kitchen, they had to book a slot on a rota so they did not cross paths with their flatmates.
The following students achieved the Deanâs List at Belmont University for the Spring 2021 semester. Eligibility is based on a minimum course load of 12 hours (exclusive of audit and pass/fail courses this semester) and a quality grade point average of 3.5 with no grade below a C (inclusive of audit, pass/fail courses and zero-credit courses).
Local students who were named to the Deanâs List included Andrew Farnum of Selbyville and Erin Hudson of Frankford. Approximately 53 percent of Belmontâs 6,170 undergraduate students qualified for the Spring 2021 Deanâs List.
Belmont Provost Thomas Burns said, âStudents achieving the Deanâs List recognition at Belmont have clearly demonstrated enormous commitment to their educational endeavors â they have invested deeply in their studies and in their future. We are happy to celebrate their success and know that their continued, consistent and comprehensive dedication to their academic work will equip them to
The Real Deal has won a general excellence from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.
TRD received the honor its third general excellence award from SABEW in the industry publication category for stories published in 2020.
The winning submission included:
An in-depth feature about 220 Central Park South, the world’s most successful condominium, by E.B. Solomont and Hiten Samtani. The story examined how a limestone tower overlooking Central Park reaped over $1 billion in profits and came to encapsulate not just the blood sport of luxury New York real estate but also the city’s extreme wealth inequality.
Matthew Blake’s profile of Mohammed Hadid, a Palestinian-American pioneer of megamansion spec homes in Los Angeles. The piece illustrated the often sordid business of development and explored themes of celebrity, racism and the extreme ends to which builders go to cater to the very rich.
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