Ebola University
There’s a small two year community college 20 miles outside of Dallas called Navarro College. They are not one of the big ten and their football team got beat by the Baptist Girls School last year.
But, they are highly selective with their student body.
Earlier this week they sent out a letter to students who had previously been accepted to attend starting in the fall semester.
“Navarro College is not accepting international students from countries with confirmed Ebola cases.”
Students coming from Nigeria. That is kinda funny.
Nigeria, it seems, is an odd place to enact that policy. The country of 174 million has only registered 20 total cases of Ebola since the index patient in July, a response so strikingly effective that the CDC dispatched a team to the country to study their methods.
So here we have it. A college real near Dallas is rejecting students who might be exposed to Ebola.
Dallas: where they have had 200% more transferred Ebola case than London, England. I suspect the London School of Economics will reject all Texas students. Hell, what am I talking about? LSU might start rejecting Navarro students.
If Navarro wants to find students exposed to Ebola, I suggest they look in their cafeteria.
Damn, I get a headache when people in Texas are so ignorant. As you might suspect, my head hurts a lot.
Thanks to David for the heads up.
I wonder how they will feel when they realize that we in the rest of America will start demanding no flights out of Texas?
1“I suspect the London School of Economics will reject all Texas students.”
Did the London School of Economics ever accept homeschooled-for-Jeebus students in the first place?
2Navarro has always struck me as grade 13 and 14 for Corsicana High. I can’t imagine they actually get international students.
3Isn’t the US a “international country?”
4Perry’s got to be crushed, his taxpayer paid trip to Europe has to be cut short! He’ll be home tomorrow, so it can’t be really that much of a emergency for Perry!
Wonder if he’ll got to the hospital in Dallas, to comfort the hospital workers?
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ebola-crisis-intensifies-texas-gov-rick-perry-cuts-eurotrip-short
5Texas, itself, is in danger of being branded a third world country, what with the bumbling of protocol and subsequent spread of the disease. A whistle-blower nurse from that Dallas hospital where the Ebola patient was sent home was asked if she is ever diagnosed with ebola would she go to that hospital. She said “Knowing what I do, I would fight to go somewhere else.” The nursing staff is considering a walkout unless changes are made to protect them and their patients. Why has it come to this? The hospital administration doesn’t have a clue.
6Well, Braxton, not all Texas students are “homeschooled for Jeebus”, so if they quit accepting all Texas students they’ll also be rejecting students from some excellent universities. Maybe just not that one.
Parts of Texas have already been branded a third world country not worth doing anything for by Republican politicians in the state. Greg Abbott and Rick Perry, for instance, about the part of Texas I grew up in. Personally I consider the part of Texas where Perry grew up to be an intellectual wasteland, but I know I’m biased by Perry.
7Oh, and Navarro is now lying about its reason for rejecting people who’d already been accepted, in this article:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/15/texas-college-s-ebola-racism-reaches-a-new-low.html
Suddenly it’s not about Ebola but because they “change their focus on international students” from year to year and this year they’re going with Asia. And they think people will believe that? They’re too stupid to be running a junior college, that’s for sure. A second grader can see through that.
E.
8@Elizabeth, @maryelle,
Re: Texas as third world country
Sadly, in my 60+ years of Texas residency I have witnessed Texas make the move from vibrant humming post-war economy to stumbling, bumbling economy without a clear sense of direction. In my bias I blame the Tea Baggers for the most recent dips, but Bush as governor/presidential candidate and Perry as “governor”/eternal presidential candidate have worsened our lot. I’m not pessimistic that a turnaround could come, but I am pessimistic that candidates have the will to make the investments, that is “spend money”, that will make a new humming Texas economy.
9JJ,
My head hurts a lot also. Sometimes there just are no words.
10I think Nigeria should start rejecting students from Texas. Just sayin’…
11“I think Nigeria should start rejecting students from Texas.”
Why go that far? The schools in the US should reject students from Texas because they’re too ignorant to meet academic standards or for lacking the potential to positively impact humanity.
12My wife and I will be visiting Dallas for a few days next week. I expect the whole area to be half hysterical with fear by the time we get there. Wonder if I should be asking people at home, “Would you like us to bring something back for you?”
13glf @20,
Whereas I live in a VERY academic-y part of the world, I disagree about banning Texans. They come here to learn something… and that might include tolerance. And what a functional state-run healthcare plan feels like (you know, Romneycare).
14Corsicana is a few more than 20 miles outside Dallas. It’s the county seat of Navarro County, and where Navarro Regional is located. So don’t blame Dallas. I work near there, and it’s typical east Texas, with mouth-breathing Faux Noise watchers, Klan wanna-be, gun-totin’, glow-in-the-dark white folks.
15It would seem they should be more afraid being shot as the chances of getting Ebola is low compared to the chances of being shot by a gun.
If we could only get them excited about gun deaths.
16I think their real fear is that some students might have been exposed to education.
Is the campus also banning bees? Bee stings have killed a lot more Americans than ebola has.
17Poor little old college! What a way they picked to maker themselves look like something bigger and better than they are. Sad in neon lights!
18It’d be one thing if LSU started rejecting Navarro students and a different thing altogether if Texas A&M boycotted them as well.
19From what I read, here and elsewhere….. the CDC has decided to relieve Texas of the burden of care for ebola patients.
The first nurse that became ill, has been flown to Bethesda Naval Hospital, in Maryland. The second nurse to fall ill, is in Atlanta.
Makes sense to me.
Doesn’t matter if Rick stays in Europe, or comes home. He’s totally incompetent to do anything…. about anything. Everybody knows this…. including the feds.
So…. he’s out of the equation. Best thing that could happen to Texas, and the entire country.
JMHO.
20According to one report, THPH asked to move their remaining patient because they were understaffed. Rumor (no more than rumor so far) has it that their nursing staff isn’t willing to be put at risk with bad admin again and they’re losing staff.
CDC does not, I believe, have any executive power to patient-snatch from another hospital. They exist to do research and give advice.
Yanno, if the GOP hadn’t refused to let the President have his Surgeon General when he wanted, things would probably not be so wild. It’s the Surgeon General who should be taking the load of this particular mess off the President’s shoulders…but no, the GOP Senators couldn’t possibly let someone be Surgeon General who realized that guns kill people. (snarlyface)
21I still see Perry standing with his uncomfortable looking medical team before he skipped town, saying Texas was well prepared to deal with this, he must have been right because he wore his
22new eyeglasses with a confident air. Did he skip town before or when the shit hit the fan?
PS – Nigeria has done a super job at containing ebola and pretty well eradicating it, could Rick Perry send some people from the Dallas hospital to train there?
23@LynnN
24I know this is an old thread, but…
I saw on the electric teevee Thursday evening (10/16/2014) some of Navarro College spokes-cretins. I can’t speak to your idea that Navarro fears exposing its students to education, but it certainly does not chose its administrative representation because they are erudite and masters of communications. They looked like 4 pounds of hick backward in a 3 pound sack.