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Re:ICE changes exemptions for foreign students taking online... by Balgair on Monday July 06, 2020 @05:00PM (#23752700)
Post quals grad students are going to be hard pressed to get a PCR machine, vivarium, or fluoroscope up and running in their parent's house. You know, machines vital to figuring out covid vaccines.

I've no idea how most of them will get any quality lab-bench research done. It pretty much nukes them.

Re:ICE changes exemptions for foreign students taking online... by VWWHFSfQ on Monday July 06, 2020 @05:18PM (#23752856)
Campuses are going to be closed in the Fall. Nobody is going to have access to those things.
Re:ICE changes exemptions for foreign students taking online... by detaro on Monday July 06, 2020 @05:34PM (#23753053)
Limited lab access is a lot easier to safely implement with shift reservations and people looking after each others projects than classes, so I'd expect that to happen to a degree. At least some universities here in Germany already do allow occasional lab access if needed, with appropriate precautions.
Re:ICE changes exemptions for foreign students taking online... by gji on Monday July 06, 2020 @07:27PM (#23753936)
You seem to be very convinced of this. At my institution, research activities has resumed for the past month (albeit with restrictions on occupancy).
Re:ICE changes exemptions for foreign students taking online... by Balgair on Monday July 06, 2020 @05:32PM (#23753019)
I know a few grad students at 'closed' campuses currently. Though the admin says the labs are off limits, the PIs are turning blind eyes to it. The labs are effectively open.
Re:ICE changes exemptions for foreign students taking online... by unishark on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @12:44AM (#23755756)
At the school where I work, they disabled key card access for everyone campuswide. You need to special permission to have them unlock it for a limited time period to get in.

Of course a few old buildings still use regular keys so people can sneak in potentially.

Re:ICE changes exemptions for foreign students taking online... by VWWHFSfQ on Monday July 06, 2020 @05:45PM (#23753159)
> Though the admin says the labs are off limits

so the labs are closed then, despite your anecdotal evidence to the contrary.

Re:ICE changes exemptions for foreign students taking online... by Balgair on Monday July 06, 2020 @07:36PM (#23754005)
I mean, they are closed, but a lot of people seem to come in anyway and do things just as before, so I am told.

Define that how would wish to.