This is ridiculous.
After delaying the start of the spring semester for a couple of weeks and then requiring students to effectively lock down for five days upon arrival, all due to the new and improved Omicron variant of COVID-19, Vanderbilt announced on Thursday that the students would not be allowed to attend the next three home basketball games. Which, whatever. I can understand the rationale, even if I think it’s an overreaction to a variant that’s not really much of a threat to a population of vaccinated 18- to 22-year-olds. And at least for the first two of those games, students wouldn’t have been on campus anyway, so the student attendance would have been minimal.