{"id":4333,"date":"2020-10-04T17:33:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T10:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2020-10-04T21:42:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T14:42:04","slug":"class-of-2024-first-ever-not-to-know-which-direction-is-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/04\/class-of-2024-first-ever-not-to-know-which-direction-is-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2024 First-Ever Not to Know Which Direction Is North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HYDE PARK, BUT NOT REALLY \u2013 For the first time in its history, the majority of the incoming class at the University of Chicago could not determine which way was north on a map of Hyde Park, the University\u2019s College Programming Office announced Monday. Incoming first years took the survey which produced this insight as part of Orientation Week, which in 2020 became virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The College Programming Office said in a statement that it had offered the survey to \u201ccollect evidence that despite obvious challenges, Orientation Week was proceeding successfully.\u201d However, it found none; other findings from the survey are similarly disturbing, if unsurprising. Nearly 60 percent of students identified the lake near campus as Lake Superior. The average first year had met only one other member of the Class of 2024 in person.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis just goes to show why remote learning is so challenging,\u201d Chloe Binder, the College\u2019s Director of Orientation, told reporters Monday. \u201cEven if we succeed in preparing students for the academic and social rigors of college, we can\u2019t teach them which way\u2019s north. And it\u2019s called Orientation Week for a reason. After we\u2019re done, if first years can\u2019t navigate Hyde Park without a compass, we haven\u2019t done our job.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In related news, the University announced that Campus North Residential Commons would be renamed this year, \u201cprobably after Kenneth C. Griffin, let\u2019s face it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDE PARK, BUT NOT REALLY \u2013 For the first time in its history, the majority of the incoming class at the University of Chicago could not determine which way was north on a map of Hyde Park, the University\u2019s College Programming Office announced Monday. Incoming first years took the survey which produced this insight as part of Orientation Week, which in 2020 became virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0 The College Programming Office said in a statement that it had offered the survey to \u201ccollect evidence that despite obvious challenges, Orientation Week was proceeding successfully.\u201d However, it found none; other findings from the survey are similarly disturbing, if unsurprising. Nearly 60 percent of students identified the lake near campus as Lake Superior. The average first year had met only one other member of the Class of 2024 in person.\u00a0 \u201cThis just goes to show why remote learning is so challenging,\u201d Chloe Binder, the College\u2019s Director of Orientation, told reporters Monday. \u201cEven if we succeed in preparing students for the academic and social rigors of college, we can\u2019t teach them which way\u2019s north. And it\u2019s called Orientation Week for a reason. After we\u2019re done, if first years can\u2019t navigate Hyde Park without a compass, we haven\u2019t done our job.\u201d In related news, the University announced that Campus North Residential Commons would be renamed this year, \u201cprobably after Kenneth C. Griffin, let\u2019s face it.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}