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An Ohio State Buckeyes football player learned his football season was over and hours later he was cleared to return to campus for class.
Owen Fankhauser, a safety who joined the team in 2018, tweeted about the confusion Tuesday after learning the Big Ten Conference had postponed the college football season and all fall sports.
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“How you gonna [sic] tell us that they can’t play football and then send me an email a few hours later about having a safe fall on a campus that holds 40,000 people...” Fankhauser tweeted.
Ohio State University President-elect Kristina M. Johnson announced the school's return-to-campus plan. In-person classroom size was reduced from 100 to 50, ramping up measures for students and faculty will be tested on a weekly basis, limiting in-person events to 10 or fewer participants and recruiting students and staff to help with contact tracing.
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“These changes are being made in addition to a previously stated requirement that everyone wear masks while on campus — both indoors and outside,” Johnson said.
“There will also be daily health checks, redirected foot traffic flow around high-use buildings, continued teleworking for employees — when appropriate — and an expected adherence to good hand hygiene.”
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Ohio State will likely have their football season on hold until possibly the spring.
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