[HN Gopher] UBC Engineering removes online classes, obstacles fo... ___________________________________________________________________ UBC Engineering removes online classes, obstacles for international students Author : luu Score : 26 points Date : 2021-09-04 06:15 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.ubyssey.ca) (TXT) w3m dump (www.ubyssey.ca) | bernardv wrote: | In this day and age, this makes UBC look like a backward | institution, and isn't up to speed on mainstream technology. | vinay427 wrote: | Meta: I would suggest a title change on HN. | | Current HN title: "UBC Engineering removes online classes, | obstacles for international students" | | Article title: "UBC Engineering removes all upper-year online | classes as obstacles remain for returning international students" | | The shortened HN title, upon my first and second readings, | implies that UBC removed obstacles for international students. In | fact, the opposite is the case, as the article title clarifies. | ssivark wrote: | Or change the comma in the current title to a semicolon. It not | a useless punctuation mark ;-) | cowmix wrote: | +1 | OJFord wrote: | An attempt 'to verb' ('pun' or whatever you'd call it very much | intended) 'obstacle' perhaps? They 'obstacled' the | international students? | | Anyway, agree it's at best ambiguous. | polishdude20 wrote: | It looks like there are actually some professors who are offering | not only online but in-person recorded lectures. So I'm not sure | how this is true. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-09-05 23:00 UTC)