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A25 U.S. NEWS WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2020 Wait ‘til next year: Giving up on 2020, looking toward 2021 Continued from Front having a microwedding June 6. As they did their first There was a months-long look, a massive Black Lives moment where the world Matter demonstration ar- was on pause, causing rived at Philadelphia’s Lo- many to dig into existential gan Square. Photos of the questions: What is my pur- couple holding hands, fists pose? Where do I belong? raised, with thousands of That’s what Dikobe found people surrounding them himself doing as he quaran- went viral. tined in his small New York “We were really just a sym- apartment contemplating bol of the things the world his future — both personal needs more of, especi- and professional. Would ally in 2020,” Perkins says. he ever perform on stage “There’s a pandemic and again, or would he have to all of the changes and the retire before an opportunity things that we’re hearing arrived? The more he consi- and seeing, people need dered it, the more he found hope. People need love. himself thinking: “2020 is not And people need unity.” canceled, actually. It’s an While Gordon says he awakening.” knows they were lucky, he Leslie Dwight, a 23-year-old has advice for others plan- writer, wondered the same A sign reads "Cancel Plans Not Humanity" Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Los Angeles. ning milestones: Take a thing in a poem she wrote Associated Press breath, think about what’s that was endlessly shared “The only opportunity to ted to be. We believe in the their planned 2020 nuptials really important and find on social media about reset is next spring. Every- power of change and pro- to next year, but only 7% the special. Deborah Se- a week after the May 25 thing else we’re doing this mise ourselves: “This is our have canceled their wed- rani, a psychologist in the death of George Floyd at year is going to be drained year,” as one reveler pro- ding? Weddings are diffe- New York City area, said the hands of Minneapolis of significance because claimed just after the ball rent from holidays in that, hope has disappointed police. “2020 isn’t cance- they don’t have the pro- dropped in Times Square. for many, it is an event that many this year but will help led, but rather, the most per sequence.” It’s like Some people admit defeat only happens once. Thus us endure the pandemic important year of them all,” when Hamlet declares that by January’s end, while an even greater emphasis and thrive. “Hope,” she she wrote. “time is out of joint,” Pat- other ambitions continue on making it special. says, “requires us to look at But why do we even say terson says. How do we for a few more months. In Like millions of other cou- the present situation and things like “2020 is cance- measure a year — a ques- April, many start focusing ples planning to get mar- regard it for what it is, and led” and “New year, new tion about the passage of on summer. By November, ried this summer, Kerry plan for its betterment.” me”? Experts who study time that has a whole song most have thrown in the to- Anne Perkins and Michael No one knows what 2021 human behavior say the devoted to it in the Broad- wel, vowing that the upco- Gordon were devastated will bring. Nobody knows human desire to pin failu- way musical “Rent”? With ming year is actually their as March slouched into what the “new normal” res, hopes and dreams on seasons, milestones, rituals, year. April. They realized they will look like. Will there be a period of time like a ca- events. So when a year But that hope never fully would have to cancel their wedding ceremonies fea- lendar year has primitive is stripped of all of those dies out. It just gets recali- dream wedding on Memo- turing every person a cou- roots connected to our at- moments, people feel lost brated and refocused on rial Day weekend, which ple has ever met, packed tachment to routine. and put hope in the future a new target and soars marked five years since the stadiums, concert venues “Because we missed our to manage expectations, again. “Hope,” the poet Philadelphia couple first with thousands of people spring, summer isn’t really psychologists and social Emily Dickinson wrote, “is met. “Every day felt heavier crooning the same tune? summer because it only scientists say. Every ca- the thing with feathers.” and heavier and heavier,” Will the now-2021 Summer comes after a complete lendar year brings a cycle If not for hope, why would Perkins recalls, saying she Olympics happen? Will spring,” says Stuart Pat- of hope. January is when data show that most of had frequent breakdowns awards shows be back? terson, chairperson of the we’ll finally commit to our the 6,253 respondents to and couldn’t bring herself Will we even care? Shimer Great Books School diet, quit smoking, become a recent WeddingWire to officially cancel the There are no clear answers. at North Central College. the person we always wan- survey have postponed wedding. They wound up But there is hope.q What is contact tracing, and how does it work with COVID-19? By The Associated Press But the process isn't easy. late, monitor themselves for What is contact tracing, After a person tests posi- symptoms and get tested if and how does it work with tive for the virus, a contact needed. COVID-19? The goal of tracer would get in touch For those showing symp- contact tracing is to alert with the person and at- toms, the tracing process people who may have tempt to determine where would start all over again. been exposed to someone they have been and who Contact tracing is done in with the coronavirus, and they were around. The fo- a variety of ways around prevent them from spread- cus is on close contacts, the world. But a common In this Wednesday, May 13, 2020, file photo, Maria Fernanda ing it to others. Health ex- or people who were within issue is that determining works on contact tracing at the Florida Department of Health perts say contact tracing is 6 feet of the infected per- who a person has been in Miami-Dade County, during the coronavirus pandemic, in key to containing the virus son for at least 10 minutes around can get harder as Doral, Fla. Associated Press and allowing places to re- or so. Those people would gatherings with friends and open more safely. then be asked to self-iso- family resume, and as bars, restaurants and other plac- es start reopening. q A26 WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2020 U.S. NEWS Trump administration rescinds rule on foreign students By COLLIN BINKLEY but at least seven other AP Education Writer federal suits had been filed BOSTON (AP) — Facing by universities and states eight federal lawsuits and opposing the rule. opposition from hundreds Harvard and MIT argued of universities, the Trump that immigration officials vi- administration on Tuesday olated procedural rules by rescinded a rule that would issuing the guidance with- have required international out justification and with- students to transfer or leave out allowing the public to the country if their schools respond. They also argued held classes entirely online that the policy contradict- because of the pandemic. ed ICE's March 13 directive The decision was an- telling schools that existing nounced at the start of a limits on online education hearing in a federal law- would be suspended "for suit in Boston brought by the duration of the emer- Harvard University and the gency." Massachusetts Institute of The suit noted that Trump's Technology. U.S. District national emergency dec- Judge Allison Burroughs In this Aug. 13, 2019, file photo, pedestrians walk through the gates of Harvard Yard at Harvard laration has not been re- University in Cambridge, Mass. said federal immigration Associated Press scinded and that virus authorities agreed to pull cases are spiking in some the July 6 directive and "re- bling to reassess their plans or leave the country volun- The policy drew sharp back- regions. turn to the status quo." for the fall in light of the tarily. lash from higher education Immigration officials, how- A lawyer representing the policy. Immigration officials issued institutions, with more than ever, argued that they told Department of Homeland Under the policy, interna- the policy last week, revers- 200 signing court briefs sup- colleges all along that any Security and U.S. Immigra- tional students in the U.S. ing earlier guidance from porting the challenge by guidance prompted by the tion and Customs Enforce- would have been forbid- March 13 telling colleges Harvard and MIT. Colleges pandemic was subject to ment said only that the den from taking all their that limits around online said the policy would put change. They said the rule judge's characterization courses online this fall. education would be sus- students' safety at risk and was consistent with existing was correct. New visas would not have pended during the pan- hurt schools financially. law barring international The announcement brings been issued to students at demic. University leaders Many schools rely on tuition students from taking class- relief to thousands of for- schools planning to provide believed the rule was part from international students, es entirely online. Federal eign students who had all classes online, which in- of President Donald Trump's and some stood to lose mil- officials said they were pro- been at risk of being de- cludes Harvard.

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