{"636472":{"#nid":"636472","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Thousands call on the USG to require face masks on 26 college campuses this fall","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt least 2,000 people have signed a petition calling on the USG to amend its policy, as of Tuesday evening. \u0026ldquo;I think we are an outlier at this moment, with respect to both Georgia Tech and the Board of Regents as a whole, in terms of not requiring face masks inside buildings,\u0026quot; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E. The university had 36,000 faculty, staff and students last fall. \u0026ldquo;This policy is going to elevate risk unnecessarily, and my hope, and indeed really my expectation, is that the USG must change this policy.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34528","created_gmt":"2020-06-24 20:50:13","changed_gmt":"2020-06-24 20:50:56","author":"jhunt7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"GAANN Fellows","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/news\/thousands-call-on-the-usg-to-require-face-masks-on-26-college-campuses-this-fall","dateline":{"date":"2020-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}