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Keep Our Campus Healthy
MNU partners with these organizations to ensure this plan meets current best practices for public health: Johnson County Department of Health and Environment, Olathe Health Systems, NAIA, State of Kansas. Following the requirements is a responsibility we all share! This page is amended as information and guidelines surrounding COVID-19 develop.
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Eclipse safety measures
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. In Olathe, a Deep Partial Eclipse of magnitude 90.7% will be visible. The Partial Eclipse begins at 12:37 p.m. through 3:11 p.m., with the maximum eclipse occurring at 1:54 p.m. when 90.7% of the Sun’s surface will be covered by the Moon.
This is a rare event as the next opportunity to view a total solar eclipse from the contiguous United States won’t occur until 2044.
SAFETY VIEWING THE ECLIPSE
It is NOT safe to look directly at the sun during an eclipse!
From science.nasa.gov
Partial or annular solar eclipses are different from total solar eclipses – there is no period of totality when the Moon completely blocks the Sun’s bright face. Therefore, during partial or annular solar eclipses, it is never safe to look directly at the eclipse without proper eye protection.
When watching a partial or annular solar eclipse directly with your eyes, you must look through safe solar viewing glasses (“eclipse glasses”) or a safe handheld solar viewer at all times. Eclipse glasses are NOT regular sunglasses; regular sunglasses, no matter how dark, are not safe for viewing the Sun. Safe solar viewers are thousands of times darker and ought to comply with the ISO 12312-2 international standard. NASA does not approve any particular brand of solar viewers.
Always inspect your eclipse glasses or handheld viewer before use; if torn, scratched, or otherwise damaged, discard the device. Always supervise children using solar viewers.
Do NOT look at the Sun through a camera lens, telescope, binoculars, or any other optical device while wearing eclipse glasses or using a handheld solar viewer — the concentrated solar rays will burn through the filter and cause serious eye injury.
If you don’t have eclipse glasses or a handheld solar viewer, you can use an indirect viewing method, which does not involve looking directly at the Sun. One way is to use a pinhole projector, which has a small opening (for example, a hole punched in an index card) and projects an image of the Sun onto a nearby surface. With the Sun at your back, you can then safely view the projected image. Do NOT look at the Sun through the pinhole!
Please visit https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/safety/#eye-safety-partial-annular for more details on how to build your own eclipse projector with a cardboard box, a white sheet of paper, tape, scissors and aluminum foil.
Academic Year 23-24
MNU seeks to keep our campus healthy and to do so, we partner with several organizations to ensure that our policy meets current best practices for public health. The university works with the Johnson County Department of Health, the Center for Disease Control, the National Association of Independent Athletics and the State of Kansas. Campus health is a responsibility we all share collectively and individually on behalf of our entire university and community.
Current COVID guidelines indicate that if you test positive for COVID-19, you are to stay isolated in your room on campus or at home for 5 days, and if on day 5 you are fever-free for 24 hours (without fever-reducing medication), then isolation can end, but you should wear a mask in public places and avoid public contact for five additional days. Students who test positive are responsible to communicate and make arrangements with instructors, coaches, or residential life staff. Employees should report illness and health-related absences to their immediate supervisor.
The Johnson County Health Department provides additional information regarding current practices at (https://www.jocogov.org/covid-19-guide). This links directly to the Center for Disease Control website and additional information.
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Students missing class due to COVID-19 should work directly with their professors to access course content and make-up work.