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Yale University’s welcome pack includes a cold splash of reality.
According to the Yale Daily News, a university staffer sent an email in which students “emotionally prepared” for people dying of COVID-19 when classes begin on campus at the end of the month.
The cold email was sent to students on July 1, describing the university’s controversial plan to resume campus housing on August 31 and resume lessons this fall.
“We all need to be emotionally prepared for widespread infections – and possibly deaths – in our community,” Laurie Santos, principal of Silliman College School, wrote in an email. Silliman College is a residential school at Yale University.
“You have to be emotionally prepared for the fact that your housing college life will look more like a hospital unit than a residential high school,” Santos continued.
The school plans to test the virus twice a week and implement a contact follow-up program. University officials have explained that contact detection “can catch students who have been exposed to COVID-19 while the virus is incubating and tests have not yet been able to detect it.”
Yale University made news earlier this month after the institution was sued by a student for charging full-price education, although students do not get the full university experience.
The virus does not disappear quickly, according to CDC director, and several other colleges already regret opening campus for students.
Notre Dame and the University of North Carolina were both forced to cancel these person classes this week after hundreds of students on both campuses tested positive for COVID-19.
The University of North Carolina student newspaper has given school board a new one for the ‘clusterfuck’ they made by pressing to resume learning on campus.
[via Inside Hook]***
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