Inside the slow-moving disaster of students returning to campus.

So far, college this year is a disaster. The University of North Carolina has already canceled in-person classes after 130 students tested positive for coronavirus within a week of being back. The school opened even though the local health department had advised them to delay. Students had staged a die-in to protest. When the clusters of cases started, the student paper, the Daily Tar Heel published an editorial titled, We All Saw This Coming. The University of Notre Dame has logged more than 300 infections, many of which the university traced to an off-campus gathering in which students were both outside and inside, together for some time, not wearing masks, in a crowded space, and drinking. Which is to say: They were at a party. Pretty normal college behavior. Students in the limbo of arriving and quarantining at other schools are waiting to see whether their schools coronavirus reopening plans many of which took the form of weekly testing appointments, mask mandates, and directives not to party will be enough to keep them safe, or if administrations will change their minds as they watch the reality of campus life unspool at other institutions.

via slate.com

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