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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gettysburg is going remote for semester.[/quote]

They only announced on Sept. 1 that all students would quarantine in rooms for a time (no leaving room except for bedroom and food pickup). --- then changed that on the 4th to "de-densify" (their term) the campus. Only freshmen, international students and a few other categories allowed to live on campus and all others have to leave. It's a pretty quick change from one plan to another. I don't have a kid there but was actually glad to see a college take the strong step of a temporary but tough lockdown as a move to try to nip infections and keep students on campus. I wonder what made the college reverse itself so fast. I wonder if parents went nuts at the lockdown? If that's what caused the change, well, the parents will get their kids, plus any virus they're carrying, right back home to infect many other communities. Anyone with a kid at Gettysburg with insight?

Non-Greek students were apparently angry that the big spike in cases came after Greek rush week when there were parties without distancing or masks and campus and local police would just pass right by the crowds. Post had an article about it.

I'm sure someone will say that the lockdown plan was "damaging to mental health" etc. but it was not going to last forever, and students can handle it IF they want to be on campus. Any campus. Students snd parents and Greek systems have to let go of all their notions about what college "should" be and what students can or can't endure.  [/quote]

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