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For many freshmen, the Friday before Thanksgiving isn’t the beginning of a weeklong break at home. It’s the beginning of a nearly three-month period they’ll spend off campus.
In front of the Circle K at the corner of Indiana Avenue and Third Street are flowers, pictures and a pumpkin, in honor of Daniel Plebanek’s favorite time of year.
When I drove down to IU in August, I knew I would probably get COVID-19.
The oncoming cold weather brings not only flu season, but also extra challenges because it will overlap with the COVID-19 pandemic.
President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett Saturday to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
On the night of Sept. 12, IU senior Sydney Granlund received a text from IU’s contact tracing team telling her to call them as soon as possible to discuss an urgent matter.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, IU faculty have to be flexible about turning in academic work and class attendance.
When I looked through my announcements on Canvas, I noticed a new pattern. My professors are sending out mental health resources daily and asking their students to seek help. My heart slowly breaks as I realize my classmates — the classmates I cannot see in person and only have access to virtually — are hurting. They are hurting so terribly it is preventing them from performing well academically or having any sense of normalcy in their lives.
Jacob Gillette, a senior at IU, is immunocompromised.
When IU students began their return to campus in August, they were thrust into unfamiliar territory, having to start a new year of college during a pandemic.
Three years ago Wednesday, a young LGBTQ+ person, anti-fascist and president of the Pride Alliance at the Georgia Institute of Technology was having a mental health crisis. We would not know this, and Scout Schultz might still be alive, had police officers not approached Schultz outside a dormitory. In a matter of minutes, Georgia Tech police officer Tyler Beck shot and killed Schultz from a distance. Beck claimed the closed multipurpose tool in Schultz’s possession was a threat to the officer’s safety.
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IU will use new on-campus labs to facilitate all of its mitigation testing efforts as early as mid-October, replacing Vault Health, the company located in New Jersey currently processing the university’s mitigation saliva tests.
The Monroe County Community School Corporation began in-person classes for the 2020-21 school year Tuesday with its new modes of instruction to combat the spread of COVID-19. Elementary schools are holding in-person classes each day, but middle and high schools are on a hybrid schedule.
When Isaac Ball was packing up to move to his isolation room he expected to spend the coming days separated from others.But the IU freshman has now shared his quarantine experience with more than 180,000 people through a TikTok video that has since gone viral.
Robert Redfield, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director, told the Washington Post the second wave of COVID-19 cases would be more challenging than the first because “we’re going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic” simultaneously. He received backlash for that comment, which was made in April, and had to clarify that he was never suggesting that the situation would be “impossible” to manage.
After three-fourths of greek houses were directed to quarantine by the Monroe County Health Department during the last week, IU recommended Thursday all 40 houses close. The president of Phi Kappa Tau, a house that has not been quarantined, said IU’s policy is unfair to their fraternity.
After six months spent totally isolated, walled in with parents or even simply ignoring the pandemic as it transformed the world in irreparable ways, IU’s students returned to the campus they left in March. It was the same place it had always been when they arrived more than a week ago, but so much about their lives in Bloomington was unfamiliar.
IU’s hybrid fall semester began Monday amid coronavirus outbreaks in colleges across the United States. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shifted all undergraduate in-person learning to remote instruction Aug. 19. A New York Times survey has shown there have been more than 26,000 cases in more than 750 American colleges and universities since the pandemic started.
As an off-campus student, I went to the IU Tennis Center for my on-arrival COVID-19 test Saturday to experience the profound discomfort of standing in a giant room full of fellow students spitting in tubes while cheerful staff gave instructions and judged the quality of our saliva.
