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With the Omicron variant sweeping the country, several universities are at least temporarily moving classes online, delaying the start of classes, or imposing new restrictions.
Students at Duke University, Oakland University, Princeton University, and Christopher Newport University will now spend the beginning of the year under new COVID restrictions.
Duke University
Duke University sent a Dec. 31 email that said students are “strongly encouraged to delay their return to campus to a time between January 3 and January 18.”
Campus Reform obtained a copy of the email, which also announced that “[a]ll undergraduate, graduate, and professional school classes will now be remote until Tuesday, January 18 instead of January 10 as earlier announced.”
Marcus Deans, a student at Duke, believes that the restrictions, which include “re-entry and surveillance testing requirements,” are “due to the administration’s flawed framework which considers case count and not actual illness.”
“While a lot of students returned to campus on time and continue to partake in normal activities off-campus, others like myself chose to delay their return to campus due to the onerous requirements and lack of normal college experience,” Deans said.
Per Duke COVID-19 restrictions, unvaccinated students that come in “close contact of a positive individual” must quarantine for 10 days while students that test positive must quarantine in their dorm rooms. Oakland University At Oakland University, Winter 2022 classes will be delivered online Jan. 5 to Jan. 18.”This two week period also allows for quarantine time for any students who might have been exposed to COVID-19 over the break,” the Michigan university announced on its website Monday in reference to the shift online.Oakland’s director of media relations, Brian Brierley, referred Campus Reform to the university’s Jan. 3 press release. Princeton University Princeton University has barred its students from traveling “outside of Mercer County or Plainsboro Township for […]
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