The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/aniloza/page/2/)
At around 2:10 p.m. on Tuesday, the Cornell community received a CornellALERT to “shelter in place.” “CornellALERT: Ithaca Campus Shelter in Place – North Campus – Local Police persuing [sic] man with gun in Cayuga Heights north of campus,” the alert read.
Cornellians were bombarded with a combined 22 alerts — over text, email and phone — throughout Sunday afternoon, urging students to evacuate Central Campus following a bomb threat that authorities found “not credible.”
After nearly a month in the yellow alert level, marked by record-high campus case counts, Cornell has returned to alert green.
Many in-person Homecoming events — except for the football game and the Class of 2020 Commencement ceremony — are canceled again this year.
Students are navigating how to quarantine while living in houses and when to quarantine with tests increasingly hard to come by; they’re contact-tracing and making public health decisions for themselves — all while trying to take classes from home, with no real accommodations for virtual versions.
Tompkins County reported two cases of the COVID-19 Delta variant last week — but even as the variant has caused cases to suge in some regions of the world, local experts are not sounding alarm bells for those that are vaccinated.
The University officially released vaccinated students from most mask wearing and distancing requirements.
A sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday night, Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi wrote in a Thursday statement. He died as a result of injuries sustained at his apartment complex.
After months of deliberations, the convocation committee announced Thursday that author Roxane Gay will be the convocation speaker for the Class of 2021.
Positive cases among the Cornell community have begun to fall amid increasing vaccinations, sparking hope for normalcy.