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‘Adopt a Senior’ Facebook Group Lifts Area High School Seniors’ Spirits
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As area high schools closed, seniors found their own ways to commemorate graduating, helped with support from community members.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cancellation/)
As area high schools closed, seniors found their own ways to commemorate graduating, helped with support from community members.
In an email to students on Friday, President Martha E. Pollack said that commencement will not be canceled, although it will be postponed from its typical date on Memorial Day weekend.
In the newest COVID-19 development, Cornell canceled Slope Day, transitioned to only take-out in the dining halls and closed all gyms.
Although they understand the dire circumstances, freshmen are disappointed about the abrupt end to their first year on campus.
Students need to heal together after hearing that the warmest and most fun part of the spring semester has been taken away from us.
A Cornell student was diagnosed with COVID-19 in Madrid during his study abroad program. The student is quarantined and recovering.
Professors must figure out how to conduct their classes online starting after spring break until the end of the semester. However, for laboratory, discussion-based and physical education classes, a virtual classroom is difficult to facilitate, pushing professors to find innovative ways to bring their classes online — or forcing them to cancel.
S.A. presidential candidates Cat Huang ’21 and Uche Chukwukere ’21 have confirmed that they are suspending their campaigns.
Cornell IT is confident that Zoom will be able to support the thousands of classes that need to be conducted online.
Student reactions to Cornell’s decision to cancel in-person classes.