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Students React to COVID-19 Reminders for the Spring Semester
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Students express their views toward continued COVID-19 reminders after a mass email was sent out to students.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/covid-19/page/2/)
Students express their views toward continued COVID-19 reminders after a mass email was sent out to students.
With the University relaxing or doing away with COVID-19 restrictions this fall — such as easing masking requirements and closing PCR testing locations — many students felt that this semester was the first “normal” one since the start of the pandemic.
As students return from fall break travel outside of Ithaca, the University is asking — but not mandating — that they take antigen tests before returning and before beginning to resume their regular campus activities.
After three years of hiatus, Porchfest returned to the Fall Creek neighborhood Sunday, filling the streets with performances from the local community scattered across nearly 150 porches.
With COVID-19 mandates lifted and pre-pandemic activities returning to campus, Cornellians are now enjoying their first “normal” semester since the beginning of the outbreak.
With the removal of PCR testing sites and the classroom mask requirement, University policies have allowed for the most “normal” semester since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. As the University rolled back COVID-19 restrictions for the fall, there are still active cases on campus.
As students adjust to changes in the pandemic, most Cornellians are happy to unmask in class and throughout campus.
In a University-wide email on Tuesday, Cornell reminded students of the new COVID-19 guidelines this semester and released new guidance for immunocompromised students.
On Wednesday Jul. 27, the University announced changes to its current COVID-19 policy for the upcoming Fall semester.
“Being a first-year graduate student and coming from a large public university in Texas, the difference in COVID-19 responses between there and [Cornell] has been night and day,” said Matthew Dew grad. “At times it can feel like a bit much, but on the whole, I think they’ve done a pretty good job.”