The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/isolation/)
Cornell has spent millions of dollars to build these new palaces. Instead of a happier student body, however, these dorms may have the opposite effect. For multiple years, The Cornell Daily Sun has reported on the isolating nature of the new dorms.
With the amount of daily cases comparable to last winter and rising, it’s clear the pandemic has no plans to loosen its chokehold on America anytime soon. I, along with many of my peers, expected Cornell to provide similar accommodations for the students that were bound to become sick this semester.
After opening during a pandemic, 2 Stay 2 Go shuttered for two weeks after an employee tested positive for COVID-19.
A seemingly innocent mid-September gathering ended with a week of isolation in the Statler Hotel for a group of first-years, who were released only after a series of negative tests.
Students isolating in The Statler experience a variety of COVID-19 symptoms, while also coping with the effects of being separated from their friends and family.
The call volume to the Advocacy Center’s hotline has risen by 23 percent from May 1 to 28. Faced with the challenges that come with isolation, Tompkins County’s domestic violence and sexual assault rates have risen as well.
Cornell students pick up “passion projects” and “side hustles” during their periods of self quarantine.
Cornellians used to performing in front of people have to adjust now that their audiences are self-quarantining and social distancing.
How the idea that global terrors only happen to “someone else” acts as a desensitizing illusion.