‘Ground Zero’ for Spreading Coronavirus

"Students and faculty members from campuses within the University of North Carolina system are demanding an explanation for why residence halls will be occupied at full capacity in the fall despite a warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that doing so would put on-campus housing at the “highest risk” of spreading coronavirus.

Lauren Whitehouse, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, signed up to live in an on-campus apartment with three other students before the pandemic intensified in March. Whitehouse said she will not be living in the apartment this fall; she considers the risk of living in a full-capacity dorm room to be too high. She was grouped with random roommates, who she said are ‘very social’ and whom she’s recently seen on social media out at clubs and not adhering to public health guidelines." …

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/07/22/colleges-plan-full-capacity-residence-halls