When asked whether the University will be able to function normally by Fall 2020, University President Eisgruber said he is optimistic.
“We lived through the Wuhan experience remotely,” an organizer wrote. “So when it hit American soil, we knew how bad this could be.”
Three weeks and a pandemic ago, Bojan Lazarevic ’20 kept a regimented daily checklist. Do my fruit flies have enough food in their vials? Is their food too dry? Too wet? Are the flies healthy? Are they laying eggs? Then arrived the COVID-19 pandemic. And suddenly — like arts performances, like campus traffic, like study abroad programs — Lazarevic’s work came to a full stop.
The study looked at the stability of the virus on surfaces and in the air. Researchers mimicked conditions where the virus would be deposited onto everyday surfaces and objects — like when an infected person sneezes or coughs into his hand, and then touches a doorknob.
Neither officer had written citations, made arrests, of had extensive contact with the public during their periods of communicability.
Social Chair Sophie Torres ’21 announced that although spring Lawnparties was cancelled, the fall Lawnparties budget will not be doubled. Instead, part of the spring Lawnparties’ allocated budget will be used in the fall, and the rest will potentially be used this semester. Torres also said that the same headliner who was booked for spring will perform in the fall.
According to the results of an independent analysis, this year’s room draw times are completely randomized and do not provide any advantage to large draw groups over small ones.
University Health Services is now aware of 71 students and 25 employees who have been tested for COVID-19.
Decisions to move individual classes to PDF-only will be made on a course-by-course basis.
Some students and professors expressed concern with the lack of an overarching University policy.
Some students have resorted to somewhat drastic measures to find testing options in their hometowns. One even ordered a home testing kit for $250 to get an answer for their diagnosis.
The U. offered admission to 5.55 percent of applicants for the Class of 2024, down from 5.77 percent for the Class of 2023.
“I think theater just has, will, and always will be the space for us to be considering our togetherness and healing the wounds of separation,” Alvarez said.
“Larry Bacow is a terrific leader in higher education and a friend,” University President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 wrote in a statement sent to The Daily Princetonian. “I hope that he and Adele recover quickly.”
In this photoessay, The Daily Princetonian looks at hotspots of student life, sharply contrasted against the stark emptiness that filled the Orange Bubble on a rainy Thursday morning just hours before the evacuation deadline.
Veterinary care staff will continue to maintain the health and welfare of research animals, and offices that support research and environmental health and safety will continue to function.
“Really the best thing for everyone in the family would have been for me to stay put,” said Alonso Perez-Putnam ’21, of Princeton in Cuba. “But Princeton doesn’t see it that way”
In light of many families suffering, on March 16, the Princeton Children’s Fund (PCF) established an emergency coronavirus relief fund to help local Princeton families in need of financial support during the unprecedented crisis.
A University spokesperson updated The Daily Princetonian that the “sole student” who had tested positive on campus has “met the critical criteria for discontinuation of isolation” and has since left campus.
To walk through campus two weekends ago meant coming face to face with the mark of college students forced out in a hurry — and determined to make the most of their last few days.
