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Old Mar 11, 2020 | 7:13 am
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Apparently the University of Dayton announced plans to go to all online courses and about a thousand students protested in the streets yesterday evening.

Also, some entire countries have closed their universities or switched to some form of online courses. I think this includes mainland China, perhaps Hong Kong (although IIRC some of their universities were already closed due to protests), South Korea, perhaps Japan, and Italy, although I'm unsure whether only certain regions were covered versus the entire nation.

However, shutting down classes while students continue to live on campus seems pointless as the kids are still congregating and in close contract with one another, while dorm rooms are much worse than living off campus in apartments due to the lack of individual bathroom and kitchen facilities in most dorm units, where in the USA the overall general standard still seems to be double rooms (versus many students sharing rooms in mainland China). Living in frat or sorority houses would generally be even worse, and packing kids together in off campus houses or apartments shared by many people (with no professional cleaning ever) might be worse yet.

ADDED: Greece and the Czech Republic have closed their universities.

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