![]() ![]() Students studying for prelims and planning for spring break rushed to pack storage boxes ( and bars) and hug their friends goodbye in the blur of a mass campus evacuation. And on March 13, two more weeks on campus became days Cornell suspended classes for the first time ever and urged students to return home in an afternoon email that set the campus into heartbreak and chaos. On March 10, President Martha Pollack’s Tuesday evening email canceled all in-person classes after spring break, sowing panic and frustration across campus. But huddled behind Zoom screens, many experienced this historic year through mundane rituals.Ĭoncerns about the virus on campus reached a crescendo in early March (though later research showed it was spreading in the U.S. It meant finding internet connection and an outlet.Įveryone has called 2020 - a year that began with a Cornell snow day and climate justice protests and exploded into a raging pandemic, a racial justice movement and decimating wildfires - unprecedented. As the virus evicted Cornell students from campus and dispersed them across the world, attending class no longer meant finding a seat in a lecture hall, talking around a seminar table or walking into a lab. ![]() ![]() ![]() Within weeks, the novel coronavirus became the coronavirus and turned into “the virus” - college life punctuated by a grim backdrop of climbing cases, death tolls and economic crisis and by the mundane of ongoing prelims and job applications. When two students tested negative for the novel coronavirus in February, a Cornell Sun headline read: “Cornell campus deemed safe from international epidemic.” But headlines printed just a month later told a different story: Cornell suspends classes for the first time in history. ![]()
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