As COVID-19 cases surged to unprecedented levels at the 5Cs throughout April, Claremont McKenna College and Harvey Mudd College quickly found themselves in a complicated position: they didn’t have enough isolation space for everyone who tested positive.
Tag: Quarantine
OPINION: Isolated students are being shut out of the 5C learning community
Pitzer College and the other 5Cs must ensure that all quarantined students have a way to access class virtually, instead of leaving it up to individual students and professors to arrange, writes Annika White PZ ’25.
OPINION: Pomona must clarify its COVID-19 testing policy as students return to in-person learning
Pomona College and Student Health Services must reassess their COVID-19 testing guidelines to accommodate false-positive cases and improve their lines of communication to address discrepancies in instructions given to students, writes Annika Reff PO ’25.
OPINION: Pomona College has failed in its handling of COVID-19
Pomona College’s handling of COVID-19 cases on campus has been worrying, inefficient and endangering, argues Abby Loiselle PO ’23.
5C students in quarantine face a steep learning curve: ‘You really don’t know what you’re supposed to do’
5C students are experiencing a steep learning curve around quarantine, contact tracing, and COVID-19 policy discrepancies.
Virtual virtuosos: Professional 7C performers reflect on community during COVID-19
Empty performance halls don’t have to mean empty hearts — music professors discuss how virtual concerts can provide a (albeit different) sense of community.
A campus ‘bubble’: What you need to know about Pomona’s reopening plans
Pomona College administrators answered questions about a possible on-campus spring 2021 semester at virtual town halls Wednesday. Here’s what you need to know.
With competition on hold, athletic departments zero in on student-athletes’ mental health
With competition still on pause, 5C athletic departments are as focused on student-athletes’ mental health as much as their physical health.
Assorted novelties: A literary reflection on Beston’s ‘The Outermost House’
Book columnist Anna Solomon ’23 reflects on Henry Beston’s “The Outermost House” and how it gave her a better sense of place in quarantine.
OPINION: By disappointing overseas returnees, Beijing fails its second battle against COVID-19
With tens of thousands of students returning to China after fleeing COVID-19 abroad, the Chinese government is taking strenuous measures to prevent them from reintroducing coronavirus. Rather than setting returnees up for criticism and bullying, China must bear the undeniable responsibility of accommodating its own citizens.