When Colleges Shut Down, Some Students Have Nowhere To Go
More colleges and universities are canceling classes due to COVID-19. Most are keeping dorms and dining halls open, but a growing number have asked students to pack up and leave campus indefinitely.
by Anya Kamenetz
Mar 17, 2020
3 minutes
Lee Myers is a senior at Berea College in Kentucky. Up until March 14, he was living in a dorm called Deep Green, majoring in philosophy with a minor in economics, and looking forward to a future career in social justice. Now that the campus has closed and graduation is canceled due to coronavirus, he and his classmates have bigger things to worry about.
"Some people are panicking, rightly so," he says, "because they don't know what they're going to do. It's sort of like a
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