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  • students at Harvard University are being told not to return to campus after spring recess at the school, will move all of its classes online as concerns over the spread of the Corona virus continued to grow.

  • Bill Shields has more from Cambridge.

  • I think it's gonna be a logistical nightmare.

  • The school is doing it for the safety of this faculty and students.

  • Virtual classes, everything done online.

  • But the students we talked to I don't really like it.

  • I know my roommate has to go back out of the country.

  • I'm assuming some people from Italy need to figure out what to dio.

  • Is it an overreach by the school?

  • Do you think Oh, excessively, yeah.

  • I mean, it's gonna cost a lot, a lot of money, and I think a lot of people have trouble finishing your classes at home.

  • Harvard wants all the students gone by Sunday.

  • And besides the logistical nightmare, midterm exams are this week.

  • For a lot of undergraduates, figure out storage, I think, is a big issue because we're told we're not.

  • We don't have to leave and figure out flights, which is obviously gonna be a financial burden.

  • We have a midterm tomorrow and a lots of class of cancelling them.

  • So we're unsure whether this is still happening over the study.

  • I feel like they should cancel because this is such a big, like psychological disruption.

  • I feel like there's no way we can study and focus on the midterm when this is happening.

  • We just heard two student walking by talking, and one of them said, What happens now?

  • Because we have to move out, and then when the virus goes away, we gotta move back in.

  • But what is liable actually happened is there will go ahead with these online classes for the duration of this spring semester, and someone I asked today about what about commencement exercises.

  • They said they weren't sure in Cambridge on Bill Shields, CBS in Boston.

students at Harvard University are being told not to return to campus after spring recess at the school, will move all of its classes online as concerns over the spread of the Corona virus continued to grow.

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