Students expressed disappointment after losing one of the few outlets to regularly get out of the house amid heightened restrictions, online classes and frigid weather.
Interviews with more than a dozen students paint a picture of an unenforced quarantine in which students can continue their normal, social college lifestyle within the isolation space if they choose.
By Konah Brownell, Collegian Correspondent
• February 18, 2021
“This power of language, this power of naming, this power of how we show up fully, that has been the way my art has been used as a praxis of liberation in my work.”
A record-breaking wave of cases overwhelmed UMass’ contact tracing system, leaving students with the virus in dorms days after testing positive and causing the school to seek help from the state in managing the situation.
This story, along with two parts to be released in the coming days, tells the story of what went wrong at UMass. Part I explores the on-campus living situation in which the virus spread.
