As universities grapple with how to open safely for fall semester, some of their plans are meeting resistance from the communities where these academic institutions reside. The University of Massachusetts Amherst had planned to allow all undergraduates back to campus to live, even though most classes would be virtual. “When we originally made the decision back at, towards the end of June, the situation with the pandemic was different, both in Massachusetts and in the country. It seemed like everything was going down and things were coming under control,” Kumble Subbaswamy said in an interview with the PBS NewsHours John Yang. However, once UMass “started looking at all the logistics of how this would work,” Subbaswamy said, they realized it was going to be too risky and difficult if all the students who were expected to come showed up.
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