College Administrators’ Dangerous COVID-19 Response Is Literally Killing Students
The response of university systems in states like North Carolina have been wildly inadequate to the coronavirus pandemic’s gravity. Students are now dying as a result.
As the pandemic rages, students and faculty in higher education must continue to organize. (Thomas de Luze / Unsplash)
Earlier this year, I suggested that the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and other university systems across the country were sending their students “into hell.” This dire warning, along with many others, fell on countless college administrators’ deaf ears.
Instead, the university system’s need to take in tuition dollars trumped the health and well-being of its students — the supposed raison d’etre for the system in the first place. Love of mammon has ensured that our nation’s students stand as sacrifice to Moloch. And now in North Carolina, he has taken his first victim.
By all accounts, nineteen-year old Chad Dorrill was a fit and healthy young man, a student athlete at that — and the last person anyone would expect to be struck down by COVID-19. But tragically, this virus spares no one, old or young.
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