Some U.S. college students are doing the once-improbable: blowing the whistle on classmates who break rules aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus.
A"COVID-19 Supply Tent" is seen on Move In Day 2020 - North and West Campus, at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in this undated handout photo. Jason Koski/Cornell University/Handout via REUTERS
“When it’s up there publicly and people are retweeting it, and the university’s getting tagged over and over - then they have to reply,” said the student, who sometimes posts videos and photos of non-compliance sent by other students and asked for anonymity to avoid backlash. The University of Missouri on Tuesday said in a statement that it had expelled two students and suspended three following “flagrant violations” of the school’s coronavirus-related rules.
At Miami, 75 “public health ambassadors” are making $10 an hour to walk around campus and make sure that people wear masks and socially distance. Serious infractions can be flagged to university administrators. At Northeastern University in Boston, administrators came across an Instagram poll last month in which more than 100 incoming freshman indicated that they planned to party. After the student running the account voluntarily turned over the identities of respondents, they received a letter warning that partying could result in punishment up to expulsion, a university spokeswoman said.
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