With desperate pleas and social contracts failing to curb college parties amid the pandemic, some schools have turned to punitive measures. But will this harsher approach work? Public health experts aren't convinced.
But will this harsher approach work? Public health experts aren't convinced.
Song agrees."My first thought was I bet what some students will think is 'Well, then I just can't get caught,'"she says."So it becomes a game." "The best hope is that the students are vigilant with each other," she says,"because it's coming from a peer who's saying, 'You are hurting me, you are hurting our community and as a member, as your peer, as a person in your social network, I am not standing for that.' And I think that probably weighs more than everything else."Another important aspect of regulating behavior is providing alternative programming.
"They are the lifeblood of any campus," she says."Students are so much more creative, honestly, than we are." She points to a recent outdoor movie shown on the Furman campus, where students used hula hoops to enforce social distancing.
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