Thousands of Liberty students expected to return to campus amid coronavirus outbreak

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Thousands of Liberty students expected to return to campus amid coronavirus outbreak

BY RICHARD CHUMNEY The News & Advance 1 hr ago

LYNCHBURG — As the coronavirus threatens to spread across the Lynchburg region, Liberty University officials are preparing to welcome back up to 5,000 students from spring break this week.

Defying a national trend of campus closures, President Jerry Falwell Jr. has invited students to return to residence halls and has directed faculty members to continue to report to campus even as most classes move online.

In an interview Sunday night, Falwell said somewhere between several hundred to more than 5,000 students are expected to live in campus dorms, where they will continue coursework online rather than in classrooms.

Meanwhile, hundreds of professors and instructors without a valid health exemption will come to campus to hold office hours.

“I think we have a responsibility to our students — who paid to be here, who want to be here, who love it here — to give them the ability to be with their friends, to continue their studies, enjoy the room and board they’ve already paid for and to not interrupt their college life,” Falwell said.

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[msongs]

1. and once they back in the dorms, quarantine them for 6 months. lock em down nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Students at Liberty University will need a valid excuse not to come to school, like being gay.

ConceptOfTheBeachHat Retweeted

Students at Liberty University will need a valid excuse not to come to school, like being gay.

Link to tweet

[madaboutharry]

2. I guess he had the same vision from god

as the wife of the nut who owns Hobby Lobby.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. Thoughts and prayers.

[3Hotdogs]

4. I fully support this. In fact, there should be conventions and prayer meetings for members of

Westboro Baptist Church
A.L.E.C.
Federalist Society, 'specially their Supreme Court members
C.P.A.C. needs another meeting
R.N.C. executive committee


All these groups are doing God's work so he will protect them.

you may add to the list.

[customerserviceguy]

5. It's a Patrick Henry moment

"Give me liberty or give me death!" Well, in Lynchburg (appropriately named?) you can have both.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. It's named after John Lynch.

Lynchburg, Virginia

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Founding and early growth

First settled by Anglo-Americans in 1757, Lynchburg was named for its founder, John Lynch. When about 17 years old, he started a ferry service at a ford across the James River to carry traffic to and from New London, where his parents had settled. The "City of Seven Hills" quickly developed along the hills surrounding Lynch's Ferry.

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6. It's all a big science experiment. NT

[phylny]

7. My former co-workers are livid.

They work in Lynchburg and are disgusted with this decision. God forbid we interrupt their college life so they can be with their friends.

[rainbow4321]

9. The city's 2 hospitals won't be ready

I used to work at one of them. Nurse:patient ratio on a regular medicine unit is already 1 nurse to minimum 7 patients. Most staff are very new grads who don’t know what they don’t know, the *seasoned* nurses are travelers who try to improve care but give up and flee to protect their licenses.

Both hospitals are owned by Centra Health.