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Energy, excitement greet new 'Canes arriving to campus

Thousands of new students are arriving at the University of Miami Coral Gables Campus this week as many move in to begin the Fall 2022 semester.

Students grow weary of daily symptom checker, some find ways to avoid it altogether

Every class day on the Coral Gables and Rosenstiel campuses, roughly 6,500 students, faculty and staff have been stopped to see if they have had exposure to COVID or if they are having any virus-related symptoms. Thank the 30 symptom checkers stationed at campus entrances and other locations who are helping the university minimize the number of COVID cases in the campus community. Their job is to hand out a quick, four-question survey to as many people as they can. If the respondents say they are OK, the checkers give them a wristband to continue on into campus. But after three months of adhering to the protocol, some students are not so thankful and say they are getting weary of the process.

On being freshmen during a pandemic: 'A pretty sucky way to start off college life'

Stanford Residential College, which was originally set to be demolished in the summer of 2020, remained open this school year to house another class of freshmen and provide more on-campus living spaces during COVID. Photo credit: File Photo The class of 2024 arrived on campus in the fall ready to flourish in the freedoms that come with freshman year. But many residential freshmen say the pandemic, especially a midnight curfew imposed by Miami-Dade County and the University of Miami, robbed them of one of the reasons they chose to be Miami a chance to stay out late and explore the haunts of South Beach, Wynwood and Brickell.

An LGBTQ+ living learning community will house its first residents next fall

Isolation on a college campus: Students who contracted COVID-19 share their experience

Wanting to be cautious, transfer student Whitney Kripsak delayed her arrival on campus until mid-September. Nevertheless, she tested positive for the virus in early November, which meant having to quarantine in Mahoney Residential College. “Testing positive was a bit of a shock,” said Kripsak, who previously attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. “Thankfully, I had little to no symptoms.” Audriana Edwards, of Med Pro Staffing, prepares to administer a COVID-19 test in Pavia Garage on Sept. 22, 2020. Photo credit: Ally Gaddy Kripsak said she followed the rules and never left her room. But not all quarantined students cooperated, she said.