By Julia Johnson | June 28, 2021 | 2:32pm EDT
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(CNS News) Hundreds of students at both Virginia Tech University and the University of Colorado-Boulder plan to protest campus-wide vaccine mandates on Monday, June 28, according to Young Americans for Liberty (YAL).
“This arbitrary order is a blatant violation of the students’ rights to medical freedom,” Ian Escalante, YAL’s South Regional Director, said in a press release Monday about the vaccine mandates.
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On April 28, the University of Colorado-Boulder announced its plans to require all students and faculty to receive the Covid-19 vaccine before returning to campus in the fall 2021. On June 8, Virginia Tech announced that, similarly, it would require proof of vaccination for enrollment.
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In this April 8, 2021, file photo, Kent State University student Jarrett Woo gets his Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination from Kent State nursing student Allie Rodriguez in Kent, Ohio. (AP Photo/Phil Long, File)
Several hundred people participated in a rally Friday on the campus of Rutgers University, protesting the college s requirement that students must show proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to attend in-person classes.
MyCentralJersey.com reports protesters held up political and anti-COVID vaccine posters while chanting, My body, my choice, Our kids, our choice and It ends now.
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