# UNC-Chapel Hill goes online only

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unc-chapel-hill-goes-online-only/918352>\
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [August 17, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unc-chapel-hill-goes-online-only/918352 "2020-08-17T22:20:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unc-chapel-hill-goes-online-only/918352/1 "2020-08-17T22:20:48Z")

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Well [that didn’t take long](https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/us/coronavirus-college-university/index.html) – the University of North Carolina becomes the first major public university to reverse course and go online-only after reopening to in-person instruction. This after 130 students tested positive in four “clusters” at resident halls and off-campus housing. The student paper accurately describes the situation as a “clusterfuck.”

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**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unc-chapel-hill-goes-online-only/918352/2 "2020-08-17T23:13:05Z")

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DTH

[https://twitter.com/TarheelSoup/status/1295337202495426560](https://twitter.com/TarheelSoup/status/1295337202495426560)

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**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unc-chapel-hill-goes-online-only/918352/3 "2020-08-18T01:29:15Z")

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Yup. It’s been quite a day here. There was a public Zoom meeting of the faculty executive committee today that I couldn’t get in because it had reached its maximum number of participants even before the meeting had started.