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Students at Belmont University, in Tennessee, are protesting a failure of the university to adopt strict COVID-19 protocols, WKRN News reported.
The students held a rally. “Our protest is called ‘vax up mask up,’ with the goal to get the Belmont administration to enact COVID housing once again,” organizer Natalie Schilling said. “They revoked that this year and to also encourage better enforcement of the mask mandate.”
The university issued this statement in response to the rally: “The health and safety of Belmont students, faculty and staff is always a priority and at the forefront of our minds as we try to provide students with an in-person living and learning experience this term. As has been the case throughout the pandemic, our COVID-19 task force, appointed by and in regular contact with the president, is constantly monitoring conditions and case counts on Belmont’s campus and in Nashville.”
Earlier this year, BuzzFeed News reported on an anonymous Twitter account used to charge that Belmont was not taking COVID-19 seriously.
