Letter to the administration regarding a forced evacuation from Stanford – The Stanford Daily

Dear Provost Drell and President Tessier-Lavigne,

Stanford students are not worried only about COVID-19 but are scared for how the University administrations response will affect our lives. We are at a point where the lack of direction is just as harmful to us as the conditions that created it.

We need our leaders to tell us what they are considering. Moreover, we ask them not to force us to evacuate campus.

This morning, Harvard announced that it would be moving classes to an online format and asked all students to completely move out of their houses and dorms in five days. You have already moved classes online for the rest of winter quarter, and we fear what comes next. Arranging travel, moving belongings to a high-demand storage unit and figuring out how to pay for it all these challenges are the last thing students can deal with now as we finish our already-disrupted winter quarter.

For those of us who went home immediately following the cancellation of in-person classes, returning to take care of our belongings represents a logistical nightmare and would require many students to enter a more dangerous area than the one in which they currently live. As for the many of us that did not quickly go home, there is a reason we did not: It is hard! Some of us cannot afford the travel costs. Others would return to unstable homes. And some would go back to countries that might have more serious COVID-19 situations than the United States. Even if we did make it home, many of us have home situations that make it hard or impossible to take online classes, whether it be for the reasons above or lack of internet access.

Harvards intention makes sense in theory: send people home before they can get the virus and then spread it to others. Unfortunately, such reasoning does not apply to us. Stanford already has a confirmed case in a School of Medicine faculty member, and undergraduate students tested for COVID-19 after potential exposure. Thankfully, so far we know of no tests that have come back positive. However, as Provost Drell signaled in her Friday announcement, as more testing becomes available we can expect the confirmed cases of COVID-19 to grow in our region. Some of us could go home or stay with nearby family and are choosing not to out of fear of infecting loved ones. Forcing us to go home means forcing us to endanger our families.

While the impacts of Harvards decision remain to be seen, we know enough now to realize that Stanford students are nowhere near being ready to evacuate. If you are willing to prioritize our health and well-being, we ask you to continue working to make campus safe and responsive to our needs rather than rush us to make expensive and difficult arrangements only to arrive at uncertain situations at home and further the spread of this virus.

We understand that it is hard for the administration to provide all the support for which we ask, especially given the uncertainty. We know you are working around the clock. We appreciate your dedication. We are matching it with our own. Students are taking seriously the health precautions you have advised. We are putting the health of our community ahead of our own convenience. We will continue to do so as long as we live here.

You dont have to be perfect to make things better. Let us know that we can stay and that you are committed to keeping campus housing open for spring quarter. That knowledge alone will quell many fears. It will be progress progress for which we are desperate.

Signed,

Jack Golub 20 Isaiah Drummond 20Sam Baucom 20Ana Cabrera 20Meg McNulty 20Barbara Cardona 20Harry Cromack 20Nizhn Begay 20Juliann Hallum 20Dylan Cooper 20Peter Camacho 21Loghan Thain 20,Will Paisley 20Emma Spellman 20,Emmy Li 21 Maggie Nowlan 20Jensen Neff 20Emma Glickman 20Niki Flamen 20Kiki Couchman 20Susi Arguello 20Kaila Kim 21Alex Bradfield 21Zack Boyd 21Neha Sharma 21Haley Hodge 20Celine Foster 21Amanda Huynh 23Chidinma Agbo 21Caleb Martin 20Noah Cortez 21,Kimberly Juarez-Rico 21, Edward Tran 23, Canyon Robins 20Abby Tarquinio 21Amanda Rizkalla 20Aviva Fallas 20Anavi Tekriwal 20Brooke Hale 20 Kate Watkins 20Caroline Spertus 21Anika Sinha 21Emily Schmidt 20Merissa Rieken 23Drew Semler 20,Quinn Greicius 20Alex Maruniak 22Sruthi Raguveer 20Allison Tielking 20Tim Michael 20,Nic Fort 20,Yusef Ferhani 20Jacob Kuppermann 20Helen Gordan 21Ashwin Ramaswami 21Jeff Rodriguez 20Nick Kingsley 20Veronica Stafford 20Sasha Dierauf 20Bobby Sparks 21Jared Poblete 22Sam Wolfe 20Reagan Dunham 20Kayley Miller 20Brent Peus 20Nathaniel Ramos 21 Hamza Zahurullah 20Anna Haigh 20Pablo Ocampo 21Pippa Thompson 20Alessandra Marcone 20Manan Shah 21,Jessica de la Paz 20Maggie McKenna 22Marvin Collins 22Felicia Hou 21Aarthi Popat 21,Miao Gong 21,Jessica Chen 21Sun Paik 21Jennifer Vu 21,Ari Brown 20Erik Strand 20,Carolyn Chun 21,Evan Wisner 22Zane Kashner 20Kathleen Chang 20Julie Chavando 20Elie Kuppermann 20Ellie Utter 20,Ellie Chen 20Tessa Scott 20Haiwen Gui 20,Jordan Reist 20,Annie Minondo 21Anna Lee 21Madison Perez 20,Carly Malatskey 20Christine Callinan 20Dylan Johnson 20 664Sierra Enge 22Taylor Crutison 20Chris Huntley 20Bradley Immel 21Abigail Varney 22Mehr Kumar 20Justin Kang 20,Amanda Han 20,Shravya Gurrapu 20Will Kingsfield 20Krithika Iyer 21,Cade Cannedy 20Bella Khuu 22Jaymi McNabb 22Lauren Taylor 20Beattie Goad 20Carolyn Herrera 20Stephen Weyns 20Leda Morales 20Kylie Callan 20,Alegria Ruseler-Smith 20Dylan Junkin 21Gopal Raman 21Pedro Martins 20Ammaar Adam 22Shreya Venkat 21Arjun Dhawan 2,Surabhi Mundada 21Tia Sewell 22Mitzi Harris 20Kate Miles 22Carlos Ezquerro 20Angie Montemayor 20Ellen Ouyang 20Zheng Yan 20Madison Haley 21Jonathan Gomes Selman 20Elizabeth Gerson 20Dylan Sherman 20Walter Sobba 20Catherine Lai 20Daria Lenz 22Courtney Gao 20Catharina Clark 20Carolina Sculti 22Daniel Henry 20Madeline Casas 22Sally Egan 22Lorena Orozco 22Serena Jing 21Theiline Pigott 20Natalie Sada 21Margaret Murray 20Matt Frank 22Nicole Ticea 20Andrea Banuet 20Leila Mengesha 20AJ Aldana 20Lilla Petruska 21William Kenney 20 Isaac Pohl-Zaretsky 21Gunner Dongieux 21Zen Simone 20Ben Hoskins 22Ella Tessier-Lavigne 20Anooshree Sengupta 22Erin McCoy 20Katherine Moldow 20Maddy Fish 20 Ella Eisinger 20Anna-Luisa Brakman 21Disha Dasgupta 20Riley Noland 20 Weiran Liu 20Theresa Gao 21Alexandra Hennessy 21Isabella Fulford 21Fenella Scutt 22 Tanay Kothari 20,Julia Wang 22Kate Wang 20 Marissa Gerchick 20Chloe Wintersteen 20Megan Cvitanovic 20Kaitlyn Jong 20Tenzin Wangdak 20Will Johnson 20Amy Lo 23Jade Chrobok 23Nathan Marshall 20David Estrada-Arias 21Maya Shetty 22Lexi Long 22Michael Du 21Miranda Nykolyn 21Tiger Sun 21Jupinder Parmar 22Cathy Wang 21Dongming Zhang 22Aarushi Patil 23Abby Greubel 22Jay Liu 20Lacie Hull 22Rachel Carey 21Emma Dolan 20Alexander Iyabor 20Evie Johnson 20Pierce Ashworth 20Cameron Vaughan 22Alexandra Suarez 22Chinenye Ogbonnah 20Medha Verma 20 Merrell Guzman 20Brenna McCulloch 20,Ethan Oro 20Sophia Christodoulou 20Kit Sturm 21Natalie Cross 22Nicolai Garcia 20Sidhika Balachandar 22Haley OBrien 20Sana Gujral 20Alanna Sun 22 Thomas Thach 21Clara Romani 20Saron Dea 20Layla Joseph 20Amrita Venkatraman 20 Hugo Gonzalez 20Tiffany Zhu 21Celia Chen 20 Isabelle Miller 22Michael Mahowald 22Khuyen Le 21George Kingston 21Jessica Seng 20Leo Dong 23Lyndie Ho 20Kevin Li 22Layo Laniyan 22 Emily Cohen 20Maggie Rosenthal 20Julia Wortman 23Carlos Rodriguez 23Justine Sombilon 22Elizabeth Steen 20Swathi Iyer 21Sonny Dryden Kehuikapono Myers 22Colleen Dai 20Emma Hard 20Esha Dhawan 23Dian Ang Yap 20Katelin Zhou 23Diva Sharma 21Frances Silva Roig 20Miley Hu 21Paola Martinez 20A.J. 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