[ti:US Colleges Close Early for Winter Break as Virus Cases Rise]
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[00:00.04]Well-known colleges and universities in the United States
[00:04.48]announced this week that they will end
[00:07.96]the first part of the school year early
[00:11.24]because of a rise in COVID-19 cases.
[00:15.96]They will also move final tests
[00:18.60]out of classrooms and onto computers.
[00:23.00]Princeton University and Cornell University
[00:26.56]are part of the group that is closing school early.
[00:30.32]Students traditionally leave school
[00:33.40]for about one month after December exams.
[00:38.24]Both Cornell and Princeton say
[00:40.80]nearly all of their students are vaccinated against COVID-19.
[00:46.72]At Syracuse University in central New York,
[00:50.76]students will need to get a booster shot
[00:53.28]before coming back to school in January.
[00:56.80]The schools also said some of the COVID-19 cases
[01:01.80]are from the Omicron variant
[01:04.24]first found in southern Africa in November.
[01:08.92]Kent Syverud is one of the top leaders at Syracuse University.
[01:14.20]Until recently, he said, the school was feeling good
[01:19.00]about the part of the school year that starts in January.
[01:23.60]"But Omicron has changed that," he said.
[01:27.20]He added that the school will try to keep students and teachers safe
[01:32.60]until more is known about the variant.
[01:36.60]Mallika Gore is a student at Syracuse University from India.
[01:42.12]She spoke with VOA in early November
[01:45.36]for a story about her experience at school this year.
[01:49.84]On Wednesday, she said she already has her booster shot,
[01:54.84]but she has some classmates from other countries
[01:58.92]who may not be able to get a booster before they go home.
[02:03.48]They will have to return to the U.S. early
[02:06.40]because boosters are not yet available where they live.
[02:11.36]Gore said her parents wonder if she should come back to the U.S. in January.
[02:17.68]"They have been reading the news," she said.
[02:21.12]"There are some articles saying it is supposed to peak in January."
[02:26.24]"For me, it's the worry that if I come, what will be changed?
[02:31.00]I hope I don't have to, mid-semester, go back to my country.
[02:35.56]So, I think that's the worry."
[02:39.32]The Associated Press news agency reports that over 20 colleges
[02:44.92]recently told their students and teachers to get boosters.
[02:50.24]Universities throughout the U.S., including Boston University
[02:54.84]and the University of New Mexico,
[02:57.48]have asked people on their campus to get boosters.
[03:02.28]The drug company Pfizer recently said
[03:05.88]a booster of their vaccine helps protect against Omicron.
[03:11.96]Emily O'Brien is a first-year student at the University of Massachusetts,
[03:16.64]where most students are vaccinated.
[03:19.24]She said she was already planning to get a booster,
[03:22.20]but if the university requires it,
[03:24.56]more of her classmates will get a third shot.
[03:28.48]O'Brien and her classmates will need to take a virus test
[03:32.76]before coming back to school in January.
[03:36.52]Students at Middlebury College in Vermont
[03:39.44]recently went back to taking classes by video.
[03:42.88]At the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,
[03:46.48]students are no longer allowed to gather except for classes.
[03:51.96]The Cornell University COVID-19 website
[03:55.56]reported over 800 cases in the week ending December 13.
[04:00.72]There are more than 20,000 students at Cornell.
[04:06.28]The school's student newspaper reports
[04:09.28]that Omicron came up in some tests,
[04:12.08]which is one reason for the decision
[04:14.48]to move the final exams out of classrooms.
[04:18.68]The school also asked students
[04:20.88]to be sure they had a negative test before going home.
[04:25.20]Martha Pollack is the Cornell president.
[04:28.64]She called the change "extremely dispiriting"
[04:33.00]in a message to students.
[04:34.92]On Wednesday, New York University said
[04:39.12]it was canceling all sports events, parties and study groups.
[04:44.64]Gore said it will be "frustrating" if her school imposes restrictions
[04:50.84]on in-person classes when she returns in January.
[04:55.16]However, she said she is trying to think positively about the future.
[05:01.96]"We have this virus, we know this is not going to go away soon," she said.
[05:08.16]"What can we do so we are still being safe
[05:11.88]but we are making the most of our college experience?"
[05:16.20]I'm Dan Friedell.
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