Coronavirus: As some US college students party, others blow the whistle

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NEW YORK (REUTERS) - Some US college students are doing the once-improbable: blowing the whistle on classmates who break rules aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

NEW YORK - Some US college students are doing the once-improbable: blowing the whistle on classmates who break rules aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus.

"When it's up there publicly and people are retweeting it, and the university's getting tagged over and over - then they have to reply," said the student, who sometimes posts videos and photos of non-compliance sent by other students and asked for anonymity to avoid backlash. The University of Missouri on Tuesday said in a statement that it had expelled two students and suspended three following"flagrant violations" of the school's coronavirus-related rules.

"'This needs to be deleted now. We're dealing with this internally. This does not need to be up online,'" the student said the message read. Austin Pert, an ambassador and Miami senior, said that people generally comply with his requests. But Pert acknowledged the programme has limitations: most violations do not take place during the day on university grounds.

 

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