Williams College party delays school relaxing COVID restrictions
An unauthorized indoor party at Williams College last week attended by as many as 100 students has prompted the elite liberal arts school to delay relaxing on-campus COVID-19 restrictions for at least two weeks, the school’s president said.
Maud Mandel, president of the Williamstown school, called the Friday party “deeply disappointing” in a letter to students, faculty and staff on Saturday, according to The Berkshire Eagle.
Partygoers were “tightly packed” inside a campus dorm and “were either completely without masks or were wearing them around their necks, on their wrists, etc.,”she said.
Williams will require all students found to have been at the party to switch to remote learning, with additional penalties for students who do not come forward about their involvement, she said.
The school has largely kept the coronavirus under control, with 11 cases since students returned to campus, and just one in the past week.
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