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AS SOON AS IT COMES INTO OUR NEWSROOM. TURNING TO LATEST… ON THE PANDEMIC. A VERMONT UNIVERSITY. DEALING WITH MORE THAN 60 ááNEW COVID-19 CASES. N-B-C FIVE’S MATT LEIGHTON IS LIVE AT NORWICH UNIVERSITY. MATT. WHAT IS THE UNIVERSITY DOING TO HANDLE ALL THESE CASES. WELL ALICE AND BRIAN YOU CAN SEE IT HERE THE CAMPUS IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC. STUDENTS ARE NOW CONFINED TO THEIR ROOMS AS THE UNIVERSITY HOPES TO GET THESE CASES UNDER CONTROL. <ISABELA FERRARO / NORWICH UNIVERSITY STUDENT – I’M LUCKY BECAUSE I HAVE A GREAT ROOMMATE AND WE’RE GOOD FRIENDS > ISABELA FERRARO AND OTHER NORWICH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ARE STUCK IN THEIR DORM ROOMS, ONLY ALLOWED TO LEAVE TO USE THE BATHROOM OR TO GRAB FOOD <NAT FROM VIDEO> THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE CAMPUS WAS GOING BACK INTO A MODIFIED ROOM QUARANTINE CAME FROM UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT DOCTOR MARK ANARUMO MONDAY. <DR. MARK ANARUMO / NORWICH UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT – THE CURRENT RATE OF THE VIRUS AND THE INFECTION RATE ON CAMPUS IS UNSUSTAINABLY UNREASONABLY HIGH> UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS SAY THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN SIXTY POSITIVE COVID-19 CASES. THOSE STUDENTS ARE ISOLATING AND 55 OTHERS ARE IN QUARANTINE AFTER CONTACT TRACING OR HAVING POSSIBLE SYMPTOMS. <DAPHNE LARKIN / NORWICH UNIVERSITY – FOR THE FALL SEMESTER, THINGS WENT PHENOMENALLY WELL, WE HAD SIXTEEN CASES TOTAL FOR THE ENTIRE FALL SEMESTER, WE’RE STARTING NOW WITH 66, SO YES IT’S DIFFERENT> BEFORE COMING BACK TO CAMPUS EARLIER MONTH, ALL STUDENTS WERE EXPECTED TO QUARANTINE FOR TWO WEEKS AND WERE TESTED AS SOON AS THEY RETURNED THEN AGAIN SEVEN DAYS LATER. <ISABELA FERRARO / NORWICH UNIVERSITY STUDENT – THERE’S RUMORS ON CAMPUS OF LIKE PEOPLE DISREGARDING THE RULES AND I, I HOPE EVERYONE’S FOLLOWING IT> IN HIS MESSAGE TO THE COMMUNITY, NORWICH’S PRESIDENT WARNED IF STUDENTS DON’T FOLLOW THE RULES THE SEMESTER COULD BE IN TROUBLE. <DR. MARK ANARUMO / NORWICH UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT – OR WE WILL BE AT RISK OF NOT BEING ABLE TO HAVE AN IN PERSON SEMESTER AS WE HAD PLANNED> FOR NOW, FERRARO IS TAKING HER CLASSES ONLINE AND GOING WITH THE FLOW. <ISABELA FERRARO / NORWICH UNIVERSITY STUDENT – AT THIS POINT IT’S JUST LIKE YOU HEAR RUMORS BUT IT’S JUST YOU JUST HAVE TO WAIT TILL THE UNIVERSITY IT’S SELF GIVES OUT A STATEMENT AND THEN IT’S JUST KINDA LIVE EMAIL TO EMAIL BY THE DIFFERENT UPDATES> FERRARO SAYS SHE HAS TESTED NEGATIVE. THE UNIVERSITY SAYS EVERYONE IS TESTED EVERY WEEK. AND ADDS THAT THEY’RE TAKING THINGS DAY BY DAY BUT HOPE TO HAVE IN PERSON

Vermont college says student misconduct led to virus spread

College reports nearly 70 cases

A Vermont university has reported nearly 80 cases of COVID-19 since students returned to campus earlier this month.Norwich University, the country’s oldest private military college, has reported a total of 79 cases, with 69 current cases.The school has had “some significant, egregious and frankly embarrassing incidents of student misconduct that have resulted in the spread of the virus on campus and our inability to contain it,” Norwich president Col. Mark C. Anarumo announced Wednesday evening in a video on the school’s website.He said a containment plan is in place and he believes it will be able recover fairly quickly. Residential students were told on Monday to return to a modified room quarantine. Anarumo said Wednesday that he believes that the student conduct issues have been resolved.Any students who do not want to stay at school are allowed to leave and conduct their studies online, he said. There will be a pro-rated rebate of room and board, he said.

NORTHFIELD, Vt. —

A Vermont university has reported nearly 80 cases of COVID-19 since students returned to campus earlier this month.

Norwich University, the country’s oldest private military college, has reported a total of 79 cases, with 69 current cases.

The school has had “some significant, egregious and frankly embarrassing incidents of student misconduct that have resulted in the spread of the virus on campus and our inability to contain it,” Norwich president Col. Mark C. Anarumo announced Wednesday evening in a video on the school’s website.

He said a containment plan is in place and he believes it will be able recover fairly quickly. Residential students were told on Monday to return to a modified room quarantine.

Anarumo said Wednesday that he believes that the student conduct issues have been resolved.

Any students who do not want to stay at school are allowed to leave and conduct their studies online, he said. There will be a pro-rated rebate of room and board, he said.