双语阅读:纽约州立大学的几个熊学生无视疫情搞派对,害得整个校区被封
几个熊学生搞了个派对,现在纽约州立大学的一个校园都被封了
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在距离开课不到一周的八月下旬,纽约州立大学奥尼昂塔分校给了五名学生暂停的处分。据官员说,这五名学生在北部城镇组织的派对可能导致了校园内爆发冠状病毒。

但现在给学生处分已经为时已晚。
五天后疫情已失控,一个校区中通常有6,000左右的学生,现在其中有近400例病毒感染。
由于疫情的失控,学校官员周四宣布将取消在秋季学期的面对面的授课,并让所有学生打包回家,这使奥尼昂塔分校成为在纽约州立大学试图重新开放后,第一个因病毒而关闭的分校。
纽约州立大学校长吉姆·马拉特拉斯在一份声明中说:“尽管我们纽约州立大学奥尼昂塔分校的绝大多数学生教职员工都非常努力,但那么几个少数不遵守规定的人的行为导致了新冠病毒在过去一周内传播开来。”
纽约市的公立学校计划将于本月底重新开放,奥尼昂塔分校校园的关闭提醒了大家一个可怕的现实,那就是即使纽约州在过去数周内的感染率徘徊在1%左右,病毒在校园内也能够迅速扩散失控。
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throw - v. 扔
throw parties - 办派对
entire - adj. 整个的
coronavirus - n. 新冠病毒
outbreak - n. 爆发
fall semester - 秋季学期
shut down - 关闭
diligence - n. 努力
faculty - n. 教师
staff - n. 职工
comply - v. 遵守
spread - v. 扩散
reminder - n. 提醒
cluster - n. (同类物聚集的) 簇,(人或动物的) 群
infection - n. 感染
hover - v. 盘旋,徘徊
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A Few Students Threw Parties. Now an Entire SUNY Campus Is Shut Down
Amanda Rosa
The New York Times
In late August, less than a week after classes started, the State University of New York at Oneonta suspended five students who, officials said, had organized parties in the upstate town that might have led to a coronavirus outbreak on campus.
But it was already too late.
Five days later, the outbreak was out of control, with nearly 400 virus cases among a campus student population that is usually around 6,000.
As a result, officials announced Thursday that they were canceling in-person classes for the fall semester and sending students home, making Oneonta the first SUNY campus to shut down because of the virus after trying to reopen for classes.
"Despite the diligence of the vast majority of our SUNY Oneonta students, faculty and staff, the actions of a few individuals who didn't comply resulted in the spread of COVID-19 over the past week," Jim Malatras, SUNY's chancellor, said in a statement.
With New York City public schools set to reopen at the end of the month, the closing of the campus was a troubling reminder of how quickly virus clusters can spiral in an academic setting, even in a state where the infection rate has hovered around 1% for weeks.