The following is a repost of the email Dean Culliton sent to students on August 28th.
Greetings!
Thanks to everyone for your cooperation in adjusting to the changes we needed to make yesterday due to weather. Testing/Dining and Residential Check-in will return to their outdoor locations and times for today (Friday) and we were able to accommodate close to 800 tests yesterday despite the shortened testing day. For anyone who missed a scheduled test yesterday afternoon please proceed to the testing tent today.
As we enter the first weekend of the semester, I’d like to remind you that we remain in a period of campus-wide quarantine, in which students must remain in their residence with exceptions only to pick up meals, receive COVID tests, retrieve mail, and sit or walk/jog outside on campus property. Until conditions improve, social events and parties with others outside of family units are not permitted. You can find more information on the Residential website. We’re all in this together, and we are each responsible for doing our part to keep our Wesleyan community safe.
With heavy rain forecast for Saturday, we will again enact our rain plan for Saturday August 29 as follows:
Student Dining
Saturday lunch and dinner will move indoors for everyone’s safety. Dining will still be grab and go and we ask that if it is safe to return to your residence hall, please do not congregate indoors at the dining pick-up locations for extended periods of time.
Please pick up your meals at your assigned locations with the following modifications:
Summerfields Patio will move inside the Summerfields dining room.
Pi Cafe patio will move indoors at the Exley Science Center Lobby (Enter through the Church Street side).
HiRise will be in the entry way of the HiRise building.
Usdan/Labyrinth will move to the inside on the first floor of Usdan (Enter through the West entrance by Fayerweather).
COVID-19 Testing
Saturday testing schedule will be truncated to 10AM-3PM. Anyone with a scheduled appointment outside of those hours on Saturday has been contacted and asked to reschedule. For those who had scheduled appointments and are able to come to the testing tent between 10AM-3PM, please do so. No need to reschedule online, simply arrive on site and we will work to accommodate you.
If you are scheduled for a test later Saturday and IT IS NOT YOUR FIRST TEST, please go online and reschedule for Sunday or Monday. You can click the link sent to you with your confirmation email and cancel/reschedule as needed.
If you are arriving Saturday and have not yet been tested on campus, you may proceed to the testing tent between 10AM-3PM. As long as it is safe to operate we will be conducting testing under the tent. If it is determined that we need to suspend operations, we will close the tent. You may wait nearby in the adjacent Fayerweather Building/Beckham Hall (second floor) or in the Exley Science Center (lobby) until the weather passes or you may proceed directly to get your key at your assigned key pick-up location.
Residential Life Key Pick-Up Locations
Please review the information that has been sent to you about checking in to Residential Life and picking up your keys. Due to the inclement weather, the key pick-ups on Saturday will be moved under cover as follows:
Butterfield check-in moved to Butterfield A Lounge.
Clark Hall check-in moved to Clark Hall Lobby.
HiRise check-in moved to the HiRise Lobby.
Rear of Hewitt 8/Mocon Circle check-in moved to Hewitt 9 Lounge.
Foss Hill Drive check-in moved to Fauver Lounge.
Please note that Residential Life Check in hours on Sunday will now be 10AM-4PM.
We’ve made all of these changes in the interest of safety. Thank you for your understanding. Please pay attention to any additional weather reports for any changing conditions. At this point today and Sunday look like beautiful days and we expect to operate our full days at the outdoor locations.
Best,
Rick Culliton, Dean of Students
Wesleyan University