KARE 11 — Move-in weekend on any college campus is usually a flurry of activity: Long lines of cars filled to the brim with student belongings and family members packed into a student’s new dorm room as they move in.
Not this year.
Saturday was the first of several staggered, socially distanced move-in days on the St. Cloud State University campus. At times, the streets and sidewalks around the residence halls were bare.
“It looked kind of vacant,” said Greg Plath. He and his wife, Nichole, were moving their oldest child, Adeline, into her dorm at SCSU Saturday.
“I saw that most of my classes were online and I considered commuting instead of being on campus, but then I eventually decided … I was like no, I need to come. I need to be on campus,” said Adeline Plath, an incoming freshman.
The Plaths moved Adeline in during one of SCSU’s “drop and go” move-in days.
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