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UNC-Chapel Hill Classes To Move Online After 130 Students Test Positive In First Week:Coronavirus Live Updates:NPR <br /> further achieve de-densification of our residential halls and our campus facilities," <br /> Guskiewicz and Blouin wrote. <br /> They added that residents who "have hardships" such as lacking Internet access as <br /> well as international students and student athletes can choose to remain on <br /> campus. <br /> According to UNC System President Peter Hans, there are no current plans to <br /> modify operations at any of its other universities. <br /> Calls to reconsider in-person learning intensified over the weekend as the school <br /> reported four clusters of coronavirus cases in three days. <br /> On Saturday, Faculty Chair Mimi Chapman sent a letter to the UNC System board <br /> of governors advocating for more campus-based authority to respond to the <br /> pandemic. <br /> "We knew there would be positive cases on our campus," she wrote. "But clusters, <br /> five or more people that are connected in one place, are a different story. The <br /> presence of clusters should be triggering reconsideration of residential, in-person <br /> learning." <br /> Barbara Rimer, dean of the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC, called <br /> for taking an "off-ramp" in a blog post Monday in which she wrote that "we have <br /> tried to make this work but it is not working." <br /> Rimer said it seemed that students on campus were practicing social distancing <br /> and wearing masks, but "reports of off-campus behavior showed a different <br /> pattern." <br /> She tweeted later Monday that she was pleased with the administration's decision <br /> to move undergraduate classes online and accept residence hall cancellation <br /> requests with no penalty, calling it "the right path forward." <br /> The decision comes one day after the school announced it had identified its fourth <br /> cluster, which health officials define as five or more cases in a single residential <br /> https://www.npr.org/...irus-live-updates/2020/08/16/903071127/less-than-a-week-after-starting-classes-unc-chapel-hill-reports-4-covid-l9-clust[8/18/20,8:30:30 AM] <br />