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Emails show faculty, health officials expressed concern over UNC-Chapel Hill's COVID-19 plan before August reopening - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham <br />https://abc11.com/unc-covid-nc-coronavirus/7029408/[10/19/20, 3:46:34 PM] <br />UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduate classes to shift <br />entirely online after multiple COVID-19 <br />clusters reported, chancellor announces <br />"As much as we believe we have worked diligently to <br />help create a healthy and safe campus living and <br />learning environment, we believe the current data <br />presents an untenable situation. As we have always <br />said, the health and safety of our campus community is <br />paramount, and we will continue to modify and adapt <br />our plan when necessary," Guskiewicz and Blouin <br />wrote in the alert. <br />Faculty said they were not aware of the decision before <br />the campus-wide announcement came. <br />"I think the management of the immediate aftermath <br />of that announcement here at the campus level showed <br />that they have not thought this process through," <br />Smith said. "It seemed to us, to many of us anyway, <br />that our administration too was in crisis. And, you <br />know, that they were making decisions on the fly <br />without a lot of forethought." <br />'A lot of uncertainty': UNC Chapel Hill Student <br />Body President on school's COVID-19 <br />challenges <br />That evening, Guskiewicz gave an interview to WRAL. <br />In an email reviewing his talking points, he was told to <br />avoid discussing that this has been a 'trying time' and <br />that the roadmap was based on assumptions from <br />spring and summer. <br />"We will not apologize for trying," Leslie Minton, the <br />associate director of UNC Media relations wrote to <br />Guskiewicz.