Images of the Daily Tar Heel’s profane headline were shared widely online, many lauding the student journalists for not mincing words. “We’re only a week into the semester and four covid-19 clusters have already surfaced on and around campus,” the editorial read. “I knew how big of an issue this was because people on our campus — students, faculty, graduate student workers, student activists, essential workers — have been fighting for the university to go all remote since March. It took us using that word to get people to look and pay attention.”ADThe pandemic changed how the student newspaper operated, too. Since returning to campus, Pogarcic said the newsroom desks were spaced out, there is hand sanitizer throughout the room, and a thermometer to check staff members’ temperatures.

Source: Washington Post August 18, 2020 02:59 UTC