DeSales University

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hello Bulldogs
I hope you like this mask you're going

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to be getting one as soon as you get
back to campus

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our mantra has been we're ready for
anything since mid-March when we had to

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close down
we've been preparing for this next

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semester the fall
your safety and your well-being are the

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top priority
of everything that we've been doing as a

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faculty staff and administration
an example of some of the things we're

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doing at every entrance you have a ppe
station

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we socially distanced all the public
spaces on campus

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we're increasing our cleaning and deep
cleaning we have a COVID suite

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that is located in the Wellness Center
at Dorothy Day with its own separate

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entrance
we have a rapid testing machine for

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within 30 minute results
we've created flexible methods of

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instruction
to make sure that students receive an

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excellent education and also
a safe education so in each of our

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classrooms
we've been able to determine exactly how

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many students can fit into that room
safely so a class will be divided up by

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numbers
with some students being in class on any

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given day
and other students being connected

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remotely the DeSales Housing Department
will continue to put your safety first

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and make the fall semester
a wonderful experience we're going to

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clean a lot more often
and we are going to do much more deep

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cleaning we have made the decision in
order to protect the students on campus

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to prevent visitation from one building
to the next

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so if you live in Donahue the only
people in there will be

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Donahue residents another big change for
this year is we will have students move

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out
entirely at the end of the fall semester

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so that we can do another deep cleaning
of every room on campus

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you can rest assured that we have done
everything possible

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to make sure that students have a great
learning experience

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but also one that's safe as you come
back here to this campus

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we ask you to take responsibility to be
a part of this environment of living and

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learning
we are a Salesian family here at DeSales

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and that as we live and learn
it's incumbent upon each one of us to do

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some basic things so that we all keep
one another safe

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the CDC guidelines that emphasize the
three critical aspects

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mask wearing social distancing and hand
washing

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and remember those are ands not ors
those are now rock solid foundation in

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science
and are the ways that we can absolutely

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mitigate this disease
it's our responsibility as students to

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keep our campus safe and i can't wait to
see you all this fall