UofL Employees And Students Take Their Call For More COVID Precautions To The Sidewalks
As COVID cases and hospitalizations hit record highs locally this month, a group of students and faculty have been pressing UofL to increase safety protocols, first releasing a list of requests last week, and then staging a rally on campus Thursday.
The UofL Chapter of United Campus Workers of Kentucky’s Keep all Cardinals Safe! petition calls for instructors to be able to move their classes online, hazard pay for frontline staff, the availability of more high-quality masks, increased testing rules and more transparency. It currently has more than 1,700 signatures.
On Thursday afternoon, a group of about 30 people with United Campus Workers of Kentucky gathered outside of Grawemeyer Hall, with several people holding signs and giving speeches.
Third year political science student Ashanti Scott — who is the daughter of state Rep. Attica Scott — spoke at the event, saying that she thinks that UofL Interim President Lori Stewart Gonzalez needs to do more about pandemic safety on campus.
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