Pepperdine University Evacuates Its European Students But Bans Them From Campus, Some May Return To Malibu Off-Campus Housing
Written by 991KBU on March 3, 2020
Several hundred Pepperdine University students studying in Germany and Switzerland are having their foreign semesters canceled.
The study abroad programs are part of every Pepperdine undergraduates’ program.
But the Covid-19 virus has caused the university to cancel the programs in Heidelberg Germany and Lausanne Switzerland in the middle of the semester.
The Students will be flown home tomorrow.
But not to the Malibu Pepperdine campus.
They’re being flown to their permanent homes.
The Pepperdine graphic newspaper reports that Pepperdine has told the students in writing that they are banned from the Malibu campus out of abundance of caution for their fellow students in Malibu.
Administrator wrote “[T]here is not enough space in the campus residence halls … nor enough classrooms or available faculty … to allow for your current coursework to continue in Malibu,” Laux wrote.
Students returning from Europe are prohibited from returning to the Malibu campus … the administrator wrote.
“Out of an abundance of caution for your classmates in Malibu, you will not be allowed to return to the Malibu campus for at least 14 days after leaving Europe.”
The Pepperdine student newspaper reported that students in Europe are not very happy.
“It is frustrating for a lot of people, because we miss everyone on campus,” one student told the Graphic.
Although some of the Pepperdine students may be returning to their homes away form Malibu … an unknown own number will be returning to Malibu … just not on the Pepperdine campus.
No health official we have seen quoted would call a recently arrived person from Switzerland or Germany to be a health danger.
