MVCC move-in day

MVCC students return to campus

Its residence halls to welcome students back to campus.

Newschannel2's chelsea sherrod reports.

00:00-00:03 chelsea: dorm life has taken on a whole new meaning.

Nats: you guys gotaa check-in?

00:06-00:10 gerald villarreal (not shown): it's just the most vibrant time of the year for us and we're just so excited to see them back.

When m-v-c-c students walked out of their dorms spring break in march, they had no idea that they wouldn't be returning to their rooms. fast forward 5 months, and they're walking back in with updated health and safetgud llarreal: thehave to go through a couple of checkpoints.

They have to go over to payne hall to get a bracelet to make sure they have t rit temperatu to come in both the students andfao into the checking point inwilcoe able to me in to thresidence hao the room.

Rooms will not be shared.

00:42-00:51 gerald villarreal: students will be able to have a single room for their entire semester so there will be no more than four people per quad and that living area.

And no visitors.

00:53-01:02 gerald villarreal: because we have the sety oour se unfortunately are not going to be able to offer any guest passes.

So anybody who is a guest will not be able to enter the building at this time.

01:02-01:10 chelsea: here in the common areas of the residence halls they have spaced out the furniture so students can still meet together while social distancing.

Parents and students have expressed their reservations of returning to campus but nonetheless, students are excited to be back.

01:18-01:36 berk gokce: the only reservation we really have was maybe we shouldn't commit to it as much because there's a chance we might get sent back home.

It might get canceled a little bit later a couple months from now.

But i mean it looks good right now.

That's cool looks like it has a lot of precautions and safety measures in place so i'm just happy to be here right now.

85 new incoming students moved in today, 85 returning students will move in on sunday.

Reporting in utica, i'm chelsea sherrod newschannel2.

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