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Will COVID-19 Stop Amherst's Infamous Blarney Blowout This Year? Will COVID-19 Stop Amherst's Infamous Blarney Blowout This Year?
Will Covid-19 Stop Amherst's Infamous Blarney Blowout This Year? Can COVID-19 stop the annual Blarney Blowout in Amherst? The University of Massachusetts and Amherst police are working on a plan just in case it doesn’t. The Blarney Blowout is a UMass tradition. It’s a multi-day bacchanal that takes place the weekend before St. Patrick’s Day. The Blowout is infamous for chaos. Typically, the event involves huge house parties and late nights in the town’s pubs and restaurants. Thousands of young adults from UMass as well as many out-of-towners attend the festivities. The university is operating at an elevated level of pandemic precaution due to an earl…

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by Kristin Palpini
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COVID-19: University Puts 13,000 Students On Lock-Down Following 'Massive' Frat Party COVID-19: University Puts 13,000 Students On Lock-Down Following 'Massive' Frat Party
Covid-19: University Puts 13,000 Students On Lock-Down Following 'Massive' Frat Party More than 13,000 students will be in self-sequester for the next two weeks following an outbreak of COVID-19 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As of Sunday, Feb. 7, the UMass Amherst campus had 398 active COVID-19 cases - nearly 300 of which were reported, Feb. 2-4.  On Sunday, UMass Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy sent a campus-wide email announcing the self-lockdown. He said that the flagship is now considered “high risk” for the spread of COVID-19 and that the rise in infections is likely due to undergrads. “Contract tracing indicates that transmission of the virus is especi…

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by Kristin Palpini