From the New York Times unworkable borrow, this today, colleges across the. U S have long prided themselves on bridging the differences between their students Nick case on how the corona virus has. Instead we enforce them. It's Tuesday may fifth Nick, where did the story start for you what the virus was starting to spread across the EU Listen. I started to make lots of calls to people to see what was going on friends, family members, some old sources of mine, and why the people at a child with what professor and Hereford College, named Anita, Isaacs, Anita hi. How are you doing high Nick

I'm ok hurry you and she started telling me about strange. It was to be a professor right now. What were you right now? I've been asking this everybody I'm lock down in Bethesda Maryland miles. Miles away from my place of work from my books and from my students. So Anita is an old source of mine have known her. For more than ten years, we met each other. When I worked as a foreign correspondent in Mexico, the Wall Street Journal If I remember right, you are a young reporter. Ah, it was very good. He s about Guatemala, she's, a political scientist. She cover Central America. She covers Mexico and over conversations always had to do with those two things, but when she would talk, she tell me a little bit about what it was like working at have referred. So liberal arts college just out of Philadelphia, twelve hundred students, verily college patricians, about seventy

thousand dollars. When you add up room and bored and about half this in their receive financial aid to some degree, and I can always say that, like part of her work was about these kids that she was teaching and just the environment of have offered itself. It was or institution was really India, equality, social justice and, most importantly, like one of its mission, a need, as mission was about creating a level I feel for undergraduates the came from all walks of life. Whether they were wealthy kids or whether they were poor kids, they all have to eat the crummy food at the have referred to center. They all live in the same dorms they all have the same internet they're all the same classrooms. So we have this physical. And intellectuals environment in which there is. A fair amount of equalization, no matter how unequal America

might be no matter how unequal the world was. There was this one point in a student's life worthwhile, It actually get inexperienced it that felt like a quality, its imperfect, it's very imperfect, but there is a kind of levelling of playing field. Right outside the walls of a college, their authors are differences, but in classrooms on the quiet. There's this idealise notion. If it can be accomplished that people are kind of evil yeah, she caused the great equalizer. That's a phrase that you hear a lot of people involved college education talking about and have referred, was the ultimate bubble for that. How is this playing out in her classrooms? We'll need is teaching this one class.

Right now and it's called forced migration and refugees, so their studying people that got kicked out of Latin America and tried to start new lives and other parts of the world, especially the. U S, it's a course in which ethnicity intersects with class, and so we are patently aware, just by virtue of the way the students in age with the material of the class differences as well as are ethnic diversity and her class itself. Composed of a wide array of students different backgrounds summer wealthy some are not these classes are difficult because we deal with very difficult material that is politically polarizing, and that is very personal, always for a certain number of states.

It's in my class. So when I need us thinking about a lot of this, just kind of seen, this little laboratory for everything that she likes in this classroom itself and the class have been going great. We had just had by far the best class the semester we were literally covering a board with our ideas, are armed sort of interwoven with Each other's arms in an incredible splay of community In a lot of ways. Everything that Anita was kind of preaching and thinking about is what draws her into teaching to begin with. Really materializing and becoming apparent in this class that that she was teaching on the head of her campus. It was so exciting and then over spring break everything fell apart.

While millions of college students have been sent home during this pandemic and I'll have to take classes are mine. Earlier the University of Washington line worsening came the worsening of South Carolina made a major decision to cancel class marijuana virus pandemic has disrupted the lives of some twenty million college students, as ever buddy ended up being dispersed. And this community. This small community of our classroom and the bigger community or bubble of have referred was burst it. It was devastating because. The bubble. Then we can be lulled into believing that I have referred provides and those bonds that we had forged. Were

were ripped apart in some ways, or at least really loosened, So what actually happens to Anita class? Well, everybody goes home, and they try to reassemble the class on zoom high everyone, and neither was telling me about how it's kind of awkward to have everybody trying to talk of gay. Why don't you all and mute this today, and so that we are actually talking to each other rather than living in a world where all I see her are red, microphones off Kate, but eventually needed. We got the rhythm of it. And class started to work. And then one night, one student sent me a message:

need. I got an email from one of her students in the class who was late sending in a chapter from her thesis and she described the intense panic that was prevented her from being able to write a say the sentence and the need to set the email just floored her everything what's going on in the students life right then so I decided that I give that student call suit tat, you had to me tell me where you're you're speaking to me from home right now sit in my kitchen color and whose us soon

so her name is Tatiana last Young. She was born in Vienna, but largely grew up in Jacksonville Florida were her parents on a porter, weaken food truck Tatyana says there. Her life plan probably wasn't going to include college. She hadn't really been thinking about. It causes obviously super expensive and my brother. He only do this message me college before he dropped out. So for me it was a really that of a high

parity, I guess you could say, but then my guidance, counselor gotta, hold my grades and by sharing guidance, counselor that looked at her grades and said that she probably was gonna qualify for a free ride at a really good school and she Covington Office want answers like you need a pile of scholarships, and one of them was a class page said that so she apply to college through a programme called Quest Bridge which matches up underprivileged students with CALL is that are looking to offer full tuition scholarships and to her surprise, she got one and she was off to Hereford. Would it no but Hereford before they told you that you're gonna go there with a full scholarship, so, basically levels, nothing, I'm kind of Google Buzz school right after that. Figured out where thou, unless and and like how did you feel when, when you found it out

It was pretty weird feelings they ran after contractors had ended hours driving home, and I just happened to check my aim on the world, how it feels like, oh mom, guess what I'm going to Philadelphia for the next four years. Knows coy, and what was experience like for her at have forgiven a cheap, really, never expect it to be there. Well, you know a touchy, and as one of the first to say that she came from a very different background than many of her classmates, but I think she really took like a duck. To water when she got to Hereford. She immediately got on the lacrosse team and that's where she made all of her best friends. She lived with them in the same floor of a dormitory and she can have built her life the game and also Rand Academics. There- and Those four years that she was it have referred thinks it

very well. I had really kind of lived up to many, the ideals that Anita talks about and touch Anna was at the end of her time. She was a senior. She was about to go out into the world and then suddenly, the pandemic came and throw everything into jeopardy. we'll get it back? A payroll and hr company needs to be prepared, for whatever is going to happen. You could say that over

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lunch to office workers, but now the other one spot have cancelled because people are in the office is any more, but the expenses of the food truck are still piling up if the business does have to cause. I know my parents, there are considering just getting like tell them. Taking words and obviously that's a big step, but of course been through. So much already. I'm sure this is like our first crazy trip down. Disaster lay and fell with a potentially have to depend on you for assistance possibly there really trying not to right now, but it could possibly come down to that also have so there's that and then there's trying to go to school in the middle of all. This has been just trying to concentrate in house. That's like not a classroom anymore, and he gave a class there guides

Super increasingly great now appears both in the same room with me right now I can hear it says I invader something yellow bustling about she's, trying to find places in our house that she can still be in college answer. Unfortunately, do not have a desk in my bedroom, So I have been using the porch or the dining, The war is covered with my school suffering. Now, I know I haven't heard. I had my spaces. I never could really You work in my room. So I would always go either to a library or two hundred and thirty basement and just grind it out for an all nighter. I honestly Oh really do all nighters anew heart has like that's destructive to the rest of the family, and then they train of fine moments the day where it's quite enough to like sit down in red and try to type bunch of his has been,

Challenging foot we're trying or better still It is she able to do her coursework for his class she's trying to keep up, but the truth is she can so basically, she just gets the point where she sit down at her computer and write this email asking for a few more days, I was wondering: do you have that email that work to Anita? So I think so. Do you think that you could? Just Read the email out, neuron voice. Oh sir I'll try not to cry. I don't think I can read it So now fall. I realize it is bringing says, is seen either. I think erosion

Now about thesis, it's a little schussler, my house at the moment, with everything shutting down, there's no real place for me to go to get away from everything, so I can folk there. In fact I am so those are. Those chapter is so I don't think I'll be able to visit today so terrible. Her, though, is that you will do that but it seems like every presidents work of appear to have this peak berwin, that's all early for unhappy and the poems that accrue coal and smell so more relevant points out of reach back and that's the main source of income

and what the city closing our Russia to measure their savings will allow them to build survivors, quarantine and so keep the business and with me being home. I know that that loses actual expenses that you need to cover and since I'm not working right now, I can help them. So I can't blaming living with my brother, possibly for getting a protection. I know they shouldn't be excuses for have poorly wayward, were fighting myself just a little more over well with each passing day. As that everything has to exist in this. Is that the Eu S? I wanted to say to you today and are very disappointed myself for putting myself in the situation and so sorry again- and I want you to Know- I'm still working that start to Europe,

what's what's just like heartbreaking, has like in the middle of everything that you were going through, that that would even worry that your things together excuse it fills river, usually like so on top of my work, and I felt like I can't focus way. I have in the past, I've never been one to stringently works. Work bills, Tang, like Japan, is the last forty pages that they still have to break down. Here.

The near the finishing line you are. You are. I basically just sat in front of my computer reading this message and actually crying because I didn't know how I could help the student, I don't paralyzed and overcome with grief, and I was

devastated in the same way that occasionally I've been devastated in the field talking to separated migrant families or deportees, it felt the same so. How does Anita respond after she gets this letter? I said: please can we talk? I just want top, and we did indeed to give her a call immediately. What I wanted to convey to her was that it isn't worthless that she has achieved so much that she has grown so much as a student over

years since I saw her and then intro class to working on her thesis that she has so many skills, so much capacity that I will be able to write such brilliant letters for her that it's not worthless, that this will pass and that everything that she has done will have been worthwhile and that God, damn it, I'm gonna, make sure. There is a need is boiling to let tat you, and I know that she is therefore her whether it's giving her next pensioner. Just being, therefore as human being, and I think Anita she seemed Tatiana and many of her students in ways that she hadn't before I was now exposed to the real world? It was like the

you're a real lives series of episodes that I was witnessing first hand. As a teacher, as I began to interact individually with my students, who found themselves in all kinds of different and very very painful situations. The computer is what you, make of the situation it feels like the world than Anita wanted to create at have referred was always a little bit of a fantasy right, I'm in Chicago that's because in some ways it is above it wasn't reality. Is this story about what happens when the reality strength yeah, I think their stories.

You wonder whether the whole idea, the college was a great equalizer, was kind of a fiction because all it took was a virus to show that life was actually extremely unequal for students yeah? They slept in the same dorms and they go into the same cafeterias when their college, but when they had, go home. All their homes were vastly different. All of these division this between school life and family life ought to start breakdown and so Families had the ability to shield their kids from this and others just din, but you gotta remember? On the other hand, there is some strange silver lining to this, which is that what's happened has actually show What's real and the realities in people's lives- and I think

for everybody involved, whether its Anita or Tatiana or any of the other students and that class its create a kind of empathy that you didn't necessarily have when those differ. His were papered over and you have people calling up and saying. Is everything ok in a way that you might not have before this action through reality and into such sharp relief. Right, because the other side of not being able to paper over something is that people now see each other more fully and really than maybe they did on campus yeah, it's more of a question of trying to get to something equal by acknowledging what the problem, actually are and living through them, So the best you can tell what is next for Tatyana. While her scholarship,

have referred, goes to the end of the year. She's gonna graduate she's gonna finish your thesis and she's. GonNA entered the worst job market in american history. That anybody remembers. Man, that is extremely stressful for Tatiana, but until then she's working at the future. Floored has gradually reopening and on wednesdays she The logs on to zoom she goes to the forced migration and refugee class with a need Isaacs and all of those differences are very much on display as each of the students struggles and deals with the virus from their homes and their different circumstances, thanking ethical

Hey guys wherein we dont Molly you stay on, so we can figure out what to do with this. But let's we're done. Thank you. So much, hi guys ok, this episode.

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