We urge the University to offer online learning and teaching options for all undergraduate students, teaching assistants, and instructors, to protect immunocompromised and disabled undergraduates, graduate students, and staff. In addition, many graduate students and instructors live with or care for people who are at risk, such as young children, older people, and other vulnerable groups. Our lives are more valuable than Princeton’s desire to keep up appearances of a “normal” Ivy League semester. Simply put, that illusion is not worth dying for.
