What happened at UNC-Chapel Hill?

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🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Nick Anderson talks about how the outbreak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill foreshadows how other higher education institutions are reacting to the coronavirus. Matt Viser describes Joe Biden’s decades-long fight for the Democratic nomination. And, Caroline Kitchener explains the debate over Susan B. Anthony’s views on abortion -- and why it matters.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reopened the campus for in-person classes. A week later, those classes went remote.

Former vice president Joe Biden has been imagining this moment for more than 50 years. It’s not exactly the triumph he had in mind.

Some conservatives want to celebrate Susan B. Anthony’s rumored antiabortion stance.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hi there, is the mayor, Marissa Lang with the Washington Post.
0:09.0	Hey, it's Dossie, order to pick your brain on the floor.
0:11.0	Hi, it's Jenna Johnson.
0:13.0	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:18.0	It's Thursday, August 20th.
0:21.0	Today, the lessons from one university.
0:26.0	Biden's long road to nomination and the fight over the legacy of Susan B. Anthony.
0:36.0	Hi, Tar Hills.
0:37.0	Welcome to the first day of classes for fall 2020 at Carolina.
0:41.0	We're glad to have you back and I hope you're ready to take on the challenges this year will bring.
0:48.0	That's Kevin Guskowicz, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
0:53.0	Ten days ago, the campus officially opened for in-person classes.
0:57.0	It did not go well.
0:59.0	I think the only word for it when I first got here is apocalyptic.
1:02.0	I am making it and I feel like that's all as a student in general that can be said right now.
1:06.0	Students, faculty and staff have been raising me alarm about this for months.
1:13.0	Less than a week after students returned to class at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill,
1:18.0	the school is responding to yet another cluster of COVID-19 cases.
1:22.0	It seems to be worse now than it was when we left in March.
1:25.0	Since March, faculty and staff have been working tirelessly to prepare for this moment.
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