Joseph Rivenbark

If by some miracle you haven't heard, UNC-Chapel Hill moved all classes online Monday, just an hour before tuition was due. In completely unrelated news, NC State announced a whopping 28 new cases all at once, but you probably knew that too. Did you also know it was a day ? Those two particular pieces of news seem quite curious to me. For one thing, the timing is certainly strange.

Going into this week, I knew I wanted to write something about sexual assault and how it is treated within universities. For those who don’t know, there have been two large stories regarding this very subject in the past month.

Right now, there are thousands of people across North Carolina locked in jails and prisons. The cells they inhabit vary in quality, but in general are dirty and close-quartered. With each passing day, the virus outside inches closer and closer to their environment, ripe for transmission, and in some places the defenses have started to show cracks. So too with each passing day do cellmates, families, activists and people like me wonder when — or even if — Gov.