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Ormond College Student Update, 25 March 2020

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Title (Dublin Core)

Ormond College Student Update, 25 March 2020

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Description (Dublin Core)

HIST30060
This is an email from March 2020, describing the introduction of strict new COVID restrictions at Ormond College, the largest residential College at UniMelb. As the document describes, this meant that any students who remained on campus went into full "lock-in" -- they were not allowed to leave at all, not even for essential shopping as per the rest of the state. This caused many students to flee campus and end up in unstable short-term accomodation, rentals, and sublet's (myself included). This email goes some way to demonstrate the impact of COVID on specific communities such as residential colleges, and on students more broadly. Beyond this, it's personally impactful to me because this email signalled that I had less than a day to make the decision between being homeless and remaining locked-in at College. Like many, I chose homelessness and eventually ended up in a sublet with friends-of-friends.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 25, 2029

Creator (Dublin Core)

Ormond College

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Jade Smith

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HIST30060

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of Melbourne

Type (Dublin Core)

Email

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--Universities
English Emotion
English Social Distance

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

University of Melbourne
Melbourne
dorm
restriction
lockdown
housing
sublet

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

melbourne
unimelb
ormondcollege
universityofmelbourne

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

11/10/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

02/27/2021

Item sets

Covid 19
Australian Collection

This item was submitted on November 10, 2020 by Jade Smith using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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