WINONA, Minn. – Winona State students are being encouraged not to overdo themselves in starting their spring semester, university President Scott Olson said. “It was important that the students come back to campus but then that they lay low, take it easy,” Olson said in an interview on radio station KWNO. There are restrictions against congregating, and most instruction is virtual, he said. Olson said the university sought a middle ground to avoid a lockdown. “If we had brought them all back without those restrictions, we might be right back where we were after Labor Day, or if we brought them back and they knew everything was going to be locked down they might not come,” said Olson. With a lockdown everything would’ve just “kicked the problem two weeks down the road,” he said. Students were told to quarantine at home for two weeks ahead of returning to campus.
Olson. Easing into new semester.