CHEYNEY, Pa. - Students, staff and faculty are back-to-school at Cheyney University as in-person classes are underway.“Rembering to put the mask on every day, that’s something that nobody is used to,” remarked Nathan Pettus.It isn’t how Nathan Pettus and James Ramsey, or any of the other incoming freshman, pictured their first year of college.
A quiet campus, students masked up and heading into socially distanced classrooms at Cheyney.“It’s very weird. Kind of nerve-wracking, but it’s just something that we have to go through.
This is going to be the new norm,” Ramsey stated.But, some argue it shouldn’t be.Ahead of Monday’s first day of classes, which began two weeks earlier than originally scheduled, Ivan Turnipseed, Chair for the Cheyney.