MWSU Student Complaint

While cases of Covid-19 are still relatively low at Missouri Western State University, one student says the university isn't doing enough.

Response team is happy with how the university is handling the pandemic....one student is not.

A senior attending in person classes at missouri western says administration isn't telling students vital information about covid on campus.

Kq2's kilee thomas has the story.

While the case numbers are still relatively low at missouri western, one student says the university isn't doing enough "i have had to move mountains this past week in order to find the most minute elements of a plan."

Christain sarna missouri western says the university isn't being transparent with students about covid on campus "on sunday night, an article came out that reported there were at least 8 known cases on campus.

It's tuesday afternoon and we still haven't gotten any official word from the university."

University staff say they take full for that mistake "to be totally transparent, there was an email that was sent friday evening that mentioned the 8 positive cases among staff and students.

Because of some human error and system error, that message did not get emailed to students.

It was a failure on our part."

Sarna say that isn't the only email that hasn't been sent out during the first week of school police broke up 50-70 unmasked students gathering at the basketball courts"nothing's been said about this.

I have no idea what if any consequences for the people involved in this."

"yes, we did have a large group of students gather outside the residence halls.

We're just trying to educate our students that you cannot do that.

It's not even a matter of what consequences you might face in terms of student conduct.

You can't take the risk of spreading the disease that way.

" sarna says there's no official mandate that student organization must have a remote option for meetings leaving many students having to drop out "people contact me and say, 'hey my student organization is saying they're going to kick me out if i don't go to this meeting and i'm begging to have a zoom meeting.

I'm having to advance this all the way up to the dean of students before anything happens."

Administrators say there will be a conversation with student leaders "there will be an understanding."

While campus staff say they are working to better communicate with students "i can certainly understand some frustration on the part of students.

Sarna says it needs to be done faster.

"this can't be a situation where the only way you find something out is by personally meeting with the dean of students and the president.

If information is acceptable to share with me, a random student who happens to be an extremely squeaky wheel, i don't understand why it's not being made public knowledge."

Reporting in st.joseph kilee thomas kq2 news missouri western currently has a dashboard listing current dashboard currently has a western missouri western currently has a dashboard listing current covid cases on campus... but the university says they are working on getting one out soon.

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