Students move into New York University’s dorms in the East Village as the institution prepares to start a mix of in-person and online classes on September 2. | Noam Galai/Getty Images

As some colleges make the last-minute decision to go remote, students scramble to move home or find local housing.

“All of this could’ve been avoided,” sophomore Jarrah Faye told me, one day after the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced that all of its classes will be remote for the fall semester. The university had held in-person learning for only a week prior to its closure on August 17. Within that week, four coronavirus clusters were reported on campus (six additional outbreaks have since been identified), a situation the Daily Tar Heel’s editorial team aptly described as a “clusterfuck.”

A residential advisor in a first-year dorm, Faye was deeply distressed by