From WSJopinion: Universities are typically bastions of bureaucracy. But when a Stanford medical student asked for a course on Covid-19, she got it in days. Other schools should follow suit, writes tunkuv.
Marooned on campus during her spring break in mid-March, Alana O’Mara could easily have slipped into passive despair. Instead, the Stanford medical student saw an opportunity. There was nothing on her syllabus that dealt with the new coronavirus. “I wanted to learn about this thing that has turned the world upside-down,” she tells me. “I felt that we, as medical students, needed to study it right away.
She petitioned the School of Medicine to set up a course on the coronavirus and mustered support from fellow students. They...
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