INDIANAPOLIS — New numbers from Ball State University shows more than 500 cases of COVID-19 on campus. That's 128 more cases since Friday.
BSU's president Geoffrey Mearns said if things don't change, he may temporarily suspend all on-campus courses or switch to remote learning for the rest of the semester.
WRTV spoke to one student who says most people on campus are taking the pandemic seriously, but for everyone doing the right thing, there are those who are not.
"I would say it's like a 75, 25 split. For the most part, students are taking it seriously. They're going out masked, They're using the hand sanitizer throughout the campus," Mathias Miles, a Ball State senior, said. "I actually had a friend of mine who said he was driving through campus and on his three minutes drive, he counted 27 people without a mask on on campus."
President Mearns says the increase in cases is coming from "poor personal choices some students are making, primarily off-campus." He also said the university is taking disciplinary action against several students and three fraternities for failing to comply with safety guidelines and putting others at risk.
