University of Maryland College Park students will protest Tuesday against being bound to fall semester lease contracts for dorms they won’t live in out of coronavirus safety concerns.
Students citing health and safety have found themselves protesting an inability to terminate expensive lease agreements with Capstone On-Campus Management, which manages College Park’s two on-campus housing complexes, the South Campus Commons and Courtyards, The Diamondback reported.
“It sounds like it was scripted for TV — big corporations versus struggling students — but it’s real life for us,” read a description of the event, set to convene at 4 p.m. in a lot near The Courtyards. “They suggest we ‘re-lease,’ even though students are leaving campus housing like fleas jumping off of a dead dog.”
Their protest will be held as a car caravan, a protest tactic that has become popular in pandemic-age America as a way to air grievances while maintaining social distancing guidelines.
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