新冠肺炎疫情期间美国芝加哥地区的大学将调整电梯使用规定

据WBEZ报道，目前位于美国芝加哥市区的大学校园正在考虑开放货梯供教学员工和学生上下楼使用。位于水塔广场附近的芝加哥洛约拉大学正在考虑让货梯载人运行。而坐落在芝加哥艺术学院对面、拥有六七层教学楼的美国路易斯大学正在指引学生和教职员工尽多地使用楼梯，电梯每次只能供两个人使用。位于南环线的哥伦比亚学院则要求电梯每次只能搭载4人，而且必须站在轿厢内的四角，戴好口罩。各校预计在今年秋天开学，以前这里一度把“在市中心的多层建筑内享受高等教育”作为卖点，如今地理位置却成了一个劣势。

CHICAGO UNIVERSITY COVID-19 ELEVATOR ADJUSTMENTS

Using freight elevators to move students and staff through buildings is among adjustments universities in downtown Chicago are considering to limit the spread of COVID-19, WBEZ reports. Using freight elevators for passengers is being mulled at Loyola University Chicago near Water Tower Place. Officials at National Louis University, which has buildings of six and seven floors across from the Art Institute of Chicago, are directing students and staff to use the stairs if they are able and limit elevator capacity to two. At Columbia College in the South Loop, four students are allowed per elevator, and each must stand in a corner and wear a facemask. As schools are set to open in the fall, what was once a selling point — higher learning in multistory buildings in the heart of the city — has, for the moment, turned into a liability, the source observes.