basically canceled large in-person events and moved finals to online. beyond that, nyu is requiring that students and staff when they come back following the holiday break next year for the spring semester, they all have to have their booster shots. students as well as staff. now, this is something that not only nyu is doing but other colleges here in new york, fordham university is doing it, ithaca college, not ithaca, cornell university and ithaca is doing it as well as princeton in new jersey and cornell earlier this week essentially shut down its campus because of what they called an alert level red this week, an outbreak of something like 469 active student cases of positive covid tests that came through and it sent an alarm through the campus and they essentially shut it down. booster shots required there like here. we talked to some students about the fact they have to have their booster shot before coming back to campus. here's what one student told us.