ETSU students awoke to a snow-covered campus on Wednesday, Feb. 10. While road conditions worsened, classes at ETSU continued until 11:30 a.m. and David Collins, ETSU vice president of finance and administration, said that when the decision to keep the campus open was made, the administration felt the roadways were safe.”At 5:30 [a.m.] … we felt it was safe enough to have classes,” Collins said in an e-mail. “The worst snow did not start until close to 7:00 or 7:30 [a.m.]. To cancel at that time causes even greater confusion as many people have already left home.”

Collins said they followed the weather forecast, which led them to believe the snow would end around 9:00 a.m. When it didn’t, the decision was made to cancel classes after 11:30 a.m.

“Our inclement weather policy leaves it to the individual students and faculty to use judgment in whether they can make it to class or not,” Collins’ e-mail stated. “Unfortunately, we have no way to communicate if an individual faculty [member] cancels class unless the faculty member has an e-mail list they can communicate with students on.”

BUCSHOT services also ended at 1:00 p.m. That included night service and Safe Voyage.

Over three inches had covered the campus when this issue went to press and the precipitation had no signs of stopping.

The National Weather Service in Morristown called for a high of 27 degrees with a 60 percent chance of precipitation.

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