Mary McNamara: Colleges are closing because of coronavirus so my kids are coming home. Help!

My daughter texts from her apartment just off campus at Temple University in Philadelphia to say she has run out of toilet paper and the stores nearby have too.

I tell her to go on campus quickly and steal some, and I am only half-joking. Because Temple is closing its campus and kicking kids out of the dorms as of next Friday, so there must be a few spare rolls lying around.

Fiona has been encouraged by the administration to return home even though she lives in a non-university apartment; like hundreds of thousands of college students across the country, she will be finishing the semester online - at home, if Temple University has its way (which is why, considering what