Audubon Magazine

Connection and Comfort

COLLEGE JUNIOR Courtney Knerr, co-chair of the Tiger Audubon campus chapter in spring 2020, was cramming for an exam. Knerr’s partner, who was visiting Colorado College, in Colorado Springs, during his spring break, sat nearby planning the logistics for a Lawrence concert the couple hoped to attend. Then Colorado College announced the switch to remote learning.

The campus emptied. Within days

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