From Thursday, November 25, through Sunday, November 28, Dr. Chat Bot will go on pause for non-Medical Center students, faculty, and staff. Instead of using Dr. Chat Bot to report active COVID-19 symptoms to University Health Service (UHS) during this time, students who are on campus should call the UHS on-call number at (585) 275-2662. UHS is implementing this four-day pause to give a break to the nurses who check the incoming Dr. Chat Bot reports each day.

Non-Medical Center students, faculty, and staff on campus should not fill out Dr. Chat Bot at all during these four days. The Dr. Chat Bot requirement will fully resume on Monday, November 29.

Any students or employees working, studying, or accessing the Medical Center campus, however, need to continue to fill out Dr. Chat Bot during this time.

The Students’ Association has coordinated with Parking and Transportation Management to provide complimentary shuttles for students traveling during the Thanksgiving Break on Wednesday, November 24, and Sunday, November 28, to transport College students to and from the airport and train or bus stations. Follow SA on Instagram or Facebook for information regarding the full schedule and stop locations.

The final chance for students to change their spring meal plans is during the spring dining change period, November 29 to December 3. The $25 change fee is waived during this period. Change forms will be available on the Dining Services website beginning November 29. Completed forms should be emailed as an attachment using either a Word document or PDF format to mealplans@services.rochester.edu. Forms must be received by December 3; late forms will be not be processed.

Spring plans for dining services: Dining Services expects many on-campus options to resume during the spring semester. While some operations will remain limited, Danforth Dining Center will reopen for lunch and dinner every day, along with all three fraternity kitchens. Other updates include:

• Douglass Dining Center will be open for breakfast and lunch on weekdays and for dinner Mondays through Thursday. The sauté, pizza, and bistro entrée stations will remain open until 9 p.m. All other stations will close at 8 p.m. Douglass will be closed on weekends, but the kosher station will be open Sundays for Grubhub orders.
• Connections will have expanded hours of operation: from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays; 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Fridays; and closed on weekends.
• Dining Services will maintain its current hours of operation in Starbucks, Hillside, The Brew@Simon, the Pit, and the Eastman School of Music.
• Beginning on January 7, students will no longer be able to use their meal plan declining balance dollars to purchase food from off-campus restaurants on Grubhub.

Dining Services will continue to work on expanding other services on campus throughout the spring semester. Updates will be reported on the dining website.