Early morning on Friday, February 9, Saint Xavier University issued an SXU Alert cancelling classes at both the Chicago Campus and the Orland Park Campus due to a winter storm.
According to ABC7, the winter storm brought almost seven inches of snow to Chicago; Orland Park had over 10 inches of snow reported.
Along with Saint Xavier, the snow caused many of the schools in the surrounding Chicagoland area to close.
All Chicago Public Schools’ classes were cancelled, City Colleges of Chicago were closed, and the College of DuPage’s campus was shut down as well.
Mike Sennett, a senior at SXU, said the last time SXU had called a snow day was back in his freshman year in 2015.
Many of the Saint Xavier students were surprised by the cancellation of classes.
Tori Wilson, a junior at SXU said, “I was surprised to have the day off. Campus was quiet, but I really appreciated the effort that grounds and housekeeping put in to keep the sidewalks and roads as clear as possible!”
Saint Xavier Council President, Logan Copeland, said, “I was glad. I got to catch up on life a little.”
Although surprised, the students on campus were pretty happy with their day off. Residents could be found outside in the Quad making the most of their snow day.
“A lot of residents went outside at 11:00 and started a snowball fight!” Jessica Luvianos said. “And not just snowball fights! They were playing football and just overall playing with snow, myself included. I️ had never seen residents do that. I was like aw!”
“Yeah,” Copeland added, “and they were building snow angels. I was on [RA] duty so I was just watching from afar.”
Residents were not the only ones glad for the cancellation of classes. Commuter students expressed relief upon hearing that they would not need to plow through the snow to get to class.
Rachel Garcia explained, “As a commuter, I was definitely relieved because my car actually broke down the day before.”
“Getting to school would have been a nightmare,” Garcia continued, “it would have been more worrisome if I ended up missing [a] class that had not been cancelled.”
Olivia Collison said, “I was surprised that [campus] was closed, but I was pretty glad. As a commuter, I was pretty relieved because my car got stuck a lot. I shoveled for three hours that day, so it wasn’t really a day off for me, though!”
“I think, in general,” Garcia added, “even if the school [were] accessible, it was best to have cancelled out of inconvenience of transportation.”
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