Coping with campus coronavirus: U.S. fraternities, sororities give it the old college try

Erik Johnson, president of the interfraternity council at the University of Washington, poses outside his fraternity house in Seattle, Washington, U.S. August 5, 2020. Picture taken August 5, 2020. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson

MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Sixteen gallons of hand sanitizer sat in the foyer of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority house at the University of Wisconsin as house mother Karen Mullis reconfigured tables in the dining room to maintain social distancing.

Upstairs, the sorority has moved beds 6 feet (2 metres) apart and rooms in the basement will be used to quarantine any house members who test positive for the novel coronavirus, which has killed over 163,000 people in the United States, the most in the world.