Seattle University, with about 7,300 students, also said it would move to online classes for the rest of the winter quarter, and Northeastern University in Boston will do the same for students on its Seattle campus.

Brandman University, Seattle University and the Seattle campus of Northeastern University have also moved to remote instruction for the time being.

If they are found guilty, Daniel Medwed, professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University, said Gorton’s decision to depart from the sentencing guidelines “does not bode well for the defendants.”

In a letter to Chad Wolfe, acting secretary of homeland security, Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern University, which has moved classes on its Seattle campus online, called on the government to loosen the regulations. 

In response to the coronavirus outbreak in Washington state that has infected at least 70 and killed 11, Northeastern University will move to online instruction at its campus in Seattle on Monday, and the school’s president is asking the federal government not to revoke the visas of foreign students.

In 2018, before Covid-19 was known to humans, when the public charge rule was still just a proposal, Wendy Parmet, a professor of law and public health at Northeastern University, warned that the push for immigrant self-sufficiency would be both dangerous and quixotic. 

In New York City, Yeshiva University canceled classes on two of its campuses until March 10 after a student tested positive for the virus this week, and Northeastern University in Boston said that it would offer online classes to students on its Seattle campus.