The College-in-the-Woods Dining Center reopened on Monday after being closed since the beginning of the semester.

The dining hall was closed in anticipation of a potential rise in COVID-19 cases amid move-in week. Last spring, the College-in-the-Woods Dining Center was also closed temporarily to assist in providing meals to students in isolation and quarantine.

According to the official Instagram page for College-in-the-Woods, @bing_ciw, the dining hall will resume regular hours on Monday. As of currently, Binghamton University reports a relatively low rolling average 14-day COVID-19 positivity rate of 2.58 percent among students. The positivity rate has begun to increase slightly, with a rolling seven-day positivity rate of 2.95 percent, and a three-day positivity rate of 3.19 percent.

Cristi Bueno, a College-in-the-Woods resident and sophomore majoring in psychology, acknowledged the reasoning behind the closure of the dining hall, but said she would have preferred for it to open earlier.

“I’m happy that the dining hall is opening up again and I know many other [College-in-the-Woods] residents are as well,” Bueno wrote in an email. “I feel like the dining hall opening could have happened earlier, but if they needed the dining hall to make the meals for quarantine for a certain period of time, I also feel like that is important and therefore, OK. ”

Luke Savinetti, a sophomore double-majoring in economics and philosophy, politics and law, said he approves of the reopening, as many residents were affected by the closure of the dining hall.

“I would say that the closing of [College-in-the-Woods] Dining [Center] was horrible as it completely changes the schedules of students in the community around getting food at weird times because the closest dining hall in the middle of the winter was closed,” Savinetti wrote in an email. “I am happy that the dining hall will be reopened so that I can eat food without the treacherous journey that it previously required.”

The dining hall’s hours can be found here.