. >> reporter: 19-year-old alejandra cappy is a freshman at stanford university and is it not how she and visited envisioned it. cramped quarters in her home in arizona. >> i am not going to have the energy to jump on zoom again to meet up with my professor to go over that one meth problem. i would say right now i have a lot of fear. >> reporter: the university president notified the stanford community on thursday this will will not be able to invite first-year sophomore and new transfer undergrads on campus, citing the changing covid situation. freshman shaye guard, who just graduated from notre dame high school in san jose is relieved. >> right now the cases in santa clara county are spiking. if we invited thousands of students back onto campus that wouldn't help the situation. but at the same time it's pretty disappointing. >> reporter: this comes two days after pac-12 canceled all fall sports. the city of palo alto is anticipating a loss of $39 million from covid, driven by lack of sales and a tax, much of it attributed to stanford. >> reporter: kuba cafe has locations on and off