"Less deadly than the typical flu" itself amounts to cherry picking. Weeks to months of symptoms, and 4%+ rate of hospitalization for COVID-19 even in the college age group makes it much worse than a typical flu and capable of overwhelming health care systems if you put people in the college age group indoors in lecture halls, labs, meeting rooms, and faculty offices for 45+ minutes several times a day grouped with different people each time.

This also involves an invalid comparison: College-age students, if they were broken-out by age among flu deaths, would show a very low death rate from flu, and COVID-19 death rates would be 5X+ higher, as they are proportionately for other age groups.

Now let's talk about sacrificing the faculty on the alter of reopening.