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Despite the coronavirus pandemic causing classes and activities to run virtually beginning in March 2020, Tianna Shaw-Wakeman, Ashwin Bhumbla and Jake Bubman were recognized for their academic achievements. (Design: Emma Detrick; Photos courtesy of Tianna Shaw-Wakeman, Ashwin Bhumbla and Jake Bubman.)
Despite the pandemic preventing the class of 2021 from attending in person classes and activities, this year’s graduates have persevered. As Los Angeles’ vaccination rates increase and the county’s reopening continues, USC plans to host an in-person commencement this year with a limit of two guests per graduate. Out of state guests may be invited as long as they are fully vaccinated.
Remember cheap Austin? Before ever-escalating housing costs became a permanent part of our collective landscape? With foreign investors sinking millions into area properties and Austin still A-listed as one of the country s
hottest real estate markets (see last week s column), there s little reason to think the big picture will change anytime soon. But you d think we could make a difference around the edges.
Which brings us to the plight of a good friend we ll call
Alice (not her real name). Alice recently became the caretaker of her 60-year-old brother; we ll call him
Bob. Bob has had serious mental illness since his teen years and is now also medically fragile. He needs assistance, but many of his symptoms and habits (which are loud and frequent) make him a challenging roommate, especially as Alice has been forced to work at home during the pandemic.
Liquidity: Electricity sector generates N272.47bn in six months
On DISCOs collection efficiency Q3’20
By Obas Esiedesa
Electricity market revenue grew by 10.55 per cent to N272.47 billion in the second half (July-December) 2020, compared to N246.46 billion generated in the corresponding period of 2019, according to the latest industry data obtained by Energy Vanguard.
The growth followed an intervention from the Presidency through the Central Bank of Nigeria, which imposed restriction on revenue collection bank accounts of Electricity Distribution Companies, DisCos.
The intervention meant that the bank accounts were locked, with cash allowed to come in but withdrawals by DisCos blocked.
Over the years, the DisCos have been accused by other industry operators of spending the industry’s revenue on their own operations to the detriment of others.
Following student group efforts including environmental campaign DivestSC and the Environmental Student Assembly, USC’s Academic Senate voted in favor of USC’s divestment in fossil fuel assets. (Vincent Leo | Daily Trojan)
In a nearly unanimous vote, USC’s Academic Senate voted in favor of fossil fuel divestment mid-December, following efforts by various student organizations, including the Environment Student Assembly and the student-led environmental campaign DivestSC, to urge the University to divest the $277 million currently in fossil fuel assets. The vote also affirmed the resolutions passed by the Undergraduate Student Government and the Graduate Student Government in early November.
DivestSC chair Nathaniel Hyman feels that the vote is an additional step in USC’s path to divest from fossil fuels, however, the resolution does not bind the University to any specific method to actually divest. Instead, the vote displays faculty support for the resolution presented