COVID-19 inspires new courses that push students to think themselves out of the pandemic
COVID-19 inspires new courses that push students to think themselves out of the pandemic Millie Felder / Senior Staff Photographer Students used to wander the halls of Hamilton Hall to find the offices for their classes within the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, but now, they click on a Zoom link for their Columbia COVID-19 courses. By Bella Druckman | January 19, 2021, 11:09 AM
With a quick click of the “Leave Meeting” button, students return to the monotonous rhythm of life in a pandemic. Largely empty libraries are void of the whispers that used to echo off the walls. The silence is deafening.
By Trent Rice
Jan 5, 2021
DES MOINES, Iowa The City of Des Moines is keeping its administration buildings closed to the public until March 1st.
City Manager Scott Sanders says the extension stays with guidelines established in Mayor Frank Cownie’s COVID-19 emergency proclamation that closed those buildings nearly 10 months ago.
“Our local health experts tell us that the coming weeks and months could be the most challenging of the entire pandemic and that’s why we want to extend our closure by at least another month” says Cownie.
“We will closely monitor our local infection rates over the next month and then determine if there’s an opportunity to schedule limited meetings in our buildings in early spring” he says
Minneapolis police fatally shot a man in an exchange of fire during a traffic stop on Wednesday evening.
A crowd of around 100 protestors then took to the streets close to the scene, just two miles from the spot where George Floyd was killed, pelting snowballs at officers and shouting expletives.
The latest incident is the first police killing since the death of George Floyd on May 25 while he was in police custody, as an officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
Police cordoned off the garage in Minneapolis where a exchange of fire took place and resulted in the death of one man - the first police killing since George Floyd in May
Kamal Pant takes charge as Bengaluru Police Commissioner
Karnataka s Home Secretary D Roopa has been making the headlines lately as she s been at the forefront of the raging controversy around the Safe City Project for Bengaluru. In this context, Roopa, IPS, had been engaged in a war of words with Himanth Nimbalkar, another senior IPS officer who is the Additional Commissioner of Police (Administration), Bengaluru and chief of the tendering committee for the project. But the upright IPS officer became the victim of bureaucracy for highlighting a possible scam.
On Thursday, D Roopa was transferred from her current post as the Managing Director of Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation, Bengaluru. Reacting to the state government s decision, the IPS officer questioned the lack of disciplinary action with respect to the potential scam and Safe City Project.
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