May 25, 2021 at 11:00 am by Sindhu Ananthavel
After a year of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UC Santa Barbaraâs campus is slowly coming back to life, with a few campus amenities now slowly reopening to students. The Recreation Center, University Library and Portola Dining Commons recently opened up this quarter and have offered a taste of on-campus life for students. For some, itâs a reminder of what campus used to be, while for freshman and transfer students, the buildings are a new experience altogether.
To aid with reopening, students are required to show a digital âgreen badgeâ to gain access to all on-campus facilities that are currently open, which indicates that the individual has had a negative COVID-19 test within the past week and has filled out COVID-19 Symptom Screening Surveys via the Student Health Patient Portal.Â
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May 17, 2021 at 4:20 am by Robert Gutierrez
Gym rats across Isla vista rejoiced earlier t
his quarter as the Recreation Center reopened; the lifeguards, however, arenât so happy. After spending nearly a year and a half doing nothing, the lifeguards of UCSB are positively perturbed at the prospect of having to continue to do nothing, but in a more professional capacity.
âYea itâs pretty annoying, to be honest. I was really liking how we were doing things during the pandemic,â the Rec Cenâs lead lifeguard stated. âOnce we realized we were in it for the long haul, we had IT set up web cameras on the lifeguard towers so we could watch the pool remotely.â To date, no lifeguard has reported anything happening on these remote sessions, with the exception of one catching Chancellor Henry Yang skinny dipping in the moonlight.