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March 14, 2021 at 6:03 pm by Alice Zhang
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the financial toll it has caused over the past year, students at UC Santa Barbara have been challenged by high rental prices and uncertain living situations in the college town of Isla Vista.
Shortly after UCSB moved to remote instruction in March 2020, residents in Isla Vista scrambled to break from their leases in light of personal, financial and public health concerns, according to Robin Unander, a practicing attorney and advisor to the Isla Vista Tenants Union, an organization that promotes tenantsâ interests and works against violations of tenantsâ rights in Isla Vista.
Beginning Fall Quarter 2021, students joining the Letters & Science Honors and Engineering Honors programs will no longer enjoy priority registration, a longtime fixture of the honors program that granted students early access to course registration.Â
New UCSB students entering honors programs will not have priority registration starting this fall.
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Several UC Santa Barbara administrators announced the decision in an email to students on Monday, in which they described the priority registration benefits of honors programs as creating âan unintended problem in the context of access to classes.âÂ
â[Students from minoritized groups] and first-generation students have, on average, much less access to the classes they need,â the email stated. âPriority registration is often what makes the difference between getting into a class or not, and even sometimes being able to register in 12 units of
Northwestern announced adjustments to the contact tracing and quarantine procedure and new COVID-19 updates for Spring Break and Spring Quarter.
The Thursday email from Provost Kathleen Hagerty and Vice President for Student Affairs Julie Payne-Kirchmeier outlined procedures for Spring Break and Spring Quarter. Spring Wildcat Wellness will take place Mar. 29 to April 5, with students required to test negative twice during the period. During and after Spring Break, students living on campus will continue to be required to complete one rapid Abbott test and one Color test a week.
Residence halls and Sargent Dining Commons will also continue to stay open.
Last summer, Communication freshman Asha Yearwood’s Instagram direct messages were flooded with drawings, photographs, creative writing and Notes app poetry. She has since used that content in “From the Homies with Love,” an interactive literary magazine supporting multiple racial justice organizations.
Yearwood was inspired to start the project during protests in response to George Floyd’s death. In the following months, she worked with The Garage at Northwestern to edit and publish the final 100-page magazine, complete with QR codes linking to additional content.
“This issue of racial injustice and inequality is bigger than just me,” Yearwood said. “I was thinking about ways to use creative energy to enact positive change in a way that felt really authentic to me.”