After yet another long year, Wallace Baine looks back on Lookout’s “21 for 21″ series, produced in the waning months of 2020. These were people and groups we thought would have a significant and critical impact in 2021. Wallace checks in with some of these folks to see how they handled the year that (almost) was.
UC Santa Cruz
Posted inCoast Life
Unsung Santa Cruz: Love, loss & grieving … the story of a beloved bus driver who ‘vanished’ as COVID emerged
Domingo Tovar was the second person in Santa Cruz County to die of COVID-19. As the two-year mark nears of his unexpected passing in April 2020, his family and friends still grapple with how loss unfolded at the beginning of a little-understood pandemic.
Posted inCOVID Today
UCSC provides updated guidelines for beginning of winter quarter, including booster mandate deadline
Citing the need to test returning students and concerns over the Omicron variant, UC Santa Cruz told instructors in an email last week that administrators plan to start the winter 2022 quarter with two weeks of online instruction in early January. The University of California system will also mandate boosters for eligible students and staff.
Posted inCOVID 2022
Vaccine update: Rates, where to find a COVID shot or test; wait, cost and turnaround times
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
Posted inCity Life
Appreciation: Here’s what we all owe UCSC alumna bell hooks, beginning with me
Lynnée Denise, a friend and collaborator of hooks, the pioneering feminist writer who died last week, describes her essential legacy. hooks got her doctorate at UCSC in 1983, writing her dissertation on Toni Morrison.
Posted inEducation
Unseen and unsafe: Students who have been ‘deadnamed’ explain why a new California law matters
A new California law requires public colleges to update diplomas and records for transgender students who have changed their names. Students and advocates say it’s affirming and will prevent discrimination.
Posted inCOVID 2022
Vaccine update: Rates, where to find a COVID shot or test; wait, cost and turnaround times
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
Posted inPandemic Life
Is Santa Cruz’s reported vaccine rate inaccurately low? It just might be because of this UCSC-related quirk
Public health officials are constantly tracking COVID-19 data in order to understand how to best respond to areas of need. So when data comes from a variety of sources or is difficult to obtain, the best information from some sources can sometimes be incorrect information. In Santa Cruz County, public health and university officials encountered that problem but worked closely to fill in the blanks.
Posted inCOVID 2022
Vaccine update: Rates, where to find a COVID shot or test; wait, cost and turnaround times
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
Posted inEducation
Grading UCSC’s fall quarter: ‘Successful’ hybridized system sets table for a full in-person winter
UC Santa Cruz officials are preparing to offer 100% of courses in person next quarter after what they say was a successful fall quarter, with positive feedback from students and zero community transmission of COVID-19 on campus. But some students are not optimistic about finding housing in Santa Cruz.