University of California Pushes to Militarize and Expand Its Police Force
Close to 40 students, community members, clergy and labor allies protest in front of the University of Southern California (USC) Department of Public Safety, demanding the university take immediate steps to abolish the USC police force and reinvest those funds in affordable housing for the surrounding community in Los Angeles, California, on June 30, 2020.
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As campus-based and grassroots movements against anti-Black and racist state violence continue to proliferate around the globe, university police and âcampus safetyâ infrastructures and policies are rapidly losing their institutional legitimacy. Multiple national organizations, including Scholars for Social Justice and the American Studies Association, have endorsed the call for college and university campuses to join the national âCops Off Campusâ May 3, 2021, âDay of Refusal
CVS, Walgreens have wasted more vaccine doses than most states combined
Joshua Eaton and Rachana Pradhan
Kaiser Health News
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Two national pharmacy chains that the federal government entrusted to inoculate people against COVID-19 account for the lion’s share of wasted vaccine doses, according to government data obtained by KHN.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 182,874 wasted doses as of late March, three months into the country’s effort to vaccinate the masses against the coronavirus. Of those, CVS was responsible for nearly half, and Walgreens for 21%, or nearly 128,500 wasted shots combined.
CDC data suggests that the companies have wasted more doses than states, U.S. territories and federal agencies combined. Pfizer’s vaccine, which in December was the first to be deployed and initially required storage at ultracold temperatures, represented nearly 60% of tossed doses.
St. John’s University to plan for in-person commencement this summer
Updated May 03, 2021;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. After New York State released updated guidelines to allow for large indoor and outdoor graduation ceremonies with coronavirus (COVID-19) safety restrictions in place, St. John’s University, which has a campus on Grymes Hill, announced it is “actively planning” to host multiple in-person ceremonies this summer for the Class of 2021.
The university previously told graduates that it would host school-specific Virtual Commencement and Degree Conferral Ceremonies from May 17 to May 23. After the state updated its guidelines last month, a spokesperson told the Advance/SILive.com that the school was considering holding an in-person commencement and would “evaluate in-person alternatives.”
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