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Carmen Vázquez, the founding director of the Women s Building in San Francisco and a longtime activist for the LGBTQ community and social justice, died January 27 in New York City. She was 72.
The cause was complications of COVID-19, according to the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, where Ms. Vázquez had been a board co-chair.
According to a statement on the foundation s website, Ms. Vázquez, a butch lesbian, was the founding director of the Women s Building in San Francisco, helped found the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center in San Francisco, and the LGBT Health & Human Services Network, a coalition of over 55 organizations and groups in New York advocating for LGBTQ health and human services.
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Last week, many top colleges and universities were celebrating their successes in admissions during the pandemic.
The Washington Post noted that Harvard University saw applications rise by 42 percent, while the University of Virginia was up 15 percent. The
Post credited the fact that many of these colleges were for the first time test optional this year, meaning students didn t need to submit SAT or ACT scores. The headline: Applications Surge After Big-Name Colleges Halt SAT and ACT Testing Rules.
In the West, the headline in the
Los Angeles Times was UC’s Record-Smashing Applications Put Long-Held Diversity Goals Within Reach. The story detailed the University of California s systemwide increase of 16 percent in applications. But it noted the Black applicants increased by 48 percent at both Berkeley and UCLA. Latinx applicants increased by 33 percent at UCLA and 36 percent at Berkeley. The University of California is test blind this yea
9 Top New York Health Officials Have Quit as Cuomo Scorns Expertise
J. David Goodman, Joseph Goldstein and Jesse McKinley, New York Times
Feb. 1, 2021
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The deputy commissioner for public health at the New York state Health Department resigned in late summer. Soon after, the director of its bureau of communicable disease control also stepped down. So did the medical director for epidemiology. Last month, the state epidemiologist said she, too, would be leaving.
The drumbeat of high-level departures in the middle of the pandemic came as morale plunged in the Health Department and senior health officials expressed alarm to one another over being sidelined and treated disrespectfully, according to five people with direct experience inside the department.