East Los Angeles College’s new guidelines to be allowed on campus are good, but could be slightly better. ELAC’s new policy says that in order to be allowed on campus, you must show proof of vaccination. This is good, but ELAC will still allow medical and religious exemptions. I would like to see ELAC remove religious exemptions from the policy and only allow medical exemptions.
As the economy slowly starts to open up, many theme parks including Disneyland are opening up with COVID mandates in place. I was recently able to go to the “happiest place on earth” for my younger brother’s birthday, and I was quite surprised with the regulations around the park.
Official mask mandates were controversial from the start, but masks should continue to be worn despite changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines. Masks should be worn as long as they have to and not just until June 15, when the mandate ends. They should even be further implemented into our lifestyles.
By: Raymond Nava The East Los Angeles College Academic Senate met last Tuesday and discussed a proposed process of reopening the campus for in person classes. The senate also took up a variety of other issues as well as taking action on them. Among some of the important actions and discussions at the meeting were whether to approve a shared governance process, whether to add back lost hours due to…