The Colorado State University Office of the Provost & Executive Vice President provided an update on the logistics of the fall 2021 semester Monday. In an email to students, faculty and associates, Provost and Executive Vice President Mary Pedersen outlined the structure of the upcoming fall semester with regards to COVID-19 precautions and protocols.  Many […]

Berkeley mass vaccination site relocates to San Pablo Avenue

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A mass vaccination site in West Berkeley is offering COVID-19 vaccines Tuesday to Saturday between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

As part of a transition toward neighborhood vaccination settings, residents may now receive their vaccinations at a mass vaccination site in West Berkeley.

People can get vaccinated with or without an appointment at the new site, which operates in a parking lot by the Berkeley Adult School at 1701 San Pablo Ave. from Tuesday to Saturday between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The site replaces the mass vaccination site at Golden Gate Fields, which closed June 26 and was operated by the city and Curative Inc.

“Coordinated by the City of Berkeley on a parking lot owned by Berkeley Unified School District and run by a private medical provider, Curative Inc., the consolidated vaccine and testing site also reflects the partnerships among public and private parties that have been essential to fighting the pandemic,” a city of Berkeley press release reads.

Everyone ages 12 years or older may receive the Pfizer vaccine while those 18 years or older may receive the Moderna vaccine, the press release adds.

People can also schedule and receive their second dose at the site even if they received their first dose elsewhere. In addition, the site will also provide COVID-19 testing services at a kiosk.

Check back for updates.

Aditya Katewa is the executive news editor. Contact him at akatewa@dailycal.org, and follow him on Twitter at @adkatewa1.

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CA Gov. Gavin Newsom signs legislation for rent relief, tenant protection

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California’s eviction moratorium will be extended through September and clear tenants’ rent debt. The program will cover all past-due and prospective rent payments for eligible tenants.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday to extend the state’s eviction moratorium through September and clear tenants’ rent debt.

As a result of AB 832, the state’s rent relief program will cover all past-due and prospective rent payments for eligible tenants. The state’s emergency rental assistance program will also cover utility bills, according to a press release for Newsom’s office.

“Under AB 832, California will significantly increase cash assistance to low-income tenants and small landlords under the state’s $5.2 billion rent relief program, making it the largest and most comprehensive COVID rental protection and rent relief program of any state in the nation,” the press release reads.

The press release adds that the program will prioritize cities and counties with “unmet needs.” In addition, the bill reforms certain judicial processes to help tenants and landlords obtain rental assistance.

Aditya Katewa is the executive news editor. Contact him at akatewa@dailycal.org, and follow him on Twitter at @adkatewa1.

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With the Atlanta Hawks three wins away from making it to the NBA Finals, a sold out crowd of 16,650 fans certainly did their part to help the team. Although I watched the game on TV, it was clear the fans were into it from the tip, roaring for each Hawks basket and jeering for each controversial call. The Atlanta Hawks hosted the Milwaukee Bucks on June 27 in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals. The series was tied at one game apiece heading to Atlanta.

The Bucks had a dominating performance in Game 2, scoring 125 points and shutting down superstar guard Trae Young. However, the recent blow out seemed to have no effect on the Hawks early in Game 3 as the team opened up with a 7-0 run that forced Milwaukee to take a timeout after less than two minutes of gametime. The Hawks forced the Bucks to turn the ball over in each of their first three possessions, ultimately building a 15-2 lead. 

“The big thing for us was to get off to a good start,” Hawks head coach Nate McMillan said in his postgame press conference. “And I thought [in] the first quarter, we were able to do that.” 

Leading the Hawks early on was Young, who scored 14 of his team-high 35 points in the first quarter. Young’s early and quick start noticeably boosted his confidence following a rough offensive performance in Game 2. 

The second quarter featured back-and-forth action as the teams traded three-pointers and transition layups. After resting for the first four minutes of the quarter Young came back into the game to hit a 36-foot three-pointer with his foot on the Hawks’ halfcourt logo. The point guard also added a couple dazzling assists, but the Bucks continued to respond.

After an and-one by Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo six minutes into the quarter, Milwaukee had suddenly cut the Hawks lead to two. Antetokounmpo, while kept quiet by the Hawks in the first quarter, made his presence known in the second with dominance in the paint. Despite the Hawks’ early advantage, the Bucks had climbed all the way back to tie the game at 56.

Like in the first half, Young came out hot to start the second half. In less than six minutes, Young hit one of his signature floaters, two wide open threes and an and-one that put the Hawks up 73-66 with 7:22 left in the third quarter. Despite the close score at the end of the first half, it looked as if Young and the Hawks had managed to pull away.  

“[Young] was scoring for us,” McMillan said. “ He came out aggressive and was able to see the ball go in the basket tonight early — and I thought that gave us a spark.”

While Young ignited the Hawks’ offense, he was forced to exit the game with 29 seconds left in the period due to an ankle injury. After the Hawks missed a shot, Young turned to run back on defense and twisted his ankle as he stepped on the referee’s foot. 

Trae Young heads to the locker room with an apparent ankle injury

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Young noted in his postgame press conference that he is all too familiar with unusual injuries.

“All my injuries have been because I’ve stepped on somebody’s foot,” Young said in the postgame press conference. “It’s been a tough thing that I’ve had to deal with, but I’ve just got to be more mindful of where people’s feet are, and I gotta have eyes behind my head now [to] watch the out of bounds line for these refs.”

Despite Young’s absence from the end of the third quarter through the first few minutes of the fourth, the Hawks were able to stay ahead of the Bucks. Young did eventually return to the game with 8:44 left to go, but even when he did, he was clearly still affected by his ankle. 

“I came into the game, and it was just kind of sore,” Young said. “I couldn’t really go as fast as I wanted to, and when I did, it hurt.”

With an injury-hampered Young, the Hawks were unable to find much offense the rest of the way, scoring only nine points in the final nine minutes. As the Hawks’s offense was dying down, Bucks forward Khris Middleton stole the spotlight. After Young checked back in, the Bucks went on an 8-0 run  — two Middleton three-pointers and a layup by guard Pat Connaughton —  to take a two-point lead. After Young missed a three, Middleton hit another three in transition, giving the Bucks a 101-98 lead with five minutes to go. The Bucks maintained the momentum for the rest of the game, winning 113-102. Middleton finished the game with 38 points, 20 of them coming in the fourth quarter. Those 20 points were three more than all points scored by the entire Hawks team in the quarter.

Young gave credit to Middleton for hitting some tough shots. But, he noted that there will need to be a few adjustments when it comes to guarding Middleton in Game 4. 

“We’ve got to be better and just be a little bit more physical with him,” Young said. “He’s making it tough. He’s a good player who can really score and get going. He just had one of those nights where he was going, so we got to definitely key in on him a little bit to be better for Game 4.” 

The Hawks look to bounce back in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals which tips off at 8:30 p.m. on June 29 in Atlanta.

The Atlanta Hawks played the Milwaukee Bucks on April 15 at State Farm Arena. The teams are now meeting again in the Eastern Conference Finals just two months later. (Michael Mariam/Sports Editor)

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The Polk Street Underpass of West Bartow represented Pan-African colors over the last weekend as vendors, educators and civic leaders gathered under the bridge and at six different Polk County municipalities to celebrate Juneteenth, three days after President Joe Biden signed it into being the nation’s 12th national holiday. 

Juneteenth recognizes the ratification of the Emancipation Proclamation, the document which proclaimed an end to slavery in the United States, and occurs on the day union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take control of the state and free enslaved people a full two-and-a-half years after its singing. In Florida, emancipation was proclaimed in Tallahassee on May 11, 1865, but the state wasn’t restored to the Union until 1868. 

In Bartow, the music and festivities were loud and Zelma Harris, the chairperson for Bartow’s 2021 Juneteenth Celebration, played a game of civics trivia. She asked from the crowd a show of hands for who could name three of the city’s commissioners.

“I wanted to ask questions specifically for young people, to make sure they know why they are here,” Harris said. “It’s not just fun and games. It’s our history. I want people not to just learn about our past, but appreciate our present and to look forward to our future, because we have a long way to go.” 

Attendees danced in front of the stage synchronously, or chose to talk with the vendors, one of them selling a Black-American history book by a man sporting a t-shirt quoting Malcom X. The book titled “I Am”, published in September 2020, is curated by Star Sanders, a poet and middle school teacher at local Union Academy. On June 20, she would be there in-person to talk about her book, a collection of poems written by Sanders describing the lives of prominent Black figures in American history. 

“By learning our history, we can figure out where we are going,” Sanders said. “My book is to teach people about history, so hopefully we can start breaking down barriers.” 

The book is the first of more volumes to come according to Sanders, who is hopeful to expand her books to include more people, which in its first edition portraits 32 notable Black-Americans through verse. 

“I want to be able to include more people, that’s why it’s going to be a series, it was really hard trying to choose just 32 people,” Sanders said, reflecting on the process of writing the book. “I used to be a terrible student in school. My people were beaten for writing in the dirt, for trying to learn how to read and now we get to go to school. A lot of us don’t put an emphasis on education because we don’t learn a lot about Black history in schools. We are learning about everyone else’s history, but a watered down history of ourselves.” 

Sanders said she wants to enable all students to learn about Black history, especially younger Black students who might be in need of historical role models. The book has sold over 500 copies and has been incorporated into classes at some schools, according to Sanders.

Sanders hopes to increase the number of classrooms using her book to teach Black history to younger audiences. 

In Lakeland, a formal meeting of local community and political leaders commenced inside the Coleman-Bush Building June 19 in the afternoon.

Doris Moore Bailey, former Lakeland NAACP president, talk show host at WLKF-AM 96.7 and regional director for the National Juneteenth Organization, was deeply involved in the celebration taking place inside the building. While trying to avoid politicizing the holiday, she believes there are concerns within the community she talks about frequently on her radio station that need to be voiced. Bailey speaks openly about recent events in politics, which she says have sustained Black-American’s struggle for freedom.

“There’s an imbalance here, and I must be political on this note,” Bailey said. “This county is ruby red and we don’t have any voices that support our causes, or any African-Americans on the county commission. We are having laws come about that set us back registering to vote or demonstrating, or having our First Amendment Rights really almost abolished.” 

Bailey speaks in reference to the controversial pieces of Florida legislation HB-1, which passed, and a number of other measures taken by the state governments around the country to combat voter fraud. Many fear the new laws will incriminate people exercising their right to peacefully protest and discourage people from voting. 

“We are having some real problematic times right now, and I want to see these changes come about,” Bailey said. “Even though we have Juneteenth—which is nice and honorable, there’s still much work to do.” 

Bailey also describes the Florida Board of Education’s June 10 ban on ‘Critical Race Theory’ in public schools, which according to Poynter Institute holds racism as a systemic pattern woven into law and American society historically. Because there’s so much to learn from this pattern in American history, she describes the ban as problematic.

In attendance 2021 city commissioner candidate Shandale Terrell explained that going forward the holiday contributes to the culture of Lakeland altogether. 

“I believe Juneteenth being recognized as a federal holiday is great. It shows the work Afro-Americans have contributed to this country,” Terrell said. “The next step is more unity, regardless of your party affiliation, we need more unity. We’ve had division for the past couple years. We need to come together as a people to survive.”

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College athletics has been and still is a major part of the college experience. Whether it’s going to football games or gymnastics meets, the student body enjoys the competition and comes together, united, to root for the student-athletes to beat the opposing team while watching their fellow students use their athletic craft.

The student-athletes use this opportunity to continue their sport, compete in front of crowds, travel to other schools and so much more. Still, athletes are not able to profit off of their name, image or likeness that they receive from any company or outside job.

This has caused a lot of controversy in the athletic world since football and basketball players are used to sell tickets, video games and jerseys. Universities profit off of these sales without student-athletes receiving any of the profits, even though being a student-athlete is like a full-time job. 

The recent Supreme Court ruling of National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston now allows student-athletes to receive compensation for education-related benefits. This means that student-athletes are now allowed to receive benefits like graduate school tuition, more study abroad opportunities, tutors, computers and anything related to educational performance.

This ruling has shaken up the college athletic world because the NCAA is a giant corporation that has been getting away with some of these rules for a long time. The NLI, or National Letter of Intent, is a contract that every student-athlete signs which forces them to remain as amateur athletes, meaning they can not accept any outside money from sponsors or endorsements, in exchange for a free college education.

Up until recent times, this has been a fair deal, because college is extremely important to a person’s education. The NCAA can change people’s lives by helping students receive an athletic scholarship who may not have had the opportunity otherwise.

In recent times, social media platforms have become an asset for individuals to build their brand and use their voice. However, student-athletes are not able to endorse, become sponsored, or get compensated for anything that uses their name, image and likeness.

Several states have passed laws, that will become effective July 1, now allowing student-athletes to start to profit off of their name, image and likeness. The NCAA has not explicitly said anything about changing the NLI rule across the board.

This recent court ruling may be somewhat shocking to others, but athletes like myself have been working and fighting to use our voice to make a name for ourselves. This ruling shows how much of a corporation the NCAA is, and how they make millions and millions of dollars off of student-athletes.

The court ruling was vague and leaves a lot of questions as to what this means for the future. The NCAA may come out with new rules that would allow athletes to start profiting off of themselves based on tickets being sold, jerseys or anything else that has their name on it associated with the university they represent, or this may be changed on the federal level. This also leads to more questions in terms of athletes remaining in an amateur status.

While there are a lot of questions that will only be answered in time, this ruling is the first step to giving athletes more of a voice within the athletic world. It gives student-athletes the chance to push forward to change that rule, allowing student-athletes to start to profit off of themselves. Whether that takes the form of building a brand on social media, their name being sold on jerseys, or being put in video games — they can earn money. The court ruling gives all student-athletes hope that there will be a time where athletes are able to profit off of their name, image and likeness.

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Manuel “Manny” LaFont, a class of 1991 marketing alumnus, is one of five people confirmed dead in the collapse of a Florida condo building. 

A father of two, LaFont, 54, was a Houston native living in the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida, according to Miami-Dade County law enforcement. His remains were found Saturday night. 

LaFont attended Sharpstown High School and worked as a business consultant. Some of his high school classmates offered condolences, most particularly on Facebook. 

He also coached his son’s local baseball team named after Houston’s own MLB team, the Astros.

His ex-wife Adriana LaFont picked up his two kids hours before the collapse and asked for prayers from friends and family in a Facebook post.

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Emory University will rename Longstreet-Means Residence Hall to Eagle Hall and build memorials honoring “enslaved individuals,” University President Gregory L. Fenves announced in a Monday email.

The decision followed calls from students over the years to acknowledge the namesakes’ racist histories. In October, Fenves reappointed a University Committee on Naming Honors to review “contested historic names.” Fenves and the Board of Trustees approved the renaming earlier this month.

Longstreet-Means Hall. (Jason Oh)

Former University Presidents Augustus Baldwin Longstreet and Alexander Means, a doctor and Methodist minister, were both slave owners and slavery apologists. The committee found that Longstreet “used his platform as Emory’s president to promote pro-slavery views,” Fenves wrote, making it “inappropriate for his name to continue to be memorialized in a place of honor.” 

The Longstreet Professor of English position will also be renamed as “Emory College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English.”

Michelle Wright, who is the current Longstreet Professor of English, said she is “deeply grateful” that the Longstreet name was removed from the endowed English chair. 

“In our present moment, when reactionary figures are seeking to erase and deny the history of the disempowered in the U.S., Augustus Baldwin Longstreet represents the very worst of their desires, prizing money and power over truth and freedom from lies,” Wright wrote. 

Oxford College’s Language Hall will also be renamed in October for Horace J. Johnson Junior, a former judge on the Alcovy Circuit of Georgia who died last year. 

Fenves’ announcement did not mention whether Means Drive will be renamed. 

Memorials commemorating the enslaved people who helped build the University will be constructed on both the Atlanta and Oxford campuses. The Twin Memorials Working Group will be co-chaired by Associate Professor in Candler School of Theology Gregory C. Ellison II (99C) and Dean of Oxford College Douglas Hicks. 

The working group is tasked with drafting and disseminating proposal requests to architectural firms that will design and construct the memorials as well as establish other rituals and programming for “continued memorialization of Emory’s enslaved laborers,” the working group site states.  

This follows similar efforts made by peer institutions, including the University of Virginia (UVA), to acknowledge the enslaved laborers who helped construct their respective university. UVA’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers was officially dedicated in April 2020.  

The Committee also recommended removing names of Atticus Greene Haygood, L. Q. C. Lamar, George Foster Pierce and Robert Yerkes from “honorific placements,” Fenves noted. He wrote that he will “seek consultation” on whether these names should be removed or not.

The University will also continue to explore adopting an official land acknowledgement statement recognizing the University’s location on Muscogee (Creek) Nation land as well as creating “physical reminders and remembrance rituals” to honor Muscogee language and culture.

Updated on 6/28 at 6:19 p.m. to include comment from Emory College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English Michelle Wright

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Scar tissue and all

For a while, the Red Hot Chili Peppers was what was getting me out of bed in the morning. The music is infectious and full of life — Anthony Kiedis’ technically unrefined yet powerful voice blasts to some of the strongest bass and drums of both the 20th and 21st centuries. 

My dad used to play the band’s music for me every morning throughout my childhood. This was reserved for mornings when I didn’t want to go to school — which was almost every morning — and my eyes would slowly open to the opening track of “Stadium Arcadium” or “By the Way.” This was when CDs were still a thing, and I subconsciously memorized the songs in the order they were positioned on the album. As one track faded, I would begin to hum the opening of the next — it was hard-coded into my memory. I think he excused the profane and explicit nature of the songs for the effect they had on the both of us — they were a source of shared solace. 

As I write this, I am in the process of re-reading frontman Anthony Kiedis’ autobiography, “Scar Tissue.” He tells all about his incredible life, from battling a crippling heroin addiction to the stories behind the band’s most famous songs to the changing dynamic between the members of the band. It is a miracle that Kiedis is still alive, well and whole, and perhaps the even greater miracle is that he is able to tell his story so candidly. He admits his idiocies and personal failings with the same objectivity as he details his greatest successes. It is the voice of pure honesty — a voice reflected in his band’s music. 

With every song, every album, there is an overwhelming sense of emotion. Not all of its music is as blindingly happy as “Give It Away” or “Can’t Stop.” Some tracks are full of grief — mourning the loss of a band member to addiction, for example — channeling the most powerful emotion into an earnest piece of music. Even if I can’t personally relate, I can still sense the effort and energy put into each track — that’s an incredible feeling. 

The band channels the intensity of its emotion into its music, whatever it may be about — heartbreak, joy, loneliness, infatuation. As I write this column every week, I feel a little bit like I’m doing the same thing. To pen something that is personal and laden with emotion is not just to immortalize it, but to share it with the world. I’d like to be as honest as Kiedis about my shortcomings and as comfortable with voicing my lows. That is how art is able to reach people, regardless of whether they can personally or individually relate to it. 

For both my father and me, the Red Hot Chili Peppers has been comfort music. A long, hard day or a particularly daunting morning was easily fixed by putting an album on loud. We’d play the CD, and on the amplifier, you could hear every faint note of percussion, the soft strums in the background and the delicate bass. 

The Chili Peppers and its music have become a part of me in more ways than one. I love the music and the sound for what it instinctively evokes in me, but I also love the band’s philosophy. Honesty is freeing — it is the shedding of shame, of guilt, of embarrassment and it’s an acknowledgment of what has happened and what is to be. It is probably one of the hardest things to achieve. The Chili Peppers’ inherent honesty translates to a kind of goodness: an earnestness to tell stories and a commitment to authentic, personal art. 

Perhaps that is what lifts me — there is something so joyful about treating emotion as ephemeral instead of as an anchor, to let it pass and to let it remain for as long as it wishes, treating it similar to a new, fascinating visitor instead of as a burden. 

As I follow the band’s journey, I don’t think that the path to happiness is linear. I’m not even sure if happiness should be the destination. In his book, Kiedis said it best: “This is my story, scar tissue and all.” 

Megha Ganapathy writes the Monday A&E column on learning and growing from experiences with art. Contact her at mganapathy@dailycal.org.

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