Volume 78, Issue 17 | www.elaccampusnews.com | Wednesday, March 24, 2021 | Single copy free - additional copies 50 cents
ELAC opens vaccination site in campus parking lot on available supply of vaccine,” Senior Public Information Officer for the CDPH Sami Gallegos said. No additional dates have been announced for the ELAC vaccination site. “It is only for those three dates as far as I know. They did not mention any additional vaccination dates,” Jimenez said. Currently, those in Phase 1A and Phase 1B of CDPH’s vaccine eligibility guidelines are eligible to receive the COVID19 vaccine. Phase 1A includes people working in healthcare and those who require long-term care. Phase 1B includes food and agricultural workers, educators and childcare workers, emergency service workers, people 65 and older and people 16 and older who are at high risk for mortality. The hardest-hit communities are in focus as the state pushes vaccine availability and accessibility. According to the CDPH
BY LUIS CASTILLA Staff Writer A temporary drive-thu COVID-19 vaccination site opened at East Los Angeles College Wednesday. The site is located on the first floor of the P3 parking structure. “These vaccination sites are just like the many others throughout the state where eligible residents can make appointments to get their COVID vaccine,” Public Information Officer Kevin Jimenez said. Students received an email last Tuesday informing them about the opening site and links for a.m. and p.m. appointments for the three days the site will be active. The Califonia Department of Health, which also runs the COVID-19 testing site that has been active at ELAC since April, will also manager this site. The COVID-19 vaccine is free to everyone.
“The state allocates vaccines to counties and local health jurisdictions which then allocate to providers like ELAC, based on available supply of vaccine.” SAMI GALLEGOS
CDPH Public Information Officer
The site received a limited number of doses. “The state allocates vaccines to counties and local health jurisdictions which then allocate to providers like ELAC, based
website, as of Wednesday, 3,234,989 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in L.A. County with about half of those being second doses. This number is updated weekly. With a population of about 10 million, L.A. County has vaccinated roughly one fifth of its citizens. C O V I D - 1 9 p o s i t i v i t y, hospitalizations and deaths are all in a decline according to data on the L.A. County Public Health website. L.A. County entered the red tier of CA’s “Blueprint for a Safer Economy” last week, allowing for restaurants to maintain an indoor capacity of 25%, K-12 schools to reopen with restrictions, movie theaters, museums and zoos to reopen at 25% capacity and gyms to open at 10% capacity. L.A. County may move into the orange tier in early April if numbers continue to fall.
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ELAC Campus News excels in journalism convention BY CASSIDY REYNA Staff Writer
East Los Angeles College Campus News staff won multiple awards for its performance at this year's Spring National College Media Convention. This year the convention was in collaboration between the Associated Collegiate Press and Journalism Association of Community Colleges. ELAC Campus News was registered as JACC and won four contests. Editor-In-Chief Erica Cortes won fourth place in News layout. Social Media manager Daniella Molina won fourth for her on-the-spot editorial cartoon. Opinion editor and Cartoonist Zasha Hayes won fourth for her editorial cartoon. ELAC Campus News received general excellence in the print edition of the newspaper. Cortes said that winning these awards made her feel proud of the staff and herself as a journalism student. “As far as general excellence, I’m really proud of our team who worked on it [the newspaper] last
semester. I’m very excited to bring that title to our new staff so that they can be inspired and continue that hard work that each member does,” Cortes said. “Each and everyone one of my staff members are doing such a good job of keeping up and having high standards for their work,” Cortes said.
“Campus News is probably one of the best things that has happened to me. The staff is like a second family to me.” ZASHA HAYES
Opinion editor and Cartoonist
With the pandemic and working virtually with staff and high levels of stress from being EIC, Cortes can sometimes lose sight of her goals. Winning fourth place reminded her of her goals.
“Getting fourth place in news layout is a personal achievement of mine because I tend to forget the reason why I’m doing what I'm doing. It’s inspiring for myself, reminding me that Journalism is what I want to do. Designing and layout is one of my favorite parts of being on Campus News,” Cortes said. “Although as editor-in-chief, I don't have much access to do that anymore, knowing I got fourth and placed lets me know that I'm still doing what I love to do,” Cortes said. Zasha Hayes was shocked when winning fourth in the editorial cartoon. “I'd barely looked at the Slack (an app used for communication among teams) and saw a few people tagging me and saying congratulations and I was like, for what? I was scrubbing the carpet when I found out I'd placed, so it was pure surprise and confusion,” Hayes said. Like many students, being on Campus News has impacted Hayes in her path at ELAC while realizing she has another family. “Campus News is probably one of the best things that has happened to me. The staff is like a second family to me. I know I don't speak a lot or put myself out there
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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT—Daniella Molina’s winning cartoon based on
Linsey Davis’ keynote.
News Briefs
Annual Leadership Conference 2021
but, I don't know what I'd be doing if I hadn't taken the required Journalism 101 course,” Hayes said. Daniella Molina was relieved and proud to place in the contest. “I wanted to make sure I was able to capture the perfect way to portray the information from Linsey Davis [keynote speaker]. The theme of the keynote was ‘The journey today of women in Journalism.’ I came up with a women superhero taking action,” Molina said.
Associated Student Union will host a leadership conference called “Leading The Husky Pack” on April 16 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. To register, go to https://laccd.zoom. us/j/93751477666
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DISCRIMINATION STILL EXISTS—Zasha Hayes’s winning cartoon displaying discrimination in America.
“As I remembered Linsey Davis saying "Let's put some action" [behind our intentions.] I was hopeful, but nervous when the awards ceremony started. The overwhelming thought came over me that I would not be able to bring anything back for our team. I am glad we placed in several contests, since there were many entries of each contest,” Molina said. 29 colleges were registered as JACC attendees and 230 students as JACC, totalling to around 7 students from each college participating under JACC. Attendees were able to take part in different workshops that were of
interest. Many workshops based around dealing with COVID and still having to work, and workshops to help with the content of writing. Throughout the three-day convention, there were three keynote speakers. Those who spoke were Linsey Davis from “ABC News Prime Live'' and “World News Tonight” on Sundays. Davis discussed her journey in journalism and how women have to “take action” in their careers on Thursday. Major Garrett the Chief Washington correspondent from CBS News, also spoke about the
Calfresh Workshops for students The ELAC CalFresh team from the LA Food Bank will host multiple workshops to help students with funds for groceries. The workshops will on April 12 11a.m.-12p.m., May 10 2p.m.-3p.m. and June 14 11a.m.-12p.m. https://tinyurl.com/ELAC-calfresh
change of Journalism and politics on Friday. Ashley Parker is a White House reporter from the Washington Post. Parker’s keynote was an informal conversation with the students who attended, she focused on the students and answered any questions they had on Saturday. The three-day convention was informational and benefited all those who attended as many were able to share their experiences and learn new techniques in writing, designing and drawing.
ELAC Health Center meditation sessions
ELAC Health Center will host “Don’t Hesitate, Let’s Meditate” every Wednesday at 4:45-5:15 p.m. Register at: https://linktr.ee/elacshc