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ccclarion.com Volume LXXV • Issue 13 May 3, 2022
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Many students took to the COVID-19 testing site at the Haugh Performing Arts Center on May 2 due to required weekly COVID testing now be implemented after spring break.
Lines expand as trust falls The weekly COVID-19 test will be strictly enforced as students get surprising red alert
BY ANTHONY ROSSI
STAFF REPORTER
AROSSI@CCCLARION.COM
Every week, students are expected to take a COVID-19 rapid test as a prerequisite for being on campus. For the first time on May 2, that expectation was strictly enforced. On May 2, students filled out the daily pre-screening feature like any other day. The difference for some was instead of being given a green check for
clearance, they were halted with a red exclamation point for lack of weekly testing. The result does not constitute a change in policy, but rather a strict implementation of it. “I think people were seeing a relaxation of all the COVID requirements and we kind of got into this false sense of security,” head of the Citrus College COVID-19 workgroup Robert Sammis said. “(The thought) was that there was this decline in COVID but in fact case numbers
are going up again.” In past weeks, weekly COVID-19 testing was softly enforced with the hope students would fill out the pre-screening truthfully and receive their weekly COVID-19 test, Sammis said. Spring break marked a shift in that attitude, Chief Informations Services Officer and COVID-19 workgroup member Robert Hughes said. Hughes said Student Health Services directed his
department to give red non-pass marks to students after spring break. This mark was absolved when the student received their first weekly COVID-19 test since returning from break. “Testing is important for all of us so that we are limiting the potential exposure on the campus,” Sammis said. Lines for weekly testing on May 2 were much longer than in past weeks, partly due to this change in enforcement. Students and faculty were
not notified of the influx of red passes given to students who had not tested by May 2. There was not a notification because students should not be marking they have been tested for the week if they have not been tested, Sammis said. For the remainder of the semester, testing will be required and checked at the beginning of the week. The COVID-19 workgroup will decide if testing will be required for future semesters, Sammis said.
Low attendance, postponed meeting ASCC cancels meeting with no president and prior to the upcoming election BY MARK SNOW
MANAGING EDITOR
MSNOW@CCCLARION.COM
Close to the upcoming student leadership election, the Associated Students of Citrus College was unable to hold its April 26 meeting. The next meeting will not be held until May 3, one day after voting starts for new ASCC leadership. The ASCC was supposed to hold a vote to elect a new president to finish the 2021-2022 school year and finalize the 2022-2023 budget. “It is really important that your fellow student leaders are here
Tuesday,” ASCC adviser and Dean of Students Maryann TolanoLeveque said to the ASCC student officers. “Just because, election for ASCC president and then also your budget. So, if you can encourage each other to be here, we need at least four people (officers) to conduct business.” The three officers in attendance were student trustee Taylor McNeal, senator Hala Fakhoury, and legislative liaison Arvin Shahid. Daniel Caldera, the ASCC former president, resigned April 6 due to personal problems, ASCC adviser
“We just recently had in-person meetings. This was supposed to be our second one.”
Hala Fakhoury
ASCC Senator
and Student life supervisor Rosario Garcia said. ASCC is responsible for overseeing many student affairs,
ILLUSTRATION BY MARK SNOW
Inside n ASCC president resigns:
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n ASCC election this week:
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and the budget shows what the income and expenses are for the 2022-2023 academic year. The ASCC budget that was moved to the next meeting shows items such
as service fees that students pay totaling $314,244 and expenses such as salaries totaling $284,928, according to the April 26 ASCC agenda. “We just recently had in-person meetings,” Fakhoury said. “This was supposed to be our second one.” Fakhoury said that other than having a canceled meeting, ASCC has had a successful term. McNeal said that the incoming ASCC officers will have real input from the Citrus College board.
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