Shae Hammond

Shae Hammond, a senior at California State University Northridge, was relaxing on her front porch after returning from a weekend camping trip in September when she got an unexpected text from her roommate, Jen Martinez. Martinez’s boyfriend — who had recently been in the women’s apartment — had contracted COVID-19. The first thing to run […]

Lea este artículo en español. Last March, when state and local officials issued stay-at-home orders to contain the coronavirus pandemic, California’s college campuses became ghost towns. Life for many students assumed a new cadence, in which the need for safety eclipsed the pleasures of the college experience. A year later, feelings of distance ⁠— from friends, […]

Read this article in English.       El pasado marzo, cuando los funcionarios estatales y locales emitieron órdenes de quedarse en casa para contener la pandemia de coronavirus, los campus universitarios de California se convirtieron en pueblos fantasmas. La vida de muchos estudiantes asumió una nueva cadencia, en la que la necesidad de seguridad eclipsó los placeres de […]