Elina Lingappa, Author at CalMatters

Members of law enforcement close the entrance of Palo Alto High School after it went into lockdown due to a phone threat in 2017. LiPo Ching/Bay Area News Group

Private colleges want more power to police trespassers. Here’s what you need to know.

by Elina Lingappa May 31, 2022May 31, 2022

Private colleges want to change rules for how police respond to trespassing on campus. Students worry the proposal could lead to racial profiling.

The pandemic taught Omar Zintan Mwinila-Yuori, a senior at Pomona College in Claremont, the value of friendships.

California’s new grads share lessons learned from college in a pandemic

by Carolyn Kuimelis, Elina Lingappa, Itzel Luna, Emily Margaretten and Omar Rashad May 19, 2022May 20, 2022