THE BEGINNING OF THE END Marking one year of online learning during the coronavirus pandemic.
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A.S. candidates begin campaigns By Madilynne Medina STAFF WRITER
Almost exactly one year after classes transitioned to online learning, San José State’s Associated Students launched its second year of remote elections on Monday. During the “Meet the Candidates” event, hosted by the A.S. Student Elections Committee, more than 60 students attended to interact with candidates in three rounds of Zoom breakout rooms and two
SJSU themed trivia games with prizes. Brenda Le, A.S. events officer and business administration junior, said the event exceeded the committee’s expectations. “The difficulties we anticipated before the event [were] getting students to come, such as regular students other than the candidates,” Le said in a Zoom call. There are 22 candidates running for positions on the A.S. board, with
This year has a lot of great candidates. Last year the turnout was lower as many dropped out due to the pandemic. Flor Sario A.S. controller
six running unopposed and one position with no current candidates. Flor Sario, a business administration senior and A.S. controller, said the candidate turnout is significantly
greater compared to last year’s election. “This year has a lot of great candidates,” Sario said during the event. “Last year the turnout was lower as many dropped out due to the pandemic.”
Le said the event’s format allowed students to speak up, get to know each other and also provided incentives to encourage more people into attending future events. The c om m itt e e offered prizes for trivia activities and attendance including a Best Buy gift card, Nirvana Soul gift card, AirPods and a Nintendo Switch. Industrial and systems engineering senior Alyssa Carlos said she was pleased the event
allowed her to discuss important topics with candidates directly and voice changes she wants to see on campus. “I thought there would be more candidates introducing themselves and it would be lecture style, but it was really interactive,” Carlos said in a Zoom call. “In a few breakout rooms we had really good conversations about what we wanted CANDIDATES | Page 2
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Single-shot vaccine arrives in county By Bryanna Bartlett NEWS EDITOR
Santa Clara County received 7,500 doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine on March 8 and is scheduled to receive a more on March 23. The Santa Clara County Public Information Officers (PIO) team said vaccination appointments were stalled during the first two weeks of March because a low number of Moderna and Pfizer vaccines were allocated to the county. “It is great news to have another highly effective COVID-19 vaccine in our arsenal,” representatives from the PIO team stated in an email. Vaccines are delivered to the county weekly and the number of doses vary depending on what the state supplies. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is administered in a singular dose for ages 18 and older,
Johnson & Johnson vaccine if it was available for him today. “The more vaccines that are out in the supply chain, the more people receive the vaccines, the faster we can return to some resemblance of normalcy,” Clark said in a phone call. As of Tuesday, 393,860 county residents have received at least one vaccine and 207,969 residents have completed their vaccination dosages, according to the SCC vaccination dashboard. About 13% of residents 16 years and older are completely vaccinated, but the county must vaccinate 85% of residents to achieve herd immunity. The PIO team said the county health department Jacob Clark will soon learn more about the upcoming graduate student doses it’s expected to receive, but the team is hopeful the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be a great according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration step forward. Johnson & Johnson vaccine fact sheet. “It is an important tool for helping to end the San Jose State graduate student Jacob Clark VACCINE | Page 2 said there is “no question” he’d take the
Maybe [there hasn’t yet been] enough time to get through the bureaucracy of the FDA but I very much would rather take a vaccine that I know 50,000 people took and had very little harmful side effects than get COVID-19.
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