In Photos | A Campus Deserted
March 17, 2020 at 12:51 pm
Yesterday, UC Santa Barbara’s winter quarter finals week began – a period of time that normally sees a packed library, a crowded Arbor and students running around campus, looking for scantrons and Blue books.
But instead, three days after Chancellor Yang announced that spring quarter would be conducted entirely online, the campus appeared nearly deserted. Some students living in the residence halls severed their leases with the university and moved out of the dorms; empty bike racks and classrooms signified how seriously students were taking the warnings to move home and stay inside amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
Photos by Nexus photographers Max Abrams and Sophia Lowell.
just lots of the lowest paid workers still working on campus
Yes we still providing services on campus if you care so much to comment on the lowest paid full time employees why not do something about are situation.
Correction we are still providing services.
What is there to do about the situation of being forced to work while being put at risk? Our union has done nothing. You are so quick to critique but have nothing of substance to say
I believe the point the OP was trying to make is “hey, look – everyone is taking off and sheltering at home, but the UC is expecting the folks who are paid the least to be working and exposing themselves.”
I take this to mean that the lowest paid workers are the most essential workers.
The next time you see someone from the custodial staff or buildings and grounds, please thank them for their valuable work. Every day they help keep the campus safe, clean and beautiful.
Everyone needs to leave and stay gone. Go home!!
Currently reading Amish society by John a. Hostetler and it brings back the east coast…