Today’s Briefing:
UNIVERSITY DISCUSSES COVID-19 POLICY CHANGES AT TOWN HALL: In a virtual town hall hosted by the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) on March 15, Dean of the College Jill Dolan, Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun, and other University administrators discussed changes to COVID-19 policies as students return to campus from spring break. Changes include the lifting of the mask mandate and the shift from weekly testing to monthly testing for the rest of the Spring 2022 semester.
“We need to find a way to live with [COVID-19] responsibly in a way that is allowing the types of experiences that we want to have on our campus,” Vice President for Environmental Health and Safety Robin Izzo said.
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COVID-19 DASHBOARD REPORTS POST-SPRING BREAK DECLINE IN POSITIVE CASES: In the wake of new changes to the University’s masking and asymptomatic testing policies, the University COVID-19 dashboard has now been updated to include more figures. The latest updates indicate that the campus positivity rate fell to 1.25 percent, an approximately 48 percent decrease relative to the 2.40 percent positivity rate reported during the week before spring break ending on March 4. The University has circulated the message of “Masks optional. Compassion required” to encourage students to withhold judgment about their peers’ decisions regarding masking in indoor settings in light of the optional face covering policy, which went into effect on Monday, March 14.
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FAMILY, FRIENDS MOURN THE LOSS OF ABRAHAM JOSHUA ’21: On March 2, Abraham Joshua ’21, known affectionately among loved ones as ‘Abe,’ was killed in a collision on his way to work. At Princeton, Joshua majored in chemistry, a passion of his since high school, and was teaching at Mission Preparatory School in San Francisco through Teach for America. In his anthology “Reflections," he wrote that eventually he hoped to go to medical school. A scholarship was started by the head of Mission Preparatory School and the Joshua family.
“Abe will continue to be an inspiration, as those who knew him remember all he achieved and contributed during his short life,” his family stated in an announcement introducing the scholarship.
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