GOOD NEWS: If you're 16+ and need a vaccine, come get your first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at Circuit of the Americas this weekend. No appointment is necessary. People aged 16 or 17 need to have a parent or guardian present. 🚙
Hours for this weekend are 10am-3pm on 4/24-4/25.
Join UThink, Students Fighting Climate Change, and Nueces Mosque at an Earth Day celebration this afternoon! Stop by the UT Tower for t-shirt printing, a free yoga class at 2 pm, and dancing and drums!
New: Initial tuition payments are now $1,500 for Texas residents and $5,000 for non-residents.
Originally, the payments to secure registration were half of tuition.
Undergraduate tuition will now be due the day financial aid is released, rather than before.
@thedailytexan
TW: Anti-Asian hate crimes.
With an influx in Anti-Asian hate crimes and the recent Atlanta shooting, Asian American students and professors at UT discuss a long yet hidden history of xenophobia in their communities.
https://t.co/pkkjqvk3W5
🎴 UPDATE: We extended the eviction moratorium order in Travis County & the City of Austin until May 1.
These eviction protections ensure the health and safety of our community while we work to rapidly vaccinate our entire county.
GOOD NEWS: The court upheld our order to follow our local health authority’s mask requirement in Travis County and the City of Austin.
Thank you to our County Attorney Delia Garza and her team for their work. @DGTCAttorney
#MaskUpTravisCo
“People were experiencing things, especially early on, that were very much this racialization of being Asian as contagion, where just existing in public while Asian was kind of seen as a threat to some people,” — @amzhng
https://t.co/jst1wNr0wS