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Every Day is Magic: Ada Limón

In her 2015 collection, Bright Dead Things, a National Book Award finalist for poetry, Ada Limón writes of moving to Kentucky: “Confession: I did not want to live here.” It’s perhaps not a surprising sentiment coming from a coastally oriented person who was raised in Northern California, attended college in Seattle, and then spent over a decade in New York City.

But Limón and her husband, Lucas, have been in Lexington for seven years now and the effects of settling into this place are noticeable in her new book, The Carrying (Milkweed, Aug.). It’s a phenomenally lively and attentive collection replete with the trappings of living a little closer to nature. While Bright Dead Things is marked by a preponderance of light, such as images of fireflies and neon signs, The Carrying features numerous appearances by various trees, birds, and beetles. Limón also demonstrates a greater willingness to be explicit in naming colors, particularly green. “It’s crazy green, the whole book,” she says. “Lexington is the greenest place I’ve ever lived.” Similarly, where in Bright Dead Things, Limón tells a lot of stories and anecdotes, in The Carrying she is very present in her thoughts and experiences.

As it turns out, these shifts in focus have another, altogether unexpected source. While putting Bright Dead Things together, Limón was diagnosed with chronic vestibular neuronitis, which can cause bouts of vertigo. “If I’m really having vertigo, it’s pretty intense and I really have to focus,”
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Opinion: Use of standardized tests in admissions decisions amplifies inequities

Published September 30, 2020 | By admin

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“The University of California regularly professes its mission of equality.

But when it comes to admissions, the University needs the courts to remind them what it means to follow through on these promises.

On Aug. 31, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brad Seligman ruled the UC can no longer use SAT or ACT scores in admissions or scholarship decisions.

The verdict comes more than three months after the UC announced its decision to introduce a “test-optional” policy for fall 2021 and fall 2022 and is the culmination of a nine-month-long lawsuit challenging the University’s use of the SAT and ACT in admissions decisions. The court ruled that the University’s use of standardized tests may violate the Americans with Disabilities Act because disabled students have almost no access to test-taking sites as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, leaving them at a severe disadvantage…”

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Mexican American Proarchive Annual Report for 2022

The American Community Survey is an annual survey administered by the federal government to help local officials and community leaders and businesses understand the changes that take place in their communities. It includes percentages of our population’s graduate school attainment and the employment of Mexican Americans in various occupations. These important factors influence the allocation of federal resources. Mexican American Proarchives uses the data provided by the American Community Survey to better understand how Mexican Americans compare to the general population.