On Aug. 26, the Biden Administration announced a three-part plan to provide loan forgiveness to millions of students and graduates around the country. According to Forbes, student debt totals an estimate of $1.75 trillion, attributed to around half the population.  The debt forgiveness plan will...

CEASEFIRE IN ETHIOPIA The Ethiopian federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front reached an agreement on March 25. According to The New York Times the ceasefire comes after 17 months of fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.  They declared the truce in the interest of delivering...

ENROLLMENT FREEZE AT UC BERKELEY University of California Berkeley will cut as much as one-third of their incoming fall class. According to the Los Angeles Times the cap on enrollment eliminates just over 3,000 spots for students hoping to enroll at Berkeley next fall. The cap was implemented as an...

REDUCED HOSPITALIZATIONS COVID-19 hospitalizations in Los Angeles County are on a downward trend, dropping from 3,233 to 2,841 as of Feb. 7. The L.A. Public Health Department reported 7,017 new cases on Feb. 6. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said 82% of eligible...

On Oct. 2, thousands flooded the streets of Los Angeles in defense of reproductive rights during the Women’s March. Across the nation, roughly 600 demonstrations took place to protest the Texas abortion law allowed by the Supreme Court.  LOS ANGELES PROTEST As activists and protesters took to the...

After being sworn into office on Jan. 20, President Joe Biden has reversed several Trump-era regulations. These executive actions taken by Biden over his first six days established changes to immigration policies, environmental protections and most recently scrapped a Trump administration policy on the...

With former Vice President Joe Biden projected to win the presidency, he will take office in the middle of a pandemic that has plagued the United States for most of this year. While hope is on the horizon with the promising trials of Pfizer’s vaccine, we still have a long way to go before COVID-19...

Biola’s journalism department met via Zoom last night during the election. The panel, dubbed ‘Election night with the profs”, allowed students to analyze news coverage and hear from alumni guest speakers. Journalism professors Tamara Welter, Michael Kitada, Stewart Oleson and Michael Longinow...

This article is being updated with new information as it comes in. Throughout this semester, Biola has informed students of ways they can engage in their civic duties through chapels, emails and newsletters. But as the race comes to an end, Biolans all around the world come together to watch the new...