Esther Mejia and Kelly Merchant had a question Friday afternoon for their professors: Where were you?<\/p>\n
The UC Riverside public policy students were among the likely hundreds of thousands in California who lost access to the all-important academic software Canvas when it was brought down by a hacker group Thursday afternoon. Losing Canvas meant losing assignments, tests and required reading material along with a way to communicate with instructors. The timing was especially bad for UC students, who were hunkering down for midterms or finals.<\/p>\n
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