AS Review - June 13, 2016

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Dear Readers, Welcome to the AS Review. We are an alternatively weekly that covers areas of student interest and clubs and events that are hosted by the Associated Students. While there are many other great publications on campus, we seek to fill a niche that the other publications don’t by serving as a voice for the powerless, and providing news and information that is relevant to student interests.

We also think the AS is a really great and fun organization on campus that puts on amazing events throughout the year. Your student dollars help fund these events (and our paper) so we hope that this publication will continue to serve as a resource to help you become more involved with the Western community.

If you’d like to suggest story ideas, write a guest piece, submit a photo or contribute in any other way, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We want to publish pieces that are relevant to you, and we can’t do that without your input.

Thank you for picking up our last paper of the school year, we sincerely enjoyed serving you as the editors of the AS Review.

Alex Bartick and Marina Price, AS Review Editors, 2015-2016

The AS Review is an alternative weekly that provides coverage of student interests such as the AS government, activities and student life. The Review seeks to enhance the student experience by shedding light on underrepresented issues, inclusive coverage, informing readers and promoting dialogue.

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Editor in Chief Assistant Editor Lead Photographer Writers

Marina Price Alexandra Bartick Trevor Grimm Ian Sanquist Becky Campbell Morgan Annable Chris Beswetherick Will McCoy

Adviser Jeff Bates

Western students play with a beach ball at Lawnstock on Saturday, June 4. To see more pictures from Lawnstock turn to page 6. Photo by Trevor Grimm // AS Review

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EVENTS Summer Noon Concert Series 6/29 // 12-1 p.m. // Performing Arts Center Plaza // Free Free outdoor concert every Wednesday (held in the Underground Coffeehouse in case of rain). Visit www.polecatmusic.com for more info on this band.

7/6 // 12-1 p.m. // PAC Plaza // Free Blues artist Wes Mackey performs. Visit www.wesmackey.com.

7/13 // 12-1 p.m. // PAC Plaza // Free Local indie-rock band Sosa performs.

Follow them on facebook at www.facebook.com/sosatheband.

7/20 // 12-1 p.m. // PAC Plaza // Free Bosnian artist Amir Beso performs original Balkan Flamenco Fusion on guitar. check out his music at www. amirbeso.com.

7/27 // 12-1 p.m. // PAC Plaza // Free Seattle-based band Actionesse performs rock-inspired action surf music. Follow them at www.facebook. com/actionesse/

Marrowstone Festival

7/24-8/7 // 8 a.m.-9 p.m. // Performing Arts Center // $15 general admission A two-week long music festival for pre-college and university students.

Concerts are every Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday of the program. Check marrowstone.org for more information.

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Junk M83

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Need Your Light Ra Ra Riot

8/10-14 // 7:30 p.m. // PAC Mainstage // Visit Box Office for ticket prices

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Kaytranada Kaytranada

A hilarious play about nuns putting on a variety show to raise money.

Part of Western’s Summer Theater lineup.

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Can’t Get Enough of Myself Santigold

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Look Out Fine Prince

Downtown Sounds

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American Hippo Bob Fossil

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Red Right Return Lemolo

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Lost Time Taco Cat

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Moderat III Moderat

Nunsense

7/9-8/6 // 5:30-9:30 p.m. // Downtown Bellingham // Free A free weekly concert series of live music every Wednesday starting July 9. Turn to page 8 for more information.

A Little Night Music

8/26-28 // 7:30 p.m. // PAC Mainstage // Visit Box Office for ticket prices A Steven Sondheim musical about tangled relationships and love triangles set over a weekend in the country. The last performance in Western’s Summer Theater lineup.

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Lonesome Dream Lord Huron KUGS is the Associated Students’ student-run radio station. Listen online at kugs.org. If you’re interested in getting on the waves, pick up a volunteer application in the station’s office on the seventh floor of the VU.

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President Bruce Shepard says goodbye to Western

BY WILL MCCOY

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he school year has come to an end, and we all will say goodbye to all the graduating seniors. Everyone on campus will also be saying goodbye to Bruce Shepard, Western’s 13th president. Since 2008, Shepard has expanded and improved Western in several aspects.

One of the first challenges Shepard faced as president was protecting Western’s academic departments from budget cuts during the national recession. Shepard led a campus-wide effort, and successfully protected the university’s academic excellence.

In 2009, Shepard faced another difficult challenge, and had to end Western’s football program due to the increase of athletic expenditures. Although Western lost its football team, other athletic programs remain strong, with numerous teams competing nationally.

Shepard has had some help from his wife, Cindy Shepard, in enhancing Western’s campus. Cindy Shepard is the director of Compass 2 Campus, an award-winning program that encourages at-risk youth to pursue their dreams of higher education. The idea for

Compass 2 Campus started in 2008, and with State Legislature’s support, Cindy Shepard was able to start the program at Western.

Since Shepard started his presidency in 2008, he has enhanced Western’s academic community all over campus. For example, he was a part of transitioning the engineering technology programs into full-fledged programs, as well as strengthening the computer science department to meet state demands.

Shepard has also expanded Western’s campus to the Washington Peninsula. Western has been offering degrees in business, environmental science, computer science and more through Bremerton Olympic College, Poulsbo Olympic College and Peninsula College in Port Angeles.

Western has had strong support from private donors under the leadership of Shepard. In 2014, Western’s Foundation Office started the “Western Stands for Washington” campaign, where they hoped to raise $50 million by 2016. In 2015, Western surpassed their goal and raised $60 million seven months prior to the deadline.

Campus and academic enhancement were not the only things that Shepard was concerned with; he also wanted to diversify the campus. Shepard stated in his inaugural speech “If Western is as white as it is now in a decade, we have

Bruce Shepard // Photo courtesy of Western’s Office of Communication

failed as a university.”

Shepard has continued to say this mantra throughout the years, using his blog posts as an outlet for his ideas.

Through his blog posts, he has been

able to keep a clear line of communication between himself, the student body and the rest of campus. He has written a lot on various uncomfortable topics, and has put the university at ease during tough times.

This past school year, Shepard has talked the campus through some difficult events, like the threats to students via social media. When he made the decision to close the school, Shepard explained his actions in detail through his blog and email. He wanted to reach out to the community on campus and have a conversation about what all happened, and find a way to correct the problems at hand.

Before coming to Western, Shepard spent seven years as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He earned his tenure as a political science professor at Oregon State University and by 1995, he was the provost for Eastern Oregon University.

Western has also spent this past school year looking for a new president.

In April, the board of Trustees named Sabah Randhawa as Western’s 14th president.

Design by Miriam Gootherts // AS Review

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Fun GUR classes offered fall 2016

BY MORGAN ANNABLE

Western offers a myriad of courses that fulfill General University Requirements (GURs). There are so many that it can be difficult to choose between them.

This list highlights a few GUR classes for students to consider.

English Professor Tony Pritchard will teach a course entitled Society Through its Literature: Hoaxes, which counts for five Humanities credits.

Pritchard’s English 238 class will examine the intersection of hoaxes in literature and in mass media that often get out of hand, including study of both Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Balloon Hoax” and the 2009 balloon boy hoax. English 238 is offered Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 11:30 - 12:50. Students will study films as well as texts, and all required materials are available for free online.

Historical linguist Edward J. Vajda teaches one of Western’s most unassuming yet popular GUR courses, Nomads of Eurasia. In the class, students will study the origins, cultures, and languages of the Mongols, the Turks, the native people of Siberia and the North Pacific Rim, and various other Eurasian groups. This fall, Eurasian Studies (EUS) 210 will be offered as an online course.

Compass 2 Campus is a mentoring class that gives Western students the opportunity to mentor grade

school students in their classrooms. C2C 203 awards students BCGM credit. The class, taught by Theresa Kingma, entails service learning as well as academic learning about multi-cultural engagement.

Design 211, taught by Pablo Airth, is a Humanities class entitled Foundations of Visual Communication. The course will focus on the development of visual communication and graphic design, particularly emphasizing typography and print culture. Airth is a designer and art director who has created style guides for a host of films including “Shrek” and “Nacho Libre.”

The Environmental Sciences department offers an intro class that focuses on understanding contemporary ecological problems and how they interact with human society. Students will learn to apply the principles of physics, chemistry, biology, and geology to ecological change. ESCI 101 is offered Tuesday and Thursday from 10 - 11:20 a.m. and is worth three Science GUR credits.

GUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THIS FALL Natural Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning (QSR) is a mouthful of syllables that befudCommunication Natural Sciences dles incoming Western students every year, English 101 and one other Three courses required. until someone tells them that it just means course required.

We recommend ESCI 101: math. However, not all QSR classes are We recommend CommuEnvironmental Studies: A equal. Some are more math-heavy than others, and Introduction to Logic (Philosophy nications 101: Fundamen- Scientific Application.

102) is on the lighter side of the spectrum. tals of Speech.

That by no means implies that it is easy, Social Sciences but it is a good option for some students Quantative and Symbolic 12 credits from at least two for whom math comes less easily. In PHIL 102, students identify and assess reasoning Reasoning departments required. in a variety of contexts using a symbolic Two courses required.

We recommend Anthrolanguage. The class focuses on deductive We recommend Philosophy pology 201: Intro to Culreasoning and how to represent it visually.

102: Intro To Logic. tural Anthropology.

Various anthropology faculty, including Kathleen Saunders, Paul James, and Kathleen Kuba, teach Introduction to CulturHumanities Comparative, Gender, al Anthropology, a Social Science GUR 12 credits from at least two Multicultural course worth five credits. Anthropology 201 departments required.

Two courses required. provides an introduction to the concepts, We recommend Design We recommend Eurasian methods, and practical application of cul211: Foundations of Visual Studies 201: Nomads of tural anthropology. It focuses specifically on examining social and cultural variation beCommunication.

Eurasia. tween various peoples around the world over

time and the reasons behind those variations. This fall, ANTH 201 is offered in two in-class sessions and two online sections.

Another Social Studies GUR course is Economics 206, Introduction to Microeconomics. The economics department is offering eleven sections of this course in the fall, each worth four credits. Intro to Microeconomics introduces students to the modern market economy and how it deals with the problem of scarcity. The class will focus on topics such as decision-making, supply and demand, resource allocation, analysis of various structures, social costs and benefits, and international trade. Math 112, or the equivalent, is required before taking this class.

Students may be able to qualify for this class based on math placement test scores.

Introduction to Linguistics, taught by Kristin Denham, also counts as a five-credit Social Science GUR. It will be offered Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 10 – 11:20 this fall. Denham will introduce her students to the scientific study of language and a variety of subfields such as language acquisition and social contexts of language.

Public speaking is the most common phobia among adults, yet it is a skill required in many fields.

Fundamentals of Speech, a four-credit BCOM class, will teach students how to effectively communicate in various settings. Communications 101 is intended for individuals who have little or no previous experience with public speaking; students with prior experience are advised to take Communications 235 instead.

For more information about GURs and specific courses, speak with an academic advisor. Summerstart students should ask their Academic Student Advisors for help. Returning Western students can contact the Academic Advising Center in Old Main 380 or by calling (360) 650-3850.

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PHOTOS BY TREVOR GRIMM

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Western’s musical and cultural performances from this year PHOTOS BY TREVOR GRIMM

ABOVE: Battle of the Bands. TOP RIGHT: Atlas Genius performs in the VU MPR in April. RIGHT: Rosi performs at the Underground Coffeehouse. BELOW: Student groups show off their talents at annual Culture Shock event.

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Fairhaven Summer Solstice Art Walk Join the local artist community on the longest weekend of the year during Fairhaven’s Summer Solstice Art Walk. On Friday June 17, Fairhaven’s Historic District will become the center for artists to show off their various art exhibits and demonstrations. Each location in Fairhaven participating in this event will have a yellow shining sun flag above their entrance. Several locations will have the artists present so they can discuss their work.

Enjoy a variety of events in Whatcom County this summer

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Fairhaven Summer Solstice Art Walk

Join the local artist community on the longest weekend of the year during Fairhaven’s Summer Solstice Art Walk. On Friday June 17, Fairhaven’s Historic District will become the center for artists to show off their various art exhibits and demonstrations. Each location in Fairhaven participating in this event will have a yellow shining sun flag above their entrance. Several locations will have the artists present so they can discuss their work.

2nd Annual Beer, Blues and Jazz Festival

The second annual Brigadoon Beer, Blues, and Jazz Festival will take place on June 25, at North Bellingham Golf Course. This is an all day event full of music and beer from 30 local breweries.

This is a 21 plus event, and all profits made from the event will go to Brigadoon Service Dogs and Growing Veterans.

GENERAL Birch Bay Waterslides

Birch Bay Waterslides is a great place to cool off during the hot summer. Just 20 miles north of campus, these waterslides are only a 30-minute drive away. This waterpark holds 9 different slides, a whirlpool, as well as plenty of space to lounge in and out of the sun.

Tickets and season passes are available via their website.

Bellingham Bells Games

The Bellingham Bells are a local Baseball team that play through August. The Bells have home games almost every week, and their stadium is just east of I-5. They have summer-long promotional deals like $2 Tuesday, where beer and nacho are $2, and bobblehead giveaways. Fun Fact: Ken Griffey Jr. played for the Bellingham Bells during his Minor League career.

Farmer’s Markets

The Bellingham Farmer’s Market is a great place to spend some time outside and shop locally. With over 100 vendors at the farmer’s market, you are guaranteed to find the groceries, meal or snack you were craving. Bellingham’s Farmer’s Market is open all summer, and runs every Saturday from 10:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. Bellingham is not the only city in Whatcom County with a market, Fairhaven, Blaine, Ferndale, Lummi Island and Lynden all have their own unique markets.

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Bellingham’s Fourth of July Celebration

Each summer, Haggen hosts a Fourth of July celebration at Zuanich Point Park, near the marina.

The day is full of different activities such as a basketball tournament, vendor booths, a beer garden, music and most importantly, fireworks. The event starts at 11:00 a.m. and concludes with fireworks over Bellingham Bay at 10:30 p.m. Get there early to secure a good spot for the live music and fireworks.

J U LY 6 Downtown Sounds

Downtown Sounds is a series of concerts through the month of July starting on July 6.

Bay Street is blocked off every Wednesday for the event, and popular local bands will perform. Boundary Bay will provide a beer garden as well. This will be Downtown Sounds’ 13th year.

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Northwest Raspberry Festival

July is National Berry Month, and also the peak season for raspberry harvesting. In honor of this, Lynden hosts the Northwest Raspberry Festival on the weekend of July 15. Attendees can enjoy downtown Lynden while listening to live music and enjoying local, raspberry-themed food and baked goods. Sidewalk shopping, 3-on-3 basketball tournament and other fun summer activities are also available at this festival.

AU G U S T 21 12 27 Northwest Washington Fair

The Northwest Washington Fair is a classic fair, with livestock judging, local arts and crafts, fair food, nightly live entertainment and even a demolition derby. This fair is located in Lynden, and runs from August 12 - 20.

The Color Run 5k

Want to brighten your summer with some color? Bellingham is hosting another Color Run 5K this year on August 21. This marathon will take you through Bellingham where you will be covered in brightly colored powder along the way. At the end, attendees will arrive at a tropical themed beach party, where music and dancing will finish the day off. Buy tickets now for this event.

Birch Bay Discovery Days

Join the Birch Bay community at the end of August for Birch Bay Discovery Days. During the weekend of August 27, attendees can walk with the annual parade and then look through various artists’ works at the arts and crafts fair. Other popular activities on this weekend are kite flying, clamming and wakeboarding.

Staying active with Morgan Annable

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All-comers track meets at Civic Field

Bellingham Parks and Recreation hosts All-Comers Track and Field Meets throughout the summer. These all-ages events are open to anyone and everyone who wants to give track and field a try.

All-comers meets tend to have a casual, fun atmosphere in which everyone encourages their friends and competitors to get a good workout and have a good time while doing it.

These track meets are held at Civic Field, located at 1355 Civic Field Way just off of Lakeway Drive. There will be a meet every Monday starting on June 13 and ending on August 29 for a total of twelve opportunities to compete.

Running events begin at 6 p.m. with the 50 meter hurdles for children 6 years old and younger. The first race

open to adults is the 100 meter dash at 7 p.m.

Competitors in running events should note that only the first three finishers in each heat (group of people racing at the same time) will be timed.

The first field events are high jump and pole vault, both of which begin at 6:30 p.m. The long jump, a popular all-comers event, begins for adults at 7:30 p.m., as does the triple jump.

Participants in field events will get three attempts at any horizontal jumping event (long jump and triple jump) and three attempts in any throwing event (discus, javelin, and shot put).

For vertical jumping events (high jump and pole vault), competitors are allowed three attempts at each height. If a

participant clears a height, they then move on to the next height, at which they have another three attempts to clear the bar.

The high jump competition will start with the bar at three feet. There will be two pole vault pits operating; one will start at a height of six feet and the other will start at eleven feet.

Bellingham All-Comers meets cost $5 per week. A season pass is $30 for individuals and $90 for families.

Everyone sharing a family pass must reside in the same household.

For more information about All-Comers meets, contact City of Bellingham Recreation Coordinator Lance Romo at (360) 778-7000 or LRomo@cob.org.

On campus this summer? You’re not alone!

Here are some people you might see around campus

BY MORGAN ANNABLE Western’s campus is shared by a wide range of people over the summer. Some are well-acquainted with the area, while others have never set foot here before.

While on campus this summer, please respect everyone’s experience.

Incoming Students We’ve all been there. Summerstart. Or Transitions, for the transfer students of Western. Transitions and Summerstart students make up the largest percentage of people who are on campus during the summer.

If you are here for Summerstart, welcome to Western!

If you are a returning student, smile at our new recruits. Summerstart is many students’ first experience on campus. It can be very nerve-racking and overwhelming, and a friendly face can go a long way.

Their Parents Accompanying many Summerstart students are their parents. These people are stressed out, overwhelmed, and quite possibly lost. If they look like they need help, or if they ask a question you can’t answer, feel free to direct them to the

nearest person wearing a blue polo shirt and a nametag.

Academic Custodial Services (ACS) The invisible and invaluable team of Western custodians use environmentally sustainable products and processes to keep campus functioning smoothly all year.

Instead of using chemicals, they use the Active Ion Cleaning System, which uses electrical charges to temporarily alter tap water and transform it into a chemical-free cleanser. Their commitment to efficiency and sustainability does not stop with products. ACS strives for sustainable methodology as well, using a system they call “team cleaning.”

ACS won the Western Sustainability Award in 2011 for their use of chemical-free cleaning methods. The same year, they received honorable mention in the National Award for Green Cleaning.

Orientation Student Advisors The Orientation Student Advisors, or OSAs, will be wearing blue polo shirts and nametags when they are on duty.

OSAs lead groups of incoming students at Summerstart through icebreaker

activities as well as presentations about campus resources.

OSAs work for New Student Services/ Family Outreach, and they help new students and families have a successful and smooth transition to Western.

When not presenting, the OSAs are stationed around campus doing “friendly directing.” They are available to answer questions and point people in the right direction.

Academic Student Advisors Like the OSAs, the Academic Student Advisors (ASAs) work at Transitions and Summerstart to help incoming students with their transition to life at Western. ASAs lead presentations about General University Requirements (GURs), Classfinder, and other useful resources for students in the academic arena. They also teach incoming students how to register for classes and assist the students while they register.

ASAs also do friendly directing during orientation programs. In general, if you see someone wearing a blue polo shirt, ask them a question. They are happy to help and genuinely appreciate people approaching them to ask for help.

Other People Western hosts a variety of camps, conferences, and tournaments during the summer, and University Residences provide housing accommodations for many of those activities.

A group of middle school and high school woodwind and brass musicians will be on campus for Summerwinds Music Camp in early August to learn to play chamber music. Their final concert will be at 4 p.m. on August 13.

Summer Youth Theater Institute (SYTI) is a drama camp for elementary students. The camp is at the end of June, and their showcase will be on July 2 at 2 p.m.

Individual Viking athletic teams host camps throughout the summer for students of a variety of ages. The students on campus for these sports camps often stay in residence halls and eat in the dining halls.

Students in grades seven through nine will be on camps at various dates throughout the month of July for a camp called Odyssey of Science & Arts. In this program, students will explore science, art, and the intersection of the two through hands-on learning experiences.

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Use all your resources at Wilson Library

BY MORGAN ANNABLE

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ilson Library offers a variety of resources available for all Western students and faculty. In addition to the famous “Harry Potter Room,” Western Libraries provides the following support systems for students: Ask Us The online Ask Us feature is essentially the FAQ portion of the library website. Students can find answers to a plethora of questions or ask their own, which a librarian will then answer. Popular questions include queries about citing various sources in every possible academic format. These questions range from broad (“Where can I get help with citations?”) to specific (How do I format an in-text citation in APA for an article by six or more authors?”) and the answers are concise and accurate.

There are also questions about resources, such as “Where is a paper cutter?” and “Do you have typewriters?” The answers are, respectively, near the Student Technology Center desk on the second level of Haggard Hall, and there is a typewriter room in Wilson 3E. Tutoring Center Located just inside the front doors of Wilson Library, the Tutoring Center offers free drop-in peer tutoring in astronomy, biology, chemistry, decision sciences, economics, geology, math, and physics.

For some classes, there are tutor-led study groups at specific times every week. The Tutoring Center suggests that in order

to make the most of a study group, students should attend class and read all assigned materials and bring specific questions to the study group.

Check the tutoring center website, wwu.edu/tutoring, for more information and details.

Western CEDAR Western has joined a global movement that promotes open access to creative and academic works. Western CEDAR (Contributing to Education through Digital Access to Research) collaborates with the Office of the Provost and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs to advance Western’s commitment to enhance scholarly exploration.

Western CEDAR has created a database of work by students and staff. It includes theses and graduate research, journals, and works organized by department or academic program.

ILLiad All students and staff have access to a multitude of resources from libraries all over the country via Western Libraries’ interlibrary loan service. Through ILLiad, Western can request access to soft copy PDFs as well as hard copies of items including books and DVDs. After submitting a request for a PDF, the document is usually delivered in one or two work days. Books and other loanables tend to take ten to fifteen work days to arrive at Western. Students will be notified via e-mail when their documents arrive.

Wilson Library // Photo courtesy of Western’s Office of Communication

Summit Not to be mistaken with interlibrary loan, Summit is a resource sharing program between 37 libraries in the Orbis Cascade Alliance. To search the Summit catalog for a book or media item, students can simply use the OneSearch bar.

Students may check out books from the alliance for up to six weeks, and media items can be checked out for no longer than six days.

It usually takes between three and five days for a book to arrive at Western when requested through Summit.

Western Libraries 2013-2016 Diversity Plan The Western Libraries Diversity Committee has been working on a diversity plan since 2013. Their original plan outlined a commitment to develop cultural competency in employees through workshops and trainings, complete a variety of projects designed to support and represent all voices on campus, and partner with on-campus and regional organizations to help them achieve their diversity goals.

The committee’s vision states that, “Western Libraries envisions a creative and scholarly community where inclusion is proactive, not an afterthought to be remedied. Practicing inclusion will deepen the Western Libraries’ already considerable contribution to both on-campus and extended scholarly communities, and transform the Libraries into a truly multicultural learning community.” In order to achieve these goals, they have broken their action plan into four areas: recruitment and retention, employee training and development, outreach and instruction, and collections and access.

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Advice from a senior WeAreWWU hosts

BY WILL MCCOY Be comfortable with the struggle, it is good for you Whether you are just starting college or close to the end, you have struggled with balancing your course work, social life and all the other factors in your life. Some people might think that it is the end of the world because of all of this stress. I have been in situations in which everything has come crumbling down all at once. During my junior year at Western, I had a week where I had two projects, two midterms and regular homework assignment due every day.

After that week was over, I had learned a lot about how I deal with stress. When I look back on it, I found a way to organize my life so that I could get all my work done while still having time to relax at the end of the day. I am glad that I struggled through that week because I came out stronger and more confident in myself.

scholarship fundraiser

BY BECKY CAMPBELL

On May 21 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Boundary Bay, the WeAreWWU scholarship fund organization held an all-ages fundraiser to raise money for future scholarships. The WeAreWWU fund is dedicated to spreading the cause of accessible philanthropy through scholarships given to students in the Communication Studies department.

Started by Heather Davidson, a professor in the department of Communication Studies at Western, this scholarship is available to any students who are Use your resources Western’s campus is full of resources to help you cruise through college with ease. declared pre-major, minor or major students in the Communication Studies department. According to Davidson, the main ideal in the organization is that If you need help with a specific class or writing a paper, Western offers a tutoring of accessible philanthropy for students who need help in funding their educacenter as well as a research and writing center, both located in the library.

The combination of living in the dorms and the winter months in Washington can tion. The main call for this scholarship came when students saw a need for a scholarship after the number of freshman applicants for the 2015-2016 school cause you to get sick, but you will still need to go to school. The Health Center is a year increased by 35 percent. great place to call in and get a quick appointment.

The fund is set up so that any student or alumni, no matter their economic If you are about to leave college and have no clue what is next, the Career Services level, will be able to contribute in grassroots donation sizes. The fund requests Center can help you. They can help create and refine a resume, as well as help you $60 per year per contributor to help add up to the thousands of dollars they find the perfect job right out of college. hoped to raise as part of the event at Boundary Bay. Your teachers themselves are another great resource. Every teacher has office The night included food, games, and live music with a special guest perforhours set up for students to come in and clarify things from class. Not only can you mance by local bands, Bob Fossil and The Forgotten 45’s as well as live enget your questions answered, you can start to build a solid relationship with your tertainment from Associated Students clubs including the WWU Sin-ha and teachers which makes them willing to help you out more.

WWU Swing Kids. Raffle prizes were available to attendees with tickets starting Everyone is lost, you are not alone at $1 each and included prizes from local businesses including Boundary Bay, Choosing a major is something everyone has a mini panic attack about. Everyone The Loft, Mallard Ice Cream, The Comics Place, Pickford Film Center, The Upis different, front Theatre, Five Columns Restaurant and Village Books. A full list of local and everyone has a different experience in college. For some, they come into community sponsors can be found on the WeAreWWU website. In addition to college already set on a path. These people already know their major and what they these sponsors, tickets to Sasquatch music festival and Mariners games were want to do with their lives. also being raffled off to raise money for the scholarship.

If you are like me, you spent your first two years of college not knowing what you The idea for this particular scholarship started with a service learning projecwant to pursue. At first I wanted to be a teacher, then I thought geology was sometion in the Communication and Fundraising (COMM 308) course in spring of thing I would be better at, and finally I chose to major in Communication Studies.

I was finally accepted into the Communication Studies program and the end of my 2015 and has continued to be part of the Communication Studies department junior year. It took me almost three years to figure out what I wanted to do, but I do every quarter since.

“WeAreWWU shows the impact that students can have both on campus and not regret how long it took me. I had a great journey along the way because I experiin the Bellingham community. I think students should keep an eye out and be enced a whole range of majors. involved in WeAreWWU because it is a great experience and has such a great impact,” said Nikki Shapiro, an original class and team member for the WeAreDo not be afraid to branch out WWU scholarship fund.

During my first two years of indecision, I decided to enroll in GUR classes to get This event was attended by more than 250 people and raised over $8,000 in those requirements out of the way. Because I had no clue what my major was going support of Western students. Members of the inaugural WeAreWWU Crew to be, I branched out and took classes from a variety of departments. I took a class (including Shapiro) were also at the event to celebrate the continuation of their on the art and science of food, a class about surveillance and voyeurism, and even a work from last spring. class through Fairhaven college dealing with world issues. Although none of these Portions of the money raised by the scholarship fund will also go towards classes sparked my interest to pursue their respective majors, I still learned a lot a general recruitment scholarship at the university to bring in a more diverse about different important topics through all of them. student body that can be part of Western’s educational programs.

If you are like me, and have no clue what major you want to pursue, spend a couTo find out more about the WeAreWWU scholarship, visit their website at ple of quarters taking classes that you would never see yourself taking. You might http://www.wearewwu.com. learn something new about the world, or even yourself, that could point you in the right direction.

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The Outback Farm is a student-run, experimental, hands on learning project where Western students and Bellingham community members can get their hands in the dirt and learn about Pacific Northwest gardening, conversation and restoration. The farm was founded in 1972 and is located in between the Fairhaven dorms and Buchanan Towers on the south end of campus. In the 1920s the farm was June and Farrar Burn’s homestead. Fairhaven students started using the Outback for educational purposes in the 1980s.