By Mallory Biggar and Lauren Gallup On April 26, the Associated Students Executive Board heard proposals to create a Blue Resource Center and an advisory committee for food and housing insecurity. The board also addressed an anti-waste tax referendum, and funding the Queer Guild Summit on April 19. […]
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Kay Ulanday Barrett speaks at a poetry reading at the Western Washington University Perfoming Arts Center on Thursday, April 18. // Photo by Julia Vasallo By Julia Vassallo As the lights of the Douglas Underground Theater in the Performing Arts Center stage dimmed and the audience grew quiet, […]
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Illustration by Shannon DeLurio By Bryant Hill Candidates for the Associated Students Executive Board of 2019-2020 sat amongst each other for a two-hour forum hosted by Young Democrats of WWU on Thursday, April 18. AS Executive Board elections will open Monday, April 29 and will last through May […]
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Illustration by Cole Sandhofer By Jordan Burrell Campaign season has hit Western’s campus for the Associated Students Executive Board election. The candidates in the running for next year’s positions were officially announced on Friday, April 12. AS Executive Board elections will open April 29 and will last through […]
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Photo by Esther Chong By Colin Murphy On Monday, April 8, Western’s Faculty Senate addressed the use of racial slurs in the classroom and its relation to academic freedom, holding an open discussion intended to gather the opinions of faculty and guests. The senate brought a mediator to […]
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By Claudia Cooper The Associated Students Board of Directors passed a motion prohibiting AS board members from using their personal social media accounts to campaign for the upcoming recall election at their weekly board meeting on Friday, Jan. 25. The recall election will begin at 8 a.m. on […]
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Students ask questions to during a sit-in on Tuesday to protest the administration’s response to racist graffiti appearing on campus. The students waited for three hours until President Randhawa appeared to answer their questions. // Photo by Oliver Hamlin By Julia Berkman In 2015, several students made racist […]
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Illustration by Julia Berkman By Simon Thomas The Legislative Affairs Council has begun drafting Western’s newest legislative agenda. Associated Students Vice President for Governmental Affairs Natasha Hessami spoke in-depth about several of the proposed items on the Lobby Day agenda at the AS Board meeting on Nov. 16. Legislative […]
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Members from the Associated Students Queer Resource Center proudly display signs and sport colors advocating the nationally-observed Transgender Awareness Week from the ledge of the Red Square fountain on Tuesday, Nov. 15. // Photo by Brooke Wilson By Brooke Wilson Students, faculty and local volunteers encircled the fountain […]
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Illustration by Julia Berkman By Simon Thomas Students for Zero Waste made a proposal to the Associated Students Board to vote on a resolution to support implementing a permanent ban on the sale of plastic water bottles on campus. There are currently no plastic water bottles sold on […]
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