Western Today for Monday, June 1

One for the thumb - WWU rowers take fifth straight NCAA title

See story below and photo gallery on the WWU home page for more.

Wisconsin report chaired by Bruce Shepard wins national acclaim

The Wisconsin Governor’s Report on Campus Safety’s Final Report, produced by a task force co-chaired by Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard while he was still at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, has won an award from Library Journal as one of the best government documents of 2008. For more, see FAST Online.

Western Libraries seeking feedback on its strategic plan

Western Libraries is engaged in a strategic planning process this year to develop a three-year plan aligned with the university’s strategic initiatives. This plan will guide the library in its expenditures and actions throughout the budget crisis.

Students, faculty and staff from various areas of campus were involved in the process, and broader input and feedback is now being sought. The plan is available here, and comments are being taken on Viking Village until June 5. Let them know what you think!

EOO policies on 30-day review

The Equal Opportunity Office has posted for 30-day campus review the following policies:

POL-U1600.02 Providing Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination
POL-U1600.03 Accommodating Persons with Disabilities
POL-U1600.04 Preventing Sexual Harassment
POL-U1600.05 Implementing Affirmative Action Program

The four policies listed above were revised and pulled from one larger document. They have been reformatted to fit the Peabody style of policy writing that Western uses and are much more easily accessible on the university policy website in this new format. For more, see FAST Online.

The Bellingham Herald

WWU rowers take fifth straight title
Even inexperience couldn't stop the Western Washington University women's rowing team. Despite half the rowers in their two shells being freshmen, the Vikings claimed their fifth consecutive national title, winning the 2009 NCAA Division II national championship Sunday, May 31, on the Cooper River. It is the first time that a team in any NCAA rowing division has won five straight titles since the NCAA began a rowing championship in 1997.
WWU prof explores women who wrote about their daring deeds
Laura Laffredo, a professor of English at Western Washington University, is a specialist in early literature and culture and a past winner of WWU's Excellence in Teaching Award.
She shares her book, "Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing," at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, at Village Books.
WWU offering summer course to Ghana
Western Washington University is offering a travel course to Ghana, and anyone interested is welcome to apply.
The course, "Financial Capital and Social Justice," is billed as giving students an understanding of the social implications of moving financial capital from developed countries to undeveloped countries. The trip, led by WWU Department of Management instructor Craig Mayberry, will include visits to communities impacted by World Bank and International Monetary Fund projects, trips to national parks and meetings with local and international foundations.
Nobel leaureate coming to WWU to discuss the housing bubble
Nobel laureate Vernon L. Smith will come to Western Washington University's campus to discuss a precursor to the economic crisis in a presentation titled "The Housing Bubble that Engulfed the Economy, 1997-2006: Parallels with the 1920s."
The presentation is free and open to the public, and will take place at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 5, in Fraser Hall 3.

Everett Herald

New rules tighten once-friendly border
Occasional day-trippers and frequent travelers alike will face a historic change at one of the world's longest borders on Monday: As the summer travel season begins, new requirements to enter the United States from Canada by land or sea take affect. The changes, originally scheduled for January 2008, mean travelers can't get into the United States with a typical driver's license or birth certificate anymore.
Don Alper, who studies border relations between the two countries at Western Washington University, said some Canadians are upset about the change. He called it symbolically important.
"It sends a message about something," he said. "That message can be you're not as welcome as you once were."

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