Western Michigan University will no longer require masks to be worn outdoors on campus per an email from the WMU COVID-19 Response Coordination Team.
This policy update comes after revised state guidelines no longer require masking at outdoor gatherings of less than 100 people. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced this statewide change which went into effect May 6 through May 31, 2021.
WMU echoes the state outdoor guidelines.
âEffective immediately, the university will no longer require students, faculty, staff or visitors to wear masks outdoors on campus or in WMU-controlled outdoor areas when among fewer than 100 people,â the email reads.
COVID-19 accommodations werenât the only changes to Western Michigan Universityâs campus this school year. Students moved into Arcadia Flats this spring, the brand new apartment complex on Western Michiganâs ring road.Â
Arcadia Flats was the first phase of construction for WMUâs Hilltop Village. The next phase is the new student center expected to be complete in 2022. Below is a guided photo tour of WMUâs newest residence hall. Aya Miller
Arcadia Flats is separated into two wings with 197 units total and the capacity to house 330 students. There are five room layouts within the complex: A loft for $1,200; a studio for $950; two bedroom flat for $800; two bedroom studio for $750 and a four person two bedroom flat for $585.
Jacqueline Smith appointed as member of WMU Executive Board
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The World Maritime University (WMU) announces that Ms Jacqueline Smith, Maritime Coordinator for the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), has been appointed by the IMO Secretary-General to join the WMU Executive Board.
Ms Smith joined the ITF in October 2014 as the Maritime Coordinator. Prior to that, she led the Norwegian Seafarers’ Union (NSU) and its 11,000 members for almost 8 years. She became an active member of the NSU in 1992 as a shop steward, securing a collective bargaining agreement for concessionaries, a first for the Union. In 1998 she was elected as a delegate to congress, then as a deputy on the National Board, immediately followed by being invited to be the Assistant Director dealing with cruise ships in Miami, USA. In 2002 she was asked to stand for election as Secretary, so returned to Oslo, Norway. She was elected NSU President in 2006 and re-elected in 2
A conversation with Ken Freed
“I was a student of printmaking, and there was a French artist, Félix Hilaire Buhot (1847-1898). He started this thing of making these gorgeous prints,” Freed says. “Then he did all kinds of little drawings and things in the margin. I really liked the informality that it brings to prints, having margins in the plate itself that you can write on or draw pictures on. And so I adopted that for this series.”Freed visited the New York studios of Lowell Nesbitt, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Philip Pearlstein, Louise Nevelson, Richard J. Haas, William S. Haney, Stephen Woodburn, Hiroshi Murata, and Robert Indiana. Their studios ranged from the modest to the luxurious. The grandest of all belonged to Nesbitt.