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Extreme burnout, high number of resignations and turnover within the Western Student Association are all signs of a toxic organization culture per newly elected President Alexis Morris and Vice President Eric Effinger.Â
A main theme of the debates held by WSA during the 2021 presidential election was the toxic organization culture present within WSA.Â
âItâs kind of always been there and itâs something that we havenât necessarily seen addressed at least in my current time as a student,â Morris said. âItâs the very reason that I avoided joining student government. It was just the dog eat dog world.â
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WMU held a Year in Review town hall, hosted by WSA. Chloe Miller, News Editor
A new faculty diversity and inclusion training bill was passed by the Western Student Association during the April 21 legislation meeting.
The bill called for the establishment of mandatory diversity and inclusion training for all Western Michigan University faculty and staff. It was created as a starting point towards eliminating the relationship between systemic racism and higher education.
WSA members realized that staff diversity training was not previously mandatory after seeing the civil unrest that occurred during the summer of 2020 and recent campus vandalisms related to race.
Western Michigan Universityâs Western Student Association passed a resolution during their April 7 meeting in support of removing the tax on feminine hygiene products with unanimous consent.
The resolution was written by WSAâs counterparts at Michigan State University, with a goal to have similar resolutions passed across all student governments in Michigan.Â
âAccess to menstrual products is something that WSA has worked on in the past,â said Vice President for Political Affairs Emma Barratta. âWe have an RSO on campus, (Broncos) Period at WMU has previously worked with us to get access to menstrual products for free across campus, so this was our opportunity to voice support as students.â