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WSU administration discloses more details about fall classes
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Courses will be taught in a mixture of face-to-face instruction, distance learning and online. Students are encouraged to develop their personal methods of organization to prepare for fall.
Courses will be conducted through a HyFlex model; all courses to be taught via distance learning after Thanksgiving break
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By Loren Negron Evergreen reporter
all instruction will incorporate different types of teaching models, and students will be expected to follow specific classroom protocols to ensure the safety of other students and instructors. “These are evolving. We monitor the public health situation constantly,” said Mary Wack, vice provost for academic engagement and student achievement. “There are a few things still remaining to be worked up.” HyFlex model
Wack said fall instruction will be conducted through a HyFlex model. This model is a combination of hybrid, distance, online and face-toface courses. Hybrid courses are a mixture of face-to-face and distance learning. For distance learning, the class’ pattern is maintained but is taught remotely. Online classes, on the other hand, are specifically through WSU’s Global Campus. These classes are specifically designed to be completed anywhere, anytime. Classes with more than 50 students will be taught through a distance learning approach. Classes that have fewer than 50 students can be taught via distance delivery under certain conditions, Wack said. If a course cannot be taught safely face-to-face or if the in-
structor is in a high-risk category, the faculty member would have to teach via distance delivery. Wack said course space, like classroom size and organization, is another condition that is considered in deciding whether or not a course should be taught face to face. “Another situation might be where the course space cannot be safely used under the conditions that we need,” she said. This includes conditions where students cannot maintain 6 feet of distance from each other in a room, Wack said. Some smaller labs will be taught virtually due to these space considerations. However, there are other labs that have found a way to make face-to-face in-
Restructure WSU parking Parking, transportation at WSU needs to be reformed, reexamined
By Sarah Daniels Evergreen columnist
As a commuting college student, I can’t help but hear and feel WSU students’ frustration at the cost of WSU parking permits. There is certainly a lot of — I believe — understandable animosity toward WSU Transportation Services and a lot of things are problematic. But there are a lot of things that may explain why permits cost so much, which aren’t outwardly obvious. I want to first explain the way WSU Transportation Services functions. They are a separate business entity from WSU – they do not receive federal, state, grant or tuition funding. All of their funding for projects like building new garages, parking lot maintenance and operations comes from parking fees and fines. Their website details just how much it costs per parking space: anywhere from $8,000 for gravel spaces to an upwards of $76,000 per garage space. These spaces also incur $25 to $125 per year per Read online HERE
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WSU student confronts reality of being bisexual, biracial woman
Student talks about microaggressions, allyship, intersection of race, gender sexuality
Vendors gathered last weekend in a scaled-back Fiber Festival By Sydney Brown Evergreen reporter
By Jayce Carral Evergreen reporter
Finding accepting people and an accepting community who acknowledge her as a multifaceted being is something Samantha King-Shaw, a biracial and bisexual woman, has been working on for a while now. “Once I was introduced to sexuality as a spectrum … That was when it clicked,” said Samantha, senior majoring in women’s gender and sexuality studies with a minor in queer studies. Looking back, Samantha said she probably had childhood crushes on characters like Violet from The Incredibles, but she did not have the words to explain how or what she was feeling. As she grew in her hometown of Sparks, Nevada, Samantha said she learned the words “gay” and “lesbian.” She knew she liked boys, so she was not lesbian, but she also liked girls. She said she did not learn the word “bisexual” until she was much older. “Bisexual,” she said. “It was the first word I latched onto that made sense for me.” In high school, Samantha did not date girls or boys; she did not date anybody. However, she said she knew people made assumptions about her. “I was definitely the friend that parents thought their daughter was secretly dating,” she said. “Only in a very stereotypical sense, I wore kind of gender-ambiguous clothing.”
Grazing Hill reflects on socially distant Fiber Festival
don’t get to make that assumption.” Samantha said she continued to think about her gender and sexuality while at WSU. Sometimes she likes feeling a little fluid in her gender identity, she said especially in regards to gender presentation, which
Fleece artisans and local vendors brought handmade creations to Viola, Idaho, for the second annual Grazing Hills Fiber Festival this past weekend, hosted by the Grazing Hills Alpaca Ranch. Owner Katie DeWinkle said it was the first large event for Grazing Hill this year. “It was kind of like a little family reunion,” DeWinkle said. Masks were encouraged but not required, and hand sanitizer stations were available at each vendor. The outdoor event also made attendees feel more comfortable, DeWinkle said, and the majority of attendees complied with the measures. DeWinkle said more planning efforts went into hosting a fiber festival that could bring artisans together without breaking social distancing measures. The festival brings hard-working artists and farmers from across the country, DeWinkle said. After consulting the local health departments, she said they made the choice to go on with the festival.
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When Samantha King-Shaw was a freshman on the WSU track and field team, she did not feel accepted as a bisexual and biracial person. Samantha said she was, and still does, present as a girl, but she would wear a lot of “boy clothes,” mostly in the form of flannel. This led to assumptions. “‘She dresses like she’s into girls,’” Samantha said. “On one level: sure, they were right. But on the other level: f-ck off, you