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Medicine garden to be created over summer months

Medicine garden to be created over summer months

Olivia Apa, Staff writer April 26, 2022

Two indoor medicine gardens are coming to campus that will hold traditional medicines such as tobacco, sage, sweetgrass and cedar. Students and community members will have year-round access to the medicine...

GATHERING SPACE—The Center for Native American Studies and the School of Education use Whitman Commons as a social lab space to learn how to create community, Department Head Joseph Lubig said.

Student pressure opposes plan to repurpose Whitman Commons

Akasha Khalsa, Opinion Editor November 2, 2021
Science departments on campus have been desperate for resources and especially lab space, so the administration suggested the possible transformation of “underutilized spaces” into labs. Several students and professors from the Center for Native American Studies spoke out at the forum against this use of Whitman Hall.
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