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“GV Brew”
As true in Western Michigan as anywhere else: You can bring the students to the coffee; or the coffee to the students. Located in the Mary Idema Pew Library.
Update Status
We continue working with Godaddy Tech Support to resolve Standards Michigan requirement for frequent and timely updates. The problem apparently lies with the interaction between a new Wordpress revision and legacy plug-ins. The normal course of business has not been affected; just the website appearance.
Spring Sport
We are consolidating over 10+ years of coverage of sport standards by the season now. This is our first cut breaking the topic into four separate seasons. Join us today at the usual hour when we sort through stabilized literature and the codes and standards open for public consultation
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements are the closest many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
“Asparagus Officinalis” Soup
Chef Chris Gray, food and beverage director at the Memorial Union, shares cooking tips and a recipe for spring asparagus soup.
Morning Prep
Today at the usual hour we run a status check on the literature that informs the design, construction, use and maintenance of shared floor facilities for privacy, relief and personal hygiene. We will slice horizontally through vertically oriented standards catalogs and explain where excess cost lies and should be removed. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Luxury Student Housing
The two-tiered housing system is becoming such a standard feature of campus life, observers have a name for it: the country club phenomenon. Critics say it’s worsening the socioeconomic divide in higher education by segregating rich students (who pay out-of-state tuition) from classmates with more modest means. Real estate investment trusts have long since recognized low-risk opportunities when student rents are effectively underwritten by federal student loans.
LIVE: I-Code Group B Committee Action Hearings Webcast
For the next few days from Orlando the International Code Council hosts Committee Action Hearings. We have one electrical proposal on the agenda; a significant expansion of Chapter 27 Electrical. We provide link to the livestream here.
Water and Sanitation
A standard is an agreed-upon way of doing something. In practice, it is a document that sets specific guidelines for the design, operation,manufacture, and use of nearly everything produced by mankind, including toilets and other sanitation systems.