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Mocktail Mixology Drinks & Recipes
Sixteen recipes from the Campus Recreation unit that oversees Alcohol & Drug Education: End Zone Blush, Husker Sweetheart Serenade, Cornhusker Crush, Husker Sunset, etc, etc. etc.
Home Economics
Today at the usual hour we review the standards, codes, regulations and best practice literature for the safety and sustainability of facilities for teaching skills needed for supporting families.
What is Happening to the Family, and Why?
"The family is nature's masterpiece" -- George Santayana
Family Housing: Cache County
This department provides affordable housing for students with infants, married couples, and single parents. Rent includes all utilities and workshops for house hunting and mortgage application. The proximity to playgrounds, libraries, dining halls, and sporting centers, ensures that families balance academic commitments with family life. Mom can nurse her baby in her own kitchen and be footsteps away from teaching her next class with an ample supply of student babysitters.
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.
Ring by Spring
The "MRS degree" is a colloquial phrase that describes women who attend college primarily to find a find a husband over career goals; ideally pairing with a college educated man who is likely to have strong earning potential to support family formation. CSU offers an accredited bachelor's degree program for this objective and provides teaching skills for others pursuing this objective.
International Residential Code
Student housing on college campuses varies widely in form—ranging from traditional dormitories to apartment-style residences, townhouses, or single-family homes leased by students. The applicability of the IRC to these housing types depends on the building’s classification and the codes adopted by the jurisdiction. Safety and sustainability concepts run through some of the proposals included in next week's Group A Committee Action Hearings in Orlando.
Current Issues and Recent Research
The Joint IEEE Power Engineering and Industrial Applications Society Committee to which we belong has completed its work on the 2026 National Electrical Code Second Draft. Public consultation on ballot results will be received by NFPA until April 18th. While all the issues are fresh in mind it is never unwise to draft proposals for the 2029 National Electrical Code which will begin accepting new public input some time after release of the new edition in the fall.
Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems in Low-Rise Residential Occupancies
About 20 percent of education settlement real assets lie in student and temporary faculty housing; some of it located in the "off-campus fire protection grid" owned by Mom-and-Pop rental housing owners or large corporate student housing aggregators. Both eschew residential sprinkler systems unless mandated by local building codes. Linked here is research and transcripts of the previous revision cycle. Public input on the 2028 Edition will be received until June 4th.