On Wednesday, Nov 7th the campus student debate team will be presenting a debate on “Has the automobile ravaged our nation? can we return to a world of human mobility?“  Inspired by this year’s New Student Reading Project, Asphalt Nation, by Jane Holz Kay, the debate is sponsored by the WSU Vancouver General Education program. Team members are Joseph Ficken and Tia Ostergren for the government team, Anna Patterson and Bryce Smith for the opposing team.

Event Info:
November 7th, Noon – 1:30
VADM 110

This event is open to the public.  We hope to see you there.

On Wednesday, Oct. 10th, we hope you will attend both of the following events:

Books in the Information Age: The Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Its Digital Library
by Jean-Dominique Mellot, senior conservator at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
3-4 p.m. in Multimedia Center Room 6

Mellot will discuss the history of France’s national library and the new Gallica project, a digitization project with the goal of digitizing the 80,000 published works in its collection.

Alternative Transportation Fair
10am – 2pm in the Firstenburg Student Commons

The fair focus on alternative transportation options in Vancouver. Many campus and community organizations will be participating, including Bicycle Alliance, City of Vancouver, C-Tran, WSU Vancouver Human-Powered Machines, Southwest Clean Air and Eco-motion. Drop by and get some useful information!