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The 2012 BFA Senior
Exhibition for studio
art majors will be on display until June 7.
Blue Scholars will be
on the Showalter lawn on June 1 at 7 p.m.
Dearly Departed,
the EWU Senior Cap-stone production, will be June 1 in the Uni-versity Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
Julián Gómez-Giraldo and Randel Wagner will conduct the
Or-chestra and Choral Concert on June 2 at
7:30 p.m. in Showalter Auditorium.
The 24th Annual Iron Eagle Triath-lon is June 3 at 8 a.m.
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The "Celebration of
Life" for Pat White-hill will be on June 3
at 1 p.m. in the Showal-ter Auditorium. White-hill was an athletics hall of fame member, a 30-year member of the physical education de-partment and a mem-ber of the EWU class of 1951.
The String Solo Night is June 5 at
5 p.m. in the Music Building Recital Hall and will be directed by Julia Salerno, Kim Plewniak and John Marshall.
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EWU selects new dean of students
By Kristie Hsinseniorreporter
[email protected] Amy Johnson has been selected as Eastern’s new dean of students and associ-ate vice president for Student Life, announced May 23.
Johnson will replace Eastern’s previous dean of students, Al Thompson, who resigned at the end of last spring.
Johnson, who is
current-ly serving as the senior as-sociate dean at the Univer-sity of Southern California and an associate professor of education in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern Cali-fornia, will assume her posi-tion Aug. 13, 2012.
During the search pro-cess, Johnson visited EWU April 26 for an open forum where she presented her ideas and thoughts on stu-dent development trends
and healthy outlets for stu-dents and the community.
Some of her most recent achievements include Dis-sertation of the Year in the higher education division and the Models of Excel-lence Award.
In addition, she has 14 years of management ex-perience in higher educa-tion, student leadership and strategic planning. Johnson is also a member of the Na-tional Association of Student Personnel Administrators and a member of Associa-tion for the Study Higher Education.
Johnson, a Washing-ton native, holds degrees in English and communication from the University of Puget Sound, a Master of Science in Education and a Doctor of Education from the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania.
Johnson beat out Laura Bayless from St. Mary’s City College of Maryland and Linda Fossen from Eastern Kentucky, the other two fi-nalists for the position.
Vice President for Stu-dent Affairs Stacey Morgan Foster will continue to serve in the dean’s position until August.
Amy Johnson will replace previous
dean, Al Thompson, in August
adviser
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[email protected] A Morrison Hall com-munity adviser, Jacob Hafen, was booked on charges of assault on April 29 after police say he as-saulted a female student with a 4-inch fixed blade knife.
According to the police report, Hafen and a group of friends had been drink-ing at Silver Lake and upon leaving the lake, Hafen called “shotgun” and was irritated when he found someone in the seat he had claimed.
According to police, Hafen began calling the victim names and found a knife in the center console that belonged to the driver of the vehicle. He began poking the victim with the knife repeatedly, scratch-ing her at first and eventu-ally breaking the skin, while continuing to verbally as-sault her for taking his seat. According to police reports, the other occupants of the car had to yell at Hafen to stop.
Upon arriving back at campus, the victim noti-fied law enforcement of the assault. According to the police report, Hafen was arrested and taken to Spokane County jail. His building access card was deactivated and his room key was removed from his possession.
Hafen was released on bail the morning of April 30. According to Deputy Chamberlain of the Spo-kane County Sheriff's office, the victim plans to press charges.
Hafen said that the inci-dent was completely out of character for him and that a mixture of alcohol and his prescribed medication were largely responsible for what happened.
“Things got a little out of hand,” he said. “The medi-cation I was on doesn’t mix with alcohol. It increases ag-gression. ... I basically just snapped.”
According to court re-cords, a no contact order has been issued for the victim. Hafen’s pre-trial hearing is set for June 6.
Hafen said he is com-mitted to doing community service to make reparations for what he did. “We have actually settled outside of court,” he said. “[The victim] knows this is not like me. Her parents, however, thought something should be done... which is totally understand-able.”
Mike Bowers, area coor-dinator at Streeter and Mor-rison halls, said that Hafen resigned from his position as a community adviser on April 30.
Hafen said, “Obviously, I would have been let go, so I decided to make it easier on everyone. … It’s a crappy situation when you mess up... but you have to learn to live.”
Blurring new mediums
By Nicole Livingston
staffwriter
[email protected] The seniors of the Bachelor of Fine Arts pro-gram greeted community and family members into the art gallery May 25 to present their works of art.
Mediums ranged from acrylic paintings on canvas to videos shown on shower curtain liners. One piece was made from steel tubing and the bells of trombones, the open end of the horn where sound comes out and
was created by Jon Faulks. “I pretty much take found objects that kind of can lend themselves to be-ing constructed in a differ-ent way that kind of takes them out of their existing context,” said Faulks.
He said his intention was to create a 3-D line drawing with the materials he had. He placed wooden pallets in the space to direct movement and wanted the viewer to be able to see it as a drawing that one could walk through.
Faulks says he plans to
stay in Spokane after grad-uation.
“I’m just going to keep making art. I live in Spo-kane. I work in SpoSpo-kane. So I want to bring more contemporary artistic style to Spokane. I think we have a really strong culture in Spokane that’s really in-terested in non-traditional artwork and so I want to, maybe, be able to foster that and try and just en-hance the scene we have here already.”
Laura Kaschmitter’s project is a video instal-lation. Two videos play in a dark room and are pro-jected onto shower curtain liners. The videos are
com-prised of shots of different shapes and colors. She said she was thinking of a cheap material to use to add at-mosphere to the room to give it a different feel, so she picked up the liners and experimented with the way she positioned them in the room.
One of her videos is a project she did for a digital art class. This video had a few frames reminiscent of a Jackson Pollock paint-ing, except it was moving. There were many bright colors in blotches and dots that kept popping up on the screen.
From trombone bells to ceramics,
gallery is filled with student art
Photos by Evan Sykes
The art gallery was filled with pieces ranging from an installation of a palm reading table to acrylic paintings on wood. (Right) The artwork of Robert Webber, an oil on panel, is one of the many of his works on display in the art building.
By Jane Martin
staffwriter
[email protected] The student services and activities fee commit-tee proposed a 3 percent fee increase for 2013 with a sig-nificant portion of funds to be allocated to child care.
Michelle Munson, fiscal analyst for Student Life, said the committee tried to dis-tribute funds evenly with the revenue from the fee increase.
The most significant change in the S&A budget is the increased funding for child care from $93,235 in 2012, to $156,000 in 2013.
According to Munson, that change was made because the state has not yet completed the budget for next year, and they were uncertain about how much funding Eastern child care would be getting.
Munson said that the committee was “operating under the assumption that
funds [for child care] would significantly decrease. ... If state funds come through, then those [S&A] funds will be reallocated elsewhere.”
Every group supported by S&A fees will receive an in-crease in funds, with the ex-ception of PUB R and R, which will be receiving $150,000 just as it did for 2012.
At press time, Finance Vice President Kaleb Hoffer had not returned phone calls re-garding the S&A fee increase.
S&A fees increase 3 percent in 2012-13
O f T h e
Alignment
(most important):
• Body should be parallel to the target line • Feet shoulder width apart
• Front foot slightly open (10-20 degrees) • Back foot square
• Front shoulder slightly higher than back shoulder
Ball position:
Short irons - center of stance
Mid irons - 1 ball toward front foot from center
Long irons + fairway woods - 2 balls forward front foot from center Driver - Even with front foot HEEL
Balance
(weight on the balls of your feet):
• Short irons - 2/3 front foot, 1/3 back foot • mid and long irons - 1/2 front foot, 1/2 back foot • Driver and fairway woods - 1/3 front foot, 2/3 back foot
Posture:
• Knees slighty flexed, directly over balls of your feet
• Body bent at the hips, not at the waist (butt sticking out is good) • Vertebrae in a straight line • Chin up and out of chest
Club address:
• Short and mid irons - Hands a palm’s width from the body • Long irons and woods - Hands a
palm’s length from the body
Takeaway:
• Shift weight slightly from front foot to back foot
• Shoulders/back/hips/arms moving as one • Don’t pick up the club,
swing it back naturally • Slow and steady
Backswing (continuation of the takeaway):
Turn so that your back is facing the target. Shoulders facing square at the ball.
Majority of weight on back foot Club not breaking 90 degree plane
Downswing:
• Pull front elbow down • Push back shoulder through
• Stay fluid, resist urge to be herky jerky • Don’t slow down
So, you want to be a golfer?
Tips and tricks from alignment to takeaway
on page 10, sports.
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State-owned liquor stores will close June 1 as Initia-tive-1183 is implemented across the state, and retail stores like Costco, Walmart and Safeway will begin sell-ing hard alcohol.
Liquor stores previously owned by the state were re-cently auctioned off to pri-vate buyers, who then could apply for a liquor license. These stores will operate as privately owned liquor stores beginning June 1, when the transition takes place.
Under the new laws, the state will “license private par-ties to distribute spirits and to sell spirits in retail stores meeting certain criteria, sub-ject to specified training and compliance requirements,” according to the Washington Secretary of State’s Initiative Measure No. 1183.
To meet that criteria, stores must have more than 10,000 square feet of retail space, and employees must undergo “stringent” training to ensure proper regulations are followed, according to the ballot measure.
Eastern junior Kaitlyn Cunningham, a Spokane Val-ley Costco employee, said the entire staff had to undergo thorough training to prepare for the transition.
“The training mostly con-sisted of counting a person's drinks at a bar or restaurant and knowing the signs of in-toxication, understanding the liability or responsibil-ity the company and the em-ployee have in regards to the customer's health and safety and what Costco was con-cerned about: knowing if an ID was fake or invalid,” she said.
Employees had to pass an exam after training to make sure they fully understood
the “necessary laws and re-strictions that come with selling alcohol,” Cunning-ham said.
Safeway and Mitchell’s Harvest Foods will eventual-ly sell liquor. Cheney Trading Company is still considering it.
Mitchell’s is still waiting on a liquor license, according to manager Jerry Moczulski, who estimated the transition will be completed within a few months.
“It’s amazing, the hoops that you need to jump through in order to get [a liquor license],” Moczulski said. “They come out, see where you’re housing it, how you’re going to pay for it, the training that your employees are going to have. And if they don’t agree with any of that, they can certainly refuse you,” he said.
To help offset losing rev-enue from liquor sales, pri-vate retailers must pay a fee
totaling 17 percent of their revenue to the state each year, according to the ballot measure. This could cause owners to raise prices in or-der to cover the fee.
“It just means more com-petition,” said Jeremiah Williams-Carr, employee of the privately-owned Cheney Liquor Store.
“Prices are going to go up all around because everyone has to pay for their own de-livery now,” Williams-Carr said. “People thought, ‘Oh, we’re going to be like Cali-fornia, and we’re going to get cheap liquor,’ but, no, the tax is still there. When the state was involved they paid for the delivery. Delivery is up to the individual places now,” he said.
Moczulski said he is un-sure if he agrees with I-1183. “It’s just going to be more expensive,” he said. “But if people are going to buy it, I guess we’re going to do it.”
By Libby Campbell
staffwriter
Photo illustration by Aaron Malmoe
Starting June 1, grocery stores, such as Safeway, will carry hard alcohol. Products will be packaged to prevent theft.
Liquor regulations take effect
State-run stores auctioned off to private owners who obtain liquor licenses
Nicole Peterson was awarded a Presidential Scholarship worth $2,500 for the 2012-2013 aca-demic year at Eastern.
A w a r d -ed only to i n c o m i n g freshmen, r e c i p i -ents are r e q u i r e d to have a m i n i m u m SAT score of 1250 or
a cumulative high school GPA of 3.8 or higher. Pe-terson will be attending Eastern as a freshman be-ginning fall 2012.
Peterson, who recalls the application process as fairly easy, must maintain a 3.5 GPA throughout her time at Eastern and grad-uate with at least a 3.8 GPA or above to continue receiving the scholarship.
She will receive $2,500 a year for four years as part of the Presidential Scholarship.
“I had no idea,” said Peterson. “When I got it, I was like, ‘Woah, that’s re-ally cool,’ because I didn’t think I’d get a scholar-ship, so it was awesome to get that.”
Peterson applied for the Presidential Scholar-ship last February and found out she was the re-cipient shortly after. Ac-cording to Peterson, it was her mom who told her she got a letter from Eastern.
“She’s like, ‘You got something from Eastern,” and I was like, ‘Oh, re-ally?’ I thought it was my acceptance letter, so I was like, ‘Oh cool,’” said Peter-son. “When I got home, it was that I got a scholar-ship … and I hadn’t even gotten my acceptance [to EWU] yet.”
A few weeks following her award, Peterson re-ceived her acceptance let-ter from Easlet-tern.
Peterson is currently a senior at Medical Lake High School. There, she is involved with the National Honor Society, Leader-ship and Key Club. Peter-son has also been a mem-ber of her high school’s varsity soccer team, ten-nis team and varsity bas-ketball team.
In addition, Peterson is also involved in the Wash-ington Drug Free Youth Club and AmeriCorps, where she had to complete 300 hours of community service.
Outside of the class-room, Peterson enjoys go-ing fishgo-ing, huntgo-ing and
being outdoors.
“Fishing is just fun — it’s a thrill … just getting away from life,” said Pe-terson. “It’s like an adren-alin rush, but also some-times it’s like relaxing too.
A couple of summers ago, I actually got to go out on the big charter boats out at Westport, Wash., and go out to the ocean and fished. …We caught a lot of salmon.”
Daughter of Samuel and Sandra Peterson, the 17-year-old plans to par-ticipate in intramural sports while at Eastern, deeming them “fun.” Bas-ketball, she said, will be her choice of sport.
“I love sports,” said Peterson. “I feel like the college teams are pretty cool.”
As she prepares for her last finals in high school, Peterson looks forward to her college career. She is registered to take her gen-eral requirement classes for the fall before moving to her study of interest.
“I kind of want to go into occupational thera-py,” Peterson said.
Helping others and seeing their reactions are what Peterson likes about occupational therapy.
Peterson said she wants to take more than the average three classes per quarter. In prepara-tion for college, Peterson has taken full advance placement classes at Med-ical Lake High School— classes including AP cal-culus and AP English.
“It’s a great place to be. It’s really readied me for my future,” she said. “Taking AP classes re-ally helped a lot in getting ready for college.”
Peterson decided to take the advance place-ment route instead of Running Start because she wanted the full high school experience and did not feel ready to be out on her own yet.
Peterson’s reason for choosing Eastern is based on the university’s close proximity to her home. While at EWU, Peterson plans to live with room-mates off-campus in Cheney.
“Nicole is a very hard working student, always pleasant to be around,” said Jim Mason, Medical Lake High School weight lifting teacher. “She shows appreciation for everything you do for her and just a great kid. You couldn’t find a better kid around.”
Mason, who filled out recommendations for Pe-terson, said, “She’s top-notch in all areas.”
By Kristie Hsin
seniorreporter
High schooler
awarded $2,500
Medical Lake student wins scholarship
Peterson
In a recent ASEWU coun-cil meeting held May 18, it was decided that $1,500 of the student government’s budget will be used to pur-chase stoles for graduating student government offi-cers.
The maximum amount approved for the stole pur-chases was $1,500. The stu-dent government bought 23 stoles. Each stole was priced at $45.
“We could have spent up to $1,500 but not exceed that. After our purchase, we ended up spending less than $1,000,” ASEWU Executive Vice President Clem Busta-mante said in an email.
According to page four of the ASEWU’s response to budget questions for next year, the ASEWU stated that the office intended to pur-chase and utilize apparel for various occasions and events for the coming year if awarded the Services and Activities Fees budget.
According to Bustaman-te, this was a one-time pur-chase of the stoles. Busta-mante said members of the ASEWU will not keep the stoles. Once the students graduate, stoles will be re-turned to the ASEWU office for continued use by other members.
Student and Activities
Fees are for supporting stu-dent activities and organiza-tions, which includes general office supplies, equipment, lodging and transportation, awards and certificates.
“I don’t see anything wrong with them using their money to buy the stoles — not if it was extra money in their budget. I’m sure if any club or organization wanted to do that and they can af-ford it, they would do the same,” senior Sam Pham said.
According to Adviser for Campus Programs Humber-to Cerrillo, how much a club or organization receives de-pends on the club.
“If they’re a new club, they can request up to $100 for their first year,” Cerrillo said.
Cerrillo said if a club or organization has been with the university for longer than a year, they might be eligible for several thou-sands of dollars.
“The money that I have is less than $4,000 for the whole year and we gener-ally use that money to help promote clubs and organiza-tions’ meetings [and] to pay for the clubs and organiza-tions’ involvement fair. … Outside of that, all the fund-ing that clubs receive comes from ASEWU.”
ASEWU Finance Vice President Kaleb Hoffer over-sees the amount of money clubs receive each year.
The ASEWU distributes the funds and hears propos-als from the clubs and orga-nizations specifically.
If clubs and organiza-tions were to purchase ad-ditional items such as stoles, the purchases would be part of their clubs and organiza-tion budgets. In past years, clubs and organizations have purchased stoles for themselves, according to Cerrillo. There is no formal process in which any club or organization actually
re-ceives stoles from the uni-versity.
“It could also be that one person purchased it in the club and they all paid that person back. I would imag-ine though if they did, they would have purchased it from their [club] accounts. The different thing about Eastern, compared to other universities, is some of the clubs and organizations can keep their funds off of cam-pus, so they can have their own private accounts with STCU, for example,” Cerrillo said.
If clubs and organiza-tions have their own private accounts, they are required to have their 501 C3. Most clubs and organizations use the student life accounting office to put their funds in. Overall, there are no com-mon restrictions on what clubs and organizations can and cannot spend.
“With club-funded ac-counts, it’s not like activi-ties fees where you have like different ledgers of dollars provided by the state,” said Cerrillo. “With the clubs’ funded accounts, they’re less restrictive.”
Senior Erin Khan said, “They’ve never done this be-fore, so it isn’t like they’re purposely spending uni-versity money on personal items. The [stoles] are for them, for being part of the ASEWU; there’s nothing wrong with that.”
By Kristie Hsin
seniorreporter
Student government spends $1,500
on stoles to be worn during graduation
Commencement regalia worn by organizations chosing to spend extra funds
“The different thing about Eastern,
compared to other universities, is some
of the clubs and organizations keep their
funds off of campus, so they can have
their own private accounts, ...”
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($300 value) with exam, cleaning & x-rays.“Repent of your sins, you wicked woman!” may not seem like the standard pickup line heard on college campus-es, but it worked for preacher Jed Smock in the late '70s.
Smock, commonly re-ferred to as Brother Jed, met his future wife while preach-ing at a demonstration at the University of Florida.
Smock said his future wife would make fun of him at his demonstrations, so he called her out on it one day.
“She was stunned by my rebuke, but later she got to thinking that in the light of her conscience and the way she’d been raised, she had become a bad girl. So she got converted and later became my wife,” he said.
Smock spends five hours a day, five days a week, nine months out of the year preach-ing the word of God to college students on campuses across the country. He spent May 22 and 23 at Eastern while in the midst of a West Coast tour.
“Everything I do, I do for the glory of God, and to serve others,” Smock said. “I think I have a vital message, a life or death message, and it’s crucial that students hear it. And if I don’t tell them, I don’t know whether they’ll hear it or not.”
Though Smock now has “surrendered [his] life to Christ,” he was not always a believer.
“I was raised in a Method-ist home; I was baptized and confirmed at 13 [years old],” he said. “However, it was more of just a right of passage for me at the time. I did not have true religion in my heart. I went through the ritual to please my parents.”
At 15, Smock started
drink-ing heavily, a habit that con-tinued into his time spent studying at Indiana State University. Despite his heavy drinking, he graduated from the university with honors and became a teacher while work-ing on his master’s degree.
In 1967, Smock decided to trade the Midwest for the West Coast.
“There was a popular hit song, ‘When you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair.’ That was the beginning of the hip-pie movement,” he said. “So I literally put a flower in my hair, got in my ’67 Mustang and [said], ‘California, here I come.’”
Smock started teaching in the Bay area and began hang-ing around the Berkley cam-pus and the Haight-Ashbury district, an area popular with counter-culture that summer. It was known as “The Sum-mer of Love.”
“I started doing marijuana and other drugs. I eventually resigned from my teaching position, came back to Indiana and was dealing drugs in my hometown, bringing great dis-honor to my parents,” Smock said. “I think they knew some-thing was wrong. I don’t think they really knew I was dealing in drugs, but they were con-cerned about my behavior.”
After a brief stint of teach-ing history at the University of Wisconsin, Smock was ready for change.
“At this time, I was a social-ist and an athesocial-ist. I decided I was going to go to India and study under a guru and be-come a Hindu,” he said.
Smock never made it to In-dia.
“Along the way, I stopped in Morocco, North Africa. Here along the Atlantic sea coast, I found a hippie camp, where a couple hundred American dropouts were
liv-ing. I thought, ‘This is it. This is where I can really do my own thing, be natural,’” he said.
He spent time meditating at the camp, and Christmas day, 1971, opened a new door for him.
“A man carrying a cross, apparently Arabic, marched in the midst of our hippie band preaching Christ. And that got me to thinking that despite all my education, I had never read the Bible. I decided I wanted to read it for intellectual, aca-demic reasons if nothing else. I did not have to read very far in the New Testament to deter-mine [that] if the Bible’s true, I’m in trouble. I’m headed for hell, and that put the fear of God in me,” he said.
Smock returned to the United States and began regu-larly attending church. “For the first time in my life, I had a clear conscience. And it was such good news that my sins were forgiven and I received the gift of eternal life that I started telling everyone.”
Since then, Smock has
toured the country, using his confrontational, controversial approach to preach to college students.
“Jesus was controversial. The message was controver-sial. If it’s not controversial, you’ve watered it down. And I’m afraid that’s what most churches have done, is sort of watered down the message to make it more acceptable,” he said.
Smock’s preaching is hard to ignore. He had his arm broken while preaching at the University of Western Ken-tucky, and his ankle broken at the University of Wisconsin. Both times he was speaking from a bench, and someone pushed him off.
“I almost always get a re-action out of people,” he said. “It’s the exception for students to get physically violent, but it has happened. And sometimes I have to preach under police protection.”
When he visited Eastern last year there was nearly a riot behind the PUB as
counter-protesters opposed Smock and fellow preacher Glen Bledsoe. This year campus police en-forced a policy regarding des-ignated free speech or public forum areas.
The policy, titled WAC 172-137 - Use of University Facili-ties, defines public forum ar-eas as “arar-eas of each campus that the university has chosen to be open as places for ex-pressive activities protected by the first amendment.” The area by the old school house and the overhang area outside the PUB are two of these des-ignated regions.
“Last year it was never even an issue that we were limited to a certain place on campus,” said Bledsoe, who accompanied Smock on cam-pus again this year. “So I asked an officer to bring a copy of this [policy] and he brought it, which I appreciate. The guide-lines for free speech restric-tions on campus should be that it doesn’t disturb a class. It shouldn’t restrict our access to students,” he said.
Counter-protesters advo-cating for the gay and lesbian community positioned them-selves on the side of the walk-way opposite the preachers.
“Jesus does not approve of unnatural affection. It’s an abomination of God. …It is an abomination for a man to lie with another man as he would with a woman,” Bledsoe said of the counter-protesters.
Both Smock and Bledsoe said the counter-protesters helped draw more attention to their own demonstration.
“I really have a message of good news. People should not be protesting it; they should be welcoming it,” Smock said. “I am offering them the for-giveness of sins, a clear con-science, eternal life. Of course they have to turn away from sin and that’s what they can’t handle because they love their sin more than God.”
“See, sin is an irrational choice. I can’t give a rational explanation why people would choose to do something irra-tional. It’s stupid.”
By Libby Campbell and Dylan Coil
fortheeasterner
From drugs and socialism to Jesus Christ
Brother Jed Smock and his posse
visit campus preaching repentance
Photo by Aaron Malmoe
Students pass the PUB as Jed Smock sits discussing his preachings with onlookers and his partner Glen Bledsoe holds religious signage.
Based on a recent survey, the three ser-vices most highly recommended for the new Veterans Resource Center are veterans ben-efits, advising support, career counseling and academic advising.
The survey, designed by Dr. Colin Ormsby and research assistant Bambi Fields, identi-fied the demographics, background and needs of the 466 student veterans at Eastern and has contributed to what the new Veter-ans Resource Center will include.
The new Veterans Resource Center is set to open on July 4.
According to Dr. Colin Ormsby, the sur-vey was put online in January.
“We looked at a number of schools that had [Veteran] centers,” Fields said. “We did a lot of research before we began [the survey].”
According to the survey, 56 percent of student veterans did not have regular contact with other student veterans.
Fields said that the veterans are interest-ing because of how diverse they are.
“A place of their own will help them … meet other veterans [and] share ideas,” Fields said.
Ormsby said that the background of the survey was finding the number of student veterans on campus.
“To get a complete picture, I conducted a series of five phone interviews with directors of [veteran] centers,” Ormsby said. “Three in California, [one] in Idaho and one in Wash-ington.”
According to Ormsby, his conversation with the director at Sacramento State was based on how student veterans are trained leaders.
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of student veterans at EWU
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OPINION
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Interviews by Derek Brown, photos by Aaron Malmoe
When Spokane’s city council came up with its city’s official slogan, “Near nature, near perfect,” they forgot to mention one tiny de-tail: police brutality. But a recent incident in-volving an Eastern student, a gun and Cheney police, shows that not all police departments shoot first and ask questions later.
Spokane County has had its fair share of officer-involved shootings that have left many dead. A quick review of several cases, where deadly force wasn’t necessarily needed, shows just how trigger happy police in our area can be.
In August of 2010, 74-year-old Wayne Creach, the owner of the Plant Farm, a nurs-ery in the Spokane Valley, was shot and killed after a “confrontation” with authorities. The “confrontation” was never fully explained, but it was apparently enough to kill Creach, who was also a pastor with the Greenacres Baptist Church for 40 years.
Then, in December of 2010, police shot and killed Jeremy Groom at the Special K tavern in Hillyard. The Spokesman-Review quoted witnesses who said that the police opened fire without much warning.
Finally, in October of 2010, a Spokane Sheriff Deputy shot and killed Quentin Dodd, 50, after he had threatened his roommate with a knife. He charged his friend after yell-ing at the police to shoot him. So they did.
Six out of seven people died by the hands of police in 2010 alone.
Across the country we see police brutality happening all the time. Oakland, Calif., is a prime example of this, and the story of Oscar Grant is one of the most tragic examples.
In the early morning of New Year’s Day, 2009, police arrested Grant, a 22-year-old Af-rican-American, and a few friends after an al-leged fight on a Bay Area Rapid Transit train. Cell phone video shows transit police with several young men sitting on the platform. Grant sits on his knees. After much shouting and verbal confrontation, one officer pulls out his gun, and shoots Grant in the back. Grant was taken to the hospital where he died a few hours later.
It’s clear on video that what happened was a murder and not self-defense.
Back in our area, on May 11, Chandler Gayton, former safety on the EWU football team, pulled a gun on Cheney police officers. On video obtained by The Eastener, one can see Gayton pull the gun out in front of the police. At this moment, officers had enough reason to open fire, but something amazing happens: Cheney police remain calm. They get Gayton down, arrest him and no one dies.
With so many officer-involved shoot-ings in our area, it’s incredible that Gayton, a young African-American student, wasn’t shot. It makes us wonder: what if this was in the City of Spokane?
The Cheney Police Department needs to be praised for their handling of this situa-tion. Many lives could have been ruined in just a few moments had it not been for the calm restraint of the officers involved in this incident.
While Gayton is now being charged with a felony for second degree assault for his part in the incident, at least his life is spared.
Thank you Cheney Police for showing other police departments how its done.
By Josh Friesen
staffwriter
[email protected] So last week I was walking to the PUB to get a bite to eat when I saw a gather-ing of students. When I got closer, I started hearing some pretty crazy things.
Jed Smock, a
travel-ing evangelist that preaches his twisted view on the Bible, was completely butchering God’s mes-sage. I’m hearing that students are condemned to hell if they don’t repent right away. I’m hearing that women on this university are whores. I’m hearing we are all a bunch of sinners who lie, cheat and steal. I’m hearing that God is a wrathful God and that we should fear him.
Now, I have been a Christian for roughly five years. I consider myself to have a pretty good rela-tionship with Jesus. To real Chris-tians, that’s what it’s all about.
Smock isn’t representing Je-sus and he’s not representing my faith. My faith is not about con-demning people. That was not what Jesus did. There’s a story in John 8: 3-11 where a woman is caught in adultery and all the religious leaders drag her in front of Jesus. The religious leaders ba-sically condemn her to die. Jesus says to her, “I do not condemn you.”
That is what draws us Chris-tians in. Jesus never stops insist-ing that God loves us.
Smock has one fundamental flaw. He is not preaching the gos-pel. He simply is not. Christianity is not about judgement. It’s about respect and love. Christianity is not about pointing out people’s flaws. It’s about uplifting them. Smock is preaching hate. He’s using the Bible and twisting its words.
There is a passage in the Bible in the book of John that says, “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For any-one who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.”
Doesn’t that make Smock’s mes-sage completely irrelevant?
For the past five years, I have noticed a bit of a stigma regard-ing how people feel about Christi-anity. People feel everyone is like Smock. People think Christians are crazy. People think Christians live to judge and condemn every-one to hell.
How did so few end up speak-ing for so many? How did Jesus’s message get so misconstrued? The vast majority of people of faith are not Bible-bashing zealots who yell at you and insult you, but, unfor-tunately, we all get painted the same way.
Anything that isn’t of love or respect isn’t Jesus. Anything that hates, marginalizes, oppresses or demeans anybody anywhere, Jesus wants absolutely nothing to do with.
A true Christian is someone that understands this. Jesus’s message says that everybody deserves respect and love. That goes for anyone, no matter their religious beliefs, creeds, sexual orientations or criminal history. God loves the world
uncondi-tionally. A Christian does too. When someone tells me that I should repent and follow Jesus because if I don’t, I’m going to be damned to hell to suffer for all eternity, it sounds so menacing. It is like they are threatening me. Smock thinks that if he scares people enough, they will sudden-ly convert to his religion.
The message Smock deliv-ers is not the one God intended. God’s message is one of love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 says, “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
Christians are not crazy, and they’re certainly not weird. People of faith don’t judge. They don’t want you to fear God. Some of the best people I know in this world are men and women of faith. I’m not a perfect person. I’ve screwed up. I’ve lied. I’ve cheated. I stole a 10 cent candy bar when I was ten. But God forgives me. God forgets that sin I have commit-ted because he loves me. That’s the God I know. That is what Jed Smock fails to realize.
The Cheney
police show
how it's done
Brother Jed gives Christians a bad name
"How do you feel about religious protesters on campus?"
“I feel like they can say whatever they want to say. I mean, if they were
bombarding people, like, ‘Hey man, join us, join us right now, just do it,’
then I’d be like, 'stop it.' It’s a choice.”
April Thompson
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“I’m uncomfortable with organized religion when it’s pushed down my throat. I
think people should find their spirituality through their own experiences.
But I think it’s a good opportunity for counter-protesting.”
Brittany Miller
“I don’t think that it’s effective at all. Nobody really pays attention to it
except the counter-protesters.”
Devin Robbins
“I don’t know, I guess its fine. I think I draw the line when they have
posters of dead babies that are bigger than me.”
Jade Charbonneau
“I think that they have the right to do so as long as they’re not
getting into people’s faces and giving people a chance to
choose to talk about it, then it's fine.”
Ben Ward
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In 1977, this George Thorogood song, with those famous lyrics, was heard everywhere. If you walk into your local grocery store starting June 1, 2012, you might not only hear that song being played, but on the shelves you'll be able to find bourbon, scotch and beer at your disposal.
Unless you are under 18 years of age, or living under a rock, you have probably heard about, or been asked to vote on Initiative 1183. Starting June 1, the people’s deci-sion will go into action as retail-ers will legally be able to distribute liquor. I say it’s about time. Many people in Washington, however, do not share my enthusiasm.
When I heard about 1183 last year, I was sure it was going to pass because I thought enough people would see the positive aspects of it. The most obvious critic of 1183 is the liquor stores themselves. I
have one thing to say to them: Quit whining and get to work. This is the first time they have had to deal with any competition, and if they don't want to be put out of busi-ness, some course of action will need to take place. Maybe it's time to offer discounts and bring the prices down by 20 percent. Liquor stores won't be my first option ever again.
We like convenience in this country, and I think the passing of 1183 is going to bring more of it to the state of Washington. No longer will you have to drive around town looking for a liquor store that clos-es at a dclos-esignated time. It will be at your fingertips, like the bread and salad you're picking up on the way home from work.
Gov. Chris Gregoire didn’t shy away from the issue: “Do we really want to expand liquor that much?” Gregoire would go on to say that she is worried about the effects that this new law might have, such as the increased amount of people having access.
Let's back up here. The last time I checked you still had to have proof that you were old enough to purchase alcohol, no matter how old or young you looked. That isnt going to change.
What retail stores are going to have to do is step up their security and enforce employees working the grave shift to be on the lookout for those who shouldn't be sold any booze. With two eyes and a brain, you can make out who has had too much to drink. If those two things happen, this new law will not be an issue.
“Absolutely I’m in favor of it, now I don’t have to drive around town looking for my vodka. I don’t know why they didn’t do this sooner,” Bryan Heath, an Eastern senior, said.
I was shocked to find another Eastern senior who disagreed with the law.
“I’m against this because it means children will have easy ac-cess to it, and it clearly promotes underage drinking,” Paul Sell said.
While I respect Mr. Sell’s opin-ion, he is way off the mark here. First of all, putting liquor in stores isn’t going to make kids pick up a bottle and walk out of the store with it. Legally, they can’t.
As far as underage drinking is concerned, it's up to parents to teach their kids about the dangers of underage drinking and driving. That’s a discussion for the dinner table.
As we approach June 1, let’s all take a deep breath and realize that this is a good idea, and it's long overdue. It promotes capitalism, creates competition, which is good for any business. This will be a con-venience for everybody as long as the individual is responsible about it. The responsibility also falls on the employees to take action if needed.
Starting next Friday, on the way home from a long day at the office, you can pick up your spaghetti, caesar salad, french bread, and if you so choose, one bourbon, one scotch and one beer.
Friesen
One bourbon, one scotch and one beer
NEWS
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Photo by HaFu Shi
Kinya Masugata, left, gives a handmade doll to Catherine Dixon executive director of Office of Global Initiatives.
Survey:
Continued from page 3“The focus of the survey [was not only] about their needs, but what [veterans] would like to contribute,” Ormsby said. “The veterans have a lot to offer above and beyond their military expe-rience and many of them are involved directly here on campus or in their larger community.”
According to the survey, 47 percent of veterans hold a
lead-ership position in a club or or-ganization on or off-campus, 51 percent are involved in or-ganizations on or off-campus, 50 percent volunteer, 43 per-cent work between 10 and 20 hours a week and 23 percent work more than 20 hours a week.
“[The survey] helped the [vice president] of student af-fairs determine what services would be placed in [the cen-ter],” Ormsby said. “Things like benefit advisement [and] academic advisement went over things like having a
con-ference space.”
Stacey Morgan Foster, the vice president of student affairs, reviewed the survey when Ormsby and Fields were designing it and helped create questions.
Morgan Foster said that she liked that the survey high-lighted the leadership experi-ence of the student veterans on campus.
“[The survey] gives us more information about what an asset [veterans] are as students on campus,” Mor-gan Foster said. “It gives us
opportunities to work with them in some different ways so they can really assist other students.”
According to Morgan Foster, the new Veterans Re-source Center will be housed in several rooms on the first floor of Showalter Hall, equal-ling 1,900 square feet.
“[The veterans are] … a highly motivated group of people who are contribut-ing to the community and [setting] an example for the rest of student population,” Ormsby said.
The Clash of Antlers
By Joe AngellThe light in the cabin was on all through the night. The boy had lifted his father onto the cot and covered him with blankets. He thought that his father was sleeping or drunk and it did not occur to him that he was dead until the sun rose the follow-ing day. The boy had never thought much about death and believed that it only came when you were old or beaten or starved. His father’s beard was beginning to gray but the boy decided that he was not old enough to die. Somebody or something must have killed him, he thought. He had stared blankly at the face all night. At daybreak, before the dark-ness all dispelled, he built a fire and began to plan for the burial.
The ground was cold and hard and it took the boy all day to dig a hole deep enough to bury his father. He dragged the body by its feet and placed it into the makeshift grave. Sorry Pa, said the boy. The hole was not deep enough. He dug deeper still and on the third attempt he was finally satisfied with its depth. He
took off his father’s wedding band and shoes and then covered him with a mound of dirt and a pile of round stones. Although he was ig-norant to its meaning he made a cross of branches and placed it be-tween the stones. He crouched over the grave for the rest of the short day. Somewhere in the distance, through the fog and in the valley, bull elk screamed sonorous calls of lust and violence. The clashing of antlers would come with the morn-ing. He went to sleep on his father’s cot.
At night the boy woke in a fever-ish sweat. Papa, whispered the boy. He took the blankets off his naked body, lit the lantern, and made his way in between the darkness. As he approached the burial site he saw that the stones were scattered about and that the shallow grave was now empty. Papa, cried the boy. Over here, Papa. Come back. He held the lantern at arm’s length and ran into the woods surrounding the cabin. A trail of blood led his way. The moon was full but the forest was shrouded and indifferent to the light. As he thrashed through the branches his foot caught the root of a dying tree
and sent both body and lantern to the ground. Shadows reached across the lantern’s light in all directions and trembled in communion with the dying flame. The boy lifted his head and saw, on the rim of dark-ness, the shine of glowing eyes. Pa, said the boy. In the dimming light the eyes came closer and with them came the bloody snout of a grey wolf. She growled lowly, picked her cub up by the scruff of its neck, and turned back into the woods from which she came.
The boy walked back to the cabin and built up the fire. There was a painting hanging on the wall above the hearth. It was of his mother and father and himself as an infant. He stared with awe at the picture. He did not know his mother’s name nor would his father allow speak of her. It was a wonder that he knew he had a mother at all or that there existed such things.
At daybreak, below the ever wid-ening and bloodshot sky, the boy would leave the house his father had built. The bull elk would sound all through the day and long, long into the night.
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EAGLE LIFE
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By Davis Hill
staffwriter
On June 1, Eagle Enter-tainment will bring the Se-attle-based rap group Blue Scholars to campus for a concert.
The show, which will be opened by Vancouver, Washington-based hip-hop artist D. Worthy, is free to students with student ID.
The Blue Scholars, a self-described “cinema art rap” group, is comprised of rapper/lyricist “Geologic,” aka George Quibuyen, and DJ/producer “Sabzi,” aka Saba Mohajerjasbi.
The group started in 2002 after Quibuyen and Mohajerjasbi met while studying at the University of Washington.
The group has been widely praised for what “The Seattle Times” calls “pretty songs with positive social messages.”
Blue Scholars have achieved a national follow-ing and boast a discography that includes five albums, four EPs and eight videos.
They have played such festivals as Sasquatch, Bumbershoot and their own hip-hop festival “The Program.”
They have worked with artists such as Kanye West, De La Soul, Nas, Common and many others.
Humberto Cerrillo, campus programs advis-er, described the excite-ment surrounding the Blue Scholars concert, which
received over 200 separate requests.
“The student response … [is] amazing.,” he said. “Eagle Entertainment has done a lot more to be more available to students. [This concert] is an opportunity to give students something that they really want [to see].”
Cerrillo explained that Eagle Entertainment, which organizes music and other entertainment events on campus, worked hard to get the Blue Scholars for the June show.
“We have an obvious challenge, [which is that] we have a very small bud-get to work with,” he said. “We are working as hard as we can to stretch the dol-lar.”
Haley Adamson, Eagle Entertainment’s commu-nity outreach coordinator, was involved with the pro-posal to bring the Scholars to Eastern.
She explained that, due to budgetary constraints, Eagle Entertainment had to present a proposal for supplemental funding to bring the Scholars to cam-pus.
“We made a Power-point and media presenta-tion and presented it to the [Student & Activities Fees Committee],” she said. “They approved the budget and approved them com-ing.”
Adamson explained that the Blue Scholars’ willing-ness to negotiate with the University was a large part
of Eastern’s ability to host them.
“[They] worked to in-clude everything, [includ-ing travel and hotel costs], in [their] normal price in-stead of [Eastern] having to pay extra,” she said.
“Each year … you [hope to] get more events and better turnout,” said Tara Anderson, Eagle Entertain-ment’s special events coor-dinator. “We want to cater to [everyone.]”
“[Our mission] is about bringing together a com-munity of people [who are] celebrating being at Eastern,” Cerrillo said. “This year, we’ve had a lot of things the university is not used to seeing. I’m excited about having the Blue Scholars to cap off the year."
The Blue Scholars will be performing on cam-pus June 1 at 7 p.m. on the Showalter Lawn. This concert is free with student ID.
To learn more about the Blue Scholars, visit http://www.blueschol-ars.com.
To learn more about Eagle Entertainment and upcoming events, visit http://bit.ly/ KqV1Sb or visit their Facebook page. By Desireé Hood staffwriter [email protected]
Imagine being a young woman getting off the train in 1882 and walking up a dusty road carry-ing everythcarry-ing needed for a year of college. Seeing the two-story wood-framed school building in the distance is a welcome relief from the heat of the Indian sum-mer.
Students are gathering on the large front lawn, laughing with nervousness and unsure of what the next year will bring.
Introductions have been made and roommates found.
The women make their way through the over-sized oak doors to find an all-inclusive facility. The classrooms, administration offices, gym, pool and 300-vol-ume library were all at their fin-gertips.
When EWU opened, it was named the Benjamin P. Cheney Academy, and this is what the stu-dents saw.
They walked from the train sta-tion and met their friends on Hel-lo Walk before entering the one-building college to take classes, mostly in the field of education.
“This was where everybody met everybody as they started the new term or the new year so that is
how it got the name Hello Walk,” Charles Mutschler, the univer-sity archivist, said of the walkway leading to Showalter Hall. “This is where all of them caught up on all of the gossip as they came back to campus.”
As the surrounding city grew, the school grew also. The cam-pus has been through many sig-nificant changes throughout the years, several of them involving the name of the institution.
The Benjamin P. Cheney Acad-emy opened in 1882 and became the State Normal School at Cheney in 1889, celebrating the birth of Washington state.
The normal graduating class size was just over 200 students a year.
In 1891 and 1912, there were fires on campus and the building, now known as Showalter Hall, was burned down on or near the location it now sits.
During this time period, resi-dence halls did not exist.
According to Mutschler, the students stayed with family or in “approved rooming” situations.
But as the school grew, the rooms were taken and the univer-sity put a few students in the clock tower for rooming.
When the 1912 fire broke out, the students in the clock tower were in danger with little options
of escape.
The fire department was not familiar with ladders to reach third story buildings yet, so the students were stuck.
“The Cheney Fire Department consisted of a couple of hose carts at the city hall,” Mutschler said. “So they grabbed a carpet out of one of the offices on the ground floor and a bunch of people held that as a net and these guys jumped one after the other into that. I think one chap got a bro-ken arm or something, … but they survived.”
The campus overcame the fires by rebuilding, and in 1915, Show-alter Hall, named for Noah David Showalter, was completed.
Noah David Showalter was the first president of the Normal School from 1910-1926.
As part of the rebuild, the infa-mous stone pillars were placed at the beginning of Hello Walk, made from stone salvaged from the fire of the Cheney Normal School.
According to Mutschler, the incoming freshman are still wel-comed through this entryway ev-ery year.
Once proper accreditation was in place, the college became East-ern Washington College of Educa-tion in 1937 and rapidly grew to Eastern Washington State College in 1961.
Still quickly growing and add-ing new fields of study, the legisla-ture made the final name change to Eastern Washington University in 1977.
The average student popula-tion of the university today is over 11,000.
Throughout the changes the college has made in the past cen-tury, one fixture has always re-mained and that is Showalter Hall.
The building, now used as the hub for university administration, has seen everything from pro-fessors and students to athletes shooting hoops and swimming laps.
Great care has been taken dur-ing past remodels to keep the es-sence of the era it was built.
Keeping up with technology has been the most difficult part of the remodeling jobs, according to Shawn King, associate vice presi-dent for Facilities and Planning.
“We have continued to look at requesting funds from the leg-islature to do a renovation of the building, which would be simi-lar to Hargreaves and Senior and Monroe, where we take the character and architecture of the building and leave it as it is, but go back in and remodel the electri-cal and mechanielectri-cal to make them with current technology and new
systems,” King said.
The architecture and charac-ter of the building include many original pieces.
The marble wainscoting that rises halfway up the walls, the tile floors and the hardwood trim have all aged gracefully as the original materials from the 1915 building.
“The marble that is on the walls through the building, I think stu-dents might not realize how rare that is to have that kind of mate-rial in a building. It is very expen-sive, it was expensive at the time, but to have that be a lot of the original materials in the building, it is kind of unique,” King said.
Still going strong at almost 100 years old, Showalter stands tall over the entrance of the university showing incoming students that age doesn’t matter.
“It is still a key building on campus and the historic district,” said King. “The building shows its age, but I think it holds it very well.”
Sarah Macdonald
staffwriter
“Diversity is respect, diversity is tak-ing a stand, diversity is interesttak-ing and di-versity is you and I,” Gayla Wright said at EWU’s Diversity Open Mic night.
About 20 people gathered in Tawanka Hall to share their stories of diversity on May 23.
Open mic night and Diversity Week are new events thought up by EWU’s diver-sity faculty. The purpose of the open mic was to allow anyone to speak about what diversity meant to them and share experi-ences about diversity, good or bad.
Humberto Cerrillo, EWU’s adviser for campus events, was the first to speak.
Cerrillo shared the struggles he faced growing up as an Irish-Mexican in Lewis-ton, Idaho. Cerrillo was one of nine His-panic students in his school.
“For me, I didn’t see color, everyone was the same. But I wasn’t the same to ev-eryone else,” Cerrillo said.
Cerrillo explained the trouble he had fitting in at school.
“I wasn’t in a place to be heard, I had to fight for it and I started to fight for it in junior high school,” he said. Cerrillo be-came student body president of his junior high school and said that was his first step in leadership.
“I reached out, I built bridges, I showed people who I was, what I was and what I thought,” he said.
Cerrillo went on to the University of Idaho where he also became the student body president. His goal was to stand up for others who had no one else to stand up for them.
Cerrillo said the open mic night was a perfect venue to declare who he is and was excited to have the opportunity to share his story.
Though Cerrillo admits EWU is excep-tionally diverse compared to other cam-puses, he said there is always room for im-provement.
After Cerrillo, Gayla Wright, the direc-tor of equal opportunity at EWU, shared
her story of diversity. Wright also helped organize diversity week.
Wright was in the U.S. military for 24 years and throughout her time spent serv-ing she said she struggled with her identity.
Wright is an African-American Irish woman who was unaware of her Irish roots until recently.
Once she became aware of her Irish blood, she said she understood more about herself and who she was.
“Diversity is difference, intelligence, variety and empathy,” Wright said. “If you are to survive, you must learn to under-stand the differences of men and different cultures.”
After Wright, Pride Center Coordinator Sandy Williams shared her story and what diversity meant to her.
“I am an introvert at heart,” Williams said. “I hate being in front of people. But when I express who I am, the core of me, I do it through writing.”
Williams shared three poems she wrote. The poems Williams recited ex-plained the struggles of embracing differ-ent skin colors and her personal struggles of coming out.
Kim Davis, a human resource associ-ate at EWU, spoke briefly about the im-portance of embracing your ethnic origin.
"When you’re young, sometimes you don’t realize how important it is to know where you come from,” she said.
Davis also went on to say one of her goals is to increase diversity among EWU faculty.
Rebecca Sokolowski, a junior at EWU, said she thought the event was interest-ing.
“If [for] nothing more than educa-tional purposes, it is important to have events like this on campus,” Sokolowski said. “I have already learned so much.”
Cerrillo said he believed Diversity Week has been a success in the message they are getting across, but hopes atten-dance will grow in the future.
“This week is just the start to create the conversation.” Cerrillo said. “Cheney is a small town full of different cultures, and that is a very powerful message.”
discussing diversity at EWU
Showalter Hall: Welcoming new and returning
students back to Eastern for almost 100 years
Blue Scholars to rock Last Blast
For a tour inside Showalter Hall with Charles Mutschler, university archivist, visit http://www.easterneron-line.com.
Hip-hop artist D. Worthy to open for the duo on the Showalter lawn
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