Beyond Our Coverage

Finnish President Sauli Niinistö visited Washington on March 6. According to King 5, Niinistö talked to Jay Inlsee about the country joining NATO.

A proposed bill in the Washington Legislature, which was going to make school lunch free for all students, has been amended to only help low income students, according to Seattle Times. The bill is estimated to affect 90,000 K-12 students.

47-year-old Lauro Barrios of Wapato was struck and killed by a vehicle on Highway 97 on Tuesday morning, according to KIMA TV. KIMA had previously reported that Highway 97 is

23 people will face domestic terrorist charges after being arrested March 5 for violent protests in “Cop City,” according to CNN. The protesters turned violent at a police training regiment in Atlanta, Georgia.

Disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh will spend life in prison after being convicted of killing his wife and son, according to CNN. Murdaugh was also charged with 99 other crimes, which include fraud and conspiracy.

A bill in Colorado was proposed on March 3 which will ban buying and changing ownership of assault weapons. According to Yahoo News, the bill was proposed as a result of highschoolers protesting.

Letter from the Editor

So here we are CWU,

Another quarter, another nine issues under our belt, and countless memories and connections made in the meantime. We inquired into Title IX cases, covered news trends like gun violence and police brutality, and covered art shows galore. We have dealt with ups and downs in our personal lives the whole time, trying to keep it together for the sake of the paper. We have been led by our incredible woman advisor Dr. Jennifer Green, who inspires all of us on staff to be a leader, and we continue to celebrate women leaders on our Women’s History Month double truck on pg. 6-7. We have featured so many familiar faces, and occasionally it’s inevitable that we double feature the same people.

As a publication, we take great care to avoid conflicts of interest where possible, which means we try not to write articles directly about things we are involved in or featuring our friends. Occasionally, we cover the same person or organization more than once in an issue, as you may see this issue, but typically we try to cover the most variety of sources as possible. If you or anybody you know has questions about The Observer or has information and wants to be a source for a story, please reach out to our email CWUObserver@gmail.com. As always, we hope you find ways to bask in the sun this spring and we’ll see you in April!

Take care and enjoy your Spring break,

Katherine Camarata Lead Editor

Staff

Lead Editor Katherine Camarata

News Editor Morgana Carroll

Assistant News Editor Megan Rogers

Sports Editor Isaac Hinson

Copy Desk Lead /

Opinion Editor Jacqueline Hixssen

Online Editor Madison VanRavenhorst

Assistant Copy Editor

Brittany Cinderella

Faculty Adviser Jennifer Green

Graphic Design Lead

Glacie Kehoe-Padilla

Assistant Graphic Designer Brandon Davis

Photo Editor Andrew Ulstad

Senior Reporter

Omar Benitez

Staff Reporters

Alahnna Connolly

Tre’Jon Henderson

Gavin Johnson

Charis Jones

Zileni Milupi

Joshua Packard

Deacon Tuttle

MJ Rivera

Jordyn Rossmeisl

Editorial Consultant Francesco Somaini

The H5N1 (bird flu) outbreak continues, with Peru reporting at least 3,487 recent sea lion deaths linked to bird flu, according to CNN. Risk to humans remains low, but the World Health Organization says, “We cannot assume that will remain the case.”

Graves discovered in southeastern Europe show remnants of the earliest known horse-riders, according to CNN. The riders, buried upwards of 5,000 years ago, bear markings and patterns of wear on their leg-bones and spines that suggest they rode horses.

A massive fire in Bangladesh at the world’s largest refugee camp has left 12,000 people without shelter, according to BBC. Police have begun investigating into the possibility of arson.

Guest Column: Who is the assignee?

“The secret behind things is that they have no essence.”

–Foucault

I am not my driver’s ID, nor my social security number. I feel, at times, like an evolving self or many selves or an incarnated mindstream or, presently, a pronoun in this sentence. What is my ontological situation? Is that “me” in the mirror? Why am I checking my phone to see if someone has called me, or checking Facebook or Twitter or any social media platform, or going to a priest or a shrink or a teacher or a parent or a friend to find out? They seem to think “I” exist. I get messages that imply there is someone here to answer these messages, these tweets, these posts. I wake from a dream and am amazed I am still here. I use my inner transhumanistic yoga practices to be sure I will find my way after I am dead. I enhance my sleeping state with lucid dreaming, my awakened state with mindfulness meditations and my meditative state with a cushion and a cup of tea. I make sure my Vajra body is tuned to perfection. I check on my Shamanist allies and protectors. I study the topography of the Attic Greek underworld with its six rivers, the Hebrew Garden with its two trees, the three Dzogchen bardos (intermediate states between death and rebirth), the Egyptian weighing of souls and the Christian judging of souls. I had better have a soul or it will not be judged. I had better have a spirit or it will not be blessed. Or a self that will not be active on Facebook.

Staying active, my sense of self disappears, and I do not have to dwell on the moribund actuality that I do not have a self that has a personality, that has a soul, that must prepare a face (with or without a mask) to meet the faces that I will meet. This situation goes further back than Descartes and Augustine and Plato. “Death in Life; Life in Death; Rebirth,” is Orphic. Coming forward, I want to improve the brand, add a little hardware to the kludge, maybe download my entire conscious mystery into a gooey substance left over from a fried computer terminal (Aronofsky, π) and, thereby, in the literal sense, embrace a cybernetic system. Change the mainframe, change the game. What I cannot understand is why a human would circumvent a system that is not broken and requires an operator merely to look beyond the bars of hir self-centered imprisonment.