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Community Calendar Friday 9/20 Students learn how to get involved, enjoy coffee and snacks. Beginning at 3 p.m., the WSU International Center will host a Center for Civic Engagement-led projects coffee hour. Coffee and snacks will be provided for attendees, accompanied by a presentation about how to get involved with the Palouse from the Center for Civic Engagement. This event is free and located at the CUB in room L46.

Saturday 9/21 Free bicycle ride includes poker games. Starting at 10:30 a.m., the WSU Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) office will partner with Coug Bikes, Brelsford Visitor Center, The Pullman Depot and Heritage Center, and Paradise Creek Brewery Trailside Taproom to host an eight mile “Poker Fun Ride.” Refreshments will be provided. Those interested can register the day of through University Recreation or day-of at 10 a.m. This event is free and open to the public, and will begin at WSU Bear Center parking lot.

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Preference will be given to events that are free and open to the public or are hosted by an RSO, and must include time, date and place.

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Daily Police Log Wednesday S u i c i d a l Pe r s o n NW Ann Street, 7:26 a.m.

Officer responded, subject located and transported to the hospital.

A n i m a l P ro b l e m /Co m p l a i n t SW Golden Hills Drive, 8:48 a.m.

Officer responded for leash law questions.

H a ra ss m e n t NE Terre View Drive, 3:56 p.m.

Officer responded for phone harassment.

Gunshot Sounds N Grand Avenue, 5:56 p.m.

Report of gunshot sounds. Officer responded, located fireworks.

Theft Other SW Shirley Street, 6:42 p.m.

Officer responded for a stolen phone, located in lost and found.

St ray A n i m a l s NE Terre View Drive, 9:14 a.m.

Report of a stray dog. Officer responded, Fo u n d P ro p e r t y unable to locate.

SW Shirley Street, 7:19 p.m.

Officer found a backpack with a wallet.

Pa r k i n g P ro b l e m NE Terre View Dr & NE Northwood Dr, 10:15 a.m. Property returned.

Officer responded for a parking Co m m u n i c a t i o n s P ro b l e m complaint, unfounded.

SW Center Street, 7:52 p.m.

Officer responded for accidentall 911 call.

Pa r k i n g P ro b l e m SW Dominic Court, 10:43 a.m.

Acc i d e n t U n - I n j u r y Report of a parking problem. Officer SE Terre View Dr & SR 270, 7:58 p.m. responded.

Officer responded for vehicle versus deer collision.

Pa r k i n g P ro b l e m Lybecker Road, 11:57 a.m.

Report of a parking problem. Officer I n tox i c a te d P e r s o n responded, warning issued.

S Grand Avenue, 10:20 p.m.

Report of a possible intoxicated driver.

D i s o rd e r l y Co n d u c t Officer responded, unable to locate.

SE Fairmount Road, 3:27 p.m.

Report of disorderly conduct. Officer D i s o rd e r l y Co n d u c t responded, subject trespassed.

NE Colorado Street, 11:03 p.m.

F ra u d Officers responded for an intoxicated NE Oak Street, 3:32 p.m. male, subject located and trespassed.

Officer responded for phone fraud.

D o m e st i c D i s p u te NE Terre View Drive, 3:45 p.m.

Report of a domestic dispute. Officers responded, unable to locate.

N o i s e Co m p l a i n t NE California Street, 11:34 p.m.

Report of a loud party. Officer responded, subjects warned.

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Aries (March 21 - April 19) —½— Use your talents and charms. Start with w h a t yo u h ave . A s k f o r w h a t ’s n e e d e d . R a i s e e f f i c i e n c y t o s ave t i m e a n d m o n ey. I m a g i n e yo u r v i s i o n re a l i ze d .

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M a ke p ay m e n t s , a n d a r ra n g e te r m s . S e n d i nvo i ce s , a n d rev i ew a cco u n t s . D raw u p o n h i d d e n re s o u rce s . M a ke p ro f i t a b l e co n n e c t i o n s .

Gemini (May 21 - June 20) —— Keep your own score. Would you contribute something anonymously? How important is recognition? Sometimes you get better results quietly. Fantasies dissipate. Teach as you learn.

Cancer (June 21 - July 22) —— S l ow to rev i ew o p t i o n s a n d co n s i d e r p o te n t i a l st rate g i e s .

St u d y a s e c re t syste m .

W h at yo u n e e d i s n e a r by, a l t h o u g h m ay b e h i d d e n .

S m a l l c h a n g e s re a p b i g rewa rd s .

Leo (July 23 - Aug. 22) —— Team discussions illuminate the situation. Align on strategies, and play your part. Get support from a coach or mentor who can see your collective limitations.

Virgo (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) —— Consider professional opportunities. Imagine the potential. Consider what it would take. Rely on trusted allies and supports.

Maintain objectivity, and measure predictable results.

Libra (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) —— The news could affect your route. Watch the road ahead, and adjust for deviations. Travel light.

Avoid buying stuff you don’t need. Discover hidden beauty.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) —½— Collaborate to grow shared accounts.

Determine cooperative roles and responsibilities.

Don’t lose what you’ve got to get more. Steadily build your enterprise together.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) —— Navigate surprises with your partner.

Provide support, and ask for it when needed. Make changes as necessary. Share possibilities and passions.

Keep showing up.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) —½— Put your ideas into action. Ready, set, go! Practice to build endurance. Strategize for distance rather than speed. Keep equipment repaired and tuned.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) —½— Things may not look like your fantasies. Find hidden beauty.

Competition or romance?

Love or games? Enjoy people and activities that touch your heart.

Pisces (Feb. 19 - March 20) —½— Beautify an aspect of your home.

Clean, repair and renovate your surroundings. It’s amazing what a coat of paint can do. Find affordable solutions.

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Senate members talk purpose, transparency

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Event celebrates Indigenous women

Speaker addresses diversity among faculty, staff members

By Luke Hudson Evergreen reporter

The WSU Faculty Senate hosted a guest speaker on the topic of faculty service at its first meeting of the year Thursday.

Melanie-Angela Neuilly, interim associate vice provost for faculty inclusive excellence, spoke about faculty service in communities as a method of restoring trust between universities and the general public.

“We are doing this job, not for ourselves, but for the communities we serve,” she said.

Service comes in many forms and each is recognized differently because of how intensive, visible and formal it is, Neuilly said. Research that matters to the community is an important service for public engagement.

“That service mission is critical in the land grant mission,” she said.

Diversifying the people who serve should be an important goal at WSU, Neuilly said.

Fewer white males engage in service and seeking out those individuals as allies helps keep women and people of color from disadvantages.

“What you shouldn’t do is always go to the person who always says, ‘Yes,’” she said.

Some senators disagreed about transparency in the process of establishing the School of Information.

Donna Potts, senator for the College of Arts and Sciences, said she wanted more transparency for the decision making about where the School of Information will be housed and what programs it will offer.

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“Every opportunity to share my work is an intentional offering of myself,” says Terisa Siagatonu, touring poet, speaker and activist. The Honoring Indigenous Women event is a kick-off to Indigenous People’s Day on Oct. 14.

Poet, activist held poetry workshop; attendees invited to participate in open mic

By Loren Negron Evergreen reporter

Terisa Siagatonu, touring poet, speaker and activist, was featured at WSU’s second annual Honoring Indigenous Women event on Sept. 18.

Siagatonu’s efforts focus on diverse issues like racial justice, LGBTQ+ rights, gender equity and climate change. Her

efforts as a poet and activist in her Pacific Islander community led her to receive President Obama’s Champion of Change Award in 2012, according to her website.

She was also a speaker during the 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change.

Women*s Center Director Amy Sharp said this annual event was inspired by visitors from American Samoa in September 2018. Various groups in the university wanted to honor their visit and provide an opportunity to engage diverse communities.

“We’re recognizing indigenous people as being still here and honoring indigenous women as being very resilient and [an] important part of the fabric of our community,” said Faith Price, director of Native American Student Services.

Price said the event was organized and funded by several groups including the Division of Student Affairs, the College of Education, the ASWSU Gender and Sexuality Alliance, the Women*s Center, the Native American Student Services and See Activism Page 9

Citizens’ Climate expresses need for stronger laws

By Benjamin White Evergreen reporter

The Palouse chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby planned to push for stricter environmental laws in Whitman and Latah counties on Thursday night at Moscow’s 1912 Center.

“What we do ultimately is lobby. We are a nonpartisan, grassroots organization,” Mary Dupree, co-leader of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, said. “We’re international, over 400 chapters in the U.S., over six in Idaho. We are citizens who are working to persuade the U.S. government to take aggressive action on climate change.”

CCL members plan to lobby congress to put a tax on carbon, so fuel company practices that are unfriendly to the climate are no longer profitable, she said. If companies pay to put emissions in the air, Dupree said, it is an incentive to participate in more climate-friendly actions.

The tax they are supporting would benefit all households by giving them a tax rebate, she said.

“That will allow U.S. households to cope with higher fuel costs, because the companies are going to pass on their higher costs to individuals, or invest in

solar energy, or to buy a new car or to take a trip to Baja,” Dupree said. “It’s up to people to spend the money how they want to spend it.”

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Another item on the agenda was the climate strike Friday in Moscow.

Dupree said the plan is for a group to leave from the University of Idaho and for a group to leave from Moscow High School. Both groups will meet at East City Park in Moscow at about 11:40 a.m.

Members of CCL are planning to take advantage of the opportunity and pass around a signup sheet for their organization at the strike.

A big part of the push is getting county commissioners to support the tax initiatives, Dupree said.

“We had decided that we would approach the commissioners individually that haven’t been on board yet. They’re all farmers, so we thought we’d meet with farmers and bring farmers into the loop,” said Judy Mueth, co-leader of

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Mary Dupree, co-leader of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, says placing a tax on carbon would allow U.S. households to work around higher fuel costs.

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Dupree said another item on the agenda is reviewing how the CCL is working with the Sierra Club toward making Moscow 100 percent fueled by renewable energy soon.

“They [citizens] can let their legislatures know that they really care and that there are solutions out there,” Dupree said. “The climate crisis is not hopeless, there are very specific things that Congress could do.”

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Walmart has the right to deny overnight parking Decision to ban camping in lot stems from rowdy, destructive behavior

By Derrek Speakman Evergreen columnist

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almart recently decided to ban overnight parking in response to rowdy and disruptive campers.

Good. If there are people abusing the free service that Walmart provides and making them deal with the consequences, Walmart shouldn’t offer it at all.

Overnight campers allegedly left trash and started small campfires in the parking lot. Since Walmart doesn’t have employees set aside to deal with the problem, they had to find another solution. As a business, their number one goal is to be cost efficient. Providing this service for free means that any resources dedicated to it is always going to be a cost to them.

Previously, Walmart’s policy was to allow these overnight campers, in the same way that thousands of other Walmarts do. When there was any large weekend event, Pullman’s Walmart would see a large influx of people using their parking lot as a place to stay.

Chris Engle, Pullman Police detective, said, “It is private property, so they have the total right to control their property as they see fit, just as anyone else has the right to control their house.”

The Pullman Police Department received notice from Walmart saying that the store would no longer allow overnight parking, with no reason stated in the notice. Engle

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Walmart’s no overnight parking rule is not only well within their rights, but is completely justified. said the police department does patrols through the Walmart parking lot just like they would any other residential or commercial area.

With Walmart off the table, what alternatives are there? Those who want to stay at an RV park can stay at the city of Pullman’s for only $30 a night with a full hookup, or $10 a night if they are just camping in a tent.

However, this alternative isn’t available during home games unless you’ve already booked it. The Pullman RV park currently is almost entirely booked through May during events. There are alternative RV parks in neighboring towns, which may be available.

WSU offers RV and car spots, with differing prices based on the

event taking place. Home football games have passes available for purchase each game, and season pass holders get free parking if they’ve donated $500 or more. “Premium Parking” requires a $5,000 donation.

During any event outside of football games and Mom’s Weekend, RV parking is only $50 a night for Fridays and Saturdays at WSU. Of course, you’d be better off staying at the RV park if there are spots available.

Now, those who are more frugal may be wondering where they can stay if they would rather not spend the bare minimum $30 per night to stay at the RV park or hundreds to stay at WSU during game weekends.

Many churches offer event parking. While you don’t need to pay to stay, you are typically required to give a donation, which is technically different.

It may be of note that there weren’t actually any totally free parking spots mentioned.

That’s because there were free parking opportunities—at Walmart—but selfish and rowdy people had to ruin that opportunity. So please, when staying anywhere, regardless of whether or not it costs money, clean up your sh-t.

Derrek Speakman is a bioengineering major from Vancouver, Wash. He can be contacted at 335-2290 or by opinion@ dailyevergreen.com.

Tech companies shouldn’t be able to censor public opinions Removing search results, deleting user posts prohibits free speech, silences conversations

By Jacob Hersh Evergreen columnist

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he free flow of information is one of the cornerstones of the Internet as we know it. Indeed, it’s been one of the cornerstones of the information age as a whole, with most programmers and innovators unabashedly supporting uncensored and unobstructed data.

However, with the rise of Big Tech and the multi-billion dollar companies commodifying and commercializing the internet, an unhealthy culture of corporate censorship has taken root online. Companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon are often deliberately restricting which information is shared and which is silenced.

“Ethically, tech companies may have a duty that comes simply from their incredible influence on society,” said Beth Hindman, a WSU professor of communications, in an email.

Corporate bias, not free exchange, has become the modus operandi of most tech firms, with an emphasis on suppression of information deemed

by companies to be “against their values.”

Numerous examples of this exist online, specifically with regards to Google’s suppression of right-wing media outlets from their search results.

Essentially, this means that these websites are either no longer searchable on Google, or the links to these websites have been isolated to more obscure search terms, making them almost unsearchable, according to US News.

Some specific instances of this can be seen in Google’s removal of right-wing videos from their subsidiary, YouTube, and most damningly, largescale erasure of over 11 million websites from their search engine, with Google employees justifying the action by saying the sites appeared “spammy,” US News said.

These aren’t isolated to Google, either. Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and hundreds of other large scale tech companies are performing censorship on a worldwide level, based on little more than corporate politics.

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Even though companies like Google and Facebook are private corporations, they serve as free speech forums for millions, making censorship more complicated. modified version of their search engine that censors government-blocked sites. Feeling like learning about the Tiananmen Square massacre, scrolling through Facebook or reading in a New York Times article? With Google’s new PRC-approved search engine, government censorship will extend to virtually every facet of Chinese life. One thing’s for sure: it’s great business.

“The press should be the watchdog, keeping an eye on the government, so they can report to the public whatever

government meddling is happening,” WSU Communications Professor Somava Pande said.

“At this point, Google’s become more of a lapdog to the Chinese government.”

This begs the question: do tech companies have a moral duty to be unbiased? After all, they are private enterprises, with the right to choose what kinds of projects they choose to offer, and in what ways those projects function.

“I’m not sure they have an ethical duty to be unbiased, but they might have an ethical duty to

be transparent,” Hindman said.

Constitutionally, we can’t force tech companies to be completely neutral in their results.

However, we can agree that censorship and search biases fundamentally alter the way we receive and process information as a society. We, as producers and consumers of information, have a responsibility to demand an internet where that information can be exchanged openly. It’s also important to acknowledge that See Tech Page 11

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SPORTS WEEKEND

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Gambler’s Guide: The Other Sports

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There might be other sports besides football but don’t put your money on it, we wouldn’t

By Cody Schoeler Evergreen columnist

Last week, readers of Gambler’s Guide made millions of dollars in profit. (disclaimer: there is no actual evidence to back up this claim it is purely speculation and most likely not even true) That is the easy part, call it beginner’s luck. The difficult part comes when you have made racks on racks and have no idea what to do with it.

“I don’t know what they want from me. It’s like the more money we come across the more problems we see,” said Kelly Price on The Notorious B.I.G’s song “Mo Money, Mo Problems.”

There is no other aspect of life that those wise words apply to more than sports gambling. The more money you make the more problems you run into trying to bet it all again.

Everyone knows you cannot go back to football prop bets right after you just fleeced them for thousands of dollars with your on-point bets.

“You never drink from the same well twice, and you never bet the same bets twice,” said A. Wiez Mann, a very wise man.

Do not get it twisted though. Prop bets are still the best and most efficient way to go, just not for the same sport.

This weekend the Gambler’s Guide will tell you exactly how to win stacks by betting on prop bets for the ‘other sports.’

Soccer How long before the first goal is scored Over/Under: 1:49 This number seems super random and it is unclear where they got it from.

The odds are looking good for the over because it is extremely unlikely for a team to give up a goal within the first two minutes. The risky play here is to bet the push and hope that a goal is scored at exactly 1:49 but that rarely happens.

Will Makamae Gomera-Stevens switch teams?

No: -500 This bet is basically a loselose scenario. If she does not switch teams then you lose money. If she does then that clearly means something very bad is happening to the team you are probably rooting for.

Avoid bets like this because they never make you happy.

Yes: +1,000 Maybe the people making the odds know something that everybody else does but that is probably not the case. It is more likely they are just trying to make money off of Hawaii homers. There is a scenario where the Hawaiian home crowd gets to Gomera-Stevens and convinces her to swap teams at halftime and become a Rainbow Warrior but it is a risky move to put money on it.

Who will score the first goal?

Morgan Weaver: -1,500 Weaver has basically scored every goal for WSU for the past four years and the odds clearly reflect that. Maybe she is not good at scoring goals on islands which would open the door for someone else. In all likelihood Weaver is going to open up the goal scoring once again.

Averie Collins: +250 If by some miracle, Morgan Weaver does not score the first goal then the next best option is Collins. She is also good at putting the ball in the net and she will probably want to do just that during the game.

Makamae Gomera-Stevens: +400 The home-state factor is playing a big role in Gomera-Stevens’s odds here. She will be used to playing soccer on an island which must be very different from soccer over here. If some of the other players come out looking off then betting on GomeraStevens could end up being a good deal.

Sydney Pulver: +1,200 Pulver does not shoot the ball very often, and when she does shoot, it normally does not go in. Her odds are a little higher than preferred but she is on the field a lot so hypothetically she has a chance to score. If you plan to take a shot on Pulver, just hope it does better than any of hers. She only scores a goal a year, hope it’s this one if you bet on her.

Kyle Sweet: +7,500 Somehow Kyle Sweet ends up with odds again for a team he does not even play for. This team it is for a sport he did not even play at WSU. He was kind of a punter during his time here so maybe he could score a goal but this bet just seems like an automatic loss.

Ella Dederick: +50,000 Even though Dederick is a goalie these odds seem a little too low. Unlike Kyle Sweet, she is actually on the field, plays the sport of soccer and is still enrolled at the university. This is a better bet than Sweet because she has a chance for a goal if all the Hawaii players decide to take a nap at the same time.

Volleyball Why is WSU even at this tournament?

Nobody else from Texas wanted to play in it: -150 Not really sure how they are going to determine the right answer for this but this one seems the closest to being right. It is the only logical reason for WSU to travel to Edinburg, Texas to play in a tournament hosted by a school that sounds more like something sold by John Deere than a college.

They thought they were inviting the Houston Cougars: +150 This is actually another highly plausible reason for WSU to be playing in Texas. It is totally possible that WSU and Houston get each other’s mail all the time, just like you might accidentally get somebody’s mail from up the street. It is a genuine mistake but in this case resulted in a volleyball tournament. Kind of like that Lucas Falk guy the Tennessee Titans sent a playbook too because they thought he was our man Luke.

WSU wanted to fully conquer the state of Texas in college athletics: +600 A little bit of corporate greed from WSU athletics is always believable. This time it comes in the form of wanting to conquer the state of Texas in college athletics. The

football team already went down and beat Houston so now the volleyball Cougs have been sent to assert their dominance.

This is the ‘We Want Bama’ of college volleyball: +20,000 In this scenario, WSU is ‘Bama’ and schools like Houston Baptist and Texas Southern are the ‘we.’ WSU is pretty good at volleyball so maybe these smaller schools wanted to face them to prove their worth.

This is not the most likely of the reasons so only put money on this if for some reason you want to never see it again.

Who is going to lead the team in kills?

Jocelyn Urias: -150 Urias is not a huge favorite, but a favorite nonetheless. She is the most experienced attacker on the team so it is a good bet for her to be the leading killer every game. It is understandable to be weary because she is does not lead the team in kills so far but she is a good bet.

Pia Timmer: +200 Timmer is leading the team in kills which makes her a good bet. The only downside to her game is that she has probably never been to Texas so that could impact her game. Hopefully the heat does not get to the German and you get a good return on you bet.

Charity Bradley: +350 Bradley has been playing well recently as she has developed a trend of having double digit kills every other game. Last game she only had six so look for her to have a good showing. She seems to use her height to her advantage so if the other teams have equally as tall of players at the net then she may end up not paying out.

Hannah Pukis: +1,000 Pukis is a setter so no one would expect her to lead the team in a category other than assists. She does have this cheeky little move where she fakes like she is going to set it and goes for the kill. If she goes full Russell Westbrook o n the Texas teams and starts stat-chasing she could get you a return on your bet.

Kyle Sweet: +5,000 How Kyle Sweet ends up on another odds list despite not being at WSU or a volleyball player ever in his career remains a mystery. Do not put your money on Sweet for any of these bets he appears on. Whoever makes these odds clearly has a huge Sweet tooth but do not fall for their trap and give them money that will inevitably go toward their Kyle Sweet shrine.

Alexis Dirige: +10,000 Another case of a player on the actual team having worse odds than Kyle Sweet.

This one makes the most sense because Dirige plays libero and does not even attempt kills. Maybe the team has been working on a play in practice where Bradley puts Dirige on her shoulders, and they turn into a super-player. Unless that is the case, this bet is an automatic loss.

How many freshmen will there be on the court at one time?

Over/Under: 5.5 This is a very optimistic line the oddsmakers have set. For you to win this bet you need coach Greeny to roll out an entire line-up of freshmen at some point. This will either be accomplished in one of two ways.

The first way is if she tries to flex on some lowly team they face off against by deploying an all-freshmen line-up and still winning. The other way is the opposite of that, where they are beating a team so bad that coach Greeny takes pity on them and sends in the reserves, all of which are freshmen.

Rowing Will someone lose an oar?

Yes: -110 This is a really tough decision for oddsmakers to make as you can tell from how close the odds are. They must have went with the idea that oars get slippery due to the water and that makes them hard to hold on to. This is not the worst way to use your money but the payout is not as much as you might like for something that is unlikely to happen.

No: +150 You got to remember these rowers are not just average joes off the street that get in the boat. These rowers train day in and day out to row so they should have enough grip strength not to drop a wet oar. If you put your money on this bet than you better believe in the hands of the rowers that you are putting your money in.

Will there be a fight between two rowers where they use the oars as swords?

No: -15,000 There is almost zero likelihood that this will occur. This bet is not even worth your time.

Yes: +10,000 On the other hand, if this were to occur it would be the most entertaining thing to ever occur at whatever they call a rowing match. A fight between two rowers standing in separate boats using their oars as weapons would be legendary. If you feel the same way then place some money on it and hope that your wish will come true.

Swimming Will there be a celebratory cannonball?

No: -500 One would assume that these student-athletes would be able to contain their joy. One would also assume that once they get done swimming they want to wrap in a towel as opposed to jump back in the pool. These odds do not give you a good chance to win any money so avoid it unless you are a fan not having fun.

Yes: +750 This is another case of wishful thinking with the odds. It is super that this actually happens. If someone swims really fast, like a lot faster than normal, then maybe they will celebrate with a cannonball splash. If you put money on this bet on it pays out then you may want to find the nearest pool to jump in to celebrate.

Golf Is golf even playing this weekend?

Maybe: -150 This seems more of a genuine question than odds for a bet. There does not seem to be a way to lose this bet though. It seems like whether they play or not you win this bet so it is basically free money.

Yes/No: +200 They even gave no yes and no the same odds, further proving that they have no idea if they are paying this weekend. If you actually know the answer to this question, or feel like doing something the oddsmakers did not do and look it up online, then you can just put money on the right answer and win.

No. 19 WSU football will open its Pac-12 schedule at home against UCLA at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at Martin Stadium for another late kickoff.

The Cougars’ (3-0) previous meeting with the Bruins (0-3) came with a 27-21 WSU win on Oct. 15, 2016 in Pullman.

Despite Cougars owning the previous two wins, UCLA is ahead in the all-time series, leading WSU 39-21-1.

WSU is coming off a road win against the University of Houston 31-24, as the team made a second half push to gain a lead after being down 14-7 going into halftime.

Head coach Mike Leach said that he feels the team gets better each week.

“So we have to get a week better this week,” Leach said.

UCLA is pushing forward after a home loss to No. 5 Oklahoma 48-14. This is the second team in a row that WSU will play that has faced Oklahoma this season.

Regardless of the way that UCLA has presented itself this season, Leach said the team is talented and he knows a lot about the players because WSU tried to recruit a lot of them.

“I just don’t think they’re playing together as well as they’d like to right now, but that can happen anytime,” Leach said.

Redshirt senior quarterback Anthony Gordon earned the Pac-

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Redshirt senior wide receiver Easop Winston Jr. scores a touchdown against University of Northern Colorado on Sept. 7 at Martin Stadium.

12 Offensive Player of the Week Award this week for the second time this season. Gordon leads the nation in passing yards and is tied with Alabama junior quarterback Tua Tagovailoa at 12 passing touchdowns and is averaging 441.3 yards a game.

Despite his performance, Gordon credited one of his receivers, redshirt junior Renard Bell.

“Renard is all 160 pounds, but he doesn’t play like that,” Gordon said, “he plays with a lot of heart and a lot of passion and he plays for the guy next to him.

Renard is a great team player.”

Bell is one of the 11 targets that Gordon has connected with passing this season and has helped the teams, not just receiving, but blocking as well.

“I’ve been doing it all year,” Bell said. “It’s just the type

of player I want to be, I just want to extend plays for my teammates when I don’t have the ball in my hands.”

Bell said he has seen composure from Gordon with him not forcing too many plays.

“He came in with me in 2016 and he’s been doing it ever since, just being a playmaker,” Bell said.

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Kickoff will be at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday night at Martin Stadium. You can also catch the game on ESPN for the second week in a row.

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Volleyball travels to Texas for tournament, Dirige excited

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W

SU Volleyball will travel out to Texas this weekend to participate in the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Tournament on Friday at the UTRGV Fieldhouse in Edinburg, Texas.

The team will start their morning against Houston Baptist at 8 a.m.

The Cougars beat their competition in the early half of this season.

With a current record of 8-1, WSU has swept its opponents in seven of those matches. The only loss came against the University of Iowa.

Senior libero Alexis Dirige wants her teammates to be filled with confidence as they head into this weekend’s tournament.

“The point of this preseason for us with seven new freshmen is really just to get experience and get in a rhythm on our side of the court and get used to playing with one another,” Dirige said.

This year’s team has a lot of fresh faces, and they showed out in the Cougar Challenge. Freshman outside hitter Pia Timmer led WSU in kills (29) and she tied for first on the team in aces (4).

Freshman setter Hannah Pukis anchored the offensive attack with 99 total assists and fresh-man middle blocker Magda Jehlarova totaled 17 overall blocks.

“Some things we are doing, is going into practice and reminding everyone that we are still trying to work on things and get better,” Dirige said. “Once Pac-12 starts that does not mean we are done working on things, but we HSING-HAN CHEN | DAILY EVERGREEN FILE have a lot of preparation to do in order to hang.”

Middle blocker Magda Jehlarova spikes the ball against Liberty University on Saturday in Bohler Gym.

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Ferdinand’s changes hours Shop to be open from 1-6 p.m. this weekend for home football game

By Katlyn Cook Evergreen reporter

Ferdinand’s Ice Cream Shoppe will be open from 1-6 p.m. for this Saturday’s football game against the UCLA Bruins.

The shop will also have special hours for the remaining WSU home football games, Mom’s Weekend, and spring commencement.

Ferdinand’s manager Eric Needham said the business can get crazy during the football season, and they experience longer lines than most other times. There is a lot of prior planning involved in making sure everything runs smoothly, while maintaining interaction with their customers.

He said Ferdinand’s is a key part of the overall experience during football games.

“It’s a pre-football game attraction,” Needham said, “a go-to place.”

Needham said what is special about Ferdinand’s is that the products are made by the students. The business gets milk from the dairy farm at WSU, using it to make different items on the menu.

Ferdinand’s employee Taylor Ryland said she has worked at Ferdinand’s for a while and

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Taylor Ryland, Ferdinand’s employee, talks about her experience working at Ferdinand’s since her sophomore year on Friday at Ferdinand’s Ice Cream Shoppe. has seen the times during the football season that it has been busier than normal. Ryland said Ferdinand’s located near several tailgaters that will often want to grab a scoop of ice cream.

She and her coworkers bonded after such hectic days, she said, as they got through it together. She said Ferdinand’s brings fans together as well.

Ryland said she feels that Ferdinand’s different generations of Cougs, showing the

Service | Cont. from Page 4 She said it was her understanding that members of the decision-making committee on the School of Information were sworn to secrecy.

Matthew Jockers, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,

said he wanted to keep the first couple meetings confidential because the committee was just entertaining an idea.

After the decision was made, he said it was opened for input through a memo from the

strong sense of community and tradition present within WSU. “On game day, you feel the spirit and energy of Cougar football season,” she said. “I think that it’s a tradition that a lot of [fans] have.”

She learned a lot from working at Ferdinand’s, Ryland said, most of it about their Cougar Gold cheese.

Needham said Cougar Gold is one of the ice cream shop’s top sellers during football season.

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The purpose of Faculty Senate is to represent faculty at WSU and exercise legislative powers to make recommendations to university leadership for changes, according to the WSU Faculty Senate website.

The senate’s next meeting is scheduled for Oct. 3.

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Honoring Indigenous Women is a kick-off to Indigenous People’s Day on Oct. 14, she said.

“We’re not just celebrating our existence and celebrating those leaders and women of indigenous backgrounds, but we’re also asking the hard questions and figuring out together: what does that honor look like in real-time?” Siagatonu said.

The event commenced with Siagatonu’s meet-andgreet at the Asian American and Pacific Islander Student Center. Siagatonu said she was honored to be a guest because her college experience helped shape her identity.

She said it was during her freshman year at the University of California, Santa Cruz that she was exposed to spoken word poetry and wrote her first poem.

“So much of my identity was developed when I was in college,” Siagatonu said. “I believe so much of the movements that we see happening in our world come from young leaders who are just testing out their voices and their skills in real-time, especially on college campuses.”

The event is Siagatonu’s first show of her 2019-20 tour, she said.

Siagatonu held a poetry workshop titled “Protecting the Sacred.” Attendees were given prompted discussions: what protection means to them, what they have protected in their lives and what they deem sacred. They engaged in freewriting to answer the prompts and used their notes to write what they think a world looks like when all is sacred.

Siagatonu also discussed in her workshop the activism efforts to protect Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano.

“We know that in the real world that when we stay quiet about things that matter, it only hurts us and it continues to harm the environment we exist in,” she said.

The event concluded with a poetry slam at the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center.

Graduate student Veronica Sandoval and MyKel Johnson, senior majoring in communication and society, opened the slam event with their poems.

Siagatonu also shared her poems at the poetry slam.

Attendees were invited to participate during the open mic portion of the program.

Siagatonu said everyone is in community and can voice their stories.

“I was really honored to share my perspective as an indigenous woman, especially from the tribe that’s territorial to here,” Johnson said. “To be able to speak my truth in a safe space was amazing.”

Siagatonu said she feels like no performance she gives is ever for the sake of performing.

“Every opportunity to share my work is an intentional offering of myself,” Siagatonu said.

The themes of the poems covered a myriad of topics like cultural identity, home and displacement, diversity, assimilation, violence, inequality and hope.

Sharp said they are planning to continue to celebrate these events annually and get more people involved.

“I’m looking forward to growing this event and exposing as many students and faculty and staff as possible to our indigenous people here, our heritage, and the great things people do in modern times,” Price said. “A lot of times, native people are relegated to history; that’s the only time we talk about them.”

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Walk held to benefit people with Alzheimer’s Walk begins at 10 a.m., will be three miles along Bill Chipman trail

By Madysen McLain Evergreen reporter

Family members, friends, caregivers and supporters will gather to raise thousands of dollars for Alzheimer’s disease research during the annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Pullman on Saturday.

“You miss your person when they’re gone,” walk manager Leslie Woodfill of Spokane said. “You’re still missing them because so much of who they are isn’t able to be expressed anymore.”

Registration opens at 8:30 a.m. and the three-mile walk begins at 10 a.m. on the Bill Chipman Trail starting at the Quality Inn, she said.

The walk is free to attend, but those who donate more than $100 receive a T-shirt, Woodfill said.

To register for the walk online, visit the Walk to End Alzheimer’s website.

Walk participants will pick a pinwheel flower upon checkin. The color of the flower corresponds to the relationship people have with Alzheimer’s disease, she said.

Yellow represents someone who is a relative, caregiver or friend of someone with

Alzheimer’s or dementia.

Those who have had a loved one die from the disease will carry a purple flower. If someone does not know anyone affected by the disease, they can carry an orange flower to show their support. If someone has Alzheimer’s they will carry a blue flower.

The last flower, a new addition this year, will be carried by children.

“It’s a flower of hope,” Woodfill said. “Our hope is children in that generation will never have to worry about getting Alzheimer’s disease.”

During the promise garden ceremony at 9:30 a.m., she said walk participants will hold their flowers high when their color is called.

Woodfill said the fundraising goal this year is $35,000. Last year, teams, individuals and groups raised about $30,000 for Alzheimer’s research and support.

The leading group, called “Memory of Patricia Joan,” raised almost $3,000 so far, according to the Walk to End Alzheimer’s website.

This is the sixth year the Quad Cities area has hosted a walk. Pullman and Lewiston take turns hosting, Woodfill said.

Every 65 seconds, someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia disease, she said.

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Walk manager Leslie Woodfill said the funds from the walk will go toward providing research dollars, education, support groups and advocacy to end Alzheimer’s.

“That’s terrifying frankly,” Woodfill said.

Over 110,000 people in Washington live with Alzheimer’s, and 325,000 people

are unpaid caregivers, she said.

“The unpaid caregivers are people like you and me,” Woodfill said. “We’re taking care of them and trying to help them

through this until the end.”

She said all the funds provide research dollars, education, support groups and advocacy to ultimately end Alzheimer’s disease.

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RTAs necessary, deserve dining account funds Technology assistants must live in dorms, deserve at least first level meal plan

By Elena Perry Evergreen columnist

Gone are the days of professors assigning worksheets and collecting completed homework during class time. Assignments are delivered electronically on platforms like Top Hat and MindTap. Reasons for this shift vary from ease of grading for professors to reducing paper waste.

However, one thing that is undoubtedly essential in completing modern electronic homework is an internet connection. With no Wi-Fi, pages will not load, and students will not be able to do their work.

Wi-Fi routinely shuts down, slows with overuse and sometimes does not work altogether. And for many on-campus residents, there is often only one person they think to turn to in order to get their internet running smoothly.

That person is the Residential Technology Assistant (RTA). Each residence hall is equipped with an RTA, and they serve as the middlemen between students and the IT department. Because the Wi-Fi on campus and in the dorms was so unpredictable at the beginning of this year, RTAs received many complaints about the connection and requests for it to be fixed.

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RTAs living in the residence halls have to purchase on-campus food with their own funds. The time consuming nature of their job makes it hard for them to have an additional job to afford food. about internet connection, RTAs are not paid. They receive the cost of their room in their corresponding residence hall paid for by the school, but they do not receive any additional payment or a Residential Dining Account (RDA) to pay for food on campus.

RTAs should be allotted at least the minimum RDA level of $970 a semester, so they can conveniently dine on campus and receive a discount by doing so. Resident Advisers (RAs) also work in the dorms; RAs are responsible for looking after students living in their halls.

They receive free housing as part of their payment, as well as the top level of RDA with $1,480 in their account each semester.

“RAs have a lot more responsibility than we do,” said second-year and Orton RTA Marcus Wagner. “If RDA was [included in our payment], that would be great, but I don’t think [we] deserve [as much as RAs].”

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“No censorship at all,” Pande said. “But is it possible?”

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