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The ASWSU presidential and vice presidential candidates debated about topics including student involvement, mental health and political participation during the general debate on Sunday, even answering a question asking if they were Taylor
Swift fans. Kylie Waddill and Donavyn Velez-Fucal debated against Curtis Cohen and Sean Doster for the second time in the CUB Senior Ballroom, answering questions from a debate moderator and the student body. Out of the four students who asked questions to the candidates, three of them were affili-
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ated with ASWSU. Fewer than 20 people attended the debate. One of the topics the candidates debated about was mental health resources on campus and whether they felt like they are underutilized. Cohen said he and Doster felt mental health resources are underutilized by students because See DEBATE Page 7
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Bridging educational distances in prison By Bradley Gamble Evergreen reporter
The first time Anna Plemons visited a prison an inmate’s pet bird landed on her shoulder. From then on she said when visiting a prison: always expect the unexpected. Plemons is a WSU clinical assistant professor of English who has taught creative writing to incarcerated people in prisons in several states. She shared her experience at the first annual communiKAILA MATSUNAGA | THE DAILY EVERGREEN ty event for the new WSU Interdisciplinary Conference on Anna Plemons, WSU English professor, discusses some of the benefits and challenges of Social Justice on Friday at the education within correctional facilities on Friday afternoon at Neill Public Library.
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Students of the robotics team are putting in hours of work to prepare for the competition
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BUILDING THE PERFECT BEAST
Team will compete in BattleBots show for first time, bring three robots By Angelica Relente Evergreen reporter
Crimson Robotics president Daniel Goto has been putting in between 70-90 hours per week to work on “Pain Saw,” which is the robot his team will bring to this year’s BattleBots competition.
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“I think everyone who builds robots wants to go to BattleBots,” Goto said. “BattleBots is the Olympics of combat robotics.” Crimson Robotics will compete against other teams in California next month for the newest season of BattleBots, a TV show in which teams flex their robot’s ability to destroy and demolish one another. Goto said among the 500 teams who applied, only the top 80 teams were chosen. This was the first time Crimson Robotics applied, and luckily, he
said, they were one of the 80 teams. In addition to the prize money, the winning team will also get a trophy-like award called The Giant Nut. “The real thing you gain from it is [the] experience, connections and a lot of publicity for your team,” he said. Pain Saw has chainsaw blades built onto it, Goto said. It also has a lifting arm capable of lifting 800 pounds at the tip. The team has other weapons they can swap out like circular saws. “The chainsaw is a unique weapon [that] hasn’t been used for the show,” he said. Pain Saw is supposed to resemble a spaceship, Goto said. Its main color is gold and its secondary and tertiary colors are crimson and gray. The team is bringing two fully-built robots and the third one as a spare. He said each robot is made from about $9,000 worth of parts. The team applied for grants and sought funding from different departments in the university to cover some of the cost of the robot. “It’s really expensive, especially considering that you’re gonna destroy what you’re making,” Goto said. “But that’s what it’s all about — it’s an engineering challenge.” The combination of durability and putting on a good show, he said, is what constitutes a good battle.
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Crimson Robotics team captain Daniel Goto talks about the upcoming California trip to battle their robots on the show Battle Bots, on Friday at Dana Hall. “You have to balance aesthetics with … reliability,” Goto said. “The best robots find a way to incorporate aesthetic elements into their structural design in the robot.” Brad Taylor, mechanical engineering lead for Crimson Robotics, said he used computer-aided design — a software used to create 2D or 3D models of an object — to draw illustrations of their robot. The mechanical engineering team had to do all the design work and get it manufactured as soon as possible, which takes some time, Taylor said. “I think sometimes a lot of engineering programs are underrated,” Taylor said. “I think this is a good spotlight for us to kind of show … what we’re doing over here.” Ruvim Turchik, electrical engineering lead for Crimson
Robotics, said the electrical engineering team chose electrical components such as the motor of the robot. One of the challenges throughout the course of the project was finding time between classes to work on the robot, he said. “Sadly I won’t be able to go to the competition because of my classes, but just seeing how hard the team has worked … it’s truly incredible that we go on [the show],” Turchik said. Logan Dihel, computer science lead for Crimson Robotics, said the computer science team did the programming aspect to make sure all weapons and wheels can be controlled. One of the obstacles his team faced is ensuring that the connection between the receiver and the computer was solid. Dihel said he cannot go to the competition, but he can
still help the team with programming. “It’s like Google Docs for coding,” Dihel said. “We can all make remote changes at the same time then upload it to the robot.” Goto, who is also the founder of Crimson Robotics, formed the team in December 2018. They have been designing a robot since then. “I always wanted to compete in combat robotics and compete in BattleBots,” Goto said. “I like building big, expensive, really destructive things and getting into this competition this year with Wazzu means that this is my way of getting my foot in the door.” The new season of BattleBots will be aired at 8 p.m. May 15 on Discovery Channel, according to the BattleBots website.
her for a writer’s copy of a book on incarceration she wrote, because she was standing next to a correctional officer and they prohibited calls between incarcerated people and staff. Another audience member asked what terms incarcerated people call themselves, which led to a discussion about the different meanings and usages of these terms. Plemons said “inmates” and “prisoners” were the most common terms, while “convict” and “felon” were used for specific cases. She added that inmates very rarely call themselves incarcerated people. Aidan Barger, WSU freshman creative writing major, and SJCON panelist, said he found the event insightful. “I’ve always just referred to people as inmates or prisoners and I never really considered the social impacts of the way that we’ve referred to them,” he said.
Plemons said she wants to focus on bridging the transition from incarceration to the rest of the world. While she said her position at WSU may seem like a pivot away from prison, she is ready to get back into helping those incarcerated. Ayla Reyes, WSU freshman elementary education major, said the event was very helpful in changing her viewpoints on incarcerated life. “I have a lot more sympathy towards incarcerated persons,” she said. “I learned that they are trying to better themselves.” Kathryn Manis, chair of WSU SJCON and an organizer of the event, said the conference plans on having another event like this next year. “I hope that one of the things people take away from this event is that Pullman and WSU are safe places to engage in conversations, to throw out ideas, and to disagree with each other if that happens,” she said.
BRIDGES | Continued from Page 1 thing that I always want to come out of it is for folks to sort of expand their understanding of who might be in prison and how we might interact with and support those folks.” Plemons said many of these prison teachers think their class
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address and audience members engaged in a conversation about incarceration and education. One audience member asked how custody staff and inmates could bridge their distances to prevent injustices within institutions.
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The film touched upon how these incarcerated people ended up in prison, what effect their incarceration had on their families and how BPI functioned. One section of the film was dedicated to a debate group within the institution and how they created their own community within BPI. The debate group ended up winning a debate against Harvard University. Following the film, Plemons spoke about her experiences as a teacher within prisons and issues within these programs. Plemons said prison teachers should not only focus on teaching, but on bridging distances and strengthening relationships with incarcerated people and those outside of prison. “Whenever I have a chance to be in a room with folks talking about issues of incarceration,” Plemons said. “The
I hope that one of the things people take away from this event is that Pullman and WSU are safe places to engage in conversations
is what changes inmates, but really the inmates already want to change. “People do change over the course of education,” Plemons said. “However, they came because they want to change and that is a key distinction from your class is changing them.” A Q&A followed Plemons’
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Plemons said building relationships requires custody staff to respect those who are incarcerated and see them as people rather than inmates. but it is hard to because of how the rules of the institution work. Plemons said she once had to turn down a phone call from an inmate who was trying to thank
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WSU sweeps Purple Eagles in home opener T Baseball gets first sweep since April 2018, scores 47 runs in four games at Bailey-Brayton
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The WSU baseball team closed the sweep of the Niagara University Purple Eagles in its 15-2 win Sunday afternoon in Pullman. Sophomore first baseman Kyle Manzardo led the way for the Cougars (9-6). He got on base five out of the six times he batted. He finished with two RBIs and five runs. “I have been thinking about line drives up the middle,” Manzardo said. “That has really been working for me.” Head coach Brian Green said Manzardo continues have a great season and is really consistent. Junior pitcher Bryce Mole started on the mound for the Cougars in their final game of the series. For Niagara (5-8), senior pitcher Yohn Zapata-Baez started and pitched 3.1 innings. He gave up four earned runs and struck out two Cougars. Junior right fielder Collin Montez got the scoring underway in the bottom of the first with a three-run homer that scored Manzardo and junior third baseman Jack Smith. The Purple Eagles got on the scoreboard in the top of the second inning on a double from sophomore right fielder Spencer Marcus scored senior third baseman Michael Gabriele home. In the fourth inning, a single from senior catcher Matt Zaremba scored sophomore second baseman Cole Tucker. Cougars led 3-2 entering the bottom of the fourth. Junior pitcher Kyle Smyth replaced Zapata-Baez on the mound during the fourth inning. His first two pitches on the mound hit Cougar batters loading the bases with only one out. More RBI’s came from Montez as a single scored two more runs for WSU. A pop-fly from junior left fielder Justin Van De Brake scored another run for the Cougars.
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Senior left-handed pitcher AJ Block throws a pitch in game three against Niagara on Saturday afternoon on March 7 at Bailey-Brayton Field. The next Cougar baseball game is against Gonzaga on Tuesday, March 10 at 3:05 p.m. at WSU. WSU led 6-2 going into the fifth inning. Sophomore pitcher Connor Barison took over on the mound at the start of the fifth inning for the Cougars. Barison pitched a perfect two innings getting all six of the batters he faced out. He had three strikeouts as well. A double from freshman center ,fielder Brady Hill added another run to the Cougars’ total as junior second baseman Garrett Gouldsmith scored.
WSU added two more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning extending its lead to 10-2. Junior pitcher Hayden Rosenkrantz took over the pitching duties from Barison in the seventh inning. Rosenkrantz pitched two scoreless innings. Redshirt freshman Payton Flynn stepped up to the plate as a pinch hitter and connected on a double that scored Van De Brake and Montez.The Cougars led 13-2 going into the top of the eighth.
Manzardo hit a two-run shot in the bottom of the eighth upping his run total to five for the game. WSU finished the game with 15 runs and 12 hits. The Cougars had eight batters get walked and two were hit by pitches. The Cougars stay at home as the face the Gonzaga Bulldogs at 3:05 p.m. Tuesday at Bailey-Brayton Field.
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WSU basketball team struggles over the weekend, Tony Miller leads team in scoring against ASU Sun Devils By Ryan Root Evergreen men’s basketball reporter
WSU men’s basketball ended the regular season schedule with an 83-74 loss to the Arizona State University Sun Devils on Saturday in the Desert Financial Arena in Tempe, Arizona. Junior forward Tony Miller led the Cougars (15-16, 6-12) in scoring for the third time of his career with 21 points, 15 of which came in the second half. Like his previous team-leading performances, he came off the bench. Miller added eight rebounds to his stat sheet, six on the offensive glass. WSU recorded 50 total rebounds against ASU (20-11, 10-8), the most rebounds from WSU in a conference game this season. Junior guard Isaac Bonton continued his double-digit scoring streak against ASU but struggled shooting the ball while doing so. Bonton scored 17 points and shot five for 25 from the field, one field goal attempt shy of his season high. Bonton also turned the ball over to ASU 11 times, the most turnovers in a conference game from any WSU player ever. Senior forward Jeff Pollard sat on the bench once again with a hand injury, his participation in the Pac-12 Tournament will be a gameday decision, per the team. Freshman center Volodymyr Markovetskyy took Pollard’s place in the starting lineup and made his first start of his career. Markovetskyy finished the game with a double-double, recording 11 points and 10 rebounds, both career-highs. Markovetskyy scored WSU’s first basket with a fouled shot underneath the hoop; he made the free throw as well. WSU took a 12-4 lead with 15:12 left in the half, then WSU made one field
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Tennis completes weekend sweep Women’s golf competes in Cali
es gets her 90th win, is tied for sixth on all-time sines won list. Yang Lee also came away with a victory By Nick Oldham Evergreen tennis reporter
The WSU tennis team rned its first conference win the season against the Unirsity of Colorado, Boulder by score of 6-1. The Cougars won their secd match in a row and the st of their two-match homeand. WSU will look to get the eekend sweep against No. 44 niversity of Utah on Sunday. “Really proud of our team, d a great job following the me plan,” head coach Lisa art said. “Always good to win, ways a little better to win a nference match.” WSU got off to a good start doubles competition by rning two victories to score first point. Junior Michae-
la Bayerlova and sophomore Hikaru Sato upset Colorado’s senior Monica Malinen and sophomore Sara Nayar, the No. 64 doubles team in the nation. WSU’s senior Melisa Ates and sophomore Yang Lee also came away with a victory in their doubles match. Senior Jovana Knezevic and freshman Pang Jittakoat’s match went undecided. The Cougars stayed hot entering singles play, as sophomore Savanna Ly-Nguyen, No. 46 Bayerlova and Sato won their matches in straight sets. The Cougars tacked on to their win by late singles victories from Jittakoat and Lee, both in straight sets. Bayerlova’s win over Malinen marked her 12th of the season
and maintained her undefeated season in singles. “Every match is a new match,” Bayerlova said.” “I’m trying to focus on every point.” Ates remains at 89 career singles victories, as she fell short of a win against Colorado’s freshman Sophia Derivan. Ates is seventh on WSU’s all-time singles won list and will look to tie former assistant coach Ekaterina Burduli on Sunday. “Her opponent played really well, but really proud of how Melisa fought every point,” Hart said. “She’ll rebound on Sunday.” Colorado will head to the west side to take on No. 30 University of Washington at noon on Sunday. WSU’s next match will be against the University of Utah at 10 a.m. on Sunday in the Hollingbery Fieldhouse.
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Then-freshman Amy Chu follows through after swinging her club during a women’s golf team practice on April 1, 2019.
Darcy Habgood returns to play at the Meadow Club Invitational after her time off due to an injury By Emma Ledbetter Evergreen golf reporter
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enior Melisa Ates gets ready to serve against Utah on Sunday evening at Hollingbery Fieldhouse. es is seventh on WSU’s all-time singles won list and will look to tie former assistant coach.
WSU women’s golf tees off today at the Meadow Club Invitational hosted by the University of San Francisco in Fairfax, California. Head coach Kelli Kamimura said senior Marie Lund-Hansen, junior Emily Baumgart, freshman Jiye Ham and sophomores Amy Chu and Darcy Habgood will play two 18-hole rounds today and one tomorrow. Habgood did not play during the second and third rounds of the team’s last tournament at the Bruin-Wave Invitational, Kamimura said, but she is now cleared to play. “I’m excited for her to get out there and compete,” Kamimura said. “Her game’s in pretty good shape for not being able to practice that much.” The team’s goal is to have a player place in the top five of every future tournament, Kamimura said. Lund-Hansen said the players are currently working on transferring what they practiced during the off-season into competition. The Bruin-Wave Invitational was a good first tournament, Lund-Hansen said, because it helped the players see what they needed to improve on before playing at Meadow Club, which is an easier course. “Our goal is to get one day better every day,” Kamimura said. “One of our themes the last two weeks has been, ‘when we play at Meadow, what are you going to do in the next ten days to dominate the player you were at San Luis Obispo Country Club?’”
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The Cougars’ momentum slowly deteriorated after this basket and they trailed for the remainder of the contest. The Sun Devils defeated the Cougars 83-74 and secured the third seed in the Pac-12 standings. WSU finishes the year at the 11th seed for the third consecutive season. The Cougars head to Vegas to compete in the first round of the 2020 Pac-12 Tournament against the University of Colorado Buffaloes at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The matchup will air on the Pac-12 Networks.
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I was wrong The dead walk about COVID-19 SATIRE
Don’t worry about the zombies ... I mean coronavirus patients. They don’t bite too much By Jacob Hersh Evergreen columnist
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OK, this columnist may have underestimated how a virus can travel.
Don’t panic buy because of the coronavirus, but take precautions to protect yourself By Katie Lane Evergreen columnist
On Feb. 3, I made a rash judgement, that we shouldn’t stress the coronavirus, I was naive, I hadn’t caught my first frat flu yet. I was a mere child. At the time, students and Pullman natives alike were being racist and irrational about the recent outbreak of the Wuhan novel coronavirus. Unfortunately, since then there have been developments that are scary enough that we can now safely say, you can panic. Just over the pass lies the town of Mill Creek, Washington. Just half an hour north of Seattle, the quaint suburb is home to over 20,000 people. The county that contains Mill Creek in Snohomish county has just over 800,000 residents. Many WSU students call this area home, and with our Everett campus, some students even call it school. Inside of Mill Creek’s winding neighborhood streets is a 4A high school called Henry M. Jackson High School. With a population of over 2,300 students, many college students here in Pullman once attended JHS, and some even have siblings that still attend the high school. On Feb. 29, parents were sent an email from Everett Public Schools, the district that contains JHS, explaining that a student had tested positive for COVID-19. This student had no travel history. “Whoever he was in contact with are all on quarantine and not allowed to come to school for 14 days,” Malia Washington, a JHS senior, said. I was clearly wrong about the reach of this virus. Now the only thing we can do is panic, buy toilet paper and pretend to wash our hands. Of course, in a high school, there
are plenty of falsities to be spread around. Washington said there are rumors that the district only wiped down door handles and didn’t actually do a deep sanitation. This is terrifying in of itself. Now we know you don’t have to take a vacation to Wuhan to contract the virus because the virus had whoknows-how-long to infect an entire high school. We know 14-year-old boys aren’t washing their hands either. JHS and administration are taking the highest of precautions moving forward, but ultimately it is unknown how long it was “corona-time” in that high school. JHS shut itself down on Mar. 2 to do a deep cleansing of the school, but high school students have remained absent throughout the week out of fear. Beware though, Experience WSU programs are starting back up. On weekends there are a high amount of west side high schoolers touring every square inch of this campus. I don’t know about you but grimy high schoolers using the nap pods could be ground zero for the virus on campus. Not that anyone really uses the nap pods though. Spring break is approaching fast. Hundreds of WSU students are going to be flocking to the west side for a blissful week at home. Those returning to Snohomish County have to take extra care in their personal hygiene. Be hyperaware of your surroundings, and how much you are touching your face. Not only has the virus been found in a high school, the first U.S. deaths of the virus are in Washington State. Most, if not all, deaths from the coronavirus are occurring in elderly patients and those with pre-existing conditions. However, contracting an illness especially one as high risk as the coronavirus should still be avoided at all costs. “I am not that scared, I will just wash my hands a lot,” Mackenzie Waller, freshman business major said. Students still don’t have enough to panic about. The professors are See VIRUS Page 8
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oes the recent coronavirus outbreak have anything to do with the mysterious surge of violent crimes in the Whitman County area that some claim is the result of a “zombie infection”? No, is the resounding answer from the state’s health officials. “There’s no such thing as a zombie outbreak,” Pullman Health Official Shaun Romero said, “and even if there were — WHICH THERE’S NOT — the coronavirus would have nothing to do with it.” This platitude from the city hasn’t done much to reassure residents, however, and many citizens of the Pullman area, especially WSU students, remain concerned about the possible unknown side effects of the COVID-19 strain. “Yeah, I’m not convinced,” said local conspiracy theorist Tallahassee Boyle. “If you read the real research — 77 secret web pages on the /x/ section of 4chan — you’ll understand the
by what some sorority girl described as ‘Mick Jagger without makeup’. Didn’t make sense to me either.” With so much about the recent global outbreak of the coronavirus unknown, it’s possible that Boyle’s theory is correct: a government altered viral strain infected the human population, and previously unknown characteristics of the virus caused zombie-like tendencies to emerge. “Now, you’ve got two main sub-categories of the, ahem, common undead creature, if you will,” said Lionel Wright, a freshman majoring in software engineering, and general nerd. “You have the classic walkers, which are slow and lumbering, and you have the more modern runners, which are quite terrifying if I do say so myself.” If one comes face to face with a member of the zombie horde, which may or may not exist, Wright advises that one decapitates the creature in question, which is the only way to dispatch the undead with relative ease. “This is ridiculous,” Romero said, “there are no zombies, and for you to even suggest that there are is purely ludicrous and indicative of how far student journalism has gone down the proverbial tubes!” The interview was cut short when Romero stormed out of the room. Incidentally, he was carrying a very
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COVID-19 totally isn’t the start of the zombie apocalypse ... we hope. truth. The sheeple have to wake up!” Boyle went on to explain his theory, which is essentially that the Chinese government, in conjunction with American CIA operatives, developed the coronavirus in an attempt to gain global control of resource supplies. “The virus escaped the lab dude,” Boyle said. “Life finds a way.” Recent spikes in the Washington violent crime rate have occurred almost simultaneously with known instances of the coronavirus, and perpetrators are often not found at the scene of the crime, leaving police puzzled at the brutality of the act, and the lack of any known assailant. “I’ve been on the force for 27 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Pullman Police Chief Columbus Jarmusch said. “We got called to some disturbance over on Greek Row, turns out some fella got his face and half of an arm chewed off
large chainsaw on a stick, and wearing armor it appeared he’d welded out of car parts, which I can only assume was unrelated to the topic at hand. To dig deeper, I spoke to Director Jim Jackson of the federal health task force “Department of Unknown Maladies: Building a Safer Society.” “Our job is to protect and serve people in the Washington area who might be affected by the coronavirus,” Jackson said. “We use whatever means necessary to decapit — I mean, care for and heal those afflicted, and ensure their safe and healthy return back into society.” When questioned about the possibility of a zombie outbreak, Jackson said he could “neither confirm nor deny” the likelihood of undead symptoms as a result of the virus. See ZOMBIE Page 8
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DEBATE | Continued from Page 1 there’s a lack of communication that they exist. “We have the resources but students just aren’t knowing about them,” he said. “While the resources might be fairly good right now, we think there’s a lot of room for improvement.” Waddill disagreed with Cohen. She said mental health resources on campus are not underused. The issue lies in that there is a lack of availability for appointments because many students are using those resources, she said. “Ultimately, I think what’s underused is our ability to build community here and get students connected with resources that they need that will support their mental health,” Waddill said. One of Cohen and Doster’s primary campaign goals is to increase student involvement among first-year students and those living in residence halls. A way to address that was by creating a new website to improve upon CougSync, Cohen said. The website would match
student organizations that align with self-inputted academic focuses, cultural backgrounds, interests and passions. “This really bridges the gap for a student,” he said. “It helps them find the best organization that they can be a part of.” Addressing student involvement, Waddill said, does not require creating a new website. She said using CougSync to its “fullest potential” is important, which means the site has to be “cleaned up.” This includes checking which clubs are still active and connecting groups to one another more effectively. Velez-Fucal said he and Waddill plan to hold town-hall meetings around campus. This would help them become more accessible to students, ensuring people’s voices are being heard, he said. Residence Hall Association President Christian Shaffer said students living in residence halls have expressed feelings of disengagement with ASWSU. “There are 5,800 students
that live in our residence halls going into this year,” Shaffer said. “For years, they have felt that ASWSU has not listened to their voice and that they have been an underrepresented group on campus.” He asked what the candidates think the number one concern was for students living in residence halls and how they plan to address it. Environmental issues, selfcare and mental health are major concerns for those who live in residence halls, Waddill said. Educating students to better take care of themselves is one of their campaign goals, under their “healthy body, healthy mind” category. She said they plan to develop a workshop series that focuses on teaching students about self-care strategies. The workshop would include information about how to make healthy meals and how to better manage activities. Cohen said the concern was students not feeling connect-
ed with the rest of the student body. ASWSU needs to do a better job collaborating with residence halls about getting involved with student organizations, he said. “We can’t expect students to just come along here to the fourth floor and start asking about organizations,” he said. Doster said safety around some residence halls such as around Scott-Coman, Streit Perham and Olympia halls due to a lack of lighting. “There’s a lot of dark pathways in and around the residence halls,” Doster said. “Students should feel safe walking to where they live on the campus they go to.” Student engagement around politics on campus was another topic the candidates discussed. Velez-Fucal said promoting political participation on campus is not all about the flyers and social media posts. He said that face-to-face contact with students is a more effective way to engage students to vote.
“We’re all learning as active citizens here while we’re getting our education,” Waddill said. “Political participation here on campus means developing more relationships with ASWSU.” Cohen said this election didn’t have a lot of advertising to notify students an election was happening. He said this can be solved by making sure ASWSU is recruiting the best people to hold executive positions. “For us that’s really disappointing and discouraging,” he said. Doster said subsidizing the cost to run for elections would help student engagement. Running for an election can cost more than $1,000, he said. “That can be a barrier for a lot of students,” Doster said. He said their plan to address that is to have ASWSU reserved funds for candidates to create a more diverse field of candidates. Election voting opens Tuesday and ends Wednesday night.
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addressing general problems, however that’s the point of the general debate. Myself and others came into this expecting the candidates to address the problems people of color face, By Joel Kemegue but the candidates showed Evergreen columnist that by bringing up the things they’ve done for multicultural communities in the past and then sidestepping using phrasThe multicultural debate es such as “different backlast Wednesday disappointed grounds” and other wording me. In a forum for discussion that sounds diverse until you about what each of the candirealize it conveniently includes dates planned to do for people white people. of color at WSU, I walked out I feel like I know more with no idea what anybody about their opinion on the planned to do to address any Greek community at WSU than problems relating to people of their opinion on anything that color at WSU. doesn’t affect white people at I admit I left early, but I’ve WSU because they could at conferred with two people also least talk about Greek probthere, all who agree the debate lems and plans upfront. didn’t address the multiculturOne of the candidates al aspect of the debate. Every mentioned that the audience policy mentioned applied to a was nearly empty (it was). general problem at WSU, and They need to ask themselves why. Because if every multithere’s nothing wrong with
cultural debate is the ASWSU candidates dancing around the idea that people of color have different experiences at WSU then I’m not going to tell my friends to go to the debate. I’m going to tell them it’s a good way to get annoyed for an hour and feel like their voices aren’t being heard. Sure, we could be snarky and ask what ASWSU has done for anybody, but I’m betting they do most of their work behind the scenes to maintain WSU. I’m betting if they disappeared we would feel the effect. In a debate specifically about the multicultural community at WSU, it was up to the audience members to press the candidates for actual policies for WSU’s non-white community, and even then they got nothing. If at a multicultural debate the candidates never refer to the black community, or even say black people, then I have little faith that they’ll
VIRUS | Continued from Page 6 another problem, and our international students. Recently, WSU students abroad in Italy were forced to return to the states to avoid getting sick. WSU is clearly taking as many precautions as they can. It is still possible that summer programs abroad will also get stuck on the chopping block. This does not give students a go ahead to avoid Asian students. Previously we saw racist actions towards Asian students accusing them of giving people the coronavirus simply because of their racial background. This isn’t the first grade “cooties” outbreak.
Hopefully these gross, irrational actions can be put behind us. If the Italians are getting it, the only reason for avoiding Asian students is your own ignorance and racism. Make sure you are closely monitoring what World Health Organization is saying about the situation. Stop touching your face, if you’re sick, stay home and follow whatever advice your germophobic aunt gives you. Katie Lane is a zoology major from Everett, Wash. She can be contacted at 335-1140 or at opinion@dailyevergreen.com. The views expressed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of The Daily Evergreen, its editors or publishers.
address any problems the black community at WSU faces, and the same goes for other communities. The debate made me feel that if ASWSU came out and said they planned to not do anything for the multicultural communities, little would change. It’s annoying when, as a person of color, the people elected to represent you don’t fully represent you. When the people in the position to care about your problems dance around your problems, it feels like they don’t believe in or care about the problems to begin with. “General” policies are not enough at WSU. I’m not saying every single person needs to have their exact needs met by the student body, I’m saying specific communities at this campus have problems because of the color of their skin and when these students are having those problems, it is your
responsibility as representatives to acknowledge them and take some action. Yes, we should come to you with them but you need to be looking for it too. At the very least you need to have your ears open, and it doesn’t sound like the candidates do. At a debate where we come to see how those problems will be represented, I shouldn’t be waiting the entire time for someone to even mention people of color. If you care about the minority voice you should be listening to minorities. If you don’t care about the minority voice, you don’t really care about the students at WSU. Joel Kemegue is a creative writing major from Bellevue, Wash. He can be contacted at 335-1140 or at opinion@dailyevergreen.com. The views expressed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of The Daily Evergreen, its editors or publishers.
ZOMBIE | Continued from Page 6 “Listen, kid,” Jackson said. “If you keep asking questions, we might have to put you in ‘quarantine’ and lord knows how long you’d be there. In fact, we might have to do some ‘experimental treatments’ to make sure you’re all cured. Did you see the quote marks I was doing with my fingers? I was threatening you.” Jackson’s ominous comments aside, it’s obvious there’s more to the story that the government isn’t telling us. For now, I’d
advise that everyone washes their hands and makes sure to stay healthy — but I’m also not not advising you to sharpen a machete, saw off a shotgun and prepare for an outbreak of the walking dead (all rights reserved.)
Jacob Hersh is a political science major from Anchorage, Alaska. He can be contacted at 335-1140 or at opinion@dailyevergreen.com. The views expressed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of The Daily Evergreen, its editors or publishers.
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