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Winter storm warning issued for Palouse Pullman undergoes storm and expects up to 10 inches of snow; classes canceled From staff reports
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Left to right: Pullman Mayor Glenn Johnson, Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Marie Dymkoski, Downtown Pullman Association President and Chairman Tom Handy, and WSU President Kirk Schulz signed a Memorandum of Understanding to honor the partnerships between the city and university in improving Downtown Pullman on Tuesday night at The Historic Pullman Depot and Heritage Center.
Pullman’s city council is in its final stages for improving downtown By Loren Negron Evergreen Reporter
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ommunity and university leaders signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Tuesday at the Historic Pullman Depot
and Heritage Center to honor a collaborative effort to improve downtown Pullman. Members included Pullman Mayor Glenn Johnson; Marie Dymkoski, Chamber of Commerce executive director; Tom Handy, Downtown Pullman Association president and chairman; and WSU Presi-
dent Kirk Schulz. Jeanne Weiler, downtown initiative coordinator, said the MOU is an agreement between WSU, the City of Pullman, and the Chamber of Commerce. The document acknowledges the groups’ unity in the revitalization of downtown Pullman. Dymkoski said the city
recognized that Schulz’s arrival in Pullman created an opportunity for Pullman to improve. The city also saw it as a chance for relationships to grow between the community and the university. The groups’ collaboration encourages growth, she said. It gives each entity See LEADERS Page 3
The U.S. National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for the Palouse region from 4 p.m. on Tuesday until noon on Wednesday. WSU canceled classes and suspended all operations tomorrow due to inclement weather predictions, according to WSU Alerts. Between 5 and 10 inches of snow is expected to build up during the storm warning , according to the warning. Most of it is expected to fall Wednesday morning. Cities listed on the warning include: Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls, Hayden, Worley, Moscow, Plummer, Potlatch, Genesee, Pullman, Colfax, Rosalia, La Crosse, Oakesdale, Tekoa, and Uniontown. According to the warning, travel could be “very difficult to impossible” under these conditions. The warning recommends people keep an extra flashlight, food and water in their vehicle in case of an emergency. Updated roads conditions can be found by calling 511. REPORTING BY LUKE HUDSON
City staff work to improve road safety Workers aim to present grant proposal by Feb. 25, applications due March 6 By Breanna Roley Evergreen reporter
City staff are working with DN Traffic Consultants, Inc. to develop a local road safety plan. The intent is to then submit a City Safety Program grant application. Clayton Forsmann, deputy public works director, spoke to the Pullman City Council regarding a grant opportunity for the city to improve road safety in Pullman. This plan is intended to reduce collisions and road fatalities. The road safety plan is expected to be completed on Feb. 12, he said. It is too early in the process to know exactly what the safety projects will look like for the 2020 grant application. Staff proposed to bring forth the completed grant application to City Council for authorization at the Feb. 25 council meeting. The Washington State Department of Transportation offers these grant funds every
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City council member Brandon Chapman responded to a comment about the comprehensive five-year plan regarding the parks, facilities and recreation on Tuesday evening during the city council meeting at Pullman City Hall. other year. They ask cities to submit plans to reduce serious and fatal accidents on city streets. Grant applications are due March 6. The projected comple-
is Feb. 12. It is too early to describe exactly what the proposed safety projects will look like. The council moved a discussion to revise the Parks, Faciltion date of the local safety plan ities and Recreation Compre-
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hensive Five-Year Plan to the next meeting. The council will meet again at 7 p.m. on Feb. 11, in the Council Chambers of Pullman City Hall, 325 SE Paradise St.
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WSU student wins prestigious scholarship
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Kristian Gubsch, WSU senior chemical engineering major, says he hopes to finish his postgraduate degree and then start his own business that examines different methods of using CO2 for positive purposes to address climate change.
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Staff and students celebrated Kristian Gubsch, WSU senior chemical engineering major, at Tuesday evening’s Honors College Dessert with the Dean. Gubsch is the first Cougar to win the Marshall Scholarship for graduate study. Honors College Dean Grant Norton said the Marshall Scholarship is one of the most prestigious scholarships available to U.S. students to go to the United Kingdom to study. Gubsch is one of 46 U.S.
students to receive a Marshall Scholarship for 2020 and is the only recipient from Washington and the Pacific Northwest. “The Marshall is very similar to the Rhodes Scholarship, but with the Marshall, recipients choose their university,” he said. Gubsch said his research focus is utilizing the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by turning it into a valuable product. He said he credits his high school physics teacher for inspiring him to study climate change. At WSU, Gubsch said he took advantage of many research opportunities. He said both Norton and Associate Dean Robin
Bond encouraged him to apply for the Marshall. “I did not have much time to complete the application process, but I decided that I could get this done … if I just grind on
attending the University of Sheffield. He said he has especially enjoyed being a part of the WSU Honors College and values the opportunity to engage with people from all different disciplines. “It gives a nice break from my really technical chemical I decided that I could get this done . . . if I engineering courses,” he said. just grind on it week after week He said his ultimate career goal is to limit the effects of climate change. Kristian Gubsch In the short term, he said WSU senior he plans to get a postgraduate it week after week,” he said. bassadorial potential. Scholars degree and then either start Bond said the Marshall are funded to do graduate study his own business that looks at award is named to honor former with research at one of 150 Brit- CO2 utilization or to work for a U.S. Secretary of State George ish universities of their choice. company that does that kind of C. Marshall and the Marshall Gubsch said he will be work.
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Procedures still unclear for coronavirus screening Sea-Tac screening timeline unclear, other efforts already in place may cause confusion among travelers By Ryan Blethen The Seattle Times
Although Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is one of 11 designated to screen and quarantine passengers arriving to the U.S. from China amid a novel coronavirus outbreak that originated there, the details of how that will work are murky. The order for flights from China to be routed through a handful of U.S. airports equipped for health screenings came Friday from President Donald Trump. The presidential proclamation doesn’t include flights from Hong Kong or Macao, which are semi-autonomous Chinese territories. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had already advised Americans not to
travel to China. It isn’t clear when Sea-Tac will begin the screening that was announced Friday for air travelers coming from China. An earlier screening effort lead by the CDC already had passengers whose trips originated in China being screened at Sea-Tac last week. No flights from mainland China are currently arriving at Sea-Tac. Delta Air Lines and Hainan Airlines are the only two carriers with direct flights between Seattle and mainland China, and both have canceled all such flights, said SeaTac spokesman Perry Cooper. Cathay Pacific’s flights to and from Hong Kong are still operating, Cooper said. Firm dates haven’t been set for flights with other destinations to begin being rerouted to Sea-Tac, but flights will “be routed there, though, as the process evolves,” CDC spokesman Scott Pauly
wrote in an email. When flights from China arrive at one of the 11 screening airports, all passengers will be screened for fever, cough or difficulty breathing, according to the CDC. What happens from there will depend on whether a passenger has been to Wuhan or elsewhere in Hubei province during the previous 14 days. For passengers who have recently been to Hubei province: * Anyone showing symptoms will receive another medical evaluation and will be quarantined for 14 days at one of four military bases: Fort Carson in Colorado, Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco, Lackland Air Force Base in Texas or Marine Corps Air Station Miramar near San Diego. * Those who don’t show symptoms will be quarantined somewhere in the area of the airport they were screened. Washington state public
health officials didn’t respond directly to questions about where near SeaTac people could be isolated, only that they are still working out the details. “DOH is working closely with partners, including federal and state agencies, local health departments and the Port of Seattle, to implement the mandatory quarantine measures outlined in a presidential proclamation on 2019 novel coronavirus,” state Department of Health spokesperson Kristen Maki said Monday. For passengers who haven’t recently been to Hubei province: * Anyone showing symptoms will receive further tests and won’t be allowed to go to their final destination until they are cleared for travel. * Those who don’t show symptoms will be asked to stay home as much as possible and to monitor their health for 14 days.
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WSU must change diversity requirment Learning about the history of ethnic events is important but they need context By Joel Kemegue Evergreen columnist
Have you ever taken a Comparative Ethnic Studies class? We all know WSU has a diversity requirement in it’s UCORE, but that’s not the same thing. Comparative Ethnic Studies deals with race and how that plays into American life, which a lot of the classes that complete the diversity requirement don’t cover. When I ask if you’ve taken a CES class, I mean a class that delves into the experience of other races. Because other classes don’t do that. And they should but that’s an opinion for another day. Right now, you should take a CES class natalie blake | daily evergreen illustration and learn more about race in It isn’t easy being LGBTQ and in Greek life, therefore steps need to be taken for Greeks to be more mindful about the words they use and how they act to become a better place for all. America. “It makes you well-rounded on everything that’s going on,” Julio Ramirez-Robles, a WSU second year pre-nursing major, said. “And frankly, in America, you’re more aware of racism and you can just under our constitution, but if there is a clear participate in at least one program annually that Compliance. He also said Alternatives to [say] ‘okay, what can I do?’” While making inclusivity statepromotes a climate of diversity and inclusion. Violence of the Palouse and Counseling and A K-12 education barely covers ments in charters might be a first and present danger, action willbe taken by race, unless you happened to live Psychological services are great, confidential IFC. Whether or not they actually participate in step, there needs to be more in a very thorough school system. resources. If a member of a chapter is caught partic- said programs at WSU is unknown. What we learn about that doesn’t GIESORC and the Center for Fraternity ipating in hate speech towards the LGBTQ We have more than IFC and NPC on have to do with white dudes mostand Sorority Life hosted a program in the fall campus, we also have the United Greek group, it will be treated like any other hate By Katie Lane ly amounts to slavery, a little bit of together called Being Out on Greek Row. Evergreen columnist Council, which has recently changed to the speech, and they will besitting in front of Jim Crow (definitely not the full “This is the second time we have hosted Multicultural Greek Council. The MGC is extent) maybe the Trail of Tears Greek standards on a Sunday. this event and each time we have had several and Japanese-American interncompiled of multicultural sororities and Thomas said the IFC has just created a hundred Greek members attend,” Jeffries ment camps. new position: director of diversity,equity and fraternities. There are also co-ed fraternities, said. Those are all incredibly importashington State may be prowhich can be a more comfortable option for inclusion. Culture changes in Greek row are coming ant. But so are redlining, blockgressive, but the fraternities LGBTQ students. These are separate organiSororities on campus, although stereotypiin waves. Currently our Greek system is under busting, Mexican Repatriation, on campus are not immune cally more accepting, are notexempt from dis- zations from the IFC and NPC, and have their and the many, many race riots to a safety revamp to prevent serious accidents to homophobic controversy. Walk through crimination. Sororities have less direct forms own set of rules. name a few. Of course we can’t related to alcohol. Next, it is time to seriously Greek row on weekend night and you will Not a lot of WSU students have a connecof discrimination than the fraternities. It is no learn everything that ever hapinvestigate how LGBTQ Greek members can hear the word “f-g” more than you probably tion to the MGC. This is because unlike IFC secret that rushing is essentially just women pened in American history, but be comfortable and open without fear in their should. Chapters may have different bylaws and Panhellenic, they do not own any houses judging other women. The idea of rushing think about what you did learn. own chapters. condemning these ideologies. can be absolutely terrifying for queer women. on Greek row. Chapters that belong to the There is clearly a great start with ally trainPhi Kappa Sigma fraternity, whose nation- They have either lived their lives in the shad- MGC pride themselves on being accepting ings between GIESORC and specific chapters to all people regardless of sexual orientation, ows for their safety, or experienced years of al bylaws explicitly state,transgender people and national bylaws constantly being updated race, ethnicity and gender expression. If fornegative judgement from their peers. have been, and will continue to be valuable throughout all chapters, not just the ones mal recruitment for an NPC or IFC chapter Willingly attempting to join an organizamembers of our fraternity. here at WSU. With IFC introducing the new This bylaw was introduced on the national tion with a membership process which relies seems too scary for certain minority groups, director of diversity, equity, and inclusion, it is MGC is a great alternative. on the type of judgement queer women avoid level to PKS in 2018. However, 17 of the 27 safe to say that Greek row in 10 years will be a “Any LGBTQ+ student experiencing fraternities on our campus have no bylaw stat- seems counterintuitive. Out of the 14 sororisafer, more diverse place. And that is exactly discrimination can certainly come and talk ing anything for or against LGBTQ inclusivity ties on campus, four have no national policy what we want. in their chapters. This does not mean they can on trans inclusivity. This does not mean that with me,” said Matthew S Jeffries, director reject members due to identity, it just means those without national bylaws can’t accept of Gender Identity/Expression and Sexual Katie Lane is a zoology major from Everett, Wash. She can be contacted at 335-1140 or at opinion@ LGBTQ members. there is no national policy. Orientation. dailyevergreen.com. The views expressed in this The National Panhellenic Conference Andrew Thomas, IFC public relations Jeffries said that he would have to report column do not necessarily represent the views of states on its website that collegiate chapters discrimination to the Office of Civil Rights The Daily Evergreen, its editors or publishers. director, said that speech is protected
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Immigration and its regulation is something that has been a part of the United States since its beginning. CES classes help students understand their effects.
How much of it had to do with non-white people in this country? And it’s not just the fact that we’re not learning about the history. We’re also not learning about how that history is impacting America right now. Very few events happen in a bubble, so we really have to ask ourselves what happened after slavery, after segregation ended, and if they had long-term impacts (hint: they did). Faith Price, director of Native American Student Services, spoke about the need for CES classes from a Native American perspective. She said that for Native Americans, most of what we learn in K-12 is historical interactions with little to nothing on contemporary issues, and coupled with little positive media representation, it’s hard to get a good view on what life is like for Native people today. “We have a really great opportunity in college to learn about other races and cultures.” Price
said. “I think it would open some avenues to ask better questions or have better discussions about native peoples if you’ve got a little bit of a foundation into who native people are, some of the contemporary issues and some of the historical issues.” And this rings true for other races too. Are slavery and the Civil Rights Act enough to have a discussion on the history of black people? That’s still more than we know about Latinx people, Asians and Pacific Islanders and Native Americans Price herself said that CES classes allowed her to learn different viewpoints when she was in college, as she grew up mostly interacting with native people and white people. Price also mentioned that CES classes can often help with majors or future careers. For American Indian Studies specifically, tribes hire architects and engineers and knowing a little bit more about
Native Americans can make working with them more of an option. CES adviser Anna Chow said that taking a class can help students look at issues from other perspectives, which is crucial to working with people no matter what you’re doing. There are people who aren’t your race in every major, every career. And chances are that your views may come into some conflict or provide some barrier, even if it isn’t a big one, because of that, so doesn’t it help to understand how other people live? “I would say that CES courses benefit all majors and career fields.” Chow said “We live in a global society where we work with people from different racial and cultural backgrounds. Learning about the complexities of race and racial formation prepares students for our global workforce.” And here’s the thing. No matter what major you are, you have to fill a diversity credit to
graduate. So why not make it a Comparative Ethnic Studies class? Become more well-rounded, take a course and learn more about histories that don’t get the same amount of attention. If you’ve taken one, take more. Take an African-American studies class, Latino, Rhetorics of Racism. Like how one history class won’t teach you everything about history, one CES class isn’t going to come close to completely delving into other perspectives. And since you can’t sign up now, go to Black History Month events, attend a Ku-AhMah meeting, go up to the student centers. We’re here to try out different things and grow, aren’t we? 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.
Rethink your study habits, try new options Instead of being chained to a desk in the library, try new methods and seek help during your study time By Gus Waters Evergreen columnist
If you aren’t getting the grades you want, tonight you should study for 20 minutes, and take your first step into becoming more academic. College, while a great place to go to parties, hang out with friends and have fun, is first and foremost a time to get good grades and learn. Despite the importance of studying, it can be difficult to get motivated. “Motivation is a very internal and very personal journey,” Katie Reilly, academic coach at the Academic Success and Career Center, said. “The hardest part is just getting started.”
Getting started in any new resolution is difficult. Often people make massive plans with good intentions but fall short because they don’t have a first step. For studying, however, there is one easy step that you can do tonight to get started on improving your academics. According to the ASCC Study Cycle sheet, the answer is to preview notes for an upcoming lecture. Skim through the class material that you will go over for each class tomorrow and develop a big picture of what you will learn. Then come up with questions that can be answered in class tomorrow. You don’t have to spend all night on this, and tonight can just be a 20-minute session. If a 20-minute preview is all that gets done tonight, then a crucial first step has been made in getting on the right track to studying every night. However, if being academic and studious is something that can be improved, then pushing harder is something that needs to get done. There are always more
steps to take. The next, and most important step is to go to class, pay attention and take notes. Reilly recommends following the 80-20 rule, which is that you listen to the professor 80 percent of the time and take notes 20 percent of the time. After you have gone to all of your classes, the next step is to get out all of your notes, and to decide what you want to accomplish during the next study session. Make it helpful, but not grandiose. After this you should interact with your course material for 30 to 50 minutes. Reread the textbook, look at your notes, or go over your professor’s PowerPoint slides if they are available. Then, take a break. Go for a walk, listen to some relaxing music or eat a snack. Finally, take five minutes and go over what you just studied. Using these five steps is a great way to kickstart a path to academic success, but they are by no means the only choice available.
“After class I go over my notes, after that I do the reading to go more deeply into what was covered in the lecture,” Jessica Jimenez, a WSU junior Wildlife Ecology major, said. What really matters when studying is that you improve your learning and go beyond simple memorization. College helps give you the skills needed to be a better professional, and in order to do that it is necessary to be able to apply what you have learned. College matters and studying well matters. If you or someone you know needs help studying or improving their academics, visit the Academic Coaching drop-in office hours from 2-4 p.m. on weekdays at Lighty Student Services. Gus Waters is a political science 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 repfeiran zou | daily evergreen illustration resent the views of The Daily Evergreen, its editors Spending long nights at the library can be averted by trying different methods of studying. Try one out yourself or go get help from an academic coach or try getting a tutor. or publishers.
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Iowa caucus shows risks of new voting technologies In an effort to make voting more accessible, online voting can also cause glitches By Alyza Sebenius and Kartikay Mehrotrar Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON D.C. — In 2010, Washington D.C. opened its proposed online voting system to public scrutiny. Officials wanted to know if the new platform was safe to use in elections. Within 36 hours, hackers from the University of Michigan broke into the network and changed every single vote cast in a pilot election. The team of Michigan students and staff took control of the voting system, and the security cameras at the Board of Elections, too. Yet officials had no idea, even after the hackers modified the “Thank You” page that appeared at the end of the test vote to play the University of Michigan fight song. Washington elections officials discovered the attack two days later, then ultimately scrapped the program. A decade on, American elections officials remain hopeful that the internet can make voting more accessible and the reporting of results more efficient. But cybersecurity experts point to case after case in which connecting voting systems to the internet and over-reliance on technology creates more problems than it solves. Glitches in the mobile application used by Democrats in the Iowa caucus on Monday are just the latest in a decade full of such examples. Fortunately for the Iowa Democratic Party, which ran the election, the caucus was saved by its decision to mothball the original plan to use the app for tabulation and some voting, too. “It could’ve been so much worse if actual voters had been using an appbased system to submit results,” said J. Alex Halderman, a cybersecurity professor at the University of Michigan and one of the masterminds behind the D.C. hack in 2010. “That’s why this was merely an embarrassment for the Iowa Democratic Party and not a catastrophe.” Iowa caucus results were available and verifiable thanks to the use of “paper documentation,” according to the Iowa Democratic Party. That has raised worries that reliance on technology may hurt voter confidence in 2020 and beyond. The episode augments a growing public wariness since reports that Russian cyber-attacks infiltrated state voting systems in the 2016 election. Despite these concerns, 32 states
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Iowa caucus results were available and verifiable thanks to the use of “paper documentation,” according to the Iowa Democratic Party. That has raised worries that reliance on technology may hurt voter confidence in 2020 and beyond. will offer some semblance of mobile voting in 2020. For example, according to current planning in West Virginia, disabled voters and military personnel deployed overseas will be able to use their smartphones to cast ballots through a platform called Voatz, according to West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner, who said the program has passed multiple stress tests. The mobile voting technology has spent a couple of months at Idaho National Laboratory, where the Department of Homeland Security is testing the security of the technology “inside and out” — with an assessment of its security expected soon, according to Donald Kersey, general counsel in Warner’s office, At that time, West Virginia will decide whether to use the technology — an updated version of the mobile voting technology used in 2018 — or move forward with other options for disabled and overseas voters to cast their ballots, such as email or fax. The Department of Homeland Security didn’t conduct this type of testing on Iowa’s app for reporting caucus results, Chad Wolf, the department’s acting secretary, said Tuesday on Fox News. Even so, cybersecurity experts continue to wonder if new voting technologies — even if they have been well tested — are worth the added risks.
“There is this idea that we’re going to use this technology to improve access, without adequately reviewing security concerns,” said Susan Greenhalgh, vice president at the National Election Defense Coalition. “Instead, so many states are looking at tech as solution and believing what voting machine vendors are telling them about it.” The use of paper in the voting and voter registration process — which can be audited for accuracy, particularly in the event of an Iowa-like malfunction — is “the greatest area of need” in election security, Chris Krebs, head of the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, said last year at a House of Representatives committee hearing. But as of March, about a quarter of U.S. states relied on some voting equipment that produce no paper. Four states — Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana and South Carolina — utilized those paperless machines across the state, according to a report from the Brennan Center for Justice. While some states are buying a new generation of digital voting machines in preparation for the presidential election, experts have told Bloomberg News that these machines are costly and insecure. When the new digital system broke down Monday in Iowa, caucus
staff defaulted to a manual approach, according to the Iowa Democratic Party. “Staff activated pre-planned backup measures and entered data manually,” the party said in a statement. Following the failure of the new app in Iowa, officials in other states expressed confidence in traditional, offline methods of reporting results, including Nevada, which had also planned to use an app to tabulate results during its Feb. 22 Democratic caucus. “We will not be employing the same app or vendor used in the Iowa caucus,” William McCurdy II, the chairman of the Nevada State Democratic Party, said in a statement. “We had already developed a series of backups and redundant reporting systems, and are currently evaluating the best path forward.” Still, Iowa is “a pretty graphic illustration” of why it’s a bad idea to connect election systems to the internet, said Rich DeMillo, a Georgia Institute of Technology computer science professor and former Hewlett-Packard chief technology officer. “Computers can be misprogrammed, misconfigured, misused and hacked,” DeMillo said. “Imagine the scale of the disaster if Iowa did not have hand-marked paper caucus result to rely on.”
500-foot turbines would stretch over 24 miles near Tri-Cities under this plan About 6,000 acres of land to be leased from dry wheat farmers, says project manager By Annette Cary Tri-City Herald
A wind farm along 24 miles of the ridgeline of the Horse Heaven Hills is proposed south of the Tri-Cities. The new project is planned to include as many as 212 turbines in rows from near Jump Off Joe Butte to the southwest, with much of it south of Badger Road. It would wrap around the already operating Nine Canyon Wind Project. Scout Clean Energy, based in Boulder, Colo., could start construction on the Horse Heaven
Wind Farm as early as October, said project manager David Kobus, who also worked on the Nine Canyon Wind Project. About 6,000 acres of land will be leased from dry land wheat farmers, including farms growing wheat and those with land in conservation reserves, Kobus said. In addition, about 1,600 acres would be on Washington state Department of Natural Resources land. Scout would use turbines comparable to the largest on Energy Northwest’s 75-acre Nine Canyon project. The turbines would stand below the 500-foot height with a blade fully extended, which is the limit to meet air space restrictions. The new project could generate about 600 megawatts of electricity.
In comparison, Nine Canyon has a maximum output of about 96 megawatts of electricity. Energy Northwest’s commercial nuclear power plant near Richland, the Columbia Generating Station, can generate 1,207 megawatts, which is enough to power a city the size of Seattle, plus some of its metro area. The Horse Heaven Wind Farm was initially proposed as a 250-megawatt project, but has been expanded. Scout Clean Energy expects to submit a conditional use permit application needed to use the land for a wind farm to Benton County in a matter of weeks, Kobus said. It would include an environmental checklist. Kobus expects the county ap-
plication to be completed as soon as early March. Then a public hearing would be held, followed by a second public hearing at which the county hearings examiner would present conclusions on the application. If the process proceeds as Scout Clean Energy hopes, a county permit could be issued in July. The company then would need to find buyers for the electricity that would be produced. It could have buyers in place in time to start construction of wind turbines in October. The company also will be working with the Kennewick Irrigation District, to get an easement to the Bonneville Power Administration’s Red Mountain substation.
It also plans to coordinate with the Benton Public Utility District to work out an agreement to co-locate a transmission line with an existing PUD line. A second substation would be built at Bofer Canyon and Beck roads south of the Tri-Cities by Highway 395. The wind farm would be visible from Highway 395 south of the Tri-Cities to the northwest of the Nine Canyon wind farms. At Benton City the tops of turbines could be visible, but partially hidden by Bureau of Land Management land to the south and southeast of the town. Scout Clean Energy has wind farms operating in Oklahoma, Texas and California, with projects under construction in Indiana and Texas.
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Love is in the air. For someone, I guess. For me, the ideal romantic partner is the first edition signed copy of “Fight Club” back in my local bookstore ($99, in case anyone’s wondering what to get me for my birthday), but evidently, some people prefer to hold hands with an actual living person. In fact, some people might want to do more than hold hands, but that’s more of a topic for this year’s Sex Edition. However, it does bring up a very important question: what to do when your significant other wants to move in? Living with a romantic partner can be challenging. Ask anyone who’s in a serious relationship: it’s often tough to compromise and deal with someone else, especially if you like your space and privacy. That said, there are a lot of benefits that go along
with cohabitation. The aforementioned hand-holding can happen with more frequency, and you’ll always have a spare toothbrush to “borrow” to clean mud off the bottom of your shoe. It’s also often an important step for couples who want to take their relationship to the next level. “Be respectful of each other’s space,” Kale VanWieringen, a WSU sophomore construction management major, said. Obviously, a healthy respect for boundaries and personal space is important, and doubly so when living with a romantic partner. No matter how strong the relationship, both parties need and deserve their own time and space, without the confines of another person. Molly Olney is a WSU freshman sports management major who lives in a sorority house. “Be aware of yourself and your own belongings,” Olney said. “Be open to conversations [with roommates], and talk about if something’s bothering you.” Open communication is crucial in all aspects of life, and in relationships it’s doubly important. Allowing both
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Researchers secure $1 million grant Bacteria on brain could be key to understanding rest, change how people see sleep By Alana Lackner Evergreen reporter
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James Krueger, WSU College of Veterinary Medicine regents professor, says that 40 years ago the research he and his team are working on would not have been possible. He says the technology to do it is available now. brains of sleep-deprived rabbits and human urine. “We couldn’t answer [why the peptide was present] at the time,” Krueger said. “Nor could we explain why it increased in its levels after sleep deprivation.” The problem the team ran into 40 years ago was a lack of time and re-
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Johnson said. Weiler said it is the city’s responsibility to adopt the suggestions and decide whether to fund the recommended improvements. The Town Gown Collaborative, a joint effort between the city and university, has helped in this process, Johnson said. The collaborative consists of various members from the community. Dymkoski said the collaborative strives to make Pullman “an exceptional college town.” Schulz said it is important for the university to do vari-
ward. He and his team want to explore the bacterias’ relation to sleep cycles and the circadian rhythm, he said. “We’re going to measure muramyl peptide levels in blood We can build a new picture and essentially and brain over the course of a day and see if it varies with the create new ways of looking at sleep circadian rhythm … [and] normal sleep wave cycles,” he said. Krueger said he believes this James Krueger research could ultimately change Regents professor peoples’ approach to rest. other conditions and quantitaHowever, this technology is “We can build a new picture tively compare it,” Krueger said. available now and Krueger said and essentially create new ways “No one was gonna pay for that, it’s what the grant is going to- of looking at sleep,” he said.
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a forum to discuss the challenges and opportunities the city has. “We’re here today to celebrate the next step in formalizing this agreement to work together,” Dymkoski said. Weiler said Pullman’s master plan is on a “parallel track” with the MOU. The plan is in its final stages and guides the improvement of downtown Pullman. Johnson said the city hired the consulting group BDS Planning & Urban Design to help develop the master plan.
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The W.M. Keck Foundation gave WSU researchers a $1 million grant to study the link between bacteria in the brain and sleep. James Krueger, WSU College of Veterinary Medicine regents professor, said there are different types of bacteria everywhere in the body. “The total amount of bacteria in the human body is more than the number of human cells,” he said. “If you look at DNA, there’s more bacterial DNA in your body than there is your own DNA.” Many of the bacteria in the body have specific benefits. One example is gastrointestinal microbiota, Krueger said. These bacteria are often known as “gut flora,” and can help synthesize certain vitamins and metabolize some acids. Probiotics, often cited as being found in yogurt, fall into this category. Krueger said his research focuses on bacteria in the brain as they relate to sleep. More specifically, muramyl peptides. Muramyl peptides aren’t bacteria themselves; instead, they’re fragments from the cell walls of bacteria. They’re a receptor for bacteria products, and initially, it was a surprise to find them in the brain, Krueger said. He said these peptides were first discovered 40 years ago when they were found in the
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The consulting group will present its suggestions during the City Council’s meeting on Feb. 25. The city will use the information from BDS and build on it to direct how the city will increase economic development in downtown Pullman, he said. “It’s no point at this time to say, ‘Ok, we’re going to go this direction,’ and then the consultant says something else,”
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