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FINANCE
Over $1 million from S&A Fees were not allocated to students this school year
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This graph shows the total amount of Services and Activities money waived by scholarships given by WSU. For the past five years, students at WSU have annually lost $907,547 on average as a result of fee waivers.
Fee waivers for scholarships reduced total contributions to S&A, overall budget By Luke Hudson Evergreen reporter
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SU students did not receive nearly $1.1 million earmarked for student use this year because WSU scholarships waive Services
and Activities Fees before tuition. Students were not able to allocate this money to fund services from groups like ASWSU, GPSA and the CUB. ASWSU President Quinton Berkompas said this spring, members of the S&A committee noticed that despite record enrollment, the money from fees did not grow at the same rate as the student population. “What we weren’t seeing behind
the scenes is that the administration is making a decision of whether that is waiving tuition, whether that’s waiving fees, or where that’s going,” he said. Berkompas does not think this policy was intentional, he said, but students were not aware of it until this year. “I think every single time a cut is made it affects students,” he said. Berkompas said he met with upper
administrators and they are on board to change this policy. Whether that change will reduce the number of fees waived by scholarships or eliminate S&A fee waivers from scholarships remains to be seen. Over the past five years, students received an average of $907,547 less per year than they would if scholarships did not waive S&A See S&A Page 12
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Researchers study Alzheimer’s, dementia among Native Americans Group working to find information on disease for high-risk population By Jakob Thorington Evergreen reporter
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A group from WSU Health Sciences are working to find out risks and protective measures for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia among Native American populations, who have largely been underrepresented in health research. Native American populations in the U.S. are among the groups most at risk of developing Alzheimer’s and dementia, according to a 2017 report from the Department of Health & Human Services-Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The report estimated American Indians and Alaskan Natives have a 35 percent lifetime risk of developing dementia, second only to black Americans at 38 percent. Despite the elevated risk to
Native Americans, research principal investigator Lonnie Nelson, a licensed clinical psychologist, said there are not many native researchers to study why these risks occur. This is caused by a variety of reasons, such as “helicopter research,” where researchers do not share data with their participants, Nelson said. The history of abuses to Native Americans has also created a distrust to outsiders among those communities, he said. Nelson is a descendant of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. “I don’t think this project would be possible if I didn’t have native descent,” he said. The study is called “URBAn Native Elders: Risk and Protective Factors for Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias” and will recruit 1,200 native elders age 55 or older from urban populations. The researchers will collect data See Study Page 12
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Community Calendar Wednesday 9/18 Free bicycle check- up will be availa ble. Starting at 11 a.m., Pedal the Palouse and the WSU Outdoor Recreation Center will host a free bicycle check. Participants have the opportunity to get their bicycle inspected by an Outdoor Recreation Center representative. Checks will be available on Thursday as well. This event will be located at the Glenn Terrell Friendship Mall in front of the Compton Union Building.
Wednesday 9/18 Mock Area 51 raid with Nerf guns. Beginning at 5 p.m., the Young Democrats at the University of Idaho will host “Raid on Area 51.” The group invites attendees to free aliens and discover government secrets while shooting people with foam darts. This event is free and will start at the main entrance to Memorial Gym in Moscow. To submit, email events to meditor@dailyevergreen.com. 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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Local hospital hopes to install residency program
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Erika Fleck, Director of Education and Information Technology at WSU Spokane, talks about virtual reality and the effects this techology has wih medical students on Tuesday evening at the 2019 Health Innovation Summit at the SEL Event Center.
Pullman Regional holds seventh annual Health Innovation Summit, plans for residency program Benjamin White Evergreen reporter
Pullman Regional Hospital is pursuing a residency program to help train postgraduate medical students. The hospital held its 2019 Health Innovation Summit at
5:30 p.m. Tuesday to inform community members about the residency program and other areas the hospital and its partners have been working in. “I want people to understand what the residency is, why it’s important, how it benefits them directly and also the communi-
ty in general and why it’s worth investing time and money into,” said Scott Adams, Pullman Regional Hospital CEO. Most residency programs require additional financial support, he said, so they wanted to use the summit to generate enthusiasm for the program. Jonathan Espenschied, associate dean of graduate medical education, said residency
programs are primarily about education for the residents, but they also work alongside doctors to provide medical care. “You do four years at medical school, you graduate, you have a medical degree, but you can’t practice medicine until you finish your residency,” he said. They hope to be able to host
12 residents total when the program is up and running. They want the program to consist of four new residents a year for a three-year program, Espenschied said. Adams said the first step to getting a residency program is having it accredited. See Summit Page 12
Parking fines resulted in over half a million dollars in 2019
WSU Transportation Services issued over 17,000 citations in 2019 Cameron Sheppard Evergreen reporter
WSU Transportation Services generated more than half a million dollars in revenue from parking citation fines alone in the fiscal year of 2019, according to its financial report. Over 17,000 parking citations were written in fiscal 2019, according to the WSUTS report. They totaled to $555,613. Parking fines made up 10.5 percent of WSUTS’s 2019 revenue, but the largest portion of
Parking fines made up 10.5 percent of WSUTS’s 2019 revenue.
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Parking permits accounted for 51.5 percent of WSU Transportation Services’s revenue in the 2019 fiscal year, according to the WSUTS financial report. Parking citations fines made up 10.5 percent of the year’s revenue
its revenue is generated from sales of parking permits, which make up 51.5 percent. WSUTS Associate Director Chris Boyan said parking violation fees are not used as a major revenue source for the department, but they are necessary for protecting permit holders. “In a perfect world, if everyone was honest, they would See Fines Page 12
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“It has allowed us to do some things like reintroduce a subspecies called apis mellifera caucasica,” Steve Sheppard said.
WSU trying to recover bee population WSU entomology professor for sale to other beekeepers Steve Sheppard said WSU is throughout the U.S. the only university in the counNick Naeger, a WSU posttry that has the facilities to doctoral researcher from the properly preserve the genetic Department of Entomology, By Luke Hudson material of bees. said most of the 16,000 to Evergreen reporter Researchers freeze and store 20,000 bee species are actuBees buzz around the air, bee semen to breed queens, ally solitary, not social, meancrawl on the floor and float from person to person as a group moves between rooms, I came into it with maybe examining hives and beekeeping equipment. Every wooden one-fifth of the knowledge board, pipe and tool are mariI left with nated in the sweet smell of Cynthia Mika honey and beeswax. Every beehive is made by event attendee WSU researchers at the Lab Animal Resource building he said. WSU also imports ing they do not live in hive that a group toured Sunday early afternoon. Attendees semen and bees from other colonies. Solitary bees do not explored bee behavior, spe- countries for breeding to produce any honey, but spend cialized bee transport and increase the genetic diversity their lives pollinating plants. “It has allowed us to do nesting tools, and the honey of the bee population. Queenproducing bees are also bred some things like reintroduce extraction process.
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a subspecies called apis mellifera caucasica, the Caucasian honeybee, and it’s a big, black bee that’s adapted to cold climates,” Sheppard said. About 500 mothers produce roughly 1 million queens in the U.S. every year, he said. WSU supplies some of those queen mothers to help increase the genetic variability of the bee population. He said the semen used to reintroduce the Caucasian honeybee was frozen for eight years before being unfrozen to instrumentally inseminate a queen. Instrumental insemination for bees resembles the process for cattle, only much smaller and thus performed under a microscope, Sheppard said. This method is used to breed queens
because they are born from fertilized eggs, whereas male bees are born from unfertilized eggs. Sheppard said the Caucasian honeybee uses a lot of propolis, which is plant resin that is collected mainly from trees. It is sometimes referred to as a non-water-soluble “bee glue.” Bees use it to seal exposed areas of hives. “It’s kind of a saying among beekeepers that you can tell how bad the winter is going to be by how much propolis bees bring into the hive,” Naeger said. One primary research field of the lab is to examine possible ways for the reduction or elimination of various threats to bee populations. A notable threat is the Varroa mite, a See Journey Page 11
Colfax Library hosts reading fund dinners Six week series of free dinners for patrons to discuss literary interests By Madysen McLain Evergreen reporter
The Colfax Public Library will give families in Whitman County a chance to relax while eating a free meal and discussing books. Starting in October, the library will host a six-week series of free dinners called Prime Time Family Reading for families who register on the library’s website by Sept. 27, said Sheri Miller, associate director of Whitman County Libraries. The participating families are sent home with books to read during the week, then at the next dinner they can discuss what they read, Miller said. “We are all so busy when families come home, they are trying to deal with getting supper ready and it’s a busy time,” she said. “This is a designated hour and a
half where they don’t have to worry about that.” The library received funding from Humanities Washington, a nonprofit organization that provides resources for libraries in Washington, Miller said. Jennings Elementary School in Colfax also partnered with the library also partnered to spread the word about the program, she said. Humanities Washington requires 15 families to sign up for the program to receive funding, and 25 families is the max number allowed to sign up, Miller said. This is the first time the Whitman County Library has provided a program like this, and it will only be available at Colfax for now, Miller said. The dinners are tailored for families with children aged 6 to 10, but families with children 3 to 5 years old will be provided with free childcare. The dinner nights are from 6-7:30 p.m. on Oct. 10, 17, 24. 29, Nov. 5 and Nov. 14 at the Whitman County Library in Colfax. COURTESY OF WHITAN COUNTY LIBRARY “We want to get the word out to families that may need extra family time,” Miller said. “This is a designated hour and a half where they “Reading together helps the kiddos with their don’t have to worry about that,” said Sheri Miller, associate director of Whitman County Libraries. reading and literacy skills.
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Music student Nick Theriault will perform a classical repertoire on several percussion instruments for a panel of judges Friday.
Recital to showcase complex pieces Student says percussion is deceptively simple, looks for ways to move through songs easily, while relaxed
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he WSU School of Music will host a recital featuring solo performances by a fourth-year percussionist from 4:10-5 p.m. Friday in the Kimbrough Concert Hall. Student Nick Theriault will perform a classical percussion repertoire, featuring 19th-century music pieces played on marimba, snare drum and timpani, among other instruments, Theriault said. The pieces Theriault performs are technically challenging, and more
focused on challenging the performer than entertaining the listener, he said. “[Percussion music] is deceptively simple,” Theriault said. “If you have something that’s really complicated, there’s always a way of moving through it that makes it easy and relaxed.” Theriault’s performance will be evaluated by three members of a committee on criteria such as performance, execution and recovery, said David Jarvis, professor and coordinator of percussion studies in the school of music. “I’m nervous, but I specifically put [the recital] at the beginning of the
year so I could get it done with a little bit early,” Theriault said. “But I’m excited … I really like all the pieces I’m playing.” Theriault has the technical ability to do well in his performance, Jarvis said, but the evaluators are also grading him on his stage presence and his ability to come back after a mistake. “That’s also the sign of a professional … if there is a slip, to be able to recover and keep going,” Jarvis said. This recital won’t be Theriault’s first time playing in front of a large audience. As snare captain of the Cougar Marching Band, he has played during soccer and football games, Theriault said. Playing alone versus in a band or ensemble can give some performers
stage fright, Jarvis said, but he believes Theriault will perform well. “When you do a solo recital, where it’s just you and the audience, that’s a whole other animal,” Jarvis said. Theriault has one more year at WSU before he graduates. Next year, he will perform his senior recital, which will be twice as long as this year’s, Jarvis said. “We are training these musicians to become artists,” Jarvis said. “And Nick is definitely on track.” Theriault hopes to use his percussion performance major and audio technology minor to record and release his own music. After graduation, Theriault wants to be a pit percussionist in a theater company, he said.
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Nothing lit going on tonight, frat members report going on, honestly,” and “if I hear about anything, I’ll let you know,” though he never got back to me. He also mentioned that when they do host something, they’re usually “just for, like, the guys in the frat,” and “really By Joel Kemegue small things,” so “it probably Evergreen columnist wouldn’t be that fun.” Countless times I’ve called up friends on a quiet Friday night, asking if there was anything going on, only to find out that ver the years WSU has they were just studying. garnered a reputaNew students might be skeptition for being a “party cal of this, especially since many school”, one that has both drawn WSU students like to study at and driven people away from the other people’s dorms with loud college. But is that reputation music and what sounds like talkreally deserved? ing in the background. In fact, do WSU students even However, you’ll quickly find like to party? that this is a common study “Yeah, it’s usually pretty method around campus, espequiet,” said Alpha Beta Alpha cially on weekends. So, if you member Jack Daniels when I hear party music and what asked him if he and the guys sounds like people having fun were doing anything tonight. without you, don’t worry. It’s “We’re probably just going to probably just someone working chill, study. Nothing you’d really on an essay. be interested in.” Many new students often LAUREN PETTIT | DAILY EVERGREEN ILLUSTRATION Daniels said that there “really aren’t that many parties See Frat Page 8 It may sound like people are partying, but students study with loud music and strobe lights.
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Anarchy Club undergoes punk revolution RSO leader wanted to talk about genocide being propogated by state, club focused on Blink 182 By Joel Kemegue Evergreen columnist
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Local arts event organizer and choreographer Hannah Myers saw three friends having fun on the dance floor at Etsi Bravo and trained them to perform.
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n April, three local friends joined forces at Etsi Bravo to showcase their unique style of ballroom vogue dancing for the first time. Now they’re looking forward to more performances together. “We’re just a group of friends having fun, expressing ourselves as queer men,”
into a lot more than that.” Their initial performances were live
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Friends spotted dancing at club wind up performing live, embracing drag culture, working to gain technical skills
said Bryan Ramirez, one of the members of the performance group. Hannah Myers, a bartender at Etsi Bravo, said she noticed Ramirez, performer Bryan Ramirez Anthony Browning and Elijah Dimler dancing together and wanted to work but short in length, Browning said. with them for one of her art shows. was thinking of the video aspect of it, but “It’s like this with a lot of choreogra“I was really attracted to their style,” they all have really good stage presence.” Myers said. “My idea was more of mak- phy, where it turns out a lot differently ing a video of them dancing … it turned than you originally intended, but in a See Dancers Page 8
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WSU Athletics sparks religious fervor on campus New set of goals on official university website outlines religious doctrine, Leach is prophet She said UNLEASH has these blocks respectively: harmony Evergreen and conformity, attending home columnist games, Martin Stadium and letting “passion and pride of Coug nation [take] a backseat to no one,” all of which can be found on UNLEASH’s website. eligion has made a Senior psychology major Kiva significant comeback Spurley said she decided to base at WSU due to one burher thesis on this topic because geoning group despite a downshe noticed the same patterns ward national trend.
Larry Green, a past member of Anarchy Club, said he joined hoping it would be a place to complain about his life as a straight, white, upper-middleclass male, but was dismayed to find out the club focused on actual anarchy. “My parents would be pissing me off and I wanted a place to vent,” Green said. “But Anna just wanted to talk about ‘misconceptions about anarchy’ and ‘the conditions needed for it to work.’” Green himself left after commenting that Grey was “bossing them around a lot for a club about anarchy,” to which Grey replied that anarchy is the absence of governing bodies, not leadership in general. “What’s the point then?” Green asked. “I already have to talk to my mom every day, why do I need more people telling me what to do?” Anarchy Club disbanded three months after its first meeting due to low membership, Grey herself being the only member to show up after the second month. Day believes Grey’s mistake was talking about “stupid things” instead of “stuff people, like, actually care about.” “The state is nothing more than the monopolization of violence,” Grey said. “I wanted to make a space to talk about genocide and war being propagated by the state, but they just wanted to listen to Blink-182.” Even with the new focus, Day said Anarchy Club won’t hesitate to talk about problems society faces today. “We used to have to deal with just ‘The Man,’” Day said. “But it’s 2019 now. It’s not just ‘The Man’ telling us what to do. We have ‘The Woman’ as well. It’s just getting worse for us.” As to why he hasn’t changed the name, Day explains it’s because he still wants to appeal to those interested in the idea but initially turned off by punk culture. “It’s like, you come to learn about anarchy, right?” Day said. “But we don’t actually teach it, so you’ll stay for our cool pink mohawks.”
narchy Club, WSU’s premier organization for anarchists to meet and discuss, is finally up and running again, this time with a new goal: to bring punk back to WSU. “I’m excited,” President Gordon Day said. “Finally, somebody will run this club right.” With the revival, Day promises to cut out most, if not all, of the “stupid political stuff” that was prevalent in Anarchy Club two years ago. “We have garage band nights,” Day said. “We make mohawks, we make sick skate videos and sometimes we just sit down, as a group, and just talk about why we hate our parents.” Day believes the punk subculture has been dormant for too long at WSU and has even turned into a laughingstock on campus. “I had my hair in liberty spikes one day,” said one Anarchy Club member who wishes to remain anonymous. “And this guy passed by, he saw it, and he said, ‘nice haircut.’ And I said ‘thanks’ but then I thought about it and I realized he probably didn’t think it was a nice haircut.” Day said Anarchy Club members face daily harassment like this on campus, whether it be from people asking them to turn down their Fall Out Boy in the library or calling members “emo.” “It’s ‘The Man’ trying to fit us into his boxes,” Day said. “And, it’s like, ‘you’re not my mom. Stop trying to tell me what to do.’” The club was started two years ago by then-student Anna Grey as a place to discuss the ideology of anarchy, in which society operates without government. While it quickly gained popularity, members dropped out as they realized the club focused more on the Joel Kemegue is a freshman creative writing major from Bellevue. He can political ideology, and the be contacted at 335-1140 or by faults of government rather mint@dailyevergreen.com. than “cool stuff.”
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”We Used to have to deal with just ‘The Man,’” President Gordon Day said. “But it’s 2019 now. It’s not just ‘The Man’ telling us what to do. We have ‘The Woman’ as well.”
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The increase started when WSU Athletics released its plan to “advanc[e] the future of Cougar Athletics,” a set of goals called UNLEASH. “Though religion has no strict definition, and especially not in legal terms, UNLEASH has essentially classified WSU Athletics as a religion,” said Dinah Moore, a professor of theology at WSU. “The rhetoric and actions around Cougar sports have been suggesting this for years, but now it’s really been cemented.” Specific ethics, practices, holy places and a shared mindset, Moore said, make up the building blocks of a new religion.
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UNLEASH tips the scales, making WSU Athletics a classified religion stating that “passion and pride of Coug nation [take] a backseat to no one.”
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he must deal with a classic fairytale romance. Wow, what a poor guy. Popular faces such as Ed Sheeran and James Cordon come on to make guest appearances. By Roos Helgesen Adding these stars to the Evergreen repertoire really nailed home columnist just how like our reality this timeline is. The only problem I have with the movie is the music mogul Deborah played by ot bad. Kate McKinnon. Yesterday is yet She was really over the top another imaginain her role, to the point of maktive creation of director Danny Boyle, who always seems to come out with very odd but fun movies to watch. - WHAT: ‘Yesterday’ showing Failing singer Jack Malik, - WHEN: 6 and 9 p.m. Friday played by Hilmesh Patel, wakes and Saturday, 4 and 7 p.m. up in an alternate reality where Sunday the Beatles never existed and he’s WHERE: CUB theater the only one who remembers their existence. - COST: Free with cougar card Unlike what most of us would ing her character almost seem do — mourn the loss of the comedic in even the most tense gods of rock — Malik decides circumstances. to put his music career to use “Yesterday” was a good overand begins to recreate all of the all movie and I would recomBeatles hits. mend it today, but tomorrow I What can this mean for our don’t know. Only the change in intrepid traveler? He earns timelines will tell. wealth, fame and international “Yesterday” is showing in the recognition as the best singerCUB auditoriumat 6 and 9 p.m. songwriter ever obviously. Sept. 20-21 and at 4 and 7 p.m. Throughout the movie you on Sept. 22. watch as Malik struggles to reproduce the Beatles classics by memory. While struggling with Roos Helgesen is a freshman the thought of everything that international business major from COURTESY OF FLICKR COMMONS has changed from reality in this Anchorage, Alaska. He can be new timeline. In a world where, suddenly, the Beatles never existed, one musician remembers them contacted at 335-1140 or by mint@ On top of all of his issues, dailyevergreen.com. and decides to sell their songs as his own in the new Danny Boyle movie, “Yesterday.”
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Frat | Continued from Page 5 get-together, but even then they might find their friends to be so busy that they forget to show up. “Oh, that was today?” asked Viticulture major Bud Miller, after I called him when he didn’t show up to that party I was putting together on Saturday. “Man, I completely forgot. I was way too sucked into my English paper.”
After mentioning that we had the same class and there was no English paper assigned, Miller attributed his forgetfulness to “all the stuff that’s been going on.” When asked to elaborate, he said, “You know, school stuff.” Many of the other people I invited had similar reasons for not showing up, whether it be “I was really tired,’’ or “I had
another thing going on,” or jokingly stating, “no one showed up because you’re literally the worst person to party with.” So, this presents a dilemma for students hoping, like I was, to not spend their weekend nights alone in their dorm watching Netflix. Rest assured, however, that this is completely normal, and how most WSU students spend their nights.
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The men worked with Myers at the gym multiple days each week to learn and practice the choreography leading up to their performances, Browning said. “[Myers] mostly specializes in ballet dance but she kind of whipped us into shape,” Browning said. “Then we introduced her to our kind of dance, which is ballroom vogue.” Ballroom vogue is a style of dance that started in the late 1980s. The group’s performances draw on this influence and combine it with modern moves, Dimler said. “Our stuff is very drag culture,” Ramirez said. “We’re more performance-based than technical dance.” In addition to training the group and helping with more technical choreography, Myers also helped the men
“And if it looks like a pilgrimage and acts like a pilgrimage…” Spurley said, finishing the statement with a shrug. Moore said with UNLEASH as its doctrine and sports games as its place of worship, one characteristic of the WSU Athletics religion remains unclear:
get comfortable performing in front of an audience since they never did performances before, Dimler said. “We were already a group of friends,” Ramirez said. “[Myers] made us a group of dancers.” For their performances, Browning, Ramirez and Dimler coordinated outfits and did each other’s makeup. One of the best parts of performing was getting ready for it as a group of friends, Browning said. The group is planning another performance in November, which will also be at Etsi Bravo, Browning said. The men hope to have a longer and more involved routine for their third performance, he said. “The bar’s just gonna get higher,” Ramirez said. “Higher heels … more stunts, more technical, actual dance.”
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Ten Commandments and shared them with the Israelites.” Spurley disagreed, seeing Chun more as a member of the heavenly host — an archangel messenger, she said, more than a prophet. She said his position as director grants him more power than the average prophet.
[Chun] gifted the people with the UNLEASH announcement, much as Moses received the Ten Commandments and shared them with the Israelites. Dinah Moore
a prophet. A prophet is generally the medium between the people and a divine source, Moore said. In the case of WSU Athletics, she said it is possible there is more than one. “[Director of Athletics] Pat Chun seems the obvious answer,” Moore said. “After all, he gifted the people with the UNLEASH announcement, much as Moses received the
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expect that by meeting fraternity or sorority members, they’ll find out about all the hot ragers going on at any given time. This couldn’t be further from the truth however, as frats and sororities, frats especially, can often be the furthest from any sizzling soirees. The obvious solution to a new student might be to host their own little
Instead, Spurley said WSU Athletics has had a prophet for years without anyone recognizing it. “Mike Leach is clearly the prophet here,” she said. “He walks among the people — I’ve seen him downtown more than once. And everyone knows he speaks in the form of incomprehensible parables and prophecies. There’s no denying that he is the chosen one of WSU Athletics.”
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Dr. Nigel Campbell talks about the importance of women’s health and birth control on Monday afternoon at Pullman/Moscow OB/GYN. “Effective use of birth control is very empowering to women in terms of making sure that life unfolds the way that they would like it to unfold,” he said.
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Students deserve many options, especially while exploring sexuality, preferences at university By Reid Brown Evergreen reporter
For many women, college is the first opportunity for true independence in their personal decisions with health and sexual activity. A lot of times, people don’t think about what contraception they will use until the moment comes. “The heat of the moment happens,” said Dr. Megan Guido, family practice trained physician at Pullman Family Medicine. Alongside regularly seeing WSU students for typical sickness, long-term wellness and preventive care, the physicians at Pullman Family Medicine on Stadium Way offer all kinds of birth control, from implant options and IUDs to the pill, as well as counseling and STD screening. Guido encourages young women to meet with their physician and start birth control before they go to college or early on in their
college journey. That way, if and when the student chooses to become sexually active, they can be safe, Guido said. “Effective use of birth control is very empowering to women in terms of making sure that life unfolds the way that they would like it to unfold,” said Dr. Nigel Campbell, private practice obstetrics and gynecology specialist at Moscow/Pullman OB/GYN. In college, people are at the highest risk for sexually transmitted infections than any other time in their life, and there may be a lot of anxiety associated with going to the doctor to discuss sexual health, said Campbell. However, there are many services in Pullman that care for students and work to prevent STIs, STDs, and unplanned pregnancies. “It’s probably much more accessible and much less invasive to get started on birth control than one might expect,” Campbell said.
Pullman Family Medicine, Moscow/ Pullman OB/GYN, Student Health, and many other practices on the Palouse work with students to understand and provide for their unique needs, Guido and Campbell said. “Much like trying on a piece of clothing, there is no perfect birth control for everyone. There is only one that is ideal for you,” Campbell said. Guido and Campbell agree that there are many different birth control options available and the process of choosing one is very individualistic. Birth control pills are a popular option among female college students, but like all types of birth control, this option comes with its own drawbacks. “If you have a hectic schedule, or you happen to be somewhat forgetful, birth control pills, which are quite easy to use and very accessible, may not be a good option for you,” Campbell said. Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation about birth control out there, from what is on the internet to what is shared
between friends, Campbell said. “For example, you’ll look up ‘prevention of pregnancy with condoms.’ Well the box says ... that they’re 97 to 98 percent effective. That’s with perfect usage. With actual usage, over the course of a year, one out of five women will get pregnant when using condoms exclusively,” Campbell said. “Make sure that any children that are had are a welcome visitor in your home. That might be during college or it might be significantly later.” Unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases can divert students’ attention from their studies and prevent students from achieving their goals in college, Campbell said. Having a child is something that should happen when and if the person is ready for that responsibility. “Birth control is something that, for most women, they’re going to be concerned about for 10, 15, 20 years, so it is something that is pretty important to understand,” Campbell said.
Restaurant contributes to small town charm restaurant has doubled in size. “Just seeing the staff evolve over the years, and seeing the service just grow to its highest potential, and we’re still going Barham, co-owner of Lodgepole, said. By Jackee Smith with that,” Prace Collier said. “It’s getting Evergreen reporter When it first opened, Tanner Prace more pleasant every day to come in here.” Collier, now the front-of-house manager, Lodgepole restaurant made its debut Owning a restaurant isn’t always easy, was one of its first employees. He was in Moscow during the Art Walk in 2015. Barham said. There is a never-ending Alex Barham and his wife have worked working at another restaurant across the strive for perfection, and that is a chaltogether for a long time, and they decided street at the time, and that was when they lenge Lodgepole constantly faces. they wanted to own a restaurant in a town interviewed him. Another challenge is being a restauthat was like Pullman or Moscow. “What they told me was that they want“Why try to keep finding something rant in a college town. Both Barham and that we already know exists? So that’s ed to have a higher-end restaurant that Prace Collier see college students grow, what kind of led us back here,” Alex didn’t feel like you had to be higher-end to but since they are only there for a couple of years before graduation, these connections often bring heartbreak. “You have to be happy for them because they’re going on, and moving on, and doing wonderful things, but it makes it difficult,” Barham said. Besides the invested staff and friendly atmosphere, Barham takes pride in the New American cuisine they serve. “I like to explain our food as very Pacific Northwest, ingredient-driven, so it’s all very much using local farmers and using what’s growing around us,” Barham said. Both Barham and his wife wanted to bring over food influences they learned from Seattle, so they bring in coastal items, such as oysters and shellfish. Barham’s wife, Melissa, has family from Mexico, so they try to bring in different spices and food ideas and combine food profiles to make something nice and comfortable for people to deal with. Both Barham and Prace Collier have CAROLYNN CLAREY | THE DAILY EVERGREEN invested a lot of time in Lodgepole and Alex Berham, Lodgepole owner, left, and front of house manager Tanner Prace Collier discuss the fusion of Pacific have seen it grow over the past for years, Northwest indgredients with global flavors found in their food on Sept. 11 at Lodgepole. rtist Molly Rice displays her and they hope to see their staff and service first solo exhibit on Thursday afternoon at the Colfax Branch of the Whitman County Library, Calissendorff said. quality develop, Barham said.
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be here,” Prace Collier said. “When people come in, we want them to feel like this is their home, and they’re comfortable.” The food is one of the most important things, but what sets Lodgepole apart is the investment they get from their staff, Barham said. They want an atmosphere that makes people comfortable so they want to come back, whether they are coming from the farm in their work boots or a businessman in a suit. One of the coolest things about working for Lodgepole was watching it grow, Prace Collier said. Since he started, the
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Pullman School District approves bond to renovate local middle school
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Shannon Focht, Pullman Public Schools communications coordinator, said the bond for the renovation of Lincoln Middle School would be for $15 million over 20 years. A technology levy would also provide $200,000 a year to help build the technology infrastructure of the schools
Kaitlyen Tejero Evergreen reporter
The Pullman School District school board approved a bond that will fund the renovation of Lincoln Middle School as well as upgrades to heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems of the three elementary schools in Pullman, said the district’s finance manager. These new measures would cost taxpayers about eight cents more per $1,000. The board went through with three new tax measures, including a bond and two replacement levies on Sept. 11.
Shannon Focht, Pullman Public Schools communications coordinator, said the bond would be $15 million over 20 years and was recommended by the Capital Projects Advisory Committee. “We were really excited that this external group that was made up of a few middle school staff members, and a whole bunch of community members, put together this proposal to the board on behalf of our community,” she said. Diane Hodge, finance director for Pullman Public Schools, said the community and anyone with
students at Lincoln Middle School or at the three elementary schools will be impacted by the measures. “It’s always in our best interest to be accommodating with our schools. As a community we want to make sure that when people move to the area, they have nice schools to move to,” she said.
increases, but these measures would at most increase taxpayers’ tax rates by a small percent. “They [The Capital Projects Advisory Committee] were very cognizant of having the bond low enough, that it would only impact taxpayers slightly at the most,” Focht said. “And, that we were not asking for any luxury items or any extras. It was really just the basics We want to make sure that when to accommodate the growth our people move to the area, they district is facing.” Lincoln Middle School will have nice school to move to. host a community forum, from Diane Hodge finance director 6:30-7:30 p.m. Sept. 24 at the LMS library to gather the comFocht said the two levies are said, which will help support the munity’s feedback on the school’s replacement levies, meaning projects the state does not fund. renovation and expansion, Focht said she understands according to the Pullman Public they are being renewed under different names. Both levies will the community is sensitive to tax School website.
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span four years. One of the levies is a technology levy for $200,000 a year, she said, which will help build the technology infrastructure of the schools and pay for online services for the students. The second one is a maintenance and operations levy, she
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Community members discuss creation of new trail
New trail would provide over 60 miles for biking, running between cities Jakob Thorington Evergreen reporter
Members of the Pullman Civic Trust introduced their idea to turn an unused local railway into a trail at the Brown Bag Lunch and Learn Series at noon Tuesday at the Neil Public Library. Bobbie Ryder, Pullman Civic Trust president, presented “Railbanking and the ColfaxAlbion-Pullman Corridor” to the Pullman League of Women Voters. The CAP is a 19-mile railway owned by the Washington State Department of Transportation that runs from Colfax to Pullman. It is placed just off the South Fork of the Palouse River, away from the traffic of Highway 195. Ryder said the PCT wants to railbank the railway and turn it into a paved trail that connects to the Latah Trail. The combination of the two will potentially provide over 60 miles of trail. She said the trail would
increase economic revenue in the area from visitors. “Fifty-plus miles is a destination trail,” she said. “People come for destination trails.” Another benefit from a paved trail is that it makes the bike ride from Albion to Pullman much safer, Ryder said. The road is hilly and narrow on a rocky shoulder. “It’s not something you’d want to take your kids on,” she said. James Lohr, a Pullman resident, said he has wanted to ride his bike from Colfax to Pullman for the last 20 years but has not done it due to safety concerns. “I never felt safe riding from Colfax to Pullman,” Lohr said. Ryder said WSDOT has three options for CAP. First, the department can continue maintenance responsibility on the railway, which would not be available for public use. It can railbank the path to create a trail for public use or dispose of the property. During her presentation, she discussed the success of the OLIVIA WOLF | THE DAILY EVERGREEN Bill Chipman Palouse Trail that Bobbie Ryder, President of Pullman Civic Trust, provides information about was railbanked in 1998. See Trail Page 12
the Colfax Albion Pullman Rail Corridor during a Brown Bag meeting on Tuesday afternoon at the Neill Public Library.
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WSU post-doctoral researcher Nick Naeger shows a wooden bee frame that is inserted into a larger hive box to provide a structure for bees to build honeycomb Sunday afternoon. They also build screens to prevent mice from getting into the bee hive frames.
Bees | Cont. from Page 4 parasite that attacks and feeds on honeybees by drilling into a bee’s exoskeleton to drain fat from it. Sheppard said that if unmanaged, a Varroa mite infestation can destroy a bee colony in about two years. He said bees cluster together in response to cold temperatures, which produces a side effect that may help control the threat Varroa mites pose to colonies. “Have you guys see[n] the ‘March of the Penguins’ movie?” Sheppard said. “Well, the bees do the same thing but in a big cluster.” Inside a cluster, the temperature can reach 70 degrees Fahrenheit even if it is 20 degrees outside, Sheppard said. An important result of this is that carbon dioxide levels reach about 6 or 7 percent within the bee cluster. Normal CO2 percentage in the atmosphere
is around 0.04 percent. Sheppard said Varroa mites cannot withstand the same CO2 percentages that bees can. He said one idea to eliminate Varroa mites from colonies is to store bees in an air-controlled chamber and keep the CO2 concentration high, Sheppard said. Naeger said that researchers make almost every wooden beehive and tool from scratch in the workshop on-site. These apparatus’ range from mice screens to keep them out of hives in the winter, to shipping containers for drones and queens. The lab also has its own honey extractor that can collect about six hives’ worth of honey at a time, Naeger said. The honeycombs are fed through a conveyor belt into a centrifuge that flings the honey off to be piped into storage tanks.
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The wax honeycombs are saved for the next season or used for candle-making the department does every holiday season, Sheppard said. “Hey, how about a toy from the 1800s?” Sheppard said, doling comb chunks to several children who attended the tour. Cynthia Mika, a Moscow resident and tour attendee, said she was very impressed with the amount of bee information in the tour. “I came into it with maybe one-fiftieth of the knowledge I left with,” she said. Mika recommends taking a tour of the facility the next time they offer one. At the end of the tour, attendees received a jar of honey that Sheppard said was extracted from a hive two days before it was given out. “Oh, I just loved it,” Mika said.
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Summit | Cont. from Page 3 They cannot have a residency program until it meets the standards set by the accreditation council for graduate medical education, he said. “We’re just in the design and development phases now and we have to see what we have as far as requirements go, what the patient mix looks like to decide what our curriculum and didactics are going to be,” Espenschied said. The summit also included displays of what the hospital and the medical school have been developing. There were several different stations set up around the meeting room where the new innovative medical projects were being displayed. One of those was a virtual reality simulation of the human body. Erika Fleck, Elson S. Floyd School of Medicine director of education and information technology, said they use VR as a supplement to the curriculum for anatomy. Students can use the technology for educational purposes, she said. The technology has been used for post-test VR archery contests for stress relief. They also use the technology in scholarly projects, she said, which all medical students are required to engage in. One student partnered with Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children’s Hospital in Spokane, and made a virtual reality video of what it is like to be a pediatric patient prepping for a procedure, she said. “When pediatric patients
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Roland Chen, faculty member at WSU’s School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, speaks about mechanical simulations that benefits medical students at the 2019 Health Innovation Summit at the SEL Event Center. Another station displayed wearable simulation technology. Roland Chen, assistant professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, said wearable simulation technol-
come to Sacred Heart they can put on that headset and have an immersive virtual reality experience to get ready and we hope that will reduce anxiety,” Fleck said.
ogy is artificial human tissue that a person can wear that allows students to practice giving shots or bandaging. If you just practice on a dummy it takes much of the
realism out of the experience, he said. Even if it is artificial flesh the needle is going into, having it on a human makes it a much more lifelike experience.
Study | Continued from Page 1 study, Nelson said. He wants to share the data with the participants and communities they come from to inform patient care and put it to good use. The researchers received a $9.6 million grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. Nelson said the money will be used to fund the native community organizations they are partnered with to carry out the data collection. He said elevated rates of diabetes and hypertension in Native Americans are likely to be the risk factors his group finds.
“There is a whole host of reasons,” he said. “One of them being the cultural genocide that goes back many generations.” Faith Price, director of Native American Student Services, said the research project is important to her because of the underrepresentation of Native Americans. “Native people are invisible in a lot of ways,” Price said. She said although her great aunt was not Native American, she was a victim of Alzheimer’s when Price was a kid. “I remember my mom saying she
hopes to never go through it,” she said. “It’s devastating.” She said the Office of Native American Center for Research and Collaborations provides opportunities to anyone who is interested in researching native populations and working with tribes in ethical ways. Nelson said the underrepresentation of Native Americans in research is changing now that a generation of scholars such as himself have been raised. “There has been a resurgence of native culture within the last 10 years,” he said.
Fines | Continued from Page 3 not be necessary,” Boyan said. WSUTS has roughly 22 parking enforcement officers currently employed, most of which are part-time, Boyan said. Within the last year, WSUTS has also adopted license plate recognition technology to help make writing citations a more efficient process for parking enforcement, he said. Despite not having used the license plate recognition technology for a full year, WSUTS issued 1,342 more citations in fiscal 2019 than the year before it, according to the WSUTS report. Cameras on parking enforcement vehicles can quickly scan license plates as they drive through a university parking lot. Boyan said the scanners recognize
which license plates are not registered to parking permits that authorize vehicles to park at the location. Boyan said parking enforcement officers are alerted to which vehicles are recognized to not be permitted in the lot and are prompted to investigate the vehicle further before writing a citation. “This way, more vehicles are actually looked at,” Boyan said. “It is a lot quicker.” Boyan said those who wish to contest the citations can do so through a process of appeals. “Appeals are really important to us and our patrons,” Boyan said. He said the appeals process gives people a chance to voice complaints, argue
their case and receive proper due process. Boyan said the appeals committee is made up of eight to 12 members who first individually review appeal cases, but if an unsatisfactory decision is made, a person can choose to appeal again. During the re-appeal, the entire committee reviews that single case. If a person is dissatisfied with the decision of their appeal, they can choose to take it to district court to be reviewed by a judge. Boyan said on average 80 to 90 appeal cases are reviewed a week and about five re-appeal cases occur within the same time span. He said only two to three appeal cases a year are taken to district court.
S&A | Continued from Page 1 fees, according to the S&A budget. The S&A committee meets every spring to hear proposals from various student groups and decide how much money those groups will receive from the general fund. Berkompas said the committee is made up of students and staff but must always have a student majority. For the 2018-19 school year, if the S&A committee had received the money that was waived each group would
have received an 8.1 percent increase to their budget. In 2018, the CUB would have received over $130,000 more, according to the Pullman S&A Fee Committee. Karee Shaw, director of event services and operations for the CUB, said this extra money would have prevented cuts to the CUB’s hours of operation. Shaw said if the CUB had received the full S&A request last year, one of the first-floor restrooms could have been upgraded from
one men’s and one women’s restroom into two all-gender restrooms. In 2018, Student
In 2018 the CUB would have received over $130,000 more Involvement would have received about $74,132 more, according to the Pullman S&A Fee Committee. Brian Shuffield, executive
director of Student Involvement, said though it is difficult to say what that extra money might have been used for, the money would have been used for programming and staff salaries. Berkompas said he plans to present this issue to the ASWSU Senate during its regular meeting on Wednesday. He said he will also present the issue to the WSU Board of Regents when it meets in Pullman on Thursday and Friday.
Trail | Cont. from Page 10 “Property owners opposed to the trail are now proponents of it,” she said. Larry Fox, another Pullman resident, said some people may be opposed to the creation of the trail because of how close CAP is to homes and livestock. “There are some issues that
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and use MRI’s to track cognitive health over the next five years. “These are our culture bearers,” Nelson said. “If they forget our stories and culture, then it’s lost.” Nelson’s team will also look for risk factors that connect to Alzheimer’s and dementia among the participants and protective measures that decrease the likelihood of occurrence, he said. “Ideally, we’d like to identify points of intervention,” Nelson said. “There are things we can do to eliminate these risks.” Eliminating the “helicopter research” is one of the most important aspects to this
Property owners opposed to the trail are now proponents.
Mary Collins Former LWV president don’t exist on other trails,” Fox said. Mary Collins, the former president of the League of Women Voters, said one issue people might have with railbanking CAP is that it gentrifies Albion. “Pullman is getting closer,” she said. “People don’t like the part of it [student apartments] that is getting closer.” Ryder said she would like to have more one-on-one conversations with opposition to hear the concerns and find a middle ground. The final decision lies with the state legislature, as the land is owned by the state.