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Daily Grind drivethru may close From staff reports

The Daily Grind drive-thru stand located on Bishop Boulevard is closing Saturday.

According to a news tip sent to The Daily Evergreen, the opening of a Starbucks located near Walmart may have led to a decline of business at the Daily Grind.

Daily Grind owner Tami Grady refused to comment on the matter.

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New chamber member makes changes

By Kaitlyn Tejero Evergreen reporter

New name embodies a new attitude

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A pair of floral pattern pumps are displayed by the windows near the front of Palouse Treasures Friday morning. Read about the local thrift staple on page 9.

A WSU alumna has been hired as the Pullman Chamber and Visitor Center’s new events coordinator.

Marie Dymkoski, Pullman Chamber executive director, said the position had been empty for two months before Ireland Addis had been hired.

“We lucked out and hired someone who just graduated from WSU in December and someone who is really looking for that next big job opportunity,” she said.

Dymkoski said Addis will be a perfect fit for the team.

“Ireland is already diving into two upcoming events,” she said. “One being the Pullman Chamber and Visitors Center’s only fundraiser called ‘Cabaret’.”

Dymkoski said other events

I think my time here wasn’t quite over yet

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Associate Dean of Students/Student Care Director Karen Fischer, right, and explains how the Student Care Network provides outreach for students during an interview Tuesday afternoon in the Lighty Administration building.

The network’s new name aspires to reach a broader student body

By Loren Negron Evergreen reporter

WSU’s Office of the Dean of Students recently renamed its Student Care Network to reach more students and share a different story about the network’s purpose.

Jill Creighton, associate vice president of Student Affairs and dean of students/ deputy Title IX coordinator, said the Student Care Network is a system-wide Division of Student Affairs initiative. It was previously

known as the Aware Network.

She said the Aware Network received many referrals of students who needed support. However, many individuals would wait until they were experiencing a “higher level of concern” before connecting to the program.

Creighton said she heard that people did not know what the threshold was when making referrals to the network.

“What we really wanted to do was make sure that folks know that students can come see us anytime and you can refer a student at any time who needs support or assistance,” Creighton said.

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Different factors influenced the name change including wanting people to understand that the program’s focus is on the students. The network’s purpose did not change, but they wanted to apply the right term to the work they were already doing, Creighton said.

“Now that we’re telling the story differently, I’m hoping we’ll see more students [who] realize we’re here,” she said.

The transition was also a part of the WSU system initiative, Creighton said. The Student Care Network staff wanted students to be able to access similar services no matter where they are in the WSU

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Creighton said the network is available to all WSU campuses through the collaboration of Student Care Teams, which consist of student affairs administrators.

This helps with early intervention, a key aspect of the Student Care Network, she said.

“Early intervention is so key for us to be able to help students because most of the time we can do our best work with students before it’s a crisis or before it’s an emergency,” Creighton said.

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Ireland Addis Events coordinator

Addis will be in charge of include the “Spring Pub Crawl” which will occur April 25 as well as Pullman’s Fourth of July celebration where Addis will work in collaboration with Mayor Glenn Johnson.

Addis said it is one of her main goals to bring the community closer together.

“I want to continue with what the Pullman Chamber has been doing in the past years and get the community involved with the events that we hold,” she said.

Addis said one of the reasons she accepted the position was because she wanted to stay in the Pullman area.

“I really like the area and the community and I didn’t get to spend a lot of time here, only going to school here for a year and a half,” she said. “I think my time here wasn’t quite over yet.”

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Broken bylaws

Norman Rockwell

Tennis takes Denver Find a bookclub

ASWSU judicial board and senate discuss bylaws.

Lana Del Rey finally made the perfect alternative album

If they can win this one, the women’s tennis team takes it to Stanford

Want to join a bookclub in the area?

One reporter tells about them all.

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MLK Community Celebration featuring W. Kamau Bell The 2020 MLK Celebration will include the presentation of the WSU Distinguished Ser vice Awards, multiple student musical and poetr y per formances, and a keynote address from W. K amau Bell. He will per form his one-man show “ The W. K amau Bell Cur ve: Ending Racism in About an Hour.”

The “ Cur ve” is a comedic, topical exploration of the current state of America’s racism, combined with a little (unknown) histor y, a little PowerPoint , and a whole bunch of K amau.

It is a seamless mix of stand-up comedy, video and audio clips, personal stories, knowledge dropping, and solo theatrical per formance. The event will be at 6:30 p.m. in the CUB Senior Ballroom.

Pa r k i n g P r o b l e m NE Hillside Drive, 11:20 a.m.

A n o f f i c e r r e s p o n d e d t o v e h i c l e s b l o c king the f low of traff ic. Owners of vehicles were contacted.

Thur s day 1/30 SEB presents alt/cinema: Moonlight SEB Films and the Office of Outreach and Education present the Academy Award-winning film “Moonlight” as part of this year ’s MLK Program. Films are free for students, faculty, staff and community members. This month we are showing movies that deal with the black male experience in America. The screening will take place from 6-8 p.m. in the CUB Auditorium To submit, email events to meditor@dailyevergreen.com.

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A n i m a l No i s e C o m p l a i n t NW Hall Drive, 11:49 a.m.

An officer responded to the repor t of a barking dog.

A n i m a l No i s e C o m p l a i n t W Main Street, 7:32 p.m.

An off icer was advised of a bark ing dog.

It is an ongoing issue at this address.

Gunshot Sounds NW Nye Street, 7:43 p.m.

R e p o r t i n g Pe r s o n r e p o r t i n g w h a t s o u n d ed like gunshot sounds. Officers unable to locate.

Mo n d a y No i s e C o m p l a i n t NE Terre View Drive, 2:55 a.m.

An officer responded to a noise complaint .

Theft of Automobile NE Terre View Drive, 9:48 p.m.

An officer responded to the repor t of a stolen car.

R e c o v e r e d S t o l e n Ve h i c l e NE California Street, 10:22 p.m.

An officer responded to the repor t of a found vehicle stolen out of Clark ston.

Tu e s d a y Code Violations NE Colorado Street, 2:23 p.m.

Officer contacted and warned responsible for compact snow and ice on the sidewalk s .

Sidewalk s were cleared within several hours .

Code Violations NE B Street, 2:27 p.m.

Officer contacted and warned responsible for compact snow and ice on the sidewalk s .

Code Violations NE Monroe Street, 2:29 p.m.

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Officer requested a case for code violations. C o d e V i o l a t i o n s NE Campus Street & NE Ruby Street, 2:40 p.m.

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Discuss the results you’d love to see realized. New opportunities arise through conversation and networking. Connect and share.

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‘This is not about fixing it, it is about letting it be’

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The League of Women Voters of Pullman met for a presentation on mindfulness Tuesday at the Neill Public Library. Lydia Gerber, a clinical associate professor in the WSU Honors College, led a six-minute meditation for attendees.

Practicing mindfulness meditation helps improve interpersonal interactions, selfcompassion, encourages self acceptance

By Alana Lackner Evergreen reporter

The League of Women Voters of Pullman (LWV) hosted a presentation on mindfulness which highlighted the importance of self-compassion during

meditation Tuesday at the Neill Public Library.

Lydia Gerber, a clinical associate professor in the WSU Honors College, said she refers to her mindfulness approach as “puppy potty training.”

“Any time you notice your mind is slipping into some other space […] really carefully and with love get your mind back to where it’s supposed to be,” she said.

Gerber said she believed one of the most difficult things for beginners is their desire to be perfect and

to never let their mind wander.

Instead, she encouraged participants to be understanding and compassionate toward themselves. She said they should let thoughts and sensations happen.

“Our tendency is that when we feel something [is] wrong, we need to fix it,” she said. “This is not about fixing it, it is about letting it be.”

Gerber led a six minute meditation for the group and encouraged acceptance of circumstances, thoughts and self.

“We look at our bodies […] we see what we hate, what should be different, what should be bigger or smaller, all of that,” she said. “We fail to appreciate what a miracle we are — our uniqueness and our ability to engage with the world through our bodies.”

Karen Kiessling, LWV member and former mayor of Pullman, said she enjoyed Gerber’s presentation and felt a familiarity in it.

“I’m almost 79 and I grew up with adults, teachers, parents, family [and] friends saying ‘Pay attention. Pay attention,’ and this is ‘Pay attention,’” Kiessling said.

“It’s pay attention to your breathing, pay attention to your body, pay attention to where you’re walking.”

Gerber also spoke about mindfulness having the potential to help participants with interpersonal interactions.

“There is always something that stirs our heart,” she said. “There is always something where we can connect, and it can be very small, and it relates to our humanity.”

The event had approximately 30 participants, many of which were LWV regulars.

Kiessling described LWV meetings and events as an important point of connection for members of the community.

“You see people hugging each other, excited to see a friend they haven’t in a long time,” Kiessling said. “In a way, we’re like the produce section of Safeway, you bump into people there.”

Senators, Berkompas reflect on ruling Berkompas to receive Writ of Mandamus; applications for two executive positions reopened

By Angelica Relente Evergreen reporter

ASWSU senators voiced their concerns to President Quinton Berkompas after the Judicial Board presented the court’s ruling during the Senate meeting Wednesday.

Chief Justice Kevin Kissinger referred to the hearing on Jan. 21, which determined whether or not the executive staff violated a bylaw regarding application periods for executive positions and the duration the applications must be open and publicized.

Kissinger said the board decided that the executive staff did violate the bylaw. They suggested the senate should not confirm Eric Martinez as director of communica-

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tions or Jajuan Jackson as deputy director of student affairs.

In light of the ruling, Berkompas said Martinez and Jackson rescinded their resignation and are both reinstated as deputy directors of communications.

ASWSU Senator Diana Sotelo referred to Berkompas’ tweet about the senate not doing its due diligence for other students.

She said she was unbiased against the candidates Berkompas brought to the senate.

“Our problem was with the way the applications were advertised in the first place,” Sotelo said.

Berkompas said he disagrees with the Judicial Board’s ruling but still plans to

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ASWSU President Quinton Berkompas said he diasgrees with the Judical Board’s ruling but will comply with it. Chief Justice Kevin Kissinger suggested the Senate should not confirm Eric Martinez or Jajaun Jackson which leaves two more vacancies.

comply with it. The applications for the director of communications and deputy director for student affairs are posted on Engage and will be advertised on social media.

“I am not afraid — as I did publicly on my Twitter account — to voice my frustration that because of this, we will now have two vacancies,” he said.

ASWSU Senator Connor Simmons said one of his concerns is how Berkompas handles the hiring and application process.

“It is concerning to me, as a senator, to see multiple people working up on the third floor of the ASWSU office that had not been confirmed and

were not being paid,” Simmons said.

“I didn’t feel like that was fair to the senate … and those individual candidates themselves.”

Kissinger said the Judicial Board also recommended a new bylaw which would show transparency between the senate and the executive staff in terms of vacant positions in both branches.

A Writ of Mandamus will be issued to Berkompas for violating the bylaw, Kissinger said. A Writ of Mandamus is an order which would require Berkompas to fulfill his duties or correct a mistake.

One of the dissenting opinions for

issuing Berkompas a Writ of Mandamus was that Berkompas should just get a letter of reprimand.

“This is the second time there’s been an issue with applications,” Kissinger said.

ASWSU Senator Hannah Martian said she acknowledges the tension between the senate and executive staff.

She said her inquiries to the Judicial Board were to hold the executive staff accountable.

“It is not born out of personal vendetta, it is not born of the senate trying to be annoying or stir up drama,” Martian said. “We are here to serve all students.”

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Cougs attempt wins against tough Trojans on Friday

Senior guard Chanelle Molina anticipates her move against Pepperdine University on Nov. 5 at Beasley Coliseum.

WSU will face University of Southern California following disappointing losing streak; this game follows tense games against Trojans as senior Cougs hope to prove themselves The WSU women’s basketball team is seeking to break its two-game losing streak when it travels to Los Angeles to play the University of Southern California on Friday.

WSU (9-9, 2-4) has a four-game losing streak to USC (9-8, 1-5), with its last win coming in Pullman on Jan. 8, 2017.

WSU is looking to win three straight road games for the first time since the 2014-15 season.

After road wins against the University of Washington and the University of California, Berkeley, in pre-game press conference head coach Kamie Ethridge said the team is growing up and focuses well on the road.

“I think being at home really leads to some distractions,” Ethridge said. “You get on the road,

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You get on the road, and it’s just you and your routine.

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and it’s just you and your routine. You get a lot of rest, and you just focus on the game.”

Redshirt senior forward Borislava Hristova is WSU’s leading scorer this season. Hristova is av-

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eraging 19.1 points per game and is shooting 47.4 percent from the field.

“I’m just trying to be the best example for this team and help them through this journey,” Hristova said. “Me and Chanelle, as seniors, we should be the leaders because we’ve been here long enough, and we know what to expect.”

Senior guard Chanelle Molina is the second leading scorer for the Cougars this season. She is averaging 15.9 points per game, and a team best 4.3 assists per game.

Sophomore guard Cherilyn Molina said Chanelle has always been her role model.

“I just follow her by example in every practice and try to be the best I can be,” Cherilyn Molina said.

The WSU women’s basketball team will play Southern California at 7 p.m. Friday at the Galen Center in Los Angeles.

Women’s golf opens 2020 with friendly competition Head coach says team often travels during Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday; scores from this game will not be documented as they prep for regional tournament From staff reports

WSU women’s golf tees off on its 2020 season tomorrow with an exhibition match versus Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo Country Club in California.

Head coach Kelli Kamimura said the round is a practice trip so the players can familiarize themselves with the course for the Bruin Wave Invitational happening Feb. 24-25. The results of the practice will not be posted.

The team normally travels around Martin Luther King Jr. weekend for practice, Kamimura said. The friendly match with Cal Poly will focus on competitive mindset, rather than trying to get a lot of rounds in.

“Competition always brings out that fire,” Kamimura said. “It adds a layer of intensity to the trip.”

When it comes to individual improvement, she said January is a growth season for the team and she wants her players to peak in their performance toward the end of February before competition is more intense.

The players will work with a mental coach while they are in San Luis Obispo to develop breathing techniques and work on their playing mindsets, Kamimura said.

“The mental coach can only work on the mental aspects of the game,” she said. “Obviously in golf that is a huge aspect.”

Several of the players are coming back from injuries or are working on technical changes in their swings and will be competing for the first time with under those conditions, she said.

“After the practice trip […] we’ll be able to see how they’re transitioning those areas of growth into their play,” Kamimura said.

The team is preparing for the NCAA Women’s Regional, which will be in May at Palouse Ridge Golf Club.

“All of our practice, all of our tournaments, we feel like are taking us on the road to get jacob bertram | daily evergreen file back to the ‘Ridge’ to then advance to NCAAs,” Kamimura said.

Then-freshman Amy Chu refines her driving skills during a practice REPORTING BY EMMA LEDBETTER session on April 4 at WSU’s practice facility before a tournament.

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Canadian mountains visit Pullman

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Outdoor Recreation Center assistant director for adventure programs Jonathan Stahl says this year the film festival will include less white men, as mountaineering and outdoor activities tend to be a place of privilege and elitism, two themes they hope to avoid. The films will show in the CUB Auditorium.

Traveling movie festival comes back for about 26th time; tickets $5 online for WSU students, doors open at 6 p.m.

By Emma Ledbetter Evergreen reporter

The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is making a stop at WSU 7 p.m. Monday in the CUB Auditorium.

The festival at WSU is hosted by the Outdoor Recreation Center. Jonathan Stahl, ORC assistant director for adventure programs and experiential learning, said the festival will showcase films with diverse locations, characters, cultures and outdoor activities.

“It’s like not like we’re showing just extreme skiing movies all night long, or just kayaking movies,” Stahl said. “I think a really wide cross-section of people would find these films interesting and entertaining.”

Stahl tries to avoid films that show a lot of white men, he said, because outdoor activities have typically been a place of privilege and elitism.

Each year, the film festival begins in October in Banff, Alberta, Canada and includes more than a week of films and activities for attendees.

The festival then hits the road — “road warriors” bring the films to all the stops on the January world tour, including WSU. Stahl said he meets with a road warrior to decide what films are best suited for the audience here.

The festival has been happening at WSU for about 26 years, he said, and the audience usually fills the CUB Auditorium.

Lauretta Campbell, owner of Hyperspud Sports in Moscow, said she has attended the festival at WSU for about the last decade and looks forward to seeing community members of different ages support it.

“Banff is the sign,” Campbell said, “at least for me, that the new year has started on the Palouse.”

Stahl said he enjoys seeing people feeling inspired and energized after the night.

“People have so much fun at this event and leave with this elevated sense of ‘stoke,’” Stahl said.

There will be an intermission halfway through the program when the ORC will give out prizes from local sponsors, he said.

Stahl said some of the prizes will include a dry bag backpack from Northwest River Supplies, a set of trekking poles from Hyperspud Sports and a rope rug made of retired ropes from the WSU climbing wall, among other outdoor-themed items.

Campbell said outdoor activities can seem isolating and intimidating to people who don’t know how to do something.

“This area is really open to helping people to the best of our abilities,” Campbell said. “We just want to get everyone outside.”

Stahl said tickets are available for purchase online, but are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Tickets online are $5 for WSU students and SRC/Chinook members and $13 for the general public. Tickets are $5 more when purchased at the door.

Doors open 6 p.m. Monday at the CUB Auditorium. The festival will begin at 7 p.m. and end around 10 p.m., Stahl said.

Leaving a legacy

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”Our mission is to enable people from this semi-rural region to hear great music,” says Leonard Garrison, director of the Auditorium Chamber Music Series.

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Professor of music, conductor of WSU Symphony Orchestra and director of bands Dan Pham shares his story and passion for music on Jan. 15 in Kimbrough Music Hall.

From Hawaii to WSU, music guides Danh Pham’s journey

By Joel Kemegue Evergreen reporter

Whether it be in a conservatory in China or in Kimbrough Hall, Professor Danh Pham can find the music in his students anywhere.

Pham’s responsibilities include teaching instrumental conducting and symphonic literature, conducting WSU’s Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and overseeing WSU’s orchestra programs as director of bands.

Outside of WSU, Pham conducts or-

chestras and teaches students across the U.S. and in countries like China and Vietnam.

Lori Wiest, professor and director of choral activities, said her choir has worked with Pham’s orchestra.

“He’s a really great collaborator,” she said. “A really great team player and someone that’s always interested in doing unique things, all for the right reasons.”

Pham was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a family of Vietnamese immigrants. Pham said his family had no experience in music. Instead, they See PHAM Page 8

Quartet stops in Moscow Concert will start 7:30 p.m. in Admin Building Auditorium at University of Idaho; $25 tickets

By Emma Ledbetter Evergreen reporter

The Grammy Award-winning music group Pacifica Quartet will perform a concert tonight as part of the University of Idaho’s Auditorium Chamber Music Series.

Pacifica Quartet is comprised of violinist Simin Ganatra, violinist Austin Hartman, violist Mark Holloway and cellist Brandon Vamos. The musicians traveled to the University of Ida-

ho from Bloomington, Indiana, where they are the quartet-in-residence at the Jacob’s School of Music.

Leonard Garrison, director of the Auditorium Chamber Music Series, said this is not the first time Pacifica Quartet has visited Moscow.

“I knew they were fantastic from their previous visits,” Garrison said.

“It’s about time we had them back.”

Garrison said the Auditorium Chamber Music Series hosts a string quartet-in-residence during January every year. The auditorium concert is just one part of four days of events the See QUARTET Page 8

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I HAVE A DREAM...

The Rev. doctor Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech Aug. 28, 1963. He stood at the feet of the Lincoln Memorial and spoke to a crowd of a quarter-million people gathered for the March on Washington.

The following is a transcript of his speech.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will

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continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “For Whites Only”. We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering.

Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream

It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and

the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together,

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a m happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

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Working toward mindfulness Program teaches awareness to minimize injustice

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By Joel Kemegue Evergreen reporter

tudents and faculty gathered in the Elmina White Honors Hall lounge to talk about mindfulness and racial injustice, early on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Mindfulness Retreat was the first event of the MLK program, aside from the two films shown last week. It was a three-hour event dedicated to promoting mindfulness and being open to other experiences.

“I do not expect we will solve all of the world’s problems,” said Lydia Gerber, clinical associate professor and one of the facilitators of the retreat.

“But it is a start.”

Attendees spent the three hours listening to each other’s experiences, learning and developing ways to change WSU’s culture to reflect MLK’s values.

“I think mindfulness is really important for understanding who we are and understanding other people and how to support them,” department of psychology academic adviser Chioma Heim said.

Trymaine Gaithers, recruitment coordinator for the Honors College and one of the facilitators of the retreat, said the idea for the retreat came after becoming the advisor for Black Men Making A Difference and hearing concerns brought up by the group.

Gaithers said he wanted to teach the tools he learned in the Honors College to students of different groups.

“I was hoping that if we brought individuals from different identity groups together, whether it be the LGBTQ, African-American or Latinx communities, we could start incorporating or using some of these mindfulness tools to support each other,” Gaithers said.

Cecilia Richards, professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering and third facilitator of the retreat, said she hoped the event allowed people to practice mindfulness and learn from each other’s experiences.

“For me, Dr. King’s nonviolent theology ... tied in perfectly with the idea of mindfulness,” Gaithers said. “How to show compassion, learn to see our shared humanity, knowing that we’re all imperfect and that we all suffer.”

Gerber said she thought the event went well and hoped it would be a yearly thing.

“Something that I always want to be different is the reality of this world that we live in ... where we have so much hate and hostility simply based on ‘you’re this group, you’re that group, you’re that skin, that language, that religion,’” Gerber said.

“But rather than feeling depressed and hopeless ... having one small thing where we’re together is, to me, just a small bit of hope.”

Practicing intervention

Garfield High School includes bystander intervention training in MLK workshop

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hey were on a bus when one woman angrily confronted another. I saw you drop something, the first woman told the other in a seeming bout of irrational harassment.

A passenger leaped to the targeted woman’s defense. “Is that a big deal?” the bystand-er asked. “Why

don’t we just clean it up?”

That just seemed to make the harasser angrier. “I see this with people like you all the time,” she said, her gaze still fixed on her target.

Trying to intervene in such a situation can be tricky, as illustrated by this role-playing exercise in a workshop Monday at Garfield High School for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The woman excellently playing a harasser effused self-righteousness, presenter the Rev. Andrew Conley-Holcom pointed out.

When challenged, such a person will often lean in and the situation will escalate.

“Let’s try it again,” he said.

The workshop was one of some two dozen at Garfield during a full day of activities around the Seattle metro area to commemorate the legacy of the civil-rights leader and encourage people to follow suit. In the morning, Garfield also hosted an opportunity fair, offering booths to meet employers and get resume help, free of charge. Hundreds then turned out for a rally in the school gymnasium, which paid tribute to former King County Councilmember Larry Gossett, a civil-rights leader in his own right. In the after-noon, people marched to City Hall.

In these rancorous times, when hate crimes have dramatically increased, many are wondering what they can do about it. Conley-Holcom, pastor at Admiral Congregation-al United Church of Christ, said he developed the bystander-intervention workshop a few years ago at the request of his congregation, disturbed by the animosity around the last presidential election.

To prepare, he sat in on other workshops and came away disappointed. There was a lot of telling people exactly how they should act -- confrontational approaches like holding your hand up in somebody’s face and staring them down. “I thought it could get you killed,” Conley-Holcom said.

Instead, he said, he wants people to realize they will respond differently based on who they are and how they manage stressful situations. He offered guidelines, however, with the importance of de-escalation as a key point.

The role-playing continued, with those watching voicing their views on whether the strategies employed paid off. Particularly effective, many agreed, was when a “passen-ger” created a distraction by inviting the targeted person to sit near her and started a conversation. Also winning approval: another passenger’s decision to move close to the harasser and put her arm up, as if holding a strap on the bus. Her physicality, while non-confrontational, offered a partial shield.

Two passengers, in another goround, chose to leave. The bus driver had taken control of the situation, and it seemed like they weren’t needed, they explained. “I want to af-firm that,” Conley-Holcom said. “It’s easy to say you guys opted out,” he said, but it’s important to remember what is needed in the moment.

Afterwards, Hafsah Math, a 20-year-old University of Washington student, said the workshop had been helpful. This is not a theoretical exercise for Math, who wears a hijab. She has been harassed herself, including one time a fellow student implied she was a terrorist, and another when she was aggressively questioned on the bus about being Muslim. She said she was thankful that people have always intervened on her behalf. For example, when she was being questioned on the bus, another person not-ed all the answers her interrogator had demanded and asked him “Did you say thank you?”

In considering how she would intervene herself, Math said she realized it’s OK to stop and think about what to do rather than just jump in.

She has a hot temper, she noted, and could make things worse.

And then there was her own potential status as a target, given her hijab.

“I need to be self-aware,” she said, “and make sure I’m safe as well.”

How to talk about injustice Workshop provides tips on how to discuss inequality

By Joel Kemegue Evergreen reporter

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onday afternoon, as part of the MLK Program, Matthew Jeffries, GIESORC director, and Trymaine Gaither, recruitment coordinator for the Honors College, facilitated the workshop Mindful Dialogue: Tools When Having Difficult Conversations around Social Injustice.

“If we’re not going to sit and understand … their experiences,” Jeffries said.

“How can we stand with those from marginalized backgrounds?”

The workshop centered on how to have conversations about racism, gender inequality and social injustice.

Jeffries and Gaither introduced the R.A.I.N. method: Recognize the problem, Allow yourself to feel what you feel, Investigate what exactly elicited the reaction and Nurture the knowledge. The method is meant to help those who experience bigoted statements and actions.

Gaither used his personal life as an example for the workshop. He explained both personal generational trauma his family has gone through and a racist encounter only weeks ago.

“I learned a lot by setting it up with [Gaither],” Jeffries said. “I think it’s informing my practice because I can often ... be so sucked in to the heavy things at work that I can’t just look away from the suffering. I need to look at it, I need to process through it and think about how to move forward.”

Sophomore global politics major Nicole Craze said the workshop left her more optimistic toward the future.

“A lot of people don’t focus on the positive attributes and what we can do to fix the negative attributes,” Craze said. “Having a place where everyone has a different way of looking at things is very eye opening.”

Freshman broadcast news major Kaitlyn Hornbuckle said she believed events like this would lead to a more successful future.

“We have a lot of negativity that surrounds our world,” Hornbuckle said.

“To have somewhere a room of people that are willing and wanting to make the world a better place … it’s something that’s really impactful.”

Spokane honors MLK

People take to the streets to celebrate King’s legacy

By Chad Sokol The Spokesman-Review

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everal thousand people took part in a rally and march Monday morning in Spokane to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and remind the community that the fight for civil rights is far from over.

“We are here today because we believe in the right things. We believe in equality, we believe in unity and we believe in this community,” Mayor Nadine Woodward said in a speech in a packed ballroom at the Spokane Convention Center.

“We know, here in our city, that we are not immune to racism or bigotry, and we must continue to stress that our community will not tolerate division,” Woodward said.

Other speakers included Freda Gandy, director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center in the East Central Neighborhood, which is

celebrating a major expansion as well as its 50th anniversary this year.

Gandy thanked MLK Center staff and volunteers who last year distributed 800 backpacks for schoolchildren, 1,300 winter coats and more than 600,000 pounds of food from the center’s food bank.

“2019 was a very impactful year for us,” Gandy said. “We were able to expand services, hire more people and just have the biggest impact that we could in this community.”

Saron Zemedkun, a Ferris High School student who is president of the school’s Black Student Union, read an original essay that traced the mistreatment of black Americans from the Jim Crow South to the many recent high-profile police shootings of unarmed black people.

“As a young black woman, I am troubled by the America that I am seeing,” said Zemedkun, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Ethiopia.

“I have seen many African Americans being dragged into the depths of deprivation and despair by the wrong image and labels placed upon us by mainstream society,” she said. “It’s obvious that black Americans have to work twice as hard to get half as far as their white colleagues would -- oppressed by the intersecting forces of colorism and systematic racism as it pertains to status and equity.”

Kiantha Duncan, a board member of the Spokane NAACP, told the crowd the civil rights movement shouldn’t be viewed as pitting two sides against each other.

“The fight for equality is not a sport,” Duncan said, calling for a collaborative effort to achieve equity and inclusion. “We all have to be on the court at the same time.”

After some musical performances, the Rev. Happy Watkins stood at the lectern and delivered a powerful recital of King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Watkins, 77, memorized the speech in 1986 and has recited it every year for more than three decades.

“So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York,” Watkins said, hewing closely to the speech as King delivered it during the March on Washington in 1963.

Watkins added only one line of his own, reminding his audience of today’s divisive political climate: “Let freedom ring from Trump’s tower in the Bronx.”

As Watkins spoke the final words -- “Great God Almighty, we are free at last” -- marchers young and old began streaming out of the convention center onto Spokane Falls Boulevard, many holding signs.

One of the marchers was Morgen Flowers-Washington, principal of Spokane International Academy, a K-8 charter school. She marched with her family and encouraged many of her students to participate as well.

“We teach our students about the fact that they can be advocates, even at 6 and 7 and 8 years old,” Flowers-Washington said. “So, if there’s a cause that they have passion around, they can use their education, as well as their family and friends, to mobilize and create change in our community.”

Learning to be an ally

Recognizing privilege and forgoing comfortability

By Khadijah Butler Evergreen reporter

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crime victim advocate hosted WSU’s annual Anti-Racism: Becoming a Better Ally workshop on Jan. 21 which covered topics such as privilege, obstacles of being an ally and guidelines to opening the conversation on racism.

Daniela Miranda, crime victim advocate, began the workshop by mentioning See ALLY Page 10

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ALBUM REVIEW

‘Norman F**king Rockwell!’ achieves perfection The newest album from musical artist Lana Del Rey brings her career full circle, rediscovering the sound she started with

“God damn, man child.” So begins Lana Del Rey’s seventh full-length studio album.

She did it. She finally made a perfect album.

“Norman F**king Rockwell!” opens with heavy piano that’s oddly reminiscent of Elton John and Carole King, both of whom Lana’s cited as heavy influences on her music. Then she sings, “You f-cked me so good that I almost said, ‘I love you’” and you realize this is unlike anything you’ve ever heard. It’s a derisive, feminist tone she’s never had; in previous albums, she sings of hopeless romanticism and love of men who are older and abusive. I can’t criticize these problematic themes because they served a greater purpose in Lana’s musical evolution.

“Mariners Apartment Complex” takes on a psychedelic rock sound that reminded me immediately of early Pink Floyd albums, which utilize the same vocal overlay, mixture of synth and acoustic guitars, and dreamy lyricism.

It’s what makes “Wish You Were Here” such a beautiful song.

The songs on “Rockwell!” take their time; “Venice B-tch” is a whopping 9:37 minutes. I’m always critical of overly long songs; it hasn’t been done well since “Jesus of Suburbia” by Green Day on their 2004 political rock opera (yes, I called it a rock opera. Don’t argue with me.) These songs have very little in common — “Venice B-tch” is simple and follows similar derivations of its original melody, while “Jesus of Suburbia” is almost 10 minutes of pure chaos. The techniques to make a 9-minute song work are the same. You have to tell a story — through instruments, the melody, lyrics or all three.

“Venice B-tch” switches from a simple folk-rock piano, acoustic guitar and background orchestral melody to a synth-psychedelic guitar riff that ebbs and flows. It rocks you back and forth, lulled by Lana’s soothing “Oh, god, love him on my lips ... touch me with your fingertips” and remixed production. It never tries to mimic Pink Floyd or The Grateful Dead, but pays homage to an era of experimental music. The song uses seamless transitions; the synth

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lived on “survival mode.” “[We were] learning the culture, learning the language,” Pham said. “Music was not a part of the family because, quite honestly, we couldn’t afford lessons. We couldn’t afford to do any of that.”

He was introduced to music through playing in school and his love started to develop in the seventh grade, when he started playing the euphonium, a brass instrument similar to a tuba.

“It was something I had a good time doing, many of my friends were there and I thought I was good at it,” Pham said. “But my initial thought was to go off to school and become a doctor.”

But it was later in college, as his interest in medicine decreased and his interest in music grew, that he decided to switch majors and pursue music.

Pham’s love of music has taken him not only to teaching, but to working with bands, music conservatories, conducting ballet, musical theatre and opera and producing records. Pham said he is able to juggle his responsibilities through help from his colleagues.

“It’s never really a venture where I feel I’m doing it by myself,” Pham said. “Every aspect of what I do, I do with other people.”

Pham’s work also takes him abroad, specifically to working with music conservatories and organizations throughout China, Vietnam and South Korea. Pham said he’s drawn by the experience of learning to communicate with people abroad and the exchange of different cultures.

He also calls it a “recharge of the batteries,” or a chance to artistically refresh himself and learn something new about music and himself. Pham said that with every trip he tries to learn something he can bring back to his students at WSU. “If it’s not making me better, if it’s not making my students better, then it’s really kind of a wasted trip,” Pham said. “I always bring something back ... it’s manifested in what we do here.”

“He’s a lot of fun to work with,” School of Music Director Dean Luethi said. “It’s all because he takes a personal interest in his students and tries to give them opportunities.”

Luethi also said that Pham wrote a grant and introduced him to choir directors in China, giving Luethi the chance to perform there. “[The opportunity was] directly due to doctor Pham’s ability to introduce me to his connections,” Luethi said. “He’s very generous that way.”

Pham said that his favorite part of making music used to be the adrenaline of playing in front of a crowd, but now finds it in seeing his students succeed and go on to become musicians and teahers.

“I’m too young to be talking about legacy,” Pham said. “But if anyone can say their legacy is through the success of their students, they’re a lucky person, and I think that’s where my fate is going to be.”

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Lana Del Rey’s new album pays homage to an era of experimental music, and it’s perfect.

me genuinely uncomfortable. Also “I F-cked My Way Up to the Top” was just terrible. It’s one of those albums that’s aged like milk and I don’t want to even waste any more words on it.

When Lana exploded onto the scene with 2012’s “Born to Die - Paradise” (I’m going to consider this one full album, even though “Paradise” followed “Born to Die” by almost a year), it launched an entire trend and completely changed pop music. It proved that you don’t need to be formulaic and dumb to make great pop music, and that a white woman from upstate New York can use hip-hop and jazz influences without sounding ridiculous.

Lana was a refreshing change of scene for the pop world. She didn’t shy away from 60s glamour, instead embracing it. Lana was born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant to a middle-class family in June 1985. “Homeless outreach, drug and alcohol rehabilitation — that’s been my life for the past five years,” she told Vogue UK in 2012. In part to deal with her budding alcoholism, Grant rebranded as Lana Del Rey and moved to Brooklyn to pursue a musical career. At first, she had no interest in the Hollywood brand of fame.

“When I was younger,” she told Rolling Stone in early 2012, “I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.”

This new album seems like the fully realized evolution of “Born to Die.” The hopelessness and melancholy of tracks like “Ride” and “Summertime Sadness” were offset by dream-hip-hop “National Anthem” and the groovy-ashell “Cola.”

I know this is a lot of time to spend on her old albums, but Lana’s career tells a long-winding story of coming into her own. On the dreamy, slow-moving “Love Song,” Lana asks, “Is it safe to be who you are?”

For Lana, I think she’s finally found the answer. “Norman F**king Rockwell” ends with “hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have.”

In this finale, Lana finally sheds the forced “debutante” identity for a female musician who knows exactly what she’s doing and had a real map and story to tell on this album. And it works. It all just works.

Sydney Brown is a junior multimedia journalism major from Las Vegas, Nev. They can be contacted at 335-1140 or at mint@ dailyevergreen.com. The views expressed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of The Daily Evergreen, its editors or publishers.

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musicians will participate in.

Pacifica Quartet played a “rug concert” for toddlers at the 1912 Center and will coach high school and college musicians as part of the Palouse

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remix fades back into a Spanish-style of guitar-picking and then goes right back into more electronica noises.

By the time “Venice B-tch” ends, it feels like you’ve been swaying on the slow-moving waves off the California coast, only the water is magenta and the sun is bleeding into the sky and you haven’t even smoked any weed.

“California” and “Cinnamon Girl” actively adore the California life, reminds us this isn’t the Lana from before, singing of Lou Reed and Brooklyn dive bars.

She’s evolved. She’s lonely and reflective, sad and joyous at the same time.

“I wanted to reach out, but I never said a thing,” she sings of a lost friendship in “California.” Lana is simultaneously letting go of and holding onto memories of a person. “Cinnamon Girl” felt like its own ode to Stevie Nicks’ folk-rock albums of the 80s and 90s.

Lana’s not a stranger to experimental folk music. Her last album, 2017’s “Lust for Life” utilizes folk greats like Stevie Nicks and Sean Ono-Lennon to boost tracks like “Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems” and “Tomorrow Never Came,” but it feels disingenuous. Nicks’ and Lana’s voices don’t mesh well, and while I liked “Tomorrow Never Came,” it feels like a derivative cop-out that makes no sense on an album that also includes an entire song about heroin.

The entire album, especially “Get Free,” which Lana faced a little legal trouble for its similarity to a Radiohead song, was another in a line of disappointments from 2014-17. The album before, “Honeymoon” was fine, but that’s about it. It was fine. I liked “Art Deco,” that was a cool song. I like that it transitions seamlessly into “Freak,” and I appreciate its experimental ambitions. But all tracks on “Honeymoon” sound the same and I still cannot distinguish “God Knows I Tried” from “Honeymoon.” The album bored me, especially when that year included other greats like Beach House’s beautifully weird “Depression Cherry,” which did the whole “synthetic dream-pop” thing way better. 2015 also saw album releases from Of Monsters and Men — I have listened to “Beneath the Skin” consistently since it came out — and the wonderful “Wilder Mind” from Mumford and Sons. Lana was competing with bands that knew their sound and had a vision, while “Honeymoon” felt forced.

We don’t even have to talk about “Ultraviolence.” The romanticism of abuse on the track “Ultraviolence” made

It’s an examination [...] about what happens to the sweetness of everyday life Mark Holloway Pacifica Quartet violist

Chamber Music Workshop. They will also work with composition students at UI’s Lionel Hampton School of Music, Garrison said.

Holloway, also a professor at Indiana University Bloomington, said the quartet likes to create music, so it’s exciting to work with young composers.

“When we play Beethoven, we are trying to bring to life what the composer wrote,” Holloway said. “When you’re playing for a composer who is not just alive and well but a few feet from you, you can have a dialogue.”

Holloway said Pacifica Quartet will perform three pieces during the concert.

The first, a three-movement piece

by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, reflects the memory of the composer’s first wife after she died, Holloway said.

The second piece, titled “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory,” was commissioned for the group and written

by Israeli-American composer Shulamit Ran. It was inspired by Felix Nussbaum, a painter and writer who died in the Holocaust, he said.

“It’s an examination in sound about what happens to the sweetness of everyday life when this ugliness of cruelty and war and hatred creeps in,” Holloway said.

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WHAT: Concert WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Administration Building Auditorium COST: $25 adults; $20 seniors; $10 students

After an intermission, Pacifica Quartet will play a Beethoven piece to end the performance.

Tickets to the concert are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and $10 for students. Children 12 and under get in free with a paying adult.

“Our mission is to enable people from this semi-rural region to hear great music,” Garrison said.

The concert will begin at 7:30 this evening, with the doors opening a half hour before, in the Administration Building Auditorium, located at 875 Campus Drive on the University of Idaho campus.

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Hidden treasures on the Palouse

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An employee stacks books on a shelf on Friday morning at Palouse Treasures.

Boost Collaborative’s thrift shop in Pullman helps clients with disabilities get training, improve productivity, find jobs

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By Anna Young Evergreen reporter

ook behind the collection of clothes, toys and furniture at Palouse Treasures and you’ll find more than just your average thrift store.

The store is a branch of Boost Collaborative, a local nonprofit dedicated to providing opportunities for people with disabilities. According to the collaborative’s brochure, Palouse Treasures “serves as a training facility for participants working their way towards independent employment.”

“It’s an assessment of work ethic,” Palouse Treasures Manager Lucas Kreikemeier said.

“The store is an interface for that and seeing how they interact.”

Kreikemeier said Palouse Treasures takes clients from Palouse Collaborative and provides them with a job. Some of these clients come to the collaborative wanting work experience, he said, while others are recommended by their parents, caretakers or local housing companies for people with disabilities.

Once they start working, each client has a

goal they want to accomplish. A training specialist from Boost monitors their progress and writes a daily report to share with the program director and other coordinators.

“Every day I have a strategy to change [the clients’] performance in a better way,” said Kayoko Nadamoto, one of the training specialists with Boost. “I have to learn each person’s abilities and how to approach [them].”

Nadamoto said these goals can include increasing productivity, learning to be respectful to everyone and completing assigned tasks.

Once the director and coordinators read the reports on her clients, she said, they meet with each to discuss progress and choose new goals.

Palouse Treasures pays these clients during their assessment period and will often offer ongoing employment after they complete the program. This and the rise in minimum wage, Kreikemeier said, control the prices in the store.

“The more we can make at the thrift store, the more we can do without state funding,” he said.

Kreikemeier’s upstairs office, which doubles as a sorting room, is usually overflowing with “mountains of clothes,” he said, but was mostly empty. He said winter is the store’s slump season, but in May and June, the entire room’s worth of

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Training specialist Kayoko Nadamoto directs staff as they organize racks and clean Friday morning at Palouse Treasures.

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Shoes are stacked on one wall of the lower floor of Palouse Treasures.

merchandise will go in and out within a day.

Clients from Boost Collaborative help out in this back room, sorting and pricing items for sale. The store also has a mobile crew that travels to house calls and collects donations.

Kreikemeier said clothes that have been in the store too long or don’t meet Palouse Treasures’ standards go into a set of bins along the wall marked “Buffalo.” These items go to Buffalo Exchange in Seattle. There, they may be sent to people in need, or torn up and used as grease rags if the donation is low-quality.

“We try to pride ourselves on the least amount of waste in clothing,” he said.

Since the store provides a platform for strengthening and diversifying the community, Kreikemeier said he wants more people to understand the purpose of Palouse Treasures and the larger picture with Boost Collaborative.

“This place isn’t here to take your money and run,” he said. “There’s a real mission behind it.”

Palouse Treasures is located at 1005 NW Nye St. Pullman. They are open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Whitman County Undersheriff charged

By Lauren Ellenbecker Evergreen crime reporter

The Whitman County Undersheriff was charged with assault in the second degree by the Whitman County Superior Court on Friday and is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 31 at 10:30 a.m.

Asotin County Prosecutor Ben Nichols said Whitman County Undersheriff Ronald Rockness pleaded not guilty to the Class B felony during his preliminary appearance Jan. 17.

Whitman County Superior Court Judge Gary Libey submitted a Form of Recusal because he believed he had connections to the defendant, Nichols said.

According to the Form of Recusal, which was filed Jan. 17, a visiting judge will be assigned to the case.

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According to Lorz’s investigative narrative, Lorz met with the victim Dec. 15 where she described the events that led to her injury.

The victim said she and Rockness were arguing when he attempted to “bait her into a fight,” according to Lorz’s narrative. The victim said she was walking through the kitchen with her purse when Rockness allegedly blocked her from passing him, according to the narrative.

Rockness allegedly grabbed the victim’s purse when its strap became entangled in her fingers, according to the narrative. This is when the victim thought her finger broke. The victim said she didn’t believe Rockness wanted to injure her, rather control and intimidate her by grabbing the purse, according to the narrative.

After the incident, the victim drove herself to the Whitman Hospital emergency room at 1 a.m. The victim was told she had a spiral fracture

Go ahead, call the police . . . we’ll both be arrested

Rockness was charged for allegedly breaking his wife’s finger during an argument that occurred the night of Dec. 12. Rockness is being represented by Defense Attorney Mark Monson.

Whitman County Sheriff Brett Myers received an email Dec. 13 from the victim detailing the incident. The email was forwarded to Clarkston Police Department Officer Chris Lorz.

Nichols said officers and prosecutors from different counties had to be involved to avoid a conflict of interest due to Rockness being a Whitman County employee.

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Maximum penalty for felony charge includes 10 years in prison, fine of $20,000

Ron Rockness, allegedly Whitman County Undersheriff

to her right ring finger, according to the narrative.

A Domestic Violence No-Contact Order was filed Friday against Rockness.

The order prohibits Rockness from possessing firearms and contacting the defendant by any means.

Rockness is also prohibited from going within 500 feet of the residence or wherever the victim resides. Rockness cannot consume alcohol or any other substances, according to the order.

Any violation of these conditions

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will lead to his arrest.

According to Lorz’s narrative, he seized eight long guns and five handguns from the Rockness household.

While Lorz was interviewing the victim Dec. 15, she told him about previous incidents with Rockness, according to the narrative. She showed him video footage of altercations she had with Rockness.

According to Lorz’s narrative, the victim said Rockness was allegedly “begging to fight” with her during an incident in September. The victim recorded Rockness pushing on the bedroom door while she was trying to keep him out, according to the narrative.

During another incident in October, Rockness allegedly knocked on the windows and doors throughout the night, according to the narrative. This occured after the victim changed the locks because Rockness said he was moving out.

The victim said Rockness moved back in with her several days after the incident, according to the narrative. She said Rockness was apologetic and he told her

CARE NETWORK | Continued from page 1 Anyone can make referrals of students who might need support, she said.

This includes instructors, family members, friends or the students themselves.

Referrals and appointment requests can be made on the Student Care Network’s website.

Creighton said individuals can also call the Office of the Dean of Students at (509) 335-5757 or do walk-ins during business hours.

Karen Fischer, associate dean of students and student care director, said the network provides outreach to those who made the referrals and helps them gather information about available resources.

The network sometimes does direct outreach to students who need assistance.

Her team consists of student care case managers who work directly with students.

She said the network can help students during medical emergencies. The network can communicate with instructors and inform them that a student will be absent for an undetermined amount of time.

Creighton said the network provides direct services for students. The Office of the Dean of Students has some emergency funding available for students.

The funding can be used to pay rent in order to bridge the gap between homelessness. She said the network also connects students to resources to help with food insecurity and interpersonal violence.

ALLY | Continued from page 7 her own experience with microaggressions as a person of color with “white-passing” privileges.

She said she was ashamed she had to go through these experiences but she accepts the privilege she holds as a “cis-gendered, straight person” which protects her.

Miranda said the three guidelines for the workshop were to embrace discomfort, be patient and practice racial humility. She said the workshop is a learning space and people should be kind to each other while they are learning.

“POC’s don’t owe anyone patience,” Miranda said. “They have enough on their plate.”

She then talked about the differences between prejudice, discrimination and racism. She used Robin DiAngelo’s, author and University of Washington professor, definitions from her book titled “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism.”

DiAngelo defines prejudice as bias that can be conscious or unconscious where the bias is not based on reasoning.

Everyone, including POC can have these, Miranda said.

Discrimination is similar to prejudice

but is supported by people in positions of power who can affect people’s lives, she said.

DiAngelo defines racism as a group’s collective prejudice supported by legal authority and institutional control which is independent from individual actors.

Using this definition, reverse racism does not exist and POC cannot be racists, Miranda said.

Privilege is an advantage taken for granted by white people that POC do not have, she said. Recognizing privilege does not make you a bad person, Miranda said.

“Having privilege does not mean you have an easy life,” she said.

It just means a person’s skin color is not the reason their life is hard, Miranda said.

Allyship is when a person of privilege or in a position of power actively and consistently seeks solidarity with marginalized people, she said. Being an ally is complicated and can have many obstacles like white fragility and white centering, she said.

Miranda said the four stages of being an ally are awareness, education, self-in-

things would get better.

The victim described another incident in November where Rockness attempted to get her to fight him, according to the narrative. The victim showed Lorz a recording of Rockness yelling “Go f-ck yourself.”

When Rockness realized the victim was recording him, he attempted to laugh off the incident, according to the narrative.

According to the narrative, the victim said she felt that she was unable to report the incidences to the police because she was afraid she’d go to jail.

Rockness allegedly told her, “Go ahead, call the police […] we’ll both be arrested,” according to the narrative.

The victim told Lorz that there have also been times where Rockness became intoxicated and mean toward her, according to the narrative.

The maximum penalty for assault in the second degree, which is a Class B felony, is 10 years in prison and a fine of $20,000.

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“Our core job is to know what everyone else does and understand the systems and processes that students face so we can help students navigate whatever it is that they’re facing,” Creighton said.

She said the support the network provides is not limited to emergencies or crisis situations. However, she said the network is not an emergency service. Individuals should call 911 if they are in immediate danger to themselves or others.

Creighton said the network’s role is to connect students to resources and help them make the best decisions. The network’s staff wants to empower students to be advocates for themselves and find resilience.

“The goal is for WSU to demonstrate a real ethic of care for our students,” she said. “We’re really hoping that students know that there are people who are rooting for them.”

Fischer said the network’s goal is to share more information about resources to the public to decrease the amount of unknown knowledge students face. She said she has walked with students to food banks to help eliminate barriers students might face when accessing resources.

“Life happens in life,” she said. “A lot of things can happen that people don’t expect […] sometimes there are new situations that come into play, emergencies that no one anticipated.”

terrogation and community action.

She asked the audience to self-reflect and think of their biggest obstacle in their own lives.

One student said education was the hardest because information is fluid and constantly changing.

Another student said avoidance and not educating himself is the biggest obstacle. He said he does not have to since it does not affect his life.

Miranda said more white people need to understand because racism affects everyone. She said racism should not be ignored because white people want to feel comfortable.

People make mistakes and if someone does say something incorrect or insensitive, Miranda said they should breathe, listen to the other person, apologize and do better.

“Humans don’t like to be wrong and we don’t like to be called out when we’re wrong,” she said.

Lauren Scott, project manager of the Social and Economic Sciences Research Center at WSU, said this was the first workshop she attended this year for MLK Week. Scott said she was glad she learned

more about being an ally.

As a sociology doctorate graduate, Scott said she thinks the information can be relevant in many different contexts in the world.

Theresa James, WSU community educator, said as a POC she thought the workshop was very interesting.

James said she has lived in Pullman since 1994 and has seen the community gradually change. One thing she said has remained the same is how difficult it is to move higher in your career as a POC, especially as a black person.

She said people should start small like educating children about racism and teach them how to be an ally.

“Pullman and Moscow is not safe for everyone,” Miranda said. “That’s not to say this is not a great community.”

Miranda is a crime advocate for Alternative to Violence of the Palouse. She provides free and confidential services to people who have experienced a crime of any type including hate crimes and assaults. She provides information, referrals, support and advocacy to the victims.

Their 24-hour crisis hotline phone number is (509) 332-4357.

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Cougars face Pioneers for third time

Then-junior Melisa Ates returns a ball during doubles play against Brigham Young University on Feb. 22, 2019 in Hollingbery Fieldhouse.

If WSU wins against Denver, they will advance to play against Stanford or U of South Florida

By Jaclyn Seifert Evergreen women’s tennis reporter

WSU women’s tennis will play in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Kick-Off Weekend against the University of Denver Pioneers at 11 a.m. on Saturday in Stanford,

California.

The Cougars (2-0, 0-0) recently began their 2020 dual spring season with a pair of two 7-0 wins against the University of Idaho Vandals and the Seattle University Redhawks.

WSU played Denver twice in past seasons. The last time the Cougars played the Pioneers (2-0, 0-0) was April of 2014 winning the match 6-0.

The Cougars have a home record of

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On Tuesday, Pioneer sophomore Taylor Melville was named the Summit League Player of the Week after she had a 2-0 mark at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles last weekend.

Washington State will begin play at 11 a.m. Saturday in Stanford, California.

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If Washington State wins against Denver, the team will advance to play the winner against either No. 1 Stanford or University of South Florida at 11 a.m. on Sunday. If the Cougars lose, the team will play the defeated team at the same time.

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Bibliophiles, food enthusiasts gather at book clubs Groups in Moscow, Colfax meet monthly to discuss interesting literature

By Emma Ledbetter Evergreen reporter

If you made it your New Year’s resolution to read more, you’ve come to the right place.

Several local book clubs have made it their mission to meet regularly and discuss literature, whether it’s just for fun, about a specific topic or to serve a bigger purpose.

Moscow Food Co-Op For readers with a penchant for food, the Moscow Food Co-op’s book club will be reading “The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World’s Healthiest People”

by Dan Buettner this month.

Writer Rachel Clark is the volunteer who leads the group.

She said they generally choose books about food and try to serve food related to the book of the month when they meet.

“The whole reason we’re doing this is to build and cre-

ate community around food,” Clark said.

She said she has been leading the book club since 2012, but members were meeting regularly under different leadership for years before then.

“We have a group that became very cohesive very quickly,” Clark said. “One of them is a chef, one of them is a farmer … something magical happened, it was just like this glue bringing everyone together.”

Many of the books they have read are about farming or sustainable agriculture solutions, such as “The Dirty Life” by Kristin Kimball and “The $64 Tomato” by William Alexander.

Clark said the discussion at her book club is usually “organic” — no pun intended.

They go into their meetings with no set questions and go around the circle discussing their perspectives on and inspirations coming from the text, she said.

“We’ve had some folks who […] got invested in the ideas and they actually didn’t have

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Writer Rachel Clark discusses the Moscow Good Food Co-op book club Thursday afternoon at BookPeople of Moscow.

time to come back to book club because they were so busy farming or having rural or urban food plots,” Clark said.

The group doesn’t always just stick to the book; Clark said some meetings they will watch the movie adaptation.

They also had a cookie party in December to choose the books for 2020, she said.

“It’s not that easy to get away from our phones and reading on our phones,” Clark said.

“Book clubs are so great because there’s a social element that is alive and out loud.”

The co-op group normally meets the last Sunday of every month, but this month they will meet on Feb. 2 from 4 to 5:30 p.m., Clark said. Interested participants should email bookclub@moscowfood.coop for directions to the meeting location.

Colfax Branch of Whitman County Library To kick off the new decade, members of the Colfax Public Library’s book club will be reading books from the decade they were born.

Public Services Librarian Sarah Phelan said some of the participants will be discussing books from as early as the 1940s.

The group has been meeting monthly for the last year and twice annually members will all read different books, Phelan said.

Normally the group has a formal discussion where they share their favorite thing about the text and then discuss a set of questions, she said. Since people are reading different things for the January meeting, they will share a summary of their chosen book without spoilers and share information about the author or genre.

Phelan said they try to choose a “heavier” book to discuss every

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A sign displayed at the Colfax branch of the Whitman County Library advertises the theme for January ’s book club meeting.

other month.

“If you’re reading something dense […] or something with a big moral dilemma, that’s something you might want to discuss with someone,” she said.

For the February meeting, the group is reading “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” by Heather Morris.

“I think it’s really good to talk about these important issues, to talk about the history and the effects,” Phelan said.

This month’s meeting is on Jan. 27 at 5:30 p.m. in the Tech Center at the Colfax Branch of the Whitman County Library. The library is located at 102 S. Main St. in Colfax.

“I think it’s just a good place for bibliophiles to share their

love of books,” Phelan said.

Other groups Neill Public Library hosts a monthly book club at 6:30 p.m. the first Thursday of every month in the Hecht Room of the library. For February, they are reading “The Great Alone” by Kristin Hannah, according to their website.

The Latah County Library District also has several book clubs operating out of the Moscow Public Library, including an afternoon tea group, one that meets on the second Monday of each month and a group for readers looking to venture out of their usual genres, according to the library’s website.

Derby Dames baking for the baked Skaters rolled out some sweet treats to support their organization

By Joel Kemegue Evergreen reporter

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Tara O’Brien, a Moscow resident, advertises the Derby Dames’ bake sale with a homemade sign Friday, Jan 17. outside of Floyd’s Cannabis Co.

Last Friday the Rolling Hills Derby Dames stood outside Floyd’s Cannabis Co. to bring the community together with weed, baked goods and roller skating.

Skaters Hannah Hayes (Collision Bell), Tara O’Brien (Ricin Krispies), Finn O’Boyle (Carolina Bruise) and Riley Welborn (Dolly Pop) ran the bake(d) sale, with everything from fruit rice krispies to ginger snaps to brownies with little chocolate marijuana leaves on the top.

Despite the location (and O’Brien’s roller derby name) the goods are made drug-free, and baked by the group themselves. “[Customers] always want to know if we have weed in our baked goods,” Hayes said. “We do not [...] I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t allow us out here [if it did].”

The bake sales usually hap-

pen every other month, but it’s rarer that they happen in the winter. Besides Floyd’s, the team sometimes sells outside Kush21 in Pullman, and also does car washes during the summer. All profits from the bake sale go back into the team, funding dues for new members, new jerseys, insurance and other supplies the team might need.

Hayes said she got into roller derby as a way to get in exercise and try something new.

“Initially it’s super weird, I liked that I had muscles that I never felt before,” Hayes said.

“So I was sore in weird places.”

O’Brien said she was interested in college, but didn’t get involved until much later, when she started working with the Derby Dames team president.

O’Boyle and Welborn both said they started with the Roller Derby boot camp last summer.

“They’re all my family and my friends. I think the community derby provides and how uplifting people are,”

Hayes said, “no one cares if you can skate or not skate or how good you are, it’s really about helping each other and being there for whatever is going on, whether it’s derby or your personal life.”

Generally, the bake(d) sale runs along normally, but usually the team will come across a buyer feeling extra generous.

“It never fails once or twice every bake sale you’ll get someone who gives 20 bucks and takes a cupcake, and those are the people that make you feel pretty good,” Hayes said.

“What I found in general is that the people of the Palouse are really kind and giving and help out the community.”

The Derby Dames meet at the Gladish Community Center Gym Sunday, Monday and Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 with a roller derby bout every Friday from 4:30 to 6:30. They have a new skater orientation every Friday from 6:30-8:30.

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