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Fraternity member died early Tuesday morning Coroner to determine official cause of death according to Pullman PD

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A member from WSU’s Esports Rocket League A team prepares for the inaugural Electronic Gaming Federation’s invitation Tuesday in Chinook Room 25. The event will occur Jan. 18 and 19 in New York City.

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ownstairs in the Chinook 25, ten students sit at computer monitors with their headsets and lit up keyboards. Some use the keyboards; others plug in their

personalized gaming controllers as they practice the video games Rocket League and Overwatch.

One team practicing is WSU’s Esports Rocket League A team. The team will represent WSU in New York City during the inaugural Electronic Gaming Federation’s invitation on Jan. 18 and 19.

Rocket League is a video game where players control cars with booster jets on a virtual soccer pitch. Players

work together to shoot a giant soccer ball into the opposing team’s goal.

The team is led by club president Bobby Belter, senior computer science major. Joining him are James Madamba, junior management information services major and Glen Bennett, junior electrical engineering major.

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Attendees sip brews, talk about engineering

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Candis Claiborn, professor at WSU’s Civil and Environmental Engineering department, says women should pursue more engineering degrees at a Science Pub Talk on Tuesday at Paradise Creek Brewery.

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The Pullman Police Department have launched an investigation into the death of an Alpha Tau Omega fraternity member.

According to the Pullman PD press release, officers and medics from the Pullman Fire Department responded to a call at the fraternity. The reporting party said the member was not breathing and appeared to be unconscious.

Other members performed CPR on the unconscious member until medics arrived at the fraternity, according to the Pullman PD. The 19-year old WSU student and fraternity member was determined deceased by Pullman Fire medics, according to the press release. During the preliminary investigation, police said the death of the student may have been alcohol related.

The Whitman County Coroner is still determining the official cause of death, according to the press release.

According to a press release issued by WSU’s Interfraternity Council (IFC) and Panhellenic Council, all Greek social events are cancelled for the rest of the school semester.

IFC will not be making any other statements, according to the press release.

According to a press release issued by WSU, counseling resources are being provided to the student’s family, fraternity members and classmates.

WSU and the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity will be working with Pullman PD during the investigation, according to the press release.

Out of respect for the student’s family, the Pullman Police Department has declined to comment until it has been able to notify the next of kin.

The current Alpha Tau Omega president and vice president have been contacted for comment.

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Managing equipment

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Sorority shows off talent

Isaac Nelson works with the WSU women’s basketball team behind the scenes.

Sustainability isn’t as hard as people make it out to be — just ask the residents of Kooskia, Idaho.

Delta Sigma hosted “African Violet”, a performance-based event meant to educate.

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Community Calendar Wednesday 11/13 N ative Center hosts film showing , discu ssion .

Starting at 5 p.m., the Department of Anthropology and Native American Programs will host a move night.

The event will feature a film screening of Reel Injun and a discussion about the movie, and is a part of Native American Heritage Month activities. Snacks and beverages will be provided to attendees. This event is free and open to the public, and located at College Hall in room 125.

Wednesday 11/13 Speaker series features cereal-based agriculture.

Beginning at 5:30 p.m., University of Idaho Extension’s Small Farms and Local Food will host “A Bug’sEye View of PNW Cereal-Based Agriculture.” This presentation will be conducted by U of I Entomology Lab researchers. This event is free and located at Hunga Dunga Brewing Company in Moscow.

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Tr e s p a s s i n g C o m p l a i n t NW Olsen Street, 1:38 p.m.

Officer responded to a request of a subject being trespassed.

B u r g l a r y/ I n t r u s i o n A l a r m NE Hopkins Court, 3:03 a.m.

Officers responded. Authorized cancel while enroute. False alarm.

H a ra s s m e n t SE Harvest Drive, 1:56 p.m.

Report of possible harassment.

Officer responded.

Communications Problem NW Webb Street, 6:06 a.m.

Report of a possible phone line issue.

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Report of someone sleeping in a doorway. Officer responded.

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Officer responded to the report of someone wanting to get items left in a residence.

Parking Problem NE Campus Street, 3:31 p.m.

Officer responded and issued an infraction.

S t ra y A n i m a l s W Main St & SW Skyline Dr, 10:15 a.m.

Report of a dog running loose.

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L i t t e r/ P o l l u t i o n / P u b l i c H e a l t h S Grand Avenue, 4:20 p.m.

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Child Abuse or Neglect S Grand Avenue, 10:41 a.m.

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Tra f f i c V i o l a t i o n NE Stadium Way, 8:34 p.m.

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A b a n d o n e d Ve h i c l e NE Kamiaken Street, 2:41 p.m.

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Parking Problem NE Maiden Lane, 9:18 p.m.

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Noise Complaint NE Westwood Drive, 10:59 p.m.

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Helping on the hardwood Women’s basketball equipment manager Isaac Nelson works 20 hours weeks, eight hours on game days

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Isaac Nelson, a Ti-Cities, Washington native, was in a laundromat in Las Vegas doing exactly what one would expect: laundry.

Nelson, a fifth-year senior agricultural technology and production management major, was not doing his own laundry. He was doing the laundry for 11 college-aged women.

Nelson is a student equipment manager for the WSU women’s basketball team.

Equipment manager Sara Cochran, Nelson’s supervisor, said there are seven sports at WSU that have equipment managers. Football has between 12 or 14, baseball has two and the others all have one, she said.

The equipment managers do the work behind the scenes for their specific sports such as setting up and tearing down practice, Cochran said. They also help the team warm-up and pack team bags for road trips, she said.

The team practices at 2:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Nelson said. The team also practices at 6 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Nelson said he arrives around 30 or 45 minutes before practice starts and is usually the only one there.

When he gets there, he starts the countdown clock for practice and makes sure the cart of

snacks for the players is stocked, Nelson said. During practice he does whatever is needed, such as running the clock, taking stats or shagging rebounds.

He said he works about 20 hours a week in the offseason when the team is practicing.

When they get into the season he works more; he puts in close to eight hours on game days, he said.

When the team has a game, he gets to the arena between two and one and one-half hours before tip-off, Nelson said.

He does his normal duties such as rebounding and helping during warmups, he said. He said he also sets up the locker room for the players by getting their jerseys and putting them in the players’ lockers.

Nelson said during the game he sits on the end of the bench.

He performs tasks such as grabbing the chair for the coach during a timeout or the stats during the game, he said.

“It’s pretty simple. It’s a lot of fun though,” he said. “Just kind of being there and working really closely with the team.”

Cochran said the department does not advertise their student equipment manager positions; they get applicants through word of mouth.

They tell graduating seniors to look for students they know or ones from their hometown to fill their empty position, she said.

They interview candidates the spring before the season, Cochran said. They make sure anyone applying knows what they are getting into, she said.

“These students work hard.

It’s a full-time job,” she said. “If you’re in this it, it’s hard work.”

Cochran said any incoming equipment manager shadows a senior to learn the ropes. The first year is essentially a training year, she said, because the job has a lot to learn.

Nelson said he did not come into college thinking he would be an equipment manager.

He wanted to walk on to the baseball team as a freshman, but that did not work out, he said.

He joined the Grey Squad, he said, which is a group of students who helps the basketball team by practicing with them.

That was how he learned about the possibility of being an equipment manager.

The women’s basketball equipment manager at the time saw that he showed up to every practice, including ones in the spring at six in the morning, he said.

“I guess she noticed that or whatever and decided I would be a good candidate for taking her spot,” he said. “So I kind of fell into it without really expecting to find that position.”

He shadowed the women’s basketball at the time to start to learn about the job. He said that

helped him prepare for when he took over because he had already seen what it was like, including going on a couple road trips.

Nelson said the hardest thing he had to learn was how to balance academics and work.

That is a common thing she has seen amongst first-year student equipment managers, Cochran said. How well the student managers handle those difficulties depends on their ability to adjust, she said.

The department has resources the student managers can use, she said. Her and the other equipment managers have an opendoor policy and encourage student managers to come to them with any problems or questions they have, Cochran said.

Nelson experienced a coaching change in 2018 when Kamie Ethridge became the WSU women’s basketball coach.

He said the new coaching staff is more self-sufficient and rarely needs anything out of the ordinary for him, which makes his job easier. There have not been a lot of other changes with the new coaching staff, he said.

“I travel with one less bag now, which is nice,” he said.

Nelson said he has been able to visit some interesting places through traveling with the team.

The Pac-12 moved the women’s basketball tournament to Las Vegas a few years ago so he has been there twice.

He also traveled with the team when they made the Women’s National Invitational Tournament Final Four in Iowa, Nelson said.

This year WSU will be heading to the U.S. Virgin Islands for a tournament over Thanksgiving break. He said he is excited for that trip.

Nelson said he has had some interesting experiences being a student equipment manager.

On Thursday, WSU women’s basketball played an exhibition game against a team from China that spoke very little English.

He said they were supposed to meet one of his bosses at Bohler Gymnasium for a campus tour but got lost.

He said he got a call from his boss telling him they were around Beasley Coliseum and he might need to give them directions.

He went outside and saw their bus in the Student Recreation Center parking lot, he said.

“I run down and I just hop on the bus and I’m like ‘Alright we’re going,’” Nelson said.

Another interesting thing he has experienced through his work is having to do laundry.

When the team is on a long enough road trip, he must take their gear to a local laundromat.

“There’s been some pretty interesting places where I’ve been to laundromats,” he said.

“The Las Vegas laundromat was pretty sketchy.”

Proposal submitted for new student apartment complex Too soon for timeframe to be determined, director estimates finish in 2021

By Andrea Gonzalez Evergreen reporter

A land development firm submitted a proposal to build a student housing complex in apartment land.

Whipple Consulting Engineers submitted the environmental checklist application on Sept. 30 on behalf of Annex of Pullman LLC. Kevin Gardes, Pullman public works director, said Spring of 2020 is when grading, building construction and additional site work would start.

The grading is where the contractor does earth moving for the building site, parking lots and roads, Gardes said.

The construction would affect the surrounding residents because they will see

and hear the construction activity during normal working hours. There would also be an increase in construction traffic in regards to the concrete trucks and dump trucks with rocks, material and debris, Gardes said Allyson Andrade, Whipple Consulting Engineers marketing communications coordinator, said the student housing will be built at 1605 Northeast Northwood Dr. There will be approximately 210 apartments built that will have about 415 bedrooms for 415 people, Andrade said.

The apartments will also have about 415 parking spaces and the site will be about 10 acres, Gardes said.

He said it is too soon to know the exact time for when the project will end but estimates it will conclude in the summer of 2021. It is ultimately up to the ALYSSA STANFIELD | DAILY EVERGREEN FILE constructors to determine the end date, Kevin Gardes, Pullman public works director, talks about repairing leaks Gardes said. in water lines on Feb. 13 in the Public Works department at City Hall.

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A Wasteful Life: Rethinking Sustainabilty

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Residents of Kooskia, Idaho spend Saturday, Oct. 5 grinding apples for Tahoe Qru, the town’s tiny volunteer EMT building.

Buying locally not only supports businesses, it can also be sustainable

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KOOSKIA, ID — Irene Finehout dug through a plastic crate, her fuzzy green hat shielding her from a slight drizzle. In the parking lot of this small town’s volunteer EMT center off the highway, Finehout pulled a handful of shiny apples from the crates and pointed to tiny holes that had formed on their surfaces.

“Don’t grab the ones with the worms,” she said.

Finehout doesn’t use pesticides on her homestead in Kooskia — which

explains the worms in her apples. These ones came from Finehout’s back yard to use for the Tahoe Qru, Kooskia’s only EMT center, apple cider-making event. On a gray Saturday morning, Kooskia residents ground hundreds of apples in three cider presses offered by community members.

They filled used milk gallons, apple juice containers, emptied V8 juice jugs and other containers to store the freshly ground cider. All extra chunks of apples were shoveled into bins and then redistributed among the farming attendees so they could feed the apple mash to their livestock, Finehout said.

For Finehout, agricultural life in Kooskia is more sustainable and environmentally friendly than the Southern California organic farm on

which she worked for years. As the climate question looms, organic farms and sustainable homesteads have sprouted across the nation.

Norma Straaf, local farmer and freelance writer, said she moved to Kooskia to start her homestead about 30 years ago. She said she wishes a buy-local movement would gain popularity in Kooskia, especially because it seems that everyone in the area already grows their own vegetables and trades with other farmers.

“I just think it would be so good for us to have a harvest dinner or some sort of cooking competition even,” Straaf said. “That encourages people to keep the energy in the community.”

For Ruth May, the 70-year-old innkeeper of Reflections Inn, there’s no

need for a farmers market or community harvest dinner. She said that while 607 people live in Kooskia, another 3,000 people live in the outlying area.

With neighbors who live close by to offer May almost anything she could need — sugar, an extra generator for the inn, bread, produce — people here don’t need a farmers market.

Finehout said that most people move to Kooskia with a working knowledge of gardening, as many come to run family-owned homesteads and continue the traditions of old. These traditions often don’t include pesticides or electric planters that can overwork the soil, a problem organic techniques have attempted to solve.

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Dance event gets people into the swing of things ‘Second Friday Swing’ is one of many events the group hosts

By Eurus Thach Evergreen reporter

Swing dance enthusiasts gathered Friday evening to celebrate their love of dance at the Daily Grind.

Besides the weekly Swing dance at the Moscow Moose Lodge, the Swing Devils of the Palouse also organizes a dance for Pullman dancers on every second Friday of the month.

Kyle Doty, Swing Devils board of directors member, said this event has been hosted for more than 2 years.

The typical age range for the event is usually from high school students to senior citizens. Doty said anyone could come if they are interested in Swing.

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Kyle Doty, Swing Devils board of directors member, discusses the organization’s Second Friday Swing dance event, which is held every second Friday of the Month. This month the event was hosted at the Daily Grind.

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March honors people who served the country Annual ceremony features walk from Terrell mall to Veterans memorial

By Madysen McLain Evergreen reporter

The ASWSU Student Veterans Committee honored veterans from all walks of life at the annual Veterans Day ceremony on Friday morning at the WSU campus.

“When I think about this day four words come to mind: service, commitment, honor, and sacrifice,” Scott Carson, WSU regent and guest speaker, said.

Veterans, ROTC cadets and community members marched from the Glenn Terrell Friendship Mall to the memorial on Veterans Way. A veteran carried a red, white and blue flower wreath and the American Legion Color Guard followed.

Carson, a former Boeing executive, spoke last at the ceremony. He served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Carson was stationed in Thailand’s Nakhon Phenom Provence and shipped out on Nov. 11, 1966. When he returned to the U.S., he attended WSU in 1970 to study production management. He said he was shocked by the backlash that the Vietnam War in the U.S. “Imagine serving for your county, you come back and you see protests at every turn you make,” he said.

Student veteran Brandon Cochran served in the Marines from 2007 to 2016. During his service, he traveled to Afganistan, Yemen, Djibouti and more.

Cochran, now a Ph.D. student studying English and composition, said his father attended WSU but passed away when Cochran was young. It was important for Cochran to be somewhere his father was, he said.

He said there was a comradery with the people he served with, so much so that he is still friends with people in his unit.

Jess Downs, the first guest speaker, also served in the Marines as an infantry officer from 2006 to 2011.

Downs was assigned to fight piracy in Africa.

His unit was the first one to help with the mission described in the “Captain Phillips” movie starring Tom Hanks. The Navy Seals then took over the mission, he said.

Downs moved to Pullman about four years ago and now works for a medical device company.

“If our goal is to leave the world a better place in a

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Josh Label, sergeant first class of the University of Idaho ROTC cadre, left, and Chris Mann, President of the WSU veterans committee lead the Pullman American Legion Friday morning on Terrell Mall. relatively short time, the military is a wonderful place to start, but shouldn’t ever be the endpoint,” he said.

Jill Creighton, dean of students and associate vice president for campus life, also spoke at the ceremony. She said there are nearly 300 enrolled student veterans in Pullman and another 990 across the remaining WSU campuses.

Creighton said WSU will hold a student veterans symposium for the first time in March 2020 on the WSU Tri-Cities campus. The event will focus on what each campus provides for student veterans, as well as what the campus can do to improve.

Jason Williams, vice president of the ASWSU Student Veterans Committee, served nine years in

the Navy as a helicopter rescue swimmer before coming to WSU. Williams will graduate with his bachelor’s degree from the Carson College of Business in December.

He said he already has a job lined up at a finance firm in Seattle. During his time at WSU, a team of students and he created the company BeeToxx, a solution to the honeybee issue that takes pesticides out of bees. The team took their idea to business competitions and they won about $113,000.

“It can be deflating to go from managing the squad to managing a portfolio,” Downs said. “That’s why it’s so important, as we look at the future, to continue celebrating Veterans Day.”

Masquerade supports fire department Annual fundraiser helps raise money for Whitman County fire

By Emma Ledbetter Evergreen reporter

Firefighters and guests at the Whitman County Fire District 12’s inaugural Masquerade Ball danced the night away to benefit community education Saturday night at SEL Event Center.

Mirenda Stenbakken, Emergency Medical Services chief, was in charge of planning the event. She said it was initially planned for 2020 but they didn’t want to wait that long before hosting the ball.

“We decided to do a formal event and masquerade sounded like something fun that everybody would enjoy,” Stenbakken said.

Elya Gross, president of the association of WCFD12 firefighters, said the event is fun because it is more formal than events WCFD12 has put on in the past, like their annual golf tournament.

“I’m excited to see who made it and what type of people we were able to reach because most of our events are pretty much the same kind of people,” Gross said. “This one is something that is completely different than anything we’ve ever done.”

The event kicked off at 6 p.m. with a cocktail hour where event attendees clad in formalwear and masks mingled and took pictures at a photobooth.

“We’re used to seeing each other in

turnouts and on ambulance calls,” Stenbakken said. “It’s kind of fun to see everybody get dressed up.”

Following a catered dinner at 7 p.m. was a presentation by WCFD12’s Junior Firefighters, middle and high school students interesting in firefighting.

Local stand-up comedians Jared Chastain and Corey Leisy took the event stage at 8 p.m.

Throughout the event, participants bid on numerous silent auction items, including packages donated by Palouse Ridge Golf Course, Holiday Inn Express, Pizza Perfection and other local sponsors.

Austin Zaring, structural welder at All Fabrication & Supply in Pullman, said he made metal art items for the silent auction.

“I grew up on a farm in Dusty, so we’re kind of our own firefighters out there … so just anything that helps out,” Zaring said. “I think this is a cool idea how to get fundraising for firefighters.”

The money raised from the event will go toward community education, which includes CPR classes, Stenbakken said.

“Being able to get newer, upgraded materials, being able to provide materials when people can’t afford them themselves, that’s probably a big one for us,” Stenbakken said.

Stenbakken said WCFD12 has about 35 members who service Highway 270 to EMMA LEDBETTER | THE DAILY EVERGREEN the Idaho border, Highway 195 between the city of Johnson and Landfill Road Event attendees look at the silent auction items saturday night at the SEL and Highway 27 as far as Palouse.

Event Center. Some of the items included fire-themed metal art.

Swing | Continued from Page 4 attendees do the turns and follow the lead of their partners. Doty said that Swing had Many partners didn’t know each other before the event, Doty said. The particia structured framework that was learnable for everyone. pants considered the event as a chance to socialize with new people. There were “The most challenging [part] is trying to identify how people learn and figuring how also attendees who brought their significant others or friends. They could either to clearly explain the material so that they can pick it up,” Doty said. stay with them for the rest of the event or invite others for a friendly dance.

“It’s a social dance so you dance with pretty much everyone,” he said. “A lot The most challenging [part] is trying to identify of times [we] sort of see someone who are not dancing and we’ll just ask ‘would how people learn and figure how to clearly you like to dance?’ and the person can either say ‘yes, I can’ or ’no, thank you.

Not this song.’” explain the material so they can pick it up Mitch Dyer, University of Idaho sophomore math education major, said that board member Kyle Doty Swing stood out from other dances because it was not uptight. It gave people relaxWithin an hour, the beginners could get used to the basic movements, Doty said. ation and freedom for creativity, he said.

Dyer is a passionate dancer, he said, so he didn’t mind the long road from Idaho It usually took them a few weeks of practice to overcome shyness and get used to the techniques of the dance. Then dancers could learn to be creative in their movements to Pullman to attend the “Second Friday Dance.” “I really love Swing dancing and and express themselves. to me, the more I do it, the happier I’m going to be,” Dyer said.

Dancers can either perform graceful, relaxing or energetic, flexible movements The Swing Devils of the Palouse meet at 7 p.m. every Thursday at the based on their emotions and the songs played.

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‘No one else can tell me who I am’ Leader of Black Women's Caucus says group has open borders, gives advice

By Mindy Malone Evergreen reporter

Growing up as a military kid, Jazmyne Jackson had to adjust to making friends quickly.

“I probably went to about 12 different schools before I came to college, so I had to make new friends all the time,” junior-standing microbiology major Jackson said. “Now when I meet people, it’s easier to connect.”

Jazmyne understands people to a level that’s impossibly

accurate, senior computer science major Edna Mutonga said.

She only needs to meet someone for a few minutes, and she’ll know them as much as they know themselves.

It’s her care for and understanding of other people that inspired her to

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‘A whole lot of serotonin, and I like it’

By Maddy Bean Evergreen reporter

From classical to trap music, graduate student and DJ, Anton Radke, has been stretching his musical muscles since he was a child.

Now, he is looking forward to the concerts, gigs and friends he will encounter in the future with his DJ prowess.

Radke, who spent his first 14 years in Alaska playing string instruments, realized his love from electronic music when his brother introduced it to him as a child. During high school, he began to DJ, and after that, he realized he wanted to make his own music. That’s when he decided to teach himself through online classes and YouTube videos.

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"For a long time I was not making anything good," says DJ Anton Radke. Now, Radke is ready to expand his DJ prowess.

Jazmyne Jackson, current president of the Black Women's Caucus, highlights her experiences with getting involved on campus on Oct. 28 at the Women's Resource Center in Wilson-Short Hall.

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rom her office on the bottom floor of Cleveland Hall, and sometimes outside of it, Faith Price oversees Native Programs at WSU, which cover everything from Native American student recruitment and retention, to working with Native American clubs and organizations, to helping students.

Price serves as the director of Native Programs, which sees her dealing with mainly two parts of the Native American student experience at WSU — recruitment and retention.

On the recruitment side, Price directs camp and visitation programs that bring to WSU middle and high school Native American students from as far as Montana and California. This is to allow them to meet other Native American college students, go through workshops, and get a good view of college life, Price said.

On the retention side, she supervises staff such as the Native American Retention Specialist Joelle Burg. She also hosts workshops and cultural activities to “make [Native students] feel not so far from home,” Price said.

“Faith Price does everything,” said Dominick Joseph, public relations officer for the Native American Women’s Association. “She is like a motherly figure for all of us, and just a lot of guidance.”

Joseph said he met Price when she came to the Tulalip Tribes as part of Native American Student Recruitment.

Tulalip Tribes is based out of the western side of the state as well as the Cascade Mountains and part of Oregon, according to its website.

“She came to my tribe first-handedly and advocated for WSU and said, ‘Hey, Native students, you guys can do this,’” Joseph said. “I didn’t even go to the school, yet and she was already helping me.”

Similarly, Jaissa Grunlose, president of Native American Women's Association, said she met Price through

the Tribal Nation Building Leadership Program, a program that builds leadership and allows for Native students to get acquainted.

“I think to us in the Native Center she is like the mom away from home, the auntie that helps us all,” Grunlose said. “That makes sure we’re getting food, that we’re getting sleep, and that we’re going to be successful.”

Price herself is a member of the Wampanoag tribe from Massachusetts but grew up on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. She majored in social work while at the University of Montana, and has worked with the Upward Bound and McNair Scholars programs.

Once on to WSU, she started in a temporary position at the financial aid office before meeting former director Barbara Aston and taking a job in the Native Center.

“It’s been a really good opportunity for me and has allowed me to continue working in an area that I’m passionate about,” Price said. “Getting to know people, helping them reach their potential and helping them navigate college in general and being successful.”

With Native Programs, Price said she wants to fight the lack of knowledge about Native American culture and history and the invisibility Native American students face by not seeing themselves reflected in the curriculum or culture of WSU. Price emphasizes the importance of community and Native American culture at WSU. She said she encourages students to take a Native American history class and attend one of the organization meetings or events going on during Native American History Month all of November.

“A lot of Americans have gone through their lives never meeting a Native person, never being exposed to the culture and not being exposed to the history,” Price said. “And when See Price Page 9

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'Faith Price does everything'

By Joel Kemegue Evergreen reporter

but just needed some help getting his foot in the door.”

The two, who have considered themselves a team as well as friends, hang out all the time and support each other during gigs. To Radke, Cartwright has been there since the beginning.

Now, Radke has played big shows in places like Portland, and has opened for bigger artists. Soon, he will be involved with a couple of EDM companies

Students marvel at WSU conductor’s synesthesia; instructor says travels teach culture, music on deeper level

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Music professor Lori Wiest shares her passion for music on Tuesday morning in Kimbrough Music Hall.

By Emma Ledbetter Evergreen reporter

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Lori Wiest may be a professor of music and director of choral activities, but her interests and involvements extend far beyond the WSU School of Music.

Wiest did not start her undergraduate career as a music major, but added it on to her chemistry track at the end of her sophomore year, she said. She later taught music and chemistry while she decided what she wanted to do.

“I was thinking about that, even as an undergrad in another

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I love that the music part of me, the creative part, has made it less linear and more I see things as big picture

institution, how important it was for people to make music, be a part of music, even when that wasn’t their particular degree,” Wiest said. “Just because you decide to make a degree in another direction, doesn’t mean you don’t have the talent to be a musician.”

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“For a very long time I was not making anything good,” Radke said. “And then around 2015, I started actually being really proud of what I was making.”

Radke then moved from Alaska to the WSU campus, where he met Zachary Cartwright — also known by the EDM name Catalyst — who got him involved with the entertainers at Pullman

cocktail bar Etsi Bravo.

Cartwright, a Ph.D. graduate in food science and resident DJ, said he was hooked by Radke’s talent when he met him, and immediately wanted to help him out.

“It’s kinda silly,” Cartwright said, “but right before I met Anton, I watched a documentary on Avicii, and I realized that Anton has a lot of the same skills that Avicii does … [I saw] how Avicii didn’t have very good guidance and needed some mentorship. I realized Anton… had a lot of talent,

Lori Wiest professor Wiest said her parents were involved on several different directory boards in her small hometown, including the school board to the hospital board, and this involvement was something they taught their children about.

“It was important that they pass that on to their children and

that we be involved in our community,” Wiest said. “My community is WSU … I want to be investing in the students, in my music, in committees that I serve on, because to me it’s really important that we are invested and don’t just take that for granted.”

In her 29 years at WSU, Wiest said she has held a lot of leadership roles here, including being an associate dean for the graduate school and the college of arts and sciences, as well as interim chair for the department of foreign languages and cultures. Both her analytical mindset and her music background helped her be successful in such positions, she said.

“I love that because I’m very organized and thoughtful about things, but I also love that the music part of me, the creative part, has made it less linear and more I see things as a big picture,” Wiest said.

Wiest said she is officially a vocalist and pianist, but her true passion is choral conducting.

“I love what can be the result of taking a composer’s work and bringing it to life, recreating what it is that they’ve envisioned and heard in their minds,” Wiest said.

Julie Wieck, associate professor of music and one of Wiest’s longtime friends, said Wiest is one of the best choral conductors she has ever worked with.

“She breaks form so that her gestures assist [singers’] vocal technique,” Wieck said. “[I think] they are honored to be able to sing under her.”

Wiest said her students find her funny because she has synesthesia, so when she hears certain instruments or sounds, she sees different colors.

“The students think that I’ll say, ‘Can you sing that more blue?’ and See Wiest Page 9

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Sorority hosts talent event with mix of art styles Delta Sigma members say performances display creative abilities among each other

By Emma Ledbetter Evergreen reporter

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Members of the Xi Psi chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. stroll at the African Violet Talent Showcase before intermissions Friday night at the CUB Jr. Ballroom.

Members of the Xi Psi chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. hosted their second annual African Violet Talent Showcase at 6 p.m. on Friday in the CUB Jr. Ballroom.

Senior Renaye Tolbert, member of the planning committee, said the showcase was started to replace “Shades of Black,” a talent event that stopped several years ago. Members wanted people at WSU to still be able to express their talents after the old event faded away, she said.

“There’s so many talented people on this campus and in this community, so we want to create a space for them to showcase that,” Tolbert said. “This is only our second year doing it, so each year I think we’re trying to evolve a little bit.”

Fifth year Nailah Kent, co-founder of Krimson Kouture, said her favorite part of African Violet is seeing the community come together to celebrate culture.

Kent said Krimson Kouture performed last year at the event but did not perform this year because of the three-day weekend.

Performers at the event ranged from poets to singers, gymnasts to dancers, Tolbert said. In the past, they’ve featured hip hop majorette groups, but this year the dance styles included hip hop, jazz and lyrical. There was also a breakdancing soloist who used popping and locking movements.

“It’s kind of like a typical, what you would assume would be, a good mixture of different arts,” Tolbert said. “We like to have a variety, just to appeal to everybody’s tastes.”

Tolbert said there are a lot of moving pieces when it comes to managing performers and vendors for the event, so the planning committee used multiple group chats to stay organized throughout the process.

Delta Sigma Theta usually had an open call for different performers for the event and used flyers and word of mouth to find interested participants. Tolbert said chapter members reach out to performers from other showcases who they think do a good job.

“I really love with each different showcase you experience, sometimes you see repetitive artists,” Tolbert said. “But the thing that is always so different is the crowd interaction and how the crowd reacts … it’s always so energizing to feel the appreciation and the love in the room.”

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Add to your tomatoes with cheesy appetizer

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This columnist tried out marinated tomatoes with mozzarella and recommends cutting in half the amount of cheese called for by the recipe.

By Mindy Malone Evergreen columnist

This recipe for marinated tomatoes with mozzarella is straightforward and takes maybe 10-15 minutes to prepare. From making it myself, I have some recommendations. While it calls for 16 oz. of mozzarella, I found 8 oz. chopped into 1-inch cubes to be enough, even with 5 tomatoes. 16 oz. would have the mozzarella covering the tomatoes, which isn’t great for presentation. If you don’t want your fridge to reek of pesto, I recommend dialing back on the herbs, too. The recommended amount (2 tbsp) isn’t much but I found it made the oil mixture granular and less visually appealing. I also added more garlic than the recipe calls for, but that’s a personal preference. Enjoy!

Ingredients: 4-5 tomatoes (on the vine), sliced 1/2 -inch thick • 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil • 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar • 2 tbsp finely chopped red onion • 1 large clove garlic, finely minced or crushed • 1 tbsp minced fresh parsley, plus additional for garnish • 1 tbsp minced fresh basil, plus additional for garnish • 1 (16 oz.) log of mozzarella cheese • Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste •

Directions: 1. Cut the tomatoes into 1/2-inch thick slices, arrange in a single layer on a large, shallow dish.

2. The original recipe says to mix the olive oil, vinegar, onion, garlic, parsley, basil, salt and pepper in a jar, but I found throwing them all into a measuring cup and whisking works just fine.

Pour over the tomatoes in the dish.

3. Cover and marinate for 2 to 3 hours on the counter, or for more in the refrigerator. Bring chilled tomatoes to room temperature before serving and garnish with mozzarella and additional chopped fresh herbs, if you want.

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Voices: ‘The Garden’

moment.

I traced up, following liquid crimson, pushing back his sleeve to uncover the He was the boy who never fought seed of it. He said quickly, “It’s nothing.” back. Dewdrops condensed on the corBut a shock of ruby, unfurling in small ners of his eyes while we sat together, waves, blooming—much more than notheven though this was our usual bench at ing. I worried about its depth. They may our usual time and we both knew there have thrown a rock at me but they took was no better place in the park to be quiet a knife to him. He should have never together. He kept staring at me—at my been close enough for it but he jumped forehead, the purpling welt, but he met in front of me, raised his arms. I didn’t my eyes more than once. He reached see before just how much damage was out a hand to sweep off the dirt, tucking done. Multiple cuts splintering from one aside my hair when he did so, his scrudeep slice, seeping steadily. Before I could tinizing gaze scanning over and over the demand he see a doctor he said the same fresh bruise. When he retreated back to to me; we made a deal of it, bumping himself, averting his eyes to his own lap, I elbows in an ER waiting room until one caught him by the fingers. overworked nurse offered to see us two “I want to see,” I insisted. My grip was battered boys. She put ice on my head slippery at best, from the blood dripping down his hand, but he only resisted a See Voices Page 9

By Sarah Beebe Evergreen contributor

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New comedy ‘Good Boys’ could have been better

By Roos Helgesen Evergreen columnist

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It cannot go unnoticed that at certain points in the movie the seemingly naive middle schoolers show some very mature understanding.

For example, in one scene the kids are trying to buy weed off of a drug dealer, and the drug dealer says something about a woman with some obvious sexual innuendo. And one of the kids responds, that the girl would have to give consent first. It’s times like this where you truly wonder if kids their age actually understand some of the things going on in adult society.

The movie was fun and had a great cast and vision, but it just felt like a bunch of cheap obscene comedy scenes slapped together.

It’s OK, but I wish director Gene Stupnitsky took more creative liberties with it.

If you don’t like raunchy Seth Rogantype humor then this is not for you, if you do try it out. It makes for a good hang out sort of movie.

y first thought when hearing about this movie was, “This is going to be the closest thing to a live-action “South Park” we are ever going to get.”

It’s crude, funny and raunchy as hell.

The movie “Good Boys” centers around a middle school boy and his two friends getting ready to go to a party to get a kiss from a girl.

In order to accomplish this, they of course need to do some extensive “research” into the subject.

This encompasses everything from looking up how to kiss a girl, to porn, weed, Roos Helgesen is a freshman international alcohol and sex toys.

The main selling point for the comedy of business major from Anchorage, Alaska. He GAGE SKIDMORE | FLICKR COMMONS can be contacted at 335-1140 or by the movie comes from the naivety of how Seth Rogen co-stars in “Good Boys,” a raunchy comedy directed by Gene Stupnitsky. the characters deal with these adult themes. mint@dailyevergreen.com.

Jackson | Continued from Page 6 of the Black Women’s Caucus, Jackson said.

The BWC is a registered student organization that focuses on issues black women face globally, nationally and locally.

Some of the topics BWC covers include hair care, self-care and general life advice. It’s women giving other women advice, Sapphire Owens, BWC Vice President and senior human development major, said. It’s not just focused on black women but on all women to foster a supportive environment.

“It’s a place where you don’t feel left out or like you don’t belong – because it’s easy to feel like you don’t belong,” Jackson said.

Jackson met some of her closest friends through BWC, including Mutonga and Owens. Through their involvement, they’ve grown into themselves.

“Black Women’s Caucus gave me confidence as a black woman,” Owens said. “I am who I am and no one else can tell me who I am. It gave me a voice, in a way.”

Another branch of the black student community is the African Diaspora Association, a

they do learn about Natives, it is about history, so they think Native Americans don’t exist anymore.”

Price said she is constantly trying to improve not only her programs so that more Native American students come in and out of WSU, but also herself as director and counselor to better help them.

“If I were to say anything, I’d say thank you for installing inspiration in me even before she even met me, because it never seemed like it was a chore for her,” Joseph said.

“I appreciate her so much and all that she’s helped me accomplish at Washington State and I’m never going to forget how she’s helped me,” Grunlove said.

group for those who culturally identify with a nation, or nations, within the African diaspora. Similar to BWC its borders are open, said Mutonga, Vice President of the ADA. “I would like if people took the time – you don’t even have to participate – but take the time to stop by and see what we’re talking

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Price | Cont. from Page 6

I would like if people took . . . the time to stop by and see what we’re talking about Edna Mutonga ADA vice president

about,” Mutonga said. “We want people to come by, to just ask questions.”

Jackson makes a point of attending as many ADA meetings as possible. She and Mutonga have been working to bring their groups closer together. A good place to start is to learn about one another, Mutonga said.

Radke | Continued from Page 7 get up and start dancing in I like it.”

Crew with other artists my little bedroom studio, This winter, Radke is where Radke would have the just having a good time and excited to put out his next chance to teach and grow in his skills.

“I’m not trying to be no I’m not trying to be no massive massive superstar or anysuperstar or anything . . . I just thing,” Radke said. “I mean, if it happens, that’s cool, I’m want music to be my career with it. But the main thing Anton Radke DJ for me is [that] I’m putting food on my plate and there’s vibing to it on my own. It’s EP on SoundCloud, and the a roof over my head and I so cool to feel that and recog- mixtape he has worked on can do it through the avenue nize that I created something with a member of the enter- of playing music, running a that I actually like. That feel- tainment group, Nuu Wave. collective or a label, or DJing. ing of accomplishment — it’s He also has helped form a I just want music to be my a whole lot of serotonin, and collective called the Catalyst career. I just love creating.”

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from Spokane.

Radke worked as one of the EDM directors for KZUU and created a radio show called Radke’s House, where he played house music for the campus. However, the artist said he loves a wide variety of music, and that hopefully one day he can find a new sound of his own. “[I love] the feeling of working on the track, and then, before I know it, [the track] is starting to sound really exciting and cool to me,” Radke said. “I’ll just

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“Don’t be afraid to come to these different groups,” Owens said.

The two groups share common goals – to support their members and promote inclusivity. Jackson, Owens and Mutonga know the impact BWC and ADA can have, and they want to share it. We want to collaborate with the other groups – ADA, Native American Women’s Association, everyone, Owens said.

Jackson has ambitious plans for BWC’s future. She hopes to increase fundraising activities and campus presence over the course of spring semester. The main goal is to reshape the image of BWC by next year, Jackson said.

“Even though we’re titled Black Women’s Caucus, we want everybody to come. Whether you want to learn about black women, or you want to give your input – anything,” Jackson said. “The name kind of makes it seem exclusive to black women. I really want to highlight that we’re inclusive.”

BWC meets every other Wednesday at 6 p.m. in CUE, Room 319.

Wiest | Continued from Page 7 they’ll go, ‘What color blue? What’s the hue of blue?’” Wiest said. “I’ll go, ‘I would just like it to be less yellow.’”

Wieck said one of her favorite memories with Wiest was a 2016 trip to South Korea, because she arranged for students to learn yoga and martial arts from Buddhist monks.

In addition to South Korea, Wieck has taken singers to Austria and Russia, among other countries. She said she loves opportunities for her students to not only make music, but be immersed in other cultures while doing so.

“Our tours, yes, we are there because of the music,” Wiest said. “But it’s so much more than that.”

Voices | Continued from Page 8 and snuck a tidy row of stitches through his arm, even after we admitted we couldn’t pay.

From the stitches grew a scar. My best friend, the boy who never fought back, marked forever now. We tried not to tell anyone where it came from—indirectly, this made him elusive and fascinating, but he didn’t pay much attention to his newfound popularity. It was just us against the world, scar or not. But every time I saw it, it seemed viciously liquefied once more. Still bleeding, still boiling. My heart sank whenever it caught my eye. He mentioned once I turned red when I saw it, that I looked at him and then away so fast.

So, I tried to avoid it.

Consequently, I avoided him. I still saw that scar everywhere, though, a tree root rupturing against the soil or a rigid cloud formation. I roamed our usual park, veering around our usual bench whenever I saw him there,

opting instead for flower gardens. He would never be there, not when everything was a grisly reminder. The buds of crocosmias, swollen and misshapen, which would eventually burst into russet trumpets. Sweet pink bleeding hearts, always split down the middle with those jarringly white petals. Clusters of rhododendrons, vibrantly scarlet, practically spilling from their branches. Erupting, flaming hyacinths. Sometimes tulips, soft cerise or deep crimson. There was one hydrangea bush in the garden, flowering purple, but it was understated and pale when compared to the surrounding lilies, towering ruby and garnet trumpets with dripping, sticky petals.

As the seasons changed so too did the flowers.

Chrysanthemums were explosions of tiny droplets, which collected in pools of anemone petals. They bloomed determinedly while the leaves of trees caught

fire and flickered out. Not even snows were enough to drive off somber orchids with their brick-dust spots, and gnarled carnations twisted together in uncomfortable pink pulps. I still wandered the gardens and occasionally checked our old bench— he was there less frequently, almost always with books when I saw him—and the opportunities to talk grew less and less frequent. But I couldn’t take them. The sight of him drained me of warmth, or sent tremors down my fingers, or made my heartbeat erratic. What would I even say after all this time? Even if I could bring myself to speak I wouldn’t be able to see him past the scar.

Crocosmia, chrysanthemum, carnation. It was a nauseating cycle. I passed it in that sea of red. I became the man who never fought back, tossed along by the steady floral march of the garden, dazed and disoriented and fumbling along in my old

haunts. I yearned for something all the cloying scents of flowers could never provide, something which lay below the dewy petals.

My seemingly endless routine was cut short by stabbing pain and ominous flashing lights. I came to in an ER bed, groggy as if waking from a yearslong sleep.

Sterile white all around, until the partition parted and a hand holding a clipboard entered.

The forearm supporting it bore a strikingly red rose with thorns coiled all around it. For an ink piece it seemed so organic, curling around the planes of skin seamlessly. The more I stared,

tuning out whatever the actual nurse was saying, the more I detected a subtle texture beneath the rose. A hauntingly familiar form, a scar. But I blinked and it was obscured again, buried deep in crimson petals.

He lowered the clipboard.

Dewdrops condensed in the corners of his eyes when I threw my arms around his neck. And he—never one to fight back— reciprocated.

Sarah Beebe is a senior zoology major from Snohomish, Washington. She can be contacted at 335-1140 or by mint@dailyevergreen.com.

Interested in having your work published in Voices, a series in which the Evergreen picks from student creative work and adds an illustration? Send your stories to mint@ dailyevergreen.com with your name, year, major and hometown by Thursday afternoons. Note: if you do not include a name or hometown, we will not publish any pieces.

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County phone line troubles persist Whitman County’s phone lines continue to be down after almost a month, may switch to new carrier

By William L. Spence Lewiston Tribune

Officials hope a nearly monthlong interruption in Whitman County’s phone service will soon be resolved, after the county switches to a new carrier.

The problem, which began Oct. 15, prevents people from calling most county offices in Colfax. When they dial a number, there’s dead silence and the call never connects.

Commissioner Art Swannack said more than 370 county phones have been affected -- everything from the sheriff and prosecutor’s office to the planning department, elections and the commissioners themselves.

“It’s just been really frustrating,” he said.

The phone service cut out after the county asked its carrier, CenturyLink, to disconnect some unused trunk lines on its account.

“Our IT director was looking at what lines we use and what we don’t use,” Swannack said. “He found some that weren’t being used and asked CenturyLink if there was any need for them. They said no, so we said disconnect them. But it turned out one of them was an anchor line for every phone in the county [government].”

Once the line was disconnected, every county office line in Colfax went dead, he said. Employees could still call out, but incoming calls wouldn’t connect.

“And when we asked them [CenturyLink] to hook the anchor line back up,

By Garrett Cabeza Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Every day, boxers strap on their gloves at the Martin Wellness Center in Moscow.

They are not fighting other boxers.

Th e i r o p p on e n t is Parkinson’s disease.

Rock Steady Boxing opened at the Gritman Medical Center building on West Palouse River Drive in December. The highintensity fitness program is designed to improve the mobility, balance and strength of people fighting Parkinson’s, a progressive nervous system disorder that affects movement.

Donna Grauke, one of the program’s coaches, said there are more than 800 Rock Steady Boxing groups around the world, including one in Lewiston. But she and her husband, John Grauke, who has the disease, didn’t want to make the trek to the valley multiple times per week.

So she, John Grauke, Wayne Browning and his wife, Eda Browning, traveled to Indianapolis in

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County commissioner Art Swannack speaks at the city council meeting on Oct. 15 at Pullman City Hall. Swannack divulged frustration about the phone line issues. they told us they needed a four- or five-year contract,” Swannack said.

That didn’t sit well with the commissioners.

They asked state Rep. Joe Schmick to get involved.

He contacted CenturyLink’s upper management. The county also had one number set up where people could call in and get transferred to the office they needed.

Even before this situation arose, though, IT Director Lance Bishop was looking to switch the whole phone system to an online carrier, Granite Telecommunications, which already provides some internet services for the county.

He thought the com-

pany could get the lines hooked back up in a matter of days. He also felt the county would save a significant amount of money with Granite — potentially thousands of dollars each month — and receive better phone options as well, such as caller ID. Consequently, the county decided to move forward with Granite.

Through another miscommunication with CenturyLink, though, it has taken weeks to transfer the phone numbers to the new carrier.

“It’s just been problem after problem,” Swannack said. “It’s frustrating that our citizens haven’t been able to get ahold of us. We

had elections going on and people weren’t able to reach the elections office.”

Whitman County Auditor Sandy Jamison said people were still able to reach the office by email, but that wasn’t an ideal solution.

“People are really frustrated,” she said. “I’ve had people stop me on the street to talk about it.”

Based on the last communication he had with Granite, Swannack said he believes the phone lines should be working again soon, possibly as early as today.

“It was supposed to be a quick fix, but it hasn’t been,” he said. “It’s taken flippin’ forever.”

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October of last year to be trained as Rock Steady Boxing coaches.

They returned to the Palouse as certified coaches and started the program in December with a handful of participants. Now, there are about 20 boxers taking classes, Donna Grauke said.

Exercises include noncontact boxing, balance and mobility training, voice activation, strength training and stretching. Donna Grauke said the movements will hopefully alleviate the boxers’ symptoms.

Part of the workout Wednesday morning consisted of circuit training.

Boxers spent one minute at each workout station, which included exercises like jumping rope, hula hooping, jumping jacks and, of course, throwing punches at boxing bags. A ding, like the sound that resonates at the end of a boxing round, sounded at the end of each minute and signaled to the boxers to move to the next workout station.

Wayne Browning, a former boxer, said the program is like a family.

“When you’re actually working and sweating together, that makes a huge difference,” he said.

Browning said he spoke

to an 85-year-old with Parkinson’s during his training in Indianapolis.

The man’s wife, who was his “corner person” during his Rock Steady Boxing workouts, died three years earlier and Browning asked him how he continued to push forward. “ ‘It’s the family. This here keeps me going,’ “ Wayne Browning said the man told him. “So that was really an eye-opener for me to see how important it is for these people with Parkinson’s to have somebody to relate to, somebody that they can lean on, somebody they can talk to that understands what they’re going through and that kind of stuff.”

He said every one of his boxers in the program works hard.

“They don’t come in and goof off,” Browning said.

“They know that their life depends on their hard work here, so that’s a real blessing, too.”

He said he coaches them just as if they were boxers preparing for a fight against another boxer.

“The more that they mentally can get through the idea that they are in a fight, the better they have of fighting what they’re fighting, and that’s Parkinson’s,”

Browning said.

Mary Jo Penberthy, clinical coordinator at Martin Wellness Center and a Rock Steady Boxing coach, said she is inspired every day by what the boxers can do.

She said one man has trouble walking but that changes when he puts the boxing gloves on.

“When he’s in front of the speed bag, he forgets everything about his disease and he can hit that speed bag without a problem,” Penberthy said.

Bryan Hanson said he was diagnosed with the disease about 10 years ago. He said the boxing program keeps his muscles flexible and it builds great camaraderie with the other boxers who go through the same mental and physical challenges he experiences.

“I think it’s changed my attitude about my illness,” Hanson said.

He said he kept active by walking and lifting weights prior to starting the program, but the exercises at Rock Steady Boxing help improve his symptoms more than his previous workouts.

The classes are 7-8:30 a.m. and 9:15-10:45 a.m.

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and 1:15-2:45 p.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Those hoping to park at the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport may not be guaranteed an open space, especially on the weekends and holidays.

Airport Executive Director Tony Bean said the addition of a fifth daily Alaska Airlines flight to Seattle this fall has magnified an already worsening parking shortage in the 400-space parking lot. The airport is now urging people to be dropped off before their flight or get a ride to and from the airport on a shuttle or taxi.

“We’re asking the public to be part of the solution and look at alternative means,” he said.

Bean said the airport is not advising people against parking, just letting people know that finding a parking space is not a certainty. Those who intend to park should arrive 90 minutes early, he said.

“If you have to park, park,” he said.

He said this is a particularly busy time of year with college sports teams like basketball, volleyball and football using the airport to travel to games.

“We just end up with a lot of pressure on Friday,” he said.

Holidays, too, are the busiest times of year for the airport.

Bean said no matter the parking situation, the airport must continue to serve Alaska Airlines, its only commercial airline.

“If Alaska wants to drop 10 flights in here, we have to take them,” he said.

Bean said the airport hopes to address this parking issue by securing funding for a new terminal.

He said the airport plans to initiate the design phase for the new terminal and parking lot this year with a goal of starting construction in 2021. During that process, he said the public will be invited to provide input on what they want from the new facility.

Bean said ideally the airport should have 600 to 1,000 parking spaces.

In the meantime, passengers should not expect parking fees to increase even with a parking shortage.

Bean said he does not believe fee increases will deter people from parking there, and significant increases will likely anger the public.

He said the airport will continue to put out more information about the availability of parking online.

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As she spooned a dollop of steaming chili into a plastic cup, Straaf said she used only her own ingredients to make her chili for Kooskia’s high school National Junior Honor Society chapter. This meant grassfed beef from her husband Nick Straaf’s family-owned meat facility in Idaho — “2 Lazy H Ranch.” It also meant peppers, onions and potatoes from Straaf’s garden.

Lamar said he has noticed a recent move-

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People should limit the number of miles food takes to get to our homes, Lamar said, and put effort into small acts of ecofriendly eating. Ultimately, he said, people cannot rely on the federal government or current administration to help farmers become more sustainable.

“Your federal government may not be doing anything,” he said, “but get involved, because I guarantee you that your local government is doing something [about sustainability].”

The issues caused by conventional farming are worsened by climate change, Lamar said.

However, the words “climate change” tend to

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However, this doesn’t mean people in Kooskia are always completely organic, Finehout said, just more sustainable.

Thomas Lamar, the executive director of Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute, said he worked in Peru for a few years after he got his master’s degree in environmental science and is no stranger to overworked cropland.

Farming communities he advised in Peru had been pushed aside by large commercial farms in the late 1980s, which poisoned much of the farmland with pesticides. Later, Lamar said he worked in central Washington and saw many of the same problems.

Pesticides popularly used in commercial farming aren’t contained to the farm on which they’re used, Lamar said. He witnessed some farmers have entire yields wiped out from chemicals that had wafted over from corporate farms.

“We have our systems as people, but our human systems are dependent on the natural world,” Lamar said. “We can grow our own food for ourselves, we can provide energy for ourselves, and, in my

We can provide energy for ourselves, and, in my opinion, we can do that either responsibly or irresponsibly. And we’ve been doing it irresponsibly Thomas Lamar

ment in people stepping away and reevaluating the way they live, but this is more difficult in larger cities than in rural communities, and he said that there is nearly always pushback from some who don’t necessarily see the value in eco-friendly farming — rural or not.

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cause controversy in Kooskia, May said.

While she’s always been concerned with the environment, May said that she only dedicated herself to all-organic eating after a terrifying bout of cancer. She almost totally avoids pesticides and lets the land

do the rest, she said, which can offer more food in terms of yields.

“I mean, I’ve got green beans coming out of my ears at this point,” she said.

However, Finehout said people can become defensive with the obsession around organic farming, an obsession she said was more pronounced in California.

The restrictions around what can be defined as organic are too limited, she said.

May said that the discussion around climate change is so political that it can make people avoid environmentally friendly techniques out of spite.

“It’s amazing to me. All this land and resources, and the complete disregard for it,” May said.

Irene Finehout balances a clear milk gallon on her knees to catch the recently pressed apple cider. Those were the last of her apples, she says. As winter turns much of Kooskia into a frosty forest, some farmers at the cidermaking fundraiser said they weren’t worried about the winter, because it’s an easy switch to crops that fit the conditions. Living on a homestead has its benefits, she said.

Exotic petting zoo continues to expand

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Big Red's Barn doesn't look all that big from the outside, but inside, there's an entire animal kingdom waiting to be petted and fed in pens just behind a couple of big swinging gates.

Jeannene Christ opened Big Red's Barn, an indoor petting zoo in Coeur d'Alene, almost a year ago.

As a veterinary technician, Christ has always loved animals, especially exotic ones. After moving to Spokane almost 15 years ago, she continued to add new animals to her growing collection.

"I started looking like I was a hoarder," Christ joked. "So I was like, 'Well, I better start putting some of this stuff into working mode.' " That's when Christ started a mobile petting zoo that she took to birthday parties, fairs and community events. But after a decade of loading up the animals and transporting them, it became too much for her.

Then last year, she decided to make her dreams a reality by opening Big Red's Barn, where people could gather, pet exotic and farm animals, and where she could help rehome animals in need.

"It's just been so crazy," Christ said. "It's all new, again. Being the first year, every day has been a new experience."

The zoo is named after Big Red, a Brazilian Hindu steer that Christ got almost two years ago.

"Big Red is what it's all about. So I got

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him and I'm like he needs a place called Big Red," Christ said. "He needs something named after him. He needs a building."

Big Red's Barn is home to a capybara named Hector, bunnies, piglets, donkeys, a llama, goats big and small, a variety of birds, and a reptile room.

Visitors get a cup of fresh veggies to feed the animals and can wander through the large center pen, petting and feeding them.

And those are just the typical petting zoo animals.

At the beginning of November, a pair of sloths named Bonnie and Clyde joined the zoo. They are from a breeder in Tennessee and came to Christ on loan. They hang out in a special room kept at a temperature perfect for the sloths and are available by appointment for "experiences" for people 10 years of age and older.

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an obsession since she did a school project on the animal in third grade.

Garcia considered going to the Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica to see her favorite animal, but a few weeks ago she saw that a couple of sloths were coming to live at Big Red's.

Garcia and her friend Stephanie

McCluskey decided to head to Big Red's and interact with sloths in person.

"It's awesome," Garcia exclaimed as she petted Clyde.

During the 20 minutes the women spent in Bonnie and Clyde's room, Garcia and Christ swapped sloth facts.

"I love sloths, so I read about them a lot," Garcia said. "In the wild, they grow moss on their backs because they're so slow."

"It camouflages, and it also provides moisture for them," Christ added.

Garcia stood between the two sloths, trying to coax Bonnie to wake up before feeding Clyde a piece of fruit.

After finally meeting her favorite animal in person, Garcia still plans to get the sloth tattoo she has been thinking about for a while. It will be on her leg, with a sunflower over its eye, she said with a smile, while looking up at Bonnie.

The sloths aren't the only one-on-one animal experience on offer at Big Red's.

A visit to the African sand cat will teach you that what looks like an average house cat is really one of Africa's most deadly predators. African sand cats mainly eat rodents and prefer to be alone, without the company of other cats.

"He will kill anything. He will even go for the cows," Christ said. "They have a close to 97% kill rate."

The petting zoo is still a work in progress, with new animals coming and going all the time.

Part of what keeps Big Red's running smoothly is Christ's small army of employees. She hires a lot of high schoolers, excited for their first job.

Mason Margo, 17, is a junior in high school who has worked at Big Red's for a few months.

"I love animals so much," Margo said.

The job started out as a class project but has become something more than that for Margo. He works weekend mornings, usually trying to stay close to his favorite animal, Hector the capybara.

"Some people are scared of him just because of his teeth, but he's sweet," Margo said.

Margo has a pet chorkie, a chihuahua and Yorkshire terrier mix, named Penny, "'cause she's small like a penny," he said with a laugh.

Christ also hires people through Tesh and Community Connections Inc., organizations that place individuals with developmental disabilities in jobs.

Big Red's also partners with the Monarch Train, a nonprofit focused on literacy. The Monarch Train holds a monthly book club in the space, and Christ plans to add a reading nook full of bookshelves in the next month or so.

"Basically, it'll be where any kid can come in and take one of our books home," Christ said.

A play area for toddlers is being expanded, and more animals, including otters, are on the list of things Christ hopes to add to Big Red's.

Big Red's offers season passes and has a surprising number of regular visitors.

"We have a few people that come in every night after work," Christ said. "They call it their happy place to get their fix."

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Members of WSU’s Esports Rocket League A team holds practice to hone their video game skills Tuesday night in Chinook 25. Club president Bobby Belter said the club was founded in 2015 and has grown beyond being a source for people to play video games. ple to play games with people they know.

Belter said he has tried to grow the club ever since he became president by expanding involvement and pushing for the club to participate in more events. The club is also a place for casual gamers, and they have weekly game nights for more easy-going games, he said.

Club members communicate mainly through the app Discord.

Belter said they have more than 400 verified students active on

their Discord.

“It’s far and away different from how it was when I started,” Belter said.

During practice, the teams play games online and call out

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We have fun when we play together

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the opportunity to do this is just crazy.”

They will compete against other collegiate teams from schools such as Louisiana State University and Georgetown University. The tournament will be streamed on the organizer’s Twitch page.

The club was founded in 2015 for members to play a wide variety of video games. Belter said the club has grown to a visible presence around campus rather than just being a source for peo-

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locations and plays for their strategies. Communication and team comradery are vital to their success, Madamba said.

“It’s really important for us to establish getting together and socializing because it builds trust in-game,” he said. “We have fun when we play together.”

Bennet said the opportunity to go to New York and represent the university against other schools is a unique experience.

“To be on a school team, to represent a school, and to go out

and get to play other schools, it really feels like you’re a part of something bigger than just casually playing with your friends,” Bennet said.

All three members said Rocket League is among their favorite games and their most played.

Madamba said he has put over 2,500 hours into Rocket League.

“The time that people put into real sports, people like us put just as much time into our games and trying to improve,” he said.

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