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RESEARCH
‘The honeybee stands apart. It’s different’ Facility in Othello can be middle-ground for eastern, western WA researchers
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row of styrofoam and wood containers rest on a field near East Main Street on the way to Moscow. Each container houses a cluster of bees huddling over the queen that is often marked with an identifying number on her back. WSU Apiary manager Rodrigo Guizar uses a smoker in one of the wood containers as Erin O’Rourke, WSU diagnostic laboratory manager, waits with a small jar of alcohol to collect a sample of bees. The researchers are collecting bee samples to look for pathogens or viruses that affect bees, O’Rourke said. Varroa mites, a type of parasite, are one of the many things researchers in the department focus on. Sometime next month, a new bee facility in Othello might be open and available for researchers to use, said Melanie Kirby, WSU graduate student in the department of entomology. The facility will be near the WSU Potato Research and Extension site. Initially, the plan was to build
Bees swarm around WSU Apiary manager Rodrigo Guizar as he lifts a frame covered in honeycomb and bees from a wooden container Tuesday morning at a bee site. See more photos on page 12.
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Local middle school officials address overcrowding issues Proposed $15 million bond to renovate, expand Lincoln Middle School By Jakob Thorington Evergreen reporter
Hallways at Lincoln Middle School are so overcrowded that a teacher at the school allows students to spend the first few minutes of class gathering their materials from lockers. Janet Fulfs, a seventh-grade social studies teacher, said she lets her students to do this to avoid the chaos in the hallways during passing periods at the school. “It’s crowded and it’s hard for them to get to place-to-place like their locker,” Fulfs said. Despite this, she said classroom size is not an issue and she is able to maintain a good teaching relationship with her students. The school added more sections for her class so she is able to continue teaching roughly 30 students at a time.
Principal Cameron Grow said the building was made to hold about 550-600 students. There are about 700 students enrolled at the school today and the building was never renovated since it was built in 2005. “In the classroom, we’re okay,” Fulfs said. “I feel like it could be a safety issue when there’s so many of them in the halls- I just want them to have the space to move and be the middle schoolers they need to be.” She said some students are often tardy in the mornings or after lunches because they would rather avoid the crowds and hectic hallways, where the most students are transitioning locations at one time. Eighth-grader Molly Deen said the student population at the school has felt similar since she started attending it in the sixth grade. Deen said she knows her HSING-HAN CHEN | THE DAILY EVERGREEN teachers well and it is easy for Cameron Grow, Lincoln Middle School principal, says there is a “traveling teacher” See Overcrowding Page 10
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Brown bag series
Go to f*cking bed
Musician finds path
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Bad sleeping habits can affect your mood and decisionmaking skills. People need 8 - 10 hours of quality sleep.
Senior percussionist Alexander Lowe doesn’t care where he ends up, but will follow the music.
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Community Calendar Friday 10/18 B o n fi re h osted i n cele b rat io n of h o m eco m i n g . Star ting at 6 p.m., the WSU Student Alumni Ambassadors will host the annual Homecoming Bonfire & Pep Rally. The WSU Spirit Squad, Cougar Marching Band and other varsity spor ts team athletes will be at the event. This event is free and open to the public, and will be located at the firepit on Flag Lane.
Friday 10/18 Local ice cream parlor has birthday bash. Beginning at 4 p.m., Rollys Ice Cream Parlor will celebrate one year since the doors opened. Free ice cream will be given to the first 50 guests and free food will be available to attendees while supplies last. Games and a raffle to win a $25 certificate will also be available. This event is located at Rollys Ice Cream Parlor. To submit, email events to meditor@dailyevergreen.com. Preference will be given to events that are free and open to the public or are hosted by an RSO, and must include time, date and place.
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Nathan Weller, chair of the Poverty Awareness Task Force, talks about the resources available to the community that are provided by the task force, which is made up of residents and faith organizations, Tuesday afternoon in the Edith Hecht meeting room at the Neill Public Library.
Local nonprofits explain work to combat poverty, homelessness in county By Jayce Carral Evergreen reporter
Guest presenters Jeff Guyett and Nathan Weller spoke about the Community Action Center (CAC) and the Poverty Awareness Task Force during the monthly Brown Bag Lunch
series Tuesday at the Neill Public Library. Judy Stone, League of Women Voters of Pullman member, said the Brown Bag Lunch series occurs monthly on every third Tuesday and is open to the public. She said Brown Bag is an educational forum used to discuss local issues. The members take turns organizing a Brown Bag, Stone said. Jeff Guyett, CAC execu-
tive director, said CAC’s work focuses on the impoverished and homeless communities in Whitman County. “We provide food and shelter for folks who are living in poverty or at that low living wage level,” he said. “Our services are designed really to stabilize people where they’re at.” Guyett said CAC has resources for residents to move away from poverty such as available
housing, the food bank, and energy assistance. He said dental and medical care were the top two household needs in 2018 within the county, according to the 2018 Whitman County Community Needs Assessment. He said it is common for households to postpone dentist visits and medical procedures in order to pay for other needs such as food and rent.
A common misconception about poverty in the county is that students skew the data rates, he said. Respective studies are done on Pullman residents, WSU students, and a combination of both groups. Guyett said according to the assessment, around 20 percent of residents are barely above the poverty line in the county. See Poverty Page 10
Pullman city councilmembers discusses possible new tax By Benjamin White Evergreen reporter
The Pullman City Council discussed the effect a tax regulation change might have on the county at the city council meeting on Tuesday. County commissioner Art Swannack gave a presentation where he discussed House Bill 1406, which gives a portion of sales tax back to cities to
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he said. This would give the city greater control of how the money is used. He said if the city would like to have the money from the tax, they would need to put the tax on the ballot to let voters decide. If the county collects the tax it is guaranteed because it has already been passed by the state. “That’s a choice for you guys, whether or not you believe you want to put something like that on the ballot,” said Swannack. If the city were to pass its
If one governing body has this in place ...why would we take on additional reporting requirements Dan Records
work on improving affordable housing. Swannack said the council has options on how they go about addressing the tax. One option is to let the county collect the tax, which would be about $115,000 more revenue per year. Another option is to let the city of Pullman collect the portion of the tax that comes from within city limits,
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Bill would allow Pullman to collect portion of tax from within city limits
own tax, which qualified for the HB 1406, it would reduce the amount the county collects, he said. That amount would go from about $115,000 to $20,000. If passed, the difference would be collected by the city instead. “The question would be whether the citizens would pass it,” Swannack said. The county will most likely not create its own housing
CAROLYNN CLAREY | THE DAILY EVERGREEN
County commissioner Art Swannack discusses the impact of the affordable housing bond and how it will be put toward developing low income housing on Tuesday night at the Pullman City Hall. development department to manage this money, he said. Instead, they would likely allot it to the Community Action Center, which promotes affordable housing. Mayor Glenn Johnson said crafting an agreement for
how the county might use the money would make the city council feel more comfortable. “If one governing body has this in place and already had met the reporting requirements, why would we take on additional reporting require-
ments just to split the same pot?” councilmember Dan Records said. Late in the meeting Dan Records and Ann Parks discussed the strategic communications guidelines. See Tax Page 10
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“I always think, ‘Oh man, if that person who pulled the gun out of their glove compartment on the freeway in LA had just been getting adeq uate sleep, I doubt that would happen,” said Kristine Petterson.
‘Sleeping is a necessity, it’s not a luxury’ By Reid Brown Evergreen reporter
it’s essential to physical and mental sleep. It can lead to impatience and Petterson said. health that many college students are hinder problem-solving abilities. Students are prone to experiencmissing out on. People with inadequate sleep can take ing a lot of stress from their academand social commitments, and [Patients] need help getting off really strong ics this may lead to the detriment of pharmaceuticals. They’re not really their sleep quality, said Petterson. If effective in helping us get better sleep students begin to stress about their lack of good sleep, then this anxious Kristine Petterson sleep specialist cycle continues. “I always think, ‘Oh man, if that things more personally and experience “We feel really ashamed with our person who pulled a gun out of their intense emotional reactions like road- inability to take care of ourselves with glove compartment on the freeway rage, Petterson said. sleep, and when you’re internalizing “You have a whole bunch of extra in LA had just been getting adequate that shame and overwhelm, it comsleep, I doubt that would happen,’” cortisol and adrenaline to keep you alert and in the caveman days, that pounds,” Peterson said. “And that’s she said. Inadequate sleep is characterized function was to keep us safe, to keep insomnia, right there.” Students believe that if they are by frequent wakings, early wakings, us from getting eaten, but now it’s just
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Sleep deprivation affects ability to do well in school
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For many college students, sleep deprivation is almost a given. Over 70 percent average less than the recommended 8 hours, and the CDC reports that one in three adults do not get adequate sleep. The phenomenon has inspired countless T-shirts, mugs and even interior decorating making jokes about caffeine dependence. But to Kristine Petterson, a certified sleep specialist, yoga instructor and doula, sleep is no joke – delayed sleep and an overall lack of exacerbated by our stressful lifestyle,”
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French films educate about culture Festival hosts foreign movies to show diversity in other countries By Reid Brown Evergreen reporter
On Main Street, Moscow last Tuesday evening, the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre showed the movie “Au revoir là-haut” (“See You Up There”) as the second event of the 10th annual Palouse French Film Festival. “You can’t learn a language separate from the culture,” said Sarah Nelson, associate professor of French and French section coordinator at the University of Idaho. She, along with Sabine Davis, WSU clinical professor of French, organize the French Film Festival every year and encourage the cooperation of the two schools for the promotion of French cultural awareness. “See You Up There” is a 2017 French film that explores social turmoil in the wake of World War I. The film allowed students and community members to experience the unfolding of an unlikely friendship between an ex-accountant and a disabled artist in France during the 1920s. “We started out with Ivar Nelson who is a long-
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“Au revoir la-haunt” (“See You Up There”) played at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre on Oct. 8. It is one of four movies shown for the 2019 Palouse French Film Festival. time member of the film committee,” Sarah Nelson said. “With his encouragement, we got funds from an organization called FACE, it means French American Cultural Exchange, and they have a program called the ‘Tournées’ festival.” Now, the Festival is in its 10th year of operation
and it is a great way for students of French to see more of the culture that they are learning about, Sarah Nelson said. “There is a very surprisingly strong French community,” Sarah Nelson said. “Just about every month, See French film Page 9
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Music student prepares for senior recital, reflects on time at WSU After career goodbye to school on Nov. 12, musician plans to take California industry by storm
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lexander Lowe, biology studentturned-music performance major and percussionist, is ready to graduate after four years. This is his last semester here at WSU, and Lowe has major plans to follow his love of music — wherever it takes him. Lowe grew up in the Tri-Cities, Washington, and inherited his love of music from his father, who plays guitar. He has been playing drums since he was in fifth grade and has been in school bands ever since. But he wasn’t sure music was his passion until he took a break before college life, when he joined two professional bands. “It was an eye-opening experience,” Lowe said. “And I really started to kind of see other kinds of music differently. It helped me open up more on that side.” Lowe entered WSU as a biology major, but soon found that this path was not for him. His first semester made him switch to music after he took lessons from WSU music professor David Jarvis. Jarvis, who has known Lowe for years now, said he wants to see how Lowe will grow as a musician once he has said his goodbyes to WSU. See Lowe Page 8
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Senior percussionist Alexander Lowe says he wants to bring together a group of artistically driven people and produce, write and perform music on Monday morning in Kimbrough Hall.
WSU professor can read your fortune this season
Street Talk The Daily Evergreen went out on the street to find out what WSU and the world has to say.
Reporting by Sydney Brown Photos by Ryan Pugh Background Photo by Ben Schuh
What is your favorite way to de-stress after midterms? Keyla Palominos-Hernandez senior, English
« Definitely cook, and see a movie on Netflix or watch my favorite show “Grey’s Anatomy.”»
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WSU English professor Leslie Sena shares her experience as a fortune teller at the annual Haunted Palouse event on Monday morning in Avery Hall.
Volunteer tarot reader says interpreting painted cards involves physics because of shuffling patterns, intimacy with recipient was interested in volunteering, she agreed, Sena said. “Now I’m the person who’s been doing it the There’s more to WSU English instructor longest in our group,” Sena said. “I’m in charge Leslie Sena than meets the eye — and Sena of making sure it keeps going.” might say the same thing about you. Sena said she never went to Haunted Palouse For the past four years, Sena has volunteered as a participant but enjoys being a fortune teller. By Emma Ledbetter Evergreen reporter
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[Sena] is a great fortune teller, she brings a sense of calmness to it all. I think she’s the best fortune teller that we have. Catherine Cooper Haunted Palouse volunteer
as a fortune teller at Haunted Palouse, where “I don’t like super scary stuff, and it’s she reads tarot cards for eventgoers, she said. extremely scary,” Sena said. “[My students] know that I do stuff outside Fortune tellers can read fortunes in any way of reading their papers,” Sena said. See Leslie Sena Page 8 When Sena’s yoga instructor asked if she
freshman, bioengineering
« Probably hanging out with my friends ... We like to watch movies and just hang out. »
Estela Tetitla
sophomore, athletic training
« Sleep. Avoid everything that involves school. Literally anything but study. »
Roderick Cormier senior, humanities
« Probably cook ... I like to cook a lot of food and eat the food while I cook.»
Andrea Ruben
sophomore, zoology pre-med
« Cry. Wait, just kidding. Mostly watch TV or Netflix and sleep. »
Nicole Wong sophomore, sport science
« I like going to Dutch Bros. Eat, sleep, Netflix. Avoid school completely. »
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New runway distracts from government conspiracy Public records reveal sinister plan to develop latest aircraft as part of underground tunnel to Illuminati, Denver airport
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start,” Isha said. “There are no plans to make a tunnel system stretching all the way to Denver International Airport. The Illuminati is in no way involved, and I am certainly not a reptoid, nor any other form of lizard person.” Isha said if a “colony of reptoids” tried to resettle in the Pacific Northwest, they would not pick the Pullman-Moscow region. It’s too isolated, she said. She suggested searching Florida for reptoids instead, saying the warmer climate and absurd happenings would hide reptoids much better. “That is, if they existed,” she said. “Which they don’t. And even if they did, I wouldn’t be one of them.” The records also showed a section of blueprints titled “Bunkers,” but the majority of the plans were redacted. The Evergreen contacted the public records office for verification. Geoff Barns, who processed the blueprints, said he did not remember redacting those sections of the records. “That doesn’t look like our office at all,” Barns said. “Someone else must have gotten ahold of these.” The Evergreen will continue looking into this story as it develops.
paperwork went missing.” Kravitz, who first notified the Evergreen, said he saw a corkboard on the wall at the meeting. A red line linked the Pullman and Denver airports on a map, By Anna Young and Kravitz said he might have seen blurry Evergreen columnist images of “reptoids.” He said he overheard the participants of the meeting, many of whom he did not recognize, discussing “expanding the tunnel system.” He didn’t know what that meant, and he was removed from the premises before he could get more information. ince the Pullman-Moscow Airport “I did see Anita Joss in that meeting, reopened Thursday after a month though,” Kravitz said. “I thought she was of renovations, the improvements just another construction worker, but she have seemed straightforward. The longer was wearing the same black hooded cloaks runway can accommodate larger aircraft as everyone else in the room.” and opens the door for further upgrades in Joss appeared several times in the pubthe future. lic records. She filed the initial construcHowever, The Daily Evergreen received tion requests with the City of Pullman, public records Tuesday linking the bluefollowed by several denied requests. These prints for the Pullman-Moscow Airport to included a network of underground tunthose of Denver International Airport. nels, possibly the ones Kravitz overheard at “It may not seem like a big deal, but the meeting. it is,” former construction worker Regan Joss denied the Evergreen’s requests for Kravitz said. “I stumbled across a secret public comment. However, Raina Isha, who meeting about it one day and next thing claimed to be Joss’ supervisor, reached out Anna Young is a junior creative writing major FEIRAN ZOU | DAILY EVERGREEN ILLUSTRATION you know, I’m out of the job. I filed a law- to the Evergreen via phone call. from Helena, Montana. She can be contacted at Open your eyes, sheeple, the Illuminati is real and has officially landed here at the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport. “I want to dispel rumors before they suit over it weeks ago, but somehow the 335-1140 or by mint@dailyevergreen.com.
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Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ takes viewers on wild, emotional rollercoaster
Trigger Warning: The following poem contains suicidal elements and themes By Evelyn Kraft Evergreen contributor
I feel you. The way you show me how you care, I feel you. Trusting me with every fiber of your being, I feel you. When your words hit dangerously close to home, I feel you. I’ll take it in This may be the last sunset I see with you But I’ll take it in This may be the last night I’m with you But Ill breathe in the night air like none other. You were with me in the beginning But now were lost in the moment Together in an eternal minute Forever minus a few seconds All I want is you for the next few eternities. •I need you Everyone gets depressed. And when they do they take a pill, One pill two pill blue and yellow birdpoo pill A pill for every feeling, A fill for every feeling Three pills turns to fifteen pills Hit the ground with a thump Blacking out before you hit the ground Your last breath taken with a smile on your face
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“Us” has a lot to say about identity and childhood trauma. Director Jordan Peele really brings his A-game to this horror-comedy that manages to be as great as his debut, “Get Out.”
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Wait right here I’ll be back when tomorrow comes When the crows stop their screaming When the my broken mind is put back together like a puzzle for the wicked When the genocide is over I’ll be back when tomorrow comes Evelyn Kraft is a contributing writer from Troy, Idaho. They can be contacted at 335-1140 or by mint@dailyevergreen.com.
ferent people at once can be very difficult. I take my hat off to actor Winston Duke, who played Gabriel “Gabe” Wilson, the father figure in the film. He was able to act afraid and at the By Roos same time crack jokes. Helgesen That takes a special kind Evergreen columnist of talent. Be prepared for hair-raising thrills and chills when listening to Michael Abels’ beautifully suspenseful score in the next. This movie almost movie. It will keep you on begs you to watch it over the edge of your seat. and over again to see the So watch out. plot through a new lens Be careful when each time, which is the watching this movie as it secret recipe for the mak- might make you afraid of ings of a cult classic. your own shadow, while If you liked Jordan contemplating your own Peele’s first movie “Get existence in this world. Out” I would highly recBe careful of the mirommend “Us” as well. rors is all I will say. “Us” However, “Us” is more in the CUB Auditorium of your classical horror Friday and Saturday 6 thriller, while “Get Out” p.m. and 9 p.m., as well as was a horror comedy. It Sunday 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. still stays true to Peele’s Hope you won’t be brilliance and in some too afraid or your own ways may even supersede reflection. his first film. On top of this amazing Roos Helgesen is a freshplot, I have to give props man international business major from Anchorage, to all the actors in this movie. Playing the victim Alaska. He can be contactand the villain at the same ed at 335-1140 or by time, and being two difmint@dailyevergreen.com.
Mysterious doppelganger plot adds suspense while actors offer comedic levity, this columnist argues
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his movie made me scared of my own reflection. “Us” director Jordan Peele does it again in his second horror showing and his second time in the director’s chair. “Us” follows a family trying to enjoy a nice relaxing vacation together. When their lives are suddenly thrown into chaos by a mysterious doppelgangers trying to claim their place. This movie has all the classical horror tropes — blood, gore, gore, and more gore. But, the movie also follows the ambiguous nature of duality. Leaving many scenes up to interpretation on what occurs
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Director of ‘Nightfall’ wants to give Poe his happy ending By Emma Ledbetter Evergreen reporter
Actors at the Pullman Civic Theatre will perform Eric Coble’s play “Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe” starting Friday. The play is comprised of four of Poe’s most popular stories, “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Director Wil Blanchard said.
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a few jump scares and “killer” sound effects and music. The atmosphere of the performance will be dark and macabre, Blanchard said. Blake Taylor plays army medic turned crazed inmate Sante in “The Pit and the Pendulum.” Taylor said he has never acted in a play before but enjoys working with the more experienced actors and playing off them. “It was definitely an adventurous jump to get into and I really like the allin nerve-wrackingness of it all,” Taylor said. Of the nine cast members, six are
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Tickets available online; show will run evenings this weekend, 2 p.m. on Oct. 20, 27
That’s the great thing about community theater, anyone can be part of community theater ... It’s community. Blake Taylor
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“I’m a huge fan of Poe,” Blanchard said. “To be able to tell these stories — the way I’m trying to tell them — it’s kind of cool to watch the whole process.” The show centers around whether Poe is sane as he tells his stories, Blanchard said. “I wanted to finally give Poe a happy ending,” Blanchard said. “And if you want to know what that is, you have to come to the show.” For those seeking spooky Halloween entertainment, “Nightfall” will have
new to either acting or Pullman Civic Theatre, Blanchard said. The theater group is a volunteer-run organization and has ways for anyone to get involved, Blanchard said. “That’s the great thing about community theater, anyone can be part of community theater … It’s community,” said Mike Long, producer, and hair and makeup designer. Pullman Civic Theatre is hosting seven showings of “Nightfall.” Showtimes are at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26
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Wil Blanchard, director of “Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe,” discusses the upcoming show on Wednesday evening at the Pullman Civic Theater. and at 2 p.m. on Oct. 20 and 27. For the Oct. 24 showing, Pullman Civic Theatre is partnering with Friends of Neill Public Library for “book a ticket with a book.” Instead of paying admission to see the show, audience members can bring a new or gently used book, audiobook or DVD to benefit Neill Public Library.
The partnership goes well with the literary theme of the play, Blanchard said. Advance tickets are $12 for evening shows and $10 for Sunday matinees and can be purchased online, at Dissmores IGA, and at Neill’s Flowers and Gifts. Tickets are $15 at the door. Pullman Civic Theatre is at 1220 NW Nye St. behind Dissmores.
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Pencil theft will lead to violent communist revolution borrow a pencil. You, being the generous and giving soul you are, oblige but kindly ask them to return it after class. They agree. Class ends and perhaps it slips your mind that you gave away your pencil. It certainly slips theirs and you end up walking By Joel Kemegue home one pencil short. A pencil Evergreen columnist you owned. A pencil you could’ve used. And god forbid you don’t have another backup pencil. “Dude, I’ll give you back your pencil,” said shameless pencile all respect the stealing freshman Ike Michaels things we own and when asked, nonspecifically, most of us try to about these sorts of situations. respect what other people own, “Stop being passive-aggressive but what do you do when people about it.” don’t? This begs the question: Whose Across all schools, there has responsibility is it to see the pencil been a consistent problem where is returned by the end of class? not only will people steal pencils, Is it the innocent, magnanimous but the victims will be belittled pencil giver who was willing to and shamed for handling the sacrifice his only other pencil so theft of their property with the another student could get an edugravity it deserves. cation? We can’t keep acting like this. Or is it the lazy, stupid, forgetTheft is theft. ful pencil taker that nobody could Tell me if this scenario sounds ever love who apparently was able familiar to you: You’re in class to ask for a pencil and use it all doing written work when some- period but couldn’t be bothered to body next to you asks if they can return it?
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I think the answer is obvious. “I, legit, do not care,” said willfully ignorant sophomore Mike Ichaels. “I will give you a pencil if you shut up about it.” Answers like this don’t get to the root of the problem. First: A pack of 10 Ticonderoga pencils — supposedly “the world’s best pencil” — costs five dollars at The Bookie. Now, I’m not a math major, or currently passing my math class, but that’s 50 cents a pencil. Fifty cents of my own mother’s money. If I had 50 cents to throw away whenever I wanted, would I be in college? Second: It’s not just a matter of money; it’s a matter of respect. Of sanctity for other people’s possessions. May I now enter your house and take your fine china? Your dog? Your grandmother? Can I tell you you’re just “being passiveaggressive” and that “I will get you another grandmother?” Some might call this a false equivalency and an overreaction, but there’s nothing false or overreactive about this. We are going down a dangerous road. Pencilstealing is normalized and the brave souls who stand up to it are ridiculed.
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Where’s the decency anymore? Just give my pencil back. stormed the beaches. We’ll see You all laugh now, but when who’s laughing when we’re gone. what you hold precious is taken Or we could all just become from you, you’ll remember us who warned you. Us who stood for jus- communists now. tice and integrity in the classroom while everyone else was sitting Joel Kemegue is a freshman credown. Us who put down our lives ative writing major from Bellevue. to stand on the grounds of human He can be contacted at 335-1140 decency while Ticonderogaor by stealing heathens from Math 105 mint@dailyevergreen.com.
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they choose, but most do tarot cards, she said. At their tables, fortune tellers can see individuals or small groups. Sena said she has told fortunes for everyone from groups of junior high schoolers to retired farmers. “[Sena] is a great fortune teller, she brings a sense of calmness to it all,” said Catherine Cooper, also a fortune teller at Haunted Palouse and an associate professor in the School of the Environment. “I think she’s the best fortune teller that we have.” One of Sena’s most memorable groups at the event was a party of WSU graduate students who asked her how tarot reading works, she said. Sena said tarot reading is based in physics because shuffling the cards creates a pattern she can interpret when she reads the selected cards. “I said, ‘it’s just physics,’ and these were physics department graduate students,” Sena said. “They were like, ‘oh, that’s cool!’ … I thought they might
He is hoping that the exposure to new music Lowe has experienced will shape him into the best player he can be. “He’s always been one to work hard and achieve what he wants,” Jarvis said, “and conquers all to get things done.”
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the years here.” A person of that community is Lowe’s roommate and longtime friend Keenan Wright, senior wildlife ecology major, who clicked with Lowe through the love of drums. The two were so similar, and even started gigging
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just be like, ‘that’s crazy talk.’” Last year, Sena and the other Haunted Palouse fortune tellers saw over 400 people in four days, she said. Because of the high number of people, Sena said this year they will be charging a $1 fee for fortune telling, which will be donated to the Palouse Swim Team. “The challenge with fortune telling is the volume of the interactions you have,” Cooper said. “But the excitement is also the volume and all the people you get to interact with, and share little tiny moments about people’s lives.” Sena said she enjoys helping at Haunted Palouse because it is a massive community effort and the event is an opportunity to meet people. “If you’ve ever thought that you wanted to learn to read palms or something, there’s nothing better than having a steady stream of strangers with very low expectations, just to give it a try,” Sena said.
He’s seen some hardships, and he’s always chosen to make them something good. Keenan Wright
Lowe currently helps manage a couple of musical groups around Pullman, and he has been working with music marketing. The love of bringing people together through music has been a huge passion of his, because that was how it finally clicked for him. “It was just the people I surrounded myself with,” Lowe said. “We all wanted the same goal, and the same end result. It’s been nice finding that community over
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with each other. “He’s seen some hardships, and he’s always chosen to make them something good,” Wright said. “That’s really something I admire. He’s just a really cool dude.” When Lowe graduates after this last semester, he plans to move to the westside or California to pursue his music career. He wants to find groups of like-minded, artistically driven people
and produce music, join bands, write, work on music projects, and anything else he can get his hands on. Lowe is proud of what lessons he has learned here. He has loved the bands he has been a part of — North Paw and the Latin Jazz Band, currently — and the people he has met along the way. He said he was inspired by his mentors such as Jarvis, professor Brian Ward, famous jazz player Horace Alexander Young and Cuban graduate music student Raoul Blanca. Lowe said he hopes that now, as he pursues his future, that he can bring those lessons to the world. “Raoul always said, when you’re playing with others or going solo, play like it’s the last time that you’re ever going to play,” Lowe said. As his goodbye to his career at WSU, Lowe has his senior recital at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 12 at Kimbrough Music Building. Then, he is off to follow his music.
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Sleep deprivation | Continued from Page 4 strong pharmaceuticals,” Petterson said. “They’re not really effective in helping us get better sleep.” Even mild, over-the-counter medications can be risky for students to use without guidance. With help and the right adjustments, many sleep issues can be approached physiologically, without medication, Mehta said.
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getting enough sleep, then they are not being productive enough. This causes them to push through their body’s natural sleep cues and experience stress towards their sleep, Petterson said. “Part of it is because of the pressure they are putting on themselves to perform academically. Part of it is because of the fun we’re busy having, right?” Petterson said. College students commonly enjoy the freedom of doing whatever they want when they want, Petterson said, and it’s common for college students to stay up until 2 or 3 p.m. It is important for students to experience all that college life has to offer, but without moderation, it can hurt a student’s overall health, she said. “Sleep is a necessity, it’s not a luxury,” said Dr. Vinod C. Mehta, lung and sleep physician specialist at Pullman Regional Hospital. During sleep the body heals itself physically and strengthens itself mentally, Mehta said. Memory is also consolidated in sleep, he said. Onethird of our life is spent sleeping, and is crucial to the other two-thirds of our life, Unfortunately, when it comes down to sacrificing either activities or adequate sleep, student’s sleep hygiene is usually the one to suffer, Mehta said. “If our bodies were trained in the last couple of decades, then we’d think that six hours of sleep is great [...] But that’s antiquated and if you allowed yourself to catch up on the sleep you needed, after five days to two weeks, your body would start consistently sleeping more,” Petterson said. To correct their sleep difficulties, some may resort to using various sleep medications, but this can lead to unwanted effects, Petterson said. “Many of the adult clients I work with today are coming to me because they need help getting off really
Alcohol is difinitely a no-no, it should never be considered a sleep aid, and it leads to chronic insomnia Dr. Vinod Mehta sleep physician
“Melatonin can help some, but I don’t recommend people take melatonin on their own without a doctor’s help because it is over-the-counter and the doses are so wide,” Mehta said. It is also common for people to treat alcohol as a sleep medication; many adults have a glass of wine before bed and college students drink at parties late into the night, Mehta said. This is a poor habit to form, however, because alcohol will only get a person into superficial, stage one sleep before waking them up as the alcohol burns out of their system. “Alcohol is definitely a no-no, it should never be considered a sleep aid, and it leads to chronic insomnia,” Mehta said. Limiting alcohol, smoking and blue light exposure four hours before bed will contribute to better sleep. The mind needs time to unwind and these stimulants keep the brain too busy for sleep, Mehta said. Going to bed and waking up at the same time every day, regardless if it is the weekend or a weekday will help set a schedule for the body to follow.
“When we say seven to eight hours of sleep, we’re talking about seven to eight hours of quality sleep,” Mehta said. “If the quality is not there, then you will have to subject more time to allow yourself to sleep.” The problem for many students is staying up too late while still having to wake up early for classes and other obligations. This conflict between one’s biological circadian rhythm and the rest of the world can lead to compounding sleep debt, which is consistently getting less sleep than needed, Petterson said. “Between the ages of 16 and 25, the body clock is shifted later, so it’s actually quite normal for us to feel comfortable and confident and healthy going to sleep between 10-1 a.m.,” Petterson said. “The problem is then that we’re setting our alarms for 5:30 to get up to go do an ass-kicking workout or to get our schoolwork done and be prepared for the day or working jobs in addition to going to school.” Petterson recommended taking a first step towards bettering sleep by identifying one’s stressors, expectations and mentalities through reflection or journaling. As soon as a student feels that they are experiencing sleep deprivation, they should begin reflecting and changing their habits. “There’s a lot of talk about self-care in our culture right now, like pedicures and bubble baths, and I really believe that the ultimate care that you can provide yourself, your body, your mind and your heart, is getting proper sleep,” Petterson said. Although some sleep doctors advise against naps, they can be a great tool for students to unwind and reduce their overall stress, Petterson said. “Catch up on sleep,” Petterson said. “People have demonized naps and I am just like ‘No way man, I probably nap three days a week.’”
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Those who take French love it and they love the French film festival. It has really has become an institution
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there are new people that have lived here for a long time, they’re from France, and it’s the first time we’re meeting them. We get together, drink wine, and eat hors d’oeuvres.” Anne Perriguey, U of I senior instructor of French, is Sarah Nelson’s colleague and the main host of the French conversation group that meets monthly.
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“It gets a huge number of people in the door that haven’t been here before, which is always great, because I think there is something about this place that once you’ve been here for one movie, you’re kinda like ‘oh, I should go there for more,’” said Jamie Hill, operations director of the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre. The French Film Festival welcomes a blend of WSU and U of I students. All of the films have subtitles and admission is free for students with school ID, Hill said. For community members, tickets are $5 per film or $10 for a pass to all four films. The Kenworthy hosts all kinds of performing arts events from livestreamed performances from London and New York to community film screenings. “Even for Pullman people, I know it’s far away, but our movies are seven bucks which is still better
than going to The Village,” Hill said. Perriguey was also present at the showing of One of four French films chosen for this year’s “See You Up There” and she encouraged students festival will play at 7 p.m. on Oct. 1, 8, 15, and 22, to form conversation groups on campus as well according to kenworthy.org. as for community members to join the monthly “In a perfect world, we’d all be able to go on French gatherings if interested. multiple trips abroad, but I would say that 99 perThough the French departments at both U of I cent of the people here have not been to France, so and WSU are small, there is a strong passion for it is nice to watch people get at least a taste of that the French language, art and history here in the experience,” Hill said. Palouse, Sarah Nelson said. For more information on the Palouse French “Those who take French love it and they love Film Festival and other Kenworthy events, visit the French film festival. It has really become an institution, and they’ll ask about it at the begin- kenworthy.org. For information on the Monthly ning of each year,” Sarah Nelson said.
French conversation group email Anne Perriguey
The festival provides films that are not always at perrigue@uidaho.edu.
in a contemporary setting so that viewers can get a perspective of how life looked at different periods in French history. “See You Up There” was likewise chosen to show France amid war and the Roaring
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Molly Deen, eighth grader at Lincoln Middle School, says school officials have employed effective strategies to decrease the havoc and keep hallways clear. The hallways are filled with “mobs” of students in the morning. efit from more space, he said. Public Schools communications The school district will have “It comes down to student coordinator, said the crowded three items on the ballot during learning and having opportuni- hallways may heighten anxiety the election season in February. One of them is a $15 million to renovate and expand It’s important to support opportunities bond the middle school. for our schools to grow so our Grow said the expansion would include a larger comteachers and students can strive mons area seating around 400 resident Cheryl Oliver students to revert to a twolunch schedule and up to eight ties for space,” Grow said. “We in some students. currently don’t have enough “Kids linger in here longer new classrooms, including a science labs for all our kids. than usual sometimes after the few science labs. The expansion would be able to accommodate Shannon Focht, Pullman bell has rung,” Fulfs said.
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her to communicate with them and get help in class if she needs it. The smallest student count in all her classes is about 18 students. The hallways are filled with “mobs” of students at the beginning of school as they chat with one another waiting for their first class, she said. “After a few minutes, everyone is in their classes and it’s easier to get to your class,” Deen said. He said one of his theories for why the school has more students than anticipated is because of the emergence of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories. As new people move into the community, more kids show up in the city’s schools. “It could just be because Pullman is getting bigger,” he said. “More people are moving to Pullman.” The school added a third lunch period to a commons area that can hold roughly 250 students, Grow said. The school also implemented separate dismissal bells that dismiss a portion of the total student body at the end of the day. Deen said the strategies the school uses to lessen havoc in the hallways are effective in keeping the hallways clear during the day. “I think it works pretty well,” Deen said. “It could get to too much but not yet.” Grow said there are no empty classrooms and one teacher does not even have a classroom. This “traveling teacher” carts his materials from room to room to accommodate for the abundance of students at the school. The school has the correct number of staff for its students so they are still able to teach classes, but would ben-
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Poverty | Continued from Page 3 “[They] are kind of on that financial edge,” he said. “They are one or two missed payments or medical bills or car accidents away from actually becoming a very low-income situation and possibly risking their housing or other needs.” He said there has been a decrease in vehicle transportation, which means more residents are walking or riding a bike to their destinations. The poverty rate in Whitman County has dropped from 33 percent in 2015, Guyett said. “Right now we’re at 27.5 percent,” he said. “The good news is that that rate has gone down. Whether we can take any credit for that remains to be seen.” Guyett said it is common for low-income households to have a higher rate of obesity. High carbohydrate and low nutrition foods are more affordable, he said. “That’s not because they eat too much, it’s because of the kind of food that’s eaten on a regular basis,” he said. CAC is focusing on getting healthier food as well as giving demonstrations on how to prepare healthy food, Guyett said. Around 55 percent of households rent their property rather than own it, he said. “A lot of those folks are in student housing, but we still do have a lot of folks who are liv-
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ing in rental housing,” he said. “[They’re] really struggling to pay that rent because our rent prices are so high here in Pullman.” Guyett said 13 households,
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Jeff Guyett, Executive Director of the Community Action Center, urges the community to take action to provide nutritional needs and housing assistance to those in need in the Whitman County area on Tuesday afternoon in the Edith Hecht meeting room at the Neill Public Library. around 30 total residents, needed emergency shelter last year. He said most residents will not see people sitting outside with cardboard signs saying they are homeless. There are residents who will stay in their car or with friends because they have nowhere else to go. “Homelessness in Whitman County is very invisible,” he said. Nathan Weller, chair of the Poverty Awareness Task Force, said the task force is a group of public and private organizations who work together to address challenges involving poverty in the community. The task force consists of faith organizations and residents, he said. It helped create the warming center which
around 850 students. Pullman resident Cheryl Oliver, whose child is enrolled at Lincoln, said she is involved with parent activities at the school. She said her child has never had any issues with overcrowding at the school but realizes the importance to invest in schools. “It’s important to support opportunities for our schools to grow so our teachers and students can strive,” Oliver said.
opened last year. Weller said the shelter housed a veteran who served in Iraq who was underdressed for the weather last Christmas Eve. He said the man was able to sleep through the night before leaving early in the morning when the shelter closed. However, he said the warming shelter will not be open this year. CAC runs a Community Relief Fund that provides emergency non-restrictive funding for individuals in the community. Weller said money from the fund was used to house around 95 people in 2014. He said the fund was used a few years ago to fund a veteran’s bus ticket back to his family in California.
“The best part about that is that family sent a letter to [CAC] thanking them for their assistance,” he said. Poverty is a complex subject, but people in the community are working together to address it, he said. “We have to be more agile with how we respond to the needs. We’re so far behind the curve,” he said. “It’s going to take kind of a new way of thinking, I think, to address some of these issues.” Stone said the next Brown Bag will be from 12-1 p.m. on Nov. 19 at the Neill Public Library. She said guest Ashley Vaughn from CAC will be speaking about food security efforts in Whitman County.
Records said there have been concerns lately about how the city has been communicating with residents. The council needs to figure out how they can provide consistency in the way they provide information to the public, he said. In the push for communicating with the public they discussed the new website the city is working on and the legal limits of what the councilmembers are allowed to talk about with residents. Councilmember Brandon Chapman said having a more accessible website will help the city communicate with residents. “Sometimes you need to dig for some information, but that’s typical for government entities, there’s a lot of information trying to get out,” Councilmember Nathan Weller said. Chapman said he does not intend on legislating requirements for communication. There is a call from the community for improved transparency, he said, and as a councilmember he felt the need to address that. The council also recognized seven Pullman Police officers by presenting them with awards for their recent accomplishments. Gary Jenkins, Pullman chief of police, said the officers addressed three situations in which human lives were at risk. He said officers responded and because of their actions three deaths were likely prevented.
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‘It’s part of the unintended consequences of HIPAA’ Health privacy law causes issues for families of students, elders By Katie Fairbanks The Daily News
Last Thanksgiving, the University of Washington’s Husky Marching Band was traveling to the Apple Cup in Pullman when one of the band’s six charter buses slid off the highway and rolled onto its side. As families of those on board struggled to get information, their worries were made worse when many were told information couldn’t be released because of the federal health information privacy law HIPAA. Their problem was familiar to Stuart Hunt, a Camano Island resident who has spent the last 15 years working to change the law after being denied information when his elderly mother was hospitalized in Longview. “It’s part of the unintended consequences of HIPAA,” he said. “It impacts millions of people.” The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets national standards to protect individual health information. Washington state also has its own health privacy law. Hospitals, clinics and other agencies often interpret HIPAA too conservatively and deny family members information about patients, Hunt, 71, said. Hospital officials say the law is complex and its overall goal is to protect patients. Following the UW Marching Band bus crash last year, Hunt began working with band director Brian McDavid to push for change. Hunt said he wants to create a HIPAA emergency protocol form that would be filled out by patients and gives hospitals and other facilities authority to release certain information to listed contacts. The form would remove liability while allowing families and friends to more easily receive information, he said. Hunt said he’s contacted U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell about his proposal but hasn’t gotten very far. “I feel like we’re being shucked off,” he said. “It doesn’t feel like it’s going to move the ball down the field.” Hunt’s efforts to implement
the emergency protocol stem from his own experience in 2003. His 91-year-old mother, Grace Hunt, was admitted to St. John Medical Center after a fall. Despite multiple previous visits, hospital staff, citing HIPAA, wouldn’t tell him anything about her condition. He drove from Camano Island to Longview the next day after hearing second-hand his mother was going into the operating room. Hunt arrived after she came out of surgery for a broken ankle. She died seven weeks later, but Hunt continues to seek answers about HIPAA. Hunt pushed for months to change the law on the state and federal level to make it easier for families to get information about loved ones. In December 2004, the Washington State Hospital Association announced it would ask all state hospitals to disclose to families or close friends the location and condition of patients unable to tell hospitals their preference. But Hunt told The Daily News Wednesday that little has changed in the last 15 years, as was made clear by the problems that followed the bus crash last fall. “It would only take one senator, one experience like we have had, and they would question and act as we are,” he said. “I honestly do not understand why it takes a tragedy to make a change.” HIPAA confusion When Hunt’s efforts began, HIPAA was still new. The legislation was first passed in 1996, but went into effect in 2003. Although the rule is more familiar to those in and outside of the healthcare industry, Hunt said it is often wrongly applied. Longview resident Claudia Shepard told The Daily News a veterinarian’s office even told her she couldn’t see the vaccination records for her new cat because of HIPAA. HIPAA covers health insurance plans, healthcare clearinghouses and health care providers including: hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, pharmacies, dentists, behavioral health professionals, emergency medical technicians (EMT) and social workers. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, police and fire departments (except for EMTs and ambulances), non-health insurance plans, employers and educational institutions that aren’t also a hospital or
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The federal health information privacy law HIPAA creates many unintended consequences, especially for younger and older demographics that it covers. Some hospitals have even made policies to not release any information to avoid the possibility of receiving fines. clinic are not covered. This doesn’t mean these entities aren’t subject to other privacy laws or their own privacy policies, however, they are not required to follow HIPAA guidelines. HIPAA allows hospitals to disclose basic “directory’ information, such as a patient’s location and general condition, to visitors and callers, according to the US. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The patient can ask the hospital to restrict information, who the facility releases information to, or can opt out of being included in the directory. Beyond the directory information, HIPAA also allows health care providers to give information to a patient’s family or friends in an emergency or if the patient is incapacitated, as long as they determine it’s in the patient’s best interest, according to DHHS. However, many hospitals and other health care providers decline to share any information, even if it’s allowed under HIPAA, Hunt said. “What WSHA and all hospitals are all hiding behind is the fear that if they make a mistake they will be fined up to $250,000, so
the instruction is not to say anything,” he said. Zosia Stanley, associate general counsel for the Washington State Hospital Association, said hospitals should provide directory information unless there is a reason not to. Hospitals not disclosing information when they legally could are likely instances of a problem with HIPAA education, she said. “HIPAA has a lot of nuances,” she said, “It takes education and experience to be comfortable with the permissive sharing of information.” Federal law mandates HIPAA training for all hospital staff, Stanley said. However, there may be a need to provide ongoing education about the details of HIPAA, she said. “I think providers and facilities want to be thoughtful, which I think can mean they are more protective than the law would permit,” she said. Common Sense HIPAA can also cause issues outside of an emergency, said Longview doctor Rich Kirkpatrick, owner of Kirkpatrick Family Care. Many elderly patients or patients
with dementia tell him not to share their information when it may be in their best interest, he said. “Sometimes they just don’t want you to tell anybody,” he said. “So we’re prohibited from telling people, which prevents family members from adjusting and being more understanding.” Kirkpatrick said problems can also arise when the clinic can’t reach a patient with urgent information. The threat of being accused of violating HIPAA, even if a health care provider is innocent, can prevent them from legally sharing information, he said. “I think people feel intimidated by the size of the penalties,” Kirkpatrick said. “I feel like you have to abandon common sense because the penalties are so awful.” Hunt said he’s not asking to overturn or change HIPAA, and proposed the emergency protocol form with the intent to protect privacy. “We’re offering a solution for those who have responsibility for people under their charge,” he said. “I believe that Washington can solve this. We’re not going to quit.”
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