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With news coverage spanning the course of the year, The Easterner's staff decided on the top 10 stories that affected the campus. Each story had its own impact on the EWU community, whether it be a massive snowfall, looming budget cuts or the election of the nation's first black president. While being diverse in their subject matter, they all either influenced or were influenced by Eastern Washington University, its campus and its students. Read more...
I feel this was a great year for The Easterner and its sports section. In my seven years at EWU out of Honolulu, I never envisioned working for the school newspaper my senior year. Working at The Easterner has taught me the essence of sports writing - it's not brainstorming and writing stories, it's the journey to getting the story completed. Read more...
In the spirit of barefaced pomposity, I'm going to use this, my last op-ed at The Easterner, to carry on a longstanding tradition. College paper editors have long exploited their transitory grip on a public forum to impart last words of wisdom and/or so-long-suckers sentiment before graduation. Read more...
Most helpful student adviser Responses such as "nobody" or "the EWU catalogue" were most abundant in this category, but others gave props to those who've pointed them toward scholastic success. Dr. Chris Valeo, assistant professor of English, was one of three runners up. Read more...
As the 2008-09 academic year at Eastern Washington University draws to a close, the students and faculty at the university look back to which news stories and events were most present in their minds. Despite the myriad of incidents that took place over the course of 10 months, there were two topics that were at the forefront: budget cuts and layoffs. Read more...
A kayaking accident last Friday took the life of Dr. Anthony "Tony" Oertling, professor and chair of EWU's department of chemistry and biochemistry. According to local news reports, Oertling and four others were floating on Idaho's St. Joe River near Marble Creek when the 54-year-old got out of his kayak to swim to shore after experiencing troubles with his craft.
Entering this, my third senior year at EWU, expectations for a diploma and a job finally seemed within my grasp. Looking to turn in my career-student status, I was eager, and completely ignorant of what lay ahead of me. As an English, not journalism, major I found that writing for the school paper was not the cake-walk I had expected it to be.
As a college student, I appreciate that the university I attend respects my independence and choice-making skills enough to provide knowledge about so many issues, and about multiple sides of those issues. I'm grateful that I'm given the choice to receive health care from Rockwood Clinic just down the street from campus, or Planned Parenthood, a few blocks further.
Best class you've attended this year EWU chose a variety of English courses as the best classes. Some of the top vote-getters included "Teaching English in Secondary Schools" with Stephen Hoyt, English "Introduction to Literature" with Liza Wilcox and "Evil and Supernatural American Literature" with Dr.
Kim Exner-Rosenbach played two years on the Canadian national volleyball team and joined three European pro leagues, but nothing, she said, compared to her Hall of Fame career at Eastern Washington University. "The girls from Eastern and I still talk all the time about how no team in history will ever have what we had," said Rosenbach.
Life - as Eastern knows it