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