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Annual symposium offers  professional opportunities

Annual symposium offers professional opportunities

April 2, 2014

By Rebekah Frank EWU graduate student Betsy White has been preparing her research projects since fall quarter 2013 in order to have her best work presented during the 17th annual symposium on May 13-14. The...

Late winter snow causes waterfowl numbers to soar during spring time

Late winter snow causes waterfowl numbers to soar during spring time

By Wilson Criscione April 2, 2014

Pools of water scatter throughout the Cheney fields in springtime, and drivers cruising by can spot anything from ducks and swans fueling up for their northern journey to bald eagles flying overhead hunting...

Dumoulin and Meyer steal the show in EWUs Macbeth

Dumoulin and Meyer steal the show in EWU’s ‘Macbeth’

By Galen Rock, Sports Editor March 13, 2014

  In a play that features death, witchcraft and betrayal, you would think it would be hard for the performers to rise above the script. But that is exactly what happened in the EWU Theatre Program’s...

Apples fall far from the tree

Apples fall far from the tree

By Wilson Criscione, News Writer March 12, 2014

Elena Calderon had a choice. She could either stay in the orchards in Mattawa, Wash., and pick fruit with her family, or she could face the challenges that being an undocumented student brings, such...

Governor signs state Dream Act

Governor signs state Dream Act

By Wilson Criscione, News Writer March 5, 2014

On Feb. 26, Gov. Jay Inslee signed Washington state’s version of the Dream Act, which will allow undocumented immigrants to receive the state need grants they need to pay for college. Six EWU students...

Freedom Rights takes the stage on Feb. 27.

’Le Gurlz’ show evokes struggles, fun and glitter

By Rebekah Frank, Eagle Life Writer March 5, 2014

Drag queen Nova Kaine brought her “Le Gurlz” to EWU to dance, sing, educate, have fun and raise funds for the Spokane AIDS Network. During the educational workshop in the PUB on Feb. 27, Kaine...

Illustration by Elsa Schmitz

EWU Pokémon masters reside in house of cards

By Kate Daniel, Eagle Life Editor March 1, 2014

It was the final round of the tournament and Alex Koch had been teetering on the edge of his seat in the local Denny’s restaurant for approximately 30 minutes, anxiously awaiting the chance to...

Shine away your SAD-ness this winter

Shine away your SAD-ness this winter

By Wilson Criscione, News Writer February 27, 2014

As the university prepares for the end of winter quarter, the faint promise of sunlight begins to flicker a little stronger each day, and for some students, this will provide them with some much-needed...

Minimum wage increase produces a minimal affect on student workers

Minimum wage increase produces a minimal affect on student workers

By Aaron Bocook, News Writer February 26, 2014

Set back from the sunshine that floods the street-front windows of his business, Douglas Labar moves quickly alongside his employees. Labar owns The Mason Jar, a bakery and bistro in Cheney. It is one...

Senior guard Aubrey Ashenfelter drives to the basket against Southern Utah.

Eagle women go 2-0 in Big Sky battles

By Elohino Theodore February 26, 2014

Eastern makes it's mark in close games The Eastern women’s basketball team won two close Big Sky games on Feb. 20 and 24 against Southern Utah and Portland State. “I think that as a team we’re...

Students lost in car accident remembered at Eastern

Students lost in car accident remembered at Eastern

By Jane Martin, Editor-in-Cheif February 26, 2014

The EWU community lost Nancy Zepeda and Ashley Gonzales, both EWU students, when the Volkswagen Jetta they were riding in with two other students collided with a semi just south of Colfax, Wash., on Feb....

Jumper leaps toward 2014 Big Sky track qualifications

Jumper leaps toward 2014 Big Sky track qualifications

By Erika Meyer, Sports Writer February 25, 2014

Junior jumper Phil Puccino came to Eastern as a walk-on and worked his way to being one of the best jumpers in school history. “[Puccino] is our jumps captain and he is the core of our men’s jumping...

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