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Student Feature Podcast: ‘It’s a lot of experiences that we have as women within these paintings’

By Hanna Alexis Yulo, Reporter April 8, 2023

BFA student, Fia Tart, discusses four out of the series of eight paintings making up her BFA thesis project, Personal Progress. Through the use of medieval and modern iconography, Tart creates works of...

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EWU’s Drag on Ice Expands Tradition in the Midst of Recent Anti-Drag Legislation Across America

By Samuel Cash and Cannon Barnett April 3, 2023

  Cheers were off the charts. EWU’s Drag on Ice was a hit as tickets sold out quickly. Hundreds of people lined up at the doors to the University Recreation Center to grab seats for the annual...

Student Feature Podcast: The Ghost of Streeter Hall Stars in Student Film

By Hanna Alexis Yulo, Reporter March 13, 2023

Film students, Jasper Ramsey and Caden Petersen, sit down with The Easterner to discuss their mockumentary film featuring Lucky, the ghost of Streeter Hall. 

Student Feature: Thomas Walters

Student Feature: Thomas Walters

By Samuel Cash, Reporter March 8, 2023

Thomas Walters, an EWU film student, is creating two documentaries to raise awareness about different problems in Spokane. His first documentary is about a student fighting wildfires and follows the story...

New EWU Program to Support Students Recovering from Addiction

New EWU Program to Support Students Recovering from Addiction

By Cannon Barnett, Reporter March 7, 2023

Eagles for Recovery is a new program at Eastern Washington University created to support students battling addiction and their allies. This year, EWU’s Counseling and Wellness team received a...

Photo taken by Caden Davis

EWU Theatre Program Presents Twelfth Night the Musical

By Samuel Cash, Reporter March 4, 2023

The EWU Theatre program presents Twelfth Night the Musical, an adaptation by Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub, music and lyrics written by Shaina Taub. The original story is a Shakespearian romantic comedy...

Photo courtesy of photographer Bridget Mayfield

Eagles Aim for Madness in March

By Luke Pickett, Reporter March 3, 2023

The 2022-23 regular season completed Monday, as the Eastern Washington men’s and women’s basketball programs look forward to the Big Sky Conference Tournament in Boise, ID, starting Saturday.  Men’s...

Ash Gordon with her repoussé rendition of The Swing. Photo by Cannon Barnett, edited by Emily Powers

Rococo Repoussé: Unique Student Artwork Displayed in JFK Library

By Cannon Barnett, Reporter March 3, 2023

On display in the JFK Library from Feb. 3 until Feb. 24 were 24 repoussé depictions of Rococo-era art created by Eastern Washington University Art History students.  Students were assigned to research...

EWU Basketball Prepares for Big Sky Tournament

EWU Basketball Prepares for Big Sky Tournament

By Isaiah Gessner, Editor-in-chief February 27, 2023

Only three things in this crazy world are guaranteed: death, taxes, and Eagles basketball getting hot as March Madness quickly approaches.  With the Big Sky Conference tournament swiftly approaching...

Records Reveal Details on Hazing Allegations that Led to Phi Delta Theta Suspension

Records Reveal Details on Hazing Allegations that Led to Phi Delta Theta Suspension

By Cannon Barnett, Reporter February 23, 2023

As soon as new members at Phi Delta Theta signed their membership contracts, they were led upstairs to a wall with a tarp over it. None of them knew what was going on.  “Everyone has had to do this,...

The ASEWU Plans to Change the Student Constitution

The ASEWU Plans to Change the Student Constitution

By Samuel Cash, Reporter February 22, 2023

The ASEWU student constitution is in the works for a rewrite and it could mean a few things for students.  The Associated Students of Eastern Washington University (ASEWU) is the Eastern Washington...

Photo taken by Photographer Emily Powers

Eagles are Soaring under Second Year Head Coach

By Luke Pickett, Reporter February 21, 2023

If there’s one moment that may have turned around the season for the Eastern Washington University men’s basketball team, it may have come in a hotel conference room in Brookings, SD following a devastating...

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