ASEWU: 2019 in review
By Jeremy Burnham, Managing Editor
June 10, 2019
ASEWU officers are wrapping up their final duties before the school year ends and another group takes over. That is, except for Connor Attridge. ASEWU duties Attridge is the outgoing technology advancement officer and the incoming vice president. Attridge, and others in ASEWU, perform various dut...
Angela Jones participates in Millennium Leadership Initiative
By Marco Vargas, Reporter
June 10, 2019
Filed under News
EWU Vice President for Student Affairs Angela Jones was in Washington, D.C. from May 31 to June 4 as one of 29 higher education leaders selected to be national participants in the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ 2019 Millennium Leadership Initiative. In the past 20 years, the progr...
Single use plastics discussed at PUB
By Karolyn Wambold, Reporter
June 10, 2019
Filed under News
The usage of single-use plastics has been a heavily publicized issue in Washington state in recent years. There has been a ban in Seattle on single-use plastic straws to help decrease plastic pollution since 2018. Washington has been trying to expand the ban on plastic straws across the whole state...
Phi Delta Theta fights ALS
By Karolyn Wambold, Reporter
June 10, 2019
Washington Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta, became the No. 1 chapter in the U.S. for fundraising toward helping those with Lou Gehrig’s disease, also known as ALS. Over the last 28 years of being founded, Phi Delta Theta has raised over $87,000 toward those with ALS. The members of the fraternity ran ...
ASEWU helps students register to vote
By Marco Vargas, Reporter
May 31, 2019
Filed under News
ASEWU held a voter registration table on May 21 to register students to vote in local, state and federal elections. Angélica García-Macías, council representative of legislative affairs and a senior studying political science, led the event. About 20 people registered to vote. According to the U....
ROTC’s Hennig wins Armed Person of the Year
By Marco Vargas, Reporter
May 31, 2019
Sgt. 1st Class Jason Hennig, an instructor in EWU’s Reserve Officer Training Corps program, was named Greater Spokane Armed Forces Person of the Year. Hennig was presented the award during the 63rd annual Let Freedom Ring ceremony at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane earlier this month. Hennig, who was als...
STA Swoop Loop comes to Cheney
By Karolyn Wambold, Reporter
May 31, 2019
Spokane Transit Authority has added a new bus route to Cheney called Swoop Loop. The Cheney-only bus route starts and ends at the PUB. STA began offering the new route, also known as bus route 67, on May 19 as a way to give students and residents another option for getting around Cheney and the EWU ca...
Military sexual trauma linked to posttraumatic stress
By Sam Jackson, Copy Editor
May 30, 2019
Filed under Arts & Features, Carousel, News
While military post-traumatic stress disorder is commonly associated with experiences from war, military sexual trauma is also a leading cause of PTSD. Some EWU student veterans wake up with night sweats, recall unpleasant memories, feel tense and avoid reminders of traumatic events—all symptoms of...
Heavy rainfall causes leak in Cheney Hall
By Michael Brock, Editor in Chief
May 29, 2019
Filed under News
EWU senior Nikko Bowers was in Cheney Hall with a couple classmates on May 16 when he saw water coming in under the engineering room door from the hallway. Five to 10 minutes later, when it started raining harder, he noticed more water running under the door. “I looked out there and there was w...
Barb Richey selected as new VP for University Advancement
By Marco Vargas, Reporter
May 24, 2019
Filed under News
Barb Richey, the former vice president of marketing for Spokane Teachers Credit Union, has been named EWU’s new vice president for University Advancement and executive director of the EWU Foundation. From 1999-2007, Richey was EWU’s director of development and then associate vice president for ...
The Easterner & ASEWU connect media and politics
By Sam Jackson, Copy Editor
May 24, 2019
Disclosure: The Easterner was involved in the event that this story covers. The writer of the story, Sam Jackson, was not involved in the event in any way. The Easterner’s editor-in-chief, Michael Brock, and managing editor Jeremy Burnham did not participate in the editorial process for this sto...
Green Dog wins EWU Eagles’ Nest Pitch Contest
By Marco Vargas, Reporter
May 23, 2019
Green Dog, one of the five teams in the Eagles’ Nest Pitch Contest finals, stole the show on May 17, winning $2,500 for first place and $2,000 for winning the people’s choice award which is decided by the audience members. This was the third annual business pitch competition put on by the EWU Cent...
June 13, 2019
EWU graduating seniors reflect on college
June 10, 2019
Graduation is an exciting time for seniors, and an important milestone symbolizing a life accomplishment. EWU...
June 10, 2019
ASEWU officers are wrapping up their final duties before the school year ends and another group takes...
Angela Jones participates in Millennium Leadership Initiative
June 10, 2019
EWU Vice President for Student Affairs Angela Jones was in Washington, D.C. from May 31 to June 4 as...
