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The independent, student-run news site of Eastern Washington University.

The Easterner
The independent, student-run news site of Eastern Washington University.

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Police Beat

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
June 1, 2018

Police Beat: Looking back on 2018

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
May 26, 2018
Illustration by Gail Powers for The Easterner

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
May 16, 2018
Preacher Keith Darrel talks to a crowd of students outside of the JFK Library. Darrell's unconventional style of preaching Christianity draws him plenty of attention when he preaches at college campuses around the region | Bailey Monteith for The Easterner

Warmer weather brings hotter tempers to EWU

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
May 3, 2018
Graphic by Gail Powers for The Easterner

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
April 25, 2018
Police Beat

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
April 22, 2018
Graphic by Gail Powers for The Easterner

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
April 14, 2018
Illustration by Gail Powers for The Easterner

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
April 5, 2018

The Easterner spends the night with the EWU Police Department

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
April 5, 2018
Illustration by Gail Powers for The Easterner

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
March 14, 2018
Students play corn hole outside Tawanka. March is National Nutrition Month and this week EWU is celebrating Nutrition week | Josh Fletcher for The Easterner

EWU is going further with food during Nutrition Week

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
March 14, 2018
Right: John Collett in the "All aboard" segment with the voice of EWU athletics and the Spokane Empire, Larry Weir. Collett was a TV sports anchor/reporter for six years | Photo courtesy of KHQ

Former KHQ sports anchor finds his passion teaching at EWU

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
March 14, 2018
Graphic by Gail Powers for The Easterner

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
March 8, 2018
Illustration by Gail Powers for The Easterner

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
February 28, 2018
Students at Cheney High School hold a rally outside by the front doors. They, along with students all over the country, have staged walkouts protesting gun violence and school shootings | Photo courtesy of the Spokesman-Review

Cheney High School students walk out in protest to gun violence

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
February 28, 2018
Cars are coated in snow during Wednesday's snow storm. Student's were upset to find that EWU did not cancel class like Cheney Public Schools did | Mckenzie Ford for The Easterner

Students take to social media to gripe over lack of snow day

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
February 21, 2018
Illustration by Gail Powers for The Easterner

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
February 14, 2018
EWU announced plans to expand their Spokane campus for the growing field of STEM students | Rendering courtesy of Michael Green Architecture

New EWU Spokane building coming in 2020

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
February 8, 2018
Illustration by Gail Powers for The Easterner

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
January 31, 2018
Jace Bylenga has been hired as EWU's Activist in Residence. Before working for EWU, Bylenga worked to stop the use of oil trains in the state of Washington | Photo courtesy of Sherri Urann

Activist brings decades of experience to EWU students

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
January 31, 2018

Sexual assault reported on campus

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
January 24, 2018
Illustration by Gail Powers for The Easterner

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
January 24, 2018
Dietician Natalie Stein teaches students how to incorporate more fruits and vegetables in their diet. The Dining Services offered students free salads in the URC last week | Josh Fletcher for The Easterner

Campus Dietician teaches salads on-the-go

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
January 24, 2018
Graphic by Gail Powers

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
January 17, 2018
Mckenzie Ford for The Easterner

A nose for crime

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
January 17, 2018
Graphic by Gail Powers

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
January 13, 2018

Briefs

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
January 10, 2018
Illustrations by Gail Powers

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
November 29, 2017
Students study at the Spokane Academic Library. EWU students can use this space any time of the day or night they would like | Photo courtesy of Spokane Academic Library Facebook page

Riverpoint campus library now open for 24/7 access

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
November 29, 2017
Illustration by Gail Powers for The Easterner

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
November 16, 2017
Illustration by Gail Powers for The Easterner

Police Beat

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
November 12, 2017
Registered dietitian Natalie Stein was recently hired as EWU's Manager of Nutrition and Sustainability. Stein offers free diet consultations for students, potentially saving them hundreds of dollars | Photo courtesy of EWU Dining Services

New campus dietitians helps students learn food from fiction

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
November 2, 2017
An EWU Pay-by-App parking meter | The Easterner Archives

Pay-by-app parking targets convenience

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
October 25, 2017
The Manhattan Beach Police Department displays a memorial for Rachael Parker, a Cheney High School graduate, was one of 58 people killed at a concert in Las Vegas two weeks ago | Photo courtesy Patrick T. Fallon for the LA Times

Local teacher remembers student who died in Vegas shooting

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
October 19, 2017
Rachel Parker | Credit Manhattan Beach Police Department

Vegas tragedy has local ties

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
October 5, 2017
KHQ ‘s Hayley Guenthner sits with Donavon Culps in Spokane County Jail on Sept. 18. Culps has been charged with the murder of Cameron Smith | Photo courtesy of KHQ

In his own words

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
October 4, 2017
Students hold signs and pass out yers in between classes. Their goal is to have more gender-neutral showers on campus. | Andrew Watson for The Easterner

Students demonstrate for gender-neutral showers

By Josh Fletcher, News Editor
September 29, 2017
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