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Looking Back: Parking fees, fines set for increase

Looking Back: Parking fees, fines set for increase

October 18, 2019
Looking Back: Saving Homecoming!

Looking Back: Saving Homecoming!

October 18, 2019
Looking Back: Campus housing applications increase for fall quarter

Looking Back: Campus housing applications increase for fall quarter

October 18, 2019
Meet The Easterner's 2019-20 Staff

Meet The Easterner’s 2019-20 Staff

October 1, 2019
The usage of single-use plastics has been a heavily publicized issue in Washington state in recent years.

[PHOTO] Single use plastics discussed at PUB

June 10, 2019
Senior Jordan Stevenson (left), Director of SAIL Stacey Reece (center) and junior safety Dehonta Hayes were The Easterner's first Eags of the Year.

The Easterner’s 2018-19 Eags of the Year

June 5, 2019
opinion

Editorial: Dear EWU staff, stay out of our elections

June 5, 2019
opinion

Editorial: Ending the stigmas surrounding mental health

May 8, 2019
The current site of the Palouse Prairie Restoration Project. This 140 acres of EWU-owned land has been used as wheat cultivation since 1953.

EWU begins Prairie Restoration Project

May 8, 2019
THE DIE IS CAST. Athletes clench their fist and raise them aloft in a vote to prohibit black athletes from displaying the same political gesture in football, basketball, track and baseball games. A code of conduct relating to the basic appearance and conducts of all the athletes was discussed by the athletes in a meeting last Wednesday. | Easterner, Vol. 19, No. 32, April 30, 1969

Looking Back: Black athletes challenge standards

May 2, 2019
The Easterner launches 'Eag of the Year' campaign

The Easterner launches ‘Eag of the Year’ campaign

May 1, 2019
ASEWU and The Easterner to host discussion panel on journalism and politics

ASEWU and The Easterner to host discussion panel on journalism and politics

April 30, 2019
NEW HEAD COACH BRENT WOOTEN and small college All-American end Dave Svendsen confer in the new Woodward stadium on strategy for the upcoming season. Wooten will take over control of a team which finished second in last year's NAIA national championships. |The Easterner, Vol. 19,Fall, September 22, 1968

Looking Back: Welcome to Woodard

April 29, 2019
IS IT A PLANE...? EWU track member Vic White completes a jump during competition last Saturday at Woodward Field. White later placed first with a 6-foot-8-inch leap in the high jump. EWU took seven firsts and five seconds in the meet | Bill Hupe: Easterner, Vol. 30, No. 21, April 5, 1979

Looking Back: Eagles dominate meet

April 29, 2019
WASHINGTON College Queen Kathleen M. Kay will represent Eastern in the National College Queen Pageant in Palm Beach, Fla., this month, competing with finalists from each state.

Looking Back: College Queen

April 3, 2019
opinion

Editorial: Students must lead the charge for basketball attendance

February 27, 2019
opinion

Editorial: Why nobody cares about climate change and what to do about it

February 14, 2019
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[PHOTO] A tribute to Dr. Raphael Guillory

January 21, 2021
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[PHOTO] Spring Break 2020 on a budget

March 12, 2020
The Supreme Court on Jan. 22 allowed the Trump administration’s ban on most transgender people from serving in the military to go into effect. This reverses a 2016 decision by the Obama administration to allow transgender people to serve in the military.

Editorial: Transgender military ban is discriminatory

January 30, 2019
A beer tap is locked up. The Eastern Washington State University's request for the PUB to obtain a permit for selling beer was denied. This photo and article were originally published in The Easterner on Dec. 6 1973.

Looking Back: Beer (almost) in the PUB

November 28, 2018
opinion

Editorial: New climate change report puts pressure on Trump administration

November 28, 2018
opinion

Editorial: U.S. Midterm results return checks and balances to government

November 14, 2018
A police vehicle next to the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. A 46-year-old man killed 11 Jewish people before surrendering to authorities at the place of worship on the morning of Oct. 27.

Editorial: Is there nowhere Americans can feel safe?

November 7, 2018
opinion

Editorial: Aladdin’s deserves a more secure home

October 25, 2018

Editorial: New Amazon center will bring mixed effects to region

October 19, 2018

Editorial: Is the Earth doomed?

October 14, 2018

Editorial: Trump’s war with the media

October 3, 2018

Editorial: Register to vote, make a real change

September 28, 2018
Michael Brock is The Easterner's Editor in Chief

[PHOTO] Taylor Newquist

August 21, 2018

The high price of negligence

May 23, 2018
Gail Powers for The Easterner

Decisions are made by those who show up

May 3, 2018

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April 14, 2018

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March 12, 2018

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March 5, 2018

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February 9, 2018

Career Services useful tool for students

February 8, 2018

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January 31, 2018

No level of money, fame or success can ever make some people happy

January 24, 2018

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January 24, 2018

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January 17, 2018

On-the-field success isn’t reaping off-the-field rewards

January 17, 2018

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January 15, 2018

Editorial

January 10, 2018

Wave of sexual assault allegations can lead to lasting change

November 16, 2017
Witnesses of he shooting in Las Vegas walk to the hospital to try and find information on a friend | Photo courtesy of Gregory Bull/AP

Thoughts and prayers alone will not end this country’s constant cycle of terror

November 10, 2017
Andrew Watson for The Easterner

Journalism still matters, now more than ever

November 6, 2017

Alums and donors need to pick up the slack if EWU athletics is going to take the next step

October 29, 2017
Eastern students are using social media to connect without being on campus.

America the silent

October 9, 2017
Axe the Tampon Tax Before it Bleeds Women Dry

Axe the Tampon Tax Before it Bleeds Women Dry

February 9, 2017
Editorial: Denying Sanctuary Campus Status is Not Just Black and White

Editorial: Denying Sanctuary Campus Status is Not Just Black and White

February 2, 2017
Gerald Maib for The Easterner

Women’s March Revealed the Power of Unity

January 26, 2017
opinion

[PHOTO] Letter to the editor: The stay-at-home order was created to protect us

May 22, 2020
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