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It was standing-room-only as over 50 students from the EWU jazz depart-ment performed “A Jazz Cabaret” at Gatto’s Pizze-ria on Nov. 17.

The seven small groups and two vocalist groups played the night away to a large crowd of family, friends, and jazz enthusi-asts.

“I love it,” said fresh-man Sam Adams. “Just having the opportunity to hear jazz in this area is great. Live jazz at that. … In a setting like this with so many other people, it’s a really great time.”

The department of mu-sic and the ASEWU hold one jazz concert every quarter.

This is considered the small group program with the next Jazz Ensemble being held on Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the EWU Mu-sic Building Recital Hall.

This was one of the larger small-group pro-grams the department has held and most of the mu-sicians were pleased with the crowd and the perfor-mance.

“We haven’t had so many groups. The amount of people that showed up is great. It’s really surpris-ing,” Tristan Dodson, a se-nior trumpet player, said.

“It got a little rocky, but we have been working to-gether for a long time, so it just came out perfect,” said Kevin Laws, a tenor saxophone player. “Every-body was working togeth-er as a unit.”

“The best part about this crowd is that they are music appreciators. So they are all here for the same reason we are,” Ty-ler Cline, a freshman per-former, said.

According to Rob Tap-per, the director of the jazz program at EWU, playing at Gatto’s is a great thing for the jazz students to do.

“They love playing for

people and they have a good time,” said Tapper. “Playing at Gatto’s is more of a real life situation be-cause if they want to play this kind of music, they are going to play in a pizza place or a bar or a lounge. It’s going to be this kind of environment.”

Ben Kendo, a senior, and Katie Drennon, an EWU alumna, came to support their friend who was playing and said they really enjoyed the concert.

“We have never been to jazz night before and it was a really fun experi-ence. Glad we did,” Dren-non said.

The musicians and au-

dience had a great time and both look forward to next quarter’s perfor-mance. “They just like playing small group jazz,” Tapper said.

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EWU Wind Ensemble andSymphonic Band Concert: Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m. in Showalter Au-ditorium.

EWU Fall Choral Concert:Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m. in Westiminster Congre-gational Church, Spokane.

The James Edmonds Piano Festival: Dec. 3, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in Music Building Recital Hall.

EWU’s award-winning original stage adap-tion of Tim O’Brien’s materpiece, “The Thngs They Carried,” will be per-formed on Dec. 1, 2 and 3, at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 4 at 2 p.m. at the EWU University Theatre. Admission is free for students plus one with EagleCard, and $10 general admission.

The EWU Association for Computing Machin-ery is raffling a Kindle Fire on Dec. 5. Email [email protected] to purchase tickets: one for $2 or six for $10.

Textbook buybacks start this week outside of the EWU Bookstore. Amazon.com repre-sentatives will be at 1050 Elm St., Cheney, Dec. 5-8, buying back books, video games and DVDs.

Students interested in getting valuables en-graved for free as part of Operation ID can contact the EWU Police Department or bring the item to the Red Barn. Items can also be engraved during events in the residence halls.

BREAKING NEWS:

Paul Wulff, former EWU head football coach (2000-2007), was fired from his Washington State head football coach-ing position on Nov. 29. During Wulff’s four years of coaching the Cougars, he had a re-cord of 9-40, the worst winning percentage of any coach in the pro-gram’s history.

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Nearly 14 months later, Jackie Forney continues to search for her missing daughter.

40-year-old Heather Higgins, an Eastern stu-dent, has been missing for more than a year. She was last seen with an acquain-tance on Sept. 20, 2010 at her apartment complex lo-cated on Spokane’s lower South Hill.

Forney says it’s hard for her to fathom that a person could just vanish.

“It’s a hard thing to live through. … She’s so loved and so missed. And when your child goes missing, it’s on your mind 24/7 and your life disappears,” said Forney. “For one thing, you’re going to keep look-ing because you’re a mother

and you have to try to stay strong so that you can keep looking.”

Higgins left behind all of her belongings, including her money, phone and her cats. According to Forney, Higgins was not someone who would leave her life and not contact anyone.

Her phone and bank ac-counts have not had any ac-tivity. According to Heath-er’s neighbor, they haven’t seen her since the weekend before she went missing.

Forney said she talked to her daughter everyday after Sept. 20.

“I called and she didn’t call me back [and] I was concerned. I thought, ‘Why are you not calling me back?’ That’s when I got really scared and I started calling all of her friends and nobody had seen her,” For-ney said.

Officer Jennifer De-

Ruwe, spokeswoman for the Spokane Police Depart-ment, said the ongoing in-vestigation has had no new developments, but her dis-appearance is being treated as suspicious.

“I told them that I had looked for her enough to know that she was miss-ing. … I just knew then that something was wrong,” said Forney. “All the police will say is that they have a per-son of interest and that’s about it.”

Forney quit her job to search for Higgins. She said, “I had to go find my daughter.”

Higgins graduated from Spokane Community Col-lege in spring of 2009 before enrolling at Eastern. Higgins studied social work before changing to journalism.

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Taylor Malone is a stu-dent at Eastern, works three jobs and, in her spare time, she voices her concerns to her state representatives.

“We are paying [legis-lators] an annual salary to do this job, so get up there, volunteer if you got to, but get the work done,” Malone said.

Malone receives grants from the state to help her pay for school and if those grants are cut, she’s going to have to look for alterna-tive options to pay.

“I’m one of the 70,000 students who would be hurt if the grants were cut,” Malone said.

Students at Eastern are beginning to worry about the impact the 2012 budget cuts are going to have on them.

They have been voicing their concerns. Many worry if going to school will even be possible with budget cuts to grants and programs, such as work study.

Work study is a program that provides students with work, subsi-dized by ei-ther the state or the federal government.

This work p l a c e m e n t program is based on a student’s finan-cial need, which is deter-mined by the annual Free Application for Ferderal Student Aid form that most students fill out.

Students, such as Al-thea Jamison, have voiced their concerns recently at a forum in which students spoke out against budget cuts.

Budget cuts are effecting student work study employment on and off campus.

In order to help accommodate recent budget cuts, The Higher Educa-tion Coordination Board has asked that all schools in Washington limit students to 19 hours a week .

“With the cuts, the number [of jobs] has gone down slightly,” Direc-tor of Financial Aid and Scholarships Bruce DeFrates said.

Eastern currently hosts approxi-mately 1,600 jobs on campus. In past years, approximately 1,800 jobs were available to students.

Work study awards students who seek employment through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and illustrate financial need.

Earnings depend on the number

of hours a student works and their hourly wage. The maximum amount of hours a student can work on cam-pus is 19 hours a week.

“For students that already have a position, they can work during breaks if they wanted to,” junior Alma Magday said.

Work study employment is avail-able with community service agen-cies and work on and off campus. Work study positions are often placed based on an individual’s ma-jor.

Non-work study positions on and off campus are also available through the Student Employment Office. All students are eligible to apply.

“The demand is far greater than the money that is available and so we’ve started a waitlist process this summer where students could go in and express their desire to be on work study,” said DeFrates. “We’ve actually been awarding off of that waitlist as funds become available.”

DeFrates says the best time to look for jobs is late August and early

Search yields no new clues

Contributed by Brenda LippertHeather Higgins remains missing after nearly 14 months. She was last seen with an aquaintance at an apartment complex on Spokane’s lower South Hill.

By Kristie Hsinsenior reporter

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Family and friends use Facebook to update the public about case

State and federal funds slashedfor student work study programsBy Kristie Hsinsenior reporter

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Students voice con-cerns about cuts

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Concert showcases small jazz and vocalist groups for patrons to enjoy

Photos by Evan SykesMembers of seven small jazz groups and two vocalist groups perform “a Jazz Cabaret” to a crowd of students, alum and Cheney locals at Gatto’s Pizzeria.

Catch some jazz during breakHoliday Swing:

Dec. 11, 3 p.m. in the Music Building Recital Hall with All-City High School Jazz Ensembles and the EWU

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The Division for Inter-national and Educational Outreach program hosted “Pakistan through Stu-dents’ Eyes,” underlining social and cultural aspects of Pakistan.

The event took place Wednesday, Nov. 16 in Hargreaves 223 with about 30 in attendance.

A slideshow detailing the culture and history of Pakistan was presented by three undergraduate Pakistani students: Marvi Soomro, Naveen Yaseen and Maira Zamir.

“I think it’s important to Eastern because it brings the world to Eastern,” Di-rector of International Ed-ucation Olga Baron said of the event and students.

“It brings the richness of cultures, the languages, the traditions and people

with fascinating experi-ences to interact with us,” Baron said.

According to Baron, Eastern was selected among many other univer-sities in the state to host the three students.

The program requires that Eastern illustrates the capacity to host students, has a dedicated adviser, and makes the commit-ment to ensure that the students have housing ar-rangements. Eastern also makes sure that the stu-dents are engaged in com-munity service and pro-vides them with anything else they may need.

The International Edu-cation team oversees ad-missions, advising, cultural events and immigration for international students, ac-cording to Baron.

Funded by the U.S. De-partment of State Bureau of Educational and Cul-tural Affairs, the program

provides students from Pakistan a short-term un-dergraduate study oppor-tunity in the U.S.

Participants are expect-ed to participate in com-munity service, social and culture activities on cam-pus, and give public pre-sentations.

“It’s been more than a cultural experience, I would say, because we be-came friends with so many people,” Yaseen said of her experience at Eastern.

The presentation in-cludes information on cit-ies like Islamabad, Punjab and Balochistan, as well as each city’s culture and tra-ditions.

“Each providence is like a separate culture,” Soom-ro said.

Photos of the country’s landscape, food and cultur-al traditions, such as wed-dings and festivals, were also included in the slide-show.

“It was great. What I liked was that it gave me more ideas of Pakistan,” said freshman Omar Al-haidan. “I feel like I’ve [been to] Pakistan now.”

Sophomore Manpreet Kaur said, “I think the fo-cus points were about how Pakistan isn’t like what Americans perceive it to be.”

Eastern currently hosts more than 500 interna-tional students studying at EWU from more than 35 different countries. Accord-ing to Baron, the number of international students has been steadily increasing over the past two years.

According to Soomro, as international students, they now know that their perspectives of Americans are not always true.

“And it’s the same with Americans — we’re not Middle Eastern [and] we don’t speak Arabic,” Soom-ro said.

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A new program is part-nering the College Success Foundation with EWU and 10 other colleges and uni-versities across Washing-ton state in order to help foster youth prepare for and succeed in higher edu-cation.

The Passport for Foster Youth Program provides eligible students with a $3,000 scholarship, as well as support from peer navigators, who are paid student interns.

The navigators act as mentors to the students in the program, helping them adjust to college life and providing them with guid-ance.

According to Terrie Ashby-Scott, director of advising and new student programs, the peer navi-gators assist the students with resources on and off campus.

“We know that many of the Passport students, be-cause they’ve been in the foster care system, have not necessarily had a real strong parent or guardian figure. And for many of the students that come to Eastern, first-generation college attendees, so many of the families, whether they’re an intact family or

not, have difficulties navi-gating the system in terms of figuring out what the deadlines are for financial aid and when to register,” Ashby-Scott said.

“This is a go-to per-son who, just like them, is another student just like them who goes to this in-stitution,” Ashby-Scott said.

According to Lisa Pre-dovich, program officer for the College Success Foun-dation, more than 130 stu-dents across the state will receive support from peer navigators.

The peer navigator program is part of the Passport for Foster Youth Promise Program, which was created by the state legislature in 2007 as a six-year pilot program.

Predovich said that approximately 375 foster youth were granted schol-arships last year.

The peer navigator program is new this year. The other institutions in the program are Central Washington University, Washington State Univer-sity, University of Wash-ington, Western Wash-ington University, Seattle University, Columbia Ba-sin College, Everett Com-munity College, Green River Community College, Spokane Falls Community College, and Tacoma Com-munity College.

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EWU invests in local youth130 students already receiving peer support with 375 granted scholarships last year

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Despite the winter weather, six teams from Eastern’s and Spokane Falls Community College’s (SFCC) tech clubs brought their trebuchets out to launch pumpkins across a parking lot at SFCC on Sat-urday, Nov 19.

The three teams from EWU all chose to build dif-ferent designs.

“They all did some re-search and selected slight-ly different variations of the trebuchet,” EWU tech club faculty adviser Jason Durfee said.

The teams had to submit

schematics and a list of the materials needed in order to receive money from the tech club for the project. They received $140 per team, but according to tech club chairman Jim Short, they all spent personal money in addition to that.

“I think everybody went way over budget and spent their own money doing it,” Short said.

“There’s a lot of effort that goes into building these,” Short said. “You can’t just throw this stuff together. There’s calcula-tions. This isn’t about the distance, so you can’t just throw it together and try to launch it as far as possible.”

“It’s all mathematical

calculation. So on paper, everything works great. But once you get out here and practice it in real life, it’s a whole different scenario,” Short said.

Trying to dial in the ac-curacy of the trebuchets involves a lot of trial and error. “They’re going to be fine-tuning their machines all day,” Short said.

Not everything went the way the teams had planned. Several trebuchets launched their pumpkins backwards, splattering them in the parking lot be-hind the firing line. Senior Brandt Porter and his team experienced some mechan-ical failure on their trebu-chet, breaking a bolt. They

were working on getting a replacement for the piece so they could continue on.

“The pumpkins are re-ally large,” Porter said. “They’re a lot bigger than we designed our basket for.”

The event was infor-mal and noncompetitive. According to Short, it was more of an exhibition than a competition with only bragging rights on the line.

“We could turn it into

a competition, but I think we’re having fun with it the way it is,” Short said.

“This whole thing was just about getting a couple of the schools that have en-gineering programs togeth-er and have some fun and show off some of the skills we’ve learned,” Short said.

Short sees events like this as a way to bring to-gether engineering students from different schools.

“I wanted to bring that

engineering community to-gether,” Short said. “Yeah, we’re all different schools and everybody has school pride and everybody thinks they’re better than every-body else. But I don’t think there’s any reason why we shouldn’t be doing more things as an engineering community. Spokane really seems to support this sort of thing. We have a huge manufacturing base and a lot of engineering schools.”

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“It’s all mathematical calculation. So on paper, everything works great. But once you get out here and practice it in real

life, it’s a whole different scenario.”Jim Short

and she had been diagnosed with bipolar [disorder], but she dealt with that really well,” Forney said.

She enjoyed taking pictures and writing. Despite her health condition, Higgins re-mained strong and focused on her education and helping others. Heather was a respon-sible, loving and caring Christian, according to her mother.

Senior Denise Jennings said, “There were times where she would be very friendly and very pleasant and then there were other times where she wouldn’t talk to anybody at all and you just knew not to say anything to her. So, when I had heard that she was miss-ing, I wasn’t necessarily really surprised.”

Jennings last saw Higgins in spring of 2010. She found out about her disappearance a few months after Higgins was last seen.

“That whole quarter — it seemed like things were unraveling for her. That was just not a good quarter for her,” Jennings said.

Jennings first met Higgins in fall of 2009 when Higgins asked about interning and earning college credit at the university’s radio station. The two had a few journalism classes together. According to Jennings, she consid-ered Higgins an acquaintances.

“She was hard to read, she didn’t give a lot. She wasn’t open, she didn’t invite you in, so my impression of her was she was just very quiet in class and we would exchange some conversation, but she did not invite friend-ship,” Jennings said.

Pastor Rich Veil, who has known Higgins and her mother for years, said, “The last time I saw her was the month she disappeared. She had come to church sometime that month. … I think somebody could have easily taken advantage of her.”

“She would do everything she could to help people, and I think, sometimes, that could put her in compromising situations or dangerous situations,” Veil said.

Higgins attended Trinity Baptist Church in Spokane with family and friends.

Brenda Lippert, a close friend of For-ney’s, said, “To have your child disappear is every mom’s worst nightmare.”

Lippert has been friends with Forney for more than 15 years. According to Lippert, Higgins often helped the homeless with food, toiletries and finding a place to live.

“She’s been on a rollercoaster — emotion-ally, physically — it’s very stressful because

there are no answers,” Lippert said of For-ney’s well-being.

“I agree with Jackie’s view, that, as long as there’s no body, there’s a reason to hope that Heather is still alive. The detective is really uncertain because they don’t have any leads — they just have one person of interest,” said Lippert. “It’s the not knowing that’s torturing [Forney]. … Moms don’t give up.”

Forney believes the reward may motivate someone with information on Higgins’ dis-appearance to speak out. She set up a reward fund at the Spokane City Credit Union in Higgins’s name where she banked for more than eight years.

Lippert said that anyone who saw Hig-gins at any time on Sept. 20, 2010 should call Crime Check.

“We need to find her. It’s been over a year now,” said Forney. “I know somebody knows what happened to my daughter.”

Forney maintains a Facebook page that details her daughter’s case.

“We just gotta keep fighting back and never give up and a parent is never go-ing to because your children are the air you breathe,” said Forney. “When one of them is gone, you’re never going to stop looking for them. … Everyday, when my eyes open — I gotta find Heather.”

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Wintertime in the northwest often brings with it snow and ice, leading to potentially dangerous conditions on sidewalks and stairways.

Facilities Services works to miti-gate the risk of injury on EWU by keeping walkways clear of snow and ice.

“We do a lot of proactive work,” said Karen Wichman, director of fa-cilities services.

According to Wichman, facilities services puts down sand or granular de-icer on walkways at 6 a.m. when there is snow or ice on the ground.

“That’s our pre-emptive strike,” Wichman said.

If it snows overnight, employees are out at 4 a.m. to clear the paths. High traffic areas, such as outside of the PUB or JFK Library, are treated with liquid de-icer.

Facilities management also makes the call on whether or not to close off

stairways. According to Wich-man, when there is a duplicate

alternative stairway, such as outside of the library, one of the sets of stairs can be closed in order to cut down on work.

“It’s labor intensive to deal with stairs,” Wichman said.

According to Laurie Connelly, an associate to the president who is also an attorney, there is no statute requir-

ing the university to clear walkways. However, the university can be held liable for injury just like any other property owner.

“If we violate the standard of care, we are liable,” Connelly said. “We get a couple of claims a year.”

“Anybody that falls on our campus is eligible to file a tort claim with the state for reimbursement,” Wichman said.

Connelly and Wichman both said that pedestrians have liability as well. Students and employees should al-ways take steps on their own to pre-vent injury.

The university cannot guarantee that all walkways will be clear of ice and snow at all times.

“Especially when we’re in this re-freeze and melt cycle, it’s tough,” Con-nelly said.

“We always encourage people to wear appropriate footwear. Skate shoes or high heels won’t do it. People need to take some personal responsi-bility,” Wichman said.

“If people see an area that is haz-ardous, if they let facilities know, we can get someone out there,” Connelly

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On Nov. 8, 2011, Wash-ington State voters ap-proved Initiative 1183, re-quiring state-run liquor stores to close June 1, 2012 and enabling liquor sales to be privatized.

While many liquor stores are directly overseen by the state, some stores in rural areas such as Cheney are contract liquor stores. Contract liquor stores are still overseen and regulated by the state, but they func-tion as if they are a small business.

Casey Williams-Carr, an employee for the liquor store in Cheney, is worried about the effects the initia-tive will have on her as well as on the community. The particular store Williams-Carr works for is a contract liquor store.

“Now we have to look for a new source of in-come,” Williams-Carr said. “Starting June 1st, we have to decide if we’re going to stay open and compete with stores like Safeway, Bi-Mart and other grocery stores.”

Williams-Carr is con-cerned about the effect pri-vate sales of liquor will have on a college town.

“I personally didn’t think it was necessary. I don’t think it would be a good idea to be able to buy liquor after going to a bar when stores already sell beer and wine,” Williams-Carr said.

Commander Rick Camp-bell of the Cheney Police Department is also unsure of what will happen as a re-sult of I-1183.

“I’m not sure what the impact will be,” said Camp-bell. “The way the law was written, I don’t think we will see a lot of negative im-pacts.”

I-1183 makes grocery stores such as Safeway, Bi-Mart, and other various stores with 10,000 or more square feet, able to sell li-quor.

However, smaller stores, such as Taj Grocer-ies, would not be permitted to sell liquor due to their size.

The way the liquor stores are set up currently

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I-1183 passesVoters approved changes to Washington liquor regulations in recent state elections

University ensures safe walking

Photo by Casey PichaCement paths to Jfk library are salted to prevent ice during freezing temperatures.

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The Eastern Eagles will clash with the University of Montana Grizzlies at the Candy Cane IV track meet to kick off the indoor season, Dec. 3 in the Jim Thorpe Fieldhouse.

For Eastern track ath-letes, the Candy Cane rep-resents the first indoor meet of the year and a welcome respite after a fall quarter of difficult training.

“It’s the end of the cy-cle, a training cycle, so they should be at a peak point in time, even though it’s not the real competitive point in the year,” head coach Marcia Mecklenburg said.

Mecklenburg, currently in her 17th year as EWU women’s head track coach, said this season may be a building year for the program after finishing the 2011 Big Sky outdoor season in third place.

“We’ve got a lot of young kids who are going to have to step up,” said Mecklenburg. “Some of the older kids who have proven themselves … will be red-shirting for us.”

While the women’s team may not threaten to top the Big Sky Conference in 2012, Mecklenburg said there are some talented athletes on this year’s team.

According to Mecklen-burg, two of those standouts are high jumpers, junior Elise Jepsen and sophomore Tay-mussa Miller, who will both be very competitive this sea-son.

Keisa Monterola, a pole vaulter and transfer student from Clackamas Community College, placed fifth at the 2011 Pan American Games this past October. Mecklen-burg said Monterola will lead a strong pole vaulting group.

According to Mecklen-burg, the EWU women’s strengths are in the short sprints and throwing events this year.

Mecklenburg pointed to senior sprints captain Shene Davis, stating Davis should be another difference-maker for the women.

For throwing events, sophomore Olivia Midles is one of this year’s players to watch, as she placed second in the hammer throw in last season’s Big Sky Conference Outdoor Championships.

Midles, who was a red-shirt for last year’s indoor season, has been trying to adjust to the differences be-

tween indoor and outdoor track. Her outdoor event, the hammer, is called the weight for indoor events.

According to Midles, the weight is considerably heavi-er than the hammer at 25 pounds compared to about nine pounds. The length of the implement is much short-er, which takes some time to adjust to.

“I like throwing the weight. It’s a change,” Midles said. “I’ve been throwing the hammer since I was in about seventh grade.”

The women’s team may be in a rebuilding mode for 2012, but men’s head coach Stan Kerr, entering his 16th year, expects to contend for a conference championship.

“I feel like we have a very good balance across the board,” Kerr said. “Each event really has a cornerstone of that foundation.”

Kerr said this year’s team has the potential to be very good because there is a mix of athletes who are experienced and have had success in the past.

Senior sprints captain Brad Wall and sophomore Michael Okoro are both 2011 conference champions in the 400-meter and 200-meter, respectively.

“I love to travel with sea-soned competitors,” Kerr said. “They kind of know what to anticipate. Freshmen sometimes go in a little bit wide-eyed.”

Wall is the sprints captain for a second time and one of the seasoned competitors. After winning the Big Sky Conference’s last two out-door 400 championships and last season’s 400 indoor title, expectations are set high.

“Since this is my last year, I kind of want to go out on top,” Wall said. “I’ve had the success individually. We have a lot of depth in the 400 now, so I’m pretty excited this year about our 4x400 meter re-lay.”

Kerr also said there are several solid throwers on the team, including sophomore captain Jon Buchanan, soph-omore Jordan Arakawa and junior Zach Nielsen.

This Friday, the EWU men’s and women’s track teams are focusing on host-ing the Candy Cane IV. For now, the conference cham-pionships are down the road.

“It’s going to be nice,” Midles said. “Traveling is dif-ficult sometimes because it’s not your own bed and it’s tir-ing and it’s flying. [At home], you get to eat the same food.”

Shene Davis is a senior major-ing in exercise science and one of the women’s track team captains. When she is not spending her time training for the upcoming indoor track season or doing homework, Davis is a person-al trainer in the URC Fitness Center.

The Easterner: How long have you been a personal trainer?

Shene Davis: I’ve been a certi-fied trainer, officially, since January [2011].

TE: How did you become interested in personal training?

SD: It was something I was just in-terested in doing. I love exercise and being an athlete. I’m really close to that because my major deals with a lot of athletics. And then working in the gym too, it just sparked an in-terest. When I watched people per-sonal train, I was like, “You know, that seems pretty cool, maybe I’ll do it.”

I love it. It’s a different experi-ence. It teaches you a lot of things. It teaches you about time manage-ment, how to interact with people and how to read personalities. Not a lot of people respond well to certain situations or respond well to certain stimuli.

The thing I really love about [personal training] is that it allows me to apply what I’m learning in a classroom to what I’m doing now. Because I’m in the classroom and it’s my major, it keeps me very up-to-date in what I’m doing. It’s an-other study tool.

TE: When you take on a new client, how do you motivate them?

SD: It kind of depends on the per-son, what they like and how they respond to me. I initially start out with goals. We try to do at least three goals, and then we go from there, depending on what they want. It’s a lot of reading the client and getting to know them. You sell yourself. You make yourself really friendly. You get them to love you.

I always tell my new clients, “Be patient with me. It’s going to take me two or three weeks to find a work out that A. you really like do-ing and B. ... I can give … you [in a way] you will like doing it.”

TE: How do you balance school, track, personal training and friends? SD: Very meticulously. You put

yourself on a schedule. You have to be very detailed and very organized, and you have to know what’s go-ing on. It’s communication and it’s planning. It’s not easy. It’s definite-ly not easy.

There are days when I’m just like, ‘Oh my God, why am I doing this to myself?’ But you get the hang of it. You learn how to prioritize and get your stuff done.

TE: When you look back at yourself as a freshman, would you have been able to handle the load then as you do now?

SD: I think so. … Every year, I added more responsibility and kept adding things to my life. I don’t know why, but it’s just me, my per-sonality. I like to push myself. I like to strive for great things because I don’t like to just half-ass it.

I don’t like to be average. If I had to do it [again], I know I could, but I don’t think I would have wanted to put myself in the position I am now.

TE: The internal drive you describe, where did that come from?

SD: My mom has always worked re-ally, really hard. When I was little, she divorced and so she raised me and my two brothers all by herself. She’s always been working. We lived on a seven acre ranch, and she was changing sprinkler lines, going to work, [taking] care of all of us. I think from watching that, it kind of helped.

Also, I’m the oldest. I had two little brothers. We always were dirt biking, bicycling or playing sports. We were always trying to one-up each other. We get that from my mom a lot because she’s very com-petitive in everything she does. I guess a lot of that drive comes from my family.

TE: Has your involvement with the track program helped in personal training?

SD: I try not to play off of that be-cause the way that I train people isn’t the way that I practice. I’ve learned through the years and pro-gressed to become more of a func-tional type of trainer. That means focusing more on the holistic move-ments, more on total body style.

When we are doing lifts or we are doing any type of exercise, it’s whole body stuff. It’s, ‘How many muscles can I incorporate in this movement? Can I incorporate the core in this movement?’ I want the workout we do to be really efficient and I want it to be really effective. But when I train, its multi-joint,

heavy lifts, power lifts, running and doing all this crazy stuff. It’s com-pletely different and opposite.

TE: Why can’t you personally train the way you work out as well? Is there a niche for that as well?

SD: I wish I had clients that could do that, but it’s reading your client and knowing what your client does. If they have a specific sports back-ground and they want to do that, then I can train them like that. I can totally train them like that, I’d love to.

But for the most part, a lot of them, they want to be in shape. They want to lose weight. They want to look good.

There are other ways that are more effective to do that then to do a sports-based exercise. They want to lose weight, look good, feel healthy and a lot of the time, that’s what I try to focus on. So let’s feel healthy, let’s feel good in our body and let’s be more confident [in] what we do.

TE: Is it important for a personal trainer to look the part?

SD: I feel like it is. It definitely helps. In class, we were always taught you need to look the part. So if you’re going to major in this field, you need to make sure you’re eating healthy. You need to make sure you’re exer-cising daily and that people see that because it helps with your credibil-ity a lot.

TE: What are some personality characteristics that make for a good personal trainer?

SD: [You] definitely have to be a people-person. You have to be very knowledgeable in what you’re do-ing. You have to be able to convince that person to do hard things they may not be able to do. You have to be able to read the person, to know when you can push them and when you can’t.

You have to be very outgoing and not afraid to make a dork of yourself You have to be very determined and organized, kind of have to be a little go-getter. The ones that are really good are the ones who are going out there talking to people. Taking ad-vantage of [every] opportunity they have, making the most of it.

TE: How do you keep working out fun?

SD: That depends on the person. It really does. I have a client right now that doesn’t like working out. She doesn’t like sweating so we do random things like jump-roping and playing hopscotch and games like bowling. Things that require activity, but you don’t necessarily recognize they’re activities. At the same time, I have clients that think doing the Total Body Resistance Exercise and running really hard is super fun, so we do that. It just kind of depends.

With the sign reading “2011 Big Sky Volleyball Championships” behind her, senior libero Lindsey Petroni sees her parents in the stands watching her as she competes in her final volleyball game for Eastern.

Petroni’s parents, like many others, came to Portland to watch the No. 4 Eastern Washington volleyball team face the No. 1 Northern Colorado Bears in the semi-finals of the Big Sky Conference volleyball championships. The Eagles lost to the Bears, 3-0.

The game was similar to what happened the last time Eastern had made it to the playoffs in 2009. The Bears had beaten Eastern, 3-2.

In the first set, the Ea-gles were able to keep up with the Bears, who had the top offense in the Big

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Sky Conference, taking the lead six times before Northern Colorado end-ed the set, 29-27.

Eastern had secured the lead the first half of the set game. However, their lead would only last until the 12-10 mark,

where the Bears’ offense secured the lead until the match ended, 25-18.

The third and final set was similar to the second, as Northern Colorado captured an early lead. Eastern’s offense was able to tie the score once

throughout the set. How-ever, Northern Colorado was able to regain their lead, ending the set 3-0.

According to head coach Miles Kydd, the team lost not because they weren’t trying, but rather they were playing a team

with a better offense in Northern Colorado.

“They definitely gave it their best effort,” Kydd said. “We made strides this year and we’ll have to build on it.”

Junior setter Laney Brown, who had 18 as-sists and 10 digs, felt the team gave it their all in their game with Northern Colorado.

“There were some mistakes here and there that may have put us at a deficient,” Brown said. “But I’m proud of how we played.”

Prior to making the Big Sky Championships, Eastern finished their regular season with a re-cord of 13-14. They had lost both regular season games to the Bears, the first 3-1 on Sept. 30, and 3-0 on Nov. 5.

Although the Eagles did not win the Big Sky Championship, several players earned Big Sky Honors.

Captain Cora Keller-man was selected for All-Big Sky Conference First Team.

Junior Shelby Puckett was selected for All-Big Sky Conference Second Team.

For Kellerman, who had 10 kills and 10 digs, next season will be about returning to the playoffs.

“If anything, this kind of lights a fire underneath us,” Kellerman said. “We need redemption for sure. Our goal is to get back here next year, and then to get things done.”

Kydd is also looking forward to next season. There are many return-ing players as well as new freshmen coming in.

“An old friend of mine who’s a wrestling coach, he was always rebuild-ing,” Kydd said. “He was always reloading. Hope-fully, we can reload next year.”

Petroni had 15 digs in her last game, leading the team with 342 in her se-nior year.

“Its been a wonder-ful opportunity,” Petroni said. “I am going to miss the girls, going in hard and getting to compete in something I love.”

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The 2011 season in numbersAfter a four-game

losing streak to start the season, the Eastern Eagles battled back fe-rociously and won six of their last seven games, finishing with a winning record and setting sev-eral school records in the process.

Every fan wanted to see the Eagles make an-other championship run. But sometimes, when a team is out of the play-off picture, regular sea-son achievements and the heart to overcome challenges each week get overlooked.

“Some of the challeng-es we faced were starting our tough schedule on the road,” coach Beau Bald-win said. “Things didn’t go the way we wanted in the first four games, both from the standpoint of win-loss and we sus-tained probably as many injuries as I’ve seen.”

Despite the injuries, the team stuck together, stayed focused and fin-ished the season with a winning record of 6-5 overall and 5-3 in the Big Sky Conference.

Every starting offen-sive lineman, other than left tackle Gabriel Jack-son, was lost to injuries.

All-American receiver Brandon Kaufman was injured. On defense, the senior twin duo of safety Matt Johnson and line-backer Zack Johnson, were injured.

The running game was a problem for the Eagles all year. With the departure of running back Taiwan Jones to the NFL and the offensive line injuries, the Eagles couldn’t find any rhythm on the ground.

Not only did the of-fense struggle to run, but the defense couldn’t defend against it, giving up 213 rushing yards per game, almost tripling the Eagles offense’s 79 yards per game.

The opposite was true for the passing game. Quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell and his young receiver core, led by Nicholas Edwards, as-saulted the conference with a historic aerial at-tack.

Mitchell broke the Eagles’ previous record of 4,003 passing yards in a single season, throwing for 4,009 with a confer-ence leading 364.5 yards per game, fourth all-time in the Big Sky.

Edwards, who will be back next year, set an-other school record with 95 receptions in a season and tied the single season

touchdown record with 19 .

Kicker Mike Jarrett joined in on the record setting and now has the most career points scored in Eagles’ history with 236 points.

“All the guys that we had stepped up tremen-dously,” Edwards said.

As for missing the playoffs this season, Ed-wards said, “We’re disap-pointed, but we’re kind of proud of all the things we overcame.”

“We really do have a great team, a bunch of guys with a lot of tal-ent and leadership, but unfortunately, we didn’t make the playoff goal,” Jarrett said.

The departures of Mitchell and other im-pact seniors aren’t go-ing to stop Baldwin from having big expectations. “We aimed high this year, we aimed high a year ago and we’re going to aim high next year. You’re always going to lose some great players. You lose great players every year, but it’s not going to change our mindset,” Baldwin said.

Edwards had similar sentiments. “Hopefully, we get back to Frisco [Texas], that’s our goal. We want another ring and hopefully we get there,” Edwards said.

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We all know quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, but do we really know the man behind the helmet? Mitchell was a part of the season that culminated in the Eagles winning the 2010 national championship. He was also selected for the All-Big Sky Conference First Team and the 2011 Big Sky offensive player of the year.

The Easterner: What was your most memorable moment at Eastern?Bo Levi Mitchell: It’s hard to pass up the championship game. It’s something that was the first in our history and just to be a part of that, this community and really just this program overall.

TE: Who is your biggest inspiration?BLM: Cora Kellerman, definitely. To know what she has gone through with ev-erything with her heart and just through sports overall. To keep such a high GPA is a hard deal, especially when you’re doing engineering. To see how well she handles herself. She always has a smile on her

face. She’s one of the most inspirational people I know.

TE: What is one thing you learned at Eastern?BLM: Knowledge, definitely, and a sense of family. It is important to keep your friends close. The connections I’ve made here with a lot of football players and coaches and everyone in the program. Getting to know people is something I want to continue doing as I go through life. How coach [Beau] Baldwin carries himself and how he is always making relationships with everyone.

TE: What is your biggest aspiration?BLM: Obviously, I want to keep playing football, but where I would like to end up is coaching somewhere and being the head coach, whether it’s back here at Eastern or anywhere else. I just want to be able to do for players what coaches have done for me. Being able to take athletes and try to get them to that next level.

Mitchell’s last pass as an Eastern Eagle

Nick Gauthier, a management major, was a quarterback at Bakersfield College before coming to Eastern in 2009. In the game against Portland State in 2010, he made a 70-yard pass to Zach Gehring. In the 2011 Red-White Spring Game, he made a 70-yard touchdown pass to Daniel Johnson.

The Easterner: What will you miss most about playing for Eastern?Nick Gauthier: I’ll miss my teammates and the coaches.

TE: What was your favorite moment during your years of play?NG: Throwing a 70-yard pass in the game against Portland State, Oct. 30, 2010.

TE: What is next for you down the road?NG: Finishing up my degree and moving back to southern California.

TE: What is your advice for next year’s team?NG: Have fun and be loose.

Charlies Moetului, a interdisciplinary studies major, has played in 40 games as a defensive lineman. He earned his first sack in 2009 in the game against Portland State and was selected as East-ern’s most improved defensive player in 2010 and 2011 All-Big Sky Honorable Mention.

The Easterner: What will you miss most about playing for Eastern?Charles Moetului: Joking around with the guys. The atmosphere, the family and being able to hit people. This is a great way to get all your stress out.

TE: What was your favorite moment during your years of play?CM: Anytime we’re successful and I get

to celebrate with my guys means a lot to me.

TE: What is next for you down the road?CM: After I graduate, I’m going to live with my parents for a while, make some money, probably not do anything re-lated to my degree, kind of plan life out and see where it takes me.

TE: What is your advice for next year’s team?CM: Soak in everything you can with what the coaches tell you. It’s not al-ways about talent. I’m not the most tal-ented guy and I’ve been pretty success-ful. Just put your nose to the grindstone and don’t quit.

Gauthier ready to head back to California

Moetului waiting to see where life takes him

Game 11 Nov. 19 at Idaho State

W, 45-14

Game 9 Oct. 29 vs. Portland State

L, 43-26

Game 6 Oct. 15 vs. Northern Colorado

W, 48-27

Game 5 Oct. 1 vs. Weber State

W, 27-21

Game 3 Sept. 17 at Montana

L, 17-14

Game 1 Sept. 3at Washington

L, 30-27

Nicholas Edwards had 12 catches for 108 yards and a touchdown against the Huskies.

308 yards.

The Coyotes have beaten Eastern 35 out of 40 times

Zach and Matt Johnson combined for 22 tackles against the Grizzlies.

The offense combined for

Brandon Kaufman had six catches for 140 yards and a touchdown against the Bobcats.

Jordan Talley rushed fortwo touchdowns.

The Eagles had possessionof the ball for 32:51.

Mike Jarrett made a field goal for a season high 47 yards.

76 yards and a touchdown.

Ashton Clark had three receptions for

Quincy Forte had 170all-purpose offensive yards.

The game was Eastern’s

Nicholas Edwards had

4 touchdowns.

The Eagles combined for456 offensive yards.

Bo Levi Mitchell passed for 4,009 yards this season, breaking the school record for most passing yards in a year.

Nicholas Edwards (left) finished with 95 receptions, breaking the Eastern record for most receptions in a year.

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58,088fans attended the game.

The field goal kick is usually not the most ex-citing play in football, but definitely one of the most important. Coaches would rather have their teams score touchdowns, but un-derstand the value of getting the three points.

Casual fans often boo when the field goal team comes out because they want to see the offense try to get a first down, but when it’s all said and done, if the kick is good, the kicker is a hero. If it isn’t, he’s a goat.

Mike Jarrett has had op-portunities to be both in his five years with the Eagles. When he’s not strolling up and down the sidelines to keep his kicking leg warmed up, Jarrett is achieving his academic goals.

This June, he will be graduating with a govern-ment and communication double major and a business minor. He plans to apply to a law school to continue his education.

“I’d like to be a lawyer,” Jarrett said. “It’s a big goal, it’s going to take a lot of ef-fort, but it’s something that I really want to commit my-self to. It’s something that I feel like I can make a differ-ence with.”

Jarrett was one of the Scholar Athletes of Novem-

ber, along with women’s soccer player Jamie Walker.

He feels it is an honor to receive this award, say-ing that he looked up to a lot of the people who had it before.

His play was stellar in October leading up to be-ing the scholar athlete. He scored 45 points, making nine of 10 field goals and 18 of 19 extra points. Jar-rett also has maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.46 and has been honored on the Big Sky All-Academic team twice.

“I’ve struggled like ev-erybody else does, but I’ve been able to keep my GPA decently up there,” Jarrett said.

Through Eastern and Cheney Parks and Recre-ation, he also volunteered over 30 hours at Salnave Elementary School, working with kids in an after-school program.

“It was pretty fun help-ing out little kids with their school work and being a mentor,” Jarrett said.

On the football side of things, Jarrett’s coaches and teammates have great confi-dence in his kicking ability.

Special teams coordina-tor Jeff Schmedding said, “[Jarrett] really stepped up his game.”

According to Schmed-ding, last year Jarrett made a lot of big kicks but strug-gled with his consistency.

This year, he set a goal for himself to stay above 80 percent and the results are clearly seen on the field. He does a good job of always be-ing prepared.

When asked about the pressure a kicker faces, Jar-rett opened up a little about how he approaches and deals with it.

“I have a way different attitude when I approach this now than when I was a freshman,” Jarrett said, smiling.

According to Jarrett, everyone is under equal pressure to perform on the team. The receivers only get thrown to a few times a game and are under pres-sure to catch and score. Quarterback Bo Levi Mitch-ell makes throws while being pressured by the defense.

The long snapper and holder are as much a vital part of the kicking process as the kicker, according to Jarrett.

“I look at myself as an-other equal part of the team and I want to win just as much as those guys do and those guys play hard for me and my job is to put my best effort into everything I do and hopefully that turns out good,” Jarrett said,

Jeff Minnerly, Jarrett’s teammate and holder on field goals, said, “I don’t even worry about it. [Jarrett] has made so many big kicks throughout his career.”

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Jarrett achieves success on and off football field

Powers reflects on red turf memories Chris Powers, a social studies educa-tion major, is a native of Black Diamond, Wash., who has started more games than any Eastern offensive player. He was selected as one of the top ten FCS return-ing offensive lineman prior to the 2011 season. He has also earned All-Big Sky Conference preseason and All American honors.

The Easterner: What will you miss most about playing for Eastern?Chris Powers: The red turf, the fans and the team. Everybody has a camara-derie. They’ve become a family to me.

TE: What was your favorite moment during your years of play?

CP: I have to go with two. First one, the win against Montana on the red turf to start it all off. That was probably the greatest game I’ve ever been a part of. Second, the South Dakota win in over-time.

TE: What is next for you down the road?CP: Education-wise, try to finish college and get my teaching certificate. Football-wise, I don’t have any plans yet.

TE: What is your advice for next year’s team?CP: They’ve heard it every year they’ve played football. Don’t take anything for granted, [playing football] goes by fast. Enjoy every second of it.

Renard Williams, known for his salute, is an interdisciplinary liberal arts major from Port Orchard, Wash. During his career, he has accumulated 18 sacks and 116 tackles and has started 29 games. He was selected for All-Big Sky Conference Second Team.

The Easterner: What will you miss most about playing for Eastern?Renard Williams: Playing on the red turf. Bringing that here gave us some-thing to latch on to and to play for. Play-ing here at home, in front of our fans.

TE: What was your favorite moment during your years of play?RW: Beating Montana last year and scoring the final touchdown of that game.

It was the first defensive touchdown on the red turf. That’s some history I’ll be able to tell family and friends when we watch people come back and play here.

TE: What is next for you down the road?RW: Hopefully, to take my talents to the NFL. If not the NFL, the Canadian Foot-ball League. Definitely continue to try to play and play at a high level.

TE: What is your advice for next year’s team?RW: Just to come out here and give it your all. All of the good things that hap-pened on Saturday [Nov. 12 game against Cal Poly] happened earlier in the week during practice. And do better than this group. Just be all-around better.

Williams ready for the next level of football

David Miles was a walk-on to the football team his freshman year. Origi-nally from Maplewood, Minn., Miles has held his position as a reserve tight end at EWU. After struggling with the death of his brother and illness of his father, Miles continues to persevere on the football team and complete his degree in geogra-phy.

The Easterner: What is one thing you will take from Eastern into the real world?David Miles: Hard work put through every day, coming out to play football. It translates over to school and life. It is important to work hard and have deter-mination. Also, making sure to set goals and accomplish them.

TE: What is your biggest aspiration for life?

DM: I am getting my degree in ge-ography, so I [would] like to work for geographic information systems (GIS). Go into computer mapping after college, hopefully. I am going to get a job and work as hard as I can.

TE: Who is your inspiration?DM: My dad, probably. It has been a rough year. He had a couple of open heart surgeries this year and has gone through a rough time, but he always stays positive. It has been tough with my brother passing away recently, too. Our whole family relies on Dad for strength. He works hard every day for us.

TE: What would be your advice to a walk-on?DM: Work as hard as you possibly can. Whatever you’re doing, just bust your tail and work as hard as you can.

Miles mapping out his goals and destiny

Game 2 Sept. 10 at South Dakota

L, 30-17

Game 6 Oct. 8 at Northern Arizona

Game 4 Sept. 24 vs. Montana State

Game 8 Oct. 22 at Sacramento State

Game 10 Nov. 12 at Cal Poly

W, 42-35

W, 36-28

L, 36-21

W, 53-51

Nicholas Edwards had 12 catches for 108 yards and a touchdown against the Huskies.

The Coyotes have beaten Eastern 35 out of 40 times

Mike Jarret made two field goals for a combined 83 yards.

114 yards.

Jordan Talley rushed for

Brandon Kaufman had six catches for 140 yards and a touchdown against the Bobcats.

Ronnie Hamlin had 11

tackles.

Mike Jarrett made a field goal for a season high 47 yards.

Greg Herd caught 11 passes for 159 yards and a touchdown.

85th Homecoming game.

The game was Eastern’s

The Eagles combined for456 offensive yards.

Greg Herd caught a 96-yardtouchdown pass.

Allen Brown, Jeff Minnerly and Cody McCarthy combined for 30 tackles.

Eastern scored 53 points to defeatthe Mustangs in triple overtime.

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november 30, 2011 • opinion

On Nov. 8, Wash-ington State voters ap-proved Initiative 1183, declaring their apparent disdain for state-regulat-ed liquor.

Over 1.1 million peo-ple, or 58.79 percent, voted in favor of 1183, which allows for spirits (hard alcohol) to be sold in private retail stores and chains.

The official stance for 1183 states that it ends “the state’s outdated mo-nopoly on liquor sales and distribution will benefit both taxpayers and consumers.”

However, 1183 also creates a 27 percent hid-den tax passed for con-

sumers, raising taxes to fund corporate profits, according to Protect Our Communities website.

One of the opposi-tion’s main attacks is that Washington state liquor stores have a 96 percent compliance rate com-pared to states with pri-vate alcohol sales in large retail stores abysmal 70 percent. The claim is that one in four teenagers will be able to walk into a lo-cal Safeway and purchase hard alcohol, leading to many more deaths from car wrecks, alcohol poi-soning and so on.

With more alcohol comes more problem drinking. And with more outlets (four to five times as many) it’s suspected

that problem drinking will go up approximately 50 percent.

There’s also a loop-hole that allows mini-marts to sell hard alco-hol as well. So much for it staying in big chain stores.

Over 900 more people are unemployed now. Not a very good time to put another thousand people out of the work.

As for convenience: what if we don’t want to go to Costco or Safeway to purchase hard alco-hol? How is this any more convenient than going to a small liquor store? Stand-ing in line at Costco can potentially take hours. Safeway is big enough, too.

The people for 1183, such as Costco, Safeway, and so on, hope that privatizing hard alco-hol sales in Washing-ton will reduce the cost for the consumer not to mention make it more convenient for them to purchase it.

And finally, propo-nents of 1183 say it will create true competition, which will help out local wineries and distilleries.

What it really comes down to is simple.

According to Protect Our Communities, Cost-co has spent $21 million financing the initiative, by far the largest con-tributor.

Safeway and Trader Joe’s have both contrib-

uted another $2 million to the cause.

It’s simple privatiza-tion. Big retail chains have everything to ben-efit from this. Before we know it, there will be a Kirkland brand hard-alcohol, even worse than Monarch. Or, gag, a new Safeway Select Tequila.

Competition means the eventual centraliza-tion of liquor sales by large corporations, such as Costco. With this, an accumulation of wealth: it’s all about profits.

Sadly, voters care more about “conve-nience” than safety and the unethical approach of big business. Now, we can go anywhere and buy hard alcohol. As if

it was somehow difficult to go to any local liquor store and pick up a case of vodka if and whenever we wanted to.

Last year’s vote for the privatization of li-quor in Washington State was voted down. But it seems like there’s been a sea change this year.

Protect Our Com-munities makes a great point: “Ask yourself: When was the last time a big corporation spent millions, twice, to try and save us money?”

They don’t. They spend millions when they know there’s a profit — a profit in the hundreds of millions, or more.

Initiative 1183 passes with 58 percent majority

“How do you feel about the passage of Initiative 1183?”Through the Eagle’s Eye

“It’s a double edge

sword: you get more

taxes, but anyone

can go into a store

and buy it.”

Jordan Lemmon

“I think it’s fine

because I don’t think

it’s going to effect us

the way that they say

it will.”

Aspen Alspaugh

“I think it will

make prices of

liquor go down be-

cause it’ll be more

competitive.”

Chris Coulter

Photos by Aaron Malmoe

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I’ve seen those blue “Elect David Condon” signs around Spokane and every time I see one, I suspect every last word is untrue.

Let’s analyze the signal:“Elect.” How was he elected? Last May, according to The

Spokesman-Review’s “ Spin Control,” Condon held a fun-draiser in which he wanted to raise $400,000. In 2007, the candidates together raised $450,000.

“An individual can give $1,600. A couple $3,200, and companies can also give another $1,600,” Condon said at the fun-draiser.

While all of us are suffering financially, Condon’s supporters can afford to “donate” this kind of money.

In a letter to the editor, Di-ane Crow wrote in response to the Spin Control article that I thought stole the words right out of my mouth: “Spending $400,000 to get votes, to me, seems like trying to buy them

instead of running a campaign on the merits and ideas of the candidate.”

Next words on the sign: “Da-vid Condon.” Just what kind of person is Condon?

While Mary Verner took a self-imposed pay cut and has made $100,000 a year, Condon made $127,000, according to The Spokesman-Review. And get this: he has issues with city em-ployees making over $100,000.

When asked if he would take Verner’s lead and only accept a $100,000 salary instead of the $170,000 salary that the may-or is eligible for, Condon said, “It’s something that I’ll discuss with my family and decide at that time when I get there.” At the time that article was writ-ten, Condon said he wouldn’t make that decision until he was in office. Now that he’s elected, we’ll have to wait and see what he does.

Sounds like bad character to me.

As the city struggles to find a way to get rid of its excess glass at the recycling center, it started using the crushed glass in road projects as a way to incorpo-

rate the waste into something more constructive. Condon criti-cized it, saying, “We’re putting crushed glass in medians, and to what end?”

“It just doesn’t seem consis-tent for the branding of the city as ‘Near Nature, Near Perfect,’ ” Condon said in an article in The Spokesman-Review.

Actually, it does. Using mate-rials that will otherwise end up in nature and thus making it imper-fect doesn’t seem consistent with our city’s slogan. For Condon, then, it’s a matter of discarding bottles into landfills, contributing to environmental degradation.

“What are we doing? We’re chasing political fads. We’re spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on bike lanes,” Condon said. Unfortunately, he doesn’t understand that gas prices force many of us to consider alterna-tives, such as bike lanes. Nor does he understand that bike lanes contribute to infrastructure because not all of us drive cars that cost as much as building a bike lane.

Next word on the sign: “May-or.”

Of what?

According to Condon’s web-site, he doesn’t really have any experience, especially in city gov-ernment. He was in the Army. Then, he worked for Congress-woman Cathy McMorris-Rodgers as the District Director leading the offices in Spokane, Walla Walla and Colville. “He was pro-moted to Deputy Chief of Staff in 2008 managing the district and administrative functions for both the district and Washington DC Offices,” it goes on to say.

So, what did he do? Where’s the long list of city

government experience? City hall? City council? Anything?

With his résumé, what kind of “mayor” is he going to be?

This brings up the last item on his sign: “Nonpartisan.”

He’s been working for Mc-Morris-Rodgers for six years now, and we’re supposed to be-lieve this stuff?

Furthermore, according to The Inlander, Condon accepted $60,000 from the state Republi-can committee.

The people in the audience of his fundraiser, Todd Mielke, Al French, and others, are Repub-lican or lean to the right. That is

to say: lower taxes for the rich, or, if we must save jobs, raise taxes on the poor. Otherwise, fire them all. That’s exactly why those people at his fundrais-er could afford to pay $1,600, $3,200 or whatever else they wanted to.

Condon says he’s nonparti-san, but anyone with half a brain knows he’s not. It’s just a way to get votes from independents and misinformed Democrats.

If I could boil it down to the nitty-gritty, it would go some-thing like this: all the business leaders and the rich (and the poor people whose minds are colonized by the rich) in Spo-kane get together and give mon-ey to a man with no experience because he promises to cut jobs or limit salaries before raising taxes on those who can actually afford ridiculously high cam-paign contributions. That way, they can save their money and call it “job creation.”

Without further adieux, I’d like to introduce you to Spo-kane’s newest one-term mayor: David Condon.

This is a money game. If you can’t see it, you’re blind.

Spokane welcomes its newest one-term mayor: CondonBy Derek Brownopinion editor [email protected]

In the case of abusive relationships, much of the violence happens behind closed doors, so unless you overhear the act of violence, it may be hard to identify when to do your green dot. It’s easy to know that it’s time to do a green dot, such as calling 911, if you over-hear screaming or sounds of physical assaults. There are many less extreme signs of an abusive relationship that can be responded to. This article will highlight some of them.

An abuser seeks to have power and control over their partner. They do it through acts that are most-ly legal. You might observe a friend calling to check in with their partner. In an abusive relationship, the victim may be defending him or herself with com-ments like this: “I am just studying. I am not cheating on you.”

By watching the per-son’s body language, you can observe whether or not the person seems worn down, discouraged, or even afraid. Your green dot could be to check in, “Are you OK? Is there anything I can

do to help?” Your green dot also might be to confront, “It’s not cool how you track your partner’s movements.”

Some abusers insult their partner in public. They may call them stupid, or other names, or grab their arm roughly. Your green dot could be to say, “I am not comfortable with the way you are treating your partner. Why don’t you calm down?” You could cause a distraction, “Can you help me find some-thing?”

Isolation is a technique abusive people use to con-trol their partner. It may be that your friend can no longer hang out with you. Your green dot could be to speak up to the victim, “It’s

not okay to be cut off from friends or family. I know someone who can help you.” You can speak up to the controlling person, “It’s not healthy to tell your partner who to see. I think you might need some per-sonal help, so you can learn to trust.”

The key is to look for the subtle signs. To learn more, you might want to read the abusive relationships bro-chure that is on the advo-cate’s web pages. It is easier and safer to do green dots before the situation has es-calated, so educate yourself and make a commitment to do something. Togeth-er, we can help end vio-lence. Be an advocate, call 509.359.6429.

Green dot Spot:By Karen Wanjicoewu violence prevention advocate

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“I’m kind of in

the middle. I think

people will buy it at

all hours and will

drive drunk more.”

Jahtia Benton

“I think it’s a good

idea because liquor

stores close early

and people want to

get it later.”

Jayneka Howard

EAGLE LIFEeagle life • november 30, 2011

page 10

The EWU Theatre Program is remounting their production of Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried.” This play is an origi-nal adaptation of O’Brien’s 1990 novel of the same name and has won numerous awards.

Originally performed last March, “The Things They Car-ried” follows the experiences of a platoon of young Vietnam War soldiers.

The upcoming December per-formance has been entered in the Kennedy Center American Col-lege Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF). If selected, the performance will be invited to a regional competi-tion in Ft. Collins, Colo. in Feb-ruary. Finalists at the regional level are invited to participate in the festival in the spring.

Sara Goff, EWU assistant professor of theatre, said that the primary reason for re-mounting the play and entering it into the KC/ACTF was to get its message out to more people. “The [initial] response was just so tangible,” she said. “[Viet-nam is] a powder keg of emo-tions. I saw it get lit that [first] night.”

Goff explained that seven roles have been recast for the new production. She is opti-mistic about the remount. “The play has grown tremendously,” she said. “We’re revisiting these old friends [with] more depth

and nuance. The group dynamic is really strong.”

EWU theatre major Justin Schlabach, who plays the lead part of Tim O’Brien, agreed. “[It’s] an amazing opportunity to go places we didn’t go before [with the characters],” he said over the phone. “We’ve been able to explore a lot more of what we can do.”

This performance will include material from a chapter not cov-ered in the first version of the play, Schlabach explained.

“It took me a while to warm up to the idea [of doing it again],” he

said. “It’s very tough subject matter to deal with for yourself. We’re re-membering that fear, the different defense mechanisms that they’ve created to deal with the death.”

Goff reiterated the necessity of a second showing. “I’ve been getting emails from all over the world,” she said. “Last year, an alum fighting in Iraq wrote a letter about how im-portant this play was to him.”

“We’ve never had a show re-sponded to by outside interests. In my 13 years [of directing], we’ve never done a play twice,” she said. “This is so unprece-dented.”

“Please, please come,” said Schlabach. “The subject matter is just … so important.”

“We’ve got two wars going on. … My brother was sent to Afghanistan 28 days ago,” said Schlabach. “What do we do when they get back? How do we treat them? … How do we just sit down, turn off our preconcep-tions and judgments, and just listen?”

“The Things They Carried” will be performed at the EWU Theatre Dec. 1, 2, and 3 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 4 at 2 p.m. Admis-sion is free for EWU students.

By Davis Hillstaff writer

[email protected]

the cast of “the things they Carried” rehearse a scene in which the character lemon ascends into a symbolic lemon tree.Photo by Evan Sykes

O’Brien renewed in remount

Fall quarter’s Open Mic Night, presented by Eagle Entertainment, was in full swing as guitarists, poets, comedians and rappers took the stage in the PUB on Nov. 17. There were 30 performers to entertain and serenade the crowd of ap-proximately 180 attendees, a much higher number than usual, according to Campus Programs adviser Berto Cerrillo

Many people, includ-ing sound technician for campus sound productions David Edigar, expect the event to keep growing. Edi-gar said that previous Open Mic Nights hadn’t had quite the crowd that this one had and that he expects future Open Mic Nights to be big-ger in attendees and per-formers.

This is the fifth Open Mic Night for lead sound technician Joel Gorman, who loves the ambiance of the event.

“[There is a] general at-mosphere of unanimous support and enthusiasm,” Gorman said.

Many performers chose to do covers of songs. From Rise Against’s “Swing Life Away” to the popu-lar folk song, “Puff the Magic Dragon,” as well as a hip-hop rendition of the popular song, “Welcome to Cheney.” There was plenty of variety in music.

Others, however, chose to sing original songs, such as singer and songwriter Daniel Taylor, who has been writing songs for only two months. Taylor, who plans to use EWU’s studio to record an album, played his first Open Mic Night, where he performed a song he wrote, titled “Signals.”

Jordan Lemmon was one of the comedians who performed and a major-ity of his jokes were cen-tered on awkward ways to end a relationship. Lem-mon admitted he was a little nervous at first, but gained confidence due to the audience’s supportive nature.

“Everyone was being confident because everyone was giving that camarade-rie,” Lemmon said, adding that the mood of the night was casual and that he en-joyed the live music and the fun everyone seemed to be having.

The night was capped off by a performance of Linkin Park’s “In the End” by George Li, who sang and rapped over an instrumen-tal track. His fourth time performing at Open Mic Night, Li said that he does it just for fun and that he en-joys seeing different people perform.

On Jan. 12, Eagle En-tertainment is putting on a magic show featuring Mike Super, the winner of NBC’s “Phenomenon,” a reality competition show that pits magicians and illusionists against each other.

Open Mic Nightcoaxes artistryfrom studentsBy Josh Friesen contributing writer

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The Harry Potter club at Eastern gets together to fundraise for charity events and promote literacy.

Sophomore Brandy Jones is the president of the Harry Potter club and wanted to bring the club back to in-spire others to read and help the com-munity.

“I wanted to bring the club back so we could keep giving to the com-munity,” said Jones. “Last year’s club promoted literacy through reading to elementary schools and we want to do that again.”

Faculty adviser Michelle Schultz, co-founder of the Harry Potter club, said, “The club started in 2007 and became an official club at Eastern in 2008 as a reading club. The idea for the club came from having large group discussions while working on my Harry Potter thesis for my master’s in English.”

Although the club started out as a reading group, the focus has shifted to a lot more than reading.

“This year’s group is showing a lot more purpose than previous years,” said Schultz. “This group primar-ily wants to do fundraisers, charity work, and promote literacy instead of primarily having fun like past groups have.”

Last year’s Harry Potter club did a book drive. This year’s club wants to do even more activities, including raising money for charity, promoting literacy, and running a book drive.

This year, the club wants to fund-raise for a children’s charity that J.K Rowling started, called “Lumos.” The

charity’s goal is to stop the abuse of children, said Schultz.

While the club likes to do communi-ty activities, it also likes to have fun with their own creative activities.

Sophomore Marissa Hull is the sec-retary of The Harry Potter club and looks to bring some of last year’s club activities back.

“The previous president of the Harry Potter club had equipment to play Quid-ditch on the field,” Hull said. “I’m going to get in contact with her and see if I can borrow the equipment so the club can play Quidditch again.”

Quidditch is a sport that J.K Rowl-ing made up for the Harry Potter series. In the films, the sport consists of play-ers flying on broomsticks and throwing balls, called quaffles, through hoops. Rowling’s creative sport became so pop-ular, there have been attempts to play Quidditch in real life using bicycles or unicycles to recreate the fast movement of the broomsticks in the films.

The way Eastern’s Harry Potter club plays Quidditch is a game that combines ideas from dodgeball and ultimate fris-bee. Schultz said how much fun it is and what the amount of players needed to play the Harry Potter club’s version of Quidditch.

According to Schultz, there has nev-er been enough players to have a seeker on both teams. In the film, a seeker’s job is to catch a “golden snitch,” which would end the game. A seeker at East-ern would play by running all over campus trying to find an item that rep-resents the snitch to end the game.

The club meets every other Thurs-day in the PUB, room 357. To find out more information about the Harry Potter club, email the club at [email protected] or find them on Facebook.

Potter’s pals promoteliteracy and QuidditchBy Frank McNeilly contributing writer

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Photo courtesy of JEOPARDY!

By Amy Meyer editor-in-chief

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In early October, Clay-ton Hanson flew to Los An-geles to compete in JEOP-ARDY! Hanson competed in the half-hour prime time game show, claiming sec-ond place and a prize of $2,000.

The categories were a surprise and Hanson learned that hitting the buzzer at the right moment was imperative. “It was a huge psychological advan-tage, I think, for the return-ing champ to come in and blow through two catego-ries at the beginning, in-cluding a Daily Double. … It really changed the dynamic of the game when neither I nor the other contestant could reasonably expect to catch up in the first round,” Hanson said.

He was most upset that the second Daily Double was snatched up by the oth-er contestant in the “Mad-

am, I am Adam Smith” cat-egory. Hanson said he was very familiar with the 18th century economist and phi-losopher. He would have used his knowledge and the Daily Double to catch up to the returning champ.

In the second round, “New Math” was the obvi-ous groaner for all three contestants and was avoid-ed until the end.

“I’m not bad at math, but I’m just not fast. So I knew that that was going to be a real pain, especially with someone who’s … next to me, [who is] definitely using math on a day-to-day basis.”

The final clue, “In 2010, 467 years after his death, this man at odds with the church was reburied with honors at a Polish cathe-dral,” was answered by all contestants with the ques-tion, “Who is Copernicus?” Hanson finished second with a total of $10,401 af-ter betting most of his win-nings.

Graduate student Clayton Hanson (right) poses with JEOPardy! host alex trebek (left).

Hanson nabs second place

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Photo by Evan Sykes

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Most students go to Sutton to pay fees, drop a class, visit financial aid or tend to other administrative needs that go along with college life. Rarely do students stay long enough to get to know the people be-hind the scenes.

This is a small look into the life of Lorene Winters, an Eastern employee who works in Sutton and brightens the office with her purple decorations, stuffed animals and games.

The Easterner: What is your name and position on campus?Lorene Winters: Lorene Winters and my position is program coordinator here with student financial services.

TE: How long have you been on campus?LW: I have been on campus 11 years as an employee, plus two years as a student worker.”

TE: Briefly describe your job?LW: “I work with students all day long and work with their accounts with finan-cial posting and taking their money.”

TE: Best part of your job?LW: Probably my favorite thing to do is just working with the students and get-ting to hear their stories. I just love it. That’s the best part of my job.

TE: Worst part of your job?LW: “Asking students for money and when I have to say ‘No.’ ”

TE: Why did you choose EWU?LW: That’s kind of a cool story, actually. I had to go out and get a job. I knew I wanted to apply at a university because that would provide my education and I had a real strong, strong desire to go back to school.

So I went to the different universities, like Whitworth, Gonzaga, and Eastern. Those were my three top choices.

I actually went on campus and applied there and everything. And once I came to Eastern, it was like, that was my answer.

It felt like home. It just felt right and I thought, ‘This is where I need to be.’ And lo and behold, I got hired.

TE: What is your favorite memory on campus?LW: “It’s got to be with the students. It is a real spiritual high for me to hear their problems and be able to help them in any way that I can.”

TE: What is your most embarrassing moment?LW: We dress up for Halloween most of the years and there was one Halloween we dressed up, me and my co-worker, as sumo wrestlers with the big blow up suits. Another co-worker, a good friend of mine that works here, she talked us into doing a race out on campus.

Nobody knew who we were, so we could be as wild and crazy as we wanted to be. But we actually got out on campus and we raced each other and it was hi-larious. And we would bump into each other. … That was embarrassing.

TE: Describe your family?LW: Family is priority. I love my family. Five children and, right now, five grand-children. They are what life is all about.

TE: What is your favorite quote?LW: “Love one another as I have loved you.” – John 13:34

TE: What is your favorite movie or TV show?LW: Movie has to be ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and ‘[The] Sound of Music.’ Those are my favorites.

TE: What is your best or favorite vaca-tion spot?LW: I would go back to Kauai [Hawaii] in a heartbeat. That was one of my very favorites.

TE: What is your favorite color?LW: All colors. I will have to say purple right now, which is very fitting for my age.

TE: What is your hobby?LW: My hobby is all about my family and grandchildren. I have a lot of [hobbies]. … Those are my priorities.

TE: What is the significance of all the toys?LW: “I actually did a little psychological analysis on it and had the students come in and write what it did for them. And my theory was absolutely right on; it truly brings the child out in them.

It relieves their stress instantly. If they have to pay money or if they are up-set about something, it totally changes their mood and their attitude. And that’s a lot of what they wrote. They love the games for that reason. It was fun.”

TE: What is your favorite childhood toy?LW: “I had eight siblings, so we didn’t have much. Probably my bike and roller skates because that gave me a sense of freedom.”

TE: Name your most rewarding experi-ence?LW: Most rewarding is indeed going through labor.

Being pregnant and being a mom. And then the second would be watching the grandbabies come out. That is just amaz-ing. I thought being a mom was the best job in the world, but being a grandma is even better.

TE: What inspires you?LW: Definitely my Heavenly Father, my savior Jesus. I kind of look at it as a pyra-mid. If you put God first, … then every-thing else will flow into place.

TE: Describe yourself in one sentence?LW: A woman of integrity, very loving, unconditional love, non-judgmental, and I like to serve and bring joy to others.

Q&A: The smiling lady who works behind the counter in Sutton HallBy Desireé Hoodstaff writer

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Group study sessions led by well-trained tutors are available to students for some of the courses offered at Eastern, such as biology, chemistry and math.

Programs Leading to Un-dergraduate Success, more commonly known as PLUS Groups, began at Eastern in 1998 as a collaborative ef-fort between Eastern and the Academic Success Cen-ter, formely the Academic Support Center, to offer stu-dents assistance with certain courses. PLUS Groups are free to all students.

Last year, 1,763 students at Eastern participated in PLUS Groups. The average GPA for students regularly attending PLUS Groups was 2.96, while the average GPA for non-PLUS Group stu-dents was 2.39 -- a difference of more than half of a grade point.

According to Theresa Davis, PLUS Group coor-dinator, Eastern is College Reading & Learning Associa-tion (CRLA) certified, which

means Eastern can train tu-tors.

Davis talked about how well trained the group fa-cilitators are for each PLUS group.

“The facilitators who are picked have taken the course they are facilitating, scored a 3.0 or higher in the course and have a recommenda-tion from that course’s pro-fessor,” Davis said. “Once picked, each facilitator goes through 10 hours of training and 25 hours of group facili-tation.”

Senior Diane Prince, a PLUS Group facilitator for the Chemistry 160 series, talked about how being a facilitator, over time, has helped her out with her own studies.

“This is my fourth quar-ter as a facilitator,” Prince said. “Teaching other stu-dents helps me see different perspectives of the material

and by learning it different-ly, it helps me understand chemistry even better.”

Junior Miriam Verbarg said that PLUS Groups have been a positive reinforce-ment for her studies.

“The PLUS group for my government class got me motivated to study and I aced that class,” Verbarg said.

Verbarg pointed out is-sues that PLUS Groups can improve on.

“There has been some confusion in my chemistry PLUS group because the fa-cilitator was taught by a dif-ferent chemistry professor and is teaching differently than my professor,”

Verbarg said, “It would be more helpful if there was better communication be-tween the facilitator and the chemistry professors so the facilitators have a better idea on how to help everyone in the group.”

By Frank McNeillystaff writer

[email protected]

Taking the edge off challenging coursesPLUS Groups free for students

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the two different types of work study.

Work study that is funded by the state has different rules and regu-lations than its federal counterpart.

In the last two legisla-tive sessions, state work study has been cut from around $700,000 to $280,000.

Funded by the federal government, federal work study receives around $430,000 per year.

This amount has not increased for more than 10 years, according to De-Frates.

“Work study jobs carry certain eligibility crite-ria and must be counted against a student’s need,” DeFrates said.

Non-work study jobs are funded by EWU and are counted as income on the next year’s FAFSA, not against a student’s finan-cial need.

There are currently about 500 work study

positions and 1,100 non-work study positions.

Jobs in the URC, Enrollment Service of-fices, athletics, libraries and Dining Services are among the most popular non-work study jobs of-fered on campus.

Non-work study jobs off campus include local groceries, fast food ven-ues, Walmart and Costco.

“The good news is the administration of East-ern has been really good about giving us money to make up the difference. Our total amount avail-able has gone down a little bit, but it’s been mitigated by what we’ve been given from the administration,” DeFrates said.

Work study waitlists are posted all through Ea-gleAxis. Where a student stands on a waitlist does not matter. What matters is whether the student was awarded before and their level of financial need, according to Mag-day.

Magday says the number of students on a waitlist does not effect whether or not a student is awarded work study.

Once a student is awarded work study, they can log onto EagleAxis and look for jobs.

Employers post job op-tions on EagleAxis for stu-dents to go in and apply. Some jobs allow students to send out their applica-tions and resumes to the employers or the depart-ments.

Work study is a grant that the university awards to students based on the student’s financial need and expected family con-tribution (EFC).

“Work study does not have an exceptional need criterion,” said DeFrates. “We can give it to stu-dents who are middle in-come and who are low in-come. … We don’t usually give it to the high income students.”

Students on work study and non-work study receive their checks every two weeks. It is then up to them whether they use it toward tuition or living expenses.

Magday said, “It all depends on your fam-ily contribution, which is your EFC, and that’s how you’re awarded. We

always get more students than we do awards, so it’s not a guarantee that you will receive an award. … It goes towards your tuition. You can buy your books with it.”

For additional infor-mation, contact the Stu-dent Employment Office or visit https://ewu-csm.symplicity.com/students/.

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The Easterner will be publishing a series of self-image articles. Topics may include: eating dis-orders, peer pressure, mood disorders, cliques and gender-specific problems.

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History of EastErn in picturEs

Registration circa 1974. Students picked up their course confirmation in Showalter Hall, then went to appropriate offices to make changes when needed. It was a slow, labor inten-sive process.

Registration today. Students use EagleNet to look up and register for classes, review finan-cial aid awards, submit time sheets and pay fees.

Courtesy EWU Libraries, Archives & Special Collections

Photo Illustration by Aaron Malmoe

“It’s my understanding that we’re supposed to be discussing things that will increase our revenue,” said Jamison. “This is a new op-portunity to take the voice of the individual, … this is a new time”

Jamison, who’s obtain-ing a master’s in public ad-ministration, is a member of “Cuts Have Consequenc-es” and is worried that sup-porting three children while going to school will be diffi-cult with additional budget cuts.

Students, such as Dar-rel Green, who don’t receive direct financial aid are also concerned about what in-direct effects the cuts may have.

“My adviser’s hours got cut at the Pride Center and she helps a lot of us with suicidal problems, a lot of emotional distress and I don’t want to see the center closed for all the people who need the help,” Green said.

While students are con-cerned about the cuts, mem-bers of the state legislator recognize that the state is in

a deficit and need to make cuts.

Michael Cathcart, who is an assistant to Senator Michael Baumgartner of the Washington State Senate, knows this well. “We do the best job that we can do to communicate with you guys. Every time we print some-thing, every time we mail something, that costs you guys money,” Cathcart said.

Kelli Crawford, the legis-lative affairs representative for ASEWU, thinks that the state legislators need to take a risk on education.

“Risk the status quo and do something,” Crawford said, “How are we to fix our unemployment when it’s getting harder for them to even qualify?”

Amanda Hunt, a social work major, believes that the grants that she receives are her only reason she is able to attend school.

“Our state is in a crisis,” Hunt said. “We’re facing a revenue crisis. … As stu-dents, these cuts will effect us or someone we know,” Hunt said.

“I know, personally, that I would not be here today … if it were not for the grants I received,” Hunt said.

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generate revenue for the state by creating a markup on the liquor. This rev-enue is then used in the same way that tax money is used.

While the state liquor stores provide more than 1,000 jobs and revenue for the economy, supporters for I-1183 believe that the free market will generate more revenue for the econ-omy than a state-regulated liquor store because of the competitive nature of the spirit industry.

According to urban and regional planning profes-sor Fred Hurand, he voted

against I-1183 because state-run stores limit un-derage drinking better than private businesses .

“I voted against it. I think it was because I would hope it would help with the control of under-age people getting alcohol,” Hurand said.

Levi Basinger, an urban and regional planning ma-jor, voted for the bill.

“I voted for it because, from what I read about it, it was supposed to generate some revenue for schools and health,” Basinger said. “[I-1183] is going to make the fines and regulations for providing to minors more serious. If they really want to drink, they’ll get it anyway.”

I-1183 had many fis-cal contributors, particu-larly the stores that would be able to sell liquor as a result of the initiative’s en-actment, such as Safeway, Albertsons and Rosauers. However, none contributed as much as Costco.

Estimated at $22 mil-lion, Costco made up a large percentage of all of the money spent on the campaign, and this fact bothers Hurand, among other opponents.

“Another thing that bothered me was the amount of money that Costco spent … did they buy the vote? That’s more important to me than the availability of kids getting booze,” Hurand said.

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Corrections Sports: From Is-sue 7, An abandoned dug out, a comeback dream: The three-year veteran of the baseball club spells his name Brennan McIntire. The team that normally plays 80-90 games per season is Arizona State.

News: An article in issue 9 stated that the university will select a new dean of students by January. A specific time frame for when the new dean of stu-dents will be selected has not been deter-mined.

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Nov. 14Theft

A backpack was stolen from the URC. It was later found nearby with the contents having been gone through, but nothing was stolen.

Nov. 15Malicious mischief

A female student returned to her car to find that it had been keyed. The car was parked be-hind Dryden Hall on North 10th at Cedar. There are no suspects at this time.

Nov. 17Collision

An unattended Subaru at the townhouse apartments was left in neutral. The vehicle rolled across the parking lot and hit an-other unattended vehicle.

Nov. 18Malicious mischief

Stall partitions were damaged

in the men’s restroom in the Sci-ence Building. The partitions were pulled apart and pulled from the wall, causing damage to the drywall. There are no sus-pects at this time.

Nov. 19Marijuana violation

Officers responded to Streeter Hall regarding the smell of mari-juana on the fifth floor. The stu-dents attempted to leave the build-ing before officers arrived and were contacted outside the build-ing. One student was arrested.

Nov. 20Agency assist

A teenage male was report-ed for trespassing near the 600 block of sixth street. The under-age student was standing at the entrance of a home, demanding to come inside, though he did not know the occupants. Officers arrived to find the intoxicated student still at the home. He was given an MIP and arrested.

Nov. 2112 p.m.Theft

Officers responded to Upper Lot 13 regarding a vehicle prowl. A car was broken into sometime during the previous night and a CD player was stolen. There are no suspects at this time.

Malicious mischief A toilet bowl in JFK Library

was damaged. Custodians re-ported racial slurs carved into the side of a toilet bowl in the men’s restroom.

Drug violationOfficers were called to Lou-

ise Anderson Hall after commu-nity advisers reported the smell of marijuana on the third floor. Two students were arrested for possession of marijuana under 40 grams.

The students were referred to OSRR.

Nov. 22Theft

A wallet was stolen from the URC. A female student placed her

backback in an unlocked locker at the gym and found her wallet missing upon her return. There are no suspects at this time.

HarassmentOfficers were contacted in

Tawanka regarding two female students who were having a ver-bal argument.

The students were referred to OSRR, and no criminal charges were filed.

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Police Beat

Nov. 18: Stall partitions were damaged in the men’s restroom in the Sci-ence Building. the partitions were pulled apart and pulled from the wall, causing damage to the drywall. there are no suspects at this time.

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