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Undocuweek Guest Speaker: Yosimar Reyes June 6 // 6-8 p.m. // MH 152 // Free Viking Union 411 516 High St. Bellingham, WA 98225 Phone: 360.650.6126 Fax: 360.650.6507 Email: as.review@wwu.edu as.wwu.edu/asreview @TheASReview facebook.com/theasreview © 2018. Published most Mondays during the school year by the Associated Students of Western Washington University. The AS Review is an alternative weekly that provides coverage of student interests such as the AS government, activities and student life. The Review seeks to enhance the student experience by shedding light on underrepresented issues, inclusive coverage, informing readers and promoting dialogue. We welcome reader submissions, including news articles, literary pieces, photography, artwork or anything else physically printable. Email submissions to as.review@wwu.edu. We welcome letters to the editor. Please limit your letter to 300 words, include your name, phone number and year in school, if you’re a student. Send them to as.review@wwu.edu. Published letters may have minor edits made to their length or grammar.
Yosimar Reyes is a nationally acclaimed poet, educator, performance artist and public speaker. The QRC and Blue Group are hosting an event in which Reyes will be speaking on queerness and the
Erasmus Baxter Kira Stussy Hailey Hoffman Josh Hughes Julia Berkman Hailey Murphy
Photographer Eythan Frost Adviser Jeff Bates
June 4 //11 a.m. - 9 p.m. // The Filling Station // Free
A Symbiotic Qualia
Come support a good cause at The Filling Station this monday. 10% of proceeds go to the WWU Speech-LanguageHearing Clinic to help those with Aphasia (a language disorder that is primarily caused by strokes).
Until June 16 // varying times // Western Gallery // Free
Holi Festival
undocumented experiences.
This exhibition is displaying the works of Western students in Studio Art. Make sure to come and check it out before it’s too late.
Undocu-photo series Until June 6 // 6-8 p.m. // Miller Hall collab spac // Free This week, WWU Blue Group will be fundraising to send members to the United We Dream Congress in October. As a part of this effort, undocuphotos is a project done by all undocumented students.
WWU NeRDS Tie-Dye with Mana Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor Lead Photographer Writers
Burger Bash for Aphasia Awareness
June 10 // 12-3 p.m. // Comm Lawn // Free Bring your own t-shirt or tie-dye a new NeRDS t-shirt with Dr. Mana. Supplies will be provided, just asking for $2 a person.
June 9 // 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. // Comm Lawn // Free Come celebrate the festival of color (Holi) with WWU South Asian Student Association. Packets of colored powder and authentic Indian food will be on sale. Come and enjoy before finals. Wearing white is encouraged. If you don’t have white, they will be on sale. Make sure to bring cash!
Miss Africa Whatcom County 2018 Pageant June 9 // 6-9 p.m. // WWU PAC // $15 student This event is sponsored by Luchrist Modern African Fashion and the WWU African Caribbean Club. Students can buy tickets at the door and tickets for non-students are $35 and can be bought online. Check Facebook for more details.
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Western admin violated law, WSU lawsuit alleges
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BY HAILEY MURPHY
Washington State University is being sued for alleged phone number, without the permission of the chief. violations of the Civil Rights Act, Title IX and the Clery Under Title IX of the Education Amendments, and Act by former student Dominique Stewart after she was under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, Huskey was to verbally and physically harassed by other students at contact the police chief herself, Bremner said. WSU. Additionally, when Stewart’s mother asked for someMelynda Huskey, Western’s current vice president for one to escort Stewart to class, or for any other means to Enrollment and Student Services, was Dean of Students keep Stewart safe, Huskey replied that “nothing [could] and interim Vice President for Student Affairs at WSU be done.” during these investigations.The lawsuit alleges she did WSU denied this allegation in their response to the not follow federal law in handling the incidents. complaint. Huskey declined to After a second incident comment on the grounds of harassment, Stewart’s of pending litigation. mother learned that Huskey Stewart’s complaint had not been in contact said that WSU mishanwith local or campus police, dled the investigation according to the complaint. of these incidents and “[Huskey] had duties failed to protect her from specifically herself to contact discrimination on the law enforcement and follow basis of her race, resulting up with them,” Bremner in physical and emotional said. “She had a duty to distress. investigate– or cause to be On Feb. 21, 2015, investigated– the others Vice President of Enrollment and StuStewart was standing in at the fraternity and the front of the Phi Delta dent Services Melynda Huskey is being individuals who threw Theta fraternity house chicken into Ms. Stewart’s accused of not following federal law when a member of the face… This would’ve been a when addressing harassment. Hailey frat house called Stewart, crime that was reportable, a Hoffman//AS Review who is black, a racial hate crime, and it was never slur, as well as a “bitch”, reported, which also subjects according to the plaintiff the university to forfeiture complaint. Witnesses reported seeing members of the of federal funds, and that includes federal funds that are frat house laughing about the comments afterwards. given through scholarships, so there’s a number of kind The incident sparked rallies across WSU’s campus, of potential penalties when you’re dealing non-compliaccording to the complaint, with some– but not all- of ance of Title IX.” the rallies protesting Stewart’s treatment. As stated in the plaintiff complaint, there’s no indiAnne Bremner, Stewart’s attorney, said it’s unclear cation that a Title IX or Title VI investigation was ever how the incident came to be so publicized. WSU, in their conducted. WSU denies this in their response. response to the plaintiff complaint, denied that such Phil Weiler, vice president for Marketing and Comrallies occurred. munications at WSU, said WSU took the necessary An investigation was launched by WSU’s Office of actions to protect Stewart. Equal Opportunity, and the student who used the slur “In addition to expelling the student who violated our was expelled. code of conduct, we also provided immediate resourcStewart’s mother traveled to WSU early in March after es to the student who brought these concerns to our the first incident of harassment to have a meeting with attention. We continued to support her as she completed Huskey. At the meeting, Huskey suggested that Stewart her degree at WSU,” Weiler said in an email. “We believe move housing, but offered no housing contracts or conthe legal process will show that the actions taken map to tact information, according to the complaint. our values of supporting all students in their educational Huskey also gave Stewart the university police chief ’s CONTINUED PG. 7
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Sabah Speaks
In an excerpt from an exclusive interview President Randhawa talks hate speech and the university’s handling of sexual assault
In a thirty-minute interview, the AS Review the way the university responded [to the Some people have been critical, saying this asked President Sabah Randhawa’s about antisemitic incidents], with the event in the created a culture of fear without explaining student dissatisfaction with how Western han- library. Not only was there heavy participaany details. Can you address that concern? dles sexual assault and harassment, response tion from the campus, but from the comRandhawa: As I said, you know, it is such to hate speech and vandalism, support for munity. There were 250 people, including a fine balance. And again, we try to do the students of color, accessibility and universiHolocaust survivors sitting in the front row, best we can in the moment. So that was one ty transparency. Read the full interview at which I think was a significant response. example of when we sort of immediately wp.wuu.edu/theasreview AS Review: The posters were found in responded. And part of the reason we rePaul Cocke, director of communications October and reported in The Bellingham sponded was because some of the input that and marketing, was also present at the interHerald and the AS Review and students was coming to us was that there was some view. said they brought it to the administration’s concern students were really concerned AS Review: Western has received some praise from students and faculty from how it handled the antisemitic book vandalism in the library, but some are wondering why Western didn’t respond as quickly, in their view, or communicate as much about the flier found on campus in October that said “execute Islamo-fascist terrorism and their lying, fascist supporters,” as well as some other flyers. I know you sent an email in December where it was referenced when you talked about the new committees, but do you have a response to those concerns? Randhawa: Let me start out by saying that as far as the university is concerned, and as far as I’m concerned, no form of hate or discrimination or bigotry is tolerated. That’s one of our core values. In terms of how quickly and how we respond to it, part of it is—to be upfront—it’s a learning process for us. Part of it is that at times there is a lack of clarity and it takes President Randhawa sat down for an interview with the AS Review, Thurstime to establish exactly where information is coming from and how we respond day, May 31, 2018. Eythan Frost//AS Review to it. It just takes some time to “figure out” between different agencies that are looking at it, different offices on campus, police and attention, but it wasn’t until December that about it, particularly undocumented stuothers that are looking at it, it just takes a it was referenced in an email sent to students and DACA students. And so we felt we little bit of time to react to it. dents. Can you say in this specific case why needed to do something immediately so they And then one needs to be thoughtful in it took two months for that to happen? don’t totally get panicked in terms of what terms of how one responds. You know, we Randhawa: I honestly don’t recall exactly is going on. We did the best we could at that want to be really authentic with the camthe sequence, so I won’t be able to provide point in time. Looking in the rear view mirpus in terms of what is going on, but at the you with a well-informed answer without ror, I’m sure there are other things we could same time, you also don’t want to create speculating. have addressed. But again, decisions were a culture of fear on campus and so that’s AS Review: Going back to you talking made at that time given the information we why it’s important to look at where certain about the balance of communication and had and we try to do the best we can. things are coming from. And you know, it’s a not creating a culture of fear, The Western Cocke: And there was a lot of chatter on learning process at times and feedback from Front reported on the emails sent out social media. There was a lot of misinformathe community and others helps for the next by Vice President Huskey about rumors tion floating around. time around. that ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs Randhawa: You know, I remember we Cocke: And I think it’s important to note Enforcement] agents were on campus. had a similar thing where there were some
reports of some “law enforcement” automobiles on campus and they were not from ICE but nevertheless at that time, we didn’t respond, in fact, for several days, trying to confirm where they were from and whatnot. And some people rightly said, “You took too long to respond.” It’s such a fine balance and it’s almost a case-to-case basis in terms of assessment and [asking] is this going to create too much panic and what is the end result if we respond or don’t respond. AS Review: I want to ask what Western administrators are doing to address student dissatisfaction with how Western handles cases of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Randhawa: Really important question. Where should I start? So I think, again from a core value perspective, I want to say that equity, justice, respect and dignity are absolutely critical for the university. It’s one of the core values of Western. Our challenge for every member of the community is how we live up to that value going forward. Our approach has been sort of twofold. One is around education awareness training, the other one is that when there is an incident, that we process the allegations in a timely manner and in a process that respects the due rights of all parties, as mandated by federal requirements. Even though the current [federal] administration has rescinded some of the older things [guidelines on how universities handle sexual violence], we have continued and will continue to work on the older guidelines, which is really important in terms of investigating some of these cases. So what are we doing right now? There are three things that we are doing right now. The first thing is we are expanding the capacity in the [Equal Opportunity Office, which investigates sexual misconduct at Western] around Title IX. And we are hopeful by the end of the summer we will complete that. And so by expanding capacity, what we are doing is two things. One is we are creating sort of a group that is really focused on Title IX. And we are creating an associate director of Title IX and adding another investigator. So we are going to dou-
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BY ASIA FIELDS ble the capacity from about 1.5 individuals today to about three individuals who will be focused on these issues. Part of it is that since these are complex cases that require a lot of time, we need more people to work through that. The second thing that we are doing is that I have called for a review of how we have handled sexual assault cases in the past with an eye toward greater accountability going forward and what we can do to improve. And I’m having our Office of Internal Audit do that work, which is an independent entity. I expect that work to be completed in the next four to six weeks. And I think between that and also between increasing the capacity of the EOO, I am hoping we can think through where we need to improve and what we need to do. And so part of that assessment is getting together with our ESS [enrollment and student services] folks, with our leaders in the EOO office and trying to figure out some of our overall approach and philosophy. And this is really addressing this greater accountability issue in terms of going forward and if things are proven, then what types of penalties need to be in place and just revisiting that whole element of it. The third thing we need to do is we need to, like I said, a part of our focus needs to be education. And so I’ve been talking with the vice provost of our EOO office as well as our academic leaders about the training we provide. So right now we provide HAVEN training when students enter the university. And so we are looking into how do we provide this multiple times during their tenure at the university. When someone comes in, it’s great to provide that training, but there’s so much information overload at that one point in time, so trying to reinforce it sophomore year or a few times is important. So we are looking at how we increase that. And the same on the faculty and the staff side. We require every faculty and new staff member to go through the training process but again, how we do it throughout their tenure at the university is important. We are looking at the education awareness part of it, but at the same time, we need to increase the capacity in terms of how we handle these cases. AS Review: I want to ask about university transparency in general. During this
last AS election, most, if not all, of the candidates said they did not trust or found it difficult to work with administrators. I’m wondering if you see that that’s been a problem at Western and if so, what’s being done about it. Randhawa: So transparency is sort of a continuum. And the first thing that I’ll say is that I’m really open to any suggestions that students might have or any of the members of the community might have in terms of how we increase transparency. I suspect that the impression comes from
think about the proposal around tuition and fees. So we are trying to work on transparency around that particular issue. Many of the meetings that address these issues are open, whether they are Board of Trustees meetings, University Planning Resource committee, AS Board. Any group that I appoint, I make sure there is student representation, whether it is a cabinet or the Commission on Gender Equity or the Council for Inclusion, Equity and Social Justice. I’ve tried to have open forums and my door is always open, but as I said, any solutions students might have, I welcome
“I would say that when it comes to information about specific cases, our hands are tied on that. But in terms of what I shared with you in terms of the process, like the review I am doing, that’s a good point that we make sure we share what we are doing with the campus community and we do a better job.” a number of different elements… It might come from, for example, the question you asked me about sexual assault cases, you know, and how much we can say about them. And we are limited it terms, because of federal requirements, in terms of what we can say in some of the cases or any case that involves personnel. But on the other side, one of the things we have worked very hard on is in terms of the transparency processes. So, take this for example, we have tried to make it very open where all the money comes, where it goes, and there are students involved in the process. In fact, we are going to make it even more transparent next year. When we set tuition and fees, we seek input from the AS or other relevant groups. So, for example, when we talk about housing and dining rates, we involve the current presidents and RAs [resident advisors] and so on. Starting next year, what we are going to do is also have some forums to invite every student to come and talk to us about what they
to increase transparency. AS Review: You laid out for me three different ways the university is trying to address student concerns about sexual harassment and assault. I’ve talked to some students who feel like what is going on at the administrative level isn’t being communicated to students, so students feel nothing is going on. Randhawa: Sure. AS Review: Are there plans to communicate this to students or address that? Randhawa: In fact, I had a chance to meet with a group… Planned Parenthood Generation, as well as a couple of other groups, just recently on the same thing. They had brought some suggestions to me also in terms of how can for example, put more information on the web in terms of the values we hold, in terms of the process. And so, we are putting in work over the summer to make it happen. I promised to them that I can’t make any commitment during this
term, we only have a month to go and it’s too busy, but over the summer, we’d try to move forward some of the recommendations I’ve committed to them. Again, I would say that when it comes to information about specific cases, our hands are tied on that. But in terms of what I shared with you in terms of the process, like the review I am doing, that’s a good point that we make sure we share what we are doing with the campus community and we do a better job. AS Review: You said that when it comes to specific cases your hands are tied. I talked to one person from Planned Parenthood Generation who said she doesn’t understand how we can have these conversations if we can’t talk about specific cases and talk about what went wrong in them. Are there things that the university maybe can say about some of these cases that they aren’t? Or even if you can’t specifically point to a specific case, could there be more that the university could do to address what happens in some of these cases with students? Randhawa: I’m not sure, taking the individuals out of the situation, maybe as far as, I think that’s a fair observation and something perhaps we can try to do more intentionally is talking about the types of situations, for example, that create certain outcomes and how we address them. I think that’s a legitimate conversation. And in fact, we don’t even have to look at Western. There are enough examples out there, if you’re talking almost like a case study approach. If you look at how certain things have happened and if Western were in that situation, how would we respond? You know, I think that’s a healthy discussion to have for the university. Cocke: It’s also an evolving situation not only at Western but in society with the #MeToo movement and a greater demand for more information. I think not only Western, but a lot of institutions and a lot of businesses, big businesses, are struggling with both how to educate and provide information that also meets other needs. Read the full interview at wp.wwu.edu/ TheASReview
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AS Board Report March 25 T
BY HAILEY MURPHY
he Associated Students Board performances. ument on the information item. meeting on March 25 featured Rios-Sanchez, after consulting the Action Items conversations on the AS Budget, inbudget committee, said there was The board unanimously approved formation from Blue Group regarding enough student engagement to keep the funding for KUGS to purchase the the United We Dream conference and budget that high, and that the cost of $13,750 ENCO automation system, debates over giving students access to the event was still “dirt cheap” considwhich will allow broadcasts when the Wall Street Journal. ering what it encompasses. students aren’t operating the control Information Items– Guests The board then moved on to another board. Jeremy McAllister, the Viking Union information item. Cindy Marquina-NeThis will allow KUGS to operate IT manager, came to the AS Board meeting to discuss the AS website design and development budget. The AS Budget Committee, in their proposal, recommended $26,532 be allocated to website design for the 2019 Fiscal Year, a small increase from $25,298 in 2018. However, that 2018 budget increased over $10,000 from 2017, when $15,093 was allocated. Alex LaVallee, ASVP for business and operations, expressed frustration that the website has not improved despite budget increases. McAllister explained that some of the budget is for wages, as they’ll need more employees for the future redesign of the website. He also said it’s difficult to make changes to the website with its current design, which will have to be fixed prior to any large-scale The 2017-18 AS Board. Annabelle Barrett redesigns. LaVallee further expressed the importance of maintaining an accurate grete spoke on behalf of Blue Group, overnight, as well as during intersesAS website later in the meeting. requesting funding to attend the 10th sions and VU construction . “The website our main way of comannual United We Dream conference in The board also approved a $41,241.05 municating with the student body,” Miami, Florida. grant to maintain the Student EnhanceLaVallee said. The conference brings together unment Fund, which provides funding to Later in the meeting, the AS Board documented leaders, Marquina-Negrete students seeking educational opportureturned to the conversation of the AS said, and brings to light stories that are nities such as conferences and workbudget, this time discussing details with often not talked about. shops. Jose Rios-Sanchez, AS business direc“It’s really great for us to build net$35,000 of the grant went to the fund tor, and Raquel Wilson, Finance Office works with leaders across the nation,” itself, while the remaining $6,241.05 manager and Business Office adviser. Marquina-Negrete said. pays for the wages of the Student EnThe board discussed the summer Blue Group requested $5,600, which hancement Fund facilitator position, concert series, which has $3,570 allocovers the cost of plane tickets. according to the AS Board document cated for five one-hour performances, Further funding has been accessed on the item. according to the budget proposal. through the Steering fund, Viking The wages of the student enhanceSimrun Chhabra, AS president, had Funder and Blue Group fundraising ment fund facilitator may be up for questioned the need for five summer efforts, according to the AS Board docreconsideration in the near future,
LaVallee said. Lastly, the board approved a proposal from the Student Technology Fee committee, which asked for $115,303 towards new tech initiatives including ATUS cinema production tools, streaming in the PAC concert hall, more 3D printing technologies, more power packs for laptops in the library and more. The committee’s spending fell short of the $130,000 allocated for 2018 tech initiatives. Information Items– Board Formerly known as the ESC President’s Council, changes were made to the charge and charter of the ESC Leadership and Advocacy Force committee to reflect their new name. Additionally, the ESC Steering Committee changes its name to the ESC Budget and Programming Committee. The AS Board was contacted by the Wall Street Journal, who offered a service that would provide students, faculty and staff with online access to their publication for $24,490 a year. Western is currently supplied with physical copies of the New York Times, which approximately 700 students have access to across campus, according to LaVallee. The cost of supplying the New York times at Western for one year is $21,000. While this is cheaper than the cost of the Wall Street Journal, LaVallee said all students would have access to the Wall Street Journal because it’s online. With only 700 students accessing the New York Times, the cost of the service works out to $30 per student, but if 16,000 students accessed the Wall Street Journal, it would cost $1.54 per student. No motion was made on the proposal because other avenues of funding are being sought out first.
A new wave for the American music fest
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Looking at Sasquatch! a year later ANALYSIS BY JOSH HUGHES
Last year I wrote a piece concerning the politics and monopolization of music festivals, specifically Sasquatch! here in the PNW. In it, I addressed the rampant corporatization of festivals that has led to an eerily homogenous nationwide music scene. Last year’s lineups spread concerns of big companies killing the festival scene just as they had previously done with record labels. LCD Soundsystem and Florence + The Machine seemed to be on every single bill, and once-individualized events were becoming more and more like everything else. Yet here we are again, in 2018, and Sasquatch! is still here, and it seems to be doing better than ever. What’s happened in the last year to bring us to this next stage of music festivals in America? The answer, perhaps surprisingly, is not a lot. Live Nation, one of the two mega-companies that buys out music festivals and manages them, currently operates over 60 festivals across the country. Some of these include Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits and our beloved Sasquatch! out at the Gorge Amphitheatre out in Eastern Washington. This means that even “independently owned” festivals such as Sasquatch have a massive corporation behind them that handles ticketing, and most importantly, sponsorship. They also have a certain say in the booking process, but for Sasquatch!, founder Adam Zacks still dominantly handles this aspect of the event. “[Sasquatch!] was always intended to be a reflection of the Pacific Northwest,” said Zacks on Seattle-based 107.7 The End’s Locals Only podcast. “As the region changed so did the festival.” This grassroots emphasis has always been important to Sasquatch!, as shown by headliners throughout the years such as The Postal Service, Modest Mouse and smaller acts like Thunderpussy and CCFX. Where festivals
The main stage at Sasquatch! 2016. Josh Hughes//AS Review on a grander scale aim for the stars in their bookings, Sasquatch! tries to hone in on its regional demographic, which happens to usually cater towards early 2000s indie rock. Last year’s anomaly, where Twentyonepilots and Chance The Rapper headlined, proved to be just that, as the 2018 lineup went back to its roots. After poor ticket sales from 2016, the festival had to take a different approach that appealed to a younger, more diverse audience. While this sounded good on paper, the lineup alienated older, longtime Sasquatch! fans that expected a bill that fit
WSU lawsuit continued pursuits, regardless of their ethnicity, race, sexual identity, religion or background,” Weiler said in an email. Another incident of harassment then occurred on March 25, when a student from a car full of white males threw a piece of chicken at Stewart, again using the same racial slur and calling her a thot, according to the complaint. Stewart called campus police, as instructed by Huskey, who transferred her to local police. Local police told Stewart they couldn’t physically respond, but to get a li-
cense plate number and call back, according to the complaint. The student was investigated by the Office of Equal Opportunity and was found to have violated WSU’s policy on discrimination. However, little punishment was given, according to the complaint. At the end of April 2015, Stewart and a few friends were invited to engage in a conversation with Elson Floyd, WSU’s president at the time, who is also African-American According to the complaint, Floyd engaged in victim blaming, telling Stewart
their own expectations. Although 2017 sales didn’t do as well as expected— the official attendance numbers are impossible to find, but estimations are between 7,000-9,000— the older Sasquatch! fanbase got their wish in 2018 with artists like Bon Iver, The National, David Byrne, Spoon and Modest Mouse. Early numbers say that around 12,000 attended this year, according to ifiberone, a Columbia Basin news outlet. The stark shift in both lineup and attendance can only garner speculative responses, but it’s evident that Zacks did a successful job in reanimating the festival. All the same, the state of music festivals is ever growing in the direction of mega-corporations and conglomerates. Luckily for Sasquatch!, Live Nation’s influence has largely been relegated to sponsorship and marketing control, but the puppeteering threat that it poses still lingers. Afterall, it’s no longer revenue from artists that provides the festivals with the money to sustain themselves; it’s concessions, merchandise, camping, beer. Live Nation and AEG, the other dominant event company, handle almost all of this side of the experience of a festival. Pemberton Festival up in B.C., which is overseen by Huka Entertainment, got cancelled just last year because of bankruptcy. As Zacks has pointed out in various interviews, costs for booking artists are increasing, and this is only getting worse with corporations that control multiple festivals and book similar artists. Pemberton happened to feel the immediate aftershock of this new wave of American music festivals. Sasquatch! prevailed another year, so here’s to hoping that it makes it through the next ripples.
and her friends that they didn’t “belong” at a “white” fraternity. “[Floyd] basically said, you shouldn’t be hanging out with the white boys, or something like that, you shouldn’t be in a white fraternity,” Bremner said. “That’s part of the failure in our complaint that we allege, is that it wasn’t just with Ms. Huskey but also with the highest office of WSU, the president saying-- there’s nothing we can do, it’s not going to go any farther. So that was the failure to investigate, to make her safe and to hold people accountable.”
According to the complaint, Floyd then told the students they were building a new student center with an “African-American section” where they could “belong.” WSU denies all of the above allegations, except for the allegation that such a meeting took place. As a result of WSU’s lack of intervention and isolation from her family, Stewart was diagnosed with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and gained 50 lbs, Bremner said. Stewart has now graduated from WSU.
Battle of the Bands: India Glover wins
TOP LEFT: Laughingstock performs at the Battle of the Bands final. TOP RIGHT: India Glover wins the Battle of the Bands and the opportunity to perform at Lawnstock. BOTTOM LEFT: Cat Valley plays on the Underground stage for Battle of the Bands. BOTTOM RIGHT: The audience votes for their favorite performance of the night Photos by Eythan Frost // AS Review This our last print issue, but we will continue to post stories online at wp.wwu.edu/theasreview Also, make sure to follow our Facebook page and Twitter acount. Thanks for a great year y’all! Happy summer.
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