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Women athletes share stories about gender equality In the weeks leading up to International Women’s Day on March 8, athletes and coaches from four of the seven women’s sports at EWU, along with athletic director Lynn Hickey, shared their stories and thoughts on women’s athletics with The Easterner. Page 14
Recognizing International Women's Day MARCO VARGAS Reporter Spokane Community College celebrated International Women’s Day on March 9 by hosting an event that featured workshops and a keynote speaker named Idella King, an activist for indigenous women. Shannon Ketcham, chair of the event in Spokane in her first year, said that the purpose of the event was to focus on a rich culture and share it with
the Spokane community. “International Women’s Day is celebrated in the United States and globally every year,” Ketcham said. “It’s a wonderful way to celebrate the political, economic, social and cultural achievements of women throughout the world both past and present. We really want to be able to build off our rich history with this event.” Ketcham said that International Women’s Day is an opportunity to highlight the progress that women have
experienced. “It’s also an amazing way for us to recognize the journey that we still have as women toward equity, equality and celebrating our uniqueness,” Ketcham said. “It’s important for me to be able to honor the history. It’s significant for me to recognize where I come from. It’s a great opportunity to use my voice to empower and support women in Spokane.”
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Former archivist Charles Mutschler dies at 63
The show will go on for EWU seniors MJ Daly and Lysbeth Neel as they head to the Kennedy Center American College Theater Nationals Festival in Washington, D.C. Both seniors described the opportunity of going to the nationals festival as “an incredible” achievement.
EWU lost a well-respected member of its community on Saturday, March 10. Though serving as the interim dean of EWU Libraries at the time of his death, Mutschler was better known on campus as an archivist and historian whose knowledge of the EWU and Cheney communities was unparalleled. During this time of mourning, The Easterner takes a look at the impact of his legacy.
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SCC hosts International Women's Day celebration Spreading a message of 'empowerment and healing' to the community Women, continued from pg. 1 Ketcham thinks that to support equal rights for women, the U.S. should continue offering a voice with a volume. “We still have a journey to make as women in this country and globally,” Ketcham said. “There are still many unfortunate areas of inequality and inequity and disparity. I think if we continue to share our voice, we’ll continue to hopefully close those gaps.” Ketcham said that this year’s event at SCC was outstanding and that the keynote speaker, along with her family, was the special part. “Idella King and her family came to share the rich cultural history and heritage of the people of their tribe,” Ketcham said. “For them to share their story was special.” Ketcham said that spreading the word can make the event more valuable at SCC.
“I think the more people of the Spokane community who know about this event and the more that we get community involvement and support, the bigger that the event is going to be,” Ketcham said. “I’m really excited to continue to build on those partnerships.” Ketcham said that she feels grateful and honored to be a part of the event and that she hopes to continue with the success in years to come. “I think that the message of empowerment, healing and the community was great for our event,” Ketcham said. “This has been a really tremendous opportunity to see what community in action looks like. I’d like to thank everyone who participated for shedding a light on this event and for helping to put the word out.” •
Keynote speaker Idella King addressing the audience members. King shared the cultural history and heritage of her tribe.
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“We still have a journey to make as women in this country and globally. There are still many unfortunate areas of inequality and inequity and disparity.” - SHANNON KETCHAM SCC manager of student programs
NICOLAS ZERBE Reporter EWU campus police have made an arrest in connection to reports of a sexual assault which took place Saturday, March 2 in Pearce Hall. In an email sent to EWU students, Chief Tim Walters stated the department was made aware of the situation, which was reported shortly after midnight. The suspect was seen at an off-campus Kappa Sigma party earlier in the evening, though no arrest was made that night. On Tuesday, March 5, Walters sent a follow-up email stating a person of interest had been identified and arrested. “Our detective and our officers conducted an investigation, identified a suspect and made an arrest,” said Deputy Chief Jay Day.
“He’s currently booked in Spokane County Jail.” It’s unclear at this time if the victim knew the perpetrator. According to the most recent crime statistics, courtesy of the 2017 Annual Security and Fire Safety (Clery) Report, there were six total on-campus and residential facilities rapes in 2017 and two cases of what the report calls fondling. The original email, sent by Walters, also included safety tips for students on campus, advising them to lock their residence hall rooms, and reminding students that it is a crime to intentionally touch someone without their consent, regardless of the situation. Students may also contact the EWUPD at any time for an on-campus safety escort by calling 509-359-7676. •
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Pearce Hall, located on Elm Street, is the largest residence hall at EWU. The sexual assault reportedly took place inside of Pearce Hall on March 2.
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Childcare costs pose a problem for parents EWU website
Enrolling your child at EWU's Children's Center can cost up to $8,064 a year
EWU's mascot, Swoop, taking photos with some young EWU fans. The EWU childcare center is located on the Cheney campus and also offers multiple services in Spokane.
ANTHONY CARROLL Contributor Childcare is a necessity for some students, however, the price may not be affordable for everyone. Usa.childcare.org reports the annual cost of childcare in Washington state to be $14,201. It, thus, can be difficult for a student to attend college and enroll their child or children in childcare when the childcare costs more than the tuition. Tuition cost at EWU is $7,866, and by comparison, if a student were to enroll their infant in childcare at the EWU Children’s Center, they would pay more to enroll their child in the center, which at its highest pricing is around $8,064, than they would pay for their own college education.
It costs $672 a month for infants to be enrolled at the EWU Children’s Center. The cost starts at about $124 a month for school age children; however, the cost of enrollment increases for each year the child is enrolled. “We do more than just play with the kids,” said Anna Culwell, the director for the children’s center. “We really do interact with the kids, and we set learning goals for each one of our students.” Infants enrolled at the EWU Children’s Center will only be in the infant class for a year since the age cutoff for the class is 12 months. Therefore, childcare cost for a child enrolled from birth through 12 months would only be higher than student tuition for about a year. It is substantially cheaper for schoolaged children to be enrolled at the center with an annual cost around $1,488. Financial aid disbursements don’t always
cover the cost of childcare either. Some disbursements may only cover what is needed for attendance. Finances are just one of the things on students’ minds who enroll their children into childcare. “Childcare puts you on a schedule that trumps all your other schedules,” said Cody Bradley, a former student at EWU whose child was enrolled at the EWU Children’s Center. Students may need to leave at any given moment if something were to happen. This can include sickness or altercations. If the center tells students to pick up their child they have to, no matter what they are doing. For students, this could be counterproductive if the sole purpose of putting their child in the center is so they have time to go to class.
Some professors do allow students to bring their children to class, but that doesn't fall under any university policy. Childcare is becoming a more pressing problem within our country. “$28.9 billion in wages are lost annually by working families who do not have access to affordable child care and paid family and medical leave,” according to usa.childcareaware.org. Some early 2020 presidential candidates are already commenting on the issue. Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren has issued a potential plan for universal childcare until children reach school age. In this plan, families making less than 200 percent above the federal poverty line will receive free childcare, and for all others, childcare costs will be capped at seven percent of the family income. •
Cybersecurity club wins Cyber Cup The event is intended to get people more interested and engaged in the field of cybersecurity while also offering an interactive competition for students NICOLAS ZERBE Reporter EWU’s Cybersecurity Club took first place in the lower division at the Spokane Mayor’s Cyber Cup on Feb. 9. The event, which Gonzaga University student Max Dulin organized, is a cybersecurity-focused competition where teams compete to exploit each others systems and defend their own in a
game called Capture the Flag. The Capture the Flag competition was held on Saturday, Feb. 9, on Gonzaga’s campus, and was host to multiple experts from the cybersecurity field. Dulin, a computer science major, is part of Gonzaga University’s Markers and Developers club which hosted the affair in response to Spokane’s lack of local cybersecurity-focused events. The cup was open to participants of
all skill levels and meant to be a way for attendees to interact and network with professionals in the field as well as get people interested and engaged in cybersecurity. “It is important to note that this event is not just important to Gonzaga University, it is important to the Spokane community,” said Dulin in an interview with Chiara Morrison of Intirium. EWU’s Cybersecurity Club Vice
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President Rodney Thomas helped to coordinate the event, according to an Eastern 24/7 article. “Security is paramount in the times we live in,” said Thomas to Eastern 24/7. “It’s especially important for computer science students so they can learn to not make things that are vulnerable.” •
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MARCO VARGAS Reporter EWU celebrated Migrant Week this month to support migrant and farm working cultures in Washington state by providing different awareness raising activities. The College Assistance Migrant Program, a program that supports students from migrant and farmworker backgrounds during their first year in college, hosted the event known as The Migrant Experience for the third straight year. “We conduct this weeklong event to create an awareness on campus about what migrant workers are and who the student population represents,” CAMP Director Jennifer Nunez said. “What our attempts were throughout the week were to educate the campus community about farmworkers, their rights and the kinds of struggles that they faced in the field of working or in the environment whether it’s working in harsh conditions, not having the necessary equipment to perform certain tasks or not getting adequate breaks.” EWU graduate assistant Marylou Diaz said that The Migrant Experience is also an awareness event that CAMP puts together to incorporate the EWU community and educate them about migrant students. “We want to make sure that Eastern is aware that there are migrant students who come and are participants of the
community,” Diaz said. “We wanted (EWU) to get to know us as a program and get to know our students.” Nunez said that Migrant Week is important to the Cheney community because the community has little knowledge of migrant cultures. She also said that CAMP wants to provide the opportunities for education. Diaz said that the activities had some success and value, even if they raised just a little bit of awareness. “I think that these activities present an alternative view, and they are able to kind of teach and educate our campus about our specific community because there’s not a lot of awareness,” Diaz said. “We want to bring awareness and establish a place for our students.” CAMP retention specialist Edgar Montoya shared his thoughts on Migrant Week, saying that it helps to spread the knowledge of what migrant culture is about. “I think it’s a form of knowledge of what migrant families do, what they lived through, and how it impacts the whole campus community as a whole,” Montoya said. “For us to be spreading awareness of the migrant community, it’s something that’s really important nowadays because the term ‘migrant’ is associated with the term ‘immigrant.’” Nunez admits that CAMP wants to do a better job of attracting students with those activities. But despite that, she said that she is excited to see Migrant Week develop.
“I also think that there needs to be more reciprocated attendance from administration and students because a lot of the students that did support was great,” Nunez said. “But a lot of them are very familiarized with the same issues and struggles that migrant students face. Getting more support across campus would be great.” Diaz said that CAMP is interested in doing more collaborations across different departments at EWU to make Migrant Week better. “We would be interested in having different staff and professionals across campus participate or receive suggestions,”
Diaz said. “We’re more than open to more suggestions in regard to how to make it better.” Diaz said that she and the CAMP staff thank students and the different departments for supporting them in hosting Migrant Week. “We want to thank everyone who participated,” Diaz said. “And we want to thank our speakers as well because a lot traveled from far away to join us for Migrant Week. It’s been an amazing experience.” For more information about CAMP, visit https://sites.ewu.edu/camp/ or stop by the main office at Monroe 203. •
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Interim dean of libraries killed in crash Saturday evening Charles Mutschler died at 63 years old. He had lived in Cheney since 1969 and worked at EWU since 1981
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DYLAN HARRIS News Editor EWU lost a well-respected member of its community on Saturday, March 10. Charles Mutschler, the interim dean of EWU Libraries and former university archivist, was killed in a crash on Highway 904, five miles east of Cheney at around 7:30 p.m. Mutschler was driving westbound near Fifth Street when his truck crossed through the center turn lane and struck the rear of one vehicle, before crashing head on into a vehicle in the eastbound lane. One of the passengers in the second vehicle was taken to the hospital with injuries. The cause of the accident is still under investigation. Though serving as the interim dean of EWU Libraries at the time of his death, Mutschler was better known on campus as an archivist and historian whose knowledge of the EWU and Cheney communities was unparalleled. Journalism professor Bill Stimson referred to Mutschler as “the definition of institutional knowledge.” “People would worry if some of those (historical) documents were destroyed,” Stimson said. “Well it’s the same when a guy who knows the territory so well is all of the sudden lost like that. You’ve lost something that’s irreplaceable.” Stimson knew Mutschler for over 25 years, working on projects and sharing information with one another. Stimson, who is also an author, said he received help and bits of knowledge from Mutschler countless times as he worked on books and other projects. “Running into him in the library was like finding the best 10 books I wanted,” Stimson
said. “I’d rather run into Charlie than find the 10 books I went over for.” What started as mostly a professional, working relationship, evolved into much more between Stimson and Mutschler. “A wonderful guy—warm, vivacious, amusing personality, always fun to talk to,” Stimson said. “I can hardly digest it because you know, you don’t ever appreciate the people around you until you lose somebody like that and then you realize that it gets to be a lonelier world.” Mutschler impacted the lives of many during his time at EWU. Mutschler moved to Cheney in 1969 as a teenager. He began working part-time in the university archives in 1981 before being offered a fulltime position in 1983. Mutschler turned down a job working at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. after taking an internship with the National Archives and Records Seattle branch. “I think had I not had a job to come back to there would have been no question,” Mutschler told The Easterner in 2017. “I would have gladly gone.” His ties to Cheney and the EWU community proved too strong, however. “I’m delighted,” Mutschler said in 2017. “I’m very satisfied staying here. I like what I do, I like the people I work with.” One person who has worked closely with Mutschler over the past two years is Steven Bingo, EWU’s digital projects archivist. Bingo has taken over most of the university archivist duties since Mutschler’s move to interim dean of EWU Libraries. “I think he thought of himself as a keeper of university history and he passed some bits of those along to me so that if needed, I at least can tell the crucial parts of that history,” Bingo said.
Mutschler’s wealth of knowledge and his experience will be difficult, if not impossible to replace, however. “With the loss of Charlie, we’ve lost a vast amount of information about the history of this community and the history of the archives as well,” Bingo said. “We’ve lost a really caring member of the community. Anybody who has talked to Charlie will know him as a very gracious individual.” Mutschler has been an invaluable resource for both the university and for The Easterner. Whether it was background research, a fact that needed verifying or information for the Looking Back section, The Easterner has referenced Mutschler or the historical information he compiled on almost a weekly basis. “One of my first story assignments as a staff writer for The Easterner was on the history of the past 100 years of Cheney,” said Logan Stanley, the managing editor for The Easterner during the 2017-2018 school year. “The article was part of a special centennial edition of the newspaper. A few staff members told me to go to the archives
in JFK Library, where I would find a man named Charles Mutschler. So off I went, not really knowing what awaited me.” What Stanley found was what so many people before him had experienced after meeting Mutschler. “One hour later I was done, and I walked away from that conversation with a far better understanding of the town I had just moved to and was living in,” Stanley said. “Charles had so much knowledge in his head, and was so clearly passionate about his job. To this day, it’s one of the longest interviews I’ve done as a journalist and it’s a memory that will never fade.” The tragic death of such an impactful member of the EWU community will be felt for years to come. Lost with Mutschler is a vast amount of historical information and knowledge, but the real loss is the man himself. “There is an irreplaceable absence that’s left by Charlie,” Bingo said. “We’ll find a way to continue this operation we call Eastern Washington University, but it’s never going to be the same.” •
“There is an irreplaceable absence that's left by Charlie. We'll find a way to continue this operation we call Eastern Washington University, but it's never going to be the same”
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What are you doing for spring break? "I am going to London and Paris for eight days. My wife has been dreaming of going to Paris, and I wanted to go to London. "
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- Ben Gronewold, Senior “I am going home to the other side of the state, Whidbey Island. I’m just relaxing. Most of my friends have different spring breaks than I do, so I am just hanging out.”
- Emilee Stone, Sophomore "I want to go on a road trip with friends, but everyone is going home for the holidays or somewhere with their family like to Hawaii or somewhere warm."
- Jared Keffeler, Junior “I am going to Slovakia with Cru on a mission trip. I am so stoked. Only four percent of their population claim to be Christian, so I am really excited to go over there and spread the Gospel."
- Kristina Hughes, Senior "I am going to sleep in. I’m staying on campus because I really don’t want to drive back. I get the whole week off from working at the library, so I’m going to Netflix and Hulu. Just take a week off."
- Shawn Smith, Junior "I am going back home and just see my buddies back there. I am looking forward to seeing my parents. This is the longest I have been away from home."
- Bryce Vandenhaak, Freshman
The boys that won for Cheney. Spokane Valley Intercollegiate Conference Basketball Champions.
Cheney boys win The Cheney boys win Spokane Valley Intercollegiate Conference Title, defeating Spokane "U" in the final THE EASTERNER Archives This story was originally published in The State Normal School Journal Vol. 5, No. 19 in 1921 and has not been changed except for AP style. The Normal basket tossers won the Spokane Valley Intercollegiate Conference title last Tuesday evening by defeating the Spokane “U” quintet, 24-23. The game was played on the S.A.A.C. court. The Normal team started the game with a rush. A snappy field goal by F. Swank followed the tipoff. In the next few seconds Leach tossed a pretty one from near the center. Then Whitey Wynstra would
not be outdone by his teammates, and tried for a long one. The shot could not have been more perfect, and the score was 6-0. From this point the Spokane team played tight ball, and the Cheney boys were forced to resort to long shots. Beyers and Peffley, the Spokane forwards, succeeded in breaking through the Normal’s defense several times and had evened the score when the first half ended. The score stood 1515. When the second half opened the battle was on fast and furious. Both teams were playing a defensive game and five minutes had passed before either team could score. Then two long shots by Peffley gave Spokane a comfortable lead, which was
In the final second of play Swank, while facing away from the basket, hurled the ball over his head for the winning goal.
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maintained until the final seconds of play. With only two minutes left to play Spokane lead by five points. It was at this time that K. Swank, who had been substituted for Leach, started a rally that turned defeat into victory. Kenneth made a nice one from beneath the basket; then Whitey flashed through Spokane’s defense with his lightninglike dribble and scored a sensational goal.
Final seconds Spokane “U” now put up a hard fight, and with their five-man defense kept two men on each of our forwards. In the final second of play Swank, while facing away from the basket, hurled the ball over his head for the winning goal. A feature of the game was the accurate shooting of the Cheney team. The game was marked by many sensational shots from the center of the court. Whitey Wynstra, with his fast floor work and accurate shooting, was the star of the contest. Peffley of Spokane “U” was the high point man, with seven field goals.•
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SAM JACKSON Copy Editor The show will go on for EWU seniors MJ Daly and Lysbeth Neel as they head to the Kennedy Center American College Theater Nationals Festival in Washington, D.C. Daly and Neel attended the KCACT Regionals Festival held at the University of Oregon on Feb. 18-22. The regionals festival included students from universities in 10 states. During the event, students had the opportunity to audition for awards granting fully-funded trips to the KCACT Nationals Festival during the week of April 15. Daly was the winner of the Musical Theater Scholarship Audition at regionals, and Neel won the National Award for Stage Management. Both seniors described the opportunity of going to the nationals festival as “an incredible” achievement. Originally, Daly attended EWU to pursue a degree in dental hygiene, but by the end of her first two years completing prerequisites she had reached the end of her rope. “I was just exhausted by it all,” Daly said. “I just knew it wasn’t what I wanted to be doing.” It was “just complete luck” that Daly stumbled upon the theater scene at EWU. She remembers someone involved with the theater department sharing a Facebook event for auditions in a senior capstone show called “One Acts.” She auditioned and got a part. Daly recalls being recognized by Sara Goff, professor of theatre and interim chair of the department of theatre and film, whom watched her act for the capstone and urged her to join the theater department. After a few happy tears, Daly committed and said she has spent nearly 12 hours a day in the theater building since. Daly competed against close to 200 students for the MTSA in Oregon. During preliminaries each person was allotted two minutes to sing a song of their choice. The following final round cut the competition down to 16 students who each had five minutes to sing two songs. After the final round, the judges said the winner would be announced the next day.
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Into the next day and decompressing after competing for a different award, the Irene Ryans, Daly was asked by Ed Brazo, the MTSA coordinator, to hurry backstage and “sing when they tell you to sing” the song she performed during the final round of the MTSA called “Gorgeous” from the play “The Apple Tree” by Jerry Bock. As Daly arrived backstage she was greeted by another competitor from the final round of the MTSA. Both knew one of them won the audition and the other was the runner-up, according to Daly. The other competitor was asked to come on stage, and in that moment Daly knew she won the audition. “It was kind of crazy because I was literally backstage with my binder just kind of shaking,” Daly said. Daly is excited to attend the KCACT Nationals Festival and looks forward to being assigned workshops specifically tailored to musical theater. She said she hopes to make acting a career and is applying to work for the Seattle Shakespeare Company. Daly intends to use nationals as a resume builder. Neel attended art school for two years in Chicago and made the choice to transfer to EWU last year. Though she has a strong background in acting, she decided to take on the “other side of the theater” instead and dip into stage management. “The Tempest” was the first play Neel had ever stage managed before, making her debut into the background of theater at EWU during winter quarter of 2018. Neel says that stage managing at EWU has “definitely inspired” her and gives her a “sense of gratitude” to people who work backstage. “It’s actually a very hard job,” Neel said. “It can be really tedious sometimes, and if you don’t know what you’re doing you can get really frustrated. And it’s long hours. So there’s a lot of, you know, pros and cons. I think the biggest thing for me is I love to stay busy, and I love just the excitement of seeing something pay off, even though (I’m) not the one on stage … You see it from beginning to end. And then in that end night when you’re caught in the show and everything just
Senior MJ Daly (right) performs as Masha in EWU's production of "The Seagull" by Anton Chekov. Daly recently competed against close to 200 other students for the Musical Theater Scholarship Audition Washington at the University of Oregon. Bailey Monteith for The Easterner
goes perfectly, that’s the feeling that stage managers crave and love.” Winning the National Award for Stage Management at the regionals festival was “kind of surprising” to Neel. When she found out about the work sessions, she didn’t realize it was a competition for the award. Neel fully intended on treating the stage management workshop as a “big learning experience” and gaining feedback. According to Jessica Ray, theater department lecturer and costume shop manager, Neel won because she spent a lot of time and hard work preparing for the event. At the event, Neel had to submit material she was working on, including a script, acting book, blocking book and cue book. She also had to participate in a simulation in which
she watched a video to call a show using a script and a cue sheet. “I think the thing that made her successful is she spent a lot of time developing those things, making sure they look good, making sure that it was right and having a plan in place,” Ray said. Neel says she doesn’t think the reality of attending the nationals festival will hit her until she’s on the plane and heading to Washington D.C. in April. Her biggest goal is to eventually work for a touring company doing anything from acting to stage management. For more information on The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, go to its website at web.kennedy-center.org/ education/kcactf/nationalfestival. •
Senior Lysbeth Neel (left) shows The Easterner around back stage before a production of "The Seagull" by Anton Chekov. Neel won the National Award for Stage Management and will travel to Washington, D.C. to the Kennedy Center American College Theater Nationals Festival. Neel can be seen in action at the EWU Theatre's production of "The Seagull" March 14 at 5 p.m. and March 15 and 16 at 7:30 p.m. Mckenzie Ford for The Easterner
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From the heart Alpha Phi's annual Red Dress Gala raises money for women's heart health
KAISA SIIPOLA Reporter To raise money and awareness for women’s heart health, Alpha Phi is hosting its fourth annual Red Dress Gala at Gonzaga University’s John J. Hemmingson Center from 6-10 p.m. on March 16. The gala includes dinner, a wine toss, and both a silent and live auction, according to Community Relations Vice President Kelsey Westgard. The auction includes over 20 baskets of items ranging from coffee baskets, yard games, wine and a trip to Schweitzer in Idaho, according to Westgard. Red Dress Chairman Alexis Swain is coordinating the event. “Anyone from campus is invited,” Swain said. “A lot of Greek members come and our members’ families. Members from Phi Delta Theta and Kappa Sigma fraternities are the most common that attend, but a bunch of people from each attend because that is their way of supporting us.” Women’s heart health is Alpha Phi’s philanthropy focus. The Red Dress Gala is its biggest event of the year and always occurs around March, according to Kelsey Bearden, a vice president for Alpha Phi. Along with its philanthropy toward women’s heart health, Alpha Phi also donates the rest of the gala’s proceeds to an organization that stands out in the EWU and Spokane community. The
organization is chosen by the people who attend and contribute to the gala each year, according to Westgard. Proceeds raised at the gala will benefit the Alpha Phi Foundation and women’s heart health. The foundation provides scholarships to undergraduate students, and their mission is to advance women’s lives through the power of philanthropy, according to the Alpha Phi Foundation website. “The Alpha Phi foundation is our international foundation for all of our chapters in the United States and Canada,” Westgard said. Alpha Phi chose to donate proceeds from the Red Dress Gala to Sacred Heart Medical Center because it is local and has a heart care department that helps a large amount of patients, according to Westgard. Bearden said that she is excited to attend the Red Dress Gala for the first time. Bearden joined Alpha Phi because its philanthropic focus on women’s heart health was something that she could connect to due to having family members that have suffered from heart health issues. EWU freshman Isabella Robertson was recently initiated into Alpha Phi, and this will be her first time attending the Red Dress Gala. Robertson said she is excited to see how many people will come and support Alpha Phi’s philanthropy and the event
means a lot to her because being able to show support to those who are impacted by heart health brings so much joy to her sisters’ hearts. Tickets for EWU students are $28 and can be purchased at rdgeastern.givesmart.com. •
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Left to right, Asher Gannon, Channing Scarff, Kelsey Westgard, Carlee Crussell and Haley Ihler pose to promote the "Red Dress Gala." The gala began in 2016. Proceeds from this year's gala will go to the Alpha Phi Foundation and Sacred Heart Medical Center. |Courtesy of Alpha Phi
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BSU JEW ISH C L UB PA T The Black Student Union, EWU Jewish Club and Phi Alpha Theta/History Club join together to host a viewing and panel discussion of "Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me" KAISA SIIPOLA Reporter There’s nothing like a movie night and free pizza to get you through the remainder of the quarter as finals approach. The Black Student Union, EWU Jewish Club and Phi Alpha Theta/History Club are collaborating on a screening and faculty lead discussion of the documentary “Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me” in the PUB NCR on March 13 at 6:15 p.m. The film is a documentary on Sammy Davis Jr., a Jewish, African-American entertainer who was a part of the Black Power Movement. Neal Schindler, director of Jewish Family Services in Spokane, recommended the film to Shawn Dufrene, president of the EWU Jewish Club, when she reached out to him for a film recommendation prior to the event. Assistant Professor Okera Nsombi and senior lecturer Angela Schwendiman of the Africana Studies program will lead the discussion after the movie. The BSU paid Eagle Sound productions to run sound and promote the event. BSU members look forward to the movie and discussion panel, according to BSU President Gracia Alzoubeir. Alzoubeir was excited when Dufrene reached out to the BSU for a movie night collaboration because the movie revolves around a Jewish, African-American man. “I’m always wanting to do collaborations with other clubs, especially clubs focusing on diversity since minorities don’t always get the representation they need on campus,” Alzoubeir said. Dufrene decided to reach out to the BSU and the PAT/History Club to collaborate
together on an event during black history month, but the BSU had a lot of events going on at the time and the three organizations decided to plan for a collaboration in March. Dufrene wanted to work with the BSU and the PAT/History Club because she is also the secretary for the PAT/History Club, pursuing a degree in Africana Studies and has attended some of the BSU's events. President of the PAT/History Club Kelli Knerr thinks that partnering with the BSU and the EWU Jewish Club is a great way to focus and apply multiple areas of academia within an event. Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society Vice President Elizabeth Shaw said that “the partnerships are fabulous” and are a great opportunity to encourage more people to consider a career in history. “By collaborating with other clubs we have the opportunity to listen and learn from them,” Shaw said.
The documentary can hold value to EWU students because students have the opportunity to reflect on what they’re watching. “Film screenings are a fun way to evaluate historical interpretations,” Shaw said. “Obviously, not every film will be historically accurate, and pointing out all the ways the film got it wrong can be either fun or irritating to some people.” Dufrene says the film can hold value to EWU students because learning about the past is important. “We don’t know where we are going unless we know where we’ve been,” Dufrene said. “Sammy Davis Jr. is an important figure because he was a figure of diversity in a time of adversity and his complexity as a person reminds us that we are all complex.” Alzoubeir hopes that students see how hard minorities have to work to live out their dreams as they watch the film.
“I'm always wanting to do collaborations with other clubs, especially clubs focusing on diversity since minorities don't always get the representation they need on campus.”
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The EWU Jewish Club formed during spring quarter of last year. The purpose of the club is to spread awareness of the Jewish culture and provide a space for students who associate with the Jewish faith and are interested in learning about the culture, according to Dufrene. More information on the EWU Jewish Club can be found on its Facebook page, EWU Jewish Club, on OrgSync, or by contacting Shawn Dufrene at sdufrene@eagles.ewu.edu. The EWU PAT Honor Society is a national honors society for historians. It was founded almost 40 years ago and holds within it the PAT History Club. The honor society is open to all students according to Shaw. To join the PAT Honors Society students need to have a GPA above a 3.0 and pay a one time fee of $60. “Phi Alpha Theta is a national history club that has 350,000 members, with about 9,500 new members joining each year through 860 local chapters across the United States and Canada,” Knerr said. The purpose of the club is to provide a place for history nerds to come together to study history and to be active about it according to Kneer and Shaw. “PAT typically hosts movie screenings, digital field trips to historic sites and museums, potlucks, a historical food tour around Spokane and Wikipedia events where we collaborate with the EWU library and archives to make Wikipedia pages for historical people, places and things,” Shaw said. More information on the PAT/History Club can be found on its Facebook, OrgSync, or by contacting Knerr at kknerr1@ewu.edu.•
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Washington's smoking age needs to be changed to 21
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Letters to the editor do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of The Easterner, its staff members or Eastern Washington University. Dear Editor, By now I am sure everyone has experienced watching some sort of nonsmoking advertisement. They depict the dangers of smoking and what the powers of addiction to nicotine or vaping can be. Did you know that Washington state is trying to raise the age limit to purchase tobacco and any type tobacco products to 21? Currently, Washington has created HB 1074, it aims to raise the age to purchase tobacco, vape, and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21. This bill passed the house floor on Feb. 20 of last month. The bill will be heard on March 14 at a public hearing in front of senate at the state capitol in Olympia, Washington. If passed, the age change would go into effect in January 2020.
The facts are clear that tobacco, vape, and e-cigarettes cause cancer, increase risk of heart attacks, and shorten lifespan. The adolescent brain is still developing at age 18 and is vulnerable to nicotine. Due to vapes and e-cigarettes being directed towards the teenage youth the legal age limit will help with this young generation from being at a higher risk for addiction. We can prevent Washington youth from having long term health risks by making it harder for youth to purchase tobacco products. Our goal to educate and bring awareness to this issue. Action today will save lives. Spread the word and support Washington Tobacco 21. — Jennifer Paterson, Jasmine Old Shoes, Jacqueline Armour and Kaylee Spangenberg Paterson, Old Shoes, Armour and Spangenberg are in their second year of the Master of Social Work Program at EWU and will graduate in the spring.
Smart thing to do
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YOUR kids in to early smoking by making vapes and e-cigarette flavors such as gummy bears or cotton candy to pull more youth into their market.
Restricting tobacco use to 21 when the brain is fully developed, we can achieve a dramatic decrease in smoking.
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Others leading the charge
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Massachusetts, Oregon, Hawaii, and Maine are the states have raised the tobacco age to 21, along with at least 440 localities.
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Soccer isn't boring ... You are The Champions League is my favorite competition across the sport (world cup included). It is a cup that features the best teams from leagues all across Europe. Once the competition has reached the knockout stage, teams play two games with each team hosting one of them. The combined goals (aggregate) from the two matches determine the winner. Do ties hold you back from being a soccer fan? Perfect, there are no ties in the knockout stage. Last week, Ajax (a club from Amsterdam that regularly has its young players poached from clubs with more money) toppled European giant Real Madrid 4-1 in the second leg of their quarterfinal match, winning 5-3 on aggregate. Madrid had won the competition the previous three years running, and four out of the last five years. The match was nonstop drama from start to finish. Madrid entered the match with a 2-1 lead and after 18 minutes, Ajax had already taken control with two goals. In the 62nd minute, Dušan Tadić bent the ball into the top left corner, nearly assuring a victory. Madrid came back just eight minutes later to pull a goal back, but Ajax wasn’t done. It was their day for glory. Lasse Schöne scored two minutes after on a free kick to secure the rout, and shock the world. Of the four Champions League matches last week, three ended in comeback results. There was a combined 14 goals in those four games. If you’re able to sit through all that and still tell me with a straight face that nothing exciting happens in a football match (yeah football, get over it) then you’re lying to yourself, and that just isn’t healthy. An NFL game will span an average length of three hours, and when you cut out the unrelenting commercials and instant replays there are only 11 minutes of live action, according to a 2010 study by the Wall Street Journal. The only commercials during a soccer match come at the halftime break. Other than that, it is between 92-100 minutes of nonstop action. No TV timeouts. No clock stoppages. But maybe you just don’t have any attention span, and enjoy flashy lights and someone trying to sell you something every five minutes. Soccer haters, it’s time to swallow your pride and admit you’ve been wrong. It’s OK, we’ve all lived in ignorance of great things at some point in our lives. I never watched an episode of Breaking Bad until well after the entire series had aired, and I’m certainly not proud of that. Set aside your prejudice and take the time to watch a match. You’ll be on my side by the final whistle.•
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Sophomore guard Jacob Davison admires a shot in EWU's 88-78 win over Northern Colorado on Feb. 16. Davison suffered a high ankle sprain in the game against the Bears and is doubtful to return for the Big Sky Conference Tournament.
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The Eagles are one of the hottest teams heading into the Big Sky Conference Tournament, coming off their first road sweep of the season. EWU holds the conference’s longest win streak at three games and has won six of its last eight. The Eagles are the No. 3 seed in the tournament, and will play the winner EWU won its last regular season game at of Montana State and Idaho on Thursday. Weber State 80-77. They had three forwards In Big Sky play EWU won at least one score over 20 points in the game and will game against every conference foe, but lost need them to keep a hot hand going forward. to every team except for Idaho State and Northern Arizona. Senior forward Jesse Hunt was poised for action before the team left to Boise, Idaho, on Tuesday. The Eagles have shot 42 percent from “We know we can beat everyone because 3-point range in the last five games, up we have,” Hunt said. “A lot of teams doubted from their season average of 35 percent. us after we had a tough preseason, with all Expect the 3-pointers to keep flying. that doubt we went out and proved we are a top three team in this league.” The Eagles beat No. 4 seed Weber State on March 9 to close the regular EWU struggled stopping runs early in season, and break a tie with the Wildcats the season. If the Eagles let off the gas with in the standings. In that game the EWU the tournament's single game elimination, forwards were key with Hunt, junior it will be hard to recover. Mason Peatling and freshman Kim Aiken all scoring over 20 points. “It’s just exciting,” Peatling said. “When you take losses the growing comes. I think Sophomore guard Jacob Davison's it’s been a great turn of the tides.” availability for the tournament is doubtful EWU had a different leading scorer as he recovers from a high ankle sprain. Any in each of the last five regular season more injuries would be costly. games. Head coach Shantay Legans said it comes down to the team taking what the defense gives them. “We’re moving the ball around,” Legans There has been a different leading said. “As we do that guys are getting scorer in each of EWU's last five games. more shots and our percentages are The Eagles need to find out who's shooting going up. It’s hard to go deny some of the well early and feed them the ball. guys on our team.”
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EWU will likely be without sophomore guard Jacob Davison, as Legans downgraded his status to doubtful. Davison suffered a high ankle sprain against Northern Colorado on Feb. 16 and was still wearing a medical boot during practice Tuesday. “They’re pretty much done for the season,” Legans said of Davison and sophomore guard Luka Vulikic. “Those are two tough losses, but that’s what happens during the season and you just have to keep playing and get better.” In all likelihood, EWU will play MSU first in the tournament. The Bobcats finished 11-9 in BSC play, tied with Weber and Portland State, but had the worst overall record of the three. They take on the Vandals who finished last in the conference with a 2-18 record. MSU lost four of its last six games of the season, but beat UI twice in the regular season with a combined score of 163-139. EWU beat MSU 85-81 at home on Jan. 19, and lost 74-66 on Feb. 7 in Bozeman, Montana. The Bobcats are lead by Tyler Hall, who broke former Eagle Bogdan Bliznyuk’s BSC scoring record this year in Cheney. Hall was selected to the All-Big Sky first team, averaging 20.1 points this year. Hunt and Peatling were selected to the All-Big Sky second team for EWU, with Davison making the third team. EWU’s first game is scheduled for Thursday at 7 p.m. The winner will play in the semifinal Friday at 7 p.m., and the championship game is Saturday at 5 p.m. The winner of the tournament will receive an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament, which starts on March 18 and runs through April 8. Tune into @easternersports on Twitter for live updates, or stream the games at Pluto.tv.•
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EWU's women athletes Eagles discuss gender equality and their experience playing sports growing up
In the weeks leading up to International Women’s Day on March 8, athletes and coaches from four of the seven women’s sports at EWU, along with athletic director Lynn Hickey shared their stories and thoughts on women’s athletics with The Easterner.
Basketball teaches lessons The Easterner talked to EWU head coach Wendy Schuller and junior center Leya DePriest about what athletics have meant to them throughout their lives. Schuller, who is in her 18th year at the helm for the women’s basketball team, said she appreciated the opportunity to play sports growing up because some girls and women before her had to fight for that chance. “I feel like I’m really fortunate to have grown up in the era I grew up in,” Schuller said. “From the time I was a little kid, I played sports … It was never a question of, ‘would we have a team? Would we have uniforms?’ I didn’t grow up in that era. I feel really lucky that there were women before me and girls before me who fought … so that we would get opportunities. I think it’s unbelievably important, the lessons that sports teaches.” DePriest also mentioned the lessons that sports taught her growing up. “It’s taught me how to learn and understand and become more aware of other people’s feelings,” DePriest said. “I feel like I’ve learned to become more well-rounded.” Schuller and DePriest were both asked about where they’ve seen gender equality in athletics grow in the past few years and where they still feel there is room for growth. DePriest, who closely follows the NBA and WNBA, brought up the gender pay gap.
Volleyball narrows the gap Basketball isn't the only team to call Reese Court its home. The volleyball team shares the court with the two basketball teams, but averaged far fewer spectators in 201819. Sophomore Catelyn Linke immediately brought this up when asked about where she sees a gender difference between men’s and women’s teams. “The support from the community is the biggest thing,” Linke said. “I think we could do a bigger part of recruiting fans and going more out of our way to get people to our games.” To narrow this gap, head coach Leslie Flores-Cloud said educating fans about the sport is critical. “Our sport is a little tricky,” Flores-Cloud said. “You have to know the rules and you have to know what the referee is saying … Understanding our sport is an area that we could work on, to help coach people that don’t know the sport and bring them into loving it as much as we do.”
Flores-Cloud said that she doesn’t see the issue of gender inequality come up as frequently in volleyball when compared to other sports. She said it's partly because women’s volleyball is more popular in the U.S. than men’s volleyball. Flores-Cloud said Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on gender, has helped to narrow the gap at the collegiate level. However, she said she sees more distance at the high school level. “I think that high school is where a lot of the segregation occurs,” Flores-Cloud said. “I think it’s more prevalent. There’s just more male sports in high school than maybe female … I feel like high schools just open it up to as many athletes as they can try to get.” Sophomore ShaRae Niu echoed this sentiment, saying she’s never felt less than at EWU. However, in high school she saw a gap between men’s and women’s sports. “In my high school, we never got actual locker rooms,” Niu said. “The only team that got lockers for their sport was football, and the only people that played football were boys.” Flores-Cloud also discussed the importance of women in sports, including at the coaching and officiating levels. “I was never coached by a female until I got to college and my assistant coach was a female,” Flores-Cloud said. “Becoming a female that’s able to impact girls at all ages … and being able to see women do this as a career is so rewarding in itself.” Flores-Cloud shared a story of a game this season in which both head coaches and all officials were women. “That’s a sense of pride for us,” Flores-Cloud said. “It was something to be celebrated, just because you don’t always see that.”
Throwers take charge Women’s sports aren't exclusively played at Reese Court. Take a walk down the hall into the Jim Thorpe Fieldhouse,
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“I’ve seen a lot of NBA fans thinking that since women are starting to speak out and saying ‘we want equal (pay),’ they think it shouldn’t be fair because we’re ‘not as fun to watch,’” DePriest said. “Just because we’re women (and) we don’t dunk the ball … I don’t think it’s fair. But I think it’s great that players are starting to speak out.” Schuller brought up media coverage of women’s sports, noting that the press can control what people are hearing about. “I think the media has a lot to do with it,” Schuller said. “When the media is showing it, people become interested in it. I think there is a responsibility of the media. It’s gotten better, but it’s still a long ways away.” Schuller added that media coverage could inspire future generations of female athletes. “When little girls see (women’s sports) being covered on the news and their parents talking about it … maybe it makes them want to play,” Schuller said.
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EWU Athletic Director Lynn Hickey has experience as a female athlete, coach and administrator. As a player, she was named an All-American basketball player for Ouachita Baptist University and was on the U.S. National Team in 1973. Hickey was the women’s basketball head coach at Kansas State from 1979-1984 and Texas A&M from 1984-1994, before going into sports administration. She was the athletic director at University of Texas at San Antonio prior to coming to EWU. Hickey played sports before Title IX was put into effect in 1972. She told The Easterner that in Oklahoma, where she grew up, girls weren’t allowed to play full court basketball. “They didn’t believe that girls could go full court,” Hickey said. “So we played half court.” When Hickey went to a track meet in eighth grade, the
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Marta Heinen of the women’s tennis team has a unique, international perspective on gender equality in sports. Heinen is from Belgium and came to the U.S. to play for EWU. The junior talked about the different ways gender equality is and isn’t discussed overseas. “Here, it’s a subject that’s brought up way more often,” Heinen said. “We have Title IX training at the beginning of the year. We always try and find that equality and balance between male and female athletes. Back home, it’s more hidden in a way. You know that males get more opportunities, but you don’t ever talk about it, because if you talk about it you’ll get less opportunity.” Heinen brought up the amount of money male tennis players can win compared to female tennis players when asked where she still sees inequality. “Prize money … there’s still big differences,” Heinen said. “And salaries. When you look at sports like soccer, men make way more money than women do. At the college level, promotion is
farthest distance girls were allowed to run was a quarter mile. “Girls can’t do a half mile,” was the explanation given in those days. Hickey talked about the stigma and reputation of being a competitive female pre-Title IX. “The idea that you could play the role of a female, become married, have a family and be an athlete,” Hickey said. “In a lot of places in the world … no, that doesn’t work. There was a connotation that if you were an athlete and were very competitive that there was something missing about you.” At first, there was resistance toward Title IX. Hickey told a story of what the superintendent of the school she was working at told her when it first came into effect. “He came in and said, ‘I don’t believe in Title IX’,” Hickey said. “‘I will never pay you or treat you like I do the football coach.’” Hickey developed a deeper understanding of Title IX when it began to be more strictly enforced in athletics during the late 1970s; she said that's when everything changed. Hickey talked about the milestones she was able to reach personally after the mandate, and emphasized the opportunities it brought for women all over the country. “It changed the world for people like me,” Hickey said. “At Texas A&M, I was the first female ever to eat at the training table for student athletes. I was the first female to sit at a 12th Man Foundation meeting, which is their big fundraising group. If that law had not been passed, people like me and millions of young girls that want to play sports, the opportunity would’ve really been closed. Imagine telling Venus Williams or some of these superstars that we’ve got now, ‘I’m sorry, you can’t play. You’re a girl.’” Hickey also became the second female to sit on the committee that selects the men’s basketball Final Four and was the only Division I female athletic director in the state of Texas during her tenure at UTSA. Hickey is proud of these accomplishments, but also noted that this shows there aren’t enough women at the administrative levels in sports. “We’ve still got a long ways to go,” Hickey said.•
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great but the response to men’s and women’s sports is different. The spectators usually go see the men way more often.” Heinen added that she feels EWU has done good work in promoting equality within the athletic department. EWU head coach Dustin Hinson added to this sentiment. “I don’t see a difference in the way the sports are promoted,” Hinson said. “For example with our team Instagrams … Everything is produced the same way. EWU Athletics is putting out their weekly newsletter, every sport is addressed the same way.” Hinson talked about how he’s seen the issue of gender equality become more prevalent in the past few years. “I’ve talked to a lot of people who really enjoyed coming out and watching women’s tennis specifically because of the way the points are different from the men’s side,” Hinson said. “I’ve been really happy with the way I’ve seen my team progress and get better regardless of any of those topics. In the past, it was more of an issue … Now that I don’t think it’s brought up as much, which in my mind speaks to the fact that there’s a lot more equality.”
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and you will find the men’s and women’s track and field team practicing every afternoon. As women’s head coach Marcia Mecklenburg concluded practice one day, she told The Easterner that she has found sports to be a way of life. “My goal in high school was to be one of the greatest throwers in the world,” Mecklenburg said. “Everything that I am now has stemmed from those goals.” Senior thrower Paris Flenoy said that sports has helped her become a better leader. Later, she talked about her perspective of gender equality in athletics. “From being little … I never really saw a lot of women in sports,” Flenoy said. “I had a chance to learn more about women and what they’re capable of, and I think society is advocating women now more than they had before.” Flenoy, like DePriest, talked about the pay gap between men and women athletes. “We’re always going to be fighting for equal pay,” Flenoy said. “Not just in sports, but society in general.”
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Left: Safety Dehonta Hayes. Right: Linebacker Ty Graham. Football players pose in front of the PUB food pantry as part of a promotional campaign led by Hayes to sponsor the program. The football team is holding a canned food drive to help fill the pantries through April.
Football fuels food pantry awareness Safety Dehonta Hayes leads promotional campaign and canned food drive TAYLOR NEWQUIST Sports Editor There are seven food pantries across campus and EWU safety Dehonta Hayes, who will be a redshirt senior next season, wants you to know about every one of them. Hayes, who is a communications studies major, partnered with the Office of Community Engagement as a part of a public relations campaign class. He met with the Community Outreach coordinator, Arick Erechar, who told Hayes to emphasize that the food pantries were available to everyone on campus. Hayes said since learning about the food pantries he has been using them as well. On March 5, Hayes gathered members of the football team to do a photoshoot to promote the use of the food pantries. With the photos, Hayes plans to make posters to spread awareness for a canned food drive the football team started on March 11 that will go toward filling the pantries. There are two donation locations on campus: one in front of the Eagle Store in the PUB, and the other in front of the locker rooms in the Phase. Dry and nonperishable goods are accepted. “I thought we’d have a huge impact on campus and in the community,” Hayes told The Easterner. “It's another step in (the football team’s) leadership. We’ve been reading to kids and going to the children's hospital, so it’s one more thing to show how much we care about our community.”
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The food drive will run through March and continue the entirety of April. “We can go as far as we can with this,” Hayes said. “Really make something good out of it.” Safety Anthany Smith, who will be a redshirt sophomore next season, is one of the other football players aiding with the food pantries. When Hayes asked him to help out two weeks ago, Smith thought it was a great idea. “We’re just getting it started,” Smith said. “We’re in Cheney and there are a lot of families that don’t have the food they need, so I think it’s a great thing.” Smith said that the members of the football team will be promoting the canned food drive through their social media pages. He added that the football team aiding with different programs that give back to the community is important because of the bigger platform they have, and their ability to make an impact. Erechar echoed that sentiment and said that having the football team help with the food pantries is beneficial to the Office of Community Engagement because of the potential audience, and added awareness the players can bring
to the food pantry program. “People will listen,” Erechar said. “Getting them on board really helps send the message out. We can only do so much considering what our audience is.” Hayes plans on continuing to help with the food pantries going into next quarter. He said stepping up and taking on projects like this is an important step for him as he goes into a leadership role in his senior season on the football team. He said when other people see those kind of actions, they are going to want to do the same thing. “The football team is taking strides to show our fans and our supporters that we care about the community,” Hayes said. Hayes made a huge impact filling in last season when Tysen Prunty and Mitch Fettig were out with injuries. He finished third on the team with 87 tackles and maintained the starting role through the FCS National Championship game. The Eagles kick off spring practice on April 2. The food pantries are located in Showalter Hall, Isle Hall, Sutton Hall, the PE Classroom building, the JFK Library, the URC and the PUB. The food provided aims to combat food insecurity, and is available to all students and staff.•
“It's one more thing to show how much we care about our - DEHONTA HAYES community.”
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Dear soccer haters, it's time to square up Taylor Newquist is the Sports Editor for The Easterner. The overtly hyperbolic opinion expressed in this article is his own and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Easterner's editorial board. If you’re a sports fan and you’ve ever found yourself TAYLOR NEWQUIST saying that you don’t watch Sports Editor soccer because you think it’s boring, or because nothing happens, then listen up. You’re dead wrong. Worse than that, you’ve probably never given the sport a chance because foreign means less than to some people. It isn't cool or edgy to hate on something you're ignorant of, and the same old "soccer isn't a sport" jokes are played out. But if you still think they're funny, you're probably pretty stale anyways. Here's the deal: I'm challenging you to sit down and watch an entire second leg of a UEFA Champions League match, and still hold that contrived opinion.
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