The Easterner: Volume 101, Issue 13

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Volume 101, Issue 13

Crucial Historic Milestone Funding for Schuller for New Page 15 Science Building

Fresh Food

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Finds

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“I like to think about how I’m going to feel after I’ve completed or moved beyond the stress I’m currently dealing with, which motivates me to power through it.”

“Exercise definitely helps, but the biggest thing for me has been doing Trancendental Meditation. I do it twice a day and it’s so peaceful. It’s my only way to stay sane.”

How do you handle stress?

“I try to look at the bigger picture of the situation. In the grand scheme of things, what is being upset going to do? Nothing.”

Michael Brock, Sports Editor

Logan Stanley, Managing Editor “I like to go on a nice long run. It gives me an opportunity to think and clear my head. I don’t have to worry, I just run.”

Dayana Morales, A&E Editor

Andrew Watson, Art Director

Student Photo Corner

Copy Editor Taylor Waring

Reporters

Sam Jackson Jeremy Burnham

Graphic Designer Gail Powers

Photographers Mckenzie Ford Bailey Monteith

“I take a step back, collect my thoughts and truck through it. Most of the time the stress level is more serious than it actually needs to be.”

“When I get stressed out, I try to decompress.

Generally there’s some nerdy pasttime or another that I can use as an outlet.”

Sherbert The Easterner’s own Graphic Designer Gail Powers submitted this photo.

“This is a Soprano™ Purple (Osteospermum hybrid), I noticed it growing in a pot in my mom’s garden one spring. I was drawn to the blooms by their nearly flawless petals and intricate color profile; the muted orange and vibrant pink melding into purple reminded me strongly of the frozen dessert I named the photo for.

Faculty Adviser Carleigh Hill chill26@ewu.edu

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News

Dining Services offer a fresh place to eat

Mckenzie Ford for The Easterner Students shop at the Fresh Market in Tawanka Hall. The market was set up to provide students with healthy, fresh foods.

Colleen Ford Contributor Fresh produce hit the stands once again as EWU’s Fresh Market reopens for the school year.

Although canned tomatoes and frozen corn may seem to be the only way to get some healthy vitamins on a college budget, there is still a way for EWU students to get their daily dose of fresh fruits and vegetables each week. Largely sourced from local vendors and EWU’s own vegetable garden, the Thursday Fresh Market aims to provide students, faculty and staff with a new—and healthier— food option.

Started, funded and maintained by EWU’s Dining Services, the Fresh Market has run as an offshoot to the Eagle Express Market since the 2012-13 school year as part of EWU’s Sustainability Project.

“We wanted something unique to give to the students,” Mitchell Shaffer, program assistant for Dining Services, said.

Shaffer watches over the tables and doles out everything from apples to garlic each week to the many patrons that wander by. Most of the fruits and vegetables are locally sourced from vendors and farmers in the

area, with the occasional seasonal foods being sourced globally. The campus garden also provides vegetables when they are available.

EWU Dining Services’ Local Partners include LINC Foods, Charlie’s Produce, Truitt Family Foods and Pacific Seafood.

The Fresh Market has managed to make quite an impact since its humble beginnings in 2012. EWU’s Dining Sustainability website states that the stand has been “exceptionally well-received” by students over the years.

“I think it’s a great idea to give people an opportunity to buy healthier food on campus,” junior Alex Braatz said.

Trends vary from week to week so it’s difficult to say what the market’s most popular items are, but according to Shaffer, berries such as blueberries, strawberries and raspberries are often gone by the end of the day, along with bananas and apples.

“It all depends on what people are eating each week,” said Shaffer.

Regular produce includes everything from potatoes, onions, and garlic, to pineapple, kiwi, and lemon. The produce sold is generally consistent throughout the year.

As well as providing fresh produce each week-the

market also sells a featured bakery item made from scratch in the kitchens of Tawanka. Popular baked items include apple fritter bread, jalapeno cheese bread and the occasional seasonal cookies and pies.

The Fresh Market’s original location was in the Pence Union Building before the renovations began in the Fall of 2016. Now it is found in the main lobby of Tawanka, a few doors away from the Express Market. The stand will move back to the PUB once it reopens where there is a lot more foot traffic.

The stand will remain in the warm lobby of Tawanka until the PUB’s renovations are completed in the Fall of 2018. It has and will continue to run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursdays throughout the school year— summer quarter excluded—providing students, faculty, and staff a healthy and sustainable food option on campus. •

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News

Vanessa Delgado named new Multicultural Center Director Katherine Senechal Reporter EWU has recently announced that there will be a new and first permanent director of the EWU Multicultura l Center, Vanessa Delgado. Delgado starts on March 1 and is currently preparing to move to Eastern Washington with her wife and dog.

Vanessa Delgado According to an Eastern 24/7 article, “Delgado comes to Eastern from the University of Kansas where she managed the Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity since 2015. Prior to that

she spent three years directing initiatives for the LGBTQ+ Resource Center and the Multicultural Office for Student Access, Inclusiveness and Community (M.O.S.A.I.C.) at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.”

“The work I have engaged in has provided me an understanding of the unique needs of students who have been historically, systematically and institutionally underrepresented on college campuses,” said Delgado, about her qualifications for this position. “I would also hope that part of my qualifications is my passion and love for this work.”

Delgado believes that her role as the new director and the Multicultural Center as a whole is to promote the success of marginalized students. Everything the office does is to better serve the needs and interests of underrepresented students.

“Social justice should be the lens with which we move though all our work,” said Delgado.

When asked what one thing she wants EWU students to know about the center, Delgado said, “We’re here for you… one of the biggest challenges for an identity-based office/center/organization is connecting to our students… I want our students to feel comfortable and welcome and know they belong in the center and at Eastern.”

Delgado feels that she will be a good match for this position because she can connect to these students.

As a “first generation, Hispanic, queer, woman,” Delgado believes she can be the there for the students on a deeper level since she understands what it was like being in their shoes.

Delgado said that she once heard someone say, “I want to be the professional

staff member that I needed when I was them.” She said that it always stuck with her and her hope is to be that staff member for EWU students.

Delgado sees this as an opportunity to build on and cultivate the community at EWU. She is pleased to be continuing her social justice work and to be working on a campus that is so actively engaged in inclusion work.

The Multicultural Center is currently located in Showalter, but will move to the new Pence Union Building (PUB) when construction is finished. •

Campus Dietician teaches salads on-the-go Josh Fletcher News Editor Dining services is educating students to count the amount of colors and variety of foods on their plate as opposed to worrying about calories.

Campus Dietician Natalie Stein orchestrated the free lunch for students on Jan. 17 to show them how to put together a healthy salad.

“Too often we get bogged down with calories and macronutrients (protein, carbohydrates and fat) and it takes the joy out of eating,” said Stein. “No one should feel guilty for eating.”

Stein wants students to be more mindful of the types of food they are eating and what to add to their diet such as fruits and vegetables, as opposed to what they should limit.

At the event, flyers from the USDA explained how to “liven up your meals with vegetables and fruits,” and “smart shopping for veggies and fruits,” to help make eating healthier foods a cheap and easy thing to do.

Some suggestions for livening up your meals were stir-frying veggies, mixing them into an omelette and topping your pancakes with extra fruit.

Tips for buying on a budget included shopping around for savings, plant your own vegetables and buy the store brands for extra savings.

“You can achieve a healthier weight by incorporating more fruits and vegetables,” said Stein. “By doing this you can eat more overall while still eating less calories.”

Stein and Dining Services offered students a free salad bar in the Roost lobby, featuring: beans, multiple salad dressings, avocados, quinoa, spinach and examples for building the perfect to-go salad.

The Dining Services department is dedicated to helping students live healthier lives no matter their budget.

Even if you are eating a-la-carte everyday, they try to give you options.

“Dining services tries really hard to have a healthy option everyday,” Stein Josh Fletcher for The Easterner said. “There are many opportunities to eat Dietician Natalie Stein teaches students how to incoorperate more fruits and vegetables in their healthy here at Eastern.” diet. The Dining Services offered students free salads in the URC last week.

With the completion of the PUB coming up this fall, Stein says Dining Services has bowls and sandwiches students will be able “There will still be times where you will plans for making healthy eating even easier. to pick up.” have chicken tenders,” said Stein. “That’s life.

“There is going to be healthy to-go options Making the transition to healthy eating I ate pizza last week.” • students can grab and go,” said Stein. “We can be hard, dieting is not always going to go are going to try out different kinds of grain smoothly, and Stein knows this.

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ASEWU special election measure aims at clearing gambling license hurdle Brandon Cline Editor in Chief For the second consecutive year, ASEWU is holding a special election on three different measures that would alter the body’s constitution, one of which could provide benefits for clubs and organizations on campus.

This year’s special election takes place on Jan. 30, with the three measures appearing on this year’s ballot having also been on last year’s. Despite each of the measures easily passing in 2017, two of which passed unanimously, the voter turnout level of just 1.53 percent was far below the required minimum of 10 percent in order for the measures to be implemented, according to Article VIII, Section I of the ASEWU Constitution. The measures also appeared on the 2017 general election ballot, but voter turnout still only reached 7.91 percent.

The first measure on the ballot would change the primary and general election schedule, allowing EWU’s semester students to participate in elections before their term ends. In 2017, the last day of the term for the spring semester was May 5, while the general election took place on May 9.

The second measure pertains to

changing the title of the “Director of Finance” to “Finance Vice President,” which would put the title more in line with the rest of the executive branch.

The final measure on the ballot would add a dissolution statement to the ASEWU Constitution. While ASEWU has no plan to dissolve in the near or distant future, a dissolution statement is required under section 230-03-145 of the Washington Administrative Code in order for charitable and nonprofit organizations to apply for a gambling license. The license would allow for clubs and organizations on campus to fundraise with raffle tickets.

“So really it’s giving [clubs and organizations] more options for fundraising ideas,” Justin McBride, Director of Elections, said.

As well as requiring at least 10 percent of the eligible student body to vote, the ASEWU Constitution mandates that the measures must be approved by two-thirds of the voters.

If both of the thresholds aren’t met, then it would be up to ASEWU Council members on whether or not to put the measures on the general election ballot to try and pass them again. McBride said he imagined the council would indeed try and get the measures on the general election. •

Sexual assault reported on campus Josh Fletcher News Editor Around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, police were called to Morrison Hall after a woman was found outside naked from the waist down.

The female told police she believed that she was sexually assaulted but couldn’t remember. She was transferred to the

hospital for a sexual assault kit, but police have not received the results.

EWU PD tweeted they were looking for a non-student named Antoine, but after conducting multiple interviews with him they determined he was not the suspect.

Police say the investigation is still ongoing, and any information can be anonymously called in at (509) 359-4286. •

Photo courtesy EWU Due to the 2017-19 capital budget being passed by the state legislature last week, the new EWU Interdisciplinary Science Center is moving forward with construction.

New science building funded as legislature approves capital budget Brandon Cline Editor in Chief The quest for a new science building on the EWU campus took a big step forward last week, as Governor Jay Inslee signed the $4.2 billion 2017-19 capital budget on Jan. 19 after the Washington State Legislature approved the budget in both chambers earlier in the week.

The capital budget, which invests in infrastructure projects throughout the state, includes the $67 million that EWU requested for the construction of a new science building, the Interdisciplinary Science Center (ISC).

According to a press release from EWU, the allocation from the capital budget means that EWU can put the ISC project out for bids immediately. Construction could start as early as the fall of 2018, and is projected to take from 24 to 28 months to complete.

“I’m extremely grateful to lawmakers for this much needed appropriation,” said

EWU President Mary Cullinan in the press release. “And I also appreciate the hard work of key stakeholders on campus and in our local communities who have worked hard on this proposal.”

EWU’s current science building is 47 years old, and Cullinan says it’s “no longer adequate for our students, faculty and staff.” The university hopes to eventually renovate the science building for research labs, classrooms and extra space.

The ISC will be connected to the current science building with enclosed walkways, according to the press release. The project calls for a state-of-the-art science building, which will be able to meet the needs of modern day STEM programs such as biology, geology, chemistry, biochemistry and physics.

Other buildings on the EWU campus that have been funded due to the capital budget include Patterson Hall, the Computing and Engineering Sciences Building and snyamncut Residence Hall. •

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Opinion EDITORIAL The Easterner Editorial Board It is often hard to understand why somebody would choose to commit suicide.

It is even harder to understand when, on the outside, they look like they have everything going for them. You see people like Robin Williams, or more recently Chris Cornell, who to us it looks like they have everything anyone could ever want.

But we are not them, and we don't understand what they are going through. In some cases you can never fully understand what someone is struggling with, even if they are a close loved one. After a tragic loss like suicide, those close to the person who died are interviewed and for the most part they say the same thing: “I could never have imagined them doing this. They were the nicest and most caring person.”

No level of money, fame or success can ever make some people happy. It is not because they are greedy or ungrateful people, it is that material things don’t fill the holes in their lives. It is hard for some people to imagine, but those who have achieved high levels of success and fame

like Jim Carrey, have spoken about it. “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”

Ryan Holiday wrote a piece for “Thought Catalog” called “You’ll Never Really Feel Like You’ve ‘Made It’ (And Why That’s A Good Thing).” In it he uses an example of how when you are in fourth grade and look at sixth graders you think how cool they are, and in two years you will be one of those cool kids. But, as he says, “You never end up feeling like a sixth grader. You never actually ‘arrive’”.

I think this speaks to the misconceptions people have about what they think they will feel like when something happens. Things like graduating from college, getting the job you desire or getting a promotion you have always dreamed of. They fill the void for sometime, but a few months of weeks later, you are no longer satisfied with the promotion and you want more.

After someone takes their life there is always a list of the warning signs experts tell you to look for to try to stop future tragedies.

Unfortunately, most people who commit suicide never show the signs

experts tell you to look for. According to Dr. Michael Miller, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School “Many people who commit suicide do so without letting on they are thinking about it or planning it.” The warning signs, while helpful with certain individuals, are not a one size fits all approach to prevention.

Help is out there for those who need it, that part is clear. But no amount of free help will do any good if people don’t seek it. Getting help or even just talking to somebody about problems or issues you are facing can sometimes mean the difference between life and death.

At EWU, counseling is free to all students through the CAPS services.

It is something that everybody could benefit from, because everybody has issues—some worse than others.

Students are also

encouraged to call the Student Health Clinic at (509) 235-6151, or Spokane Mental Health at (509) 838-4651.

Websites such as BetterHelp also provide e-counseling to those who need help with depression, stress, anxiety, grief and more.

You’ll be matched to a licensed, professional therapist based off of factors such as gender, age, relationship status, whether or not you’ve ever had counseling or therapy before, and more.

“Unfortunately, most people who commit suicide never show the signs experts tell you to look for.”

Student health clinic

(509) 235-6151 (509) 838-4651 Spokane Mental Health

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A&E Marketplace Bakery and Deli strives to offers farm-to-table cuisine in Cheney Erica Halbert Contributor The Marketplace Bakery & Deli brings homestyle food to Cheney with a focus on local ingredients and supporting local farmers.

The restaurant offers breakfast and lunch services. Breakfast items include classics such as eggs, bacon and pancakes, but also adds twists like stuffed hash browns and stuffed biscuits smothered in gravy. Additionally they have a weekend brunch, with foods like Belgian Waffles and eggs Benedict.

The lunch menu consists of a daily rotation of soups, enormous hot and cold sandwiches and burgers, with a selection of craft beers on tap.

The Marketplace also hosts various handmade pastries and baked goods, such as homemade doughnuts, cookies, bars, pies and breads.

Owner Lori Musgrave opened the Marketplace in Cheney nearly two and a half years ago, but she’s been in the restaurant business for almost nine years.

“Before we moved our business here we had a bakery and deli in Deer Park,” Musgrave said.

Musgrave, a Cheney resident for over 17 years, said she got tired of the drive from Cheney to Deer Park every day and came up with the idea to relocate the restaurant to Cheney.

“I decided that maybe I could just do the whole thing here and bring what we were doing in Deer Park to Cheney,” Musgrave said.

Musgrave’s inspiration for the restaurant came from her work with local farmers and local Amish.

“I was working with the Mennonites and the Hutterites up in the Deer Park area and they had a bakery and deli up there,” said Musgrave. “They were giving it up and offered it to me. I was just very fortunate to be able to jump in and keep the store going.”

The move from Deer Park to Cheney gave Musgrave the opportunity to expand the business from just a bakery and deli.

She moved from a 1,500 square-foot building to a 6,000 square-foot restaurant in Cheney. The building was previously occupied

by Gatto’s Pizza, a restaurant and arcade for several years.

Previously in Deer Park, the restaurant had served only baked goods and sandwiches.

“We started thinking, what would go over

well here in Cheney? And that’s when we decided to start looking at bringing it back as a restaurant,” Musgrave said.

Musgrave’s goal was to provide a little bit of everything in her restaurant in a familystyle atmosphere.

“We wanted to stay with the making fresh food aspect, and we started looking at what we could make with what we already had,” said Musgrave. “We thought, we make our own bread, so let’s increase our sandwiches. We already make sourdough bread, so we could make sourdough pizza. We just started looking at everything that was available from local farmers and based our menu on that.”

Musgrave didn’t do it alone. She credits much of the restaurant’s success on her chefs.

Specifically, she named Holly, who does a lot of the baking, her aunt, and Scott, a former casino chef who came on to help.

“I was just really lucky with the whole team that came in to help,” Musgrave said.

All the recipes used on the menu were created by Musgrave and her team of chefs and everything in the restaurant is either homemade or locally sourced.

“If I can get it from one of the local farms, or we can make it here fresh, that’s what we do,” said Musgrave. “We don’t go out and buy frozen foods to reheat, we just don’t do that.

When we make hash browns, we take a potato, shred it, and cook it.”

Musgrave acknowledges that her process of hand making everything takes longer, but to her, it’s worth it.

“It takes time to make real food,” said Musgrave. “We’re not some place where you can just go in and they put the food in front of you in two minutes.”

“When you go to a restaurant or fast food, and they bring out your food almost instantly, what does that tell you about the food? It’s been premade, it’s been set, it’s been hot-held.

We didn’t want that.”

Another objective of Musgrave is to make college students feel like they’re getting a home-cooked meal when they come to the Marketplace.

“We can always tell you what our ingredients are,” said Musgrave. “So that’s what we offer that is so much different, it’s homemade.”

The most popular items on the menu is the Reuben sandwich and the chicken bacon ranch sandwich. The stuffed hash browns and the biscuit basket are the most popular breakfast items.

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Mckenzie Ford for The Easterner Top picture: The eggs Benedict is one one of the most popular breakfast items.

Bottom picture: Breakfast sandwich with locally sourced bacon. Everything on the menu comes from family recipes.

Musgrave’s personal favorite items, however, are the pancakes, the chicken bacon ranch sandwich and the BLT. “Our bacon, again, is locally sourced. I love our bacon,” Musgrave said.

The Marketplace isn’t only a restaurant.

Like its name suggests, it’s also a market, full of various, locally sourced items for sale. They offer a large variety, from handmade candies and syrups to farm-fresh eggs and cheeses, and even non-food items such as soaps and baskets.

Musgrave’s inspiration for her market comes from her work with farmer’s markets.

“In the end of summer, when the farmer’s

markets close, the farmers still have fresh vegetables, and the soapmaker still has soaps, and the beekeepers still produce honey. And nobody had ever thought about doing something where you can keep going,” Musgrave said.

“I thought, this is my chance to help all of these local little businesses keep going, and that’s what I did.”

The Marketplace now has items from 31 different local farmers, artisans, and crafters.

Their intention is to keep growing. Most of the items are predominantly Amish, coming from the local Hutterite and Mennonite Farms.”

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“Just like a farmer’s market, any of those farmers can tell you where your food is coming from, and that’s really important to me,” Musgrave said.

On top of selling items inside, the Marketplace also hosts a Cheney farmer’s market in the summer. Musgrave said the farmer’s market usually runs from June until either Sept. or Oct., depending on the weather.

To Musgrave, local food makes all the difference.

“You have to be able to support local, and support the local farmers, because they’re the ones growing your food,” Musgrave said.

“It’s easy to go into the local grocery stores and grab your food. But when you can come and talk to the producers who grow your food, and know where it’s coming from and what’s been put on it, if anything, when it was picked, doesn’t that sound a lot better?”

“If you go to the store, and you look at the tomatoes, they’re almost always perfectly formed. That’s because they’ve been picked

green. Now if you come to a farmers market and look at those same tomatoes, they’re not perfectly round. They have not been picked green off that vine, they’ve been picked red and ripe.”

Musgrave said that it’s these fresh ingredients that make all the difference in how her restaurant’s food tastes.

While the Marketplace started as a breakfast and lunch restaurant, Musgrave intends to slowly introduce a dinner service as well, starting this Friday. The dinner service will start out running Friday nights only, offering a full three-course meal for a reasonable price. Musgrave is also adding a salad bar on Fridays, offering unlimited soup and salad.

The Marketplace Bakery & Deli is located at 1011 1st St. and is open Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Fridays for dinner service. •

Mckenzie Ford for The Easterner Sugar scrub and bath salt in many different fragrances are available at the Marketplace Bakery & Deli.

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Tattoo shop peaks interest beyond the ink Sam Jackson Reporter A mother and daughter duo take on professional tattooing and piercing at Mom’s Custom Tattoo & Piercing shop.

Mom’s is located near downtown Spokane in the Kendall Yards neighborhood.

They’ve been at this location for the last four years. Mom and owner, Beth Swilling, has been tattooing in Spokane for a long time now. In efforts to expand on her mother’s profession, daughter and co-owner Shandra Swilling has been piercing professionally for over four years. Beyond the family are three other tattoo artists, another piercer and two other staff members.

The atmosphere of the shop focuses on a home-feel, with a boutique vibe.

“We’re just a little more mainstream I guess,” said Shandra Swilling. “We kind of cater to a different audience. Women are the ones who get tattooed and pierced the most so it’s kind of good to gear a little more toward them. I think we just make it comfortable.”

After attending the Seattle Tattoo Expo

the owners were eager to branch out and get into the piercing business. By doing this, Spokane clients could have a more steady piercing experience.

“In Spokane there were no consistent piercers,” said Shandra Swilling. “I went to one piercer who was gone after two weeks and just like that there was nothing consistent here, people were just f lakey. So I was like, well why don’t we just do it ourselve’s.”

Mom’s is the only shop in Eastern Washington that is part of the Association of Professional Piercers as a member. The APP was founded by a group of piercers from different countries who decided to set a standard for piercing. To become a professional piercer in the state of Washington, all you need is bloodborne pathogens training and $250. To be a member of the APP it requires the business to undergo CPR and first aid training, submitting a 360 degree video of the studio and sending in their jewelry invoices.

“Being members of the APP shows our clients that we take it seriously,” said Shandra Swilling. “We have been trying to

educate people about it from the get-go and it’s just now, finally taking off and people are seeing the great results with it.”

When entering the shop, instead of being greeted by an artist there are assistant personnels ready to help every client with picking out Sam Jackson for The Easterner jewelry or helping to decide Mom’s tattoo shop is the only shop in Easterner Washington which artist they will work that is a part of the Association of Professional Piercers.The with best. shop has been open for four years.

“That’s also something different we have here, because most tattoo Thursday’s from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday’s shops here you have to wait for someone to and Saturday’s from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and be done tattooing for them to talk to you,” Sunday’s from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. They are said Shandra Swilling. “So, they’re really located at 1226 W. Summit Pkwy in Spokane integral to us.” at Kendall Yards. • Mom’s advises to make an appointment.

It is the best option, though they will try to take walk-ins whenever they can. On Valentine’s Day there will be a special.

One of their tattoo artists, Bonnie, will be doing tattoo name cover-ups for a discounted price.

Mom’s is open on Wednesday’s and

Tennessean brings Appalachian poetry to the Pacific Northwest Colleen Ford Contributor On January 19, in Auntie’s upstairs reading room in the heart of downtown Spokane, visiting poet Jesse Graves has everyone’s full attention as he recites the poetry for which he is known best.

Graves is the Visiting Writer courtesy of EWU’s Get Lit! program, and his knack for haunting Appalachian poetry has all his listeners utterly entranced.

Jesse Graves hails from Sharp’s Chapel, a small town in Eastern Tennessee about 40 miles north of Knoxville, where his family roots run deep.

Growing up on a farm in the rural south meant that Graves did not have the typical

background of a contemporary poet. To this Graves speaks highly of his mother, a storyteller who gave him the drive to find the poetry in himself, and his father, who has been his role model for diligent work.

As a first-generation college student at the University of Tennessee, Graves turned to his childhood and early life for inspiration in his poetry and writing.

As Southern writer Flannery O’Connor said, “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”

After obtaining a bachelor’s in English from the University of Tennessee, Graves went on to get a masters’ in Creative Writing from Cornell and a doctorate in Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee. He now works at East Tennessee State University as an Associate Professor and Poet-in-Residence.

Influential poets and authors of Graves are the likes of John Keats, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Tennessee poet Charles

Wright, Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, and Rainer Maria Rilke.

Once described as an Appalachian Gothic, Graves leans on his own experiences of love and loss in his family to bring southern culture and poetry into contemporary America. His ambition is to capture the stories that have been told in his own life as a way of keeping them alive in the present.

“A lot of my poems are about the past,” said Graves. “But it’s really important to engage in the world as it is and the world that we live in now. I think that if there’s a difference between contemporary Appalachian poetry and mainstream American poetry it’s that poets from Appalachia tend to write more narrative poems. There tends to be more of a focus on stories and on people’s voices-- how people tell their own stories.”

Graves’ writing process is one of patience and revision. He builds poems like sculptures and has made it his job

to continually write and work on what he has. When asked if there was a definitive event that caused him to begin writing poetry, the poet says that there was no such watershed moment, as far as he could remember. Rather-the need for expression had always been there-it just made itself clearer through the carpentry and alchemy of poems.

Graves has published two books thus far, “Tennessee Landscapes with Blighted Pine” and “Basin Ghosts,” both of which are filled to the brim with the recurring theme of haunted landscapes. Not necessarily just the physical characteristics of Appalachia, but also the relationship between man and his environment—the moments that have shaped the human experience. Graves’ third volume, “Specter Mountain,” comes out in March. •

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Events

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Night Tubing

Collegians/Vocal Jazz

ASEWU Student Forum

What is it: Night tubing at Mt. Spokane.

When: Friday, Jan. 26 Time: 5:45 - 11 p.m.

Where: Shuttle leaves from the Spokane campus at 5:45 p.m.

Cost: Event is free however a $5 deposit is required.

To sign up go to bit.ly/nighttubing 2018. Deposit will be refunded after the event.

What is it: Solo Night.

When: Thursday, Jan. 25 Time: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Music Building Recital Hall.

Cost: No cost.

What is it: A forum for all students that want to talk to their student goverment representatives about what they want to see changed or added on campus.

When: Wednesday, Jan. 24.

Time: 4 - 5 p.m.

Where: Patterson Hall 210 Cost: No cost.

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Winter Quarter Resources Fair

Coffee House

What You Saw Is Not The Sea

What is it: 20 different EWU departments hosted

by Academic Affairs representative Jevion Knox.

When: Tuesday, Jan. 30 Time: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Where: JFK Library Cost: No cost.

What is it: Open Mic. When: Tuesday, Jan. 30 Time: 7 - 9 p.m.

Where: The Roost Cost: No cost.

What is it: An installation by Nicole Pietrantoni and Devon Wootten.

When: Jan. 26 through March 1.

Time: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily.

Where: EWU Gallery of Art located on campus in the Art Building.

Cost: No cost.

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Entertainment

EWU Sustainability Club

Join in environmental prosperity, economic security and social justice on campus!

Meet Tuesdays at 3pm in JFK Library L20! ewu.sustainability.club@gmail.com

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EDITORS’ PICKS Movie: “Downsizing” I’m a sucker for movies that offer a whimsical premise at first glance and follow it up with deep questions of self, purpose, and the human condition.

What seemed from the trailer to be a straight-up comedy was in fact a story of self-discovery in a world fraught with change. Matt Damon portrays a hesitant protagonist, who, after partaking in the

new scientific trend of “downsizing,” where a person is shunk down to a fraction of their original size for economic and ecological benefit, finds that his new size has given him a mountain of a paradigm shift.

(Andrew Watson)

TV Show: “Episodes” Set in the heart of Hollywood, “Episodes” follows a British screenwriting couple Sean and Beverly Lincoln (Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig) who are offered a deal they can’t refuse to move to America and recreate their wildly successful show “Lyman’s Boys.” But the show heads downhill when the network forces them to hire Matt LeBlanc for the lead role. What follows is miscue after miscue, as the Lincolns struggle to salvage their show’s integrity while trying to please half-brained network executives at the same time. You can catch all five seasons of “Episodes” on Netflix. (Brandon Clione)

Movie: “The Post”

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In the most recent Steven Spielberg film “The Post,” the journey of Katherine Graham is chronicled. Graham, the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, was heading the Washington Post when the Pentagon Papers were leaked. The papers, which detailed how the American public was misled about its involvement in the Vietnam War, were highly sensitive material.

The New York Times published these papers and were subsequently legally barred from printing further. With the weight of potentially losing the company, Graham must decide whether or not to publish the papers. (Logan Stanley)

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Sports

Men’s hockey drops pair, fall to 1-14 on season Taylor Newquist Contributor The EWU men’s hockey team lost two games to Selkirk College last weekend, with an away score of 6-1, and a home score of 6-3. The results dropped the Eagles to 1-14 on the season as they remained in last place of the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League.

The first goal of the Jan. 19 matchup was scored by EWU forward Colton St. John with an assist from forward Beau Walker. Their lead was held until Selkirk forward Brandon Sookro equalized late in the first period.

Selkirk went on to score five more unanswered goals, including four in the second period. EWU was out shot 42-17 in their losing effort.

The Eagles returned to Cheney for the home end of the series on Jan. 21. The beginning of the game was evenly matched with saves being made by each teams’ goalies. EWU opened the scoring when a deep shot from defender Austin Breen hit the back of the net with 14:32 left in the first period.

A goal from Selkirk defender Cole Arcuri tied the game later in the first period. With two seconds left on the clock, EWU defender Joseph Porco re-gained the lead for the Eagles with a shot from nearly the same position as Breen’s first goal.

The second period caused similar troubles to the Eagles as their last game, again conceding four unanswered goals from Selkirk, making the score 5-2.

The result was not yet decided, and an unassisted goal from Walker at the start of the third period gave the Eagles new life. St. John had a break away opportunity on a turnover that was saved by Selkirk goalie Patrick Zubrick.

Zubrick again came up with a big save after Walker stripped a Selkirk defender of the puck and made a dashing effort at goal. Selkirk defender Parker Wakaruk scored the sixth goal, and sealed the game for the Saints with 4:28 left in the third period.

The Eagles’ next game is at home against Simon Fraser University on Friday, Jan 26. SFU comes into the Mckenzie Ford for The Easterner game at 10-6 on the year. • Men’s hockey huddles up during the team’s home loss to Selkirk College on Jan. 21. The Eagles are 1-14 on the season.

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Men’s and women’s track and field compete at Washington State Open Sophomore Keshun McGee becomes Big Sky leader in triple jump, men win three titles Jeremy Burnham Reporter A week after the EWU men’s and women’s track and field teams took home a combined nine individual titles at the Vandal Indoor Invitational in Idaho, both squads were back in action on Jan. 20 at the Washington State Open.

On the men’s side, the Eagles won three first place titles. The highlight came in the triple jump as EWU sophomore Keshun McGee became the Big Sky Conference leader with a jump of 50-8 1/4 feet.

“Keshun’s triple jump performance was an enormous accomplishment,” said EWU men’s head coach Stan Kerr. “He is having a banner indoor season in the long and triple jump.”

McGee also placed second in the long jump, with a jump of 23-7 1/4 feet. For his performance during the meet, McGee was named the conference’s Men’s Field Athlete of the Week.

McGee was the triple jump champion at the 2017 Big Sky Conference Indoor Championships as well as the conference’s Male Freshman of the Year. “[McGee] is clearly one of the most talented athletes in the Big Sky Conference,” said Kerr. “His consistent performances and adapting quickly to his third coach in as many years is a tribute to his desire to improve everyday.”

Senior Larry Still, who took first in the pole vault in Idaho, repeated the feat on Saturday. His best clearance on the day was 16-0 3/4 feet, not quite as good as his mark of 16-6 3/4 feet last week.

Scott Miller took first place in the

Quick Hits • Interim Athletic Director to be named On Jan. 13, former Athletic Director Bill Chaves was named to the same position at the University of North Dakota. University president Mary Cullinan is expected to announce an interim athletic director and formal plan this week.

• Cross country head coach Chris Shane fired On Dec. 19, former EWU cross country coach Chris Shane received a letter of termination from university president Mary Cullinan. The firing came after a 57-page investigative report, which included a number of allegations of misbehavior, was released. Shane, who has been at EWU since 2015, plans to file a lawsuit against the school for public defamation. The Easterner will have more in the coming weeks.

• Big Sky Conference All-Academic team announced For fall quarter 2017, 68 EWU student-athletes were named to the Big Sky Conference All-Academic shot put with a throw of 51-7 3/4 feet. team. To qualify, students must maintain a 3.20 grade point average or better and play in at least half of On the women’s side, after six first- the team’s competitions. The list includes 30 football, 16 women’s soccer, nine volleyball, seven men’s cross place finishes in Idaho, the Eagles were country and six women’s cross country student-athletes. held winless at WSU. EWU did take second and third place in the 60 meter dash. Freshman Alexis Rolan finished with a time of 7.56, while senior Rebecca Tarbert had a time of 7.78.

“I thought our crew did a great job competing,” women’s head coach Marcia Mecklenburg said. “Once again we had some outstanding performances and I was glad to see that, given the hard training we have been putting in the last several weeks.”

Kerr is already looking forward to next week, where both squads will compete at the University of Washington Invite.

“In Seattle we expect our distance crew to make a strong showing as many of them competed in shorter races today,” said Kerr. “With the Big Sky Championships just a few weeks away, it is exciting to see the team performing at this high level.” •

Photo courtesy EWU Athletics Sophomore Keshun McGee performs a triple jump during a home meet last season. McGee became the Big Sky Conference leader in the event last week with a jump of 50-8 1/4.

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Photo courtesy Aaron Malmoe Mckenzie Ford for The Easterner Head coach Wendy Schuller poses during her career acknowledgement at the Eagles’ win over Southern Utah Senior forward Delaney Hodgins drives to the hoop against Southern Utah. on Jan. 20. This was Schuller’s 500th game at EWU. Hodgins is 55 points away from becoming the school’s all-time leading scorer.

Schuller coaches 500th game as Eagles soar at home At 5-2, women’s basketball is in four-way tie for first place in conference Jeremy Burnham Reporter When you have two players combine for 57 points, you’re likely going to win. On Jan. 18 against Northern Arizona, senior forward Delaney Hodgins scored a career high 30 points and junior guard Kapri Morrow had a career best 27 points, as the EWU women’s basketball team defeated NAU 82-62. The Eagles followed that up with a 58-41 victory against Southern Utah on Jan. 20.

The two victories improved the Eagles to 5-2 in Big Sky play, and to 10-9 overall. It’s the first time all season that the Eagles have been above .500, and they are now in a four-way tie for first place in conference standings with Northern Colorado, Weber State and Montana.

Both of the weekend’s games combined for only two lead changes (both against

NAU) and two ties (also against NAU). By contrast, back on Dec. 11, the Eagles participated in a single game that had 24 lead changes.

The Eagles did not trail at the end of any quarter in either game, and spent the majority of each leading by double digits.

Against NAU, Morrow dominated the first half offensively—scoring 16 points and pacing the Eagles to a 38-22 lead. While Morrow was scoring, Hodgins ended the half with five rebounds and three steals.

Hodgins came alive in the second half, scoring 18 of her 30 points. She finished the win with five three-pointers and eight rebounds. Morrow added 11 more second half points, bringing her total to 27. Sophomore guard Symone Starks scored nine points (all on three’s), while adding seven assists.

Hodgins is expected to put up big numbers. After all, she was

voted the Big Sky Conference Preseason MVP. The strong play of Morrow, however, has been a very encouraging sign for the Eagles. Since conference play began, Morrow is averaging 16.6 points per game.

“Kapri is having a phenomenal year,” said EWU head coach Wendy Schuller.

“She has stepped up in so many ways that aren’t all ref lected on the stat sheet. She has established herself as a scorer for us and has become a very nice three-point shooter. But she can post and rebound and get to the rim. She is turning into a special player.”

Sunday’s game was more of the same. In Schuller’s 500th contest as head coach, the Eagles never trailed, and the game was never tied after 0-0. EWU led 19-3 at the end of the first quarter, and never looked back.

SUU used a 15-4 run to come within nine in the third quarter,

but Hodgins and freshman guard Brittany Klaman answered with a 7-0 run to prevent SUU from pulling any closer.

Hodgins finished with 17 points, 12 rebounds and six blocked shots.

Morrow had 16 points.

Late in the fourth, the game took an ugly turn. SUU sophomore guard Rebecca Cardenas took a hard fall. She was checked out by trainers before returning to the game.

Later, after SUU threw the ball inbounds, Starks quickly shoved Cardenas to the ground.

Starks was immediately ejected from the game. SUU players reacted and further fighting brief ly started, but officials were able to break it up quickly. Other than Starks’ ejection, no other infractions were called.

By this time, the game had long since been determined.

The Eagles coasted the rest of the way to close out Schuller’s

milestone game with a victory.

“I’ve been fortunate to be a part of an organization that’s willing to keep me around for so long,” said Schuller. “I think back to all the kids who have been part of those 500 games.

I feel very lucky that I still have great relationships with so many of them.”

The pair of victories wrapped up a three-game home stand for EWU. They now hit the road for pair of road contests.

On Jan. 25, the Eagles play North Dakota before taking on Northern Colorado on Jan. 27.

Their next home game is Feb. 1 against Sacramento State. •

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Men’s basketball splits on road, move to 4-3 in Big Sky With home stand upcoming, Bliznyuk is two points from breaking scoring record digits. EWU maintained a seven-point lead for the next four minutes, however NAU wouldn’t go away.

The EWU men’s basketball team split With 1:06 remaining, freshman a pair of road games over the weekend, guard Jack Perry hit a three-pointer to beating Northern Arizona 81-76 on Jan. give the team a four-point lead, then 18 before losing 66-62 to Southern Utah junior guard Ty Gibson made a reverse on Jan. 20. As a result, the Eagles are layup with 28 seconds left. Bliznyuk 4-3 in Big Sky Conference play and 9-11 knocked down four free throws in the overall. final seconds to seal the win.

With 46 points over the two games, For the game, Bliznyuk had 28 senior forward Bogdan Bliznyuk is points, six assists and five rebounds. now just two points away from passing Junior guard Cody Benzel had 16 points Venky Jois as the program’s all-time (on 5-of-6 from three), while Perry leading scorer. chipped in 11 points.

In the first half of the loss at NAU, The Eagles shot 15-of-23 from deep, the Eagles went on an 18-0 run (all on which head coach Shantay Legans said three-pointers, by five different players) was important to the victory. “That to open up a 29-7 advantage. They led by was the ballgame,” said Legans. “Our as many as 28 in the opening frame and guys knocked down shot after shot Bailey Monteith for The Easterner by 21 at halftime. after shot. We have a confident group Senior forward Bogdan Bliznyuk surveys the defense during a recent home game. Bliznyuk is averaging But the Lumberjacks would make a of shooters […] It’s hard to make shots 18.7 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.0 steals on the season. run of their own, using an 11-0 spurt to in this type of arena, and our guys were cut the deficit to 12 early in the half. A banging in shots.” the loss to Southern Utah, falling guard Sir Washington scored 15 points. few minutes later, the game was in single EWU got off to a slower start in behind by as many as 10 in the f irst Sophomore forward Mason Peatling had half, and trailed 35-30 at halftime. his first double-double of his career, Bliznyuk—who entered the game 20 chipping in 10 points and 10 rebounds. points away from breaking the scoring EWU struggled from distance in record—was limited to 12 minutes in this one, knocking down 4-of-21 (19 the opening frame due to foul trouble. percent), but shot well on 2-pointers, Just six minutes into the second half, finishing at 40.0 percent overall. The Bliznyuk headed back to the bench Thunderbirds, meanwhile, shot just with four fouls.

35.6 percent, but made 11-of-28 of the Still, without their senior leader, 3-pointers (39.3 percent). the Eagles used a pair of 7-0 runs to “We were hoping to get a full fortyturn a five-point deficit into a seven- minute game with that defense,” said point lead. SUU tied the game back up Legans. “In the first half we let them stay at 48, as Bliznyuk re-entered the game. in the game. We were close at the end of He promptly went on a solo 6-0 run the game and they [snuck] one out. I am before fouling out just a basket short looking forward to them coming back of the record. home to our place.”

The Thunderbirds tied the game up Next up for the Eagles is a home at 54, and both teams went scoreless stand against North Dakota ( Jan. 25) in the final 2:22 to force overtime. and Northern Colorado ( Jan. 27). • SUU made its first two shots in the extra frame, shooting 4-of-6 from the field compared to 3-of-7 for EWU. Ultimately, the Eagles fell 66-62.

Bailey Monteith for The Easterner Bliznyuk had 18 points and seven Senior guard Sir Washington drives into the paint against Idaho on Jan. 12. Washington had 15 points, rebounds for the game, while senior and 5 rebounds in the team’s loss to Southern Utah on Jan. 20.

Michael Brock Sports Editor