Issue 20 Volume 67

Volume 67, Issue 20 | March 9, 2016 | Independant student journalism

Love’Labour s s’Lost

The Musical

Hayley

& Venky

SPECIAL SPREAD Q&A with Redshirt senior guard Hayley Hodgins and senior forward Venky Jois

pages 8-9

Contents NEWS 3 EAGLE LIFE 6 SPREAD 8

OPINION 12 COMMUNITY 13 SPORTS 14

Editor’s note:

The one about musicals Eric Long | editor-in-chief

“Queens of Wonderland” put on a show | page 10 Matthews says staycations are best page 12

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love a good musical and so it is always exciting to hear when the EWU theatre program is putting one on.

The article about “Love’s Labour’s Lost: The Musical” by Brad Brown, pg. 6, is the feature piece for this week’s issue.

The set and lighting of the musical really leant itself to great photos and some are featured with the story.

Readers will find out that this musical is definitely one that needs to be seen before last show on March 12.

Also in this issue: The EWU Annual Drag Show, benefitting the Spokane AIDS Network, brought Spokane’s finest drag queens with special guests from the Tri-Cities to the URC. See pictures from the show on pg. 10.

Redshirt senior guard Hayley Hodgins and senior forward Venky Jois get personal with The Easterner in a Q&A, pgs. 8 and 9.

Joe Matthews argues that staycations are are just as good as vacations, pg. 12.

For the readers who did last week’s crossword, the answers can be found on pg. 5.

Cheney and EWU split radio ways page 4

Men’s basketball seeded No. 6 page 14 “Appropriate Ambitions” opens at EWU Art Gallery | page 7 Sustainability major may come to EWU | page 3

Front photo by Melanie Flint

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News

Sustainability major in the works

By Colette Buck | contributing writer

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WU’s annual Campus Sustainability Forum hit a record low in attendance: 30 people.

EWU senior Gwen Bode, biology major and sustainability club member, said the vacancy of student demand and interest in sustainability efforts made by departments on campus is due to a distant and unorganized administration.

“There’s just not a lot of direction from the administration on how students can get involved,” Bode said. Bode is in her final year at EWU and said she wants to know how to help further Eastern’s commitment to on-campus sustainability but did not know how until this year.

Biology professor Robin O’Quinn, Ph.D. and an active member in EWU’s sustainability community, said she attributes the lack of student presence at the sustainability forum and in campus eco-efforts to a non-existent core program that would center all Eastern’s contributing departments into one easily-accessible area for students. “Dining Services and Facilities Services, as well as Business and Finance have been active participants in campus sustainability for many years,” said O’Quinn.

“They’re just missing the student component.”

Among the wealth of sustainability-related topics presented at the forum on Feb. 24, the idea of establishing an undergraduate major in sustainability to re-organize campus eco-practices, energize student involvement and help accredit Eastern as a regional leader in sustainability was a focal point.

Presented by O’Quinn, the comprehensive undergraduate major would be a potential answer to the lack of sustainability programs for undergraduate freshman and transfer students in the Northwest as well as the absence of student interest at EWU. “No other public university in Washington state offers a major in sustainability,” said O’Quinn. “There’s a large, growing population of students coming into public institutions that are seeking this type of training, and it’s not available.”

Departmental activity in sustainability on campus began in 1989 with the first-ever recycling program in Facilities Services. “We’ve been doing it ever since,” said Scott Buck, transportation and solid waste recycling supervisor.

The recycling program has now expanded to a compostable system for food as well as some garbage materials.

All paper and plastic utensils, plates, bowls, boxes and even garbage bags in dining areas are sugar- and cornstarch-based, which makes them suitable for composting.

Groundwater reclamation is a sustainability project Facilities Services is currently trying to implement all over campus to reduce the amount of water drawn

Illustration by Linlin Xing

If created EWU would be the first

The recycling program in Facility Services began

public university in Washington with a

in 1989.

sustainability major.

Patterson and Monore Halls are currently part of a ground water reclaimation effort.

from city sources. The reclamation is only active in and around Patterson Hall. A reservoir tank between Patterson and Monroe Halls collects the water so it can be used in later irrigation efforts.

“If we used the existing groundwater we wouldn’t have to tap into our domestic supply, it would just be reused water, which is our goal,” Karen Wichman, director of Facilities Services said. Wichman said there is currently a plan in place to expand the water reclamation system campus-wide, but they are still in the testing stages with Patterson’s system.

Even without an organized center of sustainability at EWU, Facilities Services has tried to engage students by sponsoring sustainability events like the zero waste game day challenge, recyclemania and Earth Day celebrations. But even with those events in place, Buck said he still notices a stagnant student interest in recycling and sustainable practices on campus.

“We just don’t meet at the same level,” Buck said. He attributes the lack of student involvement to the absence of an established formal head of sustainability on Eastern’s campus, as well as a disconnect in marketing sustainability events to students.

“There is a small pocket of students who are interested and then there is a closed pocket that would care if we could reach them,” Buck said. He said he agrees there just is not a central hub to get the message out to students across all channels.

Looking to the future of EWU sustainability, Bode said she hopes Eastern will try to pursue establishing the sustainability major to help get students involved.

“If we were to really get a sustainability major, it would allow us students to organize together and have staff advisers who could be involved with us,” Bode said.

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By Kalli Wolf | staff writer

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heney Police Department and EWU Police Department have worked closely together for many years. However, EWU PD made some changes last November that resulted in a separation between the two departments.

Cheney PD provided EWU PD with dispatch services for several years, but being on the same frequency proved to be inefficient and not in the best interest of the university as a whole.

“We are isolated out here. Cheney [PD] and [EWU PD] were the only people on this particular frequency,” said Deputy Chief Gary Gasseling of EWU PD. The difficulty was neither EWU PD nor Cheney PD had any connection with the larger community, which proved problematic due to a lack of knowledge on what was going on outside of Cheney and who was responding to what situation.

Gasseling said police officers from surrounding areas are frequently in Cheney due to the crime lab. Before EWU PD switched dispatch services, there was no way for surrounding police departments to get in contact with EWU or Cheney PD if necessary. “They would have to search through the radios and try to find a channel,” said Gasseling, as there was no common channel connected with the larger community at the time.

Gasseling said EWU PD knew they had to be able to grow bigger.

EWU PD is now dispatched by the county. “It was strictly a business decision,” Gasseling said.

Being dispatched by the county allows EWU PD to hear what is happening in Airway Heights, Liberty Lake and other surrounding areas.

Gasseling said this is important because it keeps EWU PD in the loop.

The change in preparation was made to give EWU PD “the ability to respond more appropriately and just be good business partners with our larger community,” Gasseling said.

One main difference between EWU PD and Cheney PD, according to both Gasseling and Cheney’s Chief of Police John Hensley of Cheney PD, is the way each department deals with students.

“The university police department is really good in establishing relationships with the students,” Hensley said.

Hensley said Cheney PD sees students as just citizens — the same as everybody else. Because of this, he said Cheney PD is not as involved in creating relationships with students. “We’re into problem solving and moving onto the next call,” he said.

Each year, EWU PD is randomly assigned a residence hall to respond to and watch over. “We really emphasize with our officers: Get to know your clientele; get to know your students,” Gasseling said.

In dealing with students, Gasseling said EWU PD takes a more understanding approach. He said

Cheney police department

EWU police department | Photos by Karissa Berg the department wants students to graduate with one record — a college degree.

“I think we take a more community-oriented approach,” said Gasseling. “We are not going to throw you in jail and move onto the next one.”

Another difference between the two departments is what issues they respond to. Although EWU PD’s primary responsibility is responding to situations on campus, they do not have any limitations as to what they can or cannot do.

“We have the same authority as every police officer in the state of Washington; we have statewide authority,” Gasseling said. However, issues outside of campus do belong to Cheney PD. Despite EWU PD’s recent switch to county dispatch and their different styles in handling situations, the relationship between the two departments has remained intact.

“If they need us, we’re there and if we need them, they’re here. In that regard, nothing has really changed,” Hensley said.

Although the two departments have gone their separate ways, they still work very closely together.

“Our work relationship hasn’t changed; we still work hand in hand because we’re dealing with the same students,” Gasseling said.

“It has created additional steps in the process to get help to one another, but it’s not a significant issue,” Hensley said.

News

Student Rights and Responsibilities benefits students

By Devante Gaillard | contributing writer

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he Student Rights and Responsibilities (SRR) program at EWU helps an estimated 500 students every year by educating them on the code of conduct in an effort to prevent future violations.

“Our job is to look into any claims, investigate it and if needed, meet with the student to determine if there was a violation or not,” Mike Bowers, director of the SRR program, said.

According to Bowers, the most common violations are alcohol and marijuana related.

However, being cited for these and reporting to SRR is not intended to be a scary process.

“My job is not to be the prosecutor. I’m not out to get students in trouble,” Bowers said.

After an incident report reaches the office, SRR sets up a meeting with the student. SRR will then try to determine whether the student breached the code of conduct. If not, the student is free to go. If a violation did occur, the student has three options.

The first option is waiving their rights to a hearing and accepting responsibility. The second option is a one-on-one hearing with a conduct officer.

The third option, typically reserved for more severe cases, is a hearing in front of the Student Disciplinary Council (SDC), which is comprised of other students, faculty and staff.

Punishments as a result of SRR are handed down on a case-by-case basis and match the

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severity of the infraction.

EWU junior Haellie Ziegler had a brief stint with the program following a violation in the dorms during her freshman year.

“A couple of girls and I were drinking in our dorm room and got caught by the CA,” Ziegler said. “We got written up and had to take an online alcohol course. Back then, I was upset because it felt stupid to be in a class because I knew I wasn’t an alcoholic. But looking back, I am thankful that I was taken care of without involving the authorities and punish me in a way that would be on my record.”

Bowers said SRR wants these small violations to be a mere bump in the road for students.

More serious infractions like felonies and sexual misconduct require more caution for the safety of students. An incident report involving these or other serious offenses may result in an interim suspension. This is done to protect the students and staff of Eastern while the SRR process runs its course.

Punishment is not the key to SRR — re-education of the code of conduct is.

“Everything we do is with the desire for students to be successful here,” said Bowers.

“So we try to offer resources, support and education for students to understand how the things they do can potentially impact themselves and those around them. We really are here to help people.”

My job is not to be the prosecutor. I’m not out to get students in trouble.”

Mike Bowers | director of the SRR program

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Eagle Life REVIEW

‘Love’s Labour’s Lost: The Musical’ gears up for second slate of showings

By Brad Brown | contributing writer

Rosaline, played by Whitney Robinson, gives Costard, played by Josh Baig, an earfull on stage | Photo by Melanie Flint

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ith a bong and female blow-up doll in hand, the spotlight cast upon four well-dressed men, setting the mood for Shakespeare’s abridged version of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” to the tightly-packed crowd at the University Theatre.

“This is not your granddad's Shakespeare.” A statement made by the musical’s director Jeff Sanders that accurately lived up to billing.

“Love’s Labour’s Lost: The Musical” performed to a packed audience in the University Theatre on March 5. Shakespeare’s characters were shown in a new, singing and dancing, but still ever-dramatic, light. The theater program’s winter production received an ovation of wild cheers as the musical ever so theatrically ended.

Set in a present-day courtyard in an upscale resort hotel and spa immediately outside a college campus, the cast comes together for a five-year college reunion.

Setting the theme of the entire show, the coming-of-age story began with The King and his three companions vowing to swear off the joys of women to study and fast. But shortly after, four cute, clever girls show up and test the young men’s integrity and sanity.

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The musical was originally produced two years ago by Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers, two highly-acclaimed directors and composers, for New York’s “Shakespeare in the Park” festival. To make Shakespeare’s words from 1597 more digestible for contemporary audiences, tempo, rhythm and music were added, while remaining true to Shakespeare’s original values.

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This is not your granddad’s Shakespeare.”

Jeff Sanders | EWU theater director

Nearly every scene was filled with quips and jokes that were constantly met with laughter from the receptive audience.

Shakespeare’s original text seamlessly mingles with present-day concepts of the college experience, tailored largely to the student audience. “It’s interesting how Shakespeare’s text and the contemporary lyric are woven into a way that works,” said Sanders. “I think that’s the great trick of this play.”

Don Armado, played by Dahveed Bullis, sings a duet with Moth, played

by Dominic Betts | Photo by Melanie Flint Created by students, the set was simple but effective, utilizing depth, platforms and hiding places for characters to eavesdrop on conversations. A two-tiered house was set in the background with doors for hilarious entrances and a central platform from which characters would serenade and display their inner feeling of love.

The largely static set was showed off and accommodated by new lighting instruments, which set the mood for scenes and provided dramatic spotlights. The cast dressed in intricate costumes ranging from tuxedos and dresses to Hawaiian clothing and bathrobes.

Auditions began in early December with rehearsals starting on Jan. 4. From the cast to the artistic staff, orchestra and crew, the production is largely put on the shoulders of students.

“It’s a massive undertaking,” said Sanders. “So many people are putting in so much in such a unified goal of telling a great story.”

All the months of preparation from students and faculty members were revealed last weekend from March 4 to March 6. For those who missed the first showing, a second slate of showings will run from March 10 through March 12. The March 10 performance begins at 5 p.m. and the March 11 and March 12 performances begin at 7:30 p.m.

Eagle Life

EWU exhibition ‘Appropriate Ambitions’ utilizes artwork to challenge gender roles

By Erin Rebar | contributing writer

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tepping inside is like walking back into the womb. Overhead, gracefully draped fabric hangs like a veil of silken clouds. Light filters downwards through the gauzy roof, painting the room a delicate shade of red. Two videos play in the background, Garrett Bryant thrumming low notes, sounding like a mixture of water and static. Artwork carved from cold steel lines the outer edges of the room.

An opening Yaro Shon Neils reception was held for an art exhibition in EWU’s Gallery of Art on March 2. The exhibition, “Appropriate Ambitions,” “is a collaborative installation combining the work of visual artists Garrett Bryant and Yaro Shon Neils,” according to a recent press release by the gallery.

The exhibition, open until April 14, is meant to provoke scrutiny of gender roles in our society. “I started reflecting on my identity — particularly [my] male identity and how it is constructed,” said Bryant. “[I thought] about the difference between masculinity in the south versus masculinity in the west and

about masculinity in jock culture. [I thought] about those different iterations and how they change their shape, and [then] I started thinking about masculinity as a construct.”

Bryant said he then started thinking about masculinity in art history.

“That was really kind of the impetus for this show,” said Bryant. “Just thinking about how masculinity in art history is widely celebrated whereas femininity is largely diminished to craft, in many ways. And so I wanted to make a comment on that, working in a satirical hyper-masculine way, and call attention to privilege of masculinity within the art world.”

Yaro Shon Neils, the other contributing artist in the show and a photography lecturer at EWU, said when she was presented the opportunity to display her work in the Gallery of Art, she thought to invite Bryant to participate because she felt like they were on the same track mentally.

“A lot of my work has to do with femininity and his work deals with masculinity and constructed identities and so it just worked really well together, specifically in relation to some of the ideas I’ve been thinking about, in terms of my past work as a social worker,” Neils said.

Exhibit continued on page 13 ...

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(Clockwise from top middle) Nova Kaine, Polly Ester, Savannah SoReal, Belle Du Soleil-Mayhem, Freedom Rights, LeLani Kaine, Arianna D. Spanic, Cassia Black | Photos by Melanie Flint Graphics by Abbi Vance

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Eagle Life

Support Girls on the Run with the purchase of grilled cheese

By Kristi Lucchetta | staff writer

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rilled Cheese with the GPhiB’s is back for the fourth year in support of Gamma Phi Beta’s mission Girls on the Run (GOTR).

The event will begin March 10 at 9 p.m. and continue until 2 a.m on March 11. The stand will be located at 317 College Street, one block down from Showalter Hall. The girls will be selling grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup and more.

“This is our second year doing a late night sale,” said Lauren Ullmann, EWU junior and philanthropy chair for Gamma Phi Beta. “We usually have a couple hundred people turn out. This year, with our growing EWU community, we expect maybe 300 or more to come out.”

Every year Gamma Phi Beta puts on the event with the mission to provide experiences and resources that build spiritual, mental and social resiliency in girls.

“We are preparing for the event by spending lots of time brainstorming and thinking about how to effectively get some yummy grilled cheese to everyone in Cheney,” said EWU sophomore Chanel Winters. “We are so excited to share food with friends and to do something wonderful for our amazing philanthropy.”

The sorority does this through its philanthropic focus, Building Strong Girls, in which it gives the girls confidence to dream big and inspire the female leaders of the future.

This year the money raised will go directly to GOTR, a non-profit youth development program for girls between third and eighth grade.

“Each week they learn a lesson about subjects like fighting bullies, positive body image [and more],” said Ullmann. “They also train and prepare themselves so that at the end of the season they run a 5K.” The Gamma Phi Betas strive to inspire the highest type of womanhood and that is why they have chosen GOTR as the organization to donate the funds to.

“GOTR is such a wonderful program for girls after school. It’s a mentoring program,” said EWU sophomore Mika Norrish. “Young girls struggle with so much — we are exposed to the media, to other girls, to boys, to older girls — it is just set in our minds at such a young age that it’s so hard to be perfect, yet that’s what you ‘have to be.’”

This year’s goal is to raise $2,000 toward materials used in GOTR lessons, spreading new GOTR programs throughout the country and putting together the 5K races the girls participate in at the end of the program.

“Last year we raised around $1,400, and the year previously we raised about $800, so I hope our donations continue to grow,” Ullmann said.

“We are all working hard together to make this an amazing event,” Winters said.

Delivery is also available on campus by calling 509-359-0837.

Those who are unable to make it to the event but still want to donate can do so at bit.do/grilledcheese10.

Illustration and graphic by Heidi Wachtell

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Opinion

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OP-ED

Staycation just as good as vacation

By Joe Matthews | staff writer

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ome have their sights set on the beaches for this upcoming spring break while others can only see their couch and Netflix on the horizon. While some may be going on a vacation to remember, a lot of students are probably doing the same as me — taking a much-needed and deserved staycation.

Taking a vacation for spring break is a hopeful option for most college students, yet many can’t afford it. If that is the case, there are several other ways one can enjoy their study-free week and some might even be better than actually going on a trip.

Though going somewhere new can be extremely fun, many things we do on vacation we could do around town. Cheney is conveniently located only 20 minutes from Spokane, and with our student ID cards the bus trip is free of cost.

Riverfront Park is a common tourist destination, and while enjoying it, one could venture over to the falls and gawk at the power of nature.

Opinion articles and letters to the editor do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of The Easterner, its staff members or Eastern Washinvgton University.

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Like on vacation, after a day of sightseeing, food is a necessity, and like many popular tourist hot spots, Spokane is loaded with good, reasonably priced and possibly different than other places, food. Ranging from southern food at Chicken-N-More to Ethiopian food at Queen of Sheba, the pickings are good throughout the city. Spokane is a great day trip waiting to happen, and if you’re not going anywhere over break it could make for a perfect spot to make just as many memories as those who left town.

For people like me, however, who’ve been to Spokane, it feels like a been-theredone-that kind of city. For us, there is a different way to enjoy our staycation: we can just relax. Whether that means Netflix and chilling, or spending the whole break playing “League of Legends,” the week is ours to do nothing with, and to me that is the real pleasure of spring break.

You may work, but when you get home there is no homework riding over your head, no test to study for, no group project you have to meet up for, nothing school-related

to worry about, and that’s the best part of any break.

Now, if you are going out of town for spring break — one: I’m envious — but also in a way I do feel bad for you. Of course I’d love to leave this hellhole called Cheney, but, really, by staying and doing little to nothing productive, one has fully embraced the essence of spring break: to forget about school for a week, to do whatever you want, whenever you want to.

So whether you’re planning on doing the touristy things around Spokane or just hanging out at home, remember that just because you didn’t go to Cancún over spring break doesn’t mean you wasted your time.

There are more than enough activities in Spokane to keep you busy, or if you want to be a hermit the whole break but come out of it with a new ranking in “League,” you can do that too.

Spring break is about relaxing and relieving the stresses of school, so as long as you are doing those two things, there is no wrong way to spend your week of freedom.

Community

Police Beat

By Mike Manning | administrative assistant

March 1, 10:17 p.m.

Marijuana

CAs reported the smell of marijuana on the fourth floor of Pearce Hall.

Officers responded and also smelled the odor. After locating the room that was the source of the smell, officers knocked with no response. They later made contact with a female shortly after midnight, who reported to have not been smoking but visitors to her room were. She was referred to Student Rights and Responsibilities.

March 3, 11:40 p.m.

Alcohol

There were reports of a severely intoxicated female in front of Morrison Hall with potential alcohol poisoning. She was on the ground in front of the entrance and vomiting. She was evaluated and drug paraphernalia was found in her possession. She was referred to Student Rights and Responsibilities.

March 3, 3:36 a.m.

Sexual Assault

A sexual assault was reported in Morrison Hall. An arrest was made in regards to this report and it is still under investigation.

March 5, 9 a.m.

Destruction of Property

CAs in Streeter Hall discovered writing in black marker on several doors of the third through seventh floors. The writing included telephone numbers, drawings of male genitalia and offensive language. Estimated damage was totaled at $300. There are no current leads.

March 5, 9:39 p.m.

Alcohol

CAs in Streeter Hall reported potential drinking in a room on the third floor.

Upon arrival the responding officer smelled alcohol and made contact with the occupants. There were three male

students and one female student in the room, one of the male students was of legal age. All were intoxicated except for the female student. The male student of legal age was arrested for furnishing and the other two were arrested for minor in possession.

March 6, 1:43 a.m.

Alcohol

A male student in Streeter Hall reported a female student with potential alcohol poisoning. The male student failed to provide the exact location of the intoxicated female so responders spent some time locating her. Once found, she was evaluated and found to need hospitalization. She refused transportation from paramedics, but a friend transported her in their personal vehicle.

She was referred to Student Rights and Responsibilities.

March 6, 5:27 a.m.

Alcohol

A female on the fourth floor of snyamncut was reported severely intoxicated and vomiting in the bathroom. She was cleared by evaluation and referred to Student Rights and Responsibilities.

March 6, 7:25 p.m.

Alcohol and Disorderly Conduct Officers responded to a report made by the resident life coordinator of Streeter Hall.

Students were reported throwing items out dorm room windows at passersby, including eggs, cookie dough, potatoes, pots and pans. Officers were able to locate the room the items were being thrown from.

Four students were in the room, including the female student the room belonged to.

The room was searched and alcohol bottles were discovered. The female who the room belonged to was arrested for minor in possession, and all students were referred to Student Rights and Responsibilities for disorderly conduct.

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Neils and Bryant met in Missoula, Montana, while attending separate graduate programs at the University of Montana. This is the first time the duo has worked together on a project, though they have discussed it.

“This one’s a really different piece because it deals with the entire space of the gallery and I thought that was unique,” said EWU senior Chris Steele. “It’s interesting how they go from this soft, elegant thing to this hard metal male piece. The juxtaposition between the fabric and the pounded metal is kind of really pushed on you. One’s serene and the other is violent.”

The pieces themselves are a little hard to pin down.

“It’s indescribable,” said EWU sophomore Aziz Jamal.

“The first word that comes up is very aggressive, because of the metal and the scraping. And bloody, because of the red fabric.”

The steel sheets lining the outer edges of the exhibition are Bryant’s work. He created them with an axe — hacking through metal like a lumberjack striking at a tree. A small screen to the left plays a video of his process, a stream of relentless physical action that was edited together to complement the pieces themselves.

“The video is largely kind of, like, the idea of myth-making and, like, personal mythology with masculinity and how men have this ... infallible endurance. So I just wanted to cut it so I just never stopped,” Bryant said.

The shapes carved into the sheets were inspired by different topics of the exhibition’s overarching theme. They speak of male privilege and are labeled with satirical and sometimes crude titles that speak toward the denigration and objectification of women.

“I was offered extra credit for coming here,” said EWU sophomore Grace Barber. “But I wanted to see this.

I think it’s really interesting. I’ve never heard of a sheet of steel being a medium, with an axe.”

The red, overhead fabric was Neils’ conception. “I think I measured everything like 20 times and had so many different drawings to try to figure it out,” said Neils.

“Really there was a lot of planning. And a lot of sewing.”

The draping fabric — made from a type of gauze also used to bandage wounds — combined with the circular shape of the gallery, was meant to simulate the experience of being inside a womb, according to Neils. The fabric is also meant to represent trades — like sewing — that are largely thought to be a woman’s work. To the right of Bryant’s video plays a video composition of Neils endlessly sewing a pile of ruby red fabric; only her hands are shown.

Neils glanced around the room at the red-tinted light filtering down through the fabric. “Ultimately,” she said, “it’s interesting because the red doesn’t trump it … it changes the way that you experience these works. I mean, you’re seeing it literally through the red, so it brings everybody essentially together in this conversation. It’s not about men or women. It’s about everybody.”

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Sports Eagles finish sixth in Big Sky Conference

By Riley Baker | staff writer

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n their final two games of the season, the Eagles faced Idaho State University and Weber State University, looking to finish in the top four in the Big Sky standings to secure a first-round bye in the conference tournament.

Going into these final games, the Eagles were tied with the University of Idaho in the third place spot, and senior forward Venky Jois was 8 points shy of EWU’s all-time scoring record.

The Eagles took on ISU on March 3 looking to inch further up the standings.

The team did not come out of the gates hot, going into the half down 35-32. The Eagles’ difficulties continued in the second half as they lost the game, 75-71 — their first home loss of the season.

The Eagles had their worst scoring night of the year at home, shooting at a 44 percent mark from the field and 29 percent from beyond the arc.

Venky Jois led the team with 21 points to break the program’s 39 year-old career scoring record. Jois passed former EWU center Ron Cox (1974-77) who scored 1,741 career points. Cox was at the game and presented Jois with the game ball and two other gifts. Jois also had 11 rebounds to collect his 37th career double-double.

“It was a great crowd and I thank them for the support they gave me and our team tonight,” Jois said after the game.

Sophomore forward Bogdan Bliznyuk scored 12 points while going a perfect 4-4 from the free-throw line. He also racked up nine rebounds and six assists.

On March 5, the Eagles took on first place Weber State in their final game of the regular season. There was a nostalgic feeling as the seniors took the court for the last time at Reese Court on senior night.

Weber State took a 10-2 lead before the Eagles went on an 18-9 run to charge back to take a 20-19 lead with 8:49 left in the first half. The Eagles extended their lead to 39-34 at halftime.

The second half was just as close as the first. Going back and forth throughout the whole game the score was tied six times and there were six lead changes.

EWU trailed by 3 points with McBroom at the free-throw line in the final seconds of the game. McBroom made the first free throw and intentionally missed the second in the hopes of an offensive put-back for 2 points to tie the game. Weber State recovered the rebound to seal their victory, 79-77.

Weber State finished the game with a 54 percent shooting mark from the field and 50 percent from the 3-point arc. They also were 74 percent from the free-throw line, making 32 of 43 attempts — the most free throw attempts EWU allowed all season.

EWU shot at a 47 percent mark from the field and 50 percent from the arc.

The Eagles held Weber State to only 20 of their 37 shots from the field, but the fouls made the difference in this one.

The 32 free-throws to Eastern’s 13 put them over the top.

EWU lost its final four games of the season to finish in sixth place in the

Senior Austin McBroom drives to the hole against Idaho State | Photo by Melanie Flint Big Sky Conference, finishing 10-8 in conference play.

McBroom finished the game with 30 points, three steals and two assists. He made 7-of-8 free-throws, 5-of-10 3-pointers, and 9-of-19 from the field. Von Hofe had 12 points and Jois finished the night with 9 points and four rebounds.

“This was probably the hardest we ever played all year,” said McBroom. “We tried something new. We tried to come out, sub a lot of guys, bring a lot of energy. It worked, it really worked. They hit a lot of tough shots at the end, a couple calls didn’t go our way, but I thought we played hard.”

“Well what a great basketball game,” said head coach Jim Hayford. “I like how my team played. I thought we played with tremendous

fight and energy, and we took the best team in the league right to the wire. I thought it was a great basketball game.”

The Eagles now look ahead to the Big Sky Tournament beginning on March 8 in Reno, Nevada. EWU will be the sixth seed and face the 11th seed Northern Arizona University at 8:05 p.m. PST. “I don’t think a lack of confidence has ever been an issue with our team,” said Hayford. “I think we came out of that Portland game really disappointed that we weren’t going to be in the Conference Championship match ... The bigger picture, we put together back-to-back regular season winning records — that hasn’t been done in 12 years here. This team has accomplished a lot and they’re ready to go take the next step which is the postseason.”

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Addition of softball team at EWU on hold

By Bron Wickum | contributing writer Title IX and as a way to provide more scholarship opportunities for female student-athletes.

In the second certification cycle meeting in 2007, the school composed a plan to use its 2009-2011 budget cycle to save enough money for a new program. Since then the certification cycles have gone extinct because of the amount of cooperation and extra time it would take to compile invformation over a 10-year span.

In 2012 Eastern released a five-year strategic plan that served as a blueprint of how the university was working on adding a softball team by 2017. Those plans have not happened and will not happen until the school has enough funding for a field and a facility.

“The urgency isn’t there as much as it once was,” said Pamela Parks, senior associate athletic director. When the state was unable to allocate capital for schools, Eastern was forced to pause its plans. Parks also said the reason the school needed a new field was because there was no NCAA-caliber field in the area, not even in Spokane, thus making traveling costs higher as well.

In January 2013, Eastern athletic director Bill Chaves provided an update on the plan and progress for the program for the board of trustees. The athletic department and President’s Advisory Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics (PACIA) worked

together to present the best options for a new women’s sport to the university president. The report indicated Eastern wanted to bring in a softball program.

Chaves also detailed that softball was chosen based on a sports interest survey conducted in fall 2011. Faculty disbursed 3,300 surveys to local middle schools high school and Eastern students and collected nearly 2,000 responses over two years.

The most popular sports were softball, swimming, rowing and diving. PACIA contributed a criteria report for each of the sports, which included start-up costs, annual costs, scholarship and championship opportunities as well as recruitment prediction analytics throughout Washington state high schools for each sport.

Of the sports chosen from the popularity survey, softball had the most hurdles to jump over. A softball field would have to be built on top of adding coaches, scholarship money and equipment.

The university was on board to proceed with adding softball on the account that the state would provide enough capital to build a stadium, but the state could not find the funds. Hence plans have been put on hold.

Eastern’s athletic department is almost at the end of its strategic five-year plan and a new plan is due out in 2018.

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Eastern athletics had a brutal year in 1982 as summer budget cuts discontinued six sports — four men’s, two women’s.

Baseball was cut the following year because at the time EWU was making a push to become a part of the Big Sky Conference.

The football team moved from Joe Woodward Field and started playing at Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane to conform to the guidelines of the Big Sky Conference.

Getting into the Big Sky Conference was a big deal for Eastern at the time because it would mean membership into the NCAA, which was a huge step in the school’s athletic growth.

“Those things develop, but expansion is not a critical issue facing us right now,” former Big Sky Conference commissioner Ron Stephenson (1981-1995) said.

EWU finally broke into the conference in 1987, and the NCAA began having certification cycles every 10 years in order to make changes and plan out steps moving forward for athletics, which included initiating new sports. The NCAA held its first certification cycle meeting in 1997, and it was suggested that Eastern should generate a new women’s sport as part of

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