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Amy Johnson has been selected as Eastern’s new dean of students and associate vice president for Student Life, announced May 23.

Johnson will replace Eastern’s previous dean of students, Al Thompson, who resigned at the end of last spring.

Johnson, who is current-

ly serving as the senior associate dean at the University of Southern California and an associate professor of education in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, will assume her position Aug. 13, 2012.

During the search process, Johnson visited EWU April 26 for an open forum where she presented her ideas and thoughts on student development trends

and healthy outlets for students and the community.

Some of her most recent achievements include Dissertation of the Year in the higher education division and the Models of Excellence Award.

In addition, she has 14 years of management experience in higher education, student leadership and strategic planning. Johnson is also a member of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and a member of Association for the Study Higher Education.

Johnson, a Washington native, holds degrees in English and communication from the University of Puget Sound, a Master of Science in Education and a Doctor of Education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Johnson beat out Laura Bayless from St. Mary’s City College of Maryland and Linda Fossen from Eastern Kentucky, the other two finalists for the position.

Vice President for Student Affairs Stacey Morgan Foster will continue to serve in the dean’s position until August.

Blue Scholars will be on the Showalter lawn on June 1 at 7 p.m.

Dearly Departed, the EWU Senior Capstone production, will be June 1 in the University Theatre at 7:30 p.m.

Julián Gómez-Giraldo and Randel Wagner will conduct the Orchestra and Choral Concert on June 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Showalter Auditorium.

The 24th Annual Iron Eagle Triathlon is June 3 at 8 a.m.

Check in begins at 7 a.m. For more information, visit http://bit. ly/K86w2J. The "Celebration of Life" for Pat Whitehill will be on June 3 at 1 p.m. in the Showalter Auditorium. Whitehill was an athletics hall of fame member, a 30-year member of the physical education department and a member of the EWU class of 1951.

The String Solo Night is June 5 at 5 p.m. in the Music Building Recital Hall and will be directed

by Julia Salerno, Kim Plewniak and John Marshall.

Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story is another EWU Senior Capstone production and will show on June 8 at 7:30 p.m.

In brief: The JFK Library hours will be extended through June 13.

For a complete list of the dates and times, please visit: http:// on.fb.me/N1dowm Do you have an amazing photo that you would like to see printed? Send submissions to our photo editor at easterner. photo@gmail.com for our photo of the week feature.

Photos by Evan Sykes The art gallery was filled with pieces ranging from an installation of a palm reading table to acrylic paintings on wood. (Right) The artwork of Robert Webber, an oil on panel, is one of the many of his works on display in the art building.

Blurring new mediums

From trombone bells to ceramics, gallery is filled with student art

By Nicole Livingston staff writer

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The seniors of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program greeted community and family members into the art gallery May 25 to present their works of art.

Mediums ranged from acrylic paintings on canvas to videos shown on shower curtain liners. One piece was made from steel tubing and the bells of trombones, the open end of the horn where sound comes out and

was created by Jon Faulks.

“I pretty much take found objects that kind of can lend themselves to being constructed in a different way that kind of takes them out of their existing context,” said Faulks.

He said his intention was to create a 3-D line drawing with the materials he had. He placed wooden pallets in the space to direct movement and wanted the viewer to be able to see it as a drawing that one could walk through.

Faulks says he plans to

stay in Spokane after graduation.

“I’m just going to keep making art. I live in Spokane. I work in Spokane.

So I want to bring more contemporary artistic style to Spokane. I think we have a really strong culture in Spokane that’s really interested in non-traditional artwork and so I want to, maybe, be able to foster that and try and just enhance the scene we have here already.”

Laura Kaschmitter’s project is a video installation. Two videos play in a dark room and are projected onto shower curtain liners. The videos are com-

prised of shots of different shapes and colors. She said she was thinking of a cheap material to use to add atmosphere to the room to give it a different feel, so she picked up the liners and experimented with the way she positioned them in the room.

One of her videos is a project she did for a digital art class. This video had a few frames reminiscent of a Jackson Pollock painting, except it was moving.

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S&A fees increase 3 percent in 2012-13

By Jane Martin staff writer

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The student services and activities fee committee proposed a 3 percent fee increase for 2013 with a significant portion of funds to be allocated to child care.

Michelle Munson, fiscal analyst for Student Life, said the committee tried to distribute funds evenly with the revenue from the fee increase.

The most significant change in the S&A budget is the increased funding for child care from $93,235 in 2012, to $156,000 in 2013.

According to Munson, that change was made because the state has not yet completed the budget for next year, and they were uncertain about how much funding Eastern child care would be getting.

Munson said that the committee was “operating under the assumption that

funds [for child care] would significantly decrease. ... If state funds come through, then those [S&A] funds will be reallocated elsewhere.”

Every group supported by S&A fees will receive an increase in funds, with the exception of PUB R and R, which will be receiving $150,000 just as it did for 2012.

At press time, Finance Vice President Kaleb Hoffer had not returned phone calls regarding the S&A fee increase.

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booked on assault charges

By Linsey Garrison and Jane Martin for the easterner

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A Morrison Hall community adviser, Jacob Hafen, was booked on charges of assault on April 29 after police say he assaulted a female student with a 4-inch fixed blade knife.

According to the police report, Hafen and a group of friends had been drinking at Silver Lake and upon leaving the lake, Hafen called “shotgun” and was irritated when he found someone in the seat he had claimed.

According to police, Hafen began calling the victim names and found a knife in the center console that belonged to the driver of the vehicle. He began poking the victim with the knife repeatedly, scratching her at first and eventually breaking the skin, while continuing to verbally assault her for taking his seat.

According to police reports, the other occupants of the car had to yell at Hafen to stop.

Upon arriving back at campus, the victim notified law enforcement of the assault. According to the police report, Hafen was arrested and taken to Spokane County jail. His building access card was deactivated and his room key was removed from his possession.

Hafen was released on bail the morning of April 30. According to Deputy Chamberlain of the Spokane County Sheriff's office, the victim plans to press charges.

Hafen said that the incident was completely out of character for him and that a mixture of alcohol and his prescribed medication were largely responsible for what happened.

“Things got a little out of hand,” he said. “The medication I was on doesn’t mix with alcohol. It increases aggression. ... I basically just snapped.”

According to court records, a no contact order has been issued for the victim.

Hafen’s pre-trial hearing is set for June 6.

Hafen said he is committed to doing community service to make reparations for what he did. “We have actually settled outside of court,” he said. “[The victim] knows this is not like me. Her parents, however, thought something should be done... which is totally understandable.”

Mike Bowers, area coordinator at Streeter and Morrison halls, said that Hafen resigned from his position as a community adviser on April 30.

Hafen said, “Obviously, I would have been let go, so I decided to make it easier on everyone. … It’s a crappy situation when you mess up... but you have to learn to live.”

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High schooler awarded $2,500 Medical Lake student wins scholarship

By Kristie Hsin senior reporter

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Nicole Peterson was awarded a Presidential Scholarship worth $2,500 for the 2012-2013 academic year at Eastern.

Awarded only to incoming freshmen, r e c i p i ents are required to have a minimum SAT score Peterson of 1250 or a cumulative high school GPA of 3.8 or higher. Peterson will be attending Eastern as a freshman beginning fall 2012.

Peterson, who recalls the application process as fairly easy, must maintain a 3.5 GPA throughout her time at Eastern and graduate with at least a 3.8 GPA or above to continue receiving the scholarship.

She will receive $2,500 a year for four years as part of the Presidential Scholarship.

“I had no idea,” said Peterson. “When I got it, I was like, ‘Woah, that’s really cool,’ because I didn’t think I’d get a scholarship, so it was awesome to get that.”

Peterson applied for the Presidential Scholarship last February and found out she was the recipient shortly after. According to Peterson, it was her mom who told her she got a letter from Eastern.

“She’s like, ‘You got something from Eastern,” and I was like, ‘Oh, really?’ I thought it was my acceptance letter, so I was like, ‘Oh cool,’” said Peterson. “When I got home, it was that I got a scholarship … and I hadn’t even gotten my acceptance [to EWU] yet.”

A few weeks following her award, Peterson received her acceptance letter from Eastern.

Peterson is currently a senior at Medical Lake High School. There, she is involved with the National Honor Society, Leadership and Key Club. Peterson has also been a member of her high school’s varsity soccer team, tennis team and varsity basketball team.

In addition, Peterson is also involved in the Washington Drug Free Youth Club and AmeriCorps, where she had to complete 300 hours of community service.

Outside of the classroom, Peterson enjoys going fishing, hunting and

being outdoors.

“Fishing is just fun — it’s a thrill … just getting away from life,” said Peterson. “It’s like an adrenalin rush, but also sometimes it’s like relaxing too.

A couple of summers ago, I actually got to go out on the big charter boats out at Westport, Wash., and go out to the ocean and fished. …We caught a lot of salmon.”

Daughter of Samuel and Sandra Peterson, the 17-year-old plans to participate in intramural sports while at Eastern, deeming them “fun.” Basketball, she said, will be her choice of sport.

“I love sports,” said Peterson. “I feel like the college teams are pretty cool.”

As she prepares for her last finals in high school, Peterson looks forward to her college career. She is registered to take her general requirement classes for the fall before moving to her study of interest.

“I kind of want to go into occupational therapy,” Peterson said.

Helping others and seeing their reactions are what Peterson likes about occupational therapy.

Peterson said she wants to take more than the average three classes per quarter. In preparation for college, Peterson has taken full advance placement classes at Medical Lake High School— classes including AP calculus and AP English.

“It’s a great place to be. It’s really readied me for my future,” she said.

“Taking AP classes really helped a lot in getting ready for college.”

Peterson decided to take the advance placement route instead of Running Start because she wanted the full high school experience and did not feel ready to be out on her own yet.

Peterson’s reason for choosing Eastern is based on the university’s close proximity to her home.

While at EWU, Peterson plans to live with roommates off-campus in Cheney.

“Nicole is a very hard working student, always pleasant to be around,” said Jim Mason, Medical Lake High School weight lifting teacher.

“She shows appreciation for everything you do for her and just a great kid. You couldn’t find a better kid around.”

Mason, who filled out recommendations for Peterson, said, “She’s topnotch in all areas.”

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Liquor regulations take effect State-run stores auctioned off to private owners who obtain liquor licenses

By Libby Campbell staff writer

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State-owned liquor stores will close June 1 as Initiative-1183 is implemented across the state, and retail stores like Costco, Walmart and Safeway will begin selling hard alcohol.

Liquor stores previously owned by the state were recently auctioned off to private buyers, who then could apply for a liquor license.

These stores will operate as privately owned liquor stores beginning June 1, when the transition takes place.

Under the new laws, the state will “license private parties to distribute spirits and to sell spirits in retail stores meeting certain criteria, subject to specified training and compliance requirements,” according to the Washington Secretary of State’s Initiative Measure No. 1183.

To meet that criteria, stores must have more than 10,000 square feet of retail space, and employees must undergo “stringent” training to ensure proper regulations are followed, according to the ballot measure.

Eastern junior Kaitlyn Cunningham, a Spokane Valley Costco employee, said the entire staff had to undergo thorough training to prepare for the transition.

“The training mostly consisted of counting a person's drinks at a bar or restaurant and knowing the signs of intoxication, understanding the liability or responsibility the company and the employee have in regards to the customer's health and safety and what Costco was concerned about: knowing if an ID was fake or invalid,” she said.

Employees had to pass an exam after training to make sure they fully understood

the “necessary laws and restrictions that come with selling alcohol,” Cunningham said.

Safeway and Mitchell’s Harvest Foods will eventually sell liquor. Cheney Trading Company is still considering it.

Mitchell’s is still waiting on a liquor license, according to manager Jerry Moczulski, who estimated the transition will be completed within a few months.

“It’s amazing, the hoops that you need to jump through in order to get [a liquor license],” Moczulski said. “They come out, see where you’re housing it, how you’re going to pay for it, the training that your employees are going to have. And if they don’t agree with any of that, they can certainly refuse you,” he said.

To help offset losing revenue from liquor sales, private retailers must pay a fee

totaling 17 percent of their revenue to the state each year, according to the ballot measure. This could cause owners to raise prices in order to cover the fee.

“It just means more competition,” said Jeremiah Williams-Carr, employee of the privately-owned Cheney Liquor Store.

“Prices are going to go up all around because everyone has to pay for their own delivery now,” Williams-Carr said. “People thought, ‘Oh, we’re going to be like California, and we’re going to get cheap liquor,’ but, no, the tax is still there. When the state was involved they paid for the delivery. Delivery is up to the individual places now,” he said.

Moczulski said he is unsure if he agrees with I-1183.

“It’s just going to be more expensive,” he said. “But if people are going to buy it, I guess we’re going to do it.”

Student government spends $1,500 on stoles to be worn during graduation Commencement regalia worn by organizations chosing to spend extra funds

By Kristie Hsin senior reporter

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In a recent ASEWU council meeting held May 18, it was decided that $1,500 of the student government’s budget will be used to purchase stoles for graduating student government officers.

The maximum amount approved for the stole purchases was $1,500. The student government bought 23 stoles. Each stole was priced at $45.

“We could have spent up to $1,500 but not exceed that. After our purchase, we ended up spending less than $1,000,” ASEWU Executive Vice President Clem Bustamante said in an email.

According to page four of the ASEWU’s response to budget questions for next year, the ASEWU stated that the office intended to purchase and utilize apparel for various occasions and events for the coming year if awarded the Services and Activities Fees budget.

According to Bustamante, this was a one-time purchase of the stoles. Bustamante said members of the ASEWU will not keep the stoles. Once the students graduate, stoles will be returned to the ASEWU office for continued use by other members.

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“The different thing about Eastern, compared to other universities, is some of the clubs and organizations keep their funds off of campus, so they can have their own private accounts, ...”

Humberto Cerrillo Fees are for supporting student activities and organizations, which includes general office supplies, equipment, lodging and transportation, awards and certificates.

“I don’t see anything wrong with them using their money to buy the stoles — not if it was extra money in their budget. I’m sure if any club or organization wanted to do that and they can afford it, they would do the same,” senior Sam Pham said.

According to Adviser for Campus Programs Humberto Cerrillo, how much a club or organization receives depends on the club.

“If they’re a new club, they can request up to $100 for their first year,” Cerrillo said.

Cerrillo said if a club or organization has been with the university for longer than a year, they might be eligible for several thousands of dollars.

“The money that I have is less than $4,000 for the whole year and we generally use that money to help promote clubs and organizations’ meetings [and] to pay for the clubs and organizations’ involvement fair. …

Outside of that, all the funding that clubs receive comes from ASEWU.” ASEWU Finance Vice President Kaleb Hoffer oversees the amount of money clubs receive each year.

The ASEWU distributes the funds and hears proposals from the clubs and organizations specifically.

If clubs and organizations were to purchase additional items such as stoles, the purchases would be part of their clubs and organization budgets. In past years, clubs and organizations have purchased stoles for themselves, according to Cerrillo. There is no formal process in which any club or organization actually re-

ceives stoles from the university.

“It could also be that one person purchased it in the club and they all paid that person back. I would imagine though if they did, they would have purchased it from their [club] accounts.

The different thing about Eastern, compared to other universities, is some of the clubs and organizations can keep their funds off of campus, so they can have their own private accounts with STCU, for example,” Cerrillo said.

If clubs and organizations have their own private accounts, they are required to have their 501 C3. Most clubs and organizations use the student life accounting office to put their funds in.

Overall, there are no common restrictions on what clubs and organizations can and cannot spend.

“With club-funded accounts, it’s not like activities fees where you have like different ledgers of dollars provided by the state,” said Cerrillo. “With the clubs’ funded accounts, they’re less restrictive.”

Senior Erin Khan said, “They’ve never done this before, so it isn’t like they’re purposely spending university money on personal items. The [stoles] are for them, for being part of the ASEWU; there’s nothing wrong with that.”

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From drugs and socialism to Jesus Christ Brother Jed Smock and his posse visit campus preaching repentance

By Libby Campbell and Dylan Coil for the easterner

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“Repent of your sins, you wicked woman!” may not seem like the standard pickup line heard on college campuses, but it worked for preacher Jed Smock in the late '70s.

Smock, commonly referred to as Brother Jed, met his future wife while preaching at a demonstration at the University of Florida.

Smock said his future wife would make fun of him at his demonstrations, so he called her out on it one day.

“She was stunned by my rebuke, but later she got to thinking that in the light of her conscience and the way she’d been raised, she had become a bad girl. So she got converted and later became my wife,” he said.

Smock spends five hours a day, five days a week, nine months out of the year preaching the word of God to college students on campuses across the country. He spent May 22 and 23 at Eastern while in the midst of a West Coast tour.

“Everything I do, I do for the glory of God, and to serve others,” Smock said. “I think I have a vital message, a life or death message, and it’s crucial that students hear it. And if I don’t tell them, I don’t know whether they’ll hear it or not.”

Though Smock now has “surrendered [his] life to Christ,” he was not always a believer.

“I was raised in a Methodist home; I was baptized and confirmed at 13 [years old],” he said. “However, it was more of just a right of passage for me at the time. I did not have true religion in my heart. I went through the ritual to please my parents.”

At 15, Smock started drink-

ing heavily, a habit that continued into his time spent studying at Indiana State University. Despite his heavy drinking, he graduated from the university with honors and became a teacher while working on his master’s degree.

In 1967, Smock decided to trade the Midwest for the West Coast.

“There was a popular hit song, ‘When you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair.’ That was the beginning of the hippie movement,” he said. “So I literally put a flower in my hair, got in my ’67 Mustang and [said], ‘California, here I come.’”

Smock started teaching in the Bay area and began hanging around the Berkley campus and the Haight-Ashbury district, an area popular with counter-culture that summer.

It was known as “The Summer of Love.”

“I started doing marijuana and other drugs. I eventually resigned from my teaching position, came back to Indiana and was dealing drugs in my hometown, bringing great dishonor to my parents,” Smock said. “I think they knew something was wrong. I don’t think they really knew I was dealing in drugs, but they were concerned about my behavior.”

After a brief stint of teaching history at the University of Wisconsin, Smock was ready for change.

“At this time, I was a socialist and an atheist. I decided I was going to go to India and study under a guru and become a Hindu,” he said.

Smock never made it to India.

“Along the way, I stopped in Morocco, North Africa.

Here along the Atlantic sea coast, I found a hippie camp, where a couple hundred American dropouts were liv-

Photo by Aaron Malmoe Students pass the PUB as Jed Smock sits discussing his preachings with onlookers and his partner Glen Bledsoe holds religious signage.

ing. I thought, ‘This is it. This is where I can really do my own thing, be natural,’” he said.

He spent time meditating at the camp, and Christmas day, 1971, opened a new door for him.

“A man carrying a cross, apparently Arabic, marched in the midst of our hippie band preaching Christ. And that got me to thinking that despite all my education, I had never read the Bible. I decided I wanted to read it for intellectual, academic reasons if nothing else. I did not have to read very far in the New Testament to determine [that] if the Bible’s true, I’m in trouble. I’m headed for hell, and that put the fear of God in me,” he said.

Smock returned to the United States and began regularly attending church. “For the first time in my life, I had a clear conscience. And it was such good news that my sins were forgiven and I received the gift of eternal life that I started telling everyone.”

Since then, Smock has

Survey decides demographic of student veterans at EWU

By Frank McNeilly staff writer

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Based on a recent survey, the three services most highly recommended for the new Veterans Resource Center are veterans benefits, advising support, career counseling and academic advising.

The survey, designed by Dr. Colin Ormsby and research assistant Bambi Fields, identified the demographics, background and needs of the 466 student veterans at Eastern and has contributed to what the new Veterans Resource Center will include.

The new Veterans Resource Center is set to open on July 4.

According to Dr. Colin Ormsby, the survey was put online in January.

“We looked at a number of schools that had [Veteran] centers,” Fields said. “We did a lot of research before we began [the survey].”

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According to the survey, 56 percent of student veterans did not have regular contact with other student veterans.

Fields said that the veterans are interesting because of how diverse they are.

“A place of their own will help them … meet other veterans [and] share ideas,” Fields said.

Ormsby said that the background of the survey was finding the number of student veterans on campus.

“To get a complete picture, I conducted a series of five phone interviews with directors of [veteran] centers,” Ormsby said. “Three in California, [one] in Idaho and one in Washington.”

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toured the country, using his confrontational, controversial approach to preach to college students.

“Jesus was controversial.

The message was controversial. If it’s not controversial, you’ve watered it down. And I’m afraid that’s what most churches have done, is sort of watered down the message to make it more acceptable,” he said.

Smock’s preaching is hard to ignore. He had his arm broken while preaching at the University of Western Kentucky, and his ankle broken at the University of Wisconsin.

Both times he was speaking from a bench, and someone pushed him off.

“I almost always get a reaction out of people,” he said.

“It’s the exception for students to get physically violent, but it has happened. And sometimes I have to preach under police protection.”

When he visited Eastern last year there was nearly a riot behind the PUB as counter-

protesters opposed Smock and fellow preacher Glen Bledsoe.

This year campus police enforced a policy regarding designated free speech or public forum areas.

The policy, titled WAC 172137 - Use of University Facilities, defines public forum areas as “areas of each campus that the university has chosen to be open as places for expressive activities protected by the first amendment.” The area by the old school house and the overhang area outside the PUB are two of these designated regions.

“Last year it was never even an issue that we were limited to a certain place on campus,” said Bledsoe, who accompanied Smock on campus again this year. “So I asked an officer to bring a copy of this [policy] and he brought it, which I appreciate. The guidelines for free speech restrictions on campus should be that it doesn’t disturb a class.

It shouldn’t restrict our access to students,” he said.

Counter-protesters advocating for the gay and lesbian community positioned themselves on the side of the walkway opposite the preachers.

“Jesus does not approve of unnatural affection. It’s an abomination of God. …It is an abomination for a man to lie with another man as he would with a woman,” Bledsoe said of the counter-protesters.

Both Smock and Bledsoe said the counter-protesters helped draw more attention to their own demonstration.

“I really have a message of good news. People should not be protesting it; they should be welcoming it,” Smock said.

“I am offering them the forgiveness of sins, a clear conscience, eternal life. Of course they have to turn away from sin and that’s what they can’t handle because they love their sin more than God.” “See, sin is an irrational choice. I can’t give a rational explanation why people would choose to do something irrational. It’s stupid.”

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• may 30, 2012

One bourbon, one scotch and one beer

By Brad Pederson contributing writer

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In 1977, this George Thorogood song, with those famous lyrics, was heard everywhere. If you walk into your local grocery store starting June 1, 2012, you might not only hear that song being played, but on the shelves you'll be able to find bourbon, scotch and beer at your disposal.

Unless you are under 18 years of age, or living under a rock, you have probably heard about, or been asked to vote on Initiative 1183.

Starting June 1, the people’s decision will go into action as retailers will legally be able to distribute liquor. I say it’s about time. Many people in Washington, however, do not share my enthusiasm.

When I heard about 1183 last year, I was sure it was going to pass because I thought enough people would see the positive aspects of it. The most obvious critic of 1183 is the liquor stores themselves. I

have one thing to say to them: Quit whining and get to work. This is the first time they have had to deal with any competition, and if they don't want to be put out of business, some course of action will need to take place. Maybe it's time to offer discounts and bring the prices down by 20 percent. Liquor stores won't be my first option ever again.

We like convenience in this country, and I think the passing of 1183 is going to bring more of it to the state of Washington. No longer will you have to drive around town looking for a liquor store that closes at a designated time. It will be at your fingertips, like the bread and salad you're picking up on the way home from work.

Gov. Chris Gregoire didn’t shy away from the issue: “Do we really want to expand liquor that much?”

Gregoire would go on to say that she is worried about the effects that this new law might have, such as the increased amount of people having access.

Let's back up here. The last time I checked you still had to have proof that you were old enough to purchase alcohol, no matter how old or young you looked. That isnt going to change.

What retail stores are going to have to do is step up their security and enforce employees working the grave shift to be on the lookout for those who shouldn't be sold any booze. With two eyes and a brain, you can make out who has had too much to drink. If those two things happen, this new law will not be an issue.

“Absolutely I’m in favor of it, now I don’t have to drive around town looking for my vodka. I don’t know why they didn’t do this sooner,” Bryan Heath, an Eastern senior, said.

I was shocked to find another Eastern senior who disagreed with the law.

“I’m against this because it means children will have easy access to it, and it clearly promotes underage drinking,” Paul Sell said.

While I respect Mr. Sell’s opinion, he is way off the mark here.

First of all, putting liquor in stores isn’t going to make kids pick up a bottle and walk out of the store with it. Legally, they can’t.

As far as underage drinking is concerned, it's up to parents to teach their kids about the dangers of underage drinking and driving.

That’s a discussion for the dinner table.

As we approach June 1, let’s all take a deep breath and realize that this is a good idea, and it's long overdue. It promotes capitalism, creates competition, which is good for any business. This will be a convenience for everybody as long as the individual is responsible about it. The responsibility also falls on the employees to take action if needed.

Starting next Friday, on the way home from a long day at the office, you can pick up your spaghetti, caesar salad, french bread, and if you so choose, one bourbon, one scotch and one beer.

Brother Jed gives Christians a bad name

By Josh Friesen staff writer

jdfreeze08@gmail.com

So last week I was walking to the PUB to get a bite to eat when I saw a gathering of students.

When I got closer, I started hearing some pretty crazy things.

Friesen Jed Smock, a traveling evangelist that preaches his twisted view on the Bible, was completely butchering God’s message. I’m hearing that students are condemned to hell if they don’t repent right away. I’m hearing that women on this university are whores. I’m hearing we are all a bunch of sinners who lie, cheat and steal. I’m hearing that God is a wrathful God and that we should fear him.

Now, I have been a Christian for roughly five years. I consider myself to have a pretty good relationship with Jesus. To real Christians, that’s what it’s all about.

Smock isn’t representing Jesus and he’s not representing my faith. My faith is not about condemning people. That was not what Jesus did. There’s a story in John 8: 3-11 where a woman is caught in adultery and all the religious leaders drag her in front of Jesus. The religious leaders basically condemn her to die. Jesus says to her, “I do not condemn you.”

That is what draws us Christians in. Jesus never stops insisting that God loves us.

Smock has one fundamental flaw. He is not preaching the gospel. He simply is not. Christianity is not about judgement. It’s about respect and love. Christianity is not about pointing out people’s flaws. It’s about uplifting them.

Smock is preaching hate. He’s using the Bible and twisting its words.

There is a passage in the Bible in the book of John that says, “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.”

Doesn’t that make Smock’s message completely irrelevant?

For the past five years, I have noticed a bit of a stigma regarding how people feel about Christianity. People feel everyone is like Smock. People think Christians are crazy. People think Christians live to judge and condemn everyone to hell.

How did so few end up speaking for so many? How did Jesus’s message get so misconstrued? The vast majority of people of faith are not Bible-bashing zealots who yell at you and insult you, but, unfortunately, we all get painted the same way.

Anything that isn’t of love or respect isn’t Jesus. Anything that hates, marginalizes, oppresses or demeans anybody anywhere, Jesus wants absolutely nothing to do with.

A true Christian is someone that understands this. Jesus’s message says that everybody deserves respect and love. That goes for anyone, no matter their religious beliefs, creeds, sexual orientations or criminal history.

God loves the world uncondi-

tionally. A Christian does too.

When someone tells me that I should repent and follow Jesus because if I don’t, I’m going to be damned to hell to suffer for all eternity, it sounds so menacing.

It is like they are threatening me.

Smock thinks that if he scares people enough, they will suddenly convert to his religion.

The message Smock delivers is not the one God intended.

God’s message is one of love.

1 Corinthians 13:13 says, “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

Christians are not crazy, and they’re certainly not weird.

People of faith don’t judge.

They don’t want you to fear God. Some of the best people I know in this world are men and women of faith. I’m not a perfect person. I’ve screwed up.

I’ve lied. I’ve cheated. I stole a 10 cent candy bar when I was ten. But God forgives me. God forgets that sin I have committed because he loves me. That’s the God I know. That is what Jed Smock fails to realize.

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"How do you feel about religious protesters on campus?"

“I feel like they can say whatever they want to say. I mean, if they were bombarding people, like, ‘Hey man, join us, join us right now, just do it,’ then I’d be like, 'stop it.' It’s a choice.”

April Thompson

“I’m uncomfortable with organized religion when it’s pushed down my throat. I

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When Spokane’s city council came up with its city’s official slogan, “Near nature, near perfect,” they forgot to mention one tiny detail: police brutality. But a recent incident involving an Eastern student, a gun and Cheney police, shows that not all police departments shoot first and ask questions later.

Spokane County has had its fair share of officer-involved shootings that have left many dead. A quick review of several cases, where deadly force wasn’t necessarily needed, shows just how trigger happy police in our area can be.

In August of 2010, 74-year-old Wayne Creach, the owner of the Plant Farm, a nursery in the Spokane Valley, was shot and killed after a “confrontation” with authorities. The “confrontation” was never fully explained, but it was apparently enough to kill Creach, who was also a pastor with the Greenacres Baptist Church for 40 years.

Then, in December of 2010, police shot and killed Jeremy Groom at the Special K tavern in Hillyard. The Spokesman-Review quoted witnesses who said that the police opened fire without much warning.

Finally, in October of 2010, a Spokane Sheriff Deputy shot and killed Quentin Dodd, 50, after he had threatened his roommate with a knife. He charged his friend after yelling at the police to shoot him. So they did.

Six out of seven people died by the hands of police in 2010 alone.

Across the country we see police brutality happening all the time. Oakland, Calif., is a prime example of this, and the story of Oscar Grant is one of the most tragic examples.

In the early morning of New Year’s Day, 2009, police arrested Grant, a 22-year-old African-American, and a few friends after an alleged fight on a Bay Area Rapid Transit train.

Cell phone video shows transit police with several young men sitting on the platform.

Grant sits on his knees. After much shouting and verbal confrontation, one officer pulls out his gun, and shoots Grant in the back. Grant was taken to the hospital where he died a few hours later.

It’s clear on video that what happened was a murder and not self-defense.

Back in our area, on May 11, Chandler Gayton, former safety on the EWU football team, pulled a gun on Cheney police officers.

On video obtained by The Eastener, one can see Gayton pull the gun out in front of the police. At this moment, officers had enough reason to open fire, but something amazing happens: Cheney police remain calm. They get Gayton down, arrest him and no one dies.

With so many officer-involved shootings in our area, it’s incredible that Gayton, a young African-American student, wasn’t shot. It makes us wonder: what if this was in the City of Spokane?

The Cheney Police Department needs to be praised for their handling of this situation. Many lives could have been ruined in just a few moments had it not been for the calm restraint of the officers involved in this incident.

While Gayton is now being charged with a felony for second degree assault for his part in the incident, at least his life is spared.

Thank you Cheney Police for showing other police departments how its done.

think people should find their spirituality through their own experiences.

But I think it’s a good opportunity for counter-protesting.”

Brittany Miller

“I don’t think that it’s effective at all. Nobody really pays attention to it except the counter-protesters.”

Devin Robbins

“I don’t know, I guess its fine. I think I draw the line when they have posters of dead babies that are bigger than me.”

Jade Charbonneau

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“The focus of the survey [was not only] about their needs, but what [veterans] would like to contribute,” Ormsby said. “The veterans have a lot to offer above and beyond their military experience and many of them are involved directly here on campus or in their larger community.”

According to the survey, 47 percent of veterans hold a lead-

ership position in a club or organization on or off-campus, 51 percent are involved in organizations on or off-campus, 50 percent volunteer, 43 percent work between 10 and 20 hours a week and 23 percent work more than 20 hours a week. “[The survey] helped the [vice president] of student affairs determine what services would be placed in [the center],” Ormsby said. “Things like benefit advisement [and] academic advisement went over things like having a con-

ference space.”

Stacey Morgan Foster, the vice president of student affairs, reviewed the survey when Ormsby and Fields were designing it and helped create questions.

Morgan Foster said that she liked that the survey highlighted the leadership experience of the student veterans on campus. “[The survey] gives us more information about what an asset [veterans] are as students on campus,” Morgan Foster said. “It gives us

opportunities to work with them in some different ways so they can really assist other students.”

According to Morgan Foster, the new Veterans Resource Center will be housed in several rooms on the first floor of Showalter Hall, equalling 1,900 square feet. “[The veterans are] … a highly motivated group of people who are contributing to the community and [setting] an example for the rest of student population,” Ormsby said.

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By Joe Angell The light in the cabin was on all through the night. The boy had lifted his father onto the cot and covered him with blankets. He thought that his father was sleeping or drunk and it did not occur to him that he was dead until the sun rose the following day. The boy had never thought much about death and believed that it only came when you were old or beaten or starved. His father’s beard was beginning to gray but the boy decided that he was not old enough to die. Somebody or something must have killed him, he thought.

He had stared blankly at the face all night. At daybreak, before the darkness all dispelled, he built a fire and began to plan for the burial.

The ground was cold and hard and it took the boy all day to dig a hole deep enough to bury his father.

He dragged the body by its feet and placed it into the makeshift grave.

Sorry Pa, said the boy. The hole was not deep enough. He dug deeper still and on the third attempt he was finally satisfied with its depth. He

took off his father’s wedding band and shoes and then covered him with a mound of dirt and a pile of round stones. Although he was ignorant to its meaning he made a cross of branches and placed it between the stones. He crouched over the grave for the rest of the short day. Somewhere in the distance, through the fog and in the valley, bull elk screamed sonorous calls of lust and violence. The clashing of antlers would come with the morning. He went to sleep on his father’s cot.

At night the boy woke in a feverish sweat. Papa, whispered the boy.

He took the blankets off his naked body, lit the lantern, and made his way in between the darkness. As he approached the burial site he saw that the stones were scattered about and that the shallow grave was now empty. Papa, cried the boy. Over here, Papa. Come back. He held the lantern at arm’s length and ran into the woods surrounding the cabin. A trail of blood led his way. The moon was full but the forest was shrouded and indifferent to the light. As he thrashed through the branches his foot caught the root of a dying tree

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and sent both body and lantern to the ground. Shadows reached across the lantern’s light in all directions and trembled in communion with the dying flame. The boy lifted his head and saw, on the rim of darkness, the shine of glowing eyes. Pa, said the boy. In the dimming light the eyes came closer and with them came the bloody snout of a grey wolf. She growled lowly, picked her cub up by the scruff of its neck, and turned back into the woods from which she came.

The boy walked back to the cabin and built up the fire. There was a painting hanging on the wall above the hearth. It was of his mother and father and himself as an infant. He stared with awe at the picture. He did not know his mother’s name nor would his father allow speak of her.

It was a wonder that he knew he had a mother at all or that there existed such things.

At daybreak, below the ever widening and bloodshot sky, the boy would leave the house his father had built. The bull elk would sound all through the day and long, long into the night.

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Becomes Eastern Washington University

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Showalter Hall: Welcoming new and returning students back to Eastern for almost 100 years

By Desireé Hood staff writer

d.hood28@gmail.com

Imagine being a young woman getting off the train in 1882 and walking up a dusty road carrying everything needed for a year of college. Seeing the two-story wood-framed school building in the distance is a welcome relief from the heat of the Indian summer.

Students are gathering on the large front lawn, laughing with nervousness and unsure of what the next year will bring.

Introductions have been made and roommates found.

The women make their way through the over-sized oak doors to find an all-inclusive facility.

The classrooms, administration offices, gym, pool and 300-volume library were all at their fingertips.

When EWU opened, it was named the Benjamin P. Cheney Academy, and this is what the students saw.

They walked from the train station and met their friends on Hello Walk before entering the onebuilding college to take classes, mostly in the field of education.

“This was where everybody met everybody as they started the new term or the new year so that is

how it got the name Hello Walk,” Charles Mutschler, the university archivist, said of the walkway leading to Showalter Hall. “This is where all of them caught up on all of the gossip as they came back to campus.”

As the surrounding city grew, the school grew also. The campus has been through many significant changes throughout the years, several of them involving the name of the institution.

The Benjamin P. Cheney Academy opened in 1882 and became the State Normal School at Cheney in 1889, celebrating the birth of Washington state.

The normal graduating class size was just over 200 students a year.

In 1891 and 1912, there were fires on campus and the building, now known as Showalter Hall, was burned down on or near the location it now sits.

During this time period, residence halls did not exist.

According to Mutschler, the students stayed with family or in “approved rooming” situations.

But as the school grew, the rooms were taken and the university put a few students in the clock tower for rooming.

When the 1912 fire broke out, the students in the clock tower were in danger with little options

of escape.

The fire department was not familiar with ladders to reach third story buildings yet, so the students were stuck.

“The Cheney Fire Department consisted of a couple of hose carts at the city hall,” Mutschler said.

“So they grabbed a carpet out of one of the offices on the ground floor and a bunch of people held that as a net and these guys jumped one after the other into that. I think one chap got a broken arm or something, … but they survived.”

The campus overcame the fires by rebuilding, and in 1915, Showalter Hall, named for Noah David Showalter, was completed.

Noah David Showalter was the first president of the Normal School from 1910-1926.

As part of the rebuild, the infamous stone pillars were placed at the beginning of Hello Walk, made from stone salvaged from the fire of the Cheney Normal School.

According to Mutschler, the incoming freshman are still welcomed through this entryway every year.

Once proper accreditation was in place, the college became Eastern Washington College of Education in 1937 and rapidly grew to Eastern Washington State College in 1961.

Blue Scholars to rock Last Blast Hip-hop artist D. Worthy to open for the duo on the Showalter lawn

Still quickly growing and adding new fields of study, the legislature made the final name change to Eastern Washington University in 1977.

The average student population of the university today is over 11,000.

Throughout the changes the college has made in the past century, one fixture has always remained and that is Showalter Hall.

The building, now used as the hub for university administration, has seen everything from professors and students to athletes shooting hoops and swimming laps.

Great care has been taken during past remodels to keep the essence of the era it was built.

Keeping up with technology has been the most difficult part of the remodeling jobs, according to Shawn King, associate vice president for Facilities and Planning.

“We have continued to look at requesting funds from the legislature to do a renovation of the building, which would be similar to Hargreaves and Senior and Monroe, where we take the character and architecture of the building and leave it as it is, but go back in and remodel the electrical and mechanical to make them with current technology and new

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On June 1, Eagle Entertainment will bring the Seattle-based rap group Blue Scholars to campus for a concert.

The show, which will be opened by Vancouver, Washington-based hip-hop artist D. Worthy, is free to students with student ID. The Blue Scholars, a self-described “cinema art rap” group, is comprised of rapper/lyricist “Geologic,” aka George Quibuyen, and DJ/producer “Sabzi,” aka Saba Mohajerjasbi.

The group started in 2002 after Quibuyen and Mohajerjasbi met while studying at the University of Washington.

The group has been widely praised for what “The Seattle Times” calls “pretty songs with positive social messages.”

Blue Scholars have achieved a national following and boast a discography that includes five albums, four EPs and eight videos.

They have played such festivals as Sasquatch, Bumbershoot and their own hip-hop festival “The Program.”

They have worked with artists such as Kanye West, De La Soul, Nas, Common and many others.

Humberto Cerrillo, campus programs adviser, described the excitement surrounding the Blue Scholars concert, which

received over 200 separate requests.

“The student response … [is] amazing.,” he said.

“Eagle Entertainment has done a lot more to be more available to students. [This concert] is an opportunity to give students something that they really want [to see].”

Cerrillo explained that Eagle Entertainment, which organizes music and other entertainment events on campus, worked hard to get the Blue Scholars for the June show.

“We have an obvious challenge, [which is that] we have a very small budget to work with,” he said.

“We are working as hard as we can to stretch the dollar.”

Haley Adamson, Eagle Entertainment’s community outreach coordinator, was involved with the proposal to bring the Scholars to Eastern.

She explained that, due to budgetary constraints, Eagle Entertainment had to present a proposal for supplemental funding to bring the Scholars to campus.

“We made a Powerpoint and media presentation and presented it to the [Student & Activities Fees Committee],” she said.

“They approved the budget and approved them coming.”

Adamson explained that the Blue Scholars’ willingness to negotiate with the University was a large part

of Eastern’s ability to host them. “[They] worked to include everything, [including travel and hotel costs], in [their] normal price instead of [Eastern] having to pay extra,” she said.

“Each year … you [hope to] get more events and better turnout,” said Tara Anderson, Eagle Entertainment’s special events coordinator. “We want to cater to [everyone.]” “[Our mission] is about bringing together a community of people [who are] celebrating being at Eastern,” Cerrillo said.

“This year, we’ve had a lot of things the university is not used to seeing. I’m excited about having the Blue Scholars to cap off the year."

The Blue Scholars will be performing on campus June 1 at 7 p.m. on the Showalter Lawn.

This concert is free with student ID. To learn more about the Blue Scholars, visit http://www.bluescholars.com.

To learn more about Eagle Entertainment and upcoming events, visit http://bit.ly/ KqV1Sb or visit their Facebook page.

For a tour inside Showalter Hall with Charles Mutschler, university archivist, visit http://www.easterneronline.com.

Discussing diversity at EWU Sarah Macdonald staff writer

By Davis Hill

systems,” King said.

The architecture and character of the building include many original pieces.

The marble wainscoting that rises halfway up the walls, the tile floors and the hardwood trim have all aged gracefully as the original materials from the 1915 building.

“The marble that is on the walls through the building, I think students might not realize how rare that is to have that kind of material in a building. It is very expensive, it was expensive at the time, but to have that be a lot of the original materials in the building, it is kind of unique,” King said.

Still going strong at almost 100 years old, Showalter stands tall over the entrance of the university showing incoming students that age doesn’t matter.

“It is still a key building on campus and the historic district,” said King. “The building shows its age, but I think it holds it very well.”

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“Diversity is respect, diversity is taking a stand, diversity is interesting and diversity is you and I,” Gayla Wright said at EWU’s Diversity Open Mic night.

About 20 people gathered in Tawanka Hall to share their stories of diversity on May 23.

Open mic night and Diversity Week are new events thought up by EWU’s diversity faculty. The purpose of the open mic was to allow anyone to speak about what diversity meant to them and share experiences about diversity, good or bad.

Humberto Cerrillo, EWU’s adviser for campus events, was the first to speak.

Cerrillo shared the struggles he faced growing up as an Irish-Mexican in Lewiston, Idaho. Cerrillo was one of nine Hispanic students in his school.

“For me, I didn’t see color, everyone was the same. But I wasn’t the same to everyone else,” Cerrillo said.

Cerrillo explained the trouble he had fitting in at school.

“I wasn’t in a place to be heard, I had to fight for it and I started to fight for it in junior high school,” he said. Cerrillo became student body president of his junior high school and said that was his first step in leadership.

“I reached out, I built bridges, I showed people who I was, what I was and what I thought,” he said.

Cerrillo went on to the University of Idaho where he also became the student body president. His goal was to stand up for others who had no one else to stand up for them.

Cerrillo said the open mic night was a perfect venue to declare who he is and was excited to have the opportunity to share his story.

Though Cerrillo admits EWU is exceptionally diverse compared to other campuses, he said there is always room for improvement.

After Cerrillo, Gayla Wright, the director of equal opportunity at EWU, shared

her story of diversity. Wright also helped organize diversity week.

Wright was in the U.S. military for 24 years and throughout her time spent serving she said she struggled with her identity.

Wright is an African-American Irish woman who was unaware of her Irish roots until recently.

Once she became aware of her Irish blood, she said she understood more about herself and who she was.

“Diversity is difference, intelligence, variety and empathy,” Wright said. “If you are to survive, you must learn to understand the differences of men and different cultures.”

After Wright, Pride Center Coordinator Sandy Williams shared her story and what diversity meant to her.

“I am an introvert at heart,” Williams said. “I hate being in front of people. But when I express who I am, the core of me, I do it through writing.”

Williams shared three poems she wrote. The poems Williams recited explained the struggles of embracing different skin colors and her personal struggles of coming out.

Kim Davis, a human resource associate at EWU, spoke briefly about the importance of embracing your ethnic origin.

"When you’re young, sometimes you don’t realize how important it is to know where you come from,” she said.

Davis also went on to say one of her goals is to increase diversity among EWU faculty.

Rebecca Sokolowski, a junior at EWU, said she thought the event was interesting.

“If [for] nothing more than educational purposes, it is important to have events like this on campus,” Sokolowski said. “I have already learned so much.”

Cerrillo said he believed Diversity Week has been a success in the message they are getting across, but hopes attendance will grow in the future.

“This week is just the start to create the conversation.” Cerrillo said. “Cheney is a small town full of different cultures, and that is a very powerful message.”

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Photos by Evan Sykes Left: A close-up of Beau Ferderer's acrylic on panel in the BFA Studio Art Exhibtion. Above: The exhibition will be on display in the art gallery until June 7.

Studio Art: continued from front page

“Our goal was to make a bad work of art. And so I was just grabbing some video that I had and throwing it together and just not caring what I was doing, and then it turned out pretty cool,” she said.

Her future plans include traveling, showing her art more and meeting new people to get inspiration.

Another exhibit, created

by Jerry Marie Freshley, involved three components: ceramics, scanning and video.

First, Freshley created small ceramic figures of women. After creating the ceramic piece, she made a digital print by scanning it. She then projected the

scanned image onto herself so she became the background for the ceramic print layers.

Freshley said that the process and experimentation are the most important things for an artist.

“Part of it is experimentation and just playing and it’s just, ‘Keep going, keep going,’” she said. “As an artist, I think that’s the biggest thing. Don’t get stuck on one. It’s all about process, process. … The more you do the more you learn.”

She said that her ceramics teacher thought “she was nuts” because she put purple glitter nail polish on one of her figures.

“I think one of the rules of the artist is to break through those ideas and I think out of that, we get something new,” she said.

Jennifer Zdrojkowski, a spectator, said she enjoyed the piece with the trombone bells most. She came to the exhibition because her husband was a part of the program last year.

“I think art is important because it’s expression of self, and it is an outlet for society to imagine and play and just through self-expression, especially for children,” she said.

Alyssa Preston, 14, said art is important because people can express themselves through art in a way like nothing else.

“I think you can express yourself in different ways that you can’t express yourself through other things, like words and stuff, because sometimes you have emotions that you can’t let out in other ways,” she said.

Diversity Week kicks off with presentation from Dr. Reyes

Reyes used the story of a chance encounter on an airplane to stress the importance of acting your shoe size, not your age

By Katie Simpson contributing writer

easterner.eaglelife@gmail.com

Eastern's first ever Diversity Week began on May 21 with a keynote speaker and introduction by Dr. Rodolfo Arévalo.

“I’m going to microwave this,” said Dr. Raymond Reyes, the keynote speaker for the opening of Diversity Week. He meant that he was going to summarize his next talking point into a brief but direct statement.

Reyes is currently the associate mission vice president for intercultural relations at Gonzaga Uni-

versity, which he has been employed with since 1988.

He has also served as the administrative director for the Coeur D'Alene Tribe of Idaho with 28 years of experience in Indian Education and professional development training according to the Gonzaga website.

As part of Reyes’s personal education, he attended Eastern for two years.

The audience gave undivided attention to Dr. Reyes as he asked the group to stand and follow his direction. “Do what I do when I do it,” Reyes said.

He then asked the men and women scattered

across the PUB MPR to wave their hands over their heads, sing A, E, I, O and U, fling their hands out as if passing something and point to the air around them.

“Those were your overheads, those are your handouts, those are your notes and that was your PowerPoint presentation,” said Reyes.

His energetic approach to the sometimes complicated topic of campus diversity brought the crowd to laughs and thoughtful silence throughout the speech.

Reyes spoke about a

Students share Saudi culture

By Gavin Lee contributing writer

easterner.eaglelife@gmail.com

Eastern’s first annual Diversity Week was held May 21-24. It was a university-wide event with a goal of bringing together people and groups to promote, educate and celebrate diversity.

The goal of the presentation “Five Minutes in Saudi Arabia” was to educate students and faculty about life in Saudi Arabia.

There were 10 contestants who spoke and did skits that expressed their experiences identifying and learning about Saudi culture.

One of the contestants was an American female student who chose to wear a traditional Islamic headdress around Spokane for several hours. She shared how she was insulted in various ways.

While on a bus, two women remarked, “I wonder if she has a good recipe for hummus?” While in the

mall, a man walked up to her and shouted “al-Qaida!”

Later, a man approached her and handed her a Christian tract that encouraged her to “find the truth” and he reminded her that “Jesus loved her.”

Another speaker was a man who spoke about some politics in Saudi Arabia.

Although women are denied the ability to vote, they are allowed to run for office.

He also shared with the audience that the religious book of Islam, the Koran, is instrumental in forming laws and regulating social norms and life in Islamic countries.

Pictures of historically important sites for Muslim believers were also part of the presentation and the fact that water is more expensive than gasoline is certainly something that may be hard Americans to grasp.

Among the last group of competitors were two men who shared the differences between the Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims and the fact that Islam is the world’s second largest religion.

Talk of Saudi cuisine, ranging from chicken and rice to flat-bread, enticed the attendees.

The final presentation was a traditional dance done by two young university students.

They were dressed in traditional clothing and danced onstage for several minutes.

After the program, Ming Hu Weng, the international student adviser, said “People experience different cultures with different creative ideas. Diversity is not only the culture itself, but also the thoughts people have.”

Saleh Alfayez, a senior, said “America has been a good experience for me. Before coming to the states, I thought that Americans would mistreat me, but they actually were very kind.”

Alyaa Malibari said that “As a Muslim female in America, it has been challenging. The point of the contest was to explain to Americans what the Saudi culture is.”

time when he read the title of a book from across the airplane isle. The title was in another language, which sparked his curiosity to learn where the reader was from.

The simple task of asking the reader what book he was reading started a conversation that lasted the remainder of the flight.

The reader was a visiting professor from the University of New Hampshire.

His specialty was studying longevity.

He was traveling to interview elders in all four directions of the world trying to figure out if there was a

connection of lifestyle variables that led to longevity.

The professor came to the conclusion that all of the elders “sang, whistled, hummed or had an extreme sense of humor,” said Reyes.

His story shed light on the fact that it is acceptable to “act your shoe size, not your age,” said Reyes.

Diversity is not the word Reyes chooses to use. He prefers “pluralism.”

Pluralism is “a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principal.”

Reyes mentions that out of the 6 billion people

on the planet, everyone is unique.

“Look at your thumb print,” Reyes asked the audience. “Are you unique?”

The listeners shook their heads in agreement.

It is a proven fact that no one in the world has the exact same thumbprint.

What was your favorite Diversity Week event?

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eagle life

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Job hunting has many different aspects

By Rei Inoue conitributing writer

ray15urara@gmail.com

Just because a job is not advertised does not mean it does not exist. “Some companies have positions ‘sort of’ open, which is never publicly reviewable,” said Program Coordinator at Career Services Krista Benson.

“They are waiting for right person to fit in their team existence.”

“Call a hiring manager” who you want to talk, and

ask, “Is there anything that I could have done that would have made me more competitive?” Benson said. “They might give you an answer.”

She said that could help you next time by showing what kind of person they want to hire.

People usually think that just showing up to the job interview held by companies is “job hunting,” however, “job hunting is all around there.”

It means exploring every opportunity to build a “network.”

Also, Benson said that students should search in a targeted manner and not apply to every job on the list, nor to put every hope in one or two jobs; be clear “what kind of job you want to work for and apply for as many of them as you can do.”

There are factors that help students from EWU. “Many employers think Eastern students are very hard workers. … We have tremendously large alumni network in this area. [Companies] love to look at and

ing as a bartender once; however, he came up with a realization that he wanted to work in an office where he can make a good use of his accounting skill. He asked Benson to give him a more challenging job. His job was to double-check papers that specify the scholarships and grants students received from the government, in which a small mistake matters a lot. Regardless of his difficult job, his grades went up and he could get a job before graduation.

take seriously Eastern students,” Benson said.

In the US, students who can juggle many things at the same time are seen as very valuable. EWU students get a balance to make good grades, to work either fulltime or part-time and sometimes to have a family. Benson thinks these students “impress [companies].”

Benson raised an example of her former employee, David, an accounting major, who used to be her righthand man. David was work-

David was definitely an “organized” man, according to Benson. He recognized his goal in life, he studied the standards of his accounting field and put his plans into actions. However, he achieved his goal only because he proceeded with his passion and courage with flow from his conviction, Benson said.

She said that students should think seriously about their future job and kick off job searching as soon as possible.

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spring has sprung

Confidence is key for job hunt

By Rei Inoue contributing writer

ray15urara@gmail.com

Direct eye contact is a crucial problem for Japanese students who want to get a job in the United States. Japanese people usually feel uncomfortable with direct eye contact. It is a common challenge for people from cultures where looking into somebody’s eyes is considered rude, according to Program Coordinator at Career Services Krista Benson.

“Assertiveness is very important in the United States,” she said, em-

Pratt: continued from page 10

tends to hurt more than help."

Aaron Mettler, a former two-time Big Sky javelin champion who graduated from Eastern in 2011, is a volunteer coach on the track team and has watched Pratt's progress.

“Coming in, he had a really low trajectory, so we work a lot on trying to get his trajectory higher,” Mettler said. “He didn't throw the way he wanted to this year. But, at the same time, I'm looking forward to him

phasizing international students must be willing to adopt the American approach. There is an American saying, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” Benson recognizes how difficult is is for such students to become confident enough.

International students are interested in either working in the U.S. or using their optional practical training for an internship.

F-1 visa holders can work from 90 days to 12 months without a green card. An F-1 visa is very valuable because it is getting more difficult to gain an Amerithrowing the next three years, because once he figures things out he's going to be a good thrower.”

Mettler said he expects big things from the freshman and that Pratt will soon be fully integrated into the college atmosphere.

“I think a lot of [Pratt's struggle] was adjusting to college and being a freshman,” Mettler said. “Some people it takes a little bit to adjust, so hopefully come next season he'll have adjusted and he'll be able to start hitting some big throws.”

Mettler added, “I expect him to be able to be up top

can working visa.

Benson gave an example of one EWU student from Japan who felt very uncomfortable maintaining direct eye contact; however, she had to adjust since she did not want to appear shy or not assertive enough. She had to put a lot of her effort into fitting into a new culture.

Japanese students usually hesitate to be confident in front of people.

However, people should remember that job hunting is a great opportunity to move on to the next stage of exploring their new world, America. three [in the conference] next year.”

Pratt will continue to train through the summer and into the 2012-2013 school year in preparation for the upcoming track season.

He is excited to make progress and become the thrower he knows he can be.

“I'm excited that it'll be my second year and I know all the basics and everything,” Pratt said. “[I need to] just keep getting in the weight room, keep throwing, keep working out and stay focused.”

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community• may

30, 2012

Police Beat

By Linsey Garrison staff writer

linseygarrison@eagles.ewu.edu

May 21 Malicious Mischief A spray painted message was left on the walls of a maintenance tunnel under Patterson Hall. Motion alarms were set off during the weekend, but officers were not able to catch up with the suspects before they escaped the tunnels.

12:24 p.m Hit and run A witness saw a female student attempting to parallel park in the PUB parking lot who hit an unattended car before moving to another space.

Officers made contact with the driver and found there was only minimal damage on both cars.

May 22 Agency assist EWU officers helped the Cheney Police Department arrest a wanted person on First Street. The suspect was arrested and booked by Cheney Police.

May 23 Theft Two backpacks were stolen from the Phase field house area. Two students left their bags unattended in the hallway while they attended class.

Theft A student was caught stealing food items from the Eagle

Express Market. The problem has been ongoing during busy times of the day.

Damage report A sprinkler head was broken above the basketball court in the URC, causing a flood and damage to the wood floor. Officers suspect that a basketball was thrown at the sprinkler, causing the break.

The cost of the damage is unknown at this time.

Agency Assist EWU officers assisted Cheney police in dealing with a fight in progress on Eighth Street. One male student was cited for fighting with two other people.

May 24 11 a.m.

Theft An EWU laptop was stolen from an office area in Hargreaves Hall. The laptop was left unsecured on a desk.

1:46 p.m.

Theft A cell phone was stolen from a desk in Williamson Hall. A student stepped away for a moment to use the restroom, and returned to find that their cell phone was gone.

May 25 8:30 a.m.

Damage report A car was damaged by a tent containing a cinderblock. The tent was blown out of a nearby lot by heavy winds, and rolled over a

fence, causing the tent to land cinderblock first onto the windshield of a car.

1 p.m.

Damage report High winds blew a dumpster into an occupied car near Dressler hall. There were no injuries and minimal damages.

Theft A known thief was caught reselling books at Riverpoint campus. The suspect had been caught for the same crime recently but was not arrested this time as there was no way to prove the books were stolen.

8:30 p.m.

Hit and run A pedestrian was hit by a vehicle on First Street near Zip's. A car was turning onto a side street at a high speed and ran into a pedestrian as he crossed the road and continued on to hit two other cars.

The driver then tried to flee the scene but was chased and tackled to the ground by witnesses.

The pedestrian was taken to the hospital with a leg injury.

10:30 p.m.

Domestic dispute Officers responded to a possible domestic dispute in progress on Betz Road. It was determined that the dispute was verbal only and no arrests were made.

May 26 Theft A backpack was stolen from an unlocked locker at the Phase.

1:14 a.m.

Fight in progress A call was made to report

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a fight in progress at Eagle's Pub. By the time officers arrived the fight had been broken up. No arrests were made.

8:53 p.m.

Theft A laptop was stolen from a dorm room. A student

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thought they had locked their room, but returned home to find their laptop was missing.

Tips of the Week:

Domestic dispute Officers made contact with the same residents twice at a home on University Place regarding a domestic dispute. The disputes were verbal only and no arrests were made.

Domestic dispute Officers responded to a possible domestic dispute on Erie Street. The dispute was verbal only and no arrests were made.

If you see suspicious activity, report it. Thefts are continuing to increase, and with the end of the quarter and book buy back approaching, thieves are on the hunt for your textbooks. Keep your belongings close to you, in sight, unless they are locked up. It only takes a minute for your textbook or cell phone to be taken from your desk while you are away.

Write your initials in an inconspicuous area in all of your textbooks. This could help identify the book if it is stolen and then recovered when a thief tries to sell it back and gets caught.

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sports

• may 30, 2012

Javelin thrower reflects on rookie year Pratt finishes with a strong season

By Josh Friesen staff writer

jdfreeze08@gmail.com

After finally settling into college life, freshman javelin thrower Max Pratt is ready to take the next step.

Pratt ended the season on a high note, placing sixth in the Big Sky Outdoor Conference Championships.

"Definitely going to conference would be the biggest thing as a freshman," Pratt said. "Placing in conference was nice, too."

Pratt, a native of Auburn, Wash., said he learned that he had what it

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took to compete at a college level. He felt confident that he would be able to make strides this offseason even though he did not start the year the way he wanted.

AccordPratt ing to Pratt, he felt a little doubt at the beginning of the season when he was not performing the way he hoped.

"I got really down because I didn't throw what I wanted to for the first meet," Pratt said. "It was just disappointing from there."

Max Pratt's top four marks in men's javelin Al Manual Invitational WOAR V CSULA Twilight Open Long Beach Invitational

A quarterback in high school, Pratt has been able to find some similarities between playing football and competing in the javelin.

“Just playing in bigger games kind of translates to bigger meets,” Pratt said.

Pratt learned that he has the ability to grow into a better competitor. He be-

57.51 meters 55.67 meters 55.43 meters 55.08 meters

lieves in himself and has shed the doubt he experienced in the beginning of the season.

“I think that I could be a good college thrower. I think I learned that,” Pratt said. “The people I'm working out with, like Michelle [Coombs] and Aaron [Mettler], and then if we get some more boy throwers

just to be able to push me.”

Pratt’s primary throwing coach, Marcia Mecklenburg, said Pratt struggled because it is his first year competing at a college level.

"It's a growing year," Mecklenburg said. "We just try to keep things in perspective."

In high school, athletes typically only train three months out of the year.

At the college level, however, athletes train year round. The coaches all try and make sure the transition is smooth and seamless.

"We just try to progress them into it," Mecklenburg said. "[We] don't

start throwing hardcore right away. We start conditioning and then we build things onto that as we go."

Although she acknowledged Pratt's struggles, Mecklenburg said she sees a lot of potential in the freshman. She realizes Pratt's explosiveness, which is essential to javelin throwers. Also, Pratt demonstrates an even keel in competitions, never getting too high or low emotionally.

"You want to be a little more relaxed and calm and be able to get the throw out," Mecklenburg said.

"If you're to have too much adrenaline flowing, that Pratt-Page 8

you want to be a golfer, however you've never picked up a club?

Do's and Don'ts when starting the game

By Peter Sowards contributing writer

packerfan4life@gmail.com

Golf is cruel. Golf is painful. Golf turns proud men and women into crushed, humiliated souls. It lures us in with its lush fairways and undulating greens, then spits in our faces with its unforgiving water hazards and kicks dirt on us with its remorseless bunkers.

But, golf can also be kind. Golf can turn a boring Saturday into one filled with triumph and pride. With one shot, golf can tell a lifetime of stories, each ending with a smile on your face.

It is this enigma that keeps me coming back for more. I can spend an entire round hacking away and making a fool of myself, but if I go up-anddown from 175 yards on the 18th hole for birdie, I feel great. Golf is simultaneously the most frustrating and rewarding sport I have ever played.

There is no pitcher staring you down, nor a feverish pass rush with which you must deal.

It is just you, your weaponry and roughly four miles of intricately designed landscape strategically placed for your amusement or anguish.

For the beginning golfer all of this can feel very daunting. Make no mistake: golfing is hard. It requires an incredible amount of discipline and self-control. It is not meant for the weak-minded. I am very fortunate to have a dad who got me into the sport at a young age. With the correct approach, the introduction to golf can be a smooth one.

The first piece of advice I have for the prospective golfer is to save your money. It is not difficult at all to spend upwards of $2,000 on a complete set of golf clubs. For the experienced golfer, spending this amount of money might be prudent, but it is not necessary in the slightest for the beginner.

The best place to buy golf clubs, especially for novices, is online.

Health: continued from page 11

“In the ninth grade, I know I got knocked out playing football,” said the player.

“And from there, ... I don’t even know how many I got.

“I got probably one my junior year playing [in high school] and then two to three my senior year. One of them, being knocked out, and then two of them, I just played through.”

During the games when he played through concussions, the player would have blind spots in his vision, and the field would almost seem to shake.

“I couldn’t see receivers or linebacker dropping back in coverage,” said the player.

“But I just kind of made it work. I got cleared here and there, got lucky enough to play every week.”

Generally, the player was candid with the high school’s trainer about his concussions. But he did not reveal all of them or all his symptoms.

“There [were] games I don’t remember the first half of, stuff like that,” said the player. “I probably should have been more honest.”

“When you’re in there,

Clubs that are used or have simply made it through the years without being sold can be had at much lower prices than in the local course pro shop or golf warehouse.

Once you have bought yourself a decent set of clubs (or, preferably, Alignment: Posture: had someone buy you a decent set Body parallel to the target, feet Body in athletic position, knees flexed, of clubs), it’s time to hit the practice shoulder-width apart body bent at the hips, not waist range.

Now, I understand how much Ball position: Takeaway: more fun it is to take a bucket of balls Off front heel with driver, moving towards Shift weight from front to back, out to the driving range and see how back foot with each shorter club swinging club back, not up far you can hit it.

But, according to Deer Park Golf Balance: Backswing: Club Assistant PGA Professional Luke Scott, you should be spending the Weight on balls of feet, 60% on back Turn your back to the target, shoulders lined up majority of your time on the putting foot with driver, 60% on front foot at the ball, club not breaking 90 degree plane green. with short irons, 50/50 otherwise Downswing: “When you’re beginning, I’d say 75 percent on the short game—putUncoil swing in fluid motion, maintain ting and chipping—and the other rhythm and pace set in backswing 25 percent on the range,” Scott said.

Scott also acknowledged that these are rarely the percentages in which practice time is divvied up.

Scott emphasizes the importance of practicing your putting, and also how easy it is on the wallet.

“Everybody’s putting and chipping greens are always free,” Scott said. “If you grab a club, some golf courses like us [Deer Park Golf Club] will just give you a putter and you can go putt on the putting greens—it’s free. That’s where you should spend your time.”

Once you have mastered your game enough to where you feel comfortable venturing out and onto an 18hole course, you will have a plethora of affordable options at your disposal.

According to Wide World of Golf sales representative and former Washington State high school 4A state champion golfer David Fern, we Easterner Graphics are blessed to live in this golf haven.

When practicing golf swings, go slowly and start with small golf swings before working your way up to the bigger swings.

“What we have here is we have about 10 to 12 courses that are $30 on feeling like a less challenging round the City of Spokane Parks and Recre- your short game more than your long a weekend to walk, or less on a week- with fewer hazards, I will head north ation and offers some of the best golf- game and try to enjoy the awesomely day,” Fern said. “What you get here to Deer Park, where 18 holes of golf ing in the Pacific Northwest for ridicu- cheap courses in our area. Also, have fun. is a really good value. For beginning can be had on the weekend for $29. lously modest prices.

“Gotta have fun,” said Fern. “If So, in short, here are three suggesgolfers, this is a great place because For a more challenging round, Indian tions for any person who would like you’re not having fun, you won’t come you don’t have to go out and pay $50- Canyon is my destination.

This course, along with three oth- to attempt the incredibly frustrating back. Play for the fun of the game. $60 which you would in the majority ers (The Creek at Qualchan, Esmerel- game of golf: Do not spend a bunch Laugh when you mess up, smile when of the rest of the country.”

Fern is absolutely right. If I am da, and Downriver), is maintained by of money on your golf clubs, practice you do well.”

heat of the moment, it’s hard to decide to do what’s more healthy, you know, you just want to win more games,” said the player. “That’s the most important thing when you’re playing football.”

Even with at least five concussions, he can remember in high school, the player never missed a game.

The pressure to continue to play was intense, though it never stemmed from trainers, coaches or parents. The player pushed himself.

“The only thing I wanted to do was play. It was on me,” the player said.

The player admits that he does not think anyone, including his parents, knew how many concussions he suffered in high school.

“I’m not saying I regret it or anything because every good football player, or anybody that’s part of a team, wants to win games. That’s number one,” the player said.

Once arriving at Eastern on a football scholarship, the player was concussion free until the first game of his junior year. It happened early in the first half.

“I came across the wedge on a kick return, and I smacked this guy in the head – he was coming off the oth-

er side. Hit him pretty good.

He was a pretty heavy dude,” the player said.

For the rest of the half, he was dizzy and struggled with his sight as “things were shaking around quite a bit.”

By halftime, the player remembers the immediate effects of the hit wearing away. It was not until his senior year that he suffered another concussion, this time during practice, a week before the season’s opening game of the year.

“I was coming across the line and did a block on the [defensive] end, and I hit him pretty hard,” said the player. “Same thing, everything just started shaking around.

“That was the first time I ever really had a headache.”

For the rest of the week, the player felt out of character, a little slower. In the game that weekend, there was another concussion, this time on punt team, and it proved to be his last.

Finally, he had reached a breaking point.

“It was the first time I was being honest with symptoms, how many I’ve had [and] all that kind of stuff,” said the player. “I was just to the point where I’d had enough. I felt like I needed

to be straightforward about it. I think I just realized there’s life after football.”

The player's career was over.

“I like to hit people in the face with my face,” said the player. “That’s the way I was raised. You hit people with your head up. You hit them with your face.”

“I wanted to make a point when I was playing,” said the player. “That nothing could slow me down. In a lot of cases, I put myself at risk. But that’s just the way it is. That’s what happens when you play football.”

His football career is over, ended prematurely, but for the player, it was all part of the game.

“I learned teamwork.

Never to let my teammates down. How to work on a team. How to deal with adversity,” the player said.

“That might sound a little bit cliché … but I learned a lot of good stuff from football.”

“Winning is really fun, too. That’s why people play football,” said the player.

“You compete against other people, with your guys. You want to see who is best.”

“That feeling after the game … that’s really something special.”

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• may 30, 2012

Concussions from football injuries can result in long term health damage

Dealing with concussions at EWU For the Eastern athletic staff, the top priority is ensuring that athletes are completely healthy before returning to practice – and eventually, to games.

Responsibility falls on the players Starting right tackle Will Post wants to play so he will not let his teammates down. After early morning workouts, long hours in the weight room, film study and practice, the games become a precious and valued commodity.

“I played with a sprained wrist. I played with a sprained ankle,” said Post. “If you can do it, you play through it. I mean, Brandon Kaufman broke his hand in one game and finished the game out. It’s kind of like, if you can go, you’re usually going to go.”

There is a fine line between being truly hurt and just feeling sore, Post pointed out. Some injuries athletes can play through and, frankly, that is expected.

“Sometimes a head injury is tough. I feel like you can get your bell rung, still remember everything, but you might have had a minor concussion,” said Post. “You don’t want to be like, ‘Ah, my head hurts,’ and then just run out of the game. Usually there has to be something seriously wrong, like you don’t know what’s going on.”

Playing on the offensive line, Post has had plenty of head-to-head contact but said he has had one documented concussion in his career.

He was a senior at Southridge High School in Portland, Ore., when it happened

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At first, it can sound a little dramatic.

“TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL.” An ominous title, in all caps, set at the top of a section pulled from the EWU athletics’ protocol booklet.Traumatic brain injuries, more readily identified as concussions, are a result of the brain being shaken so violently that it hits the inside of the skull, damaging blood vessels and nerve cells.

Recent developments in the National Football League have heightened public awareness of concussions and the inherent dangers involved with not only football, but also any contact sport like basketball, soccer, hockey and so on.

On March 12 the NCAA announced a $400,000 grant to the National Sport Concussion Outcomes Study Consortium to examine the effects of head injuries through the course of a college athlete’s career.

As the scientific research evolves, rules change, the game grows – particularly in football – and education filters down to the lower levels, including college and high school athletics. Eastern assistant head football coach John Graham has been coaching since 1992. He said, in the past 20 years, the view of concussions has shifted dramatically.

“It’s night and day compared to when I first started doing this,” Graham said.

Today, coaches emphasize tackling fundamentals like not leading with the head. If a receiver is in the air, defensive backs are taught to lead with their shoulder, if only to avoid the 15yard penalty.

“There are some teaching things that we’re doing to prevent some concussions, but what I think you’re going to see more and more is the limits on practice,” said Graham. “From spring football [to] fall camp, how many days you’re in full pads in contact.”

Graham estimates Eastern football had nine concussions in spring practice this year.

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In an attempt to ensure EWU athletes are given the best possible evaluation in the event of a concussion, each athlete is tested to establish a baseline assessment of their cognitive functions at the beginning of their first year on campus.

When a player is believed to have experienced a concussion, he undergoes the same test a second time.

“This software that we have allows us to kind of take some of that subjectivity out,” said head athletic trainer Brian Norton. “You may tell me, ‘Yeah, I’m fine. I don’t have any symptoms.’ This will show us if … you’re way far off from your baseline because it tests your memory. It tests reaction time.”

Once a concussed player returns to within their baseline and are free of all symptoms, they can begin what EWU athletics terms as a “gradual return to play.” It involves physical conditioning tests that increase the heart rate because an individual may not have symptoms at rest.

After the light aerobic exercises, the athlete begins sport-specific exercises like running, cutting and jumping.

Finally, if symptom-free, the player returns to practice. The process should take about one week.

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Easterner Graphics There are many symptoms for concussions that can last for days or weeks and may be subtle or not apparent.

“I didn’t even realize it, till the end of the game,” said Post. “I was really, really dizzy.

Lights and stuff like that were real[ly] bright.”

Post said he does not believe he has had a serious concussion.

“There [has] never been any time where I’ve not known where I’m at,” said Post. “You know how sometimes people will just be completely out of it? They don’t know their mom’s maiden name or whatever. That type of stuff has never happened to me before.”

Post admits a player who has had a number of concussions might need to consider the longterm effects.

“If you’re getting that many concussions, you do need to look at the quality of life,” said Post.

“Because, I mean, football is only a small fraction of our lives.”

“It really does come down to the individual,” said Post. “It’s your body. You’ve got to look out for number one. If you know something’s wrong, you’ve got to say something.”

Tough to walk away Football is the ultimate team sport where 11 players gather on a field with one goal and mission in mind. From sitting in the stands, it may appear both sides are simply smashing into one

another for 60 minutes. In truth, a complicated strategy game is in play.

For an entire week, coaches and players have implemented a game plan designed to attack the opposing squad. Each individual is part of the larger group, and if one fails, the team falls apart – game over. An invisible injury, like a concussion, can force a player to fight an internal battle.

After a hard hit, it might be best to make the trip to the sideline for an evaluation, but there is a game to play – a victory to be had.

From the moment a child straps on a helmet, fathers, coaches and fans instill the idea that he is part of a larger group, an intricate part of the winning equation. Walking to the sideline with a little lightheadedness is not a decision many players, particularly, any good enough to reach Division I. will make.

A former EWU football player, who for medical reasons would like to remain anonymous, grew up playing sports.

The first concussion he remembers was in seventh grade. He took a charge in a basketball game, square to the chest, and hit the back of his head on the floor.Over the next decade, the player admits to incurring at least 10 concussions – most of which happened on the football field.

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