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Written by cougster1
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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A WSU student sustained a serious head injury after being punched early this morning.
From DNEWS.com:
A 21-year-old Washington State University student was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for injuries he received in an altercation early Friday morning.
Police allege the man, whose name is not being released, was punched during an argument shortly after 2 a.m. in the 400 block of Northeast Colorado Street. He fell and struck his head on the pavement, said Sgt. Dan Dornes of the Pullman Police Department.
Dornes said the man was knocked unconscious and transported to Pullman Regional Hospital. He was transferred to Harborview for “specialized care related to the head injury.” He is now in stable condition, but remains unconscious.
Dornes said police have talked to a few witnesses in the area. The suspect is described as a white male 5-foot-11 to 6-foot tall, with short, light-colored hair. The suspect was seen running from the scene, and was unknown to the witnesses.
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Written by cougster1
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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WSU grad and award winning author Sherman Alexie was on Seattle based KUOW yesterday. Listen to what this thoughtful Coug has to say on a range of topics including the possible loss of the Sonics from our state on the KUOW website. |
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Written by cougster1
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
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To play a star but be unknown
WSU Today has a short article on senior general studies major Richard King. King was Butch this year.
From the article:
King said if he had the option to do it over again, he wouldn’t change anything. “When you put on the Butch outfit you suddenly become the most popular kid on campus, but once you take it off and walk home, no one has any idea who you are,” he said.
Read more on WSU Today
WSU president was invited to apply for positions at Wisconsin and UNC
Apparently WSU president Elson Floyd was invited to apply for chancellor at North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Floyd earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at UNC. He was also executive vice chancellor there from 1995 to 1998. He was also invited to apply for a chancellor vacancy at Wisconsin. It is not known how many people where invited to apply for the positions. Based on this expressions of interest WSU Regent Rafael Stone is already speculating about giving Floyd more money, apparently $650k is not enough.
From the Seattle Times:
The idea of Floyd returning to North Carolina "was a concern we had when we hired him," said WSU Regent Rafael Stone, adding that Floyd had reassured them in late 2006 that he would stay at WSU even if offered the top job at his alma mater.
Stone said WSU's regents are impressed with Floyd's performance so far. He has laid out construction plans for new dorms; set about creating a communication college and a school of global animal health; and streamlined the university's top administration, Stone said.
"We think, like everyone in the WSU community, that he is doing a phenomenal job," Stone said. "Everything we thought was important, he has done — although we underestimated his energy, and how fast and able he was at making decisions."
Stone said regents are reviewing Floyd's annual compensation, which this year is $650,000. The timing of the two approaches couldn't harm Floyd's chances for getting a raise, Stone acknowledged.
"We have to remain competitive," Stone said.
Read more here |
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Written by cougster1
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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 Staying a Coug?
WSU basketball coach Tony Bennett has said no to the coaching job at Indiana. We don’t want to jinx it to say he is staying here for sure but it now looks at least a little more likely. For those of you who don’t know you can download and read Tony Bennett’s full contract with WSU from the Cougster Files. See the menu to the left and then go to the sports folder or click this link. |
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Written by cougster1
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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For the most part we have not found professors being late turning in grades a problem. There was one prof who waited 'till the end of the semester to turn in a mid term grade which lead to some headaches and almost a lost job for one us, but that story for another time. For those of you who think have had profs turn in grads late might find the approach of Florida State University interesting. There they fine a prof $10 for every grade turned in late. For a large lecture course that could really add up.
From insidehighered.com:
The next year, when Barber says the provost, Lawrence G. Abele, was frustrated about the faculty’s reaction to something else, Florida State’s registrar at the time told him that professors were still consistently turning their grades in late. Together the registrar and Abele came up with an idea that they thought might drive home the seriousness of the late grade syndrome.
As Barber explained to a somewhat incredulous audience Wednesday: Florida State is what she believes to be the only institution in the country that fines its professors when they turn grades in late at semester’s end. The tab: $10 per grade.
“We charge for every grade for every student that is not turned in by our deadline,” Barber said, adding, slowly for emphasis: “I’ll say that again: Every grade for every student that is not turned in by our deadline.”
Read the whole article here |
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Written by cougster1
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Monday, 24 March 2008 |
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If you are lacking on things to do this week here are two you might find of interest. Tomorrow the College Republicans, The Foley Institute, and others are presenting conservative author Dinesh D’Souza. While there are a myriad of contemporary conservative authors who write books with provocative titles but with little substantive thought (Ann Coulter), D’Souza is not quite of the same breed. He is not one to say that the terrorists hate us just because of our freedom and science. His book What's So Great About America makes some thoughtful points. That being said he is still really wrong on many things (and a lot of people, conservative also, really disagree with his book The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11), but we respect him a bit more than the Coulter & Hannity crowd. We do hope that no one will engage in the same type of behavior he did when he was a college student. They were not his finest days.
For pure entertainment value check out Cougar Idol next week on April 4th in Beasly. Better yet be apart of it by auditioning this Thursday, from 5-7 PM at Rogers Hall, Friday, from 6-9 PM at Streit-Perham; or Saturday, from 6-9 PM at Rogers Hall. You have a whole week to work on what you will sing. Remember the bad singers are almost more popular than the good ones (feel free to send us video if you want).
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