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Contributed by EmJaye
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
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Editor’s note: The Dorm Life column returns for spring semester today. It is written by Emily and covers the good, the bad, and crazy, that is life in the dorms.
As this is my last year here at WSU and my birthday is this week, I got to thinking about the first birthday I spent in Pullman, four years ago.
I was staying in a horrible dorm, but I had my own room since my roommate from fall semester had decided to transfer to a community college. My best friend/older sister came to spend the weekend with me, since it was the first birthday that I had ever spent away from my large family and I felt a little weird about it.
My sister, J, rode out from the West side on Friday with my former roommate, S. Upon arrival, I was so excited to see them again that I could hardly sit still and I wanted to show J around campus, since I had already fallen in love with this school and this town. J, of course, didn’t want to see campus since she was tired from the six-hour car ride and just wanted to hang around my room and meet the people on my floor.
So, the weekend got started on a rather boring note, but I was still glad to have some family near me for my nineteenth birthday. Saturday consisted of having fun with J, just hanging around my dorm room.
As Saturday night turned into Sunday morning (my official birthday), I got an unwelcome surprise at about two o’clock in the morning. Somebody came to my floor and blew a blow horn so loudly that it woke me and J up. Luckily for S, she was staying with other friends in their apartment.
So, irritated at being woken up by such a loud, obnoxious noise, J and I went back to sleep…only to be woken again by the blow horn a half-hour later. After the third time, J and I got up and walked around to the other side of the building to see why this was happening. It turned out that a girl on my floor had rejected an extremely immature boy and to retaliate, he and his friends were blowing the horn right outside of her door every half-hour.
Angry and determined to catch these boys, J and I stayed awake after finding this out. We kept my door open and talked until the horn went off again around four. Since I happened to be standing right next to the open door, I ran down the hall and saw a boy jump at the sight of a girl running toward him in pajamas and slippers and he ran into the stairwell that was right next to him.
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Written by cougster1
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Friday, 25 January 2008 |
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No money for the flea bitten
Those Huskies will not be eating from the table of Washington State Tax payers anytime soon. Speaker of the House Frank Chopp has said the plan is dead for this session of the legislature. Chopp had been a little more positive about the chance of funding last week but is now backing away saying he just open to hearing the proposal not necessarily supporting it. We think this change of tune is due to the fierce negative reaction from many Cougs and anybody with a brain…
WSU helps sick eagles
WSU’s vet school is helping a pair of bald eagles that were found over the holiday season in Stevens County.
From WSU News Service:
The cases are similar in that each bird was discovered alongside roadways by drivers who saw that the eagles were weak and unable to fly.
One is a 3-year-old juvenile bald eagle found near Waits Lake. WSU’s recovery team has nicknamed the eagle “Jordan.”
The other, is a 5-year-old mature bald eagle found just south of Colville along Highway 395. The WSU crew has named the older eagle “Carpenter.” The names came from authors of widely used veterinary avian textbooks.
After examination by local veterinarians, the birds were brought to Pullman by an agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Boeing president picks up his own Coug plane
Scott Carson, president of Boeing and proud Coug, picked up his new plane in Yakima. While it doesn’t go as fast as those Horizon jets, it still looks pretty. Check out the video here.
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Written by cougster1
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
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This commercial shows two people talking about WSU’s work Rwanda. We especially like the ending.
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Written by cougster1
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
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Those purple and gold toliet bowl drinkers on the other side of the mountains want $150,000,000 of state money for their proposed $300,000,000 renovation of Husky Stadium.
Of course there are a lot more people living in the Seattle area than the Pullman area so it is not a surprise that the stadium would be bigger and more expensive than Martin Stadium, but $300,000,000!? This for a facility that will be used less than 10 times a year. While it is nice to have a stadium right on campus, why not just use the Seahawks stadium? It’s not like they play on the same day and that stadium is also used less than 10 times a year.
There is greater positive emotional attachment to the huskies (and hatred of course) than the Sonics as nobody graduated from Sonics University, but we still expect near the same level of resistance to this proposal that Sonics have faced in their bid for a huge sum of state money for a new facility.
Whether you are in favor of this proposal or against it we encourage you to contact Governor Chris Gregoire and your local legislators and voice your opinion.
More on the proposal from the Seattle Times:
The University of Washington plans to ask the Legislature for public money to help pay for a $300 million renovation and upgrade of Husky Stadium.
The university's Board of Regents was briefed today on the proposal to seek $150 million from the state, which would go toward the renovations. The university would raise the other $150 million for upgrades from donors and revenue from premium seating.
The university is hoping to pull off what the Seattle Sonics couldn't — convince wary lawmakers to subsidize a sports stadium with tax dollars. But former Gov. Dan Evans, who heads the UW committee on the stadium, told regents today that he and Scott Woodward, interim athletic director and vice president for external affairs, received a good first reception in Olympia yesterday.
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Written by cougster1
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
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A 20-year-old WSU student had a bad Tuesday night he got arressted twice for smoking weed. First time was around 11:30 pm in the Safeway parking lot and the second time on Colorado St around 2 am.
Both KHQ and KREM picked up the story:
Less than two hours later an officer saw three men passing around a pipe in a pickup truck and arrested the student again and the two others for possessing marijuana.
Police Commander Chris Tennant says he hopes the student isn't kicked out of WSU because it seems he needs a bit more education
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Written by cougster1
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 |
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All planes should be painted with these colors.
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