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The Daily Evergreen

The student voice of Washington State University since 1895

The Daily Evergreen

The student voice of Washington State University since 1895

The Daily Evergreen

Supporting tax hikes on the rich could backfire on voters

The 2016 election has brought with it a whole new level of polarization over income.Many liberal politicians argue the United States has entered into a new Gilded Age, where the poor have nothing and the...

WSU Pullman’s campus-wide tobacco ban, which began on Aug. 22, makes it difficult for students, staff and visitors to enjoy on-campus activities.

Smoking gun for tobacco ban

EMILY HOGAN | Evergreen columnist October 18, 2016

You sit in class – jittery, restless and unable to concentrate.You’re trying your hardest to pay attention, but find that you are completely incapable of doing so. Frustrated, you sling your backpack...

Vote your conscience

This election season, the Democratic and Republican Parties nominated the two most polarizing candidates in living memory.A July Gallup poll found that 58 percent of Americans have unfavorable ratings...

More female engineering students is not an indicator of gender equality

Americans love to think of Muslim women as an oppressed group as part of a greater narrative of Islamophobia in this country, yet they would be surprised that Muslim women in the Middle East are closing...

‘If you only know your own side, you don’t know anything’

ALEX DAVIS | Evergreen columnist October 11, 2016

No two people think the same way; this is the beauty of the human mind and experience.Everyone has their own thoughts on almost all topics imaginable and quite often these thoughts are put at odds with...

Gun violence is a casualty of the War on Drugs

The state of Washington is reeling after a shooting at the Cascade Mall in Burlington on Sept. 23.Before the shooting, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson called for semi-automatic weapons to be banned...

Most children have a stable sense of gender identity by age four, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. 

New learning standards promote inclusivity, not intolerance

The tyranny of gender ideology strikes again. This time, it takes advantage of our children.All joking aside, as of March the state of Washington made an incredible stride in inclusivity by amending the...

Samantha Reyes (left), a WSU sophomore and enrolled Turtle Mountain Chippewa, protests the Dakota Access Pipeline with other students. 

Dakota pipeline

Everybody needs clean water – whether you’re in the city or on a reservation.Members of the Standing Rock Sioux, a North Dakota tribe, say the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) threatens to...

Protests against racial injustice need to be more disruptive

Colin Kaepernick, an American football quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, sent the nation into a buzz when he sat during the national anthem at a preseason NFL game on Aug. 26.“I am not going to...

Safe spaces are about allowing students to freely express themselves without judgment, not censoring student’s language.

Preserving the sanctity of safe spaces on college campuses

Safe spaces. I’ll give some readers time to shudder and recover after reading those two words.Now, let’s begin some major debunking. The divisive dialogue over safe spaces is raging all over the English-speaking...

High cost of EpiPens can be solved by less regulation, not more

HARRISON CONNER | Evergreen columnist September 29, 2016

Your head feels foggy. Your throat starts closing. An ambulance would take too long. There are no doctors nearby. You need medicine – and you don’t care how much it costs.This is the choke point that...

WSU students shout while waiting in line to enter Martin Stadium to watch the WSU vs. Eastern Washington University game on Sept. 5.

WSU game-day antics a reflection of pride, not vulgarity

EMILY HOGAN | Evergreen columnist September 27, 2016

Win or lose, Cougs booze – if you are familiar with WSU, you likely recognize this phrase.It is through this expression that an unseemly misconception was born. People know WSU as the party school, the...

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