The student voice of Washington State University since 1895

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

Capital punishment: We shouldn’t decide who lives and who dies

The recent execution of an Arizona man should have lasted 10 minutes, but instead he spent nearly two hours snorting and gasping before the injections killed him. Last week Joseph Rudolph Wood, 55, became...

Security officer David Baughman is one of the many officers at Irvine Valley College in Orange County, Calif. where officers are seeking to upgrade to semi-automatic weapons.

Guns don’t belong on campus

It appears that so-called "rights" supersede logic in our neighbor-state to the east.Idaho legislators have taken a massive step in a highly unsettling direction by allowing students with concealed weapons...

David Temple, of Dallas, smells a variety of marijuana called Agent Orange at the Northern Lights Cannabis Co. in Edgewater near Denver, Colo., Jan. 24, 2014.

Washington’s weed dilemma: The grass is greener in Colorado

Washington’s first pot shops opened this month in disorder and chaos.Colorado opened its first pot shops at the start of the New Year, nearly seven months before Washington. And although our state will...

Facebook cant be trusted

Facebook can’t be trusted

Facebook is the poster child for unethical behavior from tech giants everywhere.The site helped conduct a psychological study on its users this year by manipulating their news feeds. The company shifted...

Hobby Lobby reflects broken health care system

In response to the ruling on the Hobby Lobby case, many have doubted the fairness of this country's justice system. But it's not our court system that is broken – it's our health care system.The Supreme...

Go away, NSA: My phone isnt for your viewing pleasure

Go away, NSA: My phone isn’t for your viewing pleasure

The Supreme Court made a decision last week that is both landmark and farsighted. Law enforcement officials still can't search through an arrestee’s cell phone without a warrant. One can expect this...

Don’t blame the US for unrest in Iraq

It used to be our worst nightmare – now it’s slowly becoming a reality.I’m writing of course about the events that have recently unfolded in Iraq. A sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims...

Hate and harassment won’t win free speech

Did you know you can be arrested for saying the wrong things on the internet? That’s what happened to Anthony Elonis of eastern Pennsylvania, who was sentenced to 44 months in jail for threatening to...

Mainstream media mislead the public

Ronald Reagan once said, “Facts are stupid things.” This seems to be the sentiment of news outlets across the nation – ones that recently have been sensationalizing and spinning stories, therefore...

Cantor cant fly with broken right wing

Cantor can’t fly with broken right wing

The political world experienced the upset of the century last week when incumbent House majority leader Eric Cantor lost in the Republican primary to little-known economics professor David Brat.Nobody,...

More money, more problems: Seattle’s minimum wage

Good news everyone! The city council in Seattle just recently passed a law to help raise the minimum wage in Seattle to $15 an hour. This is a step forward, a way to help those who are less fortunate to...

American women: objectified, mistreated

The voices of the Twitter phenomenon #YesAllWomen that was born from the tragic murders at Isla Vista must take deep root in the collective male conscience of American society.Not only do we need to talk...

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