OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: An elegy for RBG
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
September 23, 2020
“Richard Nixon is gone now, and I am poorer for it.” -Hunter S. Thompson, “He Was A Crook: An Obituary for Nixon” And so ends another legacy. Ruth Bader Ginsburg – born in ’33, nominated to the Supreme Court in ’93, dead in 2020, three years shy of being 90. Pancreatic cancer struck her...
OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: By your logic
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
September 16, 2020
"My first thought was, he lied in every word." -Robert Browning, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" Joe Rogan wants to host the presidential debates. The UFC-commentator-turned-podcast-host voiced his opinion earlier this week in response to an ex-MMA fighter’s call for a Rogan-hosted debate. Moreover, Rogan isn’t the only would-be pa...
OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: The fire rises
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
September 15, 2020
“What happened to the American dream? It came true. You’re looking at it.” - Alan Moore, “Watchmen” I walked out of my apartment this morning, and it smelled like a campfire. The smoke soaked into my clothes and gave everything a musky, raw odor. To the north and to the south...
OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: A hair-raising scandal
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
September 10, 2020
“George Bush doesn’t care about Black people.” -Kanye West In the subconscious of every fairly self-aware voter, there’s the implicit knowledge that elected officials don’t care for them very much. Think about it – what does a multi-millionaire like Mitch McConnell or Barbara Boxer hav...
OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: Boats on parade
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
September 9, 2020
“They might have split up or they might have capsized, They may have broke deep and took water. And all that remains is the faces and names, Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.” -Gordon Lightfoot, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” What’s better than a parade? Why, boats o...
OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: Eye of the storm
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
September 1, 2020
“Life’s ill, sometimes life might kill.” - Vordul Mega, “Iron Galaxy” A fully-developed hurricane can release the energy of a 10-megaton nuclear bomb every 20 minutes. That’s almost 700 Hiroshimas smacking down on the coast of Texas and Louisiana every 20 minutes. Hurricane Laura see...
OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: Kellyanne Gone-away
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
August 27, 2020
Kellyanne Conway has quit. In an administration that cycled through cabinet members like Spinal Tap went through drummers, Trump’s senior counselor managed to keep her spot from 2016 onward. She lasted through Robert Mueller’s investigation, Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearing and countless...
OPINION: Countdown to the 3rd: meet the candidates
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
August 26, 2020
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” - Dante, “Inferno” (canto 3, line 9) Across the country, the ears of thousands of low-lives, human scum and villains out of a Dickens novel are perking up, as if responding to some hidden frequency. Lawyers, accountants, pundits and other people you ...
Letter from the Editor: The art of reinvention
MADYSEN MCLAIN, Evergreen ROOTS editor
August 17, 2020
As WSU students log into their first Zoom meetings of the semester, I hope they take this unusual time to grow. Growth can take many formats, whether it’s picking up a new hobby or finally listening to that one podcast you’ve been putting on the backburner. If you haven’t met me yet, I’m Madysen...
OPINION: Performative activism benefits nobody
JOEL KEMEGUE, Evergreen mint editor
July 15, 2020
While the Black Lives Matter protests are centered around specific issues, the end goal of the protest doesn’t have a consensus. Some people believe we need to defund the police to deter brutality and some people believe it needs to be fully abolished. Others just want laws enacted to ensure more accountability....
Letter from the Editor: Emphasizing the ‘Ever’ in Evergreen
ANGELICA RELENTE and JACQUI THOMASSON
May 11, 2020
Although it has been weeks since we last set foot in Murrow Hall, we can still picture some of the quotes that line the walls of the newsroom. One quote that is still fresh in our minds is “The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Today, there are countle...
ED BOARD: If you can, support local journalism
May 8, 2020
Crazy semester, right? Nearly 125 years ago student journalists began the Evergreen, a monthly edition that went over news from Washington State College. For the milestone in our history, editors at The Daily Evergreen planned our semester thinking we would be able to dedicate an entire edition c...
Three individuals tested positive for COVID-19 today, bringing Whitman County’s total to 1,312 cases. Of the new cases, one female and two males...
