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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

Letter to the editor: Computers in the new era

ALISON BURGESS | Pullman February 23, 2017

Civilization is at the beginning of a new era; computers. Computing capabilities have exponentially improved in hardware and software in the last twenty years. This new era brings both new solutions and...

Letter to the editor: Government should help businesses conserve Earth’s resources

CHRISTINA PAOLETTI | Pullman February 23, 2017

Within companies, the health of our planet is often the last considered when building cars, processing food or drilling oil. Excess carbon dioxide omitted into the atmosphere causes global warming in the...

Reader reactions: Cecil Rhodes scholarship honors a racist

February 23, 2017

Readers react to a column concerning the Rhodes Scholarship, named after Cecil Rhodes, a colonizer of Africa and British imperialist. The columnist believes Rhodes should no longer be honored because he...

WSU President Kirk Schulz answers questions from students and audience members during a press conference on Aug. 22, 2016.

Graduate students need financial security

TYLER LAFERRIERE, Evergreen columnist February 22, 2017

WSU’s contract with its graduate students is broken. If President Schulz continues to be serious about the “Drive to 25” initiative, this relationship needs to be mended. The cracks in this...

Reader reactions: Fee would take place of ambulance rides for students

February 21, 2017

Readers react to Pullman Fire Chief Mike Heston proposing a $25 ambulance fee to undergraduate tuition to the Pullman City Council. Before the fee is passed, the City Council and students would have to...

A plaque describing the Rhodes scholarship hangs on the ground floor of the CUB near the library entrance.

Cecil Rhodes scholarship honors a racist

BASHEERA AGYEMAN, Evergreen columnist February 21, 2017

We have a long-standing history in America of celebrating people, symbols and artifacts that are representative of major injustices that have occurred in our country. All the way from Columbus Day...

Letter to the Editor: In support of the executive order

STEVE KING | Pullman February 16, 2017

I would like to respond to the many articles that support the protests against the Trump temporary immigration ban.First, the ban is half the length of the ban Obama implemented with his Executive Order....

Letter to the editor: Bat boxes are unnecessary in the Pacific Northwest

LEVI O'LOUGHLIN | Pullman February 16, 2017

Mosquitoes can be a serious nuisance when they bite, especially considering they can be vectors for various disease-causing pathogens. The Local Briefs article in the Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 edition of The...

President Kirk Schulz answers questions from audience members during a press conference on Aug. 22. 

‘Drive to 25’ needs a better map

TYLER LAFERIERRE, Evergreen columnist February 16, 2017

President Kirk Schulz officially announced the “Drive to 25” initiative in his annual State of the University address. As it stands, he has laid out a road trip without a GPS, let alone a map. The...

Reader Reactions: Citizens push for sanctuary city at council meeting

February 16, 2017

Students and Democrats in Pullman argued to make Pullman a sanctuary city and not to support President Trump’s executive order at a City Council meeting on Feb. 1. Keyla Palominos, an undocumented student,...

The news presented on social media is not always true. Readers need to evaluate stories carefully before believing the content.

Fake news undermines American democracy

GEANA JAVIER, Evergreen columnist February 15, 2017

It is no secret that we millennials spend a staggering amount of time on social media. Platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube allow people to publish their thoughts and daily activities for...

Political partisanship is becoming more polarizing in American society.

Party affiliation should not define people

HARRISON CONNER, Evergreen columnist February 15, 2017

The anti-free speech riots at UC Berkeley on Feb. 1 highlighted what is increasingly the omnipresent issue of our time: political partisanship. We now live in an age where we view the other political...

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