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The student voice of Washington State University since 1895

The Daily Evergreen

The student voice of Washington State University since 1895

The Daily Evergreen

From left to right, Graham Dechter, Katie Thiroux, Dave Hagelganz, Kevin Kanner, Vern Sielert and Josh Nelson (not pictured) perform Wednesday night at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival.

Expand your horizons: attend this weekend’s jazz festival

Band concerts — something you probably thought stopped happening after you graduated from high school.What you may be surprised to find out is that one of the country’s largest collegiate jazz festivals...

Textbooks at the University of Texas at Dallas bookstore in Irving, Texas, August 10, 2006. Research shows textbook prices have increased at four times the rate of inflation since 1994, with no end in sight.

Breaking down the ethics of faculty-authored textbooks

BY EMRY DINMAN | Evergreen columnist February 25, 2016

Recently, some amount of attention has turned to the ethics of faculty promoting the sale of anything which they directly benefit from, namely textbooks or required reading which they authored.Though the...

Upcoming police bias talk is step in the right direction

On Monday, WSU will host a public discussion about how racial bias, fatigue and distracted driving factor into police misconduct.Police brutality has become one of the major problems facing American society...

The US needs common-sense gun control

Why should it be harder to crack an iPhone than to shoot a gun? Last time I checked, my iPhone doesn’t take bullets of any caliber.With all the media coverage last week surrounding iPhone security and...

Students fill Glenn Terrell Mall in August 2011. The mall serves as WSUs free speech zone.

Free speech on college campuses

In the United States, every citizen enjoys the right to free speech. Many may be surprised to learn, however, that this does not necessarily extend to student publications such as high school and college...

We’re not all Africans, and we’re not all mixed-race

There’s no beating around the bush - last week was a real doozy for whitesplaining.First, we had Meryl Streep’s, “we're all from Africa… we’re all Africans, really,” last Thursday at the Berlin...

Why the world should shrug off Atlas

Why the world should shrug off Atlas

BY EMRY DINMAN | Evergreen columnist February 17, 2016

As the current presidential cycle reaches a fever pitch, each party in an existential struggle to choose either an establishment or outsider figurehead, the philosophies which drive each candidate’s...

Guest editorial: Students play big role in higher ed policy

In 2015, thanks to effective advocacy by students across Washington, the Legislature acted to reduce college tuition at our state colleges and universities. Last session was truly historic, but there’s...

Hundreds gather on Feb. 14, 2014, in Montreal to support justice for missing and murdered indigenous women. The protest has become an annual tradition across Canada.

The sisters we lost

Hundreds gather on Feb. 14, 2014, in Montreal to support justice for missing and murdered indigenous women. The protest has become an annual tradition across Canada.

Gloria Steinem is interviewed by The Jewish Channel at a luncheon in March 2012.

Real talk, Gloria Steinem: That was no apology

On Friday, known feminist Gloria Steinem was on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”when she made the following comment on the issue of young women supporting Bernie Sanders: “They’re going to get...

Public school or public dump? The sad state of Detroit’s school system

Mold on the ceiling, rodents in the bathroom, nonfunctioning toilets; these are things that would much better describe an abandoned motel than a public school in the U.S.These conditions, however, are...

Refugees from Kobanî, Syria, flee to Turkey to escape IS attacks in September 2014.  Nearly 2.5 million Syrian refugees have already fled to Turkey.

European refugee crisis escalates to new heights

The European Union’s (EU) foreign policy chief urged Turkey to open borders to thousands of incoming refugees at the Turkey-Greece border on Sunday.As if the situation could not get more out of hand,...

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