Ask Emma: What should I do about my apartment?
EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen columnist
August 24, 2020
Dear Emma, Hello! With all of the troubles going on with WSU announcing the move to online classes, I am struggling quite a bit with my apartment situation. Thinking ahead of time, I applied for an apartment early on and got it. However, now that I do not actually need to be there in person,...
Students connect medical history to today’s practice
MADYSEN MCLAIN, Evergreen roots editor
August 24, 2020
Thinh Tran grew up in a family centered around business, but he decided to go a different route. Tran, senior molecular biology major, saw his family practitioner when he was younger and realized that was the path he wanted to take. Now as a senior, Tran leads the History of Medicine Club, which ...
Letter to the Editor: Welcome to the Cougar family
CURTIS COHEN and SEAN DOSTER
August 17, 2020
Dear Class of 2024, We couldn’t be happier to welcome you into the Cougar family, even in the middle of challenging times. Coug alumni everywhere will tell you that once you’re a Coug, you will always be a Coug. This fact has not changed even as our beloved Pullman campus has moved online for...
‘Home to me means being with my sisters’
CHERYL AARNIO, Evergreen reporter
August 17, 2020
When Mailari Munoz gets a good grade and posts about it on Snapchat, she can expect her sorority sisters to swipe up and send her congratulatory messages. After transferring to WSU when she was 21, Munoz wanted to find her place in the university. When she joined Kappa Delta Chi Sorority Inc., Rho Ch...
OPINION: Stock up on gear for online classes
SARAH DANIELS, Evergreen columnist
August 17, 2020
Online education is not for everyone, nor is everyone adequately prepared for it. It’s a different beast, there’s a lot more accountability and — unsurprisingly — a lot more gear involved. I want to first say: you can do it. You made it to WSU this fall, whatever that looks like, so now you...
OPINION: Fall semester is what you decide to make it
SARAH DANIELS, Evergreen columnist
August 17, 2020
I am a senior this year at WSU, which means not only am I so close to graduating, but I’m so close to all of my collegiate experiences ending and my career beginning. So how do we, as students, navigate this? When things first went online, I was most worried about my career. I want to perform but...
Letter to freshmen: A completely new WSU experience
JAKOB THORINGTON, Guest columnist
August 17, 2020
Well, this is certainly a different Week of Welcome experience. Hi, I’m Jakob. I graduated last May, and I am a former Evergreen reporter. Like many of you, I graduated during the middle of our country’s shutdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. I know the disappointment of seeing all...
OPINION: Support your fellow Cougs
ADAM HUREAU, Evergreen columnist
August 17, 2020
Fall is almost here, and it will definitely be different than anything we’ve faced before. With the recent move to distance delivery for most classes, many students may be frustrated, anxious or upset. In these challenging times, we have to remember the importance of supporting those around us and...
OPINION: Students, staff are changing the future
MACKENNA ROWE, Evergreen columnist
August 17, 2020
COVID-19 has put a damper on the year. Though there are many downsides to the world's situation, there is one topic that is not often considered. Whether it’s wearing masks, social distancing or even avoiding the temptation to eat in a restaurant, almost every person is changing and affecting history...
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...
Group celebrates Mexican culture
ANNIE HAGER, Evergreen reporter
August 17, 2020
Michelle Cordova decided to lead Ballet Folklorico at WSU with one goal in mind: connecting people to their roots using dance. Ballet Folklorico is a new WSU club led by Cordova, sophomore landscape architecture major. She was born in Seattle and moved to Mexico when she was two years old. F...
OPINION: Satire: Frat parties mask up
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen opinion editor
August 17, 2020
Hard-bass European club riffs pound through the thin walls of Kappa Kappa Zeta, WSU’s up-and-coming frat house. The smell of spilled beer and cheap cologne is pervasive here, on a Saturday night in August, where WSU’s finest are gathering to celebrate the beginning of the fall semester, regardless...
After spending weeks as one of the nation’s hot spots for positive COVID-19 cases, Pullman and Whitman County may finally begin to see a slowdown of...
