Services and Activities fee reduced by $25
EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen reporter
October 26, 2020
Services and Activities Fee Committee members decided to reduce the S&A fee from $279 to $254 for spring 2021. The committee met Oct. 20 and 22 to deliberate on student feedback regarding the fees. Students who responded to a request for feedback said they did not want to pay for recreation or...
Services and Activities fee committee to decide allocation reductions, receive student feedback
JAYCE CARRAL and EMMA LEDBETTER
October 20, 2020
Services and Activities Fee Committee members will decide if on-campus groups will receive a reduction in their allocations for the 2020-2021 fiscal year because of overall budget cuts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. ASWSU and GPSA are collecting student comments about S&A fees on social media. These comments ...
Flu shots available to Pullman community
MICHELLE PAREDES STRONG, Evergreen reporter
September 30, 2020
WSU Cougar Health Services and Pullman Regional Hospital are offering flu shots to the community to minimize the chances of spreading another respiratory illness like the flu during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students can get flu shots from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Friday until Nov. 6 at the Elson S. ...
OPINION: Coronavirus pandemic is affecting mental health
MACKENNA ROWE, Evergreen columnist
September 24, 2020
As of June, around 40.9 percent of people in the U.S. are reporting at least one mental or behavioral health condition since the start of the pandemic. Scientists and researchers are working tirelessly to figure out how all sides of this pandemic have effects on citizens and their mental health. ...
WSU officials emphasize importance of being tested in COVID-19 town hall
SYDNEY BROWN, Evergreen reporter
September 11, 2020
WSU established a portal for students to report on events and activities that do not follow COVID-19 guidelines, according to administrative officials during the virtual town hall on Thursday evening. Jill Creighton, WSU dean of students and associate vice president of student affairs, said WSU...
Local clinics offer telemedicine to patients
ANDREA GONZALEZ, Evergreen reporter
May 1, 2020
Palouse River Counseling, Pullman Regional Hospital and WSU’s Cougar Health Services offer telemedicine services due to COVID-19. Megan Guido, Pullman Regional Hospital chief marketing and community relations officer, said telemedicine is utilized through video or telephone where patients can...
CAPS psychologists offer telemental health services for students
ANGELICA RELENTE, Evergreen reporter
May 1, 2020
The Counseling and Psychological Services under Cougar Health Services is offering telemental, or remote, health resources to WSU students who are still in Washington state. Loren Brown, associate director at Counseling and Psychological Services, said CAPS can help those who are currently out of state to c...
S&A fee committee expects decrease in revenue
EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen reporter
April 13, 2020
Services and Activities Fee Committee members decided during a 10-hour meeting April 3 to make budget cuts that would allow the S&A fee to stay at $558 for the 2020-2021 school year. Quinton Berkompas, ASWSU president and S&A committee chair, said the committee members did not feel comf...
WSU campus transition to online classes following spring break
EMMA LEDBETTER and JAYCE CARRAL
March 11, 2020
All five campuses on the WSU system will be transitioning face-to-face classes to online following spring break because of the COVID-19 outbreak, according to an announcement on the WSU COVID-19 website. Phil Weiler, vice president for university marketing and communications, said universit...
COVID-19 TOWN HALL
EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen reporter
March 11, 2020
WSU administrators held a town hall meeting to address the possibility of transitioning to online classes and ways to address race-based harassment stemming from COVID-19 on Tuesday. Bonnie de Vries, medical director of Health and Wellness Services, said there have been no confirmed cases of COVID-19...
When the Cougars take the field on Nov. 7 against Oregon State University, it will finally mark the end of the longest offseason in recent memory. It would...
