The US should lower the drinking age to 18
RUSSELL BEHRMANN | Evergreen columnist
November 19, 2015
A proposed ballot initiative in California that would lower the state’s minimum drinking age to 18 has been cleared to collect signatures and could be voted on by April 2016.The initiative, like most of its kind, will likely fail due to the provisions of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 198...
Recognize the importance of Veterans Day
PHILIP GROSSENBACHER | Evergreen columnist
November 10, 2015
As you make plans for your Wednesday off, it is important to take a moment and observe why this day is set apart.Veterans Day, Nov. 11, formerly known as Armistice Day, takes place every year as “a celebration to honor America’s veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve an...
Cross-generational integration
PHILIP GROSSENBACHER | Evergreen columnist
October 29, 2015
Amazing things happen when you put preschoolers inside a nursing home. Since the release of a video of preschoolers playing with elderly men and women in an “intergenerational learning center,” the idea has gone viral.As adorable as the video is, the topics addressed by filmmaker Evan Briggs are...
Kill or be Killed
Philip Grossenbacher | Evergreen columnist
September 24, 2015
Kill or be killed: that’s the reality for many families in villages in the African country of Botswana in the two years following the illegalization of trophy hunting.Animals such as lions and elephants have been allowed to run rampant, taking their toll on the livelihood of some of the poorest com...
Feminism of the hijab
Sophia Stephens | Evergreen columnist
September 23, 2015
The most hotly-contested piece of clothing in our modern society is not the thong, bikini, crop top or miniskirt – it is the hijab.In multiple European countries, there have been legal bans enacted against it, and intense debates have raged about its supposed purpose to oppress Muslim women, with some...
Waiting to say “I do”
Christina Theel| Evergreen Columnist
January 22, 2015
According to a Pew Research Center (PRC) study last year, the Millennial generation is waiting to say their “I do's” longer than previous generations.Only 26 percent of our generation is married. When they were the age that Millennials are now, 36 percent of Generation X, 48 percent of Baby Boome...
Tracking butterflies with convicts: A WSU research story
BY HALEY WATKINS | Evergreen reporter
September 19, 2014
Max security prisoners located at the Washington State Penitentiary are setting butterflies free this week.David James, Ph.D., is an entomologist at Washington State University, has inmates volunteering to participate in one of his studies.The inmates recently began releasing the butterflies in the or...
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