WSU
employee to receive MLK award
Marcela
Pattinson keeps Latino students from falling through the cracks
By Taylor
Nadauld, Moscow Pullman Daily News 1/15/2018
Marcela
Pattinson's office on the fourth floor of the Compton Union Building is small,
but welcoming.
She fits
six chairs under her desks for people to come visit. Posters of past
UndocuQueer Conferences, which she co-founded, line her walls along with awards,
letters and photos of students past and present. She knows all of their names
and where each one is in their lives.
On Friday,
she pulled up a video on YouTube of her students talking about the Crimson
Group, also founded by Pattinson, which advocates for Washington State
University's undocumented students. Under her two computers and around her room
are different reminders: "Be Involved." "Be Smart."
"Be Positive." "Be Prayerful."
She
pointed to the screen as the video cut from one student to another. "She's
now at UW," she said of one student. "He just got engaged," she
said of another. "She's still undocumented."
WSU's
Crimson Group began in 2014 with just two students and Pattinson.
Today, the
group has nearly 160 members and last year received the Martin Luther King
Distinguished Service award from WSU.
Pattinson
is one of five individuals and organizations who will receive her own MLK
Distinguished Service award this Thursday for her work to help create a diverse
and engaging campus for students, faculty and staff.
As
assistant director of community relations and outreach in the Office of
Multicultural Student Services, Pattinson calls herself a connector of people;
a bridge.
"My
position is not high enough to sit down and make changes or help them,"
Pattinson said. "But my trick is that I know a lot of people, so I connect
them. So it's in other ways."
One of the
books on her shelf is a tattered binder labeled, "La Bienvenida."
It's an orientation program for incoming students and Spanish-speaking parents,
similar to Vandal Friday at the University of Idaho, Pattinson said.
Many of
the students are undocumented, first generation college students. The event is
meant to help parents feel safe as they let their children go on to university.
In that first year, Pattinson does all she can to connect with the students and
make them feel at home.
Maria
Yepez, 20, was one of those students. Now a junior with experience lobbying for
the DREAM Act before the Washington State Legislature, Maria said she can't see
herself without Pattinson.
Yepez
recalled making dozens of tamales with her friends in Pattinson's kitchen,
where Pattinson washed away at dishes from 5 in the afternoon to 11 at night.
At times
when life for undocumented students was especially hard, such as last year when
the status of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was up in the
air, Pattinson said her students' spirits and motivation grew higher. But it wasn't
without some sadness.
"Don't
take me wrong. We grieve. We grieve all together, we go and watch movies,
blankets, we cry, we pray," Pattinson said.
"Marcella's
house is the spot for that," Yepez added.
Pattinson
came to the U.S. from Colombia as an exchange student at Moscow High School in
1988, where she met her high school sweetheart, whom she later married and now
has two children with.
Before she
returned to the U.S., though, she came back to Colombia, where she ran a
psychology practice and radio program. She said she came back to the U.S. for
love, but didn't realize how hard it would be to start over professionally.
Though she is proud of her Colombian heritage and what she has accomplished
since, change was difficult in the beginning.
"It
was really hard to be a Latina, non-traditional student, English as a second
language, not knowing the system, not knowing the process," Pattinson
said.
She
started at the UI as a payroll clerk, eventually moving on to work at the
university's Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities for nine
years. In that time, she earned another master's degree and a teaching
certificate in Spanish and psychology.
When she
came to WSU, she decided she was going to practice her psychology in a
different way by building programs for students and families to create an
easier process for them than what she had. She said WSU has provided her the
tools for her biggest accomplishments and allowed her to be herself.
"My
life was very good in Colombia," Pattinson said. "But WSU has given
me the opportunity to grow as a person and as a professional. It gave me a
sense of belonging. Here are more people like me. And that's personally. But
then it gave me the opportunity to build programs that help students."
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WSU MLK
2018 CELEBRATION
Source for
listings below go to this URL link.
https://mlk.wsu.edu/events-mlk-2018/
Source
provides more details
==CCE
Public Square Forum
Date: Jan
16 2018 3-4pm
Location:
Butch's Den Topic: A New Era of Social Activism
Social
activism, an important and essential aspect of democracy, has always been a
part of the history of the United States of America. Join us at the Public
Square to learn from a diverse panel of faculty and students about their
personal experiences with activism and how it may (or may not) be changing
through the generations.
Panelist
members include Dr. David Leonard, Professor in the Department of Critical
Culture, Gender, & Race Studies, Jeff Guillory, Interim Executive Director
of the Office of Equity and Diversity, and undergraduate student Brenda
Rodriguez.
==Foley
Institute Coffee & Politics Series
Date: Jan
18 2018 3-4pm
Location:
Bryan Hall 308
Read More
about Foley Institute Coffee & Politics Series
==MLK 2018
Community Celebration
Date: Jan
18 2018 7-8pm
Location:
CUB Senior Ballroom
Since
1986, the first year of the Martin Luther King holiday, Washington State
University has held an annual program to mark Dr. King’s birthday. Our Community Celebrations consist of an Arts
Showcase, Distinguished Service Award Winners and a keynote speech. In the past, WSU has had the tremendous
opportunity to bring in speakers such as Martin Luther King III, Arun Gandhi,
Benjamin Hooks, Morris Dees, Yolanda King, Cornel West, Diane Nash, Michael
Eric Dyson, and Angela Davis. In 2018,
WSU will host its 31st Community Celebration.
Read More
about MLK 2018 Community Celebration
==Game
Night
Date: Jan
19 2018 5-7 pm
Location:
Butch's Den
Join the
Black Student Union at 5 pm Friday, Jan 19th for game night in Butch's
Den. Family Feud is the game of choice
and you will have fun guessing popular responses to survey questions.
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WSU Cougar
women’s basketball
Cougs
can't seal deal at Cal
BERKELEY,
Calif. - The Washington State women's basketball team put a scare into No. 24
California on Sunday before bowing 66-60 in a Pac-12 game.
The
Cougars led by a point with two minutes left before Cal went on a 7-0 flurry.
Borislava
Hristova poured in 25 points for the Cougars (8-10, 1-5) while Kristine Anigwe
piled up 30 points and 17 rebounds for the Bears (13-4, 4-2).
Down two
with 28 seconds to play, the Cougs crossed wires in a noisy environment and
committed a turnover. The Bears then sewed up the win at the foul line.
Louise
Brown scored 10 points for the Cougars and matched teammate Nike McClure's
seven rebounds. McClure also had five assists.
Anigwe
tied the game at 60 with a free throw with 1:40 remaining and gave the Bears
the lead on a jumper with 28 seconds left. Asha Thomas was fouled after a steal
and added two free throws with 13 seconds left and two more with six seconds
remaining. The Cougars didn't score again after Nike McClure's putback of her
missed free throw with 2:03 to go.
Cal picked
up its third straight conference win, the program's longest Pac-12 winning
streak in the last three seasons.
Neither
team led by six points in a game with 16 lead changes and 12 ties.
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CHEER AND
DANCE
Cougs 6th
at Nationals
Lewiston Trib
BUENA
VISTA, Fla. - The Washington State cheer squad placed sixth and the Crimson
Girls finished eighth at the Universal Cheerleaders Association and Universal
Dancers Association national tournament Sunday.
Both
placings are all-times bests for WSU.
Kentucky
won its 23rd cheer championship and third straight. Ohio State won the dance
category.
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WSU Cougar
men’s basketball
Robert Franks
catches fire from 3-point range, sets new school record
By Josh
Grissom, Moscow Pullman Daily News
With a
22-point lead and less than a minute to play, most spectators would be
surprised to see a college basketball squad continue to chuck up shots from
3-point range, but that’s exactly what Washington State did Saturday afternoon.
When
Robert Franks’ off-balance trey from the right wing found the bottom of the net
with 43 seconds left to play, the home crowd of 3,178 at Beasley Coliseum broke
into frenzy.
The basket
might have seemed overkill during a 78-53 Pac-12 win against visiting
California, but the shot set an individual program record for the most 3-pointers
made in a single game.
“My
emotions were high,” Franks said after the victory. “I give a lot of praise to
my teammates, they saw I was hot and they kept feeding me. They wanted me to
shoot it and it felt even better just seeing them wanting me to break the
record.”
Franks
finished with 10 treys and 34 points to lead the Cougars (9-8 overall, 1-4
Pac-12) to their first conference win of the season and snap a three-game
losing skid in the process. And perhaps in fitting fashion, Franks drained his
ninth bomb in front of assistant coach Bennie Seltzer, who was one of four
former Washington State players to reach the previous mark of nine 3-pointers.
“Somebody
told me that Bennie was one of the people (with the record), so I wanted to
make it and just have some fun with it,” Franks said. “He congratulated me
after.”
Although
the final score may not have reflected it, Washington State initially struggled
with the same ball security issues which plagued the squad in home losses to
Stanford and Washington. The Cougars seemed doomed to repeat their mistakes
with 10 turnovers in a sloppy first-half effort, but the team found its
offensive rhythm to shoot 72 percent from the field in the second period.
“The
coaches just told us to settle down and play with poise, and that’s what I
think we did,” senior forward Drick Bernstine said.
“We did a
really good job of that tonight. Toward the end we might have had a couple of
silly turnovers ... but the key thing is just to take care of the ball.”
California
(7-11 overall, 1-4 Pac-12) won the rebounding battle by a 40-29 margin, but a
tag-team defensive effort by Viont’e Daniels and Malachi Flynn held standout
guard Don Coleman to 10 points on the afternoon.
“We knew
he gets a lot of shots up,” Flynn said. “I’m sure V had him (covered) about 85
percent of the game, so that’s a lot of credit to him. He always steps up and
takes a challenge and guards the best player on the other team.”
Washington
State continues Pac-12 play with a tough three-game road stretch, beginning
with Thursday’s 5 p.m. PST contest at Colorado. The Cougars follow it up with
another challenging matchup against Utah on Jan. 21.
“We know
it’s a must-win for both games, so we’re coming in with the attitude that we
need to win,” Flynn said. “They’re both good teams, so we know we’re going to
have to play up and we’re going to have to bring the energy.”
WELCOMING
A NEW COUG — Noticeably absent from Saturday’s contest was basketball
operations coordinator Tim Marrion, who was at the hospital with his wife
following the birth of their first child — a healthy daughter.
“Guys were
pretty stoked and pretty excited about that all day long,” head coach Ernie
Kent said. “We knew they were going in this morning, so it was a special day
for them and just a special day for us as well.”
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Cougar
football time machine. A story from 2003 about WSU Cougar football in 2003 and
in previous year.
STORY
BELOW IS FROM 2003
Thursday,
August 28, 2003
WSU
Football
10 years
later, Pattinson sees repeat of his Cougars career
By Bud
Withers
Seattle Times
college football reporter
Story ran
Aug. 28, 2003
MOSCOW,
Idaho — In the Palouse, Washington State alumni wonder how Bill Doba will do.
They speculate on the prospects of Matt Kegel, now the starting quarterback for
the Cougars.
At some
point, maybe at Notre Dame on Sept. 6, the Cougars will struggle, and they will
lose, and the coach will look bad. Maybe the quarterback, too.
On those
days, at least one graduate doesn't want to hear the carping. So he and his dad
stand high above a reserved-seat section at Martin Stadium, there to distance
themselves from any overwrought dissent.
"Cougar
fans are fantastic," said Mike Pattinson, seated in his law office east of
Moscow, "but at the same time, quite a bit of criticism floats around. You
can only imagine the things they said about you."
If this is
Matt Kegel's season of reckoning, it's also a year of heightened interest for
Pattinson, who is seeing his own story replayed in 2003. It has been 10 years
since a WSU quarterback persevered through four fallow years, finally to see
himself at the top of the depth chart. That was Pattison, from 1989-93, and now
it's Kegel.
Fifth-year,
first-time starters are almost a bygone commodity. Quarterbacks now come into a
program expecting to play early. Or somebody ahead of them gets hurt, and they
play early anyway. Or the program recruits somebody better underneath them. Or
they jump ship and look for that perfect place, often futilely.
"In
this day and age, most backup quarterbacks are seeing some time," said
Pattinson. "Whether it be the NFL or college, with the size, speed and
physicality of players, the old days of a quarterback lasting a full season are
pretty rare."
Kegel's
curse, and WSU's fortune, was that Jason Gesser usually could play through
pain, even injury. Pattinson's problem was Drew Bledsoe, the No. 1 pick in the
1993 NFL draft.
These
days, Pattinson catches himself wondering what Kegel might be thinking as the
opener with Idaho approaches, how he might be coping.
Looking
back, Pattinson says it was the magnitude of it all that caught him short. His
word: The "consequences."
"There's
really nothing like getting up in the morning after you've prepared all week,
and you know it's game day," he said.
"The
whole team, the whole university, the coaching staff is relying on you to go
out there and perform, and when you don't perform there's consequences. That's
a big transition."
Much as
Pattinson had to face an opener at Michigan, Kegel is looking down the barrel
of one of WSU's most rugged schedules in years. At least the opener, Saturday
against Idaho at Seahawks Stadium, is more tenable.
By now, at
least, there isn't a lot Kegel shouldn't know. There shouldn't be much that
will surprise him. He has had four years of video viewing, meetings and
eyeballing others from the sideline.
Whether he
can process it and react effectively is a different issue.
"You
watch as much film as you possibly can," Pattinson says, "but when
you're out there with people gunning for you, breathing down your neck and
you're trying to control everybody else, keep them calm, it's tough to
do."
Pattinson
grew up in Moscow, a favorite of both Dennis Erickson and Keith Gilbertson,
head coaches at Idaho. Both wanted him to play for them, and Erickson signed
Pattinson for his last class at WSU in 1989.
A month
later, Erickson was out the door to Miami, and in came a new coach. Pattinson
had seen him on the sideline once when Weber State won a game to get into the
Div. I-AA playoffs.
"Crazy
Mike Price," Pattinson says. "I remember him running up and down the
sidelines and thought, 'What a wacko.' Just yelling and having all kinds of
fun. The unanimous thought was, the guy was a goofball."
One of the
defining acts of Price's tenure came within a year, when he successfully
recruited Bledsoe out of Walla Walla. Bledsoe was not only good, he was
durable, and he started through 1992, when Pattinson had a mere year left.
Pattinson
is an attorney now, but he wasn't a clubhouse lawyer then. He kept his mouth
shut, ever the good soldier.
"Drew's
a good person," Pattinson says. "He made it a lot more tolerable than
it could have been. I wasn't going to gain anything by going out and
publicizing my position."
After the
shock of a 41-14 loss at Michigan subsided, Pattinson began showing the skills
Erickson and Gilbertson saw. He threw for 400 yards in a victory against
Arizona State, still the No. 7 mark on WSU's list of best passing days.
Then, just
as he found a groove and WSU was 5-2, he had his collarbone shattered against
California. Without him, WSU lost its last four. But he had realized the dream
of becoming a starter and knowing the rush of urgent Saturdays.
Pattinson
had a brief fling in the Arena Football League, turned down a chance to compete
for a job in the Canadian Football League and headed to law school at Idaho.
If there
is a difference in the Pattinson-Kegel reprise, it's that Kegel has seen more
extensive action as a backup, having played in 25 games and started two. Still,
there's the reality that, as Pattinson says, "If you lose, wow, it's on
you."
Asked how
he might advise Kegel, Pattinson says, laughing, "Don't accept advice from
me." He adds, "Just enjoy it. I think he's going to be fine."
From high
school into his first two years at WSU, Pattinson carried on a long-distance
relationship with a foreign-exchange student from Colombia. They broke it off
in 1991. Eight years later, he got a call from Marcela, working in Miami, and
they struck it up again. Now they're married with two toddlers.
In all
matters, then, Pattinson persevered. Matt Kegel should hope to be so fulfilled.
STORY ABOVE
IS FROM 2003
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