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State
gives millions for WSU construction
Pullman
campus will get new teaching labs and two new buildings.
By FORREST
HOLT, Evergreen news editor
January
23, 2018
The
Washington State Legislature approved just under $114 million for WSU
construction and renovation projects Friday.
The
Pullman campus will directly see about $76 million, with two new buildings and
renovations to add STEM teaching labs.
The Board
of Regents, WSU’s highest governing body, approved designs in November for an
add-on building to the Global Animal Health facility on the south side of
campus and a new plant sciences building on the east side.
The state
provided $1 million for the STEM teaching labs, $23 million for the animal
health building and $52 million for plant sciences.
The state
also approved $500,000 for the pre-design phase of a new life sciences building
on the Vancouver campus and $3 million to develop designs for a new academic
building on the Tri-Cities campus.
About
$32.4 million will be spent system-wide on preservation, maintenance and
repair.
WSU’s
funding was passed alongside $4 billion in other building projects around the
state, a quarter of which would go toward school construction.
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WSU
officially announces hire of Patrick Chun as its new athletic director
January
22, 2018
Patrick
Chun becomes the first Asian-American Athletic Director to lead a Power Five
program. Chun comes to WSU from Florida Atlantic, and will begin his tenure on
Feb. 5.
By
Stefanie Loh
Seattle
Times
Washington
State has hired Patrick Chun to be its new athletic director, the school
announced Monday in a news release.
Chun will
be WSU’s 14th athletic director, replacing Bill Moos, who left for Nebraska in
October. Chun, 43, becomes the first Asian-American athletic director to lead a
Power Five school. He will be introduced in a news conference at the Rankich
Club Room at Martin Stadium on Tuesday, at 11 a.m.
Chun will
begin his tenure as WSU athletic director on Feb. 5. He comes to WSU after five
and a half years as athletic director at Florida Atlantic. Prior to that, Chun
spent 15 years working his way up within the Ohio State athletic department,
culminating his career with the Buckeyes as their executive associate athletics
director.
“This is a
game-changing day for our athletics program,” WSU President Kirk Schulz said in
a news release. “We were focused on finding a leader with the right blend of
experience, vision, and passion to lead Cougar athletics to the next level of
success. In Pat, we’re confident we found that person. His achievements in
fundraising, boosting the academic success rate of student athletes, and
building strong relationships with the community—on- and off-campus—are
exemplary.”
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The
Cougars initially announced last week that they had concluded their search for
Moos’ successor, though they did not name the winning candidate. News
organizations, including The Seattle Times, confirmed through sources that Chun
was the hire, but his introductory news conference — originally scheduled for
last Wednesday — was postponed after news broke of WSU QB Tyler Hilinski’s
death.
Chun was,
however, already on the WSU campus at the time, and he was spotted at Beasley
Coliseum in the company of WSU President Kirk Schulz and his wife, Noel Schulz,
at WSU’s women’s basketball game against UW on Wednesday.
Chun takes
over as WSU athletic director at a critical time. WSU athletics is trying to
move forward from the shocking death of Hilinski, who took his own life last
Tuesday. Financially, the Cougars’ athletic department has closed out its last
four fiscal years in debt, and WSU is in the homestretch of its fundraising
campaign to revamp the baseball clubhouse. Schulz has also acknowledged the
importance of raising money to build an indoor practice facility, and Chun will
be expected to lead that charge.
Chun has
an established track record of fundraising success from his time at FAU and
Ohio State. He will move to Pullman with his wife, Natalie, and three daughters
– Vanna, Kennedy and Gretta.
“I am
honored to serve the Washington State University family and I want to thank
President Schulz and the search committee for entrusting me as the steward of
the Department of Athletics,” Chun said in a news release “The passion and pride of Cougar Nation is
renowned and revered across the country and I will work with our great coaches
and staff to impact the lives of our student-athletes and to build upon our
past successes to achieve new heights.
My family and I are looking forward to joining the WSU community and we
are excited to get started.”
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FROM
COUGFAN.com:
--WSU
football wide receiver signee Drug Jackson stood out in International Bowl. ARLINGTON,
Texas -- Come inside to take a look at highlights of WSU signee WR Drue Jackson
from International Bowl IX. Team USA faced Canada in Friday's International
Bowl IX -- a game that featured six Top247 recruits. The Stars and Stripes
dominated Canada and rolled to a 47-7 win.
Washington
State signee WR Drue Jackson, a 6-foot-1, 186-pounder from Sachse (Texas) had a
really good performance in the International Bowl, securing five receptions for
a Team USA leading 84 receiving yards. Jackson
checks in as the 84th best prospect in Texas, the No. 67 WR prospect nationally
and a three-star prospect per the industry-generated 247Sports Composite.
-- Football
recruiting: WSU
looking at graduate transfer QB?
Cougs also
making big push for 3-star defensive end, a high school coach tells Cougfan.com.
Sorry, story not available to News for CougGroup.
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From Coug
Center:
All season
tickets get modest price bump for 2018
Most seats
in the stadium got an increase of roughly six bucks per game.
By Michael
Preston Coug CenterJan 22, 2018
The 2018
Cougar football season is still more than eight months away but we already know
what a season’s worth of tickets will set you back. Though no formal
announcement was made by the school, for the second straight year, the price on
season tickets will be going up, though much more modestly this time.
Last
year’s change was very drastic, splitting up sections into more donation levels
and bumping the required donation by $250/seat for some people. This year’s
seating map looks exactly the same, the only difference being a $35/seat bump
for most folks and $45/seat more in the club level. My very back-of-the-napkin
math on the increase is about $5-$6.50 more per game for most season ticket
holders. The bump comes in the price of the seats themselves, not the donation
required to have season tickets. A much more modest increase than the sticker
shock some got last year and the tickets remain among college football’s
greatest bargains.
Some key
dates if you have tickets and are renewing:
The deadline to renew your tickets is March
30th
Select-a-seat gets underway on April 30th,
ends May 11th
If you
don’t have season tickets yet and would like to buy some, new season ticket
holders can purchase them starting May 21st.
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Destiny
Vaeao snaps WSU’s Super Bowl drought
By Mark
Sandritter Coug Center
Jan 22, 2018
The
Philadelphia Eagles are headed to the Super Bowl and that means Destiny Vaeao
will represent the Cougars in the big game.
Assuming
he plays in Super Bowl LII, Vaeao will become the first Cougar to play in a Super
Bowl since Jason David made an appearance for the Indianapolis Colts in 2007.
Vaeao recorded one tackle in the NFC Championship game.
In
addition to breaking the Super Bowl drought, Vaeao will become the first WSU
player recruited by Mike Leach to appear in the Super Bowl. There will be
another Leach recruit on the other side of the game with Danny Amendola playing
for the New England Patriots.
Although
Vaeao will potentially be the only Cougar to play in the game, he isn’t the
only Coug who would get a Super Bowl ring should the Eagles win. Wide receiver
Dom Williams spent the season on the Eagles’ Injured Reserve list. Wide
receiver Marquess Wilson also signed a futures contract with the Eagles
recently, as he tries to make the roster next season.
Best of
luck to Destiny in the Super Bowl.
