WSU commencement
schedules announced for Spring 2018
April 30, 2018 from
WSU Insider
PULLMAN, Wash. – An
expected 2,959 students will participate in Washington State University Pullman
commencement ceremonies at 8 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday, May 5, in
Beasley Coliseum.
WSU President Kirk
Schulz will confer degrees at all three ceremonies, which are free to the
public; tickets are not required. Ceremonies will be video streamed for live
viewing online at http://experience.wsu.edu. The videostream will be archived
for viewing afterward at the same Web address.
Find more
information about commencement parking, schedules and accommodations at
http://commencement.wsu.edu/spring/schedule/.
Follow commencement
updates on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/WSUPullman,
https://www.facebook.com/WSUCommencement and Twitter at
https://twitter.com/WSUPullman using the hashtag #CougGrad.
Other WSU
graduation ceremonies will include:
College of Pharmacy:
1 p.m. Thursday, May 3, Martin Woldson Theater at the FOX, Spokane, Wash. See https://pharmacy.wsu.edu/commencement/
WSU Spokane: 2 p.m.
Friday, May 4, Spokane Convention Center, Ballroom 100. See https://spokane.wsu.edu/studentaffairs/commencement.
WSU Tri-Cities: 1
p.m. Saturday, May 5, Toyota Center, Kennewick, Wash. See https://tricities.wsu.edu/commencement.
WSU Vancouver: 1
p.m. Saturday, May 5, Sunlight Supply Amphitheater, Ridgefield, Wash. See
https://studentaffairs.vancouver.wsu.edu/registrars-office/commencement
WSU Everett: 2 p.m.
Saturday, May 12, in the Everett Community College Walt Price Fitness Center.
See https://everett.wsu.edu/commencement
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What a time it was
April 30, 2018 WSU
Insider
Alumni attending
Diamond and Golden reunions are invited contribute oral histories of their time
at WSU.
By Rebecca
Phillips, Washington State Magazine
This article originally
was published in the Spring 2018 issue of Washington State Magazine:
https://magazine.wsu.edu/2018/02/02/what-a-time-it-was/
One by one, they
share memories of curfews, 42-cent dinner dates at the CUB, the JFK
assassination, and the birth of women’s lib. A few regale listeners with the
infamous tale of the 1964 “Pot Push,” which had nothing to do with cannabis.
These are just a
sample of the treats recorded at the recent Diamond and Golden Grads digital
storytelling workshops, led by Washington State University English instructor
and former assistant director of the Digital Technology and Culture program
Rebecca Goodrich.
The workshops, held
at the Lewis Alumni Centre during the Diamond and Golden reunions, are
available to visiting 50- and 60-year graduates who would like to contribute
oral histories of their time at WSU. The stories will eventually be archived by
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections in the Terrell Library.
Goodrich matches
alumni with students who conduct the interviews. She says the project is a
win-win-win.
“The grads really
enjoyed it and some brought newspaper clippings to share with the students. The
old yearbooks were out and it was a great social event.
“It was wonderful
for the students too,” she says. “They were so interested in what the alumni
were telling them. They asked great questions and later I heard them telling
each other about the stories they heard. It was the perfect activity to get
generations talking.”
Jonathan Wallis, a
senior in neuroscience, took part in last April’s workshop and says he would
gladly do it again.
“I heard stories I
wouldn’t have known about, like the football stadium bleachers being burned
down by an arsonist.”
Wallis says it also
made him appreciate the aspect of time and how the alumni had contributed to
society in many important ways, which all began at WSU.
“There was a civil
engineer who worked many years in the field and had fond memories of a
particular professor,” he says. Fifty years later, “he was still grateful to
that professor—it was eye opening.”
This article
originally was published in the Spring 2018 issue of Washington State Magazine:
https://magazine.wsu.edu/2018/02/02/what-a-time-it-was/
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WSU tuition likely
increasing 2% this Fall
April 30, 2018
Pullman Radio News
Tuition at
Washington State University is expected to increase this Fall. State legislation allows for a 2% hike in WSU
tuition for the next academic year. That
will raise undergraduate in-state tuition by nearly 200 dollars next year to
just over 9,700 dollars. WSU tuition was
raised 2.2% for the current academic year as required by state law. The WSU
Regents will consider raising tuition during their meeting Friday morning in
Spokane.
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BASEBALL: Cougars
Split Doubleheader at UW, Drop Series
From WSU Sports
Info
SEATTLE –
Washington State split its doubleheader with Washington, claiming a 4-1 win in
game one before dropping a 6-5 decision after UW scored four runs in the ninth
at Husky Ballpark Sunday afternoon.
Washington State
dropped to 14-23 overall and 6-12 in Pac-12 play while Washington improved to
20-19 overall and 11-7 in league play. Blake Clanton homered in both games to
push his season total to five while Justin Harrer homered in the homer, No. 10
of his season. The Cougars had won the previous three series against
Washington.
GAME 1 RECAP
Cougar starting
pitcher Scotty Sunitsch dominated the opener, allowing just one run on four
hits in 7.1 innings while striking out eight to earn his fifth win of the year.
WSU received a two-run homer from Blake Clanton, a solo shot from Justin Harrer
and an RBI-double from Dillon Plew who finished with two hits.
In the third, both
teams traded runs as the Cougars received a two-out RBI-double into left
centerfield from Dillon Plew that scored Mason De La Cruz. UW answered with a
two-out RBI-single to left field in the bottom of the inning.
WSU used the long
ball to build a three-run lead in the middle innings as Clanton hit an
opposite-field two-run homer to left-centerfield in the fourth and Harrer added
an opposite-field solo home run to right field in the sixth for a 4-1
advantage.
In the eighth, the
Huskies used a hit-by-pitch and a single to put runners on the corners with one
out. WSU called upon Walker who got a popout to De La Cruz at second for the
second out, hit the next batter to load the bases but end the threat by
striking out the UW cleanup hitter.
Walker worked a
scoreless ninth to notch his fifth save of the season and No. 11 of his career,
tied for seventh-most in WSU history.
INSIDE THE GAME 1
BOX SCORE
Dillon Plew doubled
in the third inning to extend his on-base streak to 11 games
Plew recorded his
7th multiple-hit game in 17 Pac-12 games
Starter Scotty
Sunitsch made his 81st career appearance, 3rd in WSU history
Reliever Ryan
Walker made his 79th career appearance, 4th in WSU history
Justin Harrer hit
his 10th home run of the season, the most since Taylor Ard hit 12 in 2012
GAME 2 RECAP
Washington rallied
with a run in the eighth and four in the ninth inning, scoring the winning run
on a game-ending wild pitch to take game two 6-5. Cougar starting pitcher
Parker McFadden dominated, striking out a career-high nine and allowed one run
on two hits in 5.1 innings.
In the third
inning, the Cougars used a two-out single and a UW error to push two runs
across. James Rudkin led off the inning with a single to centerfield and Mason
De La Cruz reached on a UW error after putting down a sacrifice bunt. With
runners on first and second with two outs, Harrer lined a single back up the
middle to score Rudkin and De La Cruz came come on the same play after a UW
throwing error hit De La Cruz as he slid into third base. De La Cruz scrambled
to his feet and raced home for a 2-0 lead.
McFadden dominated
through the first five innings. The junior righthander struck out the side in
the fifth inning before the UW leadoff man started the sixth with a bunt single
to first base.
In the seventh,
Plew led off with a single to centerfield and one batter later Justin Harrer was
intentionally walked before Clanton launched an 0-2 pitch the other way over
the left field fence for a three-run homer and a 5-1 lead.
In the eighth, the
Huskies used a two-out walk followed by a double that was misplayed in
left-center and allowed a run to score. Walker entered the game with two outs
and runner on second and induced an inning-ending ground out to Plew at third
base, preserving a 5-2 lead.
In the ninth, UW
started the inning with a walk and a two-run homer to cut the Cougar lead to
one. The next batter was hit by a pitch and he was bunted to second. Following
a Cougar pitching change, UW tied the game with a single to right field and the
hitter moved to second a WSU fielding error. A UW infield single deep in the
hole to shortstop put runners on the corners and following a pitching change,
the second pitch of the at-bat was a wild pitch and the UW baserunner raced home
for the game-winner.
INSIDE THE GAME 2
BOX SCORE
Justin Harrer
recorded his team-best 23rd RBI of the season
McFadden matched a
team-high with 9 strikeouts, Scotty Sunitsch struck out 9 in no-hitter at
Oregon
Dillon Plew singled
in the 7th inning to extend his on-base streak to 12 games
Ryan Walker made
career appearance No. 80, 4th in WSU history
COMING UP
The Cougars return
to Pullman to host a weekend series with No. 5 Oregon State beginning Friday at
5 p.m.
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=From Lewiston
Morning Tribune - June 8, 1967
WSU Baseball
Coach Will Go
To Australia
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP)
– Washington State University baseball Coach Chuck Brayton has been selected by
the Australian Baseball Council to conduct a series of clinics in that country
between October 1 and January 1.
The council,
headquartered in Melbourne, has arranged for Brayton to go to Perth, West
Australia, for the Australian baseball championships for coaching clinics:
Melbourne; Hobart; Tasmania; Sydney; Brisbane and Adelaide.
Brayton was
recommended to the foreign assignment by W. P. Fehring, Stanford University,
president of the American College Baseball Coaches Assn.
=From Seattle Times
- June 9, 1967:
Brayton Will Teach
Baseball To Aussies
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP)
-- Chuck Brayton, Washington State University's baseball coach, has been
selected by the Australian Baseball Council to go to Australia October 1 to
conduct a series of clinics throughout the country.
Brayton will remain
in Australia until January. He will be on leave from his teaching and coaching
duties at W.S.U.
=From Lewiston,
Idaho, Morning Tribune - March 23, 1968
Brayton Will Speak
At Banana Belt
Banquet
Washington State
University Baseball Coach Chuck Brayton will talk about his four-month trip to
Australia at the Banana Belt baseball tournament banquet at the Hotel
Lewis-Clark.
The no-host affair
begins with a social hour at 6:30 and is open to the public.
Brayton visited
Australia in late 1967 and early 1968 to give a series of clinics under the
sponsorship of the American Assn. of College Baseball Coaches.
=From Sydney,
Australia (New South Wales), Morning Herald – April 28, 1969
A sports column
headlined, “Baseball faces dilemma,” includes “Australia is the only country
where baseball is not played as a summer sport.” It also includes, “Noted
American coach Chuck Brayton last year recommended summer play.”
=From Sports Illustrated, April 18,
1988
-Baseball is not a newcomer to Australia;
it has been played in the Land Down Under for 120 years. But, quite suddenly,
American major league teams are regarding Aussie baseball as more than a
curiosity."
-Until the late '60s, the only Americans
who played for the clubs were those who happened to work in Australia. But then
an avid Perth baseball player named Kevin Parry—the multimillionaire whose boat
Kookaburra III defended the America's Cup in '87—decided to start importing
some Yanks. Parry, who had gotten his idea after meeting Washington State coach
Chuck Brayton at a baseball clinic in Perth, asked Brayton to put out the word
that he was searching for American players.
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Obituary:
WSU Performing Arts, age 7, Pullman
Posted By:
Jennifer K Bauer, inland360.com
Posted
date: April 25, 2018
Obituary:
WSU Performing Arts, age 7, Pullman
The
performing arts died April 19, 2018 at Washington State University, suffocated
by a $30 million budget deficit and impassive administrators.
Only 7
years old, WSU Performing Arts was the brainchild of the late President Elson
S. Floyd, who created the program to ensure dramatic arts would remain part of
campus life in rural eastern Washington after the university closed its theater
department. Four employees under its umbrella worked with student-run theater groups,
brought diverse performers from around the world to campus, and managed WSU’s
stages in Daggy Hall: the 400-seat Jones Theatre and the black box Wadleigh
Theatre.
WSU
Performing Arts did not go gently into the good night.
Last fall
WSU announced it was killing the program because it wasn’t financially viable
and was a drain on university reserves. Director of WSU Performing Arts Gail
Siegel told the press the program was actually self-sustaining, except for
salaries and benefits, which they were never told they had to pay for.
WSU’s
decision sent shockwaves to the West Coast. Seattle’s alternative weekly
newspaper the Stranger screamed across the state with a story headlined, “Fuck
Washington State University For Choosing Football Over Academics.” The article
pointed out that the program’s $1.6 million cost spread over seven years was
nothing compared to WSU’s investment in football, which made head coach Mike
Leach the highest paid state employee in Washington with an annual salary of
$3,016,700, not to mention a new $61 million building with a cafeteria staffed
with two full-time chefs and a mini-barbershop in the locker room.
More than
13,000 people visited the theaters through rental events and season shows in
the 2016-17 school year. “The Triplets of Belleville Cine-Concert,” was the
final show offered by WSU Performing Arts. The last performance was April 19 in
Jones Theatre. It sold out.
The
program’s demise leaves WSU in an odd position as a major land-grant
institution with no academically supported theater programs at all.
“It’s so
strange to everyone,” said Mary Trotter, an associate clinical professor whose
job was eliminated. “I’ve not yet been given any explanation or heard anything
that helps it make sense. … Mostly they don’t respond to anyone,” she said of
administrators.
As far as
she and the other outgoing staff and faculty know, the stages are going dark.
“What
we’ve been told is that both Jones and Wadleigh will be shut and they will
remain intact, which means they won’t be dismantled, until a future use can be
determined; which means that, clearly, a future use was never thought about,”
she said.
WSU
Performing Arts leaves behind the student theater groups STAGE and the improv
comedy troupe Nuthouse, who will no longer have professional theater advisers
nor the use of the university’s stages. It also leaves behind numerous campus
and community groups who used the stages.
In the
great hereafter, WSU Performing Arts is reunited with other publicly funded
theater programs done in by budget cuts: Washington State University Summer
Palace (2002), the Lewis-Clark State College Theater Arts Program (2003), the
Washington State University Department of Theatre and Dance (2011) and the
University of Idaho Repertory Theatre (2016).
People are
welcome to pay their final respects at the free “A Farewell to WSU Performing
Arts at Daggy Hall” concert taking place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Jones
Theatre. “Inland Folk” radio host Dan Maher and other performers will play and Birch & Barley will provide hors
d’oeuvres and a cash beer and wine bar.
Trotter
has accepted a position as a theater professor in Missouri. In lieu of flowers
or cards she asked that “people stay aware of what’s happening in Daggy Hall”
after she’s gone.
IF YOU GO
WHAT: “A Farewell to WSU Performing Arts at Daggy
Hall” concert with Dan Maher
WHEN: 7:30
p.m. Saturday, April 28
WHERE:
Jones Theatre, Daggy Hall, Washington State University, Pullman
COST: Free
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(The
Associated Press college football story below includes mention of Washington
State University and the spring football game in Spokane.)
Homebound:
Most teams stay local for spring practices
Posted:
April 28, 2018 1:56 a.m.
By STEVE
MEGARGEE
AP Sports
Writer
Teams that
hold spring practice sessions out of town each year believe it prepares their
players for road games while providing a chance to connect with fans and
attract recruits.
Yet, the
vast majority of programs still choose to hold spring workouts on campus.
Of the 86
Football Bowl Subdivision programs that responded to an Associated Press
survey, only seven had spring practice sessions out of town and away from its
home stadium this year: Arkansas, Florida Atlantic, Memphis, Oregon, Oregon
State, Texas Tech and Washington State. There are 129 FBS programs, to the AP
heard from 67 percent of them.
Memphis
said it spent $18,000 to conduct a practice in Brentwood, a Nashville suburb
about a 3 1/2-hour drive from campus. Memphis wanted the excursion to resemble
its road-game routine as much as possible so players checked into a hotel and
ate a meal, though they didn’t stay overnight. The cost included bus
transportation, hotel fees and meals and pizza for the drive back to Memphis.
“To be
able to take our program on the road and be able to showcase that across the
state and in a community where there are so many people celebrating the Tigers,
it provides us a wonderful time as a team to be able to go away and to be able
to have that experience,” Memphis coach Mike Norvell said.
Arkansas
held its spring game in Little Rock because of construction at its home stadium
in Fayetteville. Florida Atlantic held scrimmages in Fort Lauderdale and Miami.
Oregon had a practice at Portland and Oregon State conducted one in Beaverton,
Oregon. Washington State had its spring game in Spokane for an eighth straight
year. Wyoming spent between $3,000 and $4,000 to hold a spring practice session
last year in Casper, about 150 miles from campus.
They are
the exceptions. Most college programs stay on campus for spring practice,
noting the cost of moving out of town for just one workout outweigh the
potential benefits.
“You don’t
have a ton of time and contact hours with your team,” Notre Dame coach Brian
Kelly said. “If you can create an opportunity off campus, it makes sense, but
the logistics are hard. And it’s expensive. I know, well, you’re talking about
expenses at Notre Dame, but the reality of it is, is it worth the expense of
shipping your players off campus? And you generally have to take up some of
their free time to do it. I don’t see (what) the net benefit is of doing it off
campus.”
The idea
of sending teams out of town garnered plenty of attention in recent years when
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh sent the Wolverines on spring-break trips to IMG
Academy in Bradenton, Florida, and to Rome. Power Five schools responded last
year by voting to prohibit coaches from taking teams off campus for practice
during any vacation period outside a sport’s season . Michigan left for Paris
this week, but no practices were planned.
For the
last six years, Texas Tech has held at least one spring workout in Midland,
Texas, about a two-hour drive from campus. The Red Raiders also visited the
Dallas Cowboys’ Frisco headquarters this spring.
“It’s
incredible to have 300 recruits watching your program and your product, and to
have our incredible Dallas alumni base who show up in droves every time we’re
in this area,” Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said after the Frisco
scrimmage. “And it’s great for our players to work the travel process,
(experience) a new environment and come out here and have to play here in front
of a bunch of people.”
Florida
Atlantic even found a way to do some community service while heading off
campus. The Owls’ Fort Lauderdale scrimmage included a youth camp in which
proceeds benefited families affected by the deadly shooting at Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland, Florida.
Other coaches
believe the benefits of conducting a scrimmage out of town are outweighed by
the drawbacks.
Northern
Illinois coach Rod Carey held a practice in Chicago two years ago and decided
afterward it wasn’t worth the trouble. He hoped the practice would help attract
prospects but determined that a much bigger benefit comes from having potential
recruits actually see the campus. Recruits are permitted to attend the
off-campus practices, but coaches can’t have any contact with them in that
setting.
Carey also
said his team didn’t practice effectively after a long bus ride.
“I won’t
do that again,” Carey said.
Every
situation is different, too. While Memphis or Wyoming or Northern Illinois
might be trying to raise their profile with an off-campus practice, sometimes
it’s not needed. For instance, South Florida coach Charlie Strong noted he
didn’t need his team to visit other parts of Florida to attract recruits
because Tampa already features so many prospects and is easily accessible to
many others.
Houston is
in a similar position and wanted to keep things as simple as possible this
spring after making multiple staff changes, though Cougars coach Major
Applewhite said he might take his team out of town next spring. Texas Tech,
located in a less populous area of the Lone Star State, benefits more from
traveling to areas that might have plenty of recruits.
Wyoming is
the lone FBS program in a geographically large state with a small population.
The Cowboys previously have held spring practice sessions in Cheyenne and
Casper. Although a scheduling conflict prevented them from leaving campus this
year, they intend to make one of these trips again next spring as a way to
reach out to its fan base.
“You
really have to be in a unique position to take a scrimmage or spring game off
your campus,” Wyoming coach Craig Bohl said. “It has to be someplace where
there’s going to be a pretty significant amount of interest. What you find at
the majority of Group of Five schools, they’re in a location where there’s not
really a significant alumni base someplace else and it might not be worth
uprooting everything. We’re in a unique situation.”
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