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August 28,
2018 from WSU News
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WSU’s Daggy
Hall has a new tenant
Aug 28,
2018 from WSU News
PULLMAN,
Wash. – WSU will lease Daggy Hall’s Jones Theatre and Wadleigh Theatre to
Pullman’s Sanctuary Studio beginning Sept.1.
Sanctuary
will use the theaters to hold dance classes for high school students, as well
as to host two annual recitals. Classes will be held two to three evenings per
week, which will not impact university daytime parking and office hours.
“We are excited to have one of our community
partners on campus and look forward to future performances,” said Stacy
Pearson, vice president of Finance and Administration.
Sanctuary’s
lease will run Sept. 1, 2018, to May 31, 2019. The studio will reimburse WSU
for the cost to maintain and clean the theaters based on Sanctuary’s hours of
operation. During the lease term, the university also will explore other
long-term options for the space.
“Sanctuary’s dance program enables people of
all ages to find and express their creativity, build confidence and develop a
healthy and active life style,” said Judy Kolde, Sanctuary Studio owner and
Pullman resident. “We are pleased our dancers will have the opportunity to
learn and perform in such a wonderful facility.”
Sanctuary
will make the theaters available to WSU’s student groups, departments and
colleges, as well as the local community. For information on availability and
hourly rates, contact Judy Kolde at 509-332-2977.
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Ferry Hall
Gazebo History
From WSU’s
Washington State Magazine
Gazebo memorializes
Old Ferry Hall, which burned down in 1897, and New Ferry Hall, dismantled in
1975.
Ferry Hall
was one of the first dormitories on campus.
Construction
of Old Ferry Hall began in February of 1892, one month after the opening of the
college. The building was heated with steam and lighted by electricity. The
building was named after Elisha P. Ferry, the first governor of Washington
state. The original Ferry Hall was destroyed by a fire on November 23, 1897 and
New Ferry Hall was built on the site.
The
building was dismantled in May of 1975. Part of the building still exists on
campus in the form of a gazebo that was originally placed at the original
location of Ferry Hall near Murrow Hall. The gazebo was then moved near the
Lewis Alumni Centre in 2008 when the grounds outside of Murrow were redone.
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Back to
school for K-12 students on the Palouse
Changes
coming to curriculum, teaching strategies and even the lunch menu
By Scott
Jackson, Moscow Pullman Daily News 8/29/2018
With
Pullman and Moscow school districts both set to begin classes today, it is safe
to say summer break has officially come to an end for K-12 students on the
Palouse, and the new school year will bring with it some change.
PSD
Superintendent Bob Maxwell said Pullman students will notice a variety of
changes in school curriculum and operations.
"One
of the things that we've been really focusing on is performance tasks, where
we're giving students tasks and finding out how many different ways they can
come up with an answer," Maxwell said.
He said
this new tactic is intended to promote critical thinking and problem solving
and encourage students to develop reasoning and communications skills.
Maxwell
said beyond changes to school operations, Pullman students may notice some
security and infrastructure improvements to facilities as well, noting the
all-new Kamiak Elementary School is expected to be finished in time for the
2019 school year.
Pullman is
also taking a new approach to school lunches.
Over the
summer, Maxwell said PSD cooks were trained to prepare a broad variety of new
dishes from scratch rather than relying on common reheatable and preserved
school staples.
"Our
food nutrition staff spent three days this summer receiving training on using
locally sourced foods and commodities to put together scratch cooked meals -
more like home," Maxwell said.
Maxwell
said while his favorite dish was a blueberry cobbler, the new school menu items
include two new pizzas that would be made entirely in-house, some healthful
additions to the salad bar and, of course, a lentil brownie.
Next door
in Moscow, MSD Superintendent Greg Bailey said the district will continue
making gradual progress toward changes in its own curriculum and methodologies
this year as well.
Bailey
said the district has been moving toward replacing its traditional teaching
system with a mastery-based system for a few years. He said mastery-based
education emphasizes individualized learning and education tasks over
percentage-based grades by identifying discrete pieces of knowledge a student
must learn and then verifying that it has been absorbed.
In a
mastery-based system, Bailey said, children will be evaluated on a
"formative" basis rather than "summative."
"We're
assessing for the purpose of improving, changing, adapting and moving
forward," Bailey said, "rather than 'summative,' where you wait until
the end and then test and see just what type of grade they're going to get."
Colton and
Garfield-Palouse school districts also have their first day of class today as
well as Palouse Prairie Charter and the private St. Mary's Catholic School in
Moscow. Colfax and Genesee school districts resumed classes Monday alongside
private schools Logos and Palouse Hills, both in Moscow. Meanwhile, the Troy
School District has been in session since Aug. 22 and the Kendrick Joint School
district began classes Aug. 21. Pullman Christian Academy began the new school
year on Aug. 20 in order to more closely align its school year with Washington
State University.
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WSU
football: Cougs have plenty of bodies, but not a ton of experience in front
seven
By Dale
Grummert, Trib of Lewiston 2018 Aug 29,
After
playing a spectator’s role for the final 10 games last season, Washington State
linebacker Peyton Pelluer didn’t enjoy being relegated to the same fate for the
Cougars’ two preseason scrimmages — this time without a cast on his foot.
But he
should take it as a compliment. Entering his sixth year of college football,
Pelluer is essentially an unpaid professional, whose skill and knowledge are
unquestioned. So position coach Ken Wilson devoted much of those scrimmages to
evaluating his younger players.
After all,
the Cougars’ 2017 season proved the value of depth, even if it’s callow, and
the team’s linebacker and defensive-line crews are still pretty youthful. Of
the 10 to 15 players who stand a good chance of seeing action at those
positions in a season opener at Wyoming on Saturday (12:30 p.m. Pacific, CBS
Sports), only four are seniors.
That’s one
reason the Cougars were so delighted by the NCAA’s decision in January to grant
a sixth year of eligibility to Pelluer, a 34-game starter who’d suffered a
season-ending foot injury in Game 3 last season. The 6-foot, 230-pound middle
backer is eager to get on the field, all the more so after cooling his heels
during much of those recent scrimmages.
“He’s so
smart and he’s played so many downs of football that he can learn and not have
to be out there all the time,” Wilson said, “even though he’s a pain in the
butt on the sidelines, because he wants to be in there all the time.”
In
retrospect, the injuries to Pelluer and two other senior linebackers last year
provided a valuable education to players like sophomores Jahad Woods (6-0,
225), who will probably make his 11th career start Saturday at weakside
linebacker, and Justus Rogers (6-2, 230), who started five times in 2017 and is
now back to understudying Pelluer.
In several
ways, Woods already seems a veteran.
“He
doesn’t say a lot but he’s very intense about football, school, everything he
does,” Wilson said. “If he has a bad practice, he won’t say anything but you
can just tell by how he’s attacking film and texting, ‘How did I do this
wrong?’ He’s an easy kid to coach because he cares about everytihng.”
He’s been
locked in a competitive preseason duel with Dillon Sherman (6-2, 225), a
fearless sophomore who sparkled on special teams last season. And Rogers has
been duking it out with second-year freshman Fa’avae Fa’avae (6-0, 225), whom
Wilson tabs as the most improved backer since spring workouts.
The
linebackers will again work closely with nickelback Hunter Dale (5-10, 195), a
senior who started all 13 games last year and has emerged as a team leader.
At the
hybrid spot the Cougars call rush linebacker, second-year freshman Willie
Taylor III (6-4, 245) came to the fore with a head-turning preseason camp. Also
training at that spot at the moment is sophomore Dominick Silvels (6-3, 230),
an all-purpose LB who’s got coaches racking their brains for a way to get him
on the field.
Position
coach Jeff Phelps’ defensive line took more offseason personnel hits than any
other position, starting with Hercules Mata’afa’s decision to go pro and
culminating in Pono Lolohea’s surprising defection several days ago.
So coaches
are glad they persuaded walk-on Taylor Comfort (6-0, 280) to return for his
senior season, a few weeks after he’d graduated in May and decided to enter the
work force. The persuasion wasn’t all verbal - they offered him a scholarhip,
and he accepted.
Now, with
Lolohea gone, he seems a lock to start at nose tackle, backed up by Australian
junior-college transfer Misiona Aiolupotea-Pei (6-3, 265).
“We’re
fortunate to have Comfort here,” Phelps said. “He’s worked his butt off. He’s
just fun to watch out there because he takes practice just as serious as a
game.”
Also
likely to make his starting debut is senior tackle Nick Begg (6-5, 265), who
has trained at a number of defensive and offensive positions but began to
settle in as a D-lineman last year. He’s being pushed hard by gifted sophomore
Will Rodgers III (6-5, 250), who is already taking a leadership role on the
club.
At
defensive end, junior Nnamdi Oguayo (6-3, 252) has beefed up considerably after
showing flashes of brilliance as an undersized pass-rusher last year, and he
seems likely to return soon from an undisclosed injury sustained early in camp.
His absence has given more work to Logan Tago (6-3, 250), who could be headed
for a breakout senior year.
Another
D-lineman with experience, junior Derek Moore, has been absent for weeks for
unspecified reasons.
So there
are clearly holes to fill. And some of them will be filled by players who’ve
yet to be thoroughly tested.
“We’ve got
guys that love football,” Phelps said. “And when you have that, you’ve got a
chance. I tell them, ‘I don’t know when your opportunity is going to come, but
I guarantee you’re going to get an opportunity. And when you do, you’ve got to
make sure you’re ready for it, ready to showcase what you can.' ”
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