WSU
football kicks off spring practices on Thursday
By Joe
Utter, Fiber Mar 19, 2019
PULLMAN -
Washington State football kicks off its spring practices on Thursday with the
annual Crimson and Gray Game returning to Pullman as part of Gameday for Mental
Health.
This
spring marks the eighth under head coach Mike Leach. Coming off an 11-2 season
and top-10 ranking in both the Associated Press and Coaches polls, the Cougars
return 46 players from last season’s team.
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On
offense, WSU returns seven starters, including four on the offensive line. The
Cougars look deep at wide receiver position with nine of the 13 receivers who
caught a pass last year returning. Running back Max Borghi, who posted 705
all-purpose yards and 11 touchdowns in his freshman season, leads a young
running back unit.
With the
departure of quarterback Gardner Minshew, the Cougars have six quarterbacks on
the roster competing for the starting job, including Eastern Washington
graduate transfer Gage Gubrud.
The
Cougars look to replace five starters on defense, with senior safety Jalen
Thompson and redshirt junior linebacker Jahad Wood set to return.
Spring
practices run through April 23. The annual Crimson and Gray game, held in
Spokane since 2011, returns to Martin Stadium for Gameday for Mental Health, an
initiative to provide information on suicide prevention and mental health
awareness. The game kicks off at 1 p.m. on Pac-12 Networks.
The
Cougars open the 2019 season at home against New Mexico State on Aug. 31.
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Don’t miss
President Schulz’s all‑university address March
26, 2019
From WSU
News
The
university community is invited to join President Schulz for his 2019 State of
the University address at 3:10 p.m. on Tuesday, March 26 in the Bryan Hall
Theatre on campus in Pullman.
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Soccers
Spring Game Versus Idaho Moved to Sunday
3/19/2019 from
WSU Sports Info
PULLMAN -
Due to scheduling conflicts with facilities, Washington State soccer's spring
game against Idaho has been moved to Sunday, March 24, at noon.
The game,
originally scheduled for Saturday, was moved due to scheduling conflicts at
Martin Stadium where the contest will be held.
The Cougs
will play a final time at home Sunday, March 31 when they host University of
British Columbia. The spring season will conclude on the road at Boise State
Saturday, April 13.
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Water
pumpage down last year on the Palouse
From
Pullman Radio NEws
Water use on the Palouse declined last
year with Washington State University leading the way. The Palouse Basin Aquifer Committee has
released its annual water pumpage report.
The committee is comprised of WSU the University of Idaho and the cities
of Pullman, Moscow and Palouse.
Total pumpage from the ground water supply
dropped by over 3% in 2018 to 2.37 billion gallons. WSU lead the way with a pumpage drop of
nearly 10%. The University of Idaho was
the only entity to increase its water use last year with an uptick of just over
1%. Annual water use on the Palouse has
dropped nearly 14% since 1992.
PBAC’s mission is to stabilize the
region’s main groundwater supply the Grande Rhonde Aquifer which has been
declining for decades.
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WSU Board of
Regents to increase WSU student housing and dining rates
New rates
take effect next academic year, will not go beyond 2.3 percent increase
By LAUREN
ELLENBECKER, Evergreen March 18, 2019
Filed
under News, Top-feature, WSU Pullman campus
The Board
of Regents unanimously approved a recommendation from the Housing and Dining
Advisory Board to increase housing and dining rates on campus.
New rates
will not exceed 2.3 percent for those in residence halls and 2 percent for
residents in on-campus apartments, said Phil Weiler, vice president for
marketing and communications. He said the board spent the 2018 fall semester
and part of this semester looking at needs for the 2019-2020 upcoming academic
year.
Rates
depend on student input, economic projections and system demands, Weiler said.
When looking at rates, members take into account future projects to build or
renovate residence halls.
He said
there will be a 5.9 percent increase for the employment of student workers due
to the increase in the state’s minimum wage. There will be a 2 percent food
increase and a 3.5 percent utility increase.
“We want
to make sure we represent the needs of students,” Weiler said. “We want to make
sure we’re just asking for what we need and that’s why we spend so much time
with this advisory board.”
Weiler
said a lot of research shows students are far more successful if they live on
campus their first year because a college experience marks a big change
academically and socially. It is important to focus on housing and dining on
campus, he said, so students can establish these important connections.
“That’s
why WSU requires most students to live on campus their first year,” Weiler
said.
The
Housing and Dining Advisory Board is comprised of eight student representatives
and six staff members from WSU Housing and Dining, Weiler said. Over half of
the group are students in order to guarantee the student body is being
represented.
Marguerite
Crockem, a senior and R
HA
representative on the Housing and Dining Advisory Board, said this increase
will add to the overall well-being of students on campus. As an RHA
representative, Crockem said she has heard what students want to see during
their residency, such as cozier lounges and more dietary information in dining
halls.
“The
quality of the food will make people want to stay and connect with other
students,” she said.
Crockem
said the board voted to hire two on-call custodians who go into the residence
halls at night for emergency cleanup situations.
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Started
from the bottom now he’s here/WSU
Junior
power forward Isaiah Wade faced adversity before coming to WSU, found way out
of poverty through basketball
By MAGGIE
QUINLAN, Evergreen
March 19,
2019
Growing
up, the odds were stacked against Isaiah Wade but he persevered and carved out
a path for himself through basketball.
Wade was
born and raised in Minneapolis. He became homeless in the fourth grade and he
said he didn’t get to have a childhood.
Wade
didn’t find a way out of his situation until the 11th grade when he started
playing basketball.
Years
before Wade joined a basketball team, his father Irwin Wade Jr. was in an
accident that led him to drug addiction. Wade’s parents separated when he was in
the fourth grade and a few weeks later he was living with his father in a
shelter.
“I didn’t
want him to be by himself,” Wade said.
Wade said
he had a strained relationship with his mom, Rebecca Houston, during his time
in elementary school and moving out was best for both of them. This forced Wade
to grow up faster as he lived in and out of shelters with his father.
Before he
was old enough to join the workforce he mowed lawns and shoveled snow in bitter
Minnesota winters. But his father’s addiction meant most money he and his dad
brought in disappeared.
School
didn’t provide much hope either.
“[Wade’s]
high school was a pretty rough inner city high school,” said Tammy Ewing, a
former administrative assistant at Minnesota Transitions Charter School. “That
school has a lot of kids doing a lot of things — he was a role model to half of
them even though he wouldn’t believe he was.”
Ewing knew
Wade’s family and she said several shelters kicked Wade and his father out
because of Irwin’s drug use. When the two lost access to a shelter, Ewing
allowed Wade to stay with her for about a week.
Eventually,
Ewing said Wade’s mother signed the papers giving Ewing legal guardianship of
Wade and he moved in with her for good.
“After the
third or fourth time he got put out he was like ‘Ma I don’t want to go back
there’ and I said, ‘You’re not,’ ” she said.
Wade said
he considers Ewing a second mother and she helped push him through adversity.
“Now that
he’s doing something, everybody’s like ‘Oh we love you,’ ” Ewing said. “But
when he was struggling … it was a struggle.”
During
this time, Wade battled with a learning disability in school, tension with his
birth mother and he worried about his father all the time.
“He cares
about everybody I think before he cares about himself,” Ewing said. “He didn’t
have a lot of faith in himself. He cared about everybody but himself.”
But he
pushed through it and during his junior year in high school at Minnesota
Transitions Charter School he averaged 18.4 points and 12.2 rebounds per game.
Ewing said
Wade knew if his grades slipped she wouldn’t let him play anymore so he stayed
on top of his school work.
“I was
hard on him but I think that’s why he loves me so much,” she said.
When Wade
turned 17 he felt grown and ready to move on and he didn’t want to deal with
curfews and house rules anymore, Ewing said. So for his senior year, he moved
to Waterloo, Iowa to live with his brother, Lyrikal, who is a music producer.
That
season he averaged 15.2 points, eight rebounds and seven assists per game and
earned Mississippi Division player of the year honors.
He also
found a passion for rapping which fostered during his time at his brother’s.
“All my
brothers do music,” Wade said. “There’s a studio in the basement and I just
stayed down there all the time.”
Wade, who
goes by Zay in his music videos, doesn’t freestyle. He writes his bars
carefully to tell his story. He said too many young rappers repeat the same
violent phrases and don’t rap about what they’ve lived.
“I have a
big story to tell,” Wade said. “I’m [Division] 1, people ask me everyday , ‘How
did you do it?’ and through my music, I want to tell them how I did what I
did.”
Wade’s
lyrics are about perseverance. He talks about starting from the bottom, playing
basketball and his dreams.
“I hopped
up out that sewer like yeah [expletive] I’m with it,” he said in one of his
raps, “only had a dream, no dollar.”
He said
he’s living a part of that dream now, playing teams in the Pac-12 he used to
watch on TV.
But before
he could reach WSU, he had one more hurdle to jump.
Wade
played two seasons at Iowa Western Community College after graduating high
school, where he averaged 12.1 points and a team-high of 9.5 rebounds per game.
He said he
ended up dropping out of college in Iowa for a time to help his father, who
couldn’t get into a shelter without a son or daughter. The situation mirrored
his life before basketball.
“He wanted
to stay to take care of his dad, that was his original thing,” Ewing said. “And
he thought he could do it.”
Now that
the junior power forward is in Pullman, Wade hopes he can earn enough money to
support his parents financially. He wants to play in the NBA and have the funds
to start a homeless shelter.
“I’d make
a big shelter for free, provide food and give back because I’ve been through
it,” he said.
He said
his dad is still homeless, as far as he knows because his father’s calls come
from different numbers.
Wade said
he struggles with missing his family more than anything.
“I come
out of games sometimes and I see some of the players have all their family
there,” Wade said. “I walk, I look and I just got to go straight on the bus
because none of mine is there.”
Despite
the distance, Ewing said his success means something to people from his
inner-city home in Minneapolis.
“He’s got
a lot of people that he’s a role model to here,” she said. “I told him today
how proud I am of him.”
Wade said
he is grateful for the opportunity to play for the Cougars.
“I’m at
the highest point of my life,” Wade said. “There’s a lot of people that want to
be in this position … and I’m actually here.”
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