Something weird happened the first time I listened to Russian Circles. I blasted the song “Death Rides a Horse” and it blew me away. Something happened and I didn’t know if I should have been frightened or not. I think I danced. Just a little. Not the too-much-alcohol-no-self-esteem-late-night-Valhalla dance…

This is always an interesting time at the Evergreen. For some of us, like me, it’s when we remember we are students as well as journalists. During the semester, it can be easy to forget. The core of us spend countless hours in the newsroom, doing everything humanly possible to put out the paper…

I hate looking out my office now. It is Evergreen tradition for the editor to post a countdown to the last issue of the semester. After some pestering, I put one up and now there is a big, ugly Comic Sans “1” glaring at me. One issue left in my semester as editor…

We at the Evergreen have an unfair advantage on Mom’s Weekend. Every year, we devote space to let Evergreen staffers write about their relationship with their moms. These short columns are reproduced thousands of times and put online for countless viewers…

Frederick Russell visited St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, while an international fugitive. Once a month, he would light three votive candles in the church, one for each of the lives he ended in a drunken driving crash in June 2001. On Thursday…

It's always nice to return to Pullman, even if I was gone for just a few weeks. Even though I am saying goodbye to a semi-healthy diet and a house without a squirrel infestation, there is a certain sense of home within these wheat fields. This past week, students from all parts of the state…

A lot has changed since Alton Jamison first got into education. His first interaction with students came on a tiny Navajo reservation in Arizona – one where the electricity for his third grade class came from a World War II Army generator. In his office in Cleveland Hall…

Delta Chi cannot house freshmen until August for egregiously violating the WSU student Code of Conduct, violating the peace of the university and placing life in jeopardy, the university announced Thursday. The WSU Student Conduct Board investigated Delta Chi and Theta Chi fraternities for multiple fights…

Five Delta Chi members were arrested Tuesday for a fight in late October that sent a man from another fraternity to a Seattle hospital. Pullman Police announced that Mark A. Tarabochia, 19, Scott L. Tandoi, 20, and Timothy B. Giles, 19, were arrested on charges of second-degree assault and were taken to the Whitman County Jail…

The dean of the College of Business has stepped down temporarily after a university audit found the college had violated a state ethics law. WSU announced Wednesday that Eric Spangenberg returned to the college’s marketing department 10 days ago and will return to the dean position on Feb…

Frederick Russell will be sentenced two days into 2008 for the deaths of three WSU students and the injuries of three others. Whitman County Superior Court Administrator Eileen Roe said Russell will be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. on Jan. 2 at the Whitman County Superior Court in Colfax…

My dad’s influence on my life can be summarized by the simple act of ironing. Growing up, he taught himself how to iron. He figured out the right amount of starch to use, the proper folding techniques and the order of which part of the shirt to smooth first…

The fourth finalist for the WSU Police Chief position has withdrawn his name from consideration, prompting officers to ask to have the search begin again. No plans have been made to start the search again, but the committee in charge of selecting finalists will meet to decide what to do next…

Moscow Police Assistant Chief David Duke views communication problems between WSU and its police department as an opportunity, not a challenge. Duke, a finalist to be the next WSU Police chief, visited campus Thursday to meet the university community and the officers he could oversee…

The chief’s office in the WSU Police Department has been empty for months now. The mahogany desk is clean of papers. The computer is off, the door is locked. WSU administrators had hoped to have a new chief put in the office by the beginning of the school year…