When Steven L. Hoch toured campus as a provost candidate the first week of summer, he was impressed by the renovations, construction and plans changing the WSU landscape. Now, as the incoming provost and executive vice president, he’ll be among the changes shaping what WSU will become…

WSU colleges will cut approximately 20 percent of their courses, along with reducing the number of majors, minors, options and degrees offered. This course and degree audit is the next step in the Academic Affairs Program Prioritization – known as A2P2 – which aims to overhaul WSU’s academic system…

More than a year after the former Disability Resource Center director left for a new job, two candidates for the position visited campus in recent weeks and now the search committee is finishing up their recommendations. “We wanted a candidate who had some strong leadership potential…

University of Idaho President Tim White will be leaving the Palouse for California. White will become the new chancellor at the University of California, Riverside, the University of California Board of Regents announced Thursday. White will step down from the UI presidency June 30 and take over as UC Riverside chancellor Sept…

Two more candidates for the position of provost and executive vice president visited campus as the search process nears the finish line. Jeffrey Armstrong, dean of the Michigan State University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Cheryl Achterberg…

Two candidates visited campus this week as the search for a new provost and executive vice president narrows in on the finalists. Eric J. Barron, dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, and Steven L. Hoch, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky…

Pullman Police Cmdr. Chris Tennant remembers flames almost up the power lines and students cheering whenever a cop went down. Former student Forrest Reda remembers being maced while officers wrenched his video camera from his grip. Former Evergreen photographer Rachel E…

This is a love letter. This is for losing all sense of time in Holland Library, going to candle-lit bars when the power was out and walking to a 7:45 a.m. class with wind and snow blowing into my hood. This is for skipping class to go pick up court documents in Colfax and for staying out until 4 a…

Students and alumni approach him at bars with changes they want, and President Elson S. Floyd keeps him on call for advice via meetings, phone and e-mail. “He’s even getting good at texting now,” Kasey Webster said. As ASWSU president, Webster is primarily a diplomat…

After allegedly setting a series of eight fires around campus, WSU students David P. Miner and Ian J. Copland appeared in court Monday afternoon. The two were arrested on five counts of first-degree arson, a class A felony, and four counts of reckless burning in the second degree…

The halls of a police department are the best place to collect the kind of phrases you can’t make up, so WSU Police Chief Bill Gardner keeps index cards on hand to jot down inspiration for the police thrillers he writes. “Don’t tell anybody,” he joked, “but that’s the only reason I came back…

A few questions remain, but three fire officers laid off when WSU closed its fire department in 2005 are back at work in their previous positions. “It looks like it’s going to work out OK,” fire officer David Grimes said. Without a campus fire station to return to…

Because there’s only so much Elton John to go around, the next-best thing is two men who perform like him. This weekend, along with the Rocketman himself, two Seattle-based Chopstix Piano Bar players will take their show on the road to get students and moms dancing along to classic tunes…

News of the Kent State shootings and President Nixon’s decision to send troops into Cambodia were too much for some WSU students in 1970. They wanted WSU President Glenn Terrell to send a message of disapproval to Nixon and cancel classes for a day of protest…

We walked up the stairs where I once fell and got a black eye. The landing was dingy, darker than in memory, but clean. The Indiana air was humid as my mom and I approached our old apartment door, nearly 23 years after she first left Pullman – home – for the Midwest when she was 22 like I am now…