Two years ago, WSU students joined a long line of college activists to protest Cougar gear made in sweatshops. In cardboard boxes emblazoned with their battle cry – “I’d Rather Go Naked than Wear Sweatshop Clothing” – Progressive Student Union members prepared to fight…

Kappa Alpha Theta has given so much to Jennica Prescott in her four years as a Cougar that she is giving her first year after graduation back to the sorority. “I grew a lot through being involved,” she said. “I have skills I wouldn’t have learned otherwise…

Like many WSU students, I spent my Saturday night with friends staying up until 3 a.m. Unlike many of my peers, however, I was sleeping on the ground in Spokane with 200 others, mostly strangers, worrying about waking up with frostbitten toes. The nonprofit group Invisible Children held its international rally…

WSU Rotaract is holding an art auction today to send a $15,000 HUG to Ugandan children. The club joined a Rotaract club from Reunion Island, France, in raising money for Helping Uganda Grow. Rotaract is an international and domestic offspring of Rotary International…

WSU community members have the chance to be art critics this week and reward a photographer they believe shares a compelling story graphically. The Outdoor Photography Contest, sponsored by the Outdoor Recreation Center, began at the end of January and ended March 27…

Helen Thomas and Bob Scheiffer, Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award recipients for 2009, encouraged journalists to hold fast to their courage and standards regardless of the future of news. Their Q-and-A session was the capstone of the day-long Virtual Journalism Summit on Monday…

A grant from the McCormick Foundation makes it possible for WSU’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication to take bold steps in new media. WSU is hosting a Virtual Journalism Summit on Monday to bring together, for the first time, the leaders in the burgeoning industry of journalism in 3-D spaces…

Eight Pullman businesses, the Pullman Chamber of Commerce, an apparel, merchandising, textiles and design professor, and 125 students joined together to spruce up Pullman just in time for Mom’s Weekend. Assistant professor Meriem Chida had an idea in the fall to pair stores with students to create more customers for one and a learning experience for the other…

A not-so-little person is coming to the not-so-big world of WSU to speak about the life of a mother with disabilities. The Disability Awareness Association is bringing Amy Roloff, from TLC’s “Little People, Big World,” to campus as part of its efforts to support the Community Action Center…

After a 30-year nationally recognized career, chemists Glenn and Jane Crosby, both 81, said they most enjoyed coordinating a program at WSU. WSU chemists for more than 20 years, the couple ran an annual summer science camp for eighth- and ninth-grade students…

Soon, WSU veterinary students will have new opportunities for specialty instruction. The WSU College of Veterinary Medicine received two large donations to help make a new Spokane veterinary clinic a reality. Bernard Pinckney, a WSU veterinary alumnus, donated $2…

The sun-soaked CUB Senior Ballroom complemented world-renowned speaker Anita Hill’s Wednesday message of hope and a bright future. Hill delivered the keynote speech to about 530 people at the Women’s Recognition Luncheon on Wednesday and later participated in a Q-and-A session from 5 to 6 p…

Civil rights activist Anita Hill will make two appearances on the WSU campus Wednesday. Hill is the keynote speaker at the Annual Women’s Recognition Luncheon, which will occur from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the CUB Senior Ballroom. Tickets are $25. She will also have a Q-and-A session from 5 to 6 p…

Andrea Gibson, a nationally renowned spoken word artist, visited WSU this weekend and what impressed her most was not the campus or students. “I have a jacuzzi by my bed in the hotel,” she said. The poet said she called her parents to let them know she had finally made it as a poet…

New research shows a one penny difference is more influential than many shoppers may be willing to admit. Marketing professors David Sprott, from WSU, and Ken Manning, from Colorado State University, are publishing this finding in the Journal of Consumer Research this fall…