August 24, 2006
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Right now WSU students and college students in general are
getting plain ripped off by textbooks publishers. We are often forced to buy a
new edition of a book for $125 or more. Why does there need to be a new
edition of a calculus book? Does calculus ever change, are there major new
discoveries? No, of course not. Unfortunately professors are enablers of this
textbook rip off by demanding you have the newest edition of the book.
Do you know almost the exact same textbook you are buying
for $125 is available in other countries for $25 (these are brand new books) or
less? Yes you are being charged $100 PER BOOK more than students in other countries.
Well one company is trying to change the system. Freeload Press has textbooks
you can download for Free or buy for around $40. Check it out here.
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August 22, 2006
Thinking of becoming a veterinarian? Want to go to WSU’s college of veterinary medicine? Better put down that beer and hit the books. Only 98 people out of 784 who applied were accept for this latest class of students. That is a acceptance rate of 12.5%
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August 20, 2006
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US News and World Report’s annual college rankings have been
released and Washington
State University is ranked as the 112th best school in the nation…UW comes in at number 42. Now
rankings are not everything but a few years ago we were ranked 87th.
Clearly we could be doing a little better.
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August 18, 2006
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Well more Cougs will be able to fly home because the FAA is allowing bigger jets to land at the Moscow-Pullman Airport. Hopefully this will lower prices for flights (hey you never know). From Seattle-PI
"An FAA waiver approved Thursday will allow Boeing 737s and de
Havilland Dash 8 Q-400s to land at the airport, which serves an area
including Washington State University and the University of Idaho.
Airport
manager Robb Parish said that’s good news for the small-town airport,
which needs larger aircraft for peak travel times, such as university
holiday breaks.
The waiver was granted after three years of
work at the airport, including widening of the safety areas along the
runway. Officials plan to have the larger planes landing by this fall."
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August 11, 2006
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WSU’s Center to Bridge the Digital Divide will be training 4 Rwandan teens from Aug 13-20 in Spokane. The areas of learning include digital photography, networking, trouble shooting, digital embroidery, video conferencing and blogging. The Digital Learning Commons will also provide a subset of tools for the students to use. This program recieves funding from the US Dept. of State and has also funded young people going to Rwanda to teach tech skills
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May 31, 2006
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Starting this fall WSU students can major in organic
agriculture systems. WSU will be the first university in the nation to offer a
major like this. The major is one of five offered for the new Bachelor’s of
Science degree in Agriculture and Food Systems that was approved by the state
Higher Education Coordinating board.
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April 29, 2006
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Hundreds of WSU seniors celebrated their upcoming graduation by waking
from bar to bar on a beautiful spring day in Pullman. The seniors along
with other of age students paid $20 to participate in Senior Golf which
gets them drinks at a number of bars through out the day. See two
short videos (quicktime, size 4mb) of the crowd heading downtown here:
video1
video2
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April 21, 2006
Judy Doba, wife of WSU footbal coach Bill Doba died this morning at her
home in Pullman. Judy Doba was fighting cancer for four years.
Our condolences to her husband, daughters Kristen and Beth, son Scott and her six grandchildren.
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April 19, 2006
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Cougster.com via a public disclosure request has obtained a market
analysis on expanding Martin Stadium done be the company Conventions,
Sports & Leisure. This information was not provided to students
before the stadium vote. Cougster.com also obtained other documents
related to the estimated costs of the Martin Stadium expansion. See
Sports files under Cougster.com Files to read these documents.
This
begs the question, why couldn’t WSU Athletics practice full disclosure
and makes these documents available months before the
vote?
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February 8, 2006
{mosimage}A Rollingstone Magazine
article and other publications have stated that multi-platinum
rapper The Game was briefly a Coug and was on the basketball team a
few years ago.
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