Wednesday, September 26, 2007
CNN Breaking News, Top Story, Exclusive, Jesus Etc.
Police have knocked on every door within a six-block area of the Norton household asking if neighbors have seen the missing child, Angela Melissa Norton. She was last seen wearing pajamas with Mickey Mouse images printed on them. She has light brown curly hair.
Maria L. Norton, the mother, issued a statement outside her home to reporters.
She said, "We are begging anyone who might have seen our daughter to please call the police or us. She has never been away from home without us, and we are certain that she must be terrified not to be in her own home. Please, anyone who has information, please let us know."
Monday, September 24, 2007
G(eneral) M(anager)
International Center Coordinator Chad M. Goeden and Dan Maher, the Coordinator for Student and Organizational Development have [led behind the scenes to produce this weeks events.]
Goeden arrived this year at WSU after several years at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay campus. He is optimistic [IEW] can start a conversation.
“Maybe what this week will do is open up eyes and say maybe this is something I’m interested in,” said Goeden.
IEW typically starts with a keynote speaker to unify the week [under] a theme. Naomi Tutu, this [years] keynote speaker, [spoke] along the theme of, [“The differences that color life.”] Tutu is the daughter of Desmond Tutu, founder of the Tutu Foundation, which from 1985 to 1990, aided South African refugees. Tutu carries on the mission of peace and human rights that her father started, Goeden said. This week is about cultural competency, Goeden said. He [talks about] a world that is becoming increasingly globalized and international.
“We can hope that people will discuss [what Naomi talks about, that it] can spark a discussion,” said Goeden. Talking can raise questions. If things progress, the next step is active engagement, Goeden said.
[If Goeden is the [youthful enthusiast] leading the IEW, Maher is his [moderate counterpart.] For 27 years, Maher has worked at WSU year after year advising the International Students Council and coordinating events such as the IEW. His role this year centers on logistics and practicalities. Maher sees himself as a coach.
“My goal is to help students meet their goals,” said Maher.
Progress can be tough however. [Upperclassmen] normally take [on] leadership roles, making continuity difficult, Goeden said. Still, a lack of continuity does not stop Maher from his mission. There is a certain fulfillment that goes both ways, Maher said. What the student body does with the week is a question of how people apply it, Maher said. He asks though if it is time to change the week from a social to substantive event.
“Is it time to approach things on a more substantive level[,]” said Maher. “The deeper [people] get, it can get scary, even if [its] positive.”
[Yet,] he gets to see people succeed, [Maher said]
“Its not frustrating for me,” says Goeden.
He gets to see people succeed.
I get to work with people who’ve had different cultural experiences. We’re all working toward a common experience. No one says that was a nightmare. We were a part of this.
Dan Maher
dmaher@wsu.edu
509-335-2284
Chad M. Goeden
cgoeden@wsu.edu
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
John Frazier, 20, was driving 20 mph over the speed limit at Broad Street when he lost control of the car due to rain. He was thrown through the car's windshield and died instantly. He was not wearing a seatbelt.
An accident occurred.
It happened yesterday. Today is Tuesday.
The accident was a car accident. It happened in Moscow where Main Street and Broad Street intersect.
One person was killed. The person was John Frazier. He was 20 years old and lived in Moscow at 212 Moore Court.
He was driving a blue 1998 Ford Mustang. He was driving northwest on Broad Street at about 5 p.m.
He lost control of the car. It was raining, and the road was slick. He was also driving about 20 mph over the speed limit.
He was the only one in the car.
The car smashed into a utility pole along Broad Street. The impact crushed the whole front of the car.
Frazier was thrown through the car's windshield. He landed on the pavement some 20 feet away. He wasn't wearing a seat belt.
He was killed instantly.
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Trois
1.) With so many gadgets, including people, vying for our attention, where is human communication headed, especially at an institute of supposed higher learning of all places?
Imagine the 1960s. The image of WSU doesn’t consist of Ipods, cellular phones, computers, blackberries, et other devices competing for our love. Today each is unavoidable on any college campus, even the quiet isolated town of Pullman. Who then is losing out on our love? What impact, if any do these new technologies have on seemingly outdated human behavior?
What is on the horizon in terms of technology? Will traditional forms of communication someday be wiped out? Okay maybe that’s extreme but you can’t tell me you’re not annoyed or mildly interested when you see throngs of collegians walking up and down the mall with some sort of device?
2.) Any homeowner takes their living room for granted. It is just there and it doesn’t plan on moving without permission. Just two years ago, I remember what a living room was like. Then like a rug, it was lifted from under this collective community, and all future cougar cubs.
Students have never formally been asked about this decision to renovate the CUB. Do students notice the big hole in the house? How do they feel about it? Who made the decision? When new students or even veteran students walk through the mall, what are they to think of the fences and construction? Are they not paying the same money previous students have paid to have access to the same living room? How does the increase in student enrollment compare with the renovation?
I will explain to readers how WSU came to decide there would be a CUB renovation. Additionally, I will talk about student life and what it is like to have the heart of the campus cut out during their tenure.
3.) Bob Dylan and John Lennon, amongst others, captivated a whole generation of young people. Almost 45 years later, there is no voice of the people, musically speaking.
Today, students have no common voice to rally to. What has happened in the years since the 1960s when student activism and music were united? With the political climate as high as it is now, it seems appropriate now more than ever that universities should be centers of musical and student activism. College is historically and supposedly a time for higher learning.
So why is this not the case today? I will address the question of music and its absence to activism. I may approach scholars of music or politics. I may ask students how music impacts their political views at all or if it even has a place in politics like it had in the 1960s.