Making News in the Liberal Arts 
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WSU Cohosts Mock Trial Competition in Spokane WSU and Eastern Washington University will cohost and compete in the American Mock Trial Association's Pacific Northwest Regional Tournament February 19–21 in Spokane. |
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Gangs of Chicago Fifty years ago James F. Short Jr., a young sociologist at WSU, was asked to lead a study of Chicago gangs. The resulting groundbreaking analysis opened a window into the everyday experience of the Vice Lords, the Egyptian Cobras, the Imperial Chaplains, and the Blackstone Rangers and set the stage for gang research for years to come. |
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Desperately Seeking Sherman Although his work is increasingly ubiquitous, the writer Sherman Alexie (B.A. '94, American studies) is a little harder to pin down. Washington State Magazine correspondent Hannelore Sudermann was undaunted. |
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Language, Money, and Loss Sometimes loss can be an occasion for newly discovered vitality. Where better than the university to challenge ourselves to avoid linguistic lemminghood? [An essay in Washington State Magazine by English professor Will Hamlin.] |
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Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway Ketchikan-based artist Ray Troll (M.F.A. '81) migrated south this winter for the opening of his latest show at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle. The exhibit pairs Troll's paintings and murals and paleontologist Kirk Johnson's research with real-life fossils from the museum's collections. |
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, February 9
Inqueery Series: "The Time and Space of Repronormative Motherhood: Paradoxes of Women's Anti-war Activism in Relation to the Nation-State" by Mary Jo Klinker and "Making of a Monster: Media Construction of Gender Non-Conforming Homicide Victims" by Meredith Williams, Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall, 4:30 p.m.
International Film & Lecture Series: Bianlian/King of Masks (China, Hong Kong; in Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles), presented by Christopher Lupke, CUE 202, 7:00 p.m.
Common Reading Tuesdays: "Writing the Food Chain," readings and discussion by WSU creative writing faculty Peter Chilson, Chris Arigo, Linda Russo, and Andrea Mason on work related to land, ecocriticism, and food, CUE 203, 7:00 p.m. 
Jazz concert, Kimbrough Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m.