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‘Radically original’ coach writes about warrior leader

Mike Leach
Mike Leach
Buddy Levy
Buddy Levy

A new book by Cougar football head coach Mike Leach is described as a readable history of Geronimo that also offers practical life and business advice gleaned from the Apache warrior’s leadership approach.

“Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior” (Gallery Books; hardcover $26) will go on sale May 6. Leach wrote it with Buddy Levy, clinical associate professor of English at WSU.

The book examines the strategies, decisions and personal qualities that made Geronimo a success. “Much of his genius can be ascribed to old-fashioned values such as relentless training and preparation, leveraging resources, finding ways to turn defeats into victories and being faster and more nimble than his enemy,” according to a news release from the publisher.

Learn more about Leach and Levy’s new book

Feb. 3-March 7: German resistance is topic of exhibit, films, talks

Bust of Sophie Scholl
Bust of Sophie Scholl

They were college students with lives like WSU students might have today. Some studied medicine and did military service. One had a fiancé. One was a married father of three.

But for the unpardonable crime of speaking out, considered treason in Nazi Germany, the University of Munich students and a sympathetic professor were executed. Their story is the subject of a traveling exhibit, “Die Weisse Rose: The White Rose,” at WSU Libraries’ Terrell Atrium, Feb. 3-March 7, on the Pullman campus.

“Very normal people can undertake very major resistance,” said Rachel Halverson, associate professor of German and Marianna Merritt and Donald S. Matteson Distinguished Professor in Foreign Languages and Cultures. “It’s really ordinary people who can make change happen, believing in doing the right thing.”

Find out more about the White Rose movement educational events at WSU.

 

Jan. 27-31: Humanities Week looks at scholarship, influence

Three free, public presentations will highlight Humanities Week presented by the WSU Humanities Planning Group.

Guest speakers from Duke and Michigan State universities will join WSU faculty in covering a range of topics, including:

  • “Is a Little Pollution Good for You? How the Humanities Can Contribute to Science and Policy”
  • “Four Glimpses of Scholarship in the Humanities: A Roundtable”
  • “Cosmopolitan Humanities”
  • “Empathy and Religious Diversity”

Get more details and a list of events

Human rights: work to do

Ken Faunce
Ken Faunce

After 65 years, the United States and other countries still have work to do to honor the intent of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, said Ken Faunce, WSU instructor of history.

“Right now in the United States, there are 250,000 estimated slaves living and working,” Faunce said. That number includes domestic servitude and sex slaves.

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Sacajawea: Important to U.S. History

Orlan Svingen
Orlan Svingen
Few women in U.S. history have had more influence on the nation’s history than the young Lemhi Shoshone woman called Sacajawea. It’s very likely that Lewis and Clark would never have reached the Pacific Ocean had it not been for her help.

Orlan Svingen, professor of history, has worked with the descendants of Sacajawea, the Agai Dika people, since 1991.

Read more about Sacajawea