Elaine Zakarison, Pullman resident and daughter of Fred Yoder, founder of the sociology department, and LeRoy Ashby, retired history professor, are among members of the WSU community who have special memories of attending the March on Washington (D.C.) in 1963, when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.
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Text corrected 9:35am 8/30/2013
Aug. 27 Common Reading Tuesday
Scores of missteps as a soldier and cop in hazardous places have prepared Bryan Vila, professor of criminal justice and criminology, to make a career of studying deadly errors in his criminology lab at WSU Spokane.
His free, public presentation, “Mistaken Adventures around the Globe,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, in Smith CUE 203 will kick off the WSU Pullman Common Reading Program’s guest expert series for the 2013-14 academic year.
For instance, Foley was an architect of the system that saw money for farm programs and food stamps combined in the same spending bill, Clayton said. That way the programs were guaranteed to win support from urban and rural lawmakers, he said.
The Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal, directed through the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies, is among five initiatives highlighted in a new report of NEH-funded projects designed to support Native Americans and their communities. The projects preserve Native American history and serve tribal communities by engaging them through the humanities.
The Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal is a gateway to cultural materials held in WSU’s Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections; the Museum of Anthropology; the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution; and other museums and archives.
Psychological researcher Craig Parks and his co-authors emphasize the urgent need to broaden thoughtful use of public goods, noting that charitable contributions are at historic lows, fossil fuel reserves are shrinking, and climate change threatens the planet’s future.
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