The Observer

Student translators connecting with the community

Destini Dickinson, Staff Reporter
December 4, 2015

Spanish Professor Nathalie Kasselis worked with Mount Stuart Elementary to have 20 students from her Spanish Translation course translate at parent-teacher conferences on Nov. 19 and Nov. 20. In the...

Environmental club to hold Climate Walk in Ellensburg

Destini Dickinson, Staff Reporter
November 19, 2015

Beginning at noon on Sunday, Nov. 22 in the SURC, multiple community-driven groups, including Our Environment, Central’s Environmental Club and the Kittitas Audubon society, are joining together to start...

ASCWU gets new tech to record meetings

Destini Dickinson, Staff Reporter
November 12, 2015

This year’s Associated Students of CWU Student Government (ASCWU) officers are welcoming in the new tech generation with a few tools to start recording public meetings. Recently, the ASCWU approved...

Reduced snowpack may lead to empty reservoirs

Destini Dickinson, Staff Reporter
November 5, 2015

If Kittitas County gets very little snowpack this winter, the area could experience one of the worst droughts in recent years. Professor Carey Gazis of geochemistry and hydrogeology, Associate Professor...

Cramming with caffeine in Brooks

Destini Dickinson, Staff Reporter
October 29, 2015

If you build it, they will come. At least that’s the mentality Molly Allen and Michele Reilly of the Brooks Library had in mind for Jimmy B’s coffee shop. “We want to provide a service to our...

Call them aphids; woolly aphids

Destini Dickinson, Staff Reporter
October 22, 2015

Central has been hit with a swarm of tiny little bugs commonly called “blue gnats.” As it turns out, they aren’t gnats at all. Jason Irwin, associate professor of biological sciences, said they...

ASCWU: No student funds used for Wildcat Way name change

Destini Dickinson, Staff Reporter
October 14, 2015

A week after the decision to rename D Street to Wildcat Way, Vice President for Academic Affairs for the Associated Students of Central Washington University (ASCWU) Hauke Harfst has said that no student...

Award winning professor receives grant for textbook

Destini Dickinson, Staff Reporter
October 8, 2015

Dominic Klyve, math professor and interim director of the William O. Douglas Honors College, juggles working inside the classroom and out. Klyve, after being awarded a grant from the National Science...