A Little Love for the Alma Mater

Was in Cheney the other day to do some banking, and it’s incredible to see how much the town has changed in even the ten years since I showed up in the fall of 1996. It used to be that Cheney started with the McDonalds and the car wash, but now with the new hotel and the Safeway store and the Starbucks it’s looking more and more like a soulless berg of the damned than a small college town.

(Just kidding, Cheney! I kid because I love!)

Anyhow, at the bank they had a stack of The Easterner, the campus newspaper for EWU. Under Stephen Jordan the college grew and grew, and to my mind one of the biggest upgrades can be seen in the form of the school paper—it’s filled with real journalism, and it just plain looks good. It actually looks better than the Cheney Free Press, which says a lot about both newspapers. Their website looks great, too.

Good Job, EWU!