All media by Alumni
82 reviews of media by Alumni.
The Rising Sea
Winter 2009
The
island nations of Tuvalu and the Maldives, the Inupiat Eskimo village
of Shishmaref, and Soldado Island off the Colombian coast might be
tough to find on a geography quiz. But all of these locations foretell
a future of oceans overwhelming co...
Categories: Environmental studies
Tags: Climate change, Ocean
Where the Fins Meet the Frets
Fall 2008
If life imitates art, then for Ray Troll, so does music. More specifically, his music imitates his art. The debut CD from Ray Troll and the Ratfish Wranglers titled Where The Fins Meet The Frets contains 16 original songs that one could say leap dire...
Categories: Music
Tags: Children's music
FensePost (www.fensepost.com)
Spring 2008
When we were growing up, my best friend, Byron, and I would regularly head down to our local record store and browse through the new releases. Typically I'd pick out the ones that had the most interesting covers, and then read about the band. Byron w...
Categories: Websites
Tags: Music reviews, Music
Sudoku for Lunch
Spring 2009
How does one review a book of Sudoku puzzles? There's no plot, no metaphor, no elegant or awkward use of language. There are just the puzzles, which themselves are pure pattern.
But the puzzle-making process clearly involves skill and attention...
Categories: Puzzles
Tags: Sudoku
When the Circus Leaves Town
Winter 2008
Seattle-raised Brooke Ludwick spent time as a creative director and artist in the advertising field before recently returning to her first love, songwriting and performing. With her talents and understanding of the music business, she has created som...
Categories: Music
Tags: WSU Creamery
1200 Weeds—of the 48 States & Adjacent Canada
Summer 2009
When you don’t know what you’re dealing with, weedy plants may be hard to handle. Richard Old, a longtime Pullman resident and weed identification expert, has put together this comprehensive database of weeds for both public and private use.
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Categories: Agriculture
Tags: Invasive weeds
Return to Warden's Grove: Science, Desire and the Lives of Sparrows
Fall 2008
Spying on birds in the far northWarden's Grove is a tiny cluster of spruce trees in the generally treeless expanse of the north Canadian tundra, and Christopher Norment – who received his master's degree from WSU in 1982 – spent three long summer...
Categories: Biological sciences
Tags: Birds
"They are all Red Out Here": Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925
Fall 2009
Few if any aspects of the Northwest’s political and labor history have been so thoroughly documented as the region’s most radical era, from the 1890s to the First World War. Books and articles have highlighted such topics as the rise of...
Categories: History
Tags: Northwest history, Labor and unions, Radical politics
ROD: A True Story
Fall 2008
Rod Retherford '84 triumphed as an undersized athlete, but his plucky comeback tale has always been told in spaces that were too small to fully contain it. There were plenty of headlines in 1980 after a bullet ripped through the football player's sho...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Football
Mountains On Our Backs
Winter 2009
Nestled
in the generally indescribable genre of indie music, Carcrashlander
challenges the listener by continuing to venture into experimental
music. In their most recent album, Mountains On Our Backs, the group combines basal vocals and keyboards...
Categories: Music
Tags: Alternative music, Independent music
