EverTTHE H E DDAILYg Areen I LY WEDNESDAY, ARPIL 4, 2012 THE STUDENT VOICE OF WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1895 Vol 118 No. 130 WEATHER OPINION LIFE SPORTS INSIDE The new curricu- Jan Johnson The football team 4-day forecast | Page 2 lum will better spoke of lost Nez practiced on their Classifieds | Page 11 prepare students Perce jazz music special teams in Sudoku | Page 12 for a future in Tuesday at the their latest prac- Crossword | their intended University of tice (at right). Page 12 Sleet career. Idaho. High 41 | Low 28 | Page 8 | Page 3 | Page 6 Tyga rap concert canceled Tyga concert tickets will only be “This ultimately led to a bid- Services and Acticities fees to put to have Tyga perform in the CUB the impression that Tyga was refunded to patrons during the ding war that neither (me nor on concerts for students at a low and three days later heard of a confirmed through an agency at Karsten) wanted to put on,” he cost. counter offer from another PEP Sunnyside park. Tyga’s manage- original time of the concert. said. “Essentially they were bid- to which SEB responded with a ment misled me.” Wischmann said he thought ding against the other Cougs,” he higher bid. The bid was later con- Wischmann said he was upset By Austin Jasienski Evergreen Staff his organization could provide said. “If Pullman Events Presents firmed by Tyga’s management. with the amount of people who a better venue for the concert had stayed out of this, the con- The artist’s management ulti- made it difficult for him and his Erin Wischmann, the student because the largest venue the SEB cert would have happened in the mately pulled out of the SEB’s company to put on his show, behind Pullman Events Presents could reserve was the CUB Senior CUB.” confirmed concert two weeks later including the university and the (PEP) and the recent Tyga concert Ballroom, which would not hold Wischmann said he was able because of a higher bid placed by CougarCard Center. controversy continues to assert Wischmann,’s anticipated turnout to match and eventually beat bids PEP. He said the CougarCard Center that the entire event was one of 4,500 to 6,500 people. from SEB on personal savings Despite complaints from stu- promised PEP they could sell tick- big miscommunication between He said the concert would not and money earned from previous dents that tickets were sold before ets there and eventually backed many parties. have been cheaper for students if shows he put on. Despite rumors, a solid venue was confirmed, out for no reason. The university Wischmann said both he and put on by SEB based on the price Wischmann insists no personal Wischmann said PEP never made was also unsupportive of his goals Student Entertainment Board Tyga was asking for. loans were taken out to fund the an official announcement before to create his own (SEB) Concert Committee’s head The PEP tickets cost $20 per show. the concert was confirmed. business. Karsten McIntosh were both look- person. Despite Wischmann’s asser- “We knew we could do all Janette Matanane, program ing into hosting a Tyga concert at McIntosh said originally the tions, McIntosh made a previous the steps to produce the show,” director at the CougarCard Center, SEB tickets would have cost $12. response to The Daily Evergreen he said. “We had all our ducks the same time and had joint con- TYGA 9 nections. He said SEB uses money from stating that SEB put in a request lined in a row. We were under See Page Marilyn Berger speaks of Pullman soaks up the sun worldwide adventures The journalist told the crowd of life when you’ll trip over an opportu- lessons picked up while reporting nity. Never say no, say yes.” According to the Edward R. from around the globe. Murrow Symposium website, Berger has written for Newsday, By Dylan Hoff Murrow News Service The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker and Veteran print and broadcast New York Magazine. Additionally, journalist Marilyn Berger kicked Berger has been a correspondent off the 38th Annual Edward R. for NBC News, moderator of a Murrow Symposium Tuesday public affairs program titled “The night with a lecture on her life and Advocates” and anchored WNET’s the lessons she’s learned. City Edition. “Luck – I surely had,” Berger Berger is the widow of Don said about her career. “Talent – I Hewitt, the creator of 60 Minutes don’t know if I had it, but I defi- and recipient of the 2008 Edward nitely had interest and imagina- R. Murrow Award for Lifetime tion.” Achievement in Broadcast Berger’s lecture, titled Journalism. “Adventures and Escapades, A “It’s been four years to the day Life in Journalism and Beyond,” since I was here with my husband was this year’s Charlotte Friel Don,” Berger said about Hewitt’s Memorial Communication award ceremony. Lecture, hosted by the WSU chap- Lawrence Pintak, founding ter of the Association for Women dean of the Edward R. Murrow in Communications (AWC). College of Communication, said he CARLY ENGSTROM/THE DAILY EVERGREEN Tallie Mattson, president of suggested to AWC that they invite AWC, introduced Berger to the The Palouse was graced with a brief glimmer of more warm days to come as the first signs of Berger to speak at the Charlotte spring shed their light. audience assembled in CADD 21. Friel Lecture back in the fall. “I was honored to be her escort “I developed an individual con- for the day,” Mattson said. “She nection with Marilyn through Don embodies what it means to be a Hewitt, who passed away three female journalist.” years ago,” Pintak said. Water researcher receives donations Berger told stories and anec- Pintak said Berger has donated dotes of her past, and explained a collection of Hewitt’s memora- how they have shaped her as a bilia to the Murrow College. After two years and applications Tri-Cities campus, I was exclud- started calling manufacturers person. She reminisced on her “I don’t know exactly what ed from many of these based on for donations and discounts. time spent covering the Six-Day to 16 grants, Holm finally found we’ll do with it until it all gets my part-time status.” “It is extremely difficult War in Israel, the construction peace in donations. Holm said with her being a to make cold calls, but my of the Berlin Wall, the Cultural here,” he said. “The papers and documents will be placed into a part-time student, her husband determination could not be Revolution in China and the Soviet By Maegan Murray not working and her working deterred.” she said. crackdown on Czechoslovakia. library collection. For the Emmy’s, Evergreen Staff Peabody’s and such, we’ll probably full-time at a local engineering Holm said as she started “I didn’t set-out my life,” Berger firm, she was excluded from to make the cold calls, she said. “It just happened … Other set up a display like we have for When Rochelle Holm, WSU Murrow and we’re doing for Keith doctoral candidate in environ- many other funding opportuni- was floored by the outstand- jobs just came to me.” ties because she could not dem- ing response of manufacturers Berger could still remember Jackson.” mental and natural resource Berger also stressed in her sciences, could not find refuge onstrate financial need. willing to provide equipment getting her first story published During the course of two to meet the needs of her field in Newsday, a Long Island news- lecture the importance of stu- for her research in grants, she years, Holm applied to 16 grants paper. dents starting out by writing for sought out individual compa- project. “I was hooked!” Berger said. their school newspaper. She said nies for equipment donations. and scholarships. Holm said she received thou- “I had a single paragraph on page the two most important things a To her surprise, she was able Despite her lack of success in sands of dollars in equipment 21.” journalist must always remember to raise more than $7,500 in obtaining research grants, Holm donations including analytical Berger also offered advice to are to have a pen for interviews equipment donations needed said her love for Africa, passion water testing equipment from aspiring young journalists. and never miss the airplane back for her research on water for water quality and determi- the Hach Company, sampling “There is no substitute for hav- home. resources in Africa. nation to do her research on bottles from Thermo-Scientific, ing a field of expertise … Have a “They were going to create the “Looking back, I applied water quality in the east African software and a license for field you care about, are knowl- ‘Marilyn Berger Award’ in honor for every one of the grants or country of Malawi outweighed ArcMAP mapping software and edgeable about,” she said. of anyone who missed the plane scholarships I was eligible for at what she lacked in funding. much more. “Be open to new opportuni- for having too much fun, not WSU,” Holm said. “As a part- Holm said she took a list of ties,” Berger said. “You never know working,” she said. time doctoral student on the required field equipment and See WATER Page 5 dailyevergreen.com 2 Wednesday, April 4, 2012 PAGE TWO THE DAILY P.O.Box 642510, Pullman, WA 99164 WEATHER Evergreen www.dailyevergreen.com Thursday | Sunny The Daily Evergreen is the official student Tell us a news tip: Other contact numbers: publication of WSU, operating under authority Contact News Editors Kari Bray and James Valentino High: 62 Low: 52 granted to the Board of Student Publications by at 335-2465.