Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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Harvesting time arrives on the Palouse at the same time students return to school after summer fun. Two combines work to harvest a local field. (Photo by Scott Grifis) school located in the agricultural country of southeast Washing¬ ton? This place most of us call “home” for at least four years. WSU is one of the largest re¬ sidential universities west of the Mississippi River with 65 percent of the students living on-campus instead of commuting from their V • f. t i lkil Opening 3

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Rolling Palouse Hills It is described in many ways. It is to exceed one’s expectations. It is to surpass the goal, to outdo or outstrip an opponent. It is un¬ common or extraordinary feats of skill, achievement and quality. It is something very special and also very rare. It is excellence unsur¬ passed. Some expect excellence while others simply dream of being the best. You can define it how you wish, but one thing is certain, someone will try to outdo you. Ex¬ cellence means being the best at what you do. Giving 100 percent of yourself to reach a goal. “I compete to win,” said one special athlete. “But if I am not to win, let me compete and do the best that I can do. For if I do my best, I have won.” We live in the Evergreen State, but are surrounded by rolling fields of wheat. We strive to be a quality institution, but are con¬ stantly facing cutbacks in funding needed to reach the goal of excell¬ ence. We travel from all over the world to attend an institute of higher education, only to find our small home towns larger than Pullman. We constantly try to be the best, only to be classified by nearly everyone as the under¬ dogs. Maybe it is appropriate that we are considered the underdogs. Underdogs never give up. Under¬ dogs keep fighting until they are no longer considered the under¬ dog. They keep striving to be the best. What is Washington State Uni¬ versity? What makes up this Changing seasons leave the Palouse Hills in a varie¬ ty of colors. An old bam is surrounded by a sea of green fields. {Photo by Kim Williams) 2 Opening

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On The Hill homes. Students have the oppor¬ tunity to live in residence halls, the large greek system or uni¬ versity appartments. There are more than 16,000 students, majoring in 90 different fields of study with a choice of 70 different undergraduate degrees. In addition this is a graduate school with over 2,000 students enrolled in 60 different prog¬ rams. The college began in 1892, a land grant school that became a state university in 1959. Today the university employes more than 1,600 faculty members, 2,200 staff members and 1,000 graduates teaching and doing re¬ search. Walk across campus and you will find over 100 major buildings located on 600 acres. There are an additional 3,600 acres used around the area for research plus another 2,500 acres Break time finds students enjoying a nice fall sun on campus. A long winter cut down on spring sun this year for students. (Photo by A1 Werner) 4 Opening in different parts of the state. Washington State University is more than a bunch of buildings located in the Palouse with a mass of people parading around as numbers. It is a special place for people with inquiring minds — a place of excellence unsurpassed. Today you can go a few miles outside Pullman and find yourself deep in the Palouse country — a land once covered by bunchgrass that is now the land that forms a breadbasket for grains shipped around the world. The university is still close to the land, drawing upon those roots that go back to pioneer days in the Palouse when the school was formed as a land grant institu¬ tion, beginning with programs in agriculture, home economics, veterinary science and en¬ gineering. A bird’s position allows for a view above the campus located on the ‘hill’ in Pullman. (Photo by Dave Flaherty)