Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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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)