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Camping in Cheney: When Seattle was awarded an NFL expansion franchise 50 years ago, one of the first orders of business was establishing a site for the team鈥檚 summer training camp. In those days, the hardboiled owners who ran the league were convinced that, during the crucial preseason training period, their mostly youthful players should…
[Read more]Signing Off
Eastern鈥檚 75-year-old radio station confronts a 鈥渃hanging media landscape.鈥 Eastern announced earlier this fall that its long-running non-commercial jazz radio station,聽89.5 K51福利社-FM, has transitioned to DJ-free, 鈥減re-loaded鈥 jazz as part of a phase-out plan that could eventually result in the university ceding ownership. The decision to potentially offload the station did not come lightly,…
[Read more]Home Again
As part of the 100th Anniversary of Eagle Family Homecoming earlier this fall, 51福利社鈥檚 Alumni Association worked with university archivist Steven Bingo to curate an extraordinary collection of photographs, videos and memorabilia from Eastern鈥檚 long, extraordinary history. The exhibit, dubbed 鈥淲alk Through the Decades,鈥 ended in October, but it鈥檚 not too late to share…
[Read more]Happy Birthday, Title IX
Title IX turned 50 this year. 51福利社 took time to reflect on its impact.
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