Student Newspapers

The Eastern Washington University student newspaper was first published in the fall of 1916 as the State Normal School Journal. The paper initially covered events on campus, placement of graduates in eastern Washington counties, and letters from alumni sharing about their experiences in the classroom. From 1917-1919, many of the articles are dedicated to the World War I war effort and former students serving abroad. The publication went through a number of name changes as the school became the Eastern Washington College of Education in 1937. In 1951, the paper was renamed the Easterner. The Easterner and its predecessor, the Journal, are weekly publications.

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State Normal School Journal, August 4, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about the upcoming Glee Club recitals, changes to the faculty, enrollment over the 1921-1922 school year, the benefits of learning a foreign language, elections to the Shield and Dagger Club, a break down of taxes paid by Washington state residents, and illiteracy in Washington state. It also contains chapters VII and VIII of a serial story titled Untold Love.
State Normal School Journal, August 11, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This is a special issue known as the Senior Issue. It contains portraits of members of the Senior class and several creative works by Seniors including stories, letters, poems, and music. Two of these works are the Senior A Booster Song and Confessions of a Normal School Flapper or Boys I Didn't Vamp.
State Normal School Journal, September 22, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about the upcoming Washington Education Association meeting in Spokane, construction of a new men's dormitory, changes to the faculty, the National Education Association conference in Oakland, and the enrollment for the academic year.
State Normal School Journal, September 29, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about enrollment increases, new class officers, football captain Stanley Wynstra, Glee Club selections, summer Honor Roll students, a meeting of Normal School alumni in Yakima, and a donation of historic documents by Mayor N. A. Rolfe.
State Normal School Journal, October 6, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about the upcoming football season, the election of Stanley Wynstra as Associated Students President, the establishment of the Press Club, and proposals to raise the certification standard for Washington state teachers.
State Normal School Journal, October 13, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about desire from the student body to publish a yearbook, an investigation by C.S. Kingston on human longevity, the adoption by YWCA members of underclassmen, and the Dagger and Shield Club's plans for the coming year.
State Normal School Journal, October 20, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about male students working their way through college, the faculty's support for a yearbook, women's basketball turnout, the organization of a Normal School orchestra, plans of the upcoming Armistice Day celebration, and a farcical article about the discovery of a new "type cootie" in the Normal School print shop.
State Normal School Journal, October 27, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about the establishment of the Geography Club, the start of conference play for the football team, the upcoming informal dance, the school annual, the new feline Normal School mascot, and the Dagger and Shield club mixer.
State Normal School Journal, November 3, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about a subscription drive for the school annual, an upcoming jazz inspired mixer by the Dagger and Shield Club, the Normal School's football defeat to Spokane College, and props used in a screen adaptation of Silas Marner.
State Normal School Journal, November 10, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about an upcoming production by the Dramatic Club of Neighbors, by Zona Gale, a lecture by Reverend Harry M. Painter, a pioneer in Washington state, a list of fall graduates, the popularity of date books on campus, the debate topics for a competition in Ellensburg, the Normal School football victory over Spokane University, and the Geography Club.
State Normal School Journal, November 17, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about the upcoming football game against Ellensburg State Normal School, the women's basketball season, a screening of Nanook of the North, the Children's Book Week celebration at the Normal School library, an upcoming physical education exhibit, and the football defeat to Whitworth.
State Normal School Journal, November 24, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about women's basketball results, the Dramatic Club production of The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, the football defeat to Ellensburg Normal School, and ongoing fund raising efforts for a pipe organ.
State Normal School Journal, November 29, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This farcical issue is listed issue 10 1/2. It includes articles about the formal dance, the Monroe Hall Thanksgiving dinner, which, according to the satirical article, included burnt potatoes, stewed prunes, and three varieties of stale bread.
State Normal School Journal, December 8, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about negotiations for an operetta at North Central High School, the upcoming basketball season, a Japanese art exhibit, women selected by Antoinette Dustin to try out for the basketball team, and a gymnasium exhibition for the Training School.
State Normal School Journal, December 15, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about Annual Staff head Florence Wendler, the start of the men's basketball season, visits to the Normal School campus by Washington state legislators, the winter quarter enrollment, an upcoming Dagger and Shield performance of The Shop of a Thousand Dreams, a student performance of Barbara Frietchie, the election of Apache Club officers, and the implementation of county-level plans for funding.
State Normal School Journal, December 22, 1922

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about the consolidation of the women's vote in the student elections for class officers, the selection of the debate teams, men's basketball results, the scores of a psychological test broken down by gender, the construction of furniture for the new men's dormitory by students in the manual arts, work on the school annual, and upcoming games for the men's and women's basketball team.
State Normal School Journal, January 12, 1923

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about the fall honor roll, an upcoming high school basketball tournament at the Normal School, an act that allows the Normal School to grant degrees to graduates (as opposed to certificates), the new quarter plan for the academic year, the Normal School's basketball defeat to Spokane College, and a three-day mens' hike.
State Normal School Journal, January 19, 1923

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about an upcoming concert by pianist Charles Wakefield Cadman, progress on the pipe organ fund, which exceeded the goal of $5000, the Thurston psychological test given at the Normal School, the men's basketball team's western Washington tour, a plan by the Yep Kanum Club to create mileage markers near Cheney, the Dagger and Shield Club's Hi-Nite event, the men's basketball victory over the Idaho and Washington State College's freshman teams, and a Dairymen's meeting held at the Normal School.
State Normal School Journal, January 26, 1923

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about an upcoming Lyceum concert by soprano Ethelynde Smith, the men's basketball tour, a student production of The Shop of a Thousand Dreams to be staged during the Junior Chautauqua, a women's basketball game between alumnae and the women's basketball team, a visit by Spokane Campfire executive secretary Annette Francisco, and the Hard Times party.
State Normal School Journal, February 2, 1923

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about a rally in support of the school's debate teams, the use of movie proceeds to support the student loan fund, the men's basketball season, the student production of The Shop of a Thousand Dreams, an "oriental" themed informal dance, a nutrition clinic, and the program for pianist Charles Wakefield Cadman's concert.
State Normal School Journal, February 9, 1923

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about the upcoming Men's Banquet, the men's basketball season, a call to young men to prepare themselves for adulthood, winter quarter graduates, a student production of Tea for Three, a new campus club for red heads, the completion of an athletic field, the expansion of the library collection, and the women's basketball season.
State Normal School Journal, February 16, 1923

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about the men's basketball season including an upcoming game against the Minneapolis Globe Trotters, an upcoming lecture by Berkeley, California superintendent Dr. H.B. Wilson, the women's basketball season, the appointment of alumnus M.E. Brown as Deputy County Superintendent, an upcoming meeting of the Inland Empire Teachers' Association at the Normal School, a lecture by Frank H. Arnold on penmanship methods, a meeting of a group called Inland Empire Scientists, and the acquisition of 200 books about Indian legends.
State Normal School Journal, February 23, 1923

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about the annual high school basketball tournament hosted by the Normal School, the men's basketball defeats to Bellingham Normal School and the Minneapolis Globe Trotters, a lecture by Berkeley, California superintendent H.B. Wilson on a progressive educational program, the women's basketball Spokane conference championship, President Noah D. Showlater's birthday, a bill introduced in the Washington State Senate authorizing Normal Schools to grant four-year degrees, a screening of The Glory of Clementina, and a Lyceum concert by soprano Ethelynde Smith.
State Normal School Journal, March 2, 1923

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about the annual high school basketball tournament, a debate between Bellingham, Ellensburg, and Cheney debate clubs, the men's basketball Spokane conference championship, a new class in scout work, class day exercises, the colonial theme of the formal dance, an upcoming screening of Grandma's Boy, the proportion of female students with bobbed hair, geography clubs created in the wake of the one created at Cheney Normal School, and a new YMCA organization called A Better Day Club.
State Normal School Journal, March 9, 1923

State Normal School (Cheney, Wash.). Associated Students.

This issue includes articles about the upcoming Junior Jamboree, Fairfield's victory in the high school basketball tournament hosted by the Normal School, Bellingham Normal School's victory in the debate contest with Cheney and Ellensburg Normal Schools, a recital by June Saunders, a physical examination given to male students at the Normal School in November 1922, efforts to create a permanent scholarship fund, a new acquisition of 559 books by the library, and teaching in Alaska.