Best of the Northwest (3/3/05)

WSU basketballers Alex Kirk and Robbie Cowgill may have acted juvenile but they weren’t guilty of harassment in an incident involving an Asian student. The WSU news service released its report of the incident that has inflamed the Pullman campus here . Also, WSU Today has stories about campus members questioning the First Amendment in light of the harassment incident here , and prez V. Lane Rawlins agreeing to meet with protesters here .

Protesters marched around the Kootenai County Courthouse on Wednesday morning to show their concerns with the recent BNSF refueling depot/aquifer issues/Kathy Plonka photo.

1. David Horsey /PI doesn’t like Dubya’s No Child Left Behind Act here .

2. EWU’s cheerleaders and marching band are taking part in a movie starring Cuba Gooding Jr. , according to The Easterner, here .

3. Protesters against a proposed Wal-Mart development crowded a Pullman City Council meeting to lobby for their position here .

4. A group of about 40 North Idaho College students protested against the BNSF refueling depot at the Kootenai County Courthouse here .

5. The Idaho Statesman publishes its annual fishing guide to the state’s waterways here .

6. IMHO-NW: Tim Woodward /Statesman ( Locked out of the car ), Idaho Statesman ( Sen. Jack Noble ), Daily Evergreen ( Racial taunting ), Nicole Brodeur /Seattle Times ( Spurning the Sonics ), and Art Thiel /PI ( Neuheisel case ).

*Embattled Kuna Repub Sen. Jack Noble will learn where he stands with the Ethics Committee Friday morning here .

*Seattle’s new boppers got the M’s off to a fast start against San Diego in spring training here .

* Jamie Kelly /Missoulian riffs on bumpersnickers and deep psychoanalysis here .