December 8, 2008Check out some of Seattle's top December festivities
December 8, 2008I’m the kind of person who peruses wikitravel regularly.
December 8, 2008If you’re the type who throws every ounce of yourself into the holiday spirit, chances are you’ve already heard of, read, or watched some of these holiday favorites.
December 4, 2008Japanese exchange student program connects human rights to real life
November 17, 2008Several thousand marched in a sea of signs and flags from Volunteer Park to Westlake Saturday to protest the passage of California’s Proposition 8, which defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
November 13, 2008A memorial service held in Kane Hall yesterday for In Soo Chun, the former UW employee who lit himself on fire in Red Square Oct.
November 12, 2008A memorial service will be held today for In Soo Chun, the former UW staff member who lit himself on fire Oct.
November 6, 2008Guess what? Your major probably doesn’t matter.
November 4, 2008The former UW employee who lit himself on fire in Red Square last Thursday has been indentified as In Soo Chun, 61, authorities from the King County Medical Examiner released today.
October 31, 2008Where can you go in Seattle to see the spirits of children playing with their toys? Or ghostly youngsters appearing in windows near their broken headstones?
October 31, 2008A man was rushed by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center yesterday in critical condition after his body was engulfed in flames in the middle of Red Square at about 1:15 p.m. He died later yesterday afternoon.
October 29, 2008Nearly a year after her British roommate Meredith Kercher was found dead in their apartment in Perugia, Italy, former UW student Amanda Knox was indicted on charges of murder and sexual violence in an Italian court yesterday.
October 13, 2008There were a lot of reasons why I decided to go to Morocco.
October 9, 2008 Indian food and I go way back.
June 6, 2008My heart is pounding faster than it ever has before.
June 2, 2008The United States comprises only 2 percent of people like me — people of mixed race, that is.
May 5, 2008After more than six months of planning, organizing and rehearsing, the seventh annual Culture Night hosted by the Korean Student Union (KSU) and the Korean Student Association (KSA) debuted on Saturday amid a kaleidoscope of music, dance and fashion.
April 24, 2008The stars of the stoner comedy chat about college, race and Indiana Jones
April 8, 2008Nestled inside of Guthrie Hall, the psychology bar laboratory offers drinks, music and government-funded research
March 12, 2008Twelve Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity members found themselves without a home this weekend, after a formal disciplinary hearing from the national chapter evicted the students without explanation.
February 26, 2008A man charged with two University District robberies in December may also be linked to the Jan.
February 11, 2008Voters around the U-District turned out in droves Saturday to show their support for the presidential candidates of their choice.
January 30, 2008Yesterday at about 11:45 a.m., heavy winds caused a tree along the Burke-Gilman Trail to break in half, nearly striking a cyclist and pedestrians.
January 29, 2008Nearly two months after UW study abroad student Amanda Knox was taken into custody for her alleged involvement in the murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, her family is finally breaking its silence.
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December 7, 2007Italian police officials arrested Ivory Coast native Rudy Hermann Guede, 20, yesterday after he was extradited from Germany to Italy for his involvement in the murder of British study abroad student Meredith Kercher, according to a Dec. 6 article on CNN.com ("Kercher murder suspect extradited").
December 5, 2007A former UW scientist fabricated AIDS research by altering images and fabricating data, according to an investigation report made public through the efforts of The Seattle Times.
December 3, 2007Online shopping giant Amazon.com debuted their new electronic reading device, the Kindle, which has the potential to change the future of reading.
December 3, 2007Despite continued protestations of innocence, Knox and Italian student Raffaele Sollecito will remain in jail without bail until the case is resolved, a three-judge panel ruled Friday.
November 27, 2007Amanda Knox, the UW student held in custody in Italy for her possible role in the murder of her British roommate, is as puzzled as the rest of us, according to a Nov.
November 26, 2007Italian police have named Ivory Coast native Rudy Hermann Guede as the newest suspect in British student Meredith Kercher's Nov.
November 21, 2007Thanks to the popularity of movies like Hotel Rwanda, most Americans are vaguely familiar with the 1994 genocide that took place in the central African country of Rwanda, but few are aware of the mass slaughters that occurred in neighboring Burundi and the Congo.
November 20, 2007UW's President Mark Emmert got a pay raise this week. Most consider a $150,000 salary something to be envied, but when people hear that $150,000 isn't the paycheck but the raise, some get angry.
November 20, 2007A warrant for the arrest of a fourth suspect in the murder of British study abroad student Meredith Kercher, roommate of UW student and suspect Amanda Knox, has been released, according to Perugian public prosecutor Giuliano Mignini in a Nov.
November 19, 2007I'm talking, of course, about the day after Thanksgiving, coined in the '70s as "Black Friday," a day when stores open their doors at the crack of dawn promoting "One-Day Only" sales.
November 16, 2007A forensics team in Italy has found DNA evidence linking UW student Amanda Knox with her British roommate Meredith Kercher, who was found dead in their apartment Nov.
November 15, 2007Wise, also the UW's executive vice president, made it clear that the UW is interested in playing a larger role in preserving the global environment by implementing a college that will bring together the dispersed efforts the University has already taken.
November 14, 2007Surveillance cameras prove that UW study abroad student Amanda Knox had entered her house on the night of her British roommate Meredith Kercher's death, according to a Nov. 13 Seattle Times article ("Video disputes Knox claim").
November 13, 2007UW study abroad student Amanda Knox, held in custody in Italy for her possible role in the death of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, may be detained for up to a year while police sort through the investigation.
November 9, 2007As far as holidays go, Veterans Day flies under the radar for most people as simply a three-day weekend marking time until Thanksgiving.
November 9, 2007"We were essentially left out there to fend for ourselves," said senior Andrew Rakestraw, a program participant.
November 9, 2007Knox has been held in Italian custody since Tuesday, along with suspects Raffaele Sollecito, an Italian student, and Diya "Patrick" Lumumba, a Congolese immigrant, for her possible involvement in the murder of Kercher, her roommate.
November 8, 2007Amanda Knox, the UW student being held for questioning for her possible role in the murder of her English roommate, Meredith Kercher, spent her first night in an Italian penitentiary Nov.
November 7, 2007When gazing at Balmer Hall, the location of the Michael G.
November 7, 2007UW junior Amanda Knox is one of three people being questioned by Italian police for her possible involvement in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, according to a Nov. 6 BBC News report ("Three quizzed over student death").
October 31, 2007Seventy percent of the world's poor is female.
October 30, 2007With Halloween weekend behind us, most college students have already been subject to the plethora of slutty female costumes running around half naked. From sexy kittens to naughty nurses, Halloween has become a holiday for girls to celebrate their inner skank.
October 23, 2007Lack of child care funding was an issue of contention at last week's Board of Regents meeting, where faculty members lobbied for an additional $250,000 in the supplemental budget request to expand access to child care.
October 19, 2007The search for the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences continued with presentation and interviews of candidate Ana Mari Cauce, executive vice provost, yesterday at Kane Hall.
October 19, 2007By fall of 2009, Huskies will be able to enjoy a more energy efficient Savery Hall.
October 16, 2007President Mark Emmert will deliver his annual add-ress to the UW campus today at 3:30 p.m. in Kane 130.
October 15, 2007For some of us, this isn't such an unusual thing.
October 15, 2007Faced with the looming revocation of its liquor license, Tommy's Night Club and Grill closed its doors for good Friday.
October 15, 2007UWPD officers are beginning to clamp down on bicycle safety laws, enforcing fines for everything from not wearing your helmet to "unsafe/negligent" speeding.
October 12, 2007A UW professor at the forefront of a divisive medical procedure committed suicide Sept. 30.
October 11, 2007Huskies may soon have a new place to call home. Future college students will get the opportunity to study at one of the four finalist sites for the location of a new UW campus north of Seattle.
October 9, 2007Three new department chairs have been named within the School of Medicine, including the appointment of Dr. Russell Van Gelder from Washington University in St. Louis.
October 8, 2007More than 350 students went hungry Friday in a show of support for the Muslim Student Association's (MSA) annual Fast-A-Thon.
October 8, 2007Olympic National Park officials are suggesting raising the parking cost at Washington state's Hurricane Ridge and Hoh Rain Forest from $15 to $25, according to a Seattle Times article.
October 5, 2007Janet Brodsky, who worked with Harborview Medical Center's trauma unit, was appointed the new program manager for the VPRP.
October 4, 2007One of the major changes is the selection of professor Craig Benson, who works at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
October 3, 2007
October 1, 2007When most people think of Africa, they think of AIDS, poverty, malaria, war or maybe Oprah and Angelina Jolie, wild animals, jungles and starving children, red bracelets, Darfur and Hotel Rwanda.
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September 27, 2007The excavation of a sculpture outside Foege Hall has onlookers stumped
September 26, 2007UW faculty member Sherry Laing died unexpectedly Sept. 17 of a seizure while attending a conference in the Communications building.
September 24, 2007The UW Men's basketball team visited Seattle's Union Gospel Mission (UGM) to feed meals to the homeless September 18 and 20.
August 1, 2007College students know less about American history and government by the time they finish school than when they first entered, according to a report released by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI).
July 18, 2007The Arthead Gallery in Wallingford will soon show the work of world-famous Peruvian painter and carver Felix Espinoza. Espinoza was born with only one leg and no forearms, so he paints and carves with his mouth and foot. "I think I was born an artist," Espinoza said. "I paint with the mouth and sometimes with the foot, to exercise it. . . . I paint for more than 40 years. This is my life, no?"
July 11, 2007Children born to mothers who experience secondhand smoke exposure in their second and third trimesters are more likely to develop behavioral and psychological problems, according to a recent UW study. Psychologists Dr. Lisa Kopp and Theodore Beauchaine studied the effects of secondhand smoke on chidren of women who were exposed "chronically" to cigarette smoke at home or in the workplace during their pregnancy.
June 27, 2007No arrests have been made in the series of burglaries to hit the U-District early last week, according to the Seattle Police Department (SPD). The suspect broke into six stores, including Häagen-Dazs on Northeast 43rd Street and University Way Northeaset. The serial burglar was caught on surveillance tape taking more than $200 from the register.
June 20, 2007The UW Athletics Department fired women's rowing coach Eleanor McElvaine last Wednesday with one year remaining on her contract. "I feel that it is in the best interests of the long-term direction for the Husky women's crew to make a change," UW Athletic Director Todd Turner said in a statement. "Eleanor will always be a valued member of the Washington athletics community, and I wish her nothing but the best moving forward."
May 25, 2007Two Delta Gamma sorority members were followed home and watched through their windows in the latest string of violent and suspicious occurrences in the U-District.
May 21, 2007The increased wealth of information online has lead to a growing temptation to plagiarize, reported a recent study conducted by the UW Faculty Council on Educational Technology.
May 21, 2007From the equality of women in Tanzania to the new Human Cytomegalovirus double-stranded RNA-binding proteins, students learned about a variety of topics at Friday's Undergraduate Research Symposium in Mary Gates Hall.
May 18, 2007Students and faculty will have a chance to learn about Cuban music since the fall of the Soviet Union, gender differences in engineering education and robots that detect wear in power cables, as Mary Gates Hall hosts the 10th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium today.
May 16, 2007In another step toward lessening Seattle residents' reliance on automobiles, the Seattle City Council passed the Complete Streets ordinance late last month.
May 16, 2007For those who have never known what to do with the pile of used CDs, DVDs or batteries in their junk drawer, UW Recycling has implemented an "E-media" recycling initiative that will bring more electronic media recycling bins to various locations on campus.
May 15, 2007The policies behind faculty salary, including who gets paid what, when and how, have been an issue of contention among UW faculty and administration for the past several years, prompting lively debate and discussion late last month.
May 2, 2007This year, three students — Elizabeth Campbell, Jennifer Hahn and David Kim — are in the running to be the ASUW Director of Faculty, Administration and Academic Affairs.
May 1, 2007The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is asking students to start thinking about the future. That is, the future of transportation in and around the University District.
April 26, 2007As part of a project that has been in the works for some time, the UW Interfraternity Councils and Panhellenic Association are looking into adopting the streets north of the University as part of Seattle Public Utilities' "Adopt-A-Street" program.
April 23, 2007More than a dozen acclaimed authors gathered Saturday at the University of Washington club for the UW Friends of the Libraries' second annual Literary Voices dinner with keynote speaker Dr. Pepper Schwartz, a UW sociology professor and well-known "sex-pert."
April 19, 2007This Pioneer Square cookie shop is one of three in a Northwestern chain made popular by its enormous and oddly shaped cookies. Complete with an express window, passersby can stop for a quick (and cheap) nibble before continuing their shopping.
April 19, 2007One of the only places in the world where you can buy the original elephant-related artwork, Lanna Trading Company is an off-the-wall import store nestled near the waterfront in the heart of Pioneer Square.
April 19, 2007Translated as "Let's Do Pasta," this Italian osteria, or tavern, in Pioneer Square's Little Italy presents a charming foray into authentic Italian dining at a relatively cheap price.
April 19, 2007Situated at Main and Second, this secluded private park is a surprise treasure for anyone looking to steal a moment away from hectic city life.
April 16, 2007With a total of 81 performers, more than 1,000 audience members, 10 acts and four emcees, the UW's fifth annual South Asian performance showcase, Desi Dhamaka, was a success of color, music and dance Saturday night.
April 13, 2007Tomorrow night, the talents of dozens of UW South Asian students will be showcased in the largest South Asian cultural show in the Pacific Northwest: the UW's annual Desi Dhamaka.
April 12, 2007This simple park nestled at the fringe of Fremont, right along Lake Union and the ship canal, may not be an ideal spot for rambunctious children to play, as they'd probably fall into the lake or trip on the wide stairs leading down to it.
April 12, 2007e.t.g., the smallest coffee shop in Fremont, has been around for more than two decades.
April 12, 2007Situated right next to Ophelia's Books is Jive Time Records, a brightly colored, mostly used vinyl store.
April 12, 2007Need a book for that obscure literature class or childhood Magic School Bus collection? Look no further in Fremont then Ophelia's Books.
April 12, 2007This trendy and oddly shaped eatery fits right in at the center of Fremont, not too far from the "official" signpost denoting the "Center of the Universe." The bar/restaurant boasts a modest menu, and the atmosphere is somewhat inviting, with attractive and aesthetically pleasing seating arrangements.
April 11, 2007The issue of U-District housing has led several University Park Community Club (UPCC) members to question the legality of homes in the area.
April 10, 2007In the year that former UW student Patrick Hayes* lived in his 10 bedroom U-District house, he saw his landlord, Bill Budigan, twice. Hayes admits he purposefully avoided his neighbors, yet he frequently saw the police.
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February 15, 2007"All women secretly love talking about their vaginas."
February 13, 2007As Valentine's Day approaches, UW Earth Club members are asking students to think critically about the flowers they buy for the special day.
February 1, 2007Sometimes you have to know when to let go.
January 29, 2007The UW Earth Club hosted its second-annual Environmental Poetry Night Friday at the Trabant Chai Lounge on 45th Avenue, featuring poetry readings from professional Northwest poets.
January 25, 2007A question of benefit is slowing the progress of a Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) program to put recycling bins on University Way.
January 22, 2007Members of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) met Saturday morning at the UW for their annual Washington Conference to discuss the issue of presidential pay and the excessive use of contingent and adjunct faculty.
January 18, 2007The other night I surprised myself.
January 12, 2007Imagine the trip downtown from the University District taking nine minutes instead of 25 minutes or up to an hour.
January 3, 2007The Dec. 10 shooting on 17th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 55th Street was the latest in a string of violence this past fall, which has raised concerns of students, residents and police officials alike.
November 14, 2006Every Saturday from early May until late December, the Ave. gets a little pick-me-up in the form of the U-District Farmer's Market. A staple of the area since 1993, this farmer's market is the largest one in the state. There are questions, however, as to how long it may be around.
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