May 31, 2007Mid-Sunday morning has come to Frat Row, and the sidewalks are littered with crushed red plastic keg cups and a wide assortment of fast-food wrappers and beer cans. And while some homeowners in the University District are looking on in disgust, many of the neighborhood's college-aged residents couldn't give a damn.
March 9, 2007For many adults, mean-spirited bullies and schoolyard taunts are just another item on a long list of angst-ridden and unavoidable teenage footnotes.
February 28, 2007Set to a backdrop of picket signs reading "you deserve hell" and "homo-sex is a sin," Washington state religious and gay-rights leaders held a rally in support of legislation extending domestic partnership rights to same-sex couples on Monday.
February 27, 2007Lawmakers in Olympia are attempting to combat student-parent college dropout levels through legislation aimed at offsetting the outstripping demand and sky-high costs of childcare.
February 16, 2007Dressed in purple and white UW Lobby Day T-shirts, students left the bus and walked straight to an empty conference room in the state's capitol. Wires dangled from the walls and the fluorescent lights flickered, but nobody came to meet the students.
February 14, 2007Apathy? What's apathy? Tomorrow, UW students will have the opportunity to prove to state lawmakers they care about more than partying by traveling to the state capitol in Olympia for the UW's annual Lobby Day.
February 13, 2007Progress on a bill giving college students a sales tax exemption on textbook purchases stalled in the state House Higher Education Committee Thursday. If approved by the legislature, the exemption would have eliminated sales tax from student textbook and course material purchases at all college-and university-affiliated bookstores.
February 6, 2007A proposal by Rep. Hans Dunshee, D-Snohomish, may enable Snohomish county residents to earn a UW degree in their own backyard — or, rather, their own community.
February 2, 2007A bill that would extend free press rights to all Washington state high school and college-level publications passed out of the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday and will now continue to the House Rules Committee.
January 31, 2007In response to the ASUW Student Senate's support for stricter governing of off-campus conduct in the state legislature, U-District community members hope to see the resolution's high standard of behavior become law.
January 19, 2007A bill proposed in the state legislature this week could make Washington the first state to extend full free-press protections to both high school and college-level student publications.
January 12, 2007
January 11, 2007Brendhan Bowers of Seattle band The Pharmacy knew he was in for more than he bargained for when the police officer asked him to step out of the van. A short while later, sitting in an Arizona jail cell, his only thoughts were about getting his band's van out of impound and making it to their next show on time.
January 10, 2007The craftsman-style house is partially built into the hillside, with a large basement that can be accessed either through a series of barn-style doors on the hill's steepest side.
January 3, 2007Tuition rates may be on the rise for UW students in coming years — that is, if a recent state budget proposal is not approved in the upcoming state Legislative session.
November 16, 2006
October 23, 2006The lights dimmed in the stage area of the Rickshaw Restaurant & Lounge as the modest crowd clapped and Tim Wilfong finished belting out the last few lines of Wild Cherry's 1976 smash hit, "Play That Funky Music White Boy."
