December 4, 2008On Thanksgiving Day, The Seattle Times printed a list of reasons to be thankful.
November 13, 2008I wish Christianity was sexy cool.
October 30, 2008Next Tuesday, Christians will vote for Ralph Nader.
October 16, 2008The starting point for the Christian church is marked by Jesus being brutally scourged to the point of death and then nailed to some boards to suffocate in his own blood.
October 2, 2008When Christians become proud of their religion, they reject the heart of the Gospel.
May 21, 2008What is fasting, and why do you do it?
May 7, 2008What’s your faith’s view of the afterlife?
April 23, 2008Do interfaith dialogues actually work?
April 9, 2008Judaism: I’ve noticed a growing trend in popular music, that is, a Jewish trend.
April 2, 2008Board of Regents approve plan to raise dorm fees to pay for $850 million project
March 12, 2008In 1981, a New York Times medical reporter wrote about a rare illness found in 41 homosexual men.
March 12, 2008Every week, every day, every hour is “adverse” in the life of a Jew. Unfortunately, this has been the case throughout history. Just last week, a madman barged into Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav, a religious school in Jerusalem, and took the lives of eight young boys studying the Torah.
March 10, 2008In October 2001, William H. Gates addressed a group of about 90 friends and fellow UW contributors at a dinner at President Mark Emmert’s mansion.
March 4, 2008At first I was confused, then mad, then just annoyed.
February 27, 2008Judaism It would be unfair to say that in order to have a relationship with G-d and to go to heaven one must be Jewish.
February 19, 2008The historic brick is framed with clean white trim. Elegant woodwork lines the half-rotunda front porch, speaking of an old type of wealth, the sort where memories are passed down house by house.
February 13, 2008You may find it hard to believe, but Muslims do have sex. Not only do they have sex, but Muslims have guidelines about it: providing limits and advice so that our actions please God.
February 6, 2008Gov. Chris Gregoire proposed a six-lane rebuild of the SR 520 bridge at a press conference in December—a project that could be estimated to be no less than a 10-year, $5 billion renovation.
January 30, 2008Three columnists choose their favorite prophets.
January 25, 2008Compared to the nation’s 12.8 percent average, blacks make up only 1.9 percent of UW faculty, according to the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity.
January 16, 2008Islam: The phrase “science does not contradict Islam” is often tossed around by Muslims, but how accurate is it? When dealing with Islam, it’s difficult for me to generalize.
December 7, 2007My grandma once told me there are two types of people in this world: givers and takers.
December 5, 2007A difficult part about having a child with Asperger Syndrome, commonly referred to as Asperger's, a mild form of autism, is getting a diagnosis.
November 29, 2007In 1959, Fidel Castro led the Cuban revolution that overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista.
November 26, 2007Phyllis Wise, UW provost and executive vice president, announced she has selected Ana Mari Cauce, an in-house professor and administrator, to as dean of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences.
November 21, 2007Being unable to decide if we were more thankful for cute shoes or pigs-in-a-blanket, we decided to reach a bit deeper into our gratitude and share what we're sincerely thankful for at The Daily.
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 15, 2007Tall, vanilla latte... Hmm, how about a double-ristretto, half-caf, tall, non-fat, 155-degree, 1.5-pump-vanilla, extra-foamy latte.
October 26, 2007Running Start, a program that allows high school students to take college courses that coincide with high school diplomas, ran state community colleges $35 million into the red last year.
October 22, 2007With all the new perks from Architecture Hall's $25 million renovation, it's easy to overlook that the major goal was to keep the building standing.
October 22, 2007The University of Washington is in the planning stages of developing a college for the study of the environment, said the UW's President Mark Emmert in a Board of Regents meeting Thursday.
October 18, 2007The UW Police Department has a map of the U-District with multi-color pins pushed into places of recent crimes. On the map's north border, a cluster of pins also marks the residences of sex offenders.
October 16, 2007This November, lawmakers are proposing a sales tax and annual car tax increase to pay for a transit infrastructure improvements, including light-rail, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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 11, 2007I graduated from a fundamentalist Christian high school that saw Harry Potter as the biggest threat to a child's healthy upbringing since the invention of birth control.
October 10, 2007After discovering a high concentration of sex offenders in the U-District, the UW is pushing state authorities to force 13 of the offenders to move, according to a Seattle Times article.
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.
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August 8, 2007I've always thought that if you studied something hard enough, you could make up for not actually experiencing it. I was even convinced that those looking in from the outside had the more accurate perspective, but on a recent trip to an orphanage in Tijuana I learned the importance of gaining an inside view.
July 18, 2007I remember the birth of Napster. The funny white cat with weird green eyes didn't remind me much of music, or napping for that matter, but it was a revelation. At the time my only album was a Jars of Clay tape, and I had just entered junior high knowing little more about music than my parents' Kenny G collection. This lack of exposure left me with little appreciation for good music.
July 4, 2007Sound Transit (ST) contractors recently began drilling 180-foot-deep holes in two Husky Stadium parking lots as part of the research phase for an underground light rail system, ST and UW officials said. The light rail, called U-Link, will run 3.15 miles through Capitol Hill to downtown Seattle.
June 20, 2007Early this June, after four months of investigation by undercover detectives, 12 students from three Federal Way high schools and two adults were arrested for selling drugs, including ecstasy, oxycodone and cocaine. They also sold rifles and semi-automatic handguns, The Seattle Times reported. In November 2003, police arrested three students at Redmond High School after the students sold illegal drugs to an undercover officer. All three were convicted the following year.
June 20, 2007Mount Kilimanjaro's glaciers are shrinking, but the cause may not have anything to do with global warming. UW climatologist Philip Mote said glaciers shrinking from global warming are found in middle to high latitudes. Since Kilimanjaro is located at such a low latitude, he said global warming may not be the cause.
June 1, 2007Digging among the mass of half-empty cups that cluttered my desk, I picked out a freshly poured glass of water. Then, slumping in my chair, I gazed at the mess; it had been a few days since I had been home long enough to do more than grab some water and go to bed.
May 25, 2007"I wish I was smart," my friend sighed as she hunched over a 6-inch-thick, ancient-Greek textbook. The irony was that we had just begun our third quarter of a language series so difficult that more than half the students dropped out by the end of the first quarter.
May 18, 2007Microloans are saving the world. At least the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided they were when it gave banker Muhammad Yunus the Nobel Peace Prize for starting a bank that helps "the poorest of the poor."
May 11, 2007Interest in religion and spirituality is on the upswing, professors, pastors and a New York Times article say. However, it seems that everyone has a different opinion of exactly what this means.
May 4, 2007It's a routine by now. Clear off the desk, take off the baseball cap, turn off the iPod and put away the note cards that you've been attempting to cram between your ears. It's test time, and the culture of the educational system has established more rules for test takers than the IRS has for taxpayers.
April 27, 2007One hundred fifty years ago, the Supreme Court passed a decision regarding a black slave named Dred Scott, declaring his suit for freedom invalid. The court ruled that because he was of black African descent, he was not allowed to be free, nor did he qualify for citizenship.
April 20, 2007Reflecting on Monday's horrific shootings at Virginia Tech and our own campus shooting just two weeks ago, I find that incidents like these stir in us deeply ingrained grief and confusion over how a good God would allow such terrible tragedies to play out.
April 13, 2007Feb. 23, Washington state's Department of Corrections (DOC) released 82 convicts solely because there was no place for them in the prisons.
March 30, 2007For a moment, I'd like to take the debate of gun rights from the hands of the trigger-happy, NRA rednecks and the drugged-out, let's-protest-everything hippies, and put it into the hands of the average family with more than a gun locker and a VW van to protect.
March 2, 2007So for the sake of those who prefer the entertaining news style of The Daily Show over, let's say, Fox News' style of relentless bantering but want to avoid an honest but liberal slant, this show provides a much-needed outlet.
February 16, 2007With midterms phasing out and scores pouring in, I'm sure most of us have at least considered challenging our grades.
February 2, 2007After spending four months trekking to school in rainstorms and on sheets of ice, this week's sweet turn of weather beckons us to take our dusty bikes from the shed and venture into the sunny streets to breathe in the crisp air and blue sky.
January 19, 2007I need a fix — what comes to mind first, coffee or drugs?
January 5, 2007When I opened the door to the garage, a sound of rushing rodents followed the falling ceiling tiles as they bounced one after another across the room.
December 4, 2006An experimental surgery used by University of Washington cardiologists more than nine years ago has proven itself effective in extending and improving the life of a West Seattle man.
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