November 4, 2009
Incomplete poll data shows that Washington votes no on Initiative 1033, which would reduce state general fund revenues that support health, social, education and environmental serivces and cause disproportionate cuts to fall on universities.

October 29, 2009
UW’s new Center for Pain Relief gives medical students a new way to treat pain

August 19, 2009
The budget-cut discussions may have fizzled out since the Board of Regents voted on the final 2009-2010 budget in June, but budget cut woes are far from over.

July 8, 2009
Salvador Castillo stood in a crowd of other former swing-shift custodians on Monday, all gathered around a single clock-in station on the south UW campus — many still sleepy eyed, and some having gotten no sleep at all the night prior.

July 8, 2009
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) closed the I-90 floating bridge July 5 to replace 20-year-old cracked expansion joints, which engineers believe pose a potential safety risk.

June 24, 2009
Fire caused by overheated electrical cord

June 5, 2009
As the academic year comes to a close, the Office of Student Financial Aid is working hard to assemble preliminary modeling for next year’s financial aid.

June 3, 2009
Twice a year, UW Provost and Executive Vice President Phyllis Wise holds a town-hall meeting to address pertinent issues concerning the university community.

June 1, 2009
Today marks the day that nearly all 85 UW swing-shift custodians were slated to move to the day shift, a decision originally made by UW Custodial Services March 15 to help mitigate the 16 percent cut the department is facing.

May 29, 2009
A protest by UW custodians and their families yesterday made it clear to UW Custodial Services that swing-shift custodians would not move to the day shift without a fight.

May 28, 2009
At the start of spring quarter, students voiced concerns about the possibility of Odegaard Undergraduate Library cutting its 24-hour service if faced with 12 percent budget cuts.

May 21, 2009
Reserves used to diminish effects of cuts, three-fourths remains untouched

May 18, 2009
Burke 101 class breaks assumptions about drugs and money

May 14, 2009
Last week, a small group of students delivered a letter to UW President Mark Emmert’s office demanding an open forum to address recent budget cuts.

May 13, 2009
Last month, teaching assistants in the College of Arts & Sciences learned that 20 percent cuts in teaching assistant (TA) funding would take away positions, leaving some without a source of income, tuition waiver, health insurance and, in some cases, student visa.

May 7, 2009

May 6, 2009
Yesterday, a small but energetic group of 10 people, collectively making up the UW’s Anti-Budget Cut (ABC) Coalition, gathered in Red Square.

April 22, 2009
Shift change a matter of livelihood for swing-shift custodians

April 2, 2009
While students and staff at the UW await news of layoffs and tuition increases, Olympia has become a high-intensity arena of discussion, with all eyes on the recent budget proposals released earlier this week.

March 6, 2009
UW junior Eliot Hemingway thought carefully about which texts he wanted to present to the focus group he’s leading spring quarter.

March 6, 2009
Cecilia Gobin’s class was interrupted with a public announcement yesterday when a representative from the UW Tolo Chapter of the Mortar Board National College Honor Society came into her class to perform a “tapping” ceremony for Gobin, a tradition of acceptance and initiation into the society.

February 26, 2009
Financially, the UW has been getting hit hard lately.

February 23, 2009
The HUB Auditorium was packed wall-to-wall with students Friday at the 21st annual Asian Student Commission (ASC) Talent Show.

February 2, 2009
It was a snowy, blustery Seattle day.