By Celina Kareiva — Today — 11 comments
Rita Hester was stabbed to death in her own home on Nov.

By Lexie Krell — Today
From stolen family heirlooms to intoxicated students, this weekly crime blotter aims to inform readers about offenses on and surrounding campus.

By Katie McVicker — Today
University purchases Alumni House for possible development

By Brian Byrnes — Yesterday
Voted-down amendment keeps liquor on lock down

By Katie McVicker — Yesterday
In an executive committee meeting of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) last night, GPSS President Jake Faleschini announced that university officials decided to pull the graduate-degree fee proposal from the agenda of today’s Board of Regents meeting.

By Celina Kareiva — Yesterday
Quarterly debate ‘friendly’ but ‘combative’

By Morgan Gard — November 18, 2009
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN QUITS KINDLES The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s daily newspaper The Badger Herald is reporting that after just a couple of months, the school will drop its support of the Kindle device in replacing textbooks.

By Katie McVicker — November 18, 2009 — 5 comments
The Graduate School proposes new fee for graduation applications

By Joanna Nolasco — November 18, 2009 — 2 comments
Mary Gates Hall (MGH) is set to undergo restructuring, which is expected to streamline advising services and bring diversity to the center of campus.

By Joanna Nolasco — November 17, 2009
The ASUW Senate plans to discuss a resolution today that supports a Congress bill that, if enacted, will take away federal subsidies from private lenders and allow the government to use the extra funds to increase grant money for students, among other education investments.

By Daily Photo — November 17, 2009
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By Kaetlyn Cordingley — November 17, 2009
Five UW science students spent last summer contributing to the next frontier in synthetic biology.

By Lexie Krell — November 17, 2009
Retired SPD officers take over traffic control for campus construction

By Morgan Gard — November 17, 2009 — 1 comment
HOPE BREWING IN NIGERIAN PEACE TALKS Al-Jazeera reported that the Nigerian government’s meetings with the militant group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) have proved “frank and fruitful,” said a spokesperson for the Nigerian president.

By Christine Michelle Brauer — November 16, 2009 — 1 comment
Jesus Alejandre is a senior at Foster High School in Tukwila and hopes to be the first in his family to go to college.

By Lexie Krell — November 16, 2009
Freshman Negheen Kamkar has never visited Palestine before, but last weekend she found herself speaking on the country’s behalf at the Northwest Model United Nations Conference, finding solutions to world issues with other students from across the country.

By Lexie Krell — November 16, 2009 — 1 comment
Students north of Northeast 45th Street may be used to seeing officers patrolling the U-District, but this year they may start to recognize some familiar faces.

By Matthew Jackson — November 16, 2009
Mass. — A high school in Massachusetts has classified the word “meep” as a “four-letter word” in response to repeated classroom disruption.

By Katie McVicker — November 16, 2009 — 2 comments
The university sets the stage to restructure its business model from two years to two decades, in response to reduced public funding