We're Number One! (Though "One" Is a Relativist Concept)

Here at Seattlest, we yawn when you discuss the "Rose" Bowl, or the Final "Four." The moment we wait for to validate our University of Washington pride comes every January, when the Peace Corps announces which U.S. university provided the most Peace Corps volunteers.

U-Dub! U-Dub! That's right! Even if we're innumerable places behind them in the NCAA basketball rankings, we finally beat out Wisconsin-Madison in the competition for being the school that sends the most graduates to foreign countries to help poor children learn to wipe themselves or eat with forks or whatever.

110 University of Washington grads are serving in the Peace Corps, and only 106 Wisc.-Madison Beavers. Bow Down to Washington, motherfuckers!

Also, University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, is #1 among small schools. So, if you should stay in Seattle in the near future, you'd better get busy coaching a juvi basketball team or volunteering at a battered women's shelter, because your stories about seeing The Shins at Key Arena are about to get trumped.