Results tagged “uwdaily”

In this guest editorial, Chris Kaasa, a senior at the University of Washington, responds to John Fay's controversial pro-Prop 8 article, published last week in the UW Daily.

Football is measured in coaching eras. The Don James era, for example. But within those are a subset of mini-eras, belonging to the team's starting quarterback. Tonight the Huskies start probably the most anticipated mini-era in team history: The Jake Locker Era.

That's how we'd put it. But the snorer terminology that University of Washingon researchers are using is mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP). Scientists do not know how to package things, that's all.

It's been some time since Seattlest has seen the inside of a frat house so we can't be entirely certain that the standard options package includes a dancing pole in the basement, but we can tell you that this video produced by the UW Daily is probably not going to challenge your assumptions on Greek Life circa 2007.

Let's lead with last month's autism news: the UW Daily reports that "an international autism study group, with the help of UW scientists, found a gene linked to a child’s chance of having autism." But before you get too worked up, they also mention that: "Scientists believe there may be anywhere from five to 15 major genes that must come together to contribute to autism, as well as an additional 30 - 40 minor genes."

Look, Nickels, a little strategy for ya. A little Tao of tunneling. You want a tunnel that bad, you gotta go with the flow of where the tunnel wants to go. Screw the waterfront thing that was crazy. But here you go -- concerned citizen Craig Dalby has found you a place for a new tunnel: the Montlake Cut.

Naturally, it's not without controversy. Apparently, if you do the monologue titled "The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could" these days, you have to leave out the line "If it was rape, it was good rape," from a woman recalling her teenage experience with an older woman. Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. For ourselves, we found "Because He Liked to Look At It" particularly relatable. This year's production features a scene called "Crooked Braid" that they haven't done before.

To which the first question is, What the hell's a Seattle Examiner? It turns out to be part of Qwest billionaire and conservative Christian Philip Anschutz's online media empire: 22 U.S. cities now have Examiners. (Though there look to be Examiner staff on-the-ground in only four: Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Denver, and San Francisco.) Who knew? This is what happens when we don't have Mossback to kick around any more.

The Seattle Public Library hosted 'A Salute to Tim Egan' last night at the inconvenient hour of 5:30 PM.

Seattlest lives a neighborhood over from the University of Washington, and in our day to day lives we're kind of ambivalent about that fact, but every now and then we really think about it and we're happy to be in close proximity to such a large and distinguished house of knowledge. They teach stuff there, and more than that, they learn stuff. Science, language, the arts, and the inexorable forward motion of the human condition happening just a few streets over, 24/7!

-We haven't heard when they're going to move it down here, but it's reported that a Seattle company is buying heavily into The Pearl.

For some reason our collegiate system places very few demands on the time of its participants. Undergrads may not believe this, aspiring undergrads couldn't be convinced of it, but post-college types generally admit that those five years were scheduled pretty lightly. Not that there weren't commitments. Parties had to be attended. Frisbees had to be thrown. Bongs have evolved, but they have yet to smoke themselves. And there's no better environment for game playing than the residence hall. Bar none.

The Huskies have apparently stunk up their digs in North Seattle to such a degree that the athletic department has started working towards renovating the stadium. It is important, of course, that there be shiny new luxury boxes to view the triumph from when (and if) the team gets back on track. HOK Sport is currently discussing new designs with the university.

Kids, the places a prestigious UW economics degree can take you are limited only by your imagination. While new lows in advertising are hardly news and homeless exploitation depends on exactly this kind of coverage, we're reporting anyway on "Bumvertising" in which area panhandlers are paid to add marketing messages to their signage.

University of Washington officials thought long and hard about how to couch the messaging when they floated a "Hey, wanna double or triple tuition?" balloon. What they came up with was "a Robin Hood plan."