The ASUW is relevant to every student on campus. Its leaders advocate for affordable tuition and work with professors and the administration to get us a better education. To build community and make campus come alive, it puts on concerts and films, and coordinates and funds a variety of other events. It provides financing to [...]

October 27th, 2008 by Jason

As exciting as the races for the White House, the Governor’s Mansion, and other prestigious places of residence are there are a few other things a little further down this year’s ballot which merit attention. Today I would like to highlight Sound Transit Proposition 1.
This proposition will expand the currently under construction regional light-rail system [...]

October 20th, 2008 by Aurelius

Today the Seattle Times will be publishing its second endorsement of Dino Rossi for Washington State Governor. The newspaper endorsed Rossi in 2004 when he was running against Christine Gregoire for the open seat left by Gary Locke.
After reading the endorsement, it is clear that the economy is a big issue for the Times. They [...]

October 19th, 2008 by Aurelius

While discussing the ASUW with the same ASUWer mentioned in last night’s post, we hit upon the topic of the Director of Community Relations. The simple fact is that this one person is required to reach out to all the communities on the University Campus. This means he is to reach out to the Residence [...]

October 16th, 2008 by Phelix

ARTICLE IX
COMMISSIONS OF THE ASUW
SECTION 1: PURPOSE
Commissions of the ASUW exist for the purpose of representing students and organizations that have faced
historical or social discrimination. The Commissions will also provide services and programming of benefit to those represented by the Commissions and creating exposure for the rest of the campus community.
I recently sat down with [...]

October 15th, 2008 by Phelix

Today many countries throughout the Americas are ‘celebrating’ the day that Christopher Columbus first landed on the shores of the New World. For centuries this holiday has been cherished with pride by people of European decent throughout North and South America and hailed as one of the most important days in Western Civilization. More recently [...]

October 13th, 2008 by Aurelius

I’ve not found any good examples of conservative satire, but I did come across a very liberal guy who made me giggle repeatedly.
The Man, the Myth, the McCain, by Roy Zimmerman
Is America Ready, by Roy Zimmerman
Eine Kleine Barakmusik, by Roy Zimmerman
After watching these three examples, and many others on Youtube, I began to wonder why [...]

October 12th, 2008 by Phelix

I am a supporter of the belief that students, high school, college, and the like, should have the right to produce and release newspapers, magazines, and other types of Press without direct editorial influence from the administration. High School and College are the training grounds for the bigger world out there, and so putting a [...]

October 11th, 2008 by Phelix