College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Mr. Hune was a very insightful teacher. In my ninth-grade yearbook he wrote “to a future newspaper reporter.”
How did he know?
I do not believe Mr. Hune, who taught the newspaper class at my junior high school, realized I would later venture into an enjoyable career…

Monroe voters like their members of Congress to be Republican. But for a dozen years, they've gone without.

That streak could end this fall.

As a result of redistricting, Monroe finds itself in a physically reshaped and…

Seattle novelist Amy Hatvany pays close attention to the way society ticks and how people interact with one another. That's probably why she pursued a degree in sociology at Western Washington University back in the 1990s, and it is certainly reflected in the subjects she has chosen to…

A little journalism lesson learned: Sometimes, the best way to find out about something is to stop talking to spokespeople — and start listening to their stomachs.

With spiking local gas prices being partially blamed on the Feb. 17 fire that swept through the BP…

Way across the county, in Charlottsville, Va., former college lacrosse player George Huguely V was convicted of second-degree murder Wednesday in the beating death of his former girlfriend.

Yeardley Love, a lacrosse player like her onetime boyfriend at the…