College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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| Undisclosed donors pump millions into state campaigns | A gold rush of local election-season advertising is pouring into Seattle media outlets, raising questions in some cases about who is trying to influence voters. |
2010-10-12 | |
| 'Perfect Storm' Could Pin Senate Majority on Late Washington State Returns | In seven of those races, the Republican candidates hold modest-to-comfortable-to-double-digit leads. The three uber-toss ups are Nevada, Illinois and Washington. Not only is Washington the last of those to close, with polls shuttering at 11 p.m. ET, the state's voting rules and reputation… |
2010-10-08 | |
| Independent interest groups starting to pour money into 3rd District race | Such "soft money" spending is hard to track. It's even more difficult to determine who is behind it. "You can't just go to the Federal Elections Commission to easily find where they're spending the money," said Todd Donovan, a Western Washington… |
2010-10-07 | |
| Walking with the people of East Timor | Sister Julia Shideler had no idea what to expect as Afina, one of her students in East Timor, led her on a four-hour walk to her home village in the mountains. When they got there, many of Afina’s relatives and neighbors were happily surprised that Shideler had walked all the way to visit them.… |
2010-10-07 | |
| Sequim Gazette names Dashiell its new editor | Michael Dashiell is the new editor of the Sequim Gazette, newspaper managers announced this week. |
2010-10-06 | |
| Olympia's new shape | There’s no doubt the national concern about the economy is “going to cream some incumbents,” said Todd Donovan, a political science professor at Western Washington University. But he said Democrats could do better than they did in the primary, when GOP turnout was likely boosted by a… |
2010-10-05 | |
| Special Collections open for student study, research atop Wilson Library | 2010-10-04 | ||
| Cohabitation before marriage risky | The U.S. divorce rate has held steady at 45 percent since 1981. Jay Teachman, a sociology professor at Western Washington University, said age (older than 26) and education (a bachelor's degree) are far more important predictors of marital success than cohabitation, which he believes… |
2010-09-28 | |
| WWU's Ira Hyman to present Turning Points lecture on 'inattentional blindness' Oct. 20 | 2010-09-28 | ||
| Women bankers and the glass ceiling | Others claim that women think that they want to focus on their career, but in reality choose family over career. |
2010-09-23 |