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Rory Blanche had a game-high 15 points on 7-of-8 field-goal shooting to lead eight Vikings in double figures as Western Washington University rolled to a 109-49 win over Quest University, B.C., in a men's basketball exhibition game on Monday, Nov. 1, in Sam Carver Gym.
Western Washington University's Gibson Bardsley was selected Great Northwest Athletic Conference Men's Soccer Player of the Week for Oct. 24-30 on Monday, Nov. 1.
Bardsley scored two goals and had four assists in leading the Vikings to wins over Montana State Billings, 2-1, and Northwest Nazarene, 7-0. It is the second GNAC weekly honor for Bardsley this season and the third of his four-year career.
"It's a mirror of what you're going to see in Washington's Senate race: Larsen is really big on constituent service, bringing things back to the district, and the challenger is hammering on wasteful spending, wasteful spending," says Todd Donovan, a political science professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham.
Every year, the festival brings in guest directors from across North America to critique the bands and help them improve. This year the guest directors for the jazz bands are Randy Halberstand from Cornish College in Washington and Vern Dorge from Humber College in Toronto. The concert band directors are Dr. Fraser Link from the University of Manitoba and Christopher Bianco from Western Washington University.
It’s easy to see how conflict could arise from asking people with communication differences to interact regularly and, not only that, asking them to produce results.
Joseph Garcia teaches about these work style differences at Western Washington University. He is the director of the Karen W. Morse Institute for Leadership and the Bowman Distinguished Professor of Leadership Studies at Western Washington University.
Garcia said people have a tendency to reject communication styles they don’t know. Communication differences can lead people to talk past each other or possibly see each other as too cold or too touchy-feely. The way people talk about work — and even the world — can cause confusion and conflict, he said.
Everett Community College is joining six other colleges and universities to form the Northwest Higher Education Coalition, a group working together to increase higher education opportunities in northwestern Washington.
The coalition includes Bellingham Technical College, Everett Community College, Northwest Indian College, Olympic College, Skagit Valley College, Whatcom Community College and Western Washington University.
The group, initiated by WWU President Bruce Shepard, meets quarterly to discuss how colleges can share resources and ideas, one of several ways the colleges are working together to become more efficient and enhance the impact of higher education in northwestern Washington.
No matter what's happening in the economy, business gets done through personal interaction. In Bellingham there's an interesting class that's been helping business owners and Western business students learn the art of creating that connection with a client.
Earlier this month I dropped in on a BizProv class at the Upfront Theatre in downtown Bellingham. Taught by Galen Emanuele, the business skills class I observed was with a group of Western Washington University students in the MBA program. For the past year Emanuele has also been working one-on-one with business leaders, as well as groups of employees, to improve communication through improvisation.
More than 150 costumed Western Washington University students will be waiting to welcome local trick-or-treaters in the Ridgeway University Residences complex from 6-8 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 31.
Middle blocker Emily Jepsen had match highs of 13 kills on 18 attempts with just two errors for a hitting percentage of .611 as nationally ranked Western Washington University swept Simon Fraser University 25-16, 25-12, 25-11 in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference volleyball match Saturday, Oct. 30, at Sam Carver Gymnasium on the WWU campus.
Backers of a proposal to expand North Cascades National Park - perhaps by some 304,000 acres - will speak in Bellingham in the coming days.
Called the American Alps Legacy Project, the initiative is led by the North Cascades Conservation Council, The Mountaineers and other partners. They said it would complete the conservation and historical vision for the park, which was created on Oct. 2, 1968.
The free talks are:
• 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, Communications Facility Room 105 at Western Washington University. Part of WWU's Huxley College of Environment Speaker Series.
• 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, in the community room at REI, 400 36th St. Organized by the Mount Baker Club.