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Forward Molly Shannon scored in the 28th minute as Western Washington University blanked Western Oregon University 1-0 in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference women's soccer game Saturday, Oct. 16, in Monmouth, Ore.
The Vikings improved to 9-2-2 overall and 6-2-1 in conference play as they rebounded from Thursday's 2-1 loss at Saint Martin's that wasn't decided until the final seconds.
Nationally ranked Western Washington University hit .385 and served 12 aces as it swept Saint Martin's University, 25-12, 25-15, 25-12, in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference volleyball match Saturday, Oct. 16, in Lacey that took just 1:13 to complete.
The Vikings, ranked No. 16 in this week's American Volleyball Coaches Association/NCAA Division II Top 25 Poll, improved to 13-2 overall and remained tied for first place in the GNAC with Seattle Pacific at 10-1. It was their fifth straight win and ran their consecutive set victories to 15.
The ways in which people fail to see what's in front of them when distracted by a task is the focus of a Wednesday, Oct. 20, talk by Ira Hyman, a psychology professor at Western Washington University.
His talk, "Unicycling Clowns, Train Wrecks and Pilots Forgetting to Land: Adventures in Inattentional Blindness," will start at 5:15 p.m. in Communications Facility 110, on campus. The free event is the first WWU Turning Points Faculty Lecture of the season.
Western Washington University has hit a record enrollment of nearly 15,000 students for the fall quarter.
Although the plan had been to hold enrollment to fall quarter 2009 levels, the school says overwhelming responses by admitted students as well as increased retention of current students resulted in an additional 400 students.
Fall enrollment at Western is 14,979 students, including all full-time, part-time, undergraduate and graduate students and students who attend Western programs in Everett, Port Angeles, Bremerton, Seattle and Anacortes.
Starting next week, the Port of Bellingham will have a new Executive Director at the helm.
Port Commissioners officially appointed Charlie Sheldon to the post during a meeting Thursday.
There’s another candidate forum in Bellingham Monday evening – but this one has a different twist.
It features people running for legislative seats in the 40th and 42nd districts, and is organized by high school students.
“This forum is a joint partnership between the City of Bellingham and the Ralph Munro Institute for Civic Education, which is housed at the political science department at Western,” said Jen Reidel from the Ralph Munro Institute.
Initiative campaigns are largely a phenomenon of America's Western states, said Todd Donovan, a political-science professor at Western Washington University who has authored books and articles on the process.
As the West was settled, he said, populist groups such as miners, the Grange and labor sought to limit the power of government institutions and political parties.
Washington adopted its initiative law in 1912, and two years later voters faced a slate of seven initiatives — still a record.
The public is invited to a memorial service Sunday, Oct. 17, for Dwight Clark, who was found dead in Bellingham days after starting his freshman year at Western Washington University.
The body of Clark, 18, of Auburn was found in Bellingham Bay last week, more than a week after he was last seen leaving a party near campus.
Washougal’s Kyle Henick, 23, discovered his passion for acting as a student at Washougal High School. It’s only fitting that he returned to his alma mater earlier this summer to star in a semi-professional theater production.
Shortly after graduating with a bachelor of arts in theater arts from Western Washington University in June, Henick teamed with two classmates to form the Merely Players Theatre Company.
Interim-President Phyllis Wise took some faculty and student leadership by surprise in a Faculty Senate Executive Meeting report Monday, where she made it clear the UW would not pursue one of the strategies it most actively lobbied for last year — tuition-setting authority.
Last year, the university lobbied and was ultimately successful in helping Sen. Derek Kilmer (D-26th District) draft a bill that would grant three state universities tuition-setting authority: the UW, Western Washington University and Washington State University. The bill ultimately moved through the Senate but never cleared the House of Representatives in the 2009-2010 legislative session.