In the Media

A college student who earned straight A's and sent thousands of text messages to his family and friends each month has vanished in Washington, where authorities are scouring a university campus for the missing 18-year-old.

Dwight Clark was last seen in the early morning hours of Sept. 26 when he left an off-campus party at Western Washington University to go back to his dorm, less than a mile away, according to authorities in Bellingham, Wash.

Friends of missing Western Washington University student Dwight Clark will be on campus every day this week fundraising and passing out flyers to help find their friend.

Clark is an 18-year-old freshman at WWU and went missing more than a week ago. He was last seen leaving a friend’s house at 2 a.m. on Sept. 26. He headed back to his dorm but never made it.

The WSU students running the table are friends or are from Clark’s hometown, Auburn.

Michael Dashiell is the new editor of the Sequim Gazette, newspaper managers announced this week.

Dashiell, 34, is a graduate of Western Washington University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism degree in 2001.

Dashiell began at the Gazette as an intern that year and was promoted to sports editor in 2002.

Dylan Goodwin took medalist honors in leading Western Washington University to a 20-stroke victory in the team standings at the Grand Canyon University Men's Golf Fall Invitational Tournament which ended Tuesday, Oct. 5, at the Golf Club at Estrella Mountain in Goodyear, Ariz.

Sophie Elstrott and Katie Sharpe tied for medalist honors in helping Western Washington University to a 28-stroke victory at the Saint Martin's University Women's Golf Invitational Tournament, which ended Tuesday, Oct. 5, at the Olympia Golf and Country Club.

Also exhibiting at the Awards Expo as a CTO Innovation Partner was the Progressive 100mpg X-prize team from Western Washington University's Vehicle Research Institute in Bellingham, who displayed their finalist Viking 45 EV on Alaskan Way outside the Bell Harbor Conference Center.

Eric Whitaker, a Western Washington University political science instructor, said Salmon Days and other community celebrations offer a candidate a chance to attract attention to lesser-known contests.

“Another advantage to it is face-to-face communication with potential voters,” he said. “It’s unmediated at that point, to go there in person to have that communication, have that dialogue with potential voters to try to win people over, persuade them, what have you.”

Canadian officials understand that "selective protectionism ... has long-run potential costs that are really antithetical to Canada's interests," said Steven Globerman, a professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., who authored a government-sponsored study of Canada's foreign-investment laws. "The federal government is aware of this. I don't think they're just going to roll over for the province and say, 'Okay, you don't want it so it's not going to be.'"

Western Washington University business students are offering a series of free seminars to help college-aged people with their finances.

The program, called Money Sense, is being is offered through WWU's chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, an organization for finance students and professionals.

The Eastside Catholic swim team has a new head coach. Rick Wertman, who received the 2007 Washington State High School Swim Coaches Hall of Fame award, recently took over the Crusader swim and dive team.

Wertman is a Western Washington University graduate and has coached since 1975 at various high schools, including Bellevue, Enumclaw and Mount Rainier high school. During his 16 seasons (1989-2005) with Mount Rainier, Wertman led the boys swim team to three consecutive state championships and six overall state titles, the release said.