In the Media
The Times' recent editorial about lowering the state's debt limit misses the mark ["State's debt limit should be lowered," May 19].
Lowering the debt limit from its current manageable and reasonable 9 percent of state revenues would not help the economy, it would hinder it. Should the state Senate's debt limit proposal be enacted, spending on infrastructure improvements could shrink by $8.6 billion over the next 20 years.
The individual stories are familiar. The chemistry major tending bar. The classics major answering phones. The Italian studies major sweeping aisles at Wal-Mart.
Western Washington University golfer Xavier Dailly has been named to the Capital One Academic All-District college division men's at-large first team.
Someone has been sending increasingly threatening messages to at least one faculty member at Western Washington University, University Police said in a campus advisory sent out Thursday, May 19.
The Western Washington University Services and Activities Committee might vote Friday, May 20 to transfer some student fees to the athletic department.
But it’s not that student fees are getting raided in favor of athletics, said Associated Students President Colin Watrin — if transferred, the student fees would help offset funds that are being taken from athletics in order to help the university’s operating budget, which is facing large reductions in state funding.
Western Washington University Police, along with local and federal authorities, are investigating a series of threatening messages aimed at members of the campus community.
University Spokesman Paul Cocke says a woman from outside the country has been sending emails and blogs threatening to harm a faculty member.
Joshua Green, an electrical-engineering major, has that rare prize among current college seniors — a job in his chosen field lined up after graduation.
The 30-year-old Seattle Pacific University student, who entered college after working several years as a furniture salesman, plans to join the biomedical-research firm where he's interned for more than year.
Western Washington University’s College of Business and Economics Center for Economic Vitality (CEV) will present, in partnership with the Blaine Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center, “How to Get Your Business Unstuck, Going and Growing Again,” from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 26, at the Blaine school district office at 765 H Street, in Blaine.
Western Washington University placed 25 student-athletes, 16 women and nine men, on the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Track and Field Academic All-Star team, which was announced Wednesday, May 18.
Western Washington University placed 25 student-athletes, 16 women and nine men, on the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Track and Field Academic All-Star team, which was announced Wednesday, May 18.