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| Electric-assist cargo trike arrives on campus | 2016-01-05 | ||
| Western president defends shutdown over hate speech | After he suspended classes for a day and launched an investigation into anonymous hate speech directed at Western Washington University’s students of color, WWU President Bruce Shepard got an earful from critics. While many people on campus supported his decision, others told him he’d… |
2016-01-05 | |
| BRAVE Program to hold depression screening day Jan. 12 | 2015-12-23 | ||
| No arrests yet in string of voyeur, flashing cases near WWU | Police responded Thursday, Dec. 17, to the sixth recent report of indecent exposure, the latest in a series of flasher and voyeurism cases north of Western Washington University campus. Two young women called police around 11:15 p.m. when they saw a man outside their window on the east… |
2015-12-21 | |
| WWU student charged with hate crime for alleged online threats | A suspended Western Washington University student acknowledged to a campus police officer that he wrote “Let’s lynch her” on an online thread about a black student leader but said he promptly deleted it, according to the Whatcom County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Tysen Campbell, who is… |
2015-12-11 | |
| Wellness program classes available for registration | 2015-12-11 | ||
| Yik Yak on campus: Safe space to vent, forum for hate — or both? | At the center of a hate-speech incident at Western Washington University over Thanksgiving week was an anonymous-posting app many students use and many parents may not know about: Yik Yak. It was the latest in a string of events across the country that have students, activists and… |
2015-12-08 | |
| How a President Is Fighting Online Harassment of Minority Students | Bruce Shepard, president of Western Washington University, canceled classes there for a day last week after the student-body president, Belina Seare, was the subject of a threatening post on the anonymous online application Yik Yak. The post about Ms. Seare, who is black, said, "Let’s lynch her… |
2015-12-02 | |
| Bail set at $10,000 for WWU student accused of racist threats | A court commissioner set bail at $10,000 for the Western Washington University student accused of posting threats against students of color on an anonymous messaging service. Whatcom County Court Commissioner Martha Gross on Tuesday found probable cause to hold sophomore Tysen Campbell,… |
2015-12-02 | |
| Students return to Washington campus after racial threats | Most, but not all, students returned to a Washington state university Monday as police investigate racial threats against black students and others on social media that shut down the campus last week. At a public forum about the racist remarks, one student said she had to force herself to… |
2015-11-30 |