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Tax-vote ruling boosts democracy

Every student learns the American mantra from their teachers and parents: work hard, play by the rules, and you'll have a chance to get ahead. This month's crop of graduating high school seniors is powerful evidence that Washington's students do step up to their responsibilities.…

Midday Scan: Tuition lesson at UW

"Higher ed to the higgest bidder" sounds like a platitude, a talking point to provoke a restive middle class. A proposed 16 percent tuition hike at the University of Washington throws the fervid slogan into the truism rank. So what can students do other than stew and hunt for a secord…

UW supervisor made 5,211 visits to nonwork-related websites

A University of Washington fire-alarm-control supervisor made 5,211 visits to nonwork-related websites during a 16-month period, a state auditor's report has found.

According to the report, the employee made visits to sports, fantasy-football, animal-rescue,…

UW students facing 16% tuition hike look for cuts but find little fat

In a richly paneled boardroom at the University of Washington's Gerberding Hall on Friday, the university's most tenacious financial watchdogs finished a months-long review of the $5.9 billion budget.

The watchdogs in this room, all students, had a final…

WSU to pay $650K to settle discrimination lawsuit

Washington State University has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by two former employees of Chinese descent.

The settlement revealed Tuesday will pay $325,000 each to Dr. Ying Li and her husband, Lizhong Yang. It also calls…

Director of Evergreen State College Tacoma fined for phone use

The Tacoma campus’s executive director, Artee Young, has agreed to pay a $2,500 fine for logging too much personal time on her state-issued cell phone.

That’s the outcome of an investigation by the state Executive Ethics Board that started with a complaint that Young was using college…

Student debt: What's been driving college costs so high, anyway?

Aaron Marks graduates this spring with a business degree from a good college, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and, unlike many of his classmates, a good job. He also has $191,000 in student loan debt.

Faculty pegged to design international initiative at Western
Student falls to death at UW

A University of Washington student was found dead Tuesday after falling from a residence hall balcony on the Seattle campus.
UW police were called to a wooded area near McMahon Hall after a passerby spotted the young man's body. Cmdr. Steve Rittereiser said the UW student had fallen…

Crew coaches work together on road trip

Crew is a little different. Here's a story that proves it.

The tale involves crews from Washington, Washington State and Western Washington working together to get their shells to New Jersey this week for the NCAA Rowing Championships.
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