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Anna Ellermeier elected ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Associated Students president
Bellingham woman created Neighborhood Playhouse to encourage young actors

Lizanne Schader founded The Neighborhood Playhouse about 10 years ago in, she says, "a sort of backwards way - with the outreach first, teaching workshops in the schools through the Allied Arts Education Project, and then added character-trait assemblies, after-school drama clubs, school…

Education cuts undo years of work, Gregoire laments

A dejected Gov. Chris Gregoire gave final approval Wednesday to a new state spending plan, bemoaning in particular the sweeping cuts it makes to one of her prized issues: education.

Gregoire said the spending reductions — totaling $4.5 billion over the next two years — were necessary at a…

Gregoire signs budget that slashes education, health

With what she called a heavy heart, Gov. Chris Gregoire signed a new budget Wednesday that will slash state spending in public schools, colleges, health care and human services in the next two years.

"We cut and we cut deeply," she said. "We did not resort to gimmicks or…

Youths hope to save Pearl Street pig

As student activism goes, saving the Paper Doll rocking pig is definitely a novel endeavor.

But when a group of Boulder-raised college students learned that, after 19 years as a Pearl Street Mall fixture, the pig's days might be numbered, they got busy.

Faces in the Crowd

Oberholzer, a senior coxswain at Western Washington, led the women’s varsity eight to victory over defending NCAA D-II champion Mercyhurst by two boatlengths at Lake Natoma in Gold River, Calif.

COLLEGE ROWING: Western's Oberholzer to be in Sports Illustrated

Western Washington University's Samantha Oberholzer will be in the "Faces in the Crowd" section of the June 20 issue of Sports Illustrated.

Oberholzer was the coxswain in the Vikings' varsity eight shell that won a national title in helping Western capture a seventh…

²ÝÁñÉçÇø, CWU tuition to go up

Tuition at Western Washington University will go up 16 percent this fall, and Central Washington University’s tuition will rise by 14 percent, trustees at each school decided Friday.

Including mandatory fees, a year at ²ÝÁñÉçÇø will cost $7,756 for in-state…

Editorial: State must keep higher education attainable

Eastern Washington University is looking at raising tuition by 11 percent for the 2011-’12 school year, and that’s the good news. Elsewhere, Washington State University regents just approved a 16 percent tuition increase and a similar hike is expected for the University of Washington, because of…

Grads, family revel in 2011 spring commencement June 11
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