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Tag: students

  • Washington Senate proposes tuition cuts

    After a year of paying the highest tuition in the UW’s history, students may finally see some financial relief. In late March, both the Washington House Democrats and the Senate Republicans released their draft budgets for the next two years; neither suggested a tuition increase. “All the signals are at least on the right side…

  • Sexual harassment awareness on the rise at UW

    A little more than a month ago, the UW was dealing with the ramifications of a Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity party where several women said they had been drugged, and an attempted rape occurred. Since that incident, programs in the Greek System and at the UW are taking action to raise awareness of sexual harassment.…

  • HFS revises master plan

    McMahon could be repurposed. The 2012 reconstruction of Terry and Lander Halls was just the first step in the UW’s Housing Master Plan (HMP), a step-by-step project with a total budget of almost $850 million, projected to be completed in 2020. Housing & Food Services (HFS) is now launching phase one of the north campus…

  • UW Mindfulness Project encourages students to ‘connect and reflect’

    When asking Bryan Swaffield, vice president of marketing and outreach at the UW Mindfulness Project, to define mindfulness, he resorted to a single, summarized quote that is familiar amongst mindfulness participants. His answer? “Mindfulness is paying attention, in the present, on purpose, and without judgment.” With this answer in mind, a group of UW students…