Western Washington University students studying abroad for a semester in the Dominican Republic last week worked to pack more than 5,000 emergency care packets headed to neighboring Haiti; each packet is designed to feed a family for a week.
by alumnus David Keller
GERTRUDE HARVEY WRIGHT was a member of Seattle’s first African American musicians’ union during its brief and rocky existence from 1918 to 1924. Virginia Hughes, a "Mrs. Austin," and Edythe Turnham are the other female members listed in the rolls of the American Federation of Musicians’ Local 458. These trailblazing women worked with their male counterparts both at union headquarters and on the bandstand.
Aaron Katz, a health policy expert and faculty member in the University of Washington’s Department of Global Health, will deliver the winter quarter Global Health and Social Justice lecture at Western Washington University.
The lecture, which is titled “Health Care Reform (or what passes for that in Congress),” will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3, at St. Luke’s Community Health Education Center Room C. The center is located at 3333 Squalicum Parkway in Bellingham.
Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies has announced the upcoming winter slate of presenters for its annual World Issues Forum, with subjects ranging from immigration reform to reproductive health and the community effects of hate crime.
The following forums are free and open to the public, and are from noon to 1:30 p.m. every Wednesday in the Fairhaven College Auditorium, unless noted otherwise:
Students who attend alternative high schools seek a different way to make it through the 12th grade.
Michelle Dietz-Date said she went to Scriber Lake High School in Lynnwood because of chronic truancy.
“In the 10th grade I was about a year and a half behind in credits,” she said. “I also liked to party occasionally, smoke cigarettes and watch daytime TV, which interfered with going to school.”
More than a year ago, word spread that the county might move its parks department offices from Mount Baker Highway into the historic Roeder Home on Broadway.
Many people were angered by the notion that the beautiful, century-old house - the site of arts events for nearly four decades - might become less accessible and more expensive.
Daniel Larner (Fairhaven College) is the author of the lead article in the fall 2009 issue of "The Eugene O'Neill Review." "O'Neill's Endings: The Tragicomedy of Distant Echoes," the third in a series of articles on tragedy and comedy in O'Neill's work, explores the ways in which O'Neill's late plays reveal comic structures where they are most tragic, and how those comic structures are shadowed by tragedy.
The Whatcom Human Rights Task Force will celebrate International Human Rights Day at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, at the Community Food Co-op on Forest Street.
The event will commemorate human rights activists around the world and will feature keynote speaker Babafemi Akinrinade, who will talk on "Universal Human Rights: Promises and Challenges."
Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies is one of four colleges praised for embodying the future of higher education in America in the new book “Fixing College Education: A New Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century” by Professor Charles Muscatine of the University of California at Berkeley and published by the University of Virginia Press.
Malalai Joya, an Afghan politician who the BBC has called “the bravest woman in Afghanistan” for denouncing the warlords in the parliament, was in Western Washington recently. You wouldn’t know it from reading any of the rest of our struggling online or print news media. The only coverage was an interview Wednesday on KUOW’s Weekday program with Steve Scher.
Malalai Joya, member of the Afghan Parliament and a crusader for civil rights in her homeland, will be the guest speaker in the World Issues Forum of Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at noon on Thursday, Nov. 12, in Arntzen 100 on the WWU campus.
Malalai Joya, member of the Afghan Parliament and a crusader for civil rights in her homeland, will be the guest speaker in the World Issues Forum of Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at noon on Thursday, Nov. 12, in Arntzen 100 on the WWU campus.
John Bower (Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies) had his paper "Changes in marine bird abundance the Salish Sea: 1975 to 2007" published in "Marine Ornithology," Vol. 37, pp. 9-17. Western alumna (and bird censuser) Marci Durocher did the painting of the western grebe on the cover (third bird down) of the journal, and Fairhaven alumnus and current Huxley Geographic Information Systems specialist Stefan Freelan made the map.
Marie Eaton, a professor in Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, presents “International Service Learning: Case Studies from East Asia and Kenya.” Citing examples from students’ experiences in Thailand, India and Kenya, Eaton reflects on the benefits and challenges of service-learning as a means to educate and cultivate globally aware citizens who are civically engaged and responsive to the needs of others.
Carl Wilkens, a former director of a relief agency in Rwanda who stayed in the country during the genocide in the mid-‘90s, has been added to the slate of speakers in the World Issues Forum/Paths to Global Justice, a lecture series devoted to international social justice issues held at Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies.
Two WWU faculty members will discuss new juvenile justice programs at the Lummi Indian Reservation Oct. 20 as part of a quarter-long exploration of “Children and the Law” by the Center for Law, Diversity & Justice at WWU’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies.
Interested in raising chickens? Instructors at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies plan to hold two how-to workshops on Thursday, Oct. 15. The workshops are slated to take place from 1 to 3 p.m. and from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Among the topics to be covered are care and feeding, chicken tractors (movable chicken coops) and fence building. The workshops are free and open to the public and will be held in the Outback Farm Educational Garden at the south end of the Western Washington University campus.
Corruption in Afghanistan, assisting Haiti and immigration policies are among topics that will be discussed as part of Western Washington University's World Issues Forum this fall.
Malalai Joya, an Afghan woman elected to that country’s National Assembly, will be among the speakers this fall in the World Issues Forum/Paths to Global Justice, a lecture series devoted to international social justice issues held at Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies.
Western Washington University student Alice Bremner has received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in Dehli, India starting in July.
The scholarship will cover the entire cost of her trip, including room and board and transportation. The teaching assistantship is only a half-time job, so Bremner will also volunteer at a local community healthcare clinic.
Bremner, a native of Mercer Island, will graduate from WWU's Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies in June with a major in Medicine and Social Justice.
The instructor of "Criminal Law and Justice," a hands-on course for teens offered by Western Washington University's Extended Education and Summer Programs, is searching for volunteer jurors for two mock trials that the students will conduct July 17.Both mock trials will be at the Whatcom County Courthouse July 17. The mock trial about the environmentalist will be from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and the mock trial about battered child syndrome will be 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
