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Winner of the Pacemaker, the college media equivalent of a Pulitzer, at the 2010 National College Media Conference. Other awards from the conference included Best of Show, First Place Editorial Writing, First Place Diversity Story and First Place Multi-media Story. Winner of the Mark of Excellence for Best Overall Newspaper from Society of Professional Journalists Region X Conferences in 2008, 200

9 & 2010. Finalist for Pacemaker (general excellence), Second Place Best of Show, Second Place News Story of the Year, Finalist Diversity Story of the Year, Finalist Page One News Design of the Year, Finalist Feature Photo of the Year at the National College Media Conference 2009.

[NEWS] Following contentious protests on college campuses across the country in 2024, President Donald Trump announced t...
06/05/2025

[NEWS] Following contentious protests on college campuses across the country in 2024, President Donald Trump announced the formation of the Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism in February 2025 with the primary goal of evaluating universities potentially engaging in or enabling antisemitic behavior.

After conducting investigations on many university campuses, the federal government’s task force sent letters to many major private universities — including Harvard University, Columbia University, Cornell University, and Brown University, among others — demanding specific changes to faculty, curriculum, and admissions in an unprecedented effort to expand federal oversight on universities and eliminate perceived antisemitism and liberal bias on university campuses.
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Read reporter Paarth Gupta’s full piece online.

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[ARTS + CULTURE] When I first heard that Barnes & Noble would be taking over bookselling at the University Book Store, I...
06/05/2025

[ARTS + CULTURE] When I first heard that Barnes & Noble would be taking over bookselling at the University Book Store, I panicked. Although I had heard a rumor some time in advance — particularly after the store didn’t participate in Indie Bookstore Day this year, which they typically do — I didn’t believe it.

I sent the news to every group chat I’m in. I had fearful visions of the University Book Store sign stripped away, just another institution on the Ave falling prey to a large corporation — and I wasn’t alone.

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Read writer Chaitna Deshmukh’s full piece online.
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[OPINION] My deepest breaths are taken outside. In the Quad, in the Union Bay Natural Area, in my first step out of my d...
06/05/2025

[OPINION] My deepest breaths are taken outside. In the Quad, in the Union Bay Natural Area, in my first step out of my dorm at 9:55 a.m. for that 10 a.m. class — if there’s oxygen, a plant, and I get a moment to breathe, my problems feel smaller and the outside world larger.

For all the things I’m rushing around for, I move past the evolving world without seeing it grow, sometimes wrapped up in my own growth. Then I hear something like how the Southern Residents, the 74 orcas that inhabit the Puget Sound, will be functionally extinct in a decade, and I’m at a loss. 

I’m busy and overwhelmed, and sometimes it feels like “tangible action” takes energy I don’t have to give.

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Read writer Annika Haue’s full piece online.
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[OPINION] I’m the type of person who reads the copyright page of books. It’s more of a ritual than anything else; the mo...
06/05/2025

[OPINION] I’m the type of person who reads the copyright page of books. It’s more of a ritual than anything else; the most interesting thing is usually the printing year, or maybe the publisher. 

So imagine my surprise when I open a highly-recommended book, to find this: “Images on pages 45, 91, 149, and 217 were generated by the author using the DALL-E 2 AI system.”

Published in 2023 by Penguin Random House, “Land of Milk and Honey,” is C Pam Zhang’s debut novel. While most people on Earth are suffering from climate disaster, the novel centers on a chef who finds herself cooking for an unfathomably rich family in a community insulated from the dystopia outside.

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Read writer Chaitna Deshmukh’s full piece online.
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[OPINION] Graduation is the pinnacle of every undergraduate student’s academic career — a commemoration of Quizlet study...
06/05/2025

[OPINION] Graduation is the pinnacle of every undergraduate student’s academic career — a commemoration of Quizlet study guides, all-nighters at Odegaard, and all those spring quarter hours spent agonizing in lecture while all our friends were at the Cut.

As a moment of recognition, it should be about celebrating the diverse array of students we have moving past campus and into the world, but here at UW, the best way to describe it is as a bureaucratic mess. Between the required purchasing of undergraduate regalia, and the dozens of conflicting departmental policies of when you are and aren’t allowed to wear it (not to mention when it’s “strongly encouraged” or just “recommended”), the university’s policies regarding graduation attire are confusing at best, and it can be argued are needlessly illogical. For events meant to honor our academic journeys, they do a much better job spotlighting institutional red tape.

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Read rwriter Zac McKee-Pflaum’s full piece online.
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[NEWS] UW Medicine is no longer covering Aetna-insured patients after the two parties failed to reach a final contract a...
06/05/2025

[NEWS] UW Medicine is no longer covering Aetna-insured patients after the two parties failed to reach a final contract agreement ahead of their June 1 deadline, leaving more than 50,000 patients out of network. 

UW Medicine had been in active contract negotiations with the private health insurance company since April, with both parties unable to agree on proposed reimbursement rates. Their current contract ended Sunday.

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Read reporter Elizah Lourdes Rendorio’s full piece online.
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[NEWS] Ripple, UW’s first online marketplace, officially became available for download on the App Store in April. Since ...
06/05/2025

[NEWS] Ripple, UW’s first online marketplace, officially became available for download on the App Store in April. Since then, the app has been downloaded over 600 times, accumulated close to 400 active users, and facilitated thousands of dollars worth of sales between UW students.

Founded by a team of UW students, Ripple exclusively serves the UW community — requiring a UW email address for access — thus increasing security, personability, and convenience for students engaging in online selling, said founding member and CEO Parker Ritzmann.

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Read reporter Paarth Gupta’s full piece online.
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[NEWS] UW School of Law and its Big Ten academic partners hosted a panel of legal scholars May 28 to examine how courts ...
06/04/2025

[NEWS] UW School of Law and its Big Ten academic partners hosted a panel of legal scholars May 28 to examine how courts have responded to — and, in many cases, enabled — presidential overreach during the Trump administration.

The discussion continued the “Rule of Law in 2025” lecture series, focusing on how executive power has been used to erode administrative capacity across federal agencies and what that looks like for institutions, including universities, that depend on federal research funding, stable regulatory frameworks, and agency protections. 

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Read reporter Ariel Brennan’s full piece online.
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[SCIENCE] Hidden away on South Campus, deep in the Oceanography Teaching Building, lies “The Shop,” home to the Underwat...
06/04/2025

[SCIENCE] Hidden away on South Campus, deep in the Oceanography Teaching Building, lies “The Shop,” home to the Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles (UWROV) Team at UW. Upon entry, you may find 3D printers, miscellaneous wires, Boxfish the robot, and UWROV members Sheamin Kim, Sergei “Ziggy” Avetisyan, Imants Smidchens, and Rowan Newell.

UWROV is an RSO composed of students who come together to create a robot that can perform tasks underwater. They attend a competition every year to put their robot to the test, bringing together mechanics, software, and electrical work. 

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Read Contributing writer Abby Heinicke’s full piece online.
Photo by courtesy of Rowan Newell

[ARCHIVES] “If you knew there were other q***r people in your community, you didn’t know that until you got a small news...
06/04/2025

[ARCHIVES] “If you knew there were other q***r people in your community, you didn’t know that until you got a small newspaper that was handed from person to person to person that shared stories of other people also being q***r,” Éowyn Andersen, a tour guide with Beneath the Streets, a local company providing tours for Seattle’s underground history, said. 

Every Sunday, there is a tour about q***r history in Pioneer Square — a month ago, I went.

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Read writer Annika Hauer’s full piece online.
Photo by courtesy of UW Special Collections.

[ARTS + CULTURE] As I sit in Cafe Solstice on the Ave, I look around at my fellow patrons. The warm cave that is Cafe So...
06/04/2025

[ARTS + CULTURE] As I sit in Cafe Solstice on the Ave, I look around at my fellow patrons. The warm cave that is Cafe Solstice holds a nice array of characters, ranging across ages, professions, and purposes. 

Under the skylight sits a young couple holding hands over the table, the woman leans in across the table as she talks to her partner and laughs at her own joke. On the patio, an older gentleman sits across from a younger man; from what I can tell, the younger guy looks nervous about speaking with his counterpart. Maybe an interview for a job or trying to network. 
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Read columnist Ella Avital’s full piece online.

Illustration by Aaliyah Diaz The Daily.

[ARCHIVES] UW relocated to its current home in Union Bay in 1895, just a few years after Washington joined the United St...
06/04/2025

[ARCHIVES] UW relocated to its current home in Union Bay in 1895, just a few years after Washington joined the United States. This relocation solved expansion issues facing the original downtown location — both from the college and the city of Seattle — but raised a new one: power.

This problem would start a journey of construction, renovation, and innovation that continues today, but started with a small “house” on the shores of Lake Washington.
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Read writer Joseph Claypoole’s full piece online.

Photo courtesy of UW Special Collections.

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