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Lecturer explains the sociolinguistic underpinning for the singular they pronoun
By Iseabel Nance The Daily Kirby Conrod, a temporary lecturer in sociolinguistics, the way that people use language to accomplish social goals and how social structure impacts how people use language, researches the use of they/ them pronouns and their modifications. There have been few published studies on the use of singular they, and in those that exist, non-binary people have been a footnote. “In the formal, most math-y theory of syntax and semantics, they say certain things about pronouns that, as a trans and non-binary person, I could just objectively say that’s not true,” Conrod said. Conrod says this is clearly a social issue and not a grammar or syntax issue, because people will use singular they in everyday life, but they refuse to use it for non-binary people because they cannot wrap their head around a non-binary person. The singular they refers to someone whose gender is unknown, when gender is not relevant to a conversation, or to
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obfuscate someone’s gender. Common examples of singular they are sentences like “Someone left their wallet here,” or “Everyone told me they think I made the right decision.” Conrod became interested in the way pronouns are used in social situations, specifically in regard to how misgendering works. When people refuse to use someone’s pronouns, it results in misgendering, which studies have shown to be extremely harmful. The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey reported that 39% of respondents experienced serious psychological distress in the month before completing the survey, 40% had attempted suicide in their lifetime (nearly nine times the nationwide rate in the U.S.), and 7% had attempted suicide in the past year, 12 times the nationwide rate. It also revealed that 24% of people who were out or perceived as transgender in college or vocational school were physically, verbally, or sexually harassed. Conrod stressed the negative effects of being misgendered by a teacher or professor because they have power over the students and the students are dependent on them for their grades and degrees. A 2018 study on the use of preferred names revealed that the use of chosen names was “associated with lower depression, suicidal ideation, and suicidal behavior.” “They don’t have the option of just leaving, which is why it’s such an urgent issue to train instructors and anyone who has contact with students really to just not misgender them,” Conrod said. “Because they don’t have the option of just
saying, ‘Well, I’m gonna go elsewhere.’” Pronouns are a functional, grammatical part of language. Unlike nouns and verbs, which are constantly added or altered, pronouns don’t really change. People use them unconsciously, and they’re not very good at learning new ones, Conrod explained. People often have no idea they’ve used the wrong pronouns unless it’s pointed out to them. In their studies around pronoun usage, Conrod explores whether misgendering is a result of implicit bias toward transgender people. People would claim that singular they just sounds weird, indicating to Conrod that this isn’t part of their grammar. Grammar, according to the Linguistic Society of America, is “the collection of principles defining how to put together a sentence.” Taking these statements as truth, Conrod determined that this disparity between some people using singular they fluently and others having trouble with it must be a social issue. Conrod conducted an online study where people rated sentences with singular they usage on their acceptability. The study showed differences in acceptance generationally. Young people rated the use of singular they as normal and acceptable, whereas people age 40+ rated the use as increasingly more unacceptable. These results suggest that there has been a change in progress. An individual’s grammar is typically solidified in high school and doesn’t change much over time. People are resistant to changing their grammar over time, especially for a functional part of language such as pronouns. The UW is conducting a climate survey to get feedback on individuals’ experiences at UW, but there isn’t a
specific question about misgendering. It allows people to select their identity as genderqueer, gender non-binary, and transgender, and then asks a series of questions about whether they’ve experienced a barrier in an area at the UW in the past year. In October, the UW announced that they are trying to integrate pronoun use into class rosters early on, giving students the option to include that information during the registration process. They hope to integrate this as soon as winter quarter. While this may seem inherently positive and welcoming from the surface, Conrod worries about the implications this might have. Making pronouns easily accessible to professors is beneficial because they don’t have to make assumptions. However, there are some professors that Conrod wouldn’t want to know their pronouns and transgender identity because they don’t want to face harassment. “It puts students in this all or nothing position of ‘If you didn’t put your pronouns in the roster you have no right to expect not to be misgendered,’” Conrod said. In the past, Conrod has set up a quiz on Canvas asking students about themselves and their identities to the point that they’re comfortable sharing. Conrod recommends privately practicing the use of singular they with inanimate objects or pets to rewire your brain’s grammar. They also recommend slowing down and being more thoughtful with words, or sticking with names instead. Allowing yourself to practice and make mistakes is OK, as long as it is approached intentionally. Reach reporter Iseabel Nance at science@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @iseabel
NEWS
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Cauce reveals that UW is not legally required to use prison labor, as previously thought Student group sees clear path to ethically sourced labor
Milo Nguyen @silverkoolaid By Lily Hansen Contributing writer In June 2019, Correctional Industries (CI), a subsidiary of the Department of Corrections that uses incarcerated workers to sell goods and services to public institutions, employed 2,414 inmates and deposited $421,652 into their personal savings accounts. Over the course of the year, each inmate accumulated an average of $175 in savings over 1,537 hours of work. For 1,537 hours of work, a Seattle resident being paid a $15 minimum wage makes $23,055 before taxes. On Friday, Oct. 18, the UW United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) delivered a list of seven demands to President Ana Mari Cauce, calling for an end to the UW’s involvement with CI and the prison industrial complex. On Wednesday, USAS received a response.
“Let me begin by saying I share your concern about both the large number of people who are incarcerated in this country and the social justice issues this presents,” Cauce wrote in a letter addressed to USAS and its supporters before tracing her history as an advocate for the rights of those formerly incarcerated. In response to demands for divestment, Cauce called the process “complicated” and relayed her hesitance for the university to cut its ties with its endowment investments. As of June 2018, the UW had a total of $3.4 billion invested in private corporations through its Consolidated Endowment Fund. Two of those investments — Blackrock, Inc ($131,000,000) and Endeavor Capital ($50,000,000) — have ties to the prison industrial complex. On the UW’s contract with CI, Cauce revealed RCW 39.26.250 and RCW
39.26.251, two Washington state laws that require public institutions to give preference to inmate work programs in the sale of manufactured goods, is not legally binding as was previously believed. The university is, however, bound by RCW 28A.335.190 explained Cauce. The state law requires the UW set up competitive bids on all goods and services valued at over $40,000. The last time the UW went out for bids on furniture for residence halls, only three were made, wrote Cauce. The university’s top choice went out of business. Its second, a company based in Southeast Asia, did not comply with the university’s code of conduct. The only remaining bidder, CI, received their business. The UW Supplier Code of Conduct requires that all suppliers do not use, “coerced or forced labor,” nor “subject employees to inhumane or abusive treatment.” CI was found not to be in violation of the university’s supplier code because Washington state does not consider prisoners as employees. Cauce furthered her point by referencing the Thirteenth Amendment which prohibits “involuntary servitude” save for those convicted of a crime. USAS co-chair Katherine Cavanaugh was not impressed by the letter. “Cauce is friendly,” Cavanaugh said. “She’s a smiling face, and she will act like she’s on your side. But when it comes to
action, she does very little. We have been at this fight for five years and we still haven’t seen much progress be made.” Speculation on the potential financial changes associated with purchasing furniture from a supplier other than CI could not be made due to the university’s competitive bidding requirements, according to UW spokesperson Victor Balta via email. If the UW divests from prison labor, Cavanaugh does not think students will face many financial repercussions. “A rise in tuition will not be the result of an increase in ethical practices,” she said, citing continuous increases in tuition regardless of ethical labor sources. “And I don’t really think students should be the ones bearing the brunt of the cost in the first place. The UW has a huge budget. They can afford to source ethically-made furniture.” Despite the letter’s ambiguity, Cavanaugh thinks it also provides a clear path forward. “The Board of Regents needs to change the code of conduct so that the university will only buy from suppliers that pay their employees minimum wage, regardless of whether they are incarcerated or not,” Cavanaugh said. “It’s an easy fix.” Reach contributing writer Lily Hansen at development@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @lilyjhansen
‘Trump/Pence #OutNow’: Week two of sustained impeachment rallies By Deborah Kwon Contributing writer
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On Saturday afternoon, about 30 people gathered in front of Seattle Central College in Capitol Hill with baby Trump balloons and a banner reading “Trump/Pence #OutNow,” as they chanted repeats of “out now.” This was the second day of Refuse Fascism’s rallying in Seattle, in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Impeachment has been a divisive issue in the years since Trump began his presidency. First called for in 2017 by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA 43) and pushed for by some members of Congress, the House is now formally pursuing impeachment efforts. Refuse Fascism is a grassroots movement on the national level, specifically seeking the impeachment of President Trump, stating on their website that “The Trump/Pence regime poses a catastrophic danger to humanity.” The protests began in Los Angeles and New York City on Oct. 19, and they spread nationwide Oct. 26, including one that took place on the Ave last week. Saturday’s rally took place in 14 different locations nationwide, including the one at Capitol Hill. The national Refuse Fascism movement emphasizes their plan to “act together in mass, sustained, non-violent nationwide protests that continue until the Trump/Pence regime is removed from power.” At Saturday’s rally at Capitol Hill, organizer Margo Heights emphasized the goal of impeachment, but also cited more specific motivations behind the events. “We’re doing this for the thousands of children who have been ripped from their families … for the black and brown people who are going to be the targets of even more brutal police
terror,” Heights said. “The women who will be forced into motherhood, who will die from illegal abortions. All these people suffering now, that’s why we do this.” The display at the rally also included a lineup of 17 portraits of victims of police brutality in just the last two months. They included those such as Atatiana Jefferson and Christopher Whitfield and repeated their names, chanting “say her name” and “say his name.” According to Heights, the general idea of saying “‘no’ to a police state” is something that was being emphasized at all the rallies throughout the country this past Saturday. “We want to remember the people who’ve been killed by police in the last year,” Heights said. “More unarmed people are being murdered by police than ever before, and yet, where is the outrage?” Through marching, Heights said that she hoped to break through the passiveness of the customers at the street shops and cafes. In the effort of doing so, protesters periodically would yell “join us” at the bystanders. The reception of others on the street as the protesters marched through was generally positive, with some cheering and a couple neighboring cars honking in support. “It’s my hope that being out here and protesting, if nothing else, can gain political support and our representatives will see ‘man, the people really want these guys out’ and it might pressure them to act a bit,” UW student Mika, who requested to be identified only by their first name, said. “I think that doing something is better than not.” Reach contributing writer Deborah Kwon at development@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @debskwo
SCIENCE New Caledonian crows use of compound tools to provide further understanding for anthropological evolutionary processes By Anna Miller Contributing writer Are the crows, which are most clearly seen begging for food scraps on campus, starting to enter the Stone Age of evolutionary history? Well, no, not exactly. New Caledonian crows, who are responsible for basically every example of tool use in crows thus far. The definition for “Stone Age” used here, refers specifically to human history, is the ability to create tools without a recipe and pass that knowledge down culturally. “When we say ‘crows use tools,’ it’s important to remember that what we mean by that is
one species of crow makes tools,” corvid scientist and lecturer at the UW Dr. Kaeli Swift said. “Possibly a second, though we’ve never seen it in the wild. I just think that’s important to point out so that people don’t think the crows that they’re encountering on campus are like, making tools on the sly, and they’re just missing it.” Swift maintains that based on this definition of “Stone Age,” New Caledonian crows might already be there, though there’s not yet evidence of the knowledge being passed down culturally. They do seem to pass vocal behavior down culturally, though. American crows don’t actually exhibit that behavior,
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though they do tend to be better at prospection than their counterparts. This evidence provides important details of how life evolves and progresses. “Until Jane Goodall revealed this with the chimps, we really thought tool-making was unique to humans,” Swift said. “It was one of the things we cast up as sort of ‘the thing that makes us special.’ And we were like ‘OK, some primates can do it, but that makes sense, right? They’re very closely related, we’ll give them a pass on that. And then we discovered that some birds could do it, that really surprised us because, evolutionarily, birds are quite far away from us.” As it turns out, birds actually have a part of their brain that essentially equates to the section of our brain responsible for executive function, which explains the “difficult thinking” that they’re capable of. New Caledonian crows have even demonstrated being able to evaluate new materials and select the one they need for a task, rivaling the ability of a 5- to 7-year-old child, as well as the ability to infer the weight of an object based on how it moves in the wind. However, not all tasks are made equal, and crows tend to fail the mirror test, which
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evaluates selfrecognition often used to evaluate animal intelligence. “There are some cognitive tasks that they’re better at than chimps, some other kinds of tasks that they’re worse at,” Swift said. “You Sydney Mozer The Daily take a fish and put A crow in a tree picks at its talons. it in a tree, it’d fail reputation in America is largely and you’d be like negative. Do they really deserve ‘The fish is so dumb!’ and the the way they’re seen in the fish would be like, ‘Well, I don’t public eye? Swift asserts that know how to climb a tree, I live all organisms have cultural and in the ocean!’” ecological roles, and they should As far as Swift is concerned, all be appreciated for their when looking at a broad scale of nuance and significance. evolution, we should see crows “Now, could they put them all as a kind of flying primate, together, and have this society but when it comes down to it, where they’re making hammers animals are going to be good at out of leaves, you know, that’s tasks that are relevant to them maybe a little too far out of and not perform well at others. their depth,” Swift said. “But I For example, the reason certainly think that their ability that New Caledonian crows are to use tools and express insight is so adept at toolmaking when something that we should really other species of crows aren’t is appreciate for its uniqueness because the island they live on in the animal world, and for has no woodpeckers, so there’s an exploitable food niche of bugs its mere parallels to our own intelligence.” under wood that the crows can’t get at with their beaks, or they’d Reach contributing writer suffer traumatic brain injury, so Anna Miller they learned to adapt and make at development@dailyuw.com. tools instead. Twitter: @lesakuraciel Crows are certainly quite intelligent, though their
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HEALTH & WELLNESS
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Putting health first: UW’s new Population Health Facility seeks to advance the work being done on community and global health
By Ash Shah The Daily In a speech in 2016, President Ana Mari Cauce spoke about the need for our community to do more when it came to health. “As a university, we have the ability and responsibility to contribute to the public discourse about the best ways to solve the health challenges of our time,” she said. The Population Health Initiative was created by Cauce to bring the community together to leverage the UW’s resources and opportunities to advance the health of the people. To help do this, the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health was born. The project, well underway, is expected to be completed in June 2020 and will open in August. The building will house four primary entities: the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, portions of the School of Public Health, parts of the Department of Global Health, and parts of the Population Health Initiative. “That initiative is intended to draw in all disciplines as well as regional, national, and global partners focused on population health,” said Jeannie Natta , the senior project manager for the building. The building will also function as a collaborative office space, housing administrative offices across many disciplines. The decision to place these departments in close proximity was intentional, with a lot of the work they do already overlapping. Issues such as health care access, poverty, and policies all work interconnectedly to affect the health of people across the globe, creating disparities in treatment and access between members of different populations. The Center of Population Health will do targeted work aiming to bridge these gaps. The design and construction of the building has been in the works for years now. It is a close-knit collaboration between the contractors, designers, and owners of the building as well as all the university stakeholders, including those who will be occupying the building and maintaining it. The project’s three managers each
represent one entity. Natta represents the owners and works to coordinate stakeholder input. She works with those who will actually use the building and figures out what they want from it. Joe Nielson, the construction manager, manages the cost and schedule for construction. And Sean Waldron, who works on the design aspect, works closely with both teams to incorporate feedback from the building’s tenants into the design. Waldron’s team works to incorporate the goals from various different teams. They had to look at each aspect of the project in terms of maintainability, constructability, and how it would fit into the campus context. “We’re right on the edge of the border between historic campus and the innovation district so we’re responding to that from a design perspective as well,” Waldron said. The facility will be almost 300,000 square feet. The building, which will be mostly office space, will house about 1,500 people. In addition to the offices, the building will have a couple of classrooms and a Starbucks. This building was a massive undertaking by the university and was made possible by a donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of $210 million. Another $15 million came from the 2019-21 state Legislature, and the remaining $5 million came from the university’s central funds. This brings the total cost of the building to $230 million. Population health is defined as the health outcomes for a group of individuals; this group can include members of different social and economic levels, geographic populations, ethnic groups, or any other category. Population health refers not only to their overall health level but also to the distribution of aid and health across the group. The UW Population Health Initiative strives to study and spearhead research surrounding a large array of factors influencing health, and this facility is a Melissa Takai The Daily huge step toward achieving that. The Population Health Building is expected to open in 2020. The building is under construction in this photo from June 2, 2019. Reach writer Ash Shah at wellness@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @itsashshah
Seattle-specific dating app will anti-freeze your love life By Hannah Krieg The Daily Anyone who has lived in Seattle long enough to have lost all desire to trek through the slow-moving foot traffic of Pike Place ever again can tell you that dating in Seattle presents unique issues. It’s not all expensive dinners at the top of the Space Needle and coffee dates at the original Starbucks. In a city of over 700,000 people and near-infinite boba shops, dating should be a breeze. Find a member of your preferred gender(s) out of the three-quarters of a million options and just buy them a goddamn milk tea. Easy. Or at least it should be. An app creatively named Seattle Dating App is a dating app specifically created to make dating in the Emerald City simpler. The app even claims to hold the secret for breaking the legendary Seattle Freeze — a phenomenon that suggests that no matter how many Patagonias we layer, no matter how toasty we can get on the inside, Seattleites are known to be cold on the outside. As someone who has lived in Seattle for over a year and has been single in Seattle for nearly as long, I love to blame my inability to find love on the Seattle Freeze. Sure, there’s my all-consuming insecurities and my desperate need for attention, but I’m sure the issue lies in this dang Seattle culture. Regardless, I decided to give the
Seattle Dating App a try. I’m banned from Tinder anyway; might as well give this one a go. I’m in no way new to the online dating scene. I have reviewed many dating apps before for educational purposes as well as markedly less educational purposes. Seattle Dating App did not throw any curveballs to begin with. The app followed the same set-up as most. I inputted the requested information: my name, my job title, and my level of education. But then, the app revealed its first unique feature — it asked for my availability. As someone who lives and dies by Google Calendar and worships it like the god it is, this feature made me feel some type of way. Sexual. Calendars make me feel sexual. Consulting my personal schedule, I filled out my availability using the three options: free, busy, and “?.” I used the “?” a lot. Once you get past the initial setup, this feature becomes useful. Every potential match is accompanied by an estimated weekly availability. Now you don’t have to waste time trying to work around each other’s schedules. If nothing lines up, you simply swipe left. This feature seems fit for a Seattlespecific dating app. It’s a touch impersonal, yes. It may seem like you are unwilling to make time for others, but according to the theory of the Seattle Freeze, Seattleites are very much focused on themselves. Seattle is a career-focused,
capitalist culture. We are more focused on killing each other over Amazon internships than on finding love, and this scheduling feature is a clear reflection of that value. Another very “Seattle” feature of this app, designed to fit us like a tailored raincoat, is the neighborhood preference. After checking boxes to indicate the user’s gender preferences and sliding markers to set age limits, the app shows you a map of the greater Seattle area and instructs the user to select areas in which you are willing to meet. Other dating apps use your proximity to serve a similar function, but sometimes people enter your range briefly, get into your queue, and then wind up hundreds of miles away. This way, both parties must be willing to meet in the same neighborhood. With the free version, you can select up to nine neighborhoods. If you upgrade to the paid version, you may select as many as you want. In an urban area where many people rely on public transit to get from point A to point B, this limitation is very useful. For me, I only selected neighborhoods I could get to without any bus transfers or with an Uber that costs less than 10 dollars. To increase efficiency even further, you can look directly at your admirers and only “like” people who have already liked you. As far as the interface goes, this one is not the prettiest dating app I have
ever used in search of love. The profiles take up the whole screen, which is a tad unsettling and makes the app a little clunky to navigate. It took me several minutes to figure out how to see my own profile. The unintuitive, unappealing design does not meet my expectations for an app-specific to Seattle, a city with a thriving tech sphere. But interface I can see past, what really matters is the pool. In the past, I have done a one hundred swipe test to get a feel for the user base of the app. I started my hundred-swipe test (patent pending), but then I ran out of profiles after 51 prospective matches. Maybe I have strict limits set, but regardless, the pool seems relatively small. Of those 51 profiles, only two (3.9%) were female. The pool was majority white — about 49%. Most unfortunately, I only swiped right on three candidates and honestly, they were not enthusiastic swipes right. Overall, the specially crafted features of this app might, in fact, help combat the challenges presented by the Seattle Freeze, but because the app is so new, the pool is still small and needs to grow in order for the features to be useful. Reach columnist Hannah Krieg at wellness@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @Hannah_krieg
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Sophomore class rises to occasion as seniors prepare for graduation
By Josh Eddy The Daily Last fall, 11 freshmen came to Montlake to join the Washington women’s soccer team. While not all of them have had the same starts to their careers in the purple and gold, the promise and unity of the group may be a sign of great things to come. A few hit the ground running, most notably Summer Yates, who was second in scoring her freshman year and now leads the team in both goals and assists this season. The talent has been there from the beginning, but the maturity in her position is something that’s grown a lot over the past two years. “I think that’s the player she wants to be, and I think the issue with Summer in the past has been a little bit that’s the player she’s told she is,” head coach Lesle Gallimore said. “What you have to realize is that to be that player you always have to
work, you always have to be getting better, you have to be coachable and you have to bring it every single day.” Along with Yates in the starting lineup is midfielder Vanessa Millsaps, who’s started in the team’s past nine games. She redshirted her first year due to injury but that just slingshotted her to become a big contributor on this team. “It definitely prepared me,” Millsaps said. “I was able to get a good look at what the coaches wanted us to play, what they expected from us, so that was huge. I had three different injuries within my first year, so it was super overwhelming and not planned at all, I came in expecting to come full-go. But it’s definitely helped me because I’ve been able to look at the team from a little bit of a distance and see how it all works.” The redshirt is generally unavoidable when it comes from injuries, but being able to take the time to learn and prepare can help players the following year. The same path was taken by defender Shae Holmes, who has slowly worked her way into the rotation this season and has shown flashes of great skill in little time. Behind Holmes on the defensive end will likely be keeper Dani Hansen. After an injury to senior keeper Siena Ruelas kept her sidelined, Hansen stepped up and played the first six games, and the sophomore produced. She only allowed six goals and recorded 16 saves in that time. “Dani has definitely stepped up, just being able to train with her every day; her, myself and Anna [Miller] just being
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able to push each other, definitely helps us to get better,” Ruelas said. “One thing I definitely admire about Dani is that I know that last year she had a lot of issues with some injuries and is dealing with them now, but she always picks her head up and continues to fight.” The playing time for Hansen has been extremely valuable, and as the only returning keeper for next year, it’s likely she’ll be the one in front of the net for the Huskies in the foreseeable future. Some other players who have been getting a lot of playing time off the bench are Makena Carr, a speedy winger, and Karlee Stueckle, a hurdler for the UW track team in her first year with the soccer team. Ruby Hellstrom is a forward that has seen a lot of highs and lows in her playing time, but always has a positive attitude. She is one of the primary mouthpieces for this sophomore class and it’s unity. In the UW’s first game of the season, Hansen recorded a shutout in her first career start. In a postgame press interview, Hellstrom came over to the keeper and said she was the best keeper there is. “We’ve grown up together so much, because we all see the highs and lows that everyone goes through and so there’s never a standstill,” Hellstrom said. “Something’s always going on, but then we always just have each other’s back and we’ve always been able to grow emotionally, physically, on and off the field together and that’s been really special.” She’s one of the several sophomores living in the same house, which also includes the two co-captains, Taylor Sekyra and Lisa Jensen. “When you practice together and
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then you come home and you’re in the same house, you just kind of build that bond,” Hellstrom said. “It’s a really special bond that we have within the team, but especially within that core sophomore class.” This team has eight seniors this year, including six starters and both co-captains, and with the upcoming departure of Gallimore, this class gives a sense of comfort that the program is going to be in the right hands for years to come. “It’s so sad to see the senior class go,” Hellstrom said. “But I feel like we’ve built a strong enough base within our team and the younger classes, and the seniors have taught us so much on how to lead a team that when they unfortunately graduate, we’ll be ready to run in their footsteps.” Reach reporter Josh Eddy at sports@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @JoshTreEddy
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Sweet dreams are made of this: School of Drama’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ shines Strong directing, acting, and production design give this play its magic By Sarah May Contributing writer You’ve seen this story before: Lysander loves Hermia. Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Demetrius loves Hermia. The only possible thing that could make this any more complicated is a bunch of quarreling fairies and a magical love potion. Since its debut in the 17th century, William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” has become a poster child for free love and hallucinogenic drugs, and now you can see all that magic in the School of Drama’s rendition of the classic play. Director Scott Kaiser, a “veteran of [the] Oregon Shakespeare Festival,” presents a play as funny as it is bizarre, as charming as it is poignant. The play is semi-modernized, so though the actors still speak in soliloquy and iambic pentameter, they also wear snappy pantsuits, use Google maps, and jam out to some jazzy doo-wop music. Though modernized Shakespeare can sometimes appear badly when paired with the 17th-century prose, Kaiser knows when to throw in
these details and when to hold back. He also refuses to turn the character’s relationships into mere jokes, taking the time to build a background of trust between the characters that makes it all the more heartbreaking (and, let’s face it, all the funnier) when it’s destroyed later in the play. The cast, comprised almost entirely of UW MFA students, took the absurd comedy of the show in stride and put on a laugh-out-loud performance. The real star of the show, though, was Bottom, the blustery, arrogant weaver who believes he is destined for the stage, played by Andrés Rodriguez, a second-year MFA student in the acting program. Perhaps the most iconic character of the show, Rodriquez’s portrayal of Bottom stands especially tall alongside an already comedically talented cast. Whether he’s rapping a soliloquy or hamming it up in his fake death scene, Rodriguez was a constant high note throughout the play, both in human form and once he’s been turned into a donkey by mischievous fairies. Another standout was Hailey Henderson, a thirdyear MFA student in the acting program who plays Puck. She holds strong as the pulse of the
show, constantly pushing the characters into weirder and weirder situations and filling the show with its fair share of mischief and dramatic crossstage leaps. Guan Ying Lee, a secondyear MFA student in the design program at the School of Drama, gave the show dimension and direction through outstanding costume design. As the night descends into madness, so do the actors’ clothes, slowly shifting from the monochromes favored by the Athenians in the play to the bright colors and florals more common among the fairies. Chih-Hung Shao, light designer and another MFA student, adds a dreamlike quality to the play by contrasting the stark white lights of Athens with the gold and pink lights of the forest and the fairies’ dwellings. That dreamlike quality is something that Kaiser’s direction carries throughout the play. With everything from multiple moons hung in the sky to the songs played at intermission, all elements of this play remind you that it is “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Though the sparse set stands in somewhat awkward contrast to the colorful costumes of the forest and the play’s loud comedy, it does accomplish
one thing very well: You must imagine the setting almost entirely yourself. An occasional fourth wall break blurs the lines between the absurd fiction happening on stage and the reality of the rest of the theater. The actors speak as if they can see the audience, they hide amongst the seats as if they are merely part of the forest no one can see but everyone knows must be there. And when Puck enters in the final scenes and bids the audience to consider the events we saw as but a dream, it’s a compelling argument. Overall, Kaiser’s direction and the comedic talent of
the cast push this play near Shakespearean perfection. It’s a show that makes you work to see the magic, but once you look, you can’t look away. Although, maybe that’s just more fairy spellwork. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will be playing through Nov. 10 at the Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse on the Ave. Tickets and information can be found online. Reach contributing writer Sarah May at development@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @SarahM3204
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Change starts with one vote Cast your ballot for the 2019 King County Elections By The Daily Editorial Board Three weeks ago, ballots were released for the 2019 King County Elections. This year, seven Seattle City Council seats, four King County Council seats, three ballot measures, twelve advisory votes, and a number of other governmental positions will be voted on. Tuesday is the final day to cast your ballot to ensure that your vote is counted. Participating in local elections is equally, if not more important than casting your vote for larger elections. District 4 City Council representatives will be able to advocate for keeping the Ave free from upzoning, and I-1000 instituting affirmative action could become law following this election cycle. These are issues that directly affect students and U-District residents and should be voted on with this significance in mind. In Seattle, the races for City Council are widely viewed as a choice between business-backed candidates who offer more pragmatic solutions but may put business interests before constituents, and bold candidates who push the boundaries with their approaches to fixing Seattle’s problems. Because these races are populated by candidates who have such different approaches, your vote is more important in this election cycle. In a county that has more than two million residents, it is easy to feel discouraged that one individual vote can’t make a difference, but your one vote can inspire others. Dropping your ballot in the voting box? Bring a friend with you so they can too. Put it on social media so that others can be reminded. It is unacceptable to
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