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NEWS
Tuesday-Friday, February 18-21, 2020
Urban farming pioneer Portage Bay Grange out of business
By Beth Cassidy The Daily In recent years the U-District has been building up, and in its wake, knocking down. With “Vanishing Seattle” gaining traction as a popular hashtag that’s been living up to its name — the Portage Bay Grange Feed & Mercantile is a recent victim. The everlasting construction continues on Roosevelt as many local small businesses succumb to economic pressures. “They want to speed things up,” owner Kevin ScottVandenberge said. “To me, it’s no longer about sustainability, but more about the footprint. They want it to be less of a neighborhood and more of a highway. That’s the growing pain of high-volume living.” For Scott-Vandenberge and his wife Kirsten, sustainability was their number one priority when they started their chicken feed business out of their garage 16 years ago. At a time of victory gardens and the rise of urban farming, they were excited to bring the concept of livestock to the city. They provided an array of products at their 41st and Roosevelt mercantile, which closed at the end of January, including sourced feed from local mills and farms, hay and straw, garden products, beekeeping supplies and
beehives, livestock such as rabbits, pigeons, quail, and chicks, as well as specialty items such as quail and duck eggs used by the neighboring Portage Bay Cafe. Initially, they were under the impression that chickens were a hot commodity in the springtime. But as their business started gaining traction, they found there was a demand for them year-round. It was not long after that they noticed other businesses following in their footsteps raising chickens and encouraging sustainable urban lifestyles. “Wherever people were excited about the concept of sustainability, we found we were a magnet for that,” Kirsten ScottVandenberge said. The Grange also provided services to the Chicken Coup tour and the flower garden show, bringing chickens to show and bringing public attention to urban farming. “When we first started, we were broadcasting out to a larger agricultural community,” Kevin Scott-Vandenberge said. “That community began to shift when traffic and growth in the city increased toward a more local population.” This all almost came to a halt overnight around 2014 when street parking was taken away
as more lanes were added to Eastlake Ave and the Grange lost its ability to have the bulk of their feed delivered. “When you take away access, you take away people’s ability to treat your business as an oasis where they can stroll in,” Kirsten Scott-Vandenberge said. “This idea of oasis is pretty fundamentally connected to getting here.” Soon bike lanes were put in on Roosevelt, removing about
70% of the business’s street parking. “Amazon lobbied for the bike lane to get all their employees down to South Lake [and] it’s because of Amazon ultimately that you can say why Roosevelt’s small businesses will all be closing,” Kevin ScottVandenberge said. He sees this chapter ending not only for his family’s life, but wthe U-District’s as well. “This is a turning point,”
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UW Medicine physician with stage 4 lung cancer strives to live authentically By Shannon Hong The Daily
practicing medicine, research, and teaching. He eventually learned that he On the day before Thanksgiving had anaplastic lymphoma kinase in 2016, current UW Medicine (ALK) rearrangement — a type physician Morhaf Al Achkar of mutation that can increase the was struck with seemingly grim growth of cancer cells — which news. made him susceptible to targeted “When I heard ‘lung cancer,’ therapy in the form of pills. my initial thought wasn’t about This meant that he could live why or how I got it; I knew that longer than the typical patient people get cancers and that I’m with advanced lung cancer and not an exception,” Achkar said Achkar chose immediately to go of his stage 4 diagnosis. “My public on Facebook about his first thought was more about illness. the course of action and what I “I identify as a teacher, so I needed to do next.” feel like I can model and share Prior to his diagnosis, Achkar things with others,” Achkar had struggled with Crohn’s said. “I thought that by doing, disease, but other than that, by being, by living, by showing, he was living an active life. He those could be the last things I worked out three times a week could do, and social media was with a personal trainer and had the right space for that.” a busy schedule consisting of As he stepped back from his routines and prioritized his health, writing became a bigger part of his life as a coping strategy. “I don’t think language can solve experiences, but language can help unpack it,” Achkar said. “You can choose what to see and what to think, and you can choose to wrap certain parts in a certain way. With a pen or a keyboard, you regain control and you become the author of your story.” For Achkar, writing was also a Courtesy of Dr. Morhaf Al Achkar stepping stone into
doing something meaningful, and he was curious about what other people living with lung cancer were doing. “I could’ve started seeing patients day and night, but many other providers can do that,” Achkar said. “What I can do that not many others can is describe peoples’ experience [with cancer] as someone who’s also living it.” Inspired to turn those experiences into a book, he interviewed 39 people living with lung cancer and reconstructed their anecdotes alongside his own. The final product, titled “Roads to Meaning and Resilience with Cancer: Forty Stories of Coping, Finding Meaning, and Building Resilience While Living with Incurable Lung Cancer,” was published in August 2019. “Cancer is a terribly isolating disease, and the person who’s living with cancer cannot do it alone,” Achkar said. “So for those who are healthy or not yet dealing with cancer, I’m inviting them to be with us and be with the community.” However, Achkar said he doesn’t have any advice for anyone struggling with lung cancer, and he made that clear in his book. “I want them to be empowered to live with cancer in their own way, and there’s not just one way, there are many other ways of doing that,” Achkar said. “It might be meaningful or useful to reflect on the experience of others and see how they do it differently.” Although sharing his story with cancer has been meaningful, Achkar said he has many other plans, which
Courtesy of Dr. Morhaf Al Achkar he refers to as his life projects. He is currently working on his memoir, doing research on the lung cancer diagnosis pathway, and integrating mental health in primary care through the AIMS Center. Achkar also has his eyes on a much bigger life project regarding the Syrian Civil War and understanding the experiences of refugees. This is a subject that is personal to him as a Syrian immigrant, which he discussed in an open letter to President Trump during the 2017 immigration ban. As he continues to pursue
those life projects, Achkar hopes that people learn the importance of living authentically and doing good for others, as he outlined in his book. “I can transcend my limits by doing things for not only myself but also for others,” Achkar wrote. “I want to live and be here as a person, but if I transcend my limits by doing things and genuinely living for and with my cherished others, then even when I die, I will continue.” Reach reporter Shannon Hong at news@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @shannonjhhong
State looking to create student loan program for undocumented students By Joseph Claypoole Contributing writer
When the state Legislature secured financial aid in 2018 for students regardless of what might happen to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) — which allows undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children to apply for a two-year visa — it was seen as a victory for undocumented students. After the initial celebration, however, Guillermo Rogel Jr., executive director of the Washington Student Association, explained that undocumented students still face financial difficulties that can prevent students from completing college. “For students that were talking to us, they say that sometimes a couple thousand dollars or maybe even 700 dollars is the gap that they have in order to pay for college,” Rogel said. Senate Bill 6561 would help with the rest of the cost by providing undocumented students with another possible source of financial aid. The aid would be a form of “lowinterest student loans that are competitive with federal student loan programs.”
Sen. Marko Liias, D-Lynnwood, who is the prime sponsor of the bill, said that he’d like to see this as the first step in working toward student loan reform statewide. “I think the message is we want folks to work while they’re in school and take out just the level of debt they need in order to finish their education on time,” he said. This bill wouldn’t take away funding or aid from students who are not undocumented, as the program would be funded by public and private donations and grants. Any donations received, up to the first $2 million for every two years, would be matched by the state treasurer. Funding for the bill is not the only worry for supporters of the program, however. The ability for undocumented students to pay off the loan, lack of Republican support, and the possibility of the bill getting pushed aside by other issues in committee are still obstacles that need to be tackled. “How do you repay that back?” Hugo Garcia Villa, coordinator for Leadership Without Borders at the UW, said. “And that’s my biggest question, because you’re not given a government work authorization.” Garcia Villa and Rogel also expressed issues with how
the bill might fail to reach undocumented students without DACA or without the ability to work. Tanya Fekri, the Student Legal Services co-director and staff attorney, mentioned another possible problem. “One ground of inadmissibility is public charge,” Fekri said. “So if you’re ever determined to be a public charge, meaning that you’re gonna be dependent on government assistance — so whether that’s state needs benefits [or] federal needs benefits — then you could get the benefit denied.” Fekri continued that it’s not the loan itself that is the cause for worry, but the circumstances that surround a defaulted loan payment or missed forgiveness period. “It’s not just the possibility of them being able to pay the loan off,” she said. “It’s the possibility of just them having to be on welfare.” Liias denied any worry about the lack of bipartisan support for the program in the Senate, but did mention that it needed to remain a priority for legislators as they discuss other important issues as the bill goes through the House. Senators Jeff Holy and Sharon Brown of Four Lakes and Kennewick, respectively, who are the two Republicans on the
higher education committee, declined to comment. “Our Republican colleagues haven’t yet offered suggestions on how to improve the bill,” Liias said. “I’m always eager to hear ideas to make the bill stronger, but they haven’t proposed anything concrete yet. But we will keep an open mind and open ear as they propose ideas moving forward.” SB 6561 is currently in the Rules Committee after passing through the Senate Ways & Means Committee on a partyline vote earlier this month. If passed through both chambers and signed by the governor, it would go into effect July 1, 2021. Fekri asked that any
undocumented student who might have questions about financial aid, status, or even a traffic ticket, come visit her office on the third floor of the HUB for a free 40 minute consultation. “We can’t just put a Band-Aid on the problem,” Fekri said. “We really have to figure out what are some solutions and plays that can really help more students get a higher education so that they can do more for the nation at large and more for their families.” Reach contributing writer Joseph Claypoole at news@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @9_3quarters
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ARTS &LEISURE
Tuesday-Friday, February 18-21, 2020
Corsets and bustles and stockings, oh my
Vintage undergarments displayed at the Henry for one night only
By Anna Miller The Daily On a rainy Thursday evening, a small group of people eagerly waited to be led down into a basement to see some underwear. Vintage underwear, that is, from the Henry Art Gallery’s permanent collection. The event, “Mentioning the Unmentionables” took place Feb. 13 and was the latest installment in the Re/frame event series. Before the group was allowed to see the garments, we were coached on archival rules: no pens, nothing dangling, nothing wet, and above all, no touching, not even the tables. Finally, we could enter. The room was filled with underclothes, neatly laid out on tables and labeled — from a 1761 corset to 1910s pantyhose, from an extremely practical union suit to a pair of black net knickers with a tasteful fig leaf to preserve the modesty of the wearer. Everything was out in the open, with no glass to provide a degree of separation from the viewer. The curator even moved objects if asked. The array of textiles on display at this event hardly scratched the surface, however. The Henry Art Gallery has a permanent collection of over 27,000 objects, most of which never get to be on display to the public. “One of the parts of our mission is to support contemporary art, artists, and ideas, so we do a lot of that
through bringing in artists who are currently working, and I love their exhibitions,” Ann Poulson, the associate curator of collections at the Henry, said. “However, because of that mission, not much of that permanent collection goes on display.” Poulson started the Re/ frame program in an attempt to show off more of the Henry’s permanent collection. The program, held monthly, showcases areas of the collection each time, from Peruvian textiles to daguerreotypes. “We’ve got all sorts of different things we pull out because I want people to get excited about what we have in our collection, and get to know the Henry as a whole, instead of just the excellent work that we do in our exhibitions,” Poulson said. One of the other goals of the Re/frame program is to get people to think about what clothing (underwear in this case) can tell us about the people who wore it, as well as what society was like at the time. According to Poulson, who has a master’s in fashion in textiles for museum studies, as well as a master’s and doctorate in material culture and visual culture in the 19th century, clothes can show what people — especially women — did, how much they spent, and what they were expected and felt they had to do. Before the event started, Poulson asked the group to think about these questions, and later
pointed out which garments fell more into the “decorative” or “practical” categories. She also answered any questions anyone had about the garments, no matter how trivial. “One of the things I also want people to know is that this is open to people by appointment,” Poulson said. “They don’t just have to wait for me to put on a program they want to see.” Even better, appointments
can be made through the gallery’s website, via an online form. The entire permanent collection is also available — and searchable — on the Henry’s website. Oh, and it’s completely free. “I just want people to get excited about art and objects,” Poulson said. “Because there’s so much to value in the visual and material culture that we have that sometimes, those are
the budgets that get cut first. Those are things that we tend to lose in hard times. Fortunately, we’re not in those hard times right now, but this is a really great opportunity to dive in for one evening and get to know something that’s a little bit of art.” Reach writer Anna Miller at arts@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @lesakuraciel
Emma Stuart The Daily A pair of gallery attendees group around a garment, reading the explanation of its history. The vintage underwear collection is available for viewing by appointment at the Henry Art Gallery.
Campus Sketcher: The room where costumes are made A closer look at the School of Drama costume shop Written and illustrated by Elijah Pasco If you’ve ever been to a UW School of Drama performance, then in all likelihood you have seen actors in costumes built by the costume shop or from the extensive collection of stock in the drama building. The costume shop is
located on the ground floor of Hutchinson Hall. It’s a room filled with work tables, cupboards full of fabric and notions, drawers of thread, and a dozen sewing machines and ironing boards. This excludes the eight stockrooms located throughout the building filled to the ceiling with everything from trousers of the 17th century to a
whole room of opera dresses and military garb. It is a beautiful sort of chaos. Vintage dress forms fill the space unclothed or draped in patterns and works in progress. On any given day, there are at least three to five different projects being worked on at once. I spoke with Deborah Skorstad, the interim costume
shop manager who has been working at the UW costume shop for 16 years, about the work that is done in this one-of-a-kind space. There is always some sort of experiment going on, whether it be dying something or trying to figure out the most efficient way to construct a garment specially designed for a show. “It’s a workroom, a working laboratory for theater,” Skorstad said. “There’s always a new puzzle, you can be proficient at historical menswear, but what if it needs to be waterproof, or a tearaway, or rigged for magic tricks, or built and then distressed?” In my time spent in the shop labeling clothes, picking up costumes for a show, or stitching a torn garment, the people in the shop are always willing to lend their expertise when it comes to clothes. The shop is a resource for students not just interested in costume design, but also everyday clothes, fashion, and style. In addition, it is a resource for local Seattle theaters who use the stockrooms for their own productions. This allows students to interact with professionals and meet other local designers to make connections. An actor rapidly change costumes from one scene to the next is a feat that often goes unappreciated and is a miracle to witness when done well. “Every time you see a quick change, there are probably
four or five people behind the scenes; either a month beforehand or the wardrobe person making it happen backstage,” Skorstad said. Compared to other design fields like sound, sets, or lighting which have been influenced more by technology and computer programs, costume building has more or less stayed the same. While the invention of polyester and the electric sewing machine have changed some things, many parts of the process have stayed constant. “We still build clothes out of fabric,” Skorstad said. “Sheep haven’t changed in 500 years.” Compared to professional theaters, which are most concerned about the deadline for a show and getting a product out, a university costume shop is different. “We teach grad students the skills of being a good designer,” Skorstad said. “There is time built into the schedule to accommodate what they are learning that also allows for research … whereas professional theater doesn’t have time for that.” While not everyone’s idea of a laboratory, the costume shop is a place where designs, ideas, and solutions are tested and then brought to life with fabric. Until the next sketch, Reach The Campus Sketcher Elijah Pasco at arts@dailyuw.com. Instagram: @the_campus_ sketcher
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SCIENCE
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SARP UW ready to defend national title By Amber Hsu The Daily The Society for Advanced Rocket Propulsion (SARP) is the UW’s completely student-run rocketry organization. Comprised of 160 members, students from various departments work together to design, manufacture, and test a rocket each year to compete in the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) in New Mexico. At the competition, SARP competes against over 120 teams from around the United States and around the globe in the most technically difficult category: the liquid hybrid 30,000-foot competition. The last three years, SARP has placed in the category, and won the entire competition last year as the 2019 overall winners. General members work on one of SARP’s six sub-teams: avionics, business, payload, propulsion, recovery, and structures. Each team is split into multiple projects under project leads who are experts in specific subject matter, and the chief engineer works alongside the project manager to oversee the activities of the entire organization. The work of general members varies greatly from team to team and project to project. During the year, general members can be found doing everything from developing different circuits on the payload team to running simulations on rocket parts on the structures team to navigating sponsorships on the business team. The skills that members develop through SARP are also applicable to their professional lives, especially for those looking to pursue academia or related
careers in the future. “SARP is meant as a learning experience that’s supplemental to an engineering education,” lead structural engineer Cody Olson said. “There are applications I learned that helped me get a job that I wouldn’t have picked up just in a class … it becomes a part of someone’s resume and a part of who they are as an engineer.” Hannah Schnelz, lead payload engineer and current senior, started in SARP as a general member her sophomore year and became a project lead the year after. This allowed her to see the way the entire organization functioned as a whole, and her biggest take-away was learning how people worked as a cohesive team rather than as separate parts. The road to nationals brings a new set of challenges each year. This year, SARP is changing up the engine system from the hybrid rocket that they have worked with for the last three years and starting from the ground up with a new liquid bipropellant rocket. It’s a much more complex system and there’s a lot more room for things to go wrong. Joseph DePalma, the chief engineer, explained the main reason behind this endeavor. “The biggest motivation for us doing this change is because it’s more of an industry standard,” DePalma said. “[The hybrid rocket system] was started so long ago, and changes that have been made across the last 10 years were not always documented, so we don’t know why decisions were made at certain points … we were tired of trying to guess on how to make this system better and we
Alex Nagode The Daily A UW decal resides on a wall inside The Kirsten Wind Tunnel. The Aeronautical Lab is operated by a crew of students and provides opportunities for students to learn through aeronautic labs and testing. wanted [a] system that we could understand.” On top of technical challenges, there are also challenges surrounding the external regulations SARP has to follow. Some of their sponsors are starting to get nervous that their technology is approaching too mature a level for amateur rocketry and are pulling funding from the program. “They are hesitant to sponsor us because we’re not as controlled as they are,” DePalma said. “If our information gets out to other countries, other countries could replicate what we’re doing against the United States. Right now we are operating within the lines of [federal] regulations, but these
companies are worried that if we do end up slipping outside of those lines, they could be held liable and could end up losing their accreditations.” SARP is still a student-run organization, and the annual cycling of members poses a unique challenge to the organization. “Cycling people out every four years, you don’t end up getting and keeping the talent that you teach everyone,” Olson, who has been practicing machining his past four years in SARP, said. “We teach people enough … That knowledge transfers down but doesn’t compromise this system that we’re trying to build.” Nick Monsees, the lead avionics engineer, notes a similar
challenge with the cycle of rotating leadership. “Our leadership cycles every year,” Monsees said. “As soon as you become a good engineer or qualified engineer, it makes you the best person to become a lead. Now [as a lead], you start all over again learning how to be a lead as well.” Amid the bumps in the road, SARP members are keeping busy running tests, making optimizations, and securing resources in preparation for the national IREC competition this coming June. Reach reporter Amber Hsu at science@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @ambrhsu
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Zach Gommi of the UW Society for Advanced Rocket Propulsion inspects early designs of their model rocket. The multi-colored model nose cone is made up of multiple 3Dprinted parts.
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Samia Ali explores the intersection of diversity and research Studying cardiovascular risk factors in Seattle’s refugee communities By Jax Morgan The Daily
Courtesy of Samia Ali
Before coming to the UW, Samia Ali, now a junior majoring in physiology, already knew that she wanted to pursue research. Having previously worked on vaccine awareness projects among refugee communities through King County’s public health program, she was eager to find research opportunities on campus to immerse herself in. As a freshman entering her first project through the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS), Ali initially felt unsure about how much background knowledge she needed to have but soon found that research is often a process of “asking more questions instead of answering.” In her current role, Ali analyzes data from the completion of tasks among infants from different age groups to assess whether altruism is an innate or developed characteristic. In addition to her involvement with I-LABS, Ali has recently started working on a project oriented around leadership development in trauma patient care through the emergency department at the Harborview Medical Center. This academic year, Ali has also expanded her research experience by starting her own project that focuses on cardiovascular disease risk factors within Seattle’s refugee communities, explaining that her personal background led her to pursue this project. Ali is the daughter of Somali refugees. When her parents arrived in the United States, they were, like many Somali refugees escaping war, “thrown into survival mode.” Ali has long observed how the trauma this community has faced has not been sufficiently addressed and explained that this is what drives her research. “When populations who have experienced increased unaddressed trauma live in areas with food deserts due to the inability to gain employment for various reasons, the risk for poor health is disproportionately greater,” Ali said. Over the past few months, Ali has been developing her research questions and the form in which her research will take place. She also explained the difficulty of finding a mentor who specializes in the type of study she is conducting. Ali believes that research is vital for all individuals both inside and outside the realm of academia, though the lack of representation in the present state of academic research ensures that research
is not serving everyone. “In many research projects, there are very few human subjects of color and that is largely tied to having a limited number of researchers of color, more specifically woman of color,” Ali said. “What is the result? Data is skewed. And I am just tired of it.” In addition to a lack of representation within studies, Ali further vocalized the lack of representation in research as a field.
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In many research projects, there are very few human subjects of color and that is largely tied to having a limited number of researchers of color, more specifically woman of color. What is the result? Data is skewed. And I am just tired of it.
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“There is a clear understanding that research is often very limiting to people from disenfranchised populations,” Ali said. “For first-generation students of color, finding research is very difficult.” To help students find opportunities, Ali became an undergraduate research leader (URL) and has since found that the experience fuels her own research endeavors. In her role, she shares with fellow undergraduates the importance of research and how it is driven by one’s desire to learn, rather than one’s area of study or prior experiences before attending college. “I have not only brought more awareness to marginalized populations that research is a possibility, but I have increased my own knowledge regarding how to pursue research in a future career,” Ali said. “I originally came in just for the sole purpose of showing representation, but it has honestly turned into something greater for me. If I was not a URL, I do not think I would have had the confidence to dive into my own projects.” Reach reporter Jax Morgan at science@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @jaxbmorgan
SPORTS
Tuesday-Friday, February 18-21, 2020
UW Athletics updates By Hailey Robinson and Josh Kirshenbaum The Daily
Gymnastics Over the weekend Season high Quick hitters
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Senior Evannni Roberson celebrates her perfect 10.000 on beam Feb. 15, 2020.
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196.600 vs. Arizona 197.225 * Senior Evanni Roberson scored a perfect 10.000 on beam for the first time in program history. It was Washington’s first 10 on any event since 2004. * Roberson won individual titles on bars, beam, floor, and all-around. Junior Geneva Thompson won the vault title with a 9.925. * The Huskies had to count a fall on bars, scoring a season-low 48.575. They compensated with a season-high 49.475 on beam. @ Arizona State (Feb. 23 at 1 p.m.)
Track and Field
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Senior Katie Rainsberger competes in the women’s 3000-meter run Feb. 14, 2020.
Softball Over the weekend Season record Quick hitters
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@ St. Pete Clearwater Elite Invitational: Lost to No. 9 Alabama 8-0 (5), beat No. 5 Florida State 7-0, beat Liberty 10-6, beat No. 18 South Carolina 5-4, beat No. 17 Texas Tech 11-5 (8) 10-1
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Competed at the Husky Classic and the Don Kirby Invitational (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
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* Katie Rainsberger ran a 8:56.24 in the 3,000 meters, breaking her PR for the first time in two years and jumping up to second-best in UW history. * Elijah Mason set a new PR in the weight throw at 64 feet, 3 inches. It was the best by a UW thrower since 2007. * Olivia Gruver was the spotlight once again on the pole vault, clearing 15 feet, 5 inches for the second-best height in collegiate history.
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* The UW played the entire weekend without senior shortstop Sis Bates, who missed a game for the first time in her collegiate career. * The Huskies trailed at the end of the fifth inning in each of the final three games, but scored 16 runs in the sixth inning and after to win all three. @ Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic (Cathedral City, California): Feb. 21: vs. Wisconsin (6 p.m.) vs. Bethune-Cookman (8:30 p.m.) Feb. 22: vs. No. 2 Oklahoma (12:30 p.m.) vs. Nebraska (5 p.m.) Feb. 23: vs. No. 21 Northwestern (9 a.m.)
Home for the Last Chance College Elite Meet (Feb. 21)
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Lost to No. 12 Arizona 64-53, lost to No. 22 Arizona State 72-68 11-14, 3-11 Pac-12 * Senior Amber Melgoza scored 22 points Friday, scoring 20 or more points for the 36th time in her career. After a slow three periods, she scored 12 points in the fourth quarter alone on Sunday. * Junior Khayla Rooks made her first start of the season on Sunday, replacing junior Missy Peterson. Peterson scored 10 points in the second half to spark a comeback attempt. * Washington managed eight offensive rebounds but scored no second-chance points against Arizona State. vs. USC (Feb. 21, 7 p.m.) vs. UCLA (Feb. 23, noon)
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Lost to USC 62-56, lost to UCLA 67-57 12-14, 2-11 Pac-12 * The UW had a scoreless streak of nearly seven minutes against USC, and went almost half of the second half without a field goal. * Washington led UCLA by as many as 12 points, but had more turnovers than field goals in the final 10 minutes. vs. Stanford (Feb. 20, 7 p.m.) vs. Cal (Feb. 22, 3 p.m.)
Alec Dietz The Daily Nahziah Carter reacts to a turnover in Washington’s 62-56 loss to USC on Feb. 12, 2020 at the Galen Center. Carter scored eight points on 3-of-11 shooting from the field.
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Men’s Tennis
Beat Kansas State 4-1, lost to Kansas 5-2 8-3 * Senior Natsuho Arakawa didn’t drop a set in singles play over the weekend, and was the only UW player to win her match against Kansas. * The UW’s other two ranked singles players, Vanessa Wong and Katarina Kopcalic lost matches to unranked opponents against the Jayhawks.
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vs. Illinois (Feb. 23 at noon)
Idle 6-3 * The UW started the season off 5-1, but has lost two of its past three matches. * Junior Jack Davis has won six straight singles matches, and his doubles pairs have gone undefeated in their past six doubles matches. @ Hawai’i (Feb. 18 at 3 p.m.) @ Sacramento State (Feb. 22 at noon) @ UC Davis (Feb. 23 at noon)
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How to be a good friend to a survivor of sexual assault By Hannah Krieg The Daily Content warning: The following article contains language that refers explicitly to sexual assault. One in four undergraduate women will experience sexual assault by the time they graduate. At the UW, there are roughly 16,000 female undergraduates. This means over 4,000 women on our campus have experienced or will experience sexual assault. That is enough survivors to fill every single seat in every single lecture hall in all of Kane twice — with a couple hundred to spare. Whether or not you have experienced sexual assault yourself, almost everyone has a friend who is a survivor. However, not everyone feels equipped to be a good friend to the survivor(s) in their life. Despite our best efforts, we are all more or less children floundering clumsily through our first taste of the adult world.
We can hardly fold our own laundry — how can we provide proper support when a friend is assaulted? We are not licensed therapists, and luckily, we don’t have to be. When a friend confides in you, it is crucial to let them know that you are in their corner. Maybe the assault took place only hours ago, or maybe this experience is deep from the survivor’s past. Regardless, there are a few things to keep in mind when someone is sharing their story. Put away distractions. Your phone can wait. There is a reallife person in front of you who is showing incredible strength and vulnerability. The least you can do is make eye contact. Don’t worry too much about the sympathetic eyebrows or pouty bottom lip. Just listen. “Focus on putting yourself in the survivor’s shoes rather than trying to figure out what happened or why it happened,” Dr. Emily Dworkin, a licensed
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clinical psychologist and an acting assistant professor at the UW School of Medicine’s Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors, said. As previously mentioned, you are not a therapist. You are also not a criminal investigator. You do not need, nor are you entitled to, any information the survivor does not offer forthright. Questions of how or why, even those that seem harmless, can slip into dangerous, problematic territory. Asking for specific details can imply a lack of trust in the survivor or an attempt to wrongly assign blame. “You don’t need to solve or fix their feelings — just be a shoulder to cry on,” Dworkin said. “You don’t need to distract them from their feelings or try to get their mind off of it — they’ll be thinking about it either way, but they’ll just feel unsupported if you try.” The recount of an assault can be hard to digest, but however difficult it may be to listen to, it is certainly much more difficult to have lived. Keep your reactions to comforting the survivor. “There aren’t many hard and fast rules about the wrong thing to say,” Dworkin said. “Statements that start with ‘At least …,’ like ‘At least it wasn’t worse,’ are usually a bad idea.” Validate the survivor’s feelings and express your condolences. Do not question or minimize their experience. If you have been assaulted yourself, think before you shift the focus of conversation to your own experience. That may be appropriate with the intention to use your shared experience as comfort to your friend, but it may be inappropriate to use this
specific conversation as an opportunity to seek support from your friend. What may be helpful is sharing resources. If your friend wants to seek the support of a trained professional, kindly encourage them to do so, while maintaining respect for their autonomy. “There are lots of great resources in the Seattle area for survivors, including the Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress and the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center,” Dworkin said. “Both of these centers offer evidence-based treatment for PTSD and other mental health problems that can arise following sexual assault.” There are plenty of options for survivors, but exploring these options can be overwhelming. Advocates at LiveWell provide a solid starting point for figuring out the next steps for the survivor. After someone shares their story with you, your responsibilities as a supporter do not end with the closing of conversation. You are responsible for keeping all information shared with you private. Even if the survivor has shared this with multiple people, someone’s assault is not appropriate lunchtime chitchat. Sexual assault is not gossip. Regardless of your intentions, this information is not at your discretion to disclose or discuss. It takes a lot of strength and a lot of trust to share a traumatic experience. Keep that conversation sacred. A good supporter, a genuinely good supporter, is a good supporter even when there
is no one there to hold them accountable. This extends to vocal advocacy against sexual assault in general. Do not let problematic comments slide — not from yourself or from anyone in earshot. If you could not look a survivor in the eye and explain the joke, it may not be as funny as you had hoped. Also, don’t be friends with sexual predators. That’s a big one. “I would advise against assuming that the person couldn’t have assaulted someone because they’ve seemed nice in your experience,” Dworkin said. “People who otherwise seem to be ‘nice’ commit sexual assault all the time, and other people believing they aren’t capable of it because they’re ‘nice’ is part of what helps them get away with it.” On top of actively advocating for survivors, check in on your friend. Healing is tough. The process is long and nonlinear and, again, tough. You don’t have to overextend yourself or become your friend’s own personal emotional garbage can, but simply checking in and showing your continued love and support can go a long way. At the end of the day, it’s all about effort. We mess up. We come up short. We say awful things not realizing they are awful. We do too much, or not enough, or sometimes we get overwhelmed and elect to do nothing at all. Choose, in some small, powerful way, to support survivors. Reach writer Hannah Krieg at wellness@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @Hannah_krieg
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Survivors do not need you to coddle them, baby them, or treat them like a porcelain doll. Editor’s Note: Thirst Trap is a Survivors are survivors — not weekly column on dating and victims. You’re not a hero for relationships in college. dating a survivor. In fact, the best thing you can It took me six months to kiss do to support a survivor is to someone after I was assaulted. empower them. Sexual assault And I love kissing. But that’s sort is motivated by the perpetrator’s of the thing about sexual assault: desire for power and control. it changes things, complicates Somebody made a choice that things, especially as they pertain was not theirs to make. It is to relationships and sex. important to not replicate that Because of these kind of control over a survivor. complications, it may seem like “Sexual assault can change dating a survivor would present the way people see themselves, some unique challenges. It does, others, and the world,” Dr. Emily but as much as people might Dworkin, a licensed clinical assume, it also doesn’t. If you psychologist and an acting are walking on eggshells with a assistant professor at the UW survivor of sexual assault, stop. School of Medicine’s Center for Be considerate, not careful. the Study of Health and Risk Dating a survivor is just like Behaviors, said. “For example, it dating anyone else. They deserve can lead people to believe that respect and understanding. no one can be trusted, including Hopefully you aim to respect and in dating situations.” understand anyone you pursue a “Survivors may worry that no relationship with, regardless of one will be able to understand their trauma. their experiences, or that all their future romantic partners will see them as dirty or damaged. These kinds of distorted thoughts, when not addressed, can make it difficult to feel comfortable in romantic Vivian Mak @vivianlmak relationships.” The main thing is
effort. You are not a therapist; you cannot snap your fingers and change your partner’s worldview, but you can try to understand them. Unfortunately, we cannot look into someone else’s mind. We have to talk about it. I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but like in any relationship, communication is key. Instead of well-intentioned, blind attempts at support, ask what your partner wants. Respect your partner’s rightful power. What you think is a great idea might actually be a terrible idea in the context of your partner’s lived experience. “It’s important to put the control in survivors’ hands when dealing with a trigger,” Dworkin said. “It’s ideal to have conversations about how survivors want to handle triggers before the trigger happens, but of course, that can’t always happen.” Maybe your partner wants you physically close to them as they handle an intrusive memory, or maybe they want you on the other side of the room. You don’t know until you ask. Again, this sort of proactive communication should hopefully occur in all your relationships. You might be with someone who has been assaulted without knowing it. The responsibility to initiate this kind of ongoing dialogue is
even stronger due to avoidance symptoms that commonly accompany a traumatic event. “Sexual assault survivors sometimes feel an urge to avoid things that remind them of the assault because these reminders bring up negative emotions and thoughts,” Dworkin said. “Sex and intimacy can become reminders of the assault, so survivors may feel avoidant of sex. Other survivors may use sex as a way to cope with negative emotions, and so may have sex more than they did before a result.” Enjoying sex, something so closely related to a survivor’s trauma, can be difficult. Obviously. Approximately 60% of women who experience sexual abuse or assault will experience some kind of sexual dysfunction. With communication, a partner eager to initiate can be helpful; with sex, it is quite a different story. “Although gradually facing [a survivor’s] triggers can be an important part of healing for many survivors, it’s only helpful if it’s something that survivors have voluntarily chosen to do without being pressured into it,” Dworkin said. When it comes to sex, make sure you honor your partner’s agency over their body. Again, and I cannot stress this enough, you should honor that
agency of all your partners. “I recommend focusing first and foremost on whether sex is both safe and enthusiastically and mutually wanted by those involved,” Dworkin said. “Having ongoing conversations about what you and your partner want and don’t want is important no matter whether you have a history of assault.” I didn’t kiss anyone for six months, but when I did, it was my choice. No, the kiss itself was not special, or even good. (Unpopular opinion: He could have used a little more tongue.) Making a choice, having control over my body, that wasn’t special either. That was my right. Reach writer Hannah Krieg at wellness@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @Hannah_krieg
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Feel good to look good Body positivity equates health with beauty By Tatum Lindquist The Daily Content warning: This article discusses body image issues and references common eating disorder behaviors which may be triggering for some readers. I remember starting to count calories in elementary school, flexing my new knowledge about the “2000 calories a day” mantra. I remember categorizing foods and learning exactly how many cups of each should be part of my diet. I remember learning sugars are bad, vegetables are good, and carbs are gray. I remember learning to watch what I eat so I could be healthy — a word defined to me at an early age as skinny. Going into high school, I carried these prejudices against fat and any sign of it, never accepting my body and its natural, healthy shapes, stretch marks and curves included. I couldn’t accept people saying “you’re so skinny.” Instead, I would respond “I disagree, but thanks,” because of my struggling self-esteem. The body positivity movement has taught me more about mental, physical, and sexual health than over a decade of public school health classes ever could. Above all, engaging with the movement drew attention to how much control I gave my emotions when looking in the mirror. “I find that body positivity is necessary because the body isn’t the problem, it’s the perception of the body, and it’s how society treats bodies in different sizes,” freshman Chris Wuerch said. Whether it’s the fat-shaming in school, the predatory and food-restrictive diet industry, or the inadequate sizing in the fashion industry, these societal beauty standards that so many women face and oppose still ingrain themselves in the mechanics of everyday living. We need to reinvent our thought process and relationships to health and beauty; instead of defining beauty as one shape, use health to define beauty in all shapes and sizes.
Abigail Dahl @abigailgracedahl One major philosophy, Health At Every Size (HAES), promotes body positivity in multiple areas of society, whether standing against prejudices in the medical world or advocating for health in a non-stigmatizing way. Many criticize societal beauty standards for women. However, if we recognize the inaccuracy and sadistic language and culture around beauty, then why do we see so much backlash against the body positivity movement? “There’s a very strong reaction against body positivity because people think, ‘oh well, if you say all bodies are good, then that means we’re trying to be unhealthy,’” Wuerch, a supporter of HAES, said. “It’s not saying you shouldn’t move, but it’s saying move your body in a way that feels joyful to you.” Body positivity, at its core, is about health. It draws awareness on the fact that healthy bodies come in all shapes and sizes — and so should beauty. What is unhealthy, actually, is the beauty standard that skinny equates
to health and the sociallyacceptable but harmful eating patterns, such as food restriction, promoted in the diet industry to achieve such unrealistic expectations. “The diet industry is a multimillion, billion-dollar industry that thrives off people’s fear of gaining weight,” Wuerch said. Instead of being motivated by fear, we should be motivated by health and happiness. Rather than hating on our bodies and restricting our food, we should love — or at least respect — ourselves enough to regard food and exercise as a question of health and happiness, not a reductive conception of “beauty.” “People say to focus on being healthy and not fitting these dimensions or having this kind of hair and this kind of shape,” freshman Kelly Hou said. “And people seeing that as beautiful is a lot better than ‘OK, you’re healthy and a perfectly normally functioning person — but there’s still something wrong with you.’” The fashion industry also holds a great deal of culpability
for this implicit body-shaming in the United States. Whether it’s bra sizes that exclude perfectly normal body types or the implicit inaccuracy in small, medium, and large sizing, the fashion industry plays a huge role in generating a great deal of pressure for those with body types not representative in these predetermined sizes. I remember in middle school constantly worrying about my external appearance and constantly comparing myself because I kept going up in clothing size. At the time, I wrongly thought that wearing a size large equated to unhealthiness. It took months before I accepted the fact that my body was growing. You know, normal human body development from girls’ to women’s clothing. “In our society we value beauty a lot, especially women, because in our society, we view women as the beautiful gender, the one that’s supposed to be on display,” Hou said. That’s not to say only women
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struggle with body image and self-love, but the oversexualization of women sets a generalized expectation of beauty, generating this persistent pressure to be accepted as beautiful by society, neglecting the importance of our selfimage. During this mental health crisis, where individuals with eating disorders have the highest mortality rates of any mental health challenge, the body positivity movement is the first but crucial step to redefining our relationship to beauty, health, normality, and the human body. While I don’t know if I’ll learn to always love my body completely, I can practice body neutrality and walk in the direction of self-love and health. I can grow in the direction of practicing body positivity and oppose the uneducated prejudices against normal, healthy body types. Reach writer Tatum Lindquist at opinion@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @TatumLindquist
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