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Stranger (UW) things A campus mystery tour By Hannah Krieg The Daily If any future Husky was ever hesitant to commit to the UW, a campus tour would surely seal the deal. The campus is beautiful, and it’s not just the staff and students who believe this. Last year, the Matador Network named our campus the third most beautiful in the country behind the University of Virginia and St. Olaf College. However beautiful the campus may be, it is not without its quirks and mysteries. It is hard to go a day at the UW without passing through Red Square. It is even harder to go an entire college career without a particularly rainy day transforming the trademark red bricks into the equivalent of Mario Kart banana peels (except instead of spinning out and falling behind in the race, you are on your butt, in the rain, and you’re going to be late for class). Red Square’s beauty is undeniable — the neatly laid plaza is home to Suzzallo Library, the Broken Obelisk, the three brick monoliths, and from its southeastern edge you can catch a glimpse of Drumheller spouting off in front of Mount Rainier. That said, if you look a little closer, its peculiarities peek right through. First of all, Red Square is not a square. Honestly, “red” is even a bit of a stretch. Not only is the name misleading, it
is also strongly associated with Moscow’s very own Red Square, a feature famous for serving as a stage for parades to showcase Soviet strength. While “Red Square” is the name most commonly used in reference to the feature, it was not called such until student Cassandra Amesely campaigned to change it from “Suzzallo Quadrangle” as an assignment for a class centered around propaganda in the mid ‘70s. Although it is unknown whether the intent was to connect to the other Red Square, student Grant Steppe says that “the Stalinist architecture and socialist murals make me doubt that Red Square’s name came from the color of the bricks.” Red Square’s strangeness does not end there. The prevailing explanation as to why it’s so slippery in the rain is that Red Square was paved in brick to make assembling in protest harder on slick, uneven terrain during the Vietnam protests. While this theory remains unfounded, it is a little suspicious that the area was bricked over in 1971, in the midst of the Vietnam War. For new Huskies, Padelford sits just east of the Communications Building on Stevens Way and is host to a variety of different departments including comparative history of ideas, American-ethnic studies, and mathematics. Each of the
five stories are an awkward chain of disconnected towers and rectangles turned and connected at weird angles complete with hallways that lead nowhere. The irregularities of the layout have confused students for the better half of a century, raising questions and conjuring conspiracy theories. It has been rumored that Padelford was modeled after a prison, although this conspiracy is noted often when the funky brutalist architecture on campus is brought up. Haggett Hall has also been said to have been designed by a prison architect. If this connection seems too intimate to be a meaningless coincidence, you might be more than a little paranoid, but you also might be interested to hear that this campus oddity is also rumored to be riot-proof to accommodate for the heated political climate in the 1960s. It makes sense that if Walker & McGough were really called to design this building due to their background in prison architecture, then one of the main motivations would be to use the physical building to reinforce the desired power structures — prisoner submissive to prison, student submissive to university. Dr. Jeanette Bushnell, who attended the UW in the 1970s and now lectures part-time at the university, remembers that “right after it
was built, Padelford’s design was recognized as impairing collection and movement of large numbers of people such as protesting students.” She remains unsure if this makes the building riot proof. The addition of administrative offices in “Padelford after students occupied Gerberding,” Bushnell says, “is why we surmised that it was designed the way it was.” According to The Daily, this strange feature of our campus cannot be explained fully by the plans and therefore the suspicion lives on.
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The faces of Suzzallo By Maxwell Eberle The Daily
As much as I love Suzzallo Library and have taken the time to admire its beauty, it wasn’t until the end of my junior year when I noticed some of the greatest minds in human history lining the facade of the building. Eighteen terra-cotta figures, each nestled in their own buttress on the front of Suzzallo, depict the monumental thinkers and artists of the world. From Plato to Darwin, Herodotus to Benjamin Franklin, Gutenberg to Shakespeare, these figures are ever watching over Red Square, begging the question: What else is hidden in the architectural heart of the UW’s campus? Suzzallo’s importance as the university’s axis of knowledge derives from its surrounding quadrangles: the liberal arts quadrangle (commonly known as “the Quad”), and the science quadrangle that surrounds Drumheller Fountain. The original concept was that the central quadrangle (Red Square) would bring the two together with Suzzallo acting as the hinge that connects the humanities and the natural sciences. From the 1890s to the beginning of the 1930s, the dominant tendency for U.S. architects was what historians call Academic Eclecticism, a belief and artistic strategy of selecting the best architectural designs of the past. Academic Eclectics looked to the aesthetics and techniques of the past and used their influence to solve architectural problems
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creatively in the present. The architects of the Seattle firm Bebb and Gould (responsible for the early campus buildings, including Suzzalo) emphasized the Collegiate Gothic style for multiple reasons. On one hand, the choice would follow other prestigious American universities (Princeton and the University of Chicago, for example) that had Collegiate Gothic, an aesthetic that ultimately harkens back to Oxford at its core. But the argument was environmental as well. The large windows emphasized in Collegiate Gothic architecture maximize sun-exposure and proved appropriate for the often rainy and grim weather of the Northwest. Suzzallo Library’s rich iconography takes shape in the architectural decadence of friezes, glass, metalwork, cast stone, terra-cotta, and brick. During the construction of the 1926 west facade, Allan Clark, a young sculptor from Tacoma, was commissioned by the Board of Regents to create a series of 18 figures that represented the heroes of intellectual progress. Three other figures — the bearded old man to the left, “Thought,” the woman in the center, “Inspiration,” and the classically sculpted body of a young man on the right, “Mastery” — sit above the main entrance. Jeffrey Karl Ochsner is a professor in the department of architecture and emphasized that UW buildings feature individuals who have contributed to the repository of human knowl-
A spotlight on Collegiate Gothic and its cast of characters
edge just as figurations of saints adorn Gothic cathedrals of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. “The issue with the sculptures on the outside is that they are all supposed to inspire us and they are all related to areas of knowledge, and to heroic figures,” Ochsner said. “People who don’t look closely, probably think they’re all just alike — when actually each one is individual.” Craning your neck towards the top of the large stained glass windows, you can see the 18 terra-cotta intellectuals. From left to right: Moses, Pasteur, Dante, Shakespeare, Plato, Ben Franklin, Justinian, Sir Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Herodotus, Adam Smith, Homer, Gutenberg, Beethoven, Darwin, and Grotius. Note that the first and last two figures at each end wrap around the North and South corners of the building, so if you want to see Moses or Darwin, you have to trudge through the bushes and peer through tree branches. If you find yourself staring at these intriguing sculptures, also take notice of the Gothic lettering of the academic fields on the belt course above the first floor windows; between these letterings and the reading room windows, you’ll see the academic shields of other prestigious universities — a clear attempt by UW to include itself in the cohort of premier establishments in American higher education. Adjacent to Suzzallo, just across the top steps of Rainier Vista, that “closer you look, the
more you see” mentality applies to Gerberding Hall as well. Norman Johnston, former professor of architecture and author of the University of Washington Campus Guide, writes of Gerberding’s Gothic aesthetic with particular emphasis on the statues and stonework. “Of cast stone, it is the most pretentious of the buildings in the last years of the Collegiate Gothic style,” Johnston wrote. “Fully utilizing that vocabulary with towers, pointed arches, pinnacles, sculpted bosses and gargoyles.” Across the plaza, the vertical lines and movement of Suzzallo are mirrored in the columns and bays of Kane Hall. The 1971 lecture hall, however, boasts a modernist adaptation of the intricacies of Collegiate Gothic in a minimal, brutalist form. As eloquent as Kane is in its homage to its neo-gothic ancestor —
the only charming thing about it might be its collection of bells. Suzzallo Library remains in great shape as it creeps up on its 100 year anniversary, slowly crawling into the annals of time — albeit with a few gulls’ nests sitting on the statues’ shoulders; its age will only compliment its beauty. “I think this building has stood the test of time and will continue to stand the test of time because it is such a fine piece of work,” Ochsner said. “It embodies the idea of a repository of human knowledge at the junction of the liberal arts in one direction and the sciences in the other — and a quadrangle that is shared by all.” Reach writer Maxwell Eberle at specials@dailyuw.com Twitter: @MaxwellEberle
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500 years of injustices, lifetimes of reconciliation Recognizing the original stewards of Union Bay By Sophie Aanerud The Daily It begins with a statement: The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, the land which touches the shared waters and all tribes and bands within the Suquamish, Tulalip, and Muckleshoot nations. . . . And thus commences each student’s career at the UW. This utterance of acknowledgment or a version of similar sentiment inaugurates not just commencement. Many campus events, ranging from university-wide graduations to small-scale guest lectures open with a nod toward the Indigenous roots of the land the campus sits on. According to the Duwamish Tribe’s website, “Land acknowledgment is a traditional custom dating back centuries for many Native communities and nations. For nonIndigenous communities, land acknowledgment is a powerful way of showing respect and honoring the Indigenous Peoples of the land on which we work and live.” “There’s really no entering the land without acknowledging it or being invited and that’s what is called protocol,” UW American Indian studies lecturer Cynthia Updegrave said. “It’s the closest word we have and for us, it’s almost a diplomatic term.” The land now deemed the UW Seattle campus has only been under the jurisdiction of the university since 1893 when the 350 acres of largely forested land was purchased and designated the new site of the then 30-year-old University of Washington. This land, a glacial-carved hill overlooking an extensive plot of wetlands adjacent to Lake Washington (which is today known as Union Bay) had only been under the jurisdiction of white American settlers for 38 years prior to the purchase. Humans have stewarded the land that the city of Seattle now occupies since time immemorial.
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The term “time immemorial,” as Updegrave defines it, is generally acknowledged by Indigenous people as the best description of how long Indigenous populations have lived in a certain region. “If we break that word down it means ‘time out of memory,’” Updegrave said. “Time immemorial can go back very, very far. If we’re talking about the landslides on Mount Rainier, they are encoded in story; they are remembered.” While “time immemorial” is often defined by events, such as Mount Rainier’s aforementioned Osceola Mudflow, which occurred about 5,000 years ago, archeological evidence traces the existence of humans in the region back even further. “Archeologists have found spear points in mammoths which have since gone extinct,” UW environmental studies lecturer Tim Billo said. “They were what’s known as a pleistocene mammal . . . which went extinct either right before or just after the last ice age which reached its maximum year around 15 thousand years ago.” The intentional stewardship of the land by the Coast Salish was upset when Euro-American settlers arrived and proposed a treaty in 1855 to purchase “all the land lying in the counties of Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom, Island, San Juan, most of King and a part of Kitsap — the very choicest and most valuable portion of the State of Washington,” according to a 2005 article in the Tulalip News. While signage of the treaty was presented by the settlers as a choice, most of the 4,992 native signatories — including Chief Si’ahl, Chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes and the city of Seattle’s namesake — were aware that they held no negotiating power. “Puget Sound Indian tribes, weakened by new diseases and aware of the fates of tribes in the east who had tried to fight off white invasions, knew it was useless to refuse to deal with the U.S. government,” Sherry
Guydelkon wrote in Point Elliott Treaty’s 150th Birthday: A Cause For Celebration. “White settlers were already moving onto their land, and the most they could hope for was payment for land taken and the opportunity to be left alone on the land that was left.” In return for signing away the land to the U.S. government, tribes were promised status as sovereign nations, reservations, hunting and fishing rights, and a small sum of money. Some signatory tribes, such as the Duwamish (one of the stewards of Union Bay), have yet to receive federal recognition and thus “aren’t eligible to receive such U.S. government services as grants for law enforcement, education programs, and healthcare assistance,” according to a 2019 article published by City Lab.
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The designation and strict differentiation of tribes based on location brought about by the treaty caused unforeseen challenges relating to intertribal relations along the Puget Sound. “It’s complicated because the government created these land boundaries that restricted us from maintaining our own personal tribal relationships through trade, through marriage, through commerce,” Polly Olsen, Tribal Liaison for the Burke Museum and a member of the Yakama Nation, said. The maintenance of hunting and fishing in traditional locations, as promised by the treaty, also became difficult as the physical landscape of the region was transformed by settlers in the name of “progress.” It was the construction of the Montlake cut, a canal which connects Lake Union to
Lake Washington, which was completed in 1917 that Billo argued was the most impactful on the environment of the Puget Sound region. “Building the Montlake cut really changed the ecology of this area in the sense that the [Lake Washington] lakeshore was lowered, salmon runs disappeared . . . all the salmon in the lake now are introduced from hatcheries and actually there aren’t that many salmon here anymore,” Billo said. “Something like 70% or 80% of the wetlands were lost and these native villages were basically left high and dry.” Despite the treaty and ensuing destruction of the environment, Olsen feels it is crucial to recognize that indigenous people continue to play a role on the land. “We use this land today to get our own education as well as you all getting your education,” Olsen said. “We steward the land for learning about the environment and conversations around resilience, leadership, and access to our cultural practices and ways of living.” The UW has only recently begun making a conscientious effort to recognize the landscape’s indigenous past and continued presence. “Relationship is, it’s a lifetime,” Olsen said. “It’s something that you have to participate in during your whole lifetime to manage, maintain, and steward, and to build that respect. As an elder once said to me, ‘Colonization started over 500 years ago; decolonization is only 50-yearsold.’ So when you look at the timeframe of this work, we’re still infants in unpacking and re-establishing respectful and healing relationships with tribal communities.” One project the university has been supporting, dedicated to better recognizing the continued tribal history of the region, is the Burke Museum’s “Waterlines” project. The project is based around a map that superimposes Seattle
as it is today over the land prior to Euro-American settlement. Included are the original waterways, many of which no longer exist on account of construction projects such as the establishment of the Montlake Cut. “The map is a template also of understanding the world at the time of the treaty,” Updegrave added. “It’s a snapshot and you can see what the treaties were signed for and what was sacrificed.” Also included on the map are culturally significant sites and their explanations. Viewers of the map, for example, can learn about the village which sat where the UW campus is now, which was referred to as the “Little Canoe Channel.” The Waterlines project is ultimately part of a larger effort to rewrite the colonial narrative of Seattle. “We would like the community, the students, and public, to recognize and to accept that there were people on this land before the university was established,” Olsen said. “In Seattle, the people lived and stewarded and, we had our own commerce throughout this area as the original people of this land and that’s why Seattle was able to thrive and become a metropolitan city, you know, become a thriving city, was because of the resources here. And Waterlines will help you begin your education on what that looks like.” The process of building and improving relationships between various people and institutions of the land we all call home is, as Olsen explained, one which will take many lifetimes. The land continues to change as do the people upon it, but respect and recognition for its original stewards will always be crucial. Mistakes will be made, but so long as learning commences, real progress is being achieved. Reach Special Sections Co-Editor Sophie Aanerud at specials@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @thesraanerud
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The long history of activism on campus By Devon McBride The Daily
Standing up and speaking out are central pillars to activism, and throughout crucial moments in America’s history, students and young people have been at the front of each march. Sweeping city, state, and even national change has had roots in the UW campus throughout the 20th century. It would be impossible to retell the stories of every instance and period of activism at the UW in a single article. This article aims to tell the story of some of the university’s highest-profile demonstrations and leaders of movements but recognizes there are important stories and perspectives missing.
Photos Courtesy of Joesph Karpen A group of students, faculty, and staff from the UW, almost 7,000 in total, rallied in response to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. The protest began on campus then spontaneously marched on the I-5 freeway.
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Henry Suzzallo, militarism, and Seattle labor strikes Former President Henry Suzzallo, whose name the UW’s most famous library carries, began his tenure in 1915 after a career in teaching at Stanford and Columbia. Four years later, union workers citywide walked off the job and the newin-town university president found himself at the center of negotiations. In his capacity as chairman of the Council of Defense, the group tasked with organizing the state’s war effort, Suzzallo worked day and night to find a solution to the strike, according to an essay as a part of the Seattle General Strike Project. Suzzallo’s views on labor harshened as he was forced to deal with the strikes and radical groups on campus. At home and on campus, thousands of students routinely protested the military drilling that began the year of Suzzallo’s presidency, with the support of labor groups already at-odds with Suzzallo. However, during Suzzallo’s tenure and through World War I, he was successful in staving off radicals on campus and keeping most students on his side. “The University of Washington underwent a great change in attitudes about labor in a few short years under Suzzallo. The small contingent of student radicals that had been active on campus had for
the most part left,” the essay reads. “The same student body that in 1915 supported an anti-militarism club lined up at the door of the Seattle Police Department in 1919 to guard the city from radicals.”
1943 Gordon Hirabayashi and the internment of Japanese Americans When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order 9066, American citizens and residents of Japanese descent were forced out of their homes and interned in camps, primarily in West Coast states. If you grew up in Washington state, you may have learned that the land of the Puyallup Fair was once used for this purpose. This action was deemed constitutional in the 1944 Supreme Court decision Korematsu v. United States. This infamous case bears the name of Fred Korematsu, but another plaintiff in the case was Gordon Hirabayashi, a student at the UW at the time the executive order was issued. Hirabayashi is the named plaintiff in the Supreme Court case Hirabayashi v. United States, in which he sued the federal government on the grounds that curfews placed on Japanese Americans were unconstitutional. The Supreme Court ruled against him. Hirabayashi went on to have success for his cause as
an individual, as opposed to leading protests and marches, perhaps more than any other single UW student. After the war, Hirabayashi returned to school and earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate in sociology. Hirabayashi was also a leader in the effort to right the wrong of internment, according to UW professor of political science Michael McCann, and was instrumental in the 1988 reparations legislation and apology issued by President Ronald Reagan. McCann is also the Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship at the UW.
1949 The firing and trials of communist professors In January 1949, as McCarthyism spread and scared the nation, the UW fired three tenured professors identified to have had an affiliation with communist groups. The three professors were put on trial that summer in front of the legislative committee in charge of investigating such allegations and were later dismissed from the university by the board of regents. This set a national precedent leading to similar dismissals across the country. These firings, as well as the university’s refusal to host speakers or conferences with alleged communist ties, such
as a canceled lecture series by the so-called “father of the atomic bomb,” physicist Robert Oppenheimer, led to protests by students and faculty. The anti-McCarthy and anti-nuclear protests of the 1950s revitalized the student left before it fully awakened and transformed campus culture in the ‘60s and beyond.
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The founding of the Black Student Union On Jan. 6, 1968, the Black Student Union of the UW was formed, having been renamed from the Afro-American Society founded in 1966. One founding member, Emile Pitre, then a graduate student studying chemistry, was and still is a campus leader on racial issues. Pitre, the son of southern sharecroppers, had only attended segregated schools for all his years of schooling, from first grade through undergraduate. He said this fact and Seattle’s generally more accepting climate were among the factors that led him to the UW. The BSU of 1968 was determined to make the change they saw necessary for the success of the university’s minority population. They delivered then-President Charles Odegaard a letter outlining five demands that would increase university access and support to black students. But when
the group felt Odegaard was “stalling,” Pitre said, they voted to have a sit-in –– which Pitre said turned into a barricaded “occupation” –– of the administration building. Within about four hours, Pitre explained, their demands had been met. He identified two factors that helped the BSU find success that day, rather than finding themselves beaten or arrested by the 70 helmeted police that waited outside the building. First, the BSU occupied the building while Odegaard was meeting with faculty to discuss their demands. Second, Pitre has learned in the time since then that Charles Odegaard may have always been more responsive to the demands than they realized and was already working on the issues. “He didn’t share that with us at the time,” Pitre said. The occupation of the administration building has become a famous episode in the UW’s history. It led the university to create one of the first Office of Minority Affairs in the country (“and Diversity” was later added to the name of the OMA&D). Pitre has spent much of his career with the OMA&D and has had a front-row seat to the UW’s evolution on racial issues. “From my vantage point, I think we’ve achieved quite a bit but we still have a ways to go,” Pitre said.
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More than 3,000 people protested the Vietnam War at this Moratorium March in Seattle. Though the march was largely peaceful, some member began smashing windows and harassing police. The Daily at the time described the protest as simultaneously a party, a wake and a demonstration.
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Anti-Vietnam War demonstrations At no point in American history has the activist spirit of students been greater and voiced louder than in anti-Vietnam War demonstrations. Students at the UW and across the country protested, marched, and went on strike in opposition to the draft, the expansion of the war into Cambodia, and the subsequent massacre of four students at Kent State University in Ohio who were shot by National Guard troops while protesting the invasion. Twice, in May 1970, protests that began on the UW campus took to I-5 by foot, shutting down north- and southbound traffic. The first such protest, May 5, began with a rally on the HUB Lawn where students voted on a list of demands for President Odegaard. The demands included a pledge to never call National Guard troops to the UW campus and to terminate all ROTC programs, among other demands, which Odegaard did not adhere to. After hearing their demands would not be met, several thousand students marched west from campus to I-5. The following day, students again put their action to a vote, voting for another peaceful march over militant action. They marched to Capitol Hill from the Montlake Bridge where the crowd grew with other students before continuing downtown and eventually onto the freeway again. These actions were supported by the then-ASUW president, Rick Silverman, and The Daily in the forms of editorials urging students not to attend class and entire issues dedicated to coverage of protests. A notable evolution of protests from this period to today, UW professor of history James Gregory said, were the interactions with civil
authorities. In the 1960s, demonstrations escalated more often between protesters and the police while today, the approach is much more measured.
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Silme Domingo and Filipino student activists Among the groups at the UW with the longest history of activism is the university’s Filipino-American population. Many from the first generation of Filipino-Americans that came to the United States after 1910 went on to enroll at the UW and used the connections made on campus to participate in, found, and lead unions in the region, according to professor Michael McCann. The next generation continued this work, McCann said. One UW student, Silme Domingo, was a successful student leader on campus and would go on to lead reform efforts of the cannery workers’ union. Domingo and the union he founded fought the brutal working conditions and racist management of the industry. Domingo and his union reform partner, Gene Viernes, were assassinated in 1981 as a part of a plot that was later revealed to have connections to the Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The UW has embraced this episode of its history, creating the Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes scholarship administered through the UW’s Center for Labor Studies.
2001-18 Graduate student organizing and strikes Students on campus last spring might remember barrelling toward –– but eventually avoiding –– a strike among its Academic Student
ASUW President Rick Silverman addresses a crowd of thousands of students on strike in May 1970 following the U.S. invasion of Cambodia.
Employees (ASEs) and a sense of anxiety and uncertainty about its effect on finals and grades. Students who attended the UW in the spring of 2001 may remember the same. In 2001, the union that represented teaching assistants and other employees now known as ASEs did go on strike on the final day of the quarter. The goal of the strike then was to secure exclusive bargaining rights of ASEs for the union. The strike lasted until the start of summer quarter, but even after it ended, ASEs did not make up the work they missed during their strike. The ASE strike-that-neverwas of 2018 came to be as contract negotiations dragged on and ASEs continued to
bargain for wage increases, fee waivers, and expansions for health insurance and child care subsidies. The group did not get all, or even many, of their demands from the university, but did receive a wage increase that averted the strike before the end of the quarter. Of the campus protests that materialize in change and affect students most directly, the ASE rallies and potential strikes of last spring overshadow other protests at the UW in recent years. Other contemporary protests, though, have significant historical parallels and may represent a revived activist spirit among young people. “There are some similarities to the massive protests that
students very recently have been a part of,” professor James Gregory said. He named the Women’s March, the many immigrant rights protests in response to actions by the Trump administration, and Black Lives Matter as examples; but these are just some of the many ways UW students continue to be involved and lead the conversation in their community and across the country. Reach Development Editor Devon McBride at specials@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @DevonM98
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Legacies and traditions on campus By Joy Geerkens The Daily When you walk through campus, through those overwhelming, grandiose buildings and sprawling open spaces, it’s easy to get lost — not just in the literal sense but also the proverbial. Every building, statue, and bench is not only endowed with meaning but has become informed by and informative to students over the years. Even the trees which now tower above us on our way to
class and shade us from the summer sun were planted by students who came before us. This infrastructure has witnessed generations of students and will outlive us by many more. This is what legacy and tradition are about. We are a living, breathing part of an institution that’s symbiotically growing with us. A book found in Suzzallo Library by John Paul Jones about the campus plan and its development through the years has a line that reads
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that every pathway on campus was created keeping in mind where foot traffic naturally occurred. The paths which lead you through campus mimic the physical imprint left by the students who attended the UW at its beginning. If you want to experience legacy, look up when you walk through the thick canopy of trees along Memorial Way Northeast. These sycamores were planted in 1920 to commemorate students, faculty, and alumni who died in World War I. When you reach the end of those trees, you arrive at a flagpole, where a plaque reads all their names. The buildings in the Quad also carry distinctive faces and meanings with them. Raitt Hall, for example, is named after Effie Raitt who was the chair of the department of home economics and has sculptures of women performing domestic duties. Savery Hall has sports figures and Miller Hall, formerly known as Education Hall, has sculptures of academic figures. Smith Hall shows Washington’s natural resources and Suzzallo Library features beautiful sculptures at its entrance. Along the entrance of this building, three statues represent the stages of learning: thought, inspiration,
and mastery. These sculptures peer down at students who enter their holy edifices and remind them why they came here. Right next to these sculptures you will find Red Square. One of the largest traditions at the UW is stealing one of the bricks from this plaza and, in doing so, serves as a badge of honor for having attended this institution, taken your losses on a floor that has provided bruises for almost 50 years, and survived. The bricks that are stolen perhaps, on some level, represent how we as the students both build the university and take it apart. Taking it apart also means occasionally causing trouble and breaking rules. At least
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once before you graduate you need to jump into Drumheller Fountain. Once every two years, right after the fountain has been cleaned, the university expects students to come in masses in the cover of night and brace the cold jump. The experience is
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one that cannot be paralleled. As you’re splashing with your friends and classmates you’ve never met before, swimming in the cold water toward the pumps shooting up at the center high above you, you are left with an overwhelming feeling that you are a part of something larger than yourself. If you’ve been to your orientation you will have likely heard of Sylvan Grove. Sylvan Grove is the patch of grass neatly stowed away behind a thick canopy of trees next to Rainier Vista. As you enter this “secret garden,” the pristine white of the pillars is revealed to you, and you will be asked to choose one of four to represent your journey throughout college. The pillars represent aspects of life — loyalty, industry, faith, and efficiency. When you go to orientation you are also told that you are not to touch them again until you graduate. These pillars are also special because they’ve been a part of our institution since its beginning in 1861, making them more than 150-years-old. When our campus used to be located downtown, these were part of the entrance of the building. They have moved with us and have been at different locations
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around our grounds (see old photographs of them by the Quad). Our campus used to be in the middle of the woods, believe it or not. In history books, you can read testimonies of faculty having to fight off the occasional coyote and students being irritated by cows grazing between the buildings. We have come so far, now able to stand in the Quad while the cherry blossoms bloom and take in the aroma of spring, feeling the pulse of life on campus. Every once in a while it’s important to take all this in, and remember all the individuals who have made up this institution, and how we too are now part of them. Reach writer Joy Geerkens at specials@dailuw.com. Twitter: @JoyGeerkens
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People in the walls By Rachel Morgan The Daily
Every building on campus has a name. Some of these names are plain and self-explanatory, but others, taken from influential figures in the UW’s history, have slowly morphed into our everyday vernacular. When I think of going to a library, I think of going to Ode, not Odegaard. And I sure as hell don’t think about who Charles Odegaard was; I just think about finding an available table. So, take a walk through time to figure out what historical figures have a living presence on campus today. McCarty Hall The first ever day of classes at the Territorial University of Washington was November 4, 1861. After 15 years and several funding issues, the university, later renamed the University of Washington, handed out its first degree. Clara McCarty received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1876, making her the first graduate, let alone female graduate, of the UW. Following her scholastic achievement, she became a teacher in the Tacoma area, and then relocated to do post-graduate work at the University of California, then located in Oakland. Upon her move back to Washington, she continued teaching before assuming the role of Pierce County’s School Superintendent at 22-years-old. McCarty was the first person to hold the position
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and the first woman to hold public office in the area. The original McCarty Hall was built in the 1960s as a dorm, but was torn down in 2015. A redevelopment of North Campus brought back a renovated version of the building, which now houses The Mill, an innovative workspace for students.
Denny Hall Arthur Denny was born in Salem, Indiana and headed to Oregon with his family in 1851. He later turned his sights to the Puget Sound upon the advice of people in his travel party. He settled in Alki in West Seattle and is credited with founding the city of Seattle in 1852. Arthur Denny and his wife Mary donated eight acres of land for the original University of Washington campus located in what is now downtown Seattle, off University Street. While Denny officially pledged this land to the university, the land’s original inhabitants were the Duwamish people who lost the land in the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855. Denny Hall, originally called the Administration Building, was renamed in 1910. Construction for the building began in 1894, making it the oldest building on campus. It has since gone under several renovations, and now has a brand new interior. It is home to four departments: anthropology, classics, Germanics, and neareastern languages and civilization.
Gould Hall Carl Gould left his mark on architecture at the UW. Born in New York in 1873, Gould got an architecture degree from Harvard. To continue his studies, he moved across the Atlantic to Paris to study at Ecole des Beaux Arts, which is where he learned many of the techniques he would later use in designing many of the buildings on campus. Gould returned to the states in 1903 but wouldn’t make his way to Seattle until 1908. Gould became deeply involved in the Seattle art scene, which led
Illustration by Laura Keil to his involvement in the creation of the architecture department, which he reasoned was necessary due to Seattle’s steady growth and the need for new architects in the area. In 1915, Gould’s architecture firm was commissioned to plan and design the UW campus. Over the years, Gould designed 18 buildings in the UW’s iconic Collegiate Gothic style. His 1915 designs planned out Red Square, the Quad, Rainier Vista, and the design for Suzzallo Library among others.
Gould Hall opened in 1972 and was built to house a wood and metal shop, a photo lab and studio, and extra space for the four departments in the College of Built Environments, then called the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. The space now is home to a variety of other labs and spaces for College of Built Environment students to work. Reach writer Rachel Morgan at specials@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @rclmorgan
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