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Newly appointed Graduate School dean looks to be partner to students By Devon McBride The Daily The fictional character “Silent Bob” has graced screens for almost three decades, fulfilling precisely the role his name suggests, staying silent through most of the movies he appears in. The character’s bit, though, is that when Bob does speak, it’s surprisingly thoughtful and logical. This is how Giuliana Conti, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS), described the Graduate School’s new dean, Joy Williamson-Lott. “She just listens, and then she talks, and when she talks,” Conti paused to think of the right way to explain the new dean’s methods. “I don’t know if you’re familiar with ‘Jay and Silent Bob’ … it’s a generational thing maybe. It’s a movie where Bob is silent the entire movie but when he talks it’s like super epically profound.” Conti turned back to Williamson-Lott’s leadership style: “So she processes everyone’s feelings and she acknowledges how people feel,” Conti said. “But then she’ll take the meat of it and turn that into the next steps moving forward, which will help the Graduate School progress.” In an interview with The Daily, Conti lavished praise on Williamson-Lott and her early approach to the position, expressing optimism for her ability to correct the problems Conti has seen up close as a Ph.D. student and GPSS president. In particular, the way she is “student-centered” makes Conti hopeful that as dean, Williamson-Lott will be a partner in improving the campus culture for graduate students. According to Conti, graduate students are not always treated as professionals and aren’t targeted by the university with the welcoming messaging that undergraduates are. “We stand in the shadow of undergrads,” Conti said. “I think it is unfortunate because we teach, we conduct research, and I think a large part of our invisibility is the different identities we occupy.” Conti explained that, as students predominantly in their late 20s to early 40s, the range of experiences and identities is wide among graduate students. For example, many student-parents are challenged in being integrated on campus, outside of their academics.
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In an earlier interview, Williamson-Lott acknowledged that many graduate and professional students may feel as though the UW campus is not tailored toward them. “When people say ‘the Husky Experience,’ I don’t want that to just mean undergraduates,” WilliamsonLott said. “Undergraduates are a vital part of the institution, of course, but this institution could not run … without our graduate students.” Conti also pointed to queer or racial minority students who are further marginalized due to attrition rates to the graduate level. Recruitment and retainment of diverse student populations is an issue facing graduate and professional programs at the UW, according to Conti. She feels Williamson-Lott’s background and research could lead to improvements in this regard. This was another area Conti felt the Graduate School could step in. Given its role coordinating applications across the university, Conti hopes the Graduate School will mandate that all departments review applications holistically. Prior to her appointment, announced in early July, Williamson-Lott has been an associate dean and professor in the College of Education. Her research focuses on race, particularly the experience of AfricanAmericans, and the relationship between social movements and institutions of higher education. “I’m a historian of education by training, and so historians are all about context,” Williamson-Lott said. “So I like to know more than less about situations, particularly prior to decision making.” Gerald Baldasty, previous university provost and dean of the Graduate School from 2008 to 2012, also praised her appointment. Having worked with her in the past, Baldasty credited the new dean with “collaborative leadership” that will lend itself to her success. The dean of the Graduate School’s typical campus partners includes the provost, vice-provosts, president, and many of the other deans. But Williamson-Lott also spoke of the importance of having student voices at the table. She doesn’t think a dean can do their job without them — a change already being noticed and appreciated by Conti. From Conti to Baldasty to Williamson-Lott — all recognized cost as the greatest issue posed to graduate
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Photo courtesy of the UW Graduate School and professional students. Williamson-Lott called funding a major issue, one she’ll certainly have to tackle as dean given securing grants is another responsibility of the Graduate School. She pointed to a new initiative launched earlier this year by Provost Mark Richards to recruit support for doctoral students. However, Williamson-Lott added, “I also think master’s students would benefit from financial support. So what I think the Graduate School will be doing is to increase our endowment,” which she said is used mostly for student support. Regarding costs, Conti offered regulating tuition costs as one area where the Graduate School could step up to help its students. She explained some departments’ tuition is unreasonably high in comparison with the wage or salary its graduates can expect. Beyond costs, Williamson-Lott mentioned improving access to mental health services and “professional development” services for students. When The Daily spoke to Dean Williamson-Lott in August, she declined to offer specific proposals or agenda items for her tenure as dean. Conti said this mindset of wanting to familiarize herself with the school before imposing her will on it was something she appreciated about Williamson-Lott as a candidate for the position. The Graduate School is currently in its “strategic planning session,” according to Conti, and will have a more firm agenda for the year following their retreat scheduled for Oct. 1. Reach Development Editor Devon McBride at news@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @DevonM98
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Young Seattleites join global strike for climate change By Thelonious Goerz The Daily While Sept. 20’s climate strike could have easily been overshadowed by adults, most stepped aside and let the kids have the center stage. Adult allies, parents, academics, and tech workers stood back and showed their support, standing in solidarity with youth organizers protesting government inaction against climate change. In the morning, with gray skies out, Cal Anderson Park sat populated with thousands of Seattleites of all ages, united, chanting, and urging political action against the impending human-made climate disaster. People held signs demanding, “DON’T BURN MY FUTURE” and “CHANGE IS COMING.” Surrounding the park area were booths with people engaging in song, leading workshops about climate awareness and activism, and elementary-aged children with homemade signs, missing school to protest with their older counterparts organizing the protest. UW College of the Environment Ph.D. students Sarah Ragen and Lucas Zeppetello were in attendance. The duo were engaged in rigorous discussion with interested protesters about the ways that climate change affects the Earth. Ragen and Zeppetello emphasized the importance of making sure people are informed about and literate in climate science. They talked with protesters about how sometimes unseen impacts of climate change affect oceans, glaciers, and sea levels. In their climate activism, the two have encountered several climate deniers. “One of the best pieces of advice I ever got about talking to skeptics was that a lot of what they bring up is true,” Zeppotello said. “But it’s just not relevant to contemporary problems.” Zeppetello stressed that while the data that climate deniers reference is accurate, it’s cherrypicked and often irrelevant, making it easy for deniers to masquerade as legitimate participants in climate discussion. The students aren’t alone in their activism. Their work at the climate strike was a testament to the passion of the UW’s student body. Earlier this year, the ASUW Student Senate passed a bill recommending the creation of a sustainability credit, much like the existing diversity credit. The bill specifically cites the need to increase the UW’s commitment to environmental education and build on its long history of environmental education, as evidenced by UW Sustainability’s 2017 report. Protesters gathered at 9 a.m., and marched on Seattle City Hall by early afternoon. The urgency in the crowd was palpable and drew in political figures, including Washington state Governor Jay Inslee. “It is a group of people that have the moral high ground on the issue,” Inslee said. “No older person can look at a 12-year-old and deny them a future. I wanted to support that.” At the center of the event was the overwhelming youth participation from students at the WA Youth Climate Strike, who are based all around Washington
state and demand radical action be taken by policymakers to counter the imminent effects of climate change, which some scientists say is only 18 months away from causing irreversible damage. The students spoke of their commitment to the cause of raising climate awareness and of getting their message out to legislators about the overwhelming effect that climate change will have on their futures. Through poetry and spoken word, many students described the crushing anxiety and responsibility they feel in the face of the deteriorating climate they have been left with; an anxiety their parents never had to face as children. “In our current administration the lack of anticlimate change legislation passing… it’s really important that we the youth in the United States make it known that this is something we want,” Tanisha Redey, a WA Youth Climate Strike organizer, said. Speakers also called for awareness of the differential impacts of climate change on communities of color who are generally more affected and often unable to ignore its impacts. For Fiona McDaniel, another youth organizer and policy advocate for WA Youth Climate Strike, the climate science and the critical importance of government intervention were some of the most important issues for her peers to make their voices heard. This protest was one of many across the country and globe as part of a youth-led movement for climate activism, initiated by youth climate All Photos by Sammi Bushman The Daily activist Greta Thunberg, an environmental activist known for her unflinching pressure for political Two young protestors at the Seattle Climate Strike Friday, accountability. Sept. 20, 2019. The Seattle strike drew thousands of protesters, multiple community organizations, grassroots movements and various climate-focused non-profits such as Got Green, an organization that advocates for environmental, economic, and racial justice. “This protest means everything,” Johnny Fikru, an organizer with Got Green said. “We’ve seen the studies, we know the reports, we’re in a climate crisis and we’re under threat.”
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Watchdog organization calls for investigation of UW’s animal testing
UW claims violations already self-reported, defends practices By Devon McBride The Daily
Courtesy of Dennis Raines and Susan Gregg A pigtail macaque at the UW’s Arizona facility for its animal research.
Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN), a Cincinnati-based watchdog organization for animal welfare, sent a letter to the Office of UW President Ana Mari Cauce on Sept. 3 alleging “serious systemic problems” and insisting the university “launch an independent probe of the animal experimentation program.” The letter outlined six incidents involving the deaths of rats and five separate deaths of primates since 2018. It ends with two demands. First, that all staff connected to any of the animal deaths mentioned be terminated, and second, that the UW administration launch an “independent investigation of the entire animal experimentation program at the University of Washington, with the full results to be made public.” The letter alleges that the incidents violate various sections of the Animal Welfare Act which opens the UW to the possibility of fines by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). SAEN Executive Director Michael Budkie said his organization has not received a response to the letter. Beyond
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the requests of this letter, SAEN has alleged misconduct against the UW’s animal research dating back to at least 2001 and has filed seven complaints with the USDA since 2016. The Daily met with five officials of the UW Animal Research and Care Facility to discuss the letter and the incidents described. The attendees were Susan Gregg, Health Sciences director of media relations, Sally Thompson-Iritani, director of the Office of Animal Welfare, Kim Stocking, veterinarian with the Office of Animal Welfare, Jane Sullivan, chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), the oversight body responsible for animal research, and Thea Brabb, faculty with Comparative Medicine who oversees veterinary care of animals at the UW. They emphasized the rarity of adverse events like the improper animal deaths described in the letter as well as the transparency practiced by their organizations. According to ThompsonIritani, the UW’s animal experimentation program is inspected every three years, most recently in June, and has continued to be recommended for accreditation. Given the UW already independently inspects their
program, the officials with UW animal research will not be hiring another investigator as SAEN has called for. In July, The Daily reported that SAEN had filed a complaint with the USDA regarding the death of the improperly fasted monkey. SAEN reported at the time that the incident was brought to their attention via a whistleblower, although officials with the UW Animal Research and Care Facility were quick to want to point out all of the facts from the group’s September letter that had been self-reported by the UW to the appropriate agencies. Just as humans are advised to not eat or drink prior to surgery, animals are supposed to fast before undergoing surgery to reduce the likelihood of complications, particularly vomiting. Budkie and SAEN say this death was entirely preventable, and that the UW researchers were “eager for the data” and did not delay the surgery to allow the proper amount of fasting. Thompson-Iritani noted that the UW is not disputing the facts of the letter. “We would refute their interpretation but the claims are self-reported and written by us.” The other primate deaths included a death by asphyxiation, a death following
a femoral artery being hit during a blood draw, a death during recovery from anesthesia, and one monkey euthanized following a fractured humerus. The incident of rat deaths occurred when a staff member with the research team mistakenly included a box with rats on a cart with boxes of items put in an autoclave for sterilization. “This kind of carelessness has no excuse,” SAEN wrote. The UW officials did not offer any excuses. They explained that careful steps are now taken to ensure animals never share carts with items that may need to be sterilized. SAEN’s takeaway from the episodes of negligence and alleged misconduct in their letter is that the UW has demonstrated an inability to conduct basic elements of research, such as properly fasting subjects before surgery and preventing dehydration, which SAEN believes should call into question the UW’s ability to conduct research at all. “If UW staff can’t be counted on to not put animals in the autoclave, cause death by dehydration, cause death by insufficient fasting before surgery, allow suffocation/ strangulation, then why should anyone believe that the UW is in any way capable of doing
anything that even roughly resembles science?” SAEN’s letter reads. When asked about the nearly two decades of misconduct SAEN has alleged against the UW, Budkie said that it does not appear the UW has modified their practices to prevent violations. According to ThompsonIritani, following each animal death, an action plan is immediately put in place to correct the mistake or violation from happening again. In the past two decades, the UW Animal Research and Care Facility has been fined by the USDA once, according to Sullivan. However, a research institution can be found in violation of the Animal Welfare Act without being fined. Fines are typically reserved for egregious and continuous violations. Researchers from the UW stressed the “devastation” felt by their entire staff following any of these incidents but wanted to make clear “all of the good work” they do and how rare these instances are. One figure that demonstrates this rarity, provided by Gregg, is that the total number of fastings prior to surgery was 6,365 last year, compared to the one fasting that resulted in a monkey’s death. To some, like SAEN, students,
and community members who have protested the UW’s animal research in the past, one case is too many. In an interview, Budkie said even if the UW staff did not make these mistakes and alleged violations, his organization would still disapprove of the university’s animal testing. Justifying the need for animal research, Brabb pointed to progress in fields like diabetes, heart disease, and vaccines, all of which originate in animal research which has resulted in life-saving advancements and quality of life improvements in humans and animals that have been produced as a result. Stocking dismissed methods such as computer modeling as viable alternatives to animal testing, at least as they exist today. Stocking and Brabb, both veterinarians, agreed getting computer programs to replace animal testing is the eventual goal. “All laboratory animal veterinarians are striving to put themselves out of a job,” Brabb said. Reach Development Editor Devon McBride at news@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @DevonM98
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hree reports published by the UW Center for Human Rights (CHR) in August suggest a breakdown in immigration enforcement in the state of Washington and around the country. The reports used newly released documents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as well as reporting from local immigrant advocacy groups. One report discusses egregious allegations of abuse of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers during detention and deportation proceedings. Among the complaints were allegations of sexual abuse against minors by ICE agents, miscarriages, and several deaths during the deportation process. Another report found abuses in detention and deportation in Yakima, a growing hub for ICE in Washington state after King County effectively banned ICE Air flights. ICE’s own data showed that over the course of seven years, over 8,000 people were deported despite having pending appeals before U.S. courts.
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When Benton County authorities realized that he was not the man on their warrant, instead of releasing the man, they “handed him over to ICE, who brought him to Yakima, where he entered the detention-deportation pipeline.
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The report mentions one case from March in which a wronglyidentified man was arrested in Pasco, Washington, and taken to the Benton County Jail. When Benton County authorities realized that he was not the man on their warrant, instead of releasing the man, they “handed him over to ICE, who brought him to Yakima, where he entered the detention-deportation pipeline.” A third report used data from 2017 to assert that Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers may be failing to refer apprehended individuals to asylum officers, even if they make credible claims of fear about returning to their home country. While asylum laws are rapidly changing and the subject of popular national news, the center has stressed that these practices of abuse began many years before Attorney General Jeff Sessions narrowed the standard for asylum, with some reports dating back to 2007.
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Last winter, the CHR conducted research on human rights abuses on board ICE Air flights entering and departing Boeing Field, also known as King County International Airport (KCIA), in Seattle. The center had found that ICE Air deported more than 34,400 immigrants through Boeing Field on 466 deportation flights in the last nine years. The report, “Hidden in Plain Sight: ICE Air and the Machinery of Mass Deportation,” detailed extreme physical violence against deportees and stressed a lack of accountability and liability for ICE. The same day the report was released, April 23, King County Executive Dow Constantine issued an executive order which effectively banned all ICE Air flights from the county. The executive order garnered national attention, including that of the U.S. Department of Transportation, which claimed that the county was violating federal guidelines by refusing to service these flights. They noted that this violation could result in lost funding from the Federal Aviation Administration. Still, there have been no tangible repercussions from this move, according to Phil Neff, project coordinator for the CHR. “It was a voluntary agreement by Modern Aviation and other fixed-based operators at the airport which actually stopped the flights,” Neff said. “As far as we know, there have been no repercussions for that decision, though ICE has expressed that it would like to ‘normalize relations’ with King County and resume flights.”
Yakima County Jail’s role
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Flights have since been moved to Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field, which is owned and operated by the City of Yakima. The airport and Yakima County Jail are the center of the most recent work from the CHR. According to their report, “ICE Air Expands Yakima’s Role in the Detention and Deportation Pipeline,” published in late August, both Yakima Air Terminal and Yakima County Jail facilitate this pipeline. “Each week some 90 people now flow through Yakima in ICE custody to be held at the Northwest Detention Center; and each week an average of 70 people are picked up by ICE Air at Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field for deportation,” the report said. It emphasized the link between the machinery of mass detention and mass deportation. The report underscored how Yakima financially benefits from
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this pipeline. Currently, “Yakima County Jail receives payment of $84.51 per ‘federal detainee day’ for each individual held at the jail
One record from 2012 details the story of a woman detained in Orange County, California. Though ICE officials were warned of her high-risk pregnancy, she was deported via plane, the documents allege. She began to bleed during the flight and miscarried all three her triplets when the plane landed in El Salvador.
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for ICE,” according to the report. Since 2015, Yakima has received well over 1 million dollars from ICE for cooperating with its operations. In 2017, Yakima County was sued for holding immigrants in custody for ICE even after they were eligible for release on local charges. The 2017 lawsuit laid the groundwork for the state to curb local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal ICE agents. “Yakima County Jail was arresting people locally and then, if they had an ICE detainer, just transferring them into ICE custody on paper when they really should have been released at the end of their jail term,” Neff said. Despite the lawsuit, “the jail is still holding people regionally picked up by ICE and brought into the jail from across the northwest, and then the majority of folks there are then transferred to the detention center in Tacoma within like 48 hours,” Neff said. Recent legislation passed after the CHR’s reporting on ICE Air in the spring of 2019 effectively prohibits local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE. This
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means Yakima County Jail’s agreement with ICE must expire in December 2021. However, the law does not impact the operations of private detention centers like the Northwest Detention Center, meaning ICE may seek the construction of another private detention facility in eastern Washington, according to the report.
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For ICE raids in Washington, know your rights By Natalie Rand and Thelonious Goerz The Daily
Your legal rights
• You do not have to consent to ICE interrogations — questions, searches, requests for handing over or signing documents — unless a government agent (police, ICE, FBI, etc.) has a search warrant signed by a judge. • The best way to exercise your right to remain silent is to only say “I want to speak to a lawyer” during an arrest or interrogation until you get the chance to speak to one. • You have the right to record videos in public spaces and in your own home. ICE does not have the right to take your camera.
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Human rights abuses on board ICE Air ICE Air flights have an extensive history of abuse allegations. These allegations were subject of another CHR report published in August, “DHS Document Reveals Allegations of Abuse on ICE Air Deportation Flights.” The 99 partially-redacted records of allegations of neglect by ICE are harrowing. Several contain alleged mistreatment of children by ICE officers, like being locked in a hot van with no air; mocked on issues relating to deportation; physically assaulted; and even sexually abused. One record from 2012 details the story of a woman detained in Orange County, California. Though ICE officials were warned of her high-risk pregnancy, she was deported via plane, the documents allege. She began to bleed during the flight and miscarried all three her triplets when the plane landed in El Salvador. Another record showed a letter from an attorney on behalf of his dead client, who had previously been held at the Houston Contract Detention Facility for 20 days. During this time, the woman was reportedly unable to eat or sleep and exhibited signs of depression and emotional trauma. ICE deported the woman on May 22, 2012, and the record states that she died on the flight to Honduras. In 2018, the records state that the DHS was notified by ICE of the death of a 34-year-old man who was being deported to Eritrea with a layover in Cairo, Egypt.
The man had been deported from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on June 5, 2018 and arrived at the Cairo International Airport in Egypt on June 6. At about 5 p.m. local time, the man was found by Egyptian airport authorities having hanged himself from a shower rod in an airport restroom with his shoelaces. Allegations in the data date back to 2007, but even more troubling is the possibility that ICE does not investigate these complaints of abuse. “We’ve asked for documentation from ICE of investigation of those abuses and been told that no documentation exists,” Neff said. “So, that suggests that there has been a lack of oversight on those cases.” Though the center has not received accounts of physical violence on Yakima deportation flights, “there is no reason to believe such abuses are isolated to other airports or flight paths,” according to the CHR. “And even if they were, Yakima would remain responsible for its role in shipping detainees to be abused in other sites.” Reach Senior Investigations Reporter Manisha Jha at investigations@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @manishajha_
In the event of a raid
• Call the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) hotline: 844-724-3737. They will send volunteers to witness the raid in order to verify that the officers are indeed from ICE and to hold the agents accountable to respect your legal rights. • Utilize your right to record agents and inform them that you are recording them. • Ask the agents what agency they are from and what they are looking for. • Ask for agents’ names and badges. • Ask if agents have a warrant. If the answer is no, ask them to leave. • Send any photos or videos to WAISN at info@waisn.org with a location, date, and time.
Your Resources
• The UW’s Student Legal Services (SLS), located in HUB 306, offers free 40-minute legal consultations to students on a variety of immigration-related legal issues. After this free consultation, you may also hire an attorney from SLS for low-cost ongoing representation and assistance. • immigrationadvocates.org has a directory of low or no-cost attorneys who can assist you with various legal services. If you are being detained, call a family member or friend from the police station and ask them to use the website to find and call a lawyer for you. Reach reporter Natalie Rand and Science Editor Thelonious Goerz at news@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @nrand, @TheloniousGoerz
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McGrew’s career day helps Huskies with absence of Ahmed By Alec Dietz The Daily PROVO, Utah — Perhaps he could feel it on the field with his performance, but after the game immediately ended, Sean McGrew didn’t know he ran for a career-high. “How many yards did I have?” he asked after the game. When he found out that he had rushed for a career-best 110, he simply responded, “hell yeah.” But when asked for his response to that number and what it meant to him, he gave a surprising answer. “That’s awesome,” McGrew said. “Honestly, stats don’t matter to me. It’s just about doing whatever I can to win. Salvon [Ahmed] was down and we had to carry the flag … stats
are cool, but winning is even cooler.” When preparing for the game this week, McGrew knew that he would be in line for more carries with the absence of Ahmed, who did not travel with the team to Provo, but said that he didn’t change his preparation because of it. In fact, he said that he prepared in the same way that he always did week-to-week, with just an added element of playing on the road and getting his calls right. With a careerhigh 18 carries against BYU, McGrew eclipsed 100 yards for the first time in his career and was a strong first option alongside Richard Newton in the offensive backfield. “I thought he did a nice job,”
head coach Chris Petersen said. “He found the creases, put his pads down. He’s not the biggest guy, but he does a good job of falling forward, that’s what we want.” For a tailback room that calls itself “the Stable” and preaches an excellence by committee, losing Ahmed didn’t phase the group. “It’s just about us being the best running back room in the country,” McGrew said. “Every time we get the opportunity, all of us, we want to show that. Anyone in the room can ball at any time.” And ball they did. Along with McGrew’s 110, Newton added 83 yards and a touchdown on a 5.0 yards per carry average. McGrew averaged 6.1 yards per carry. While Petersen did not rule out Ahmed for Washington’s next game against USC, he will undeniably still rely on McGrew and Newton for carries in key situations moving forward, even with Ahmed in the lineup. Reach Sports Editor Alec Dietz at sports@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @AlecDietz Washington tailback Sean McGrew eludes a tackler in the UW’s 45-19 victory over BYU on Sept. 21, 2019. McGrew finished with a career-best 110 yards on the ground in the win.
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It was the second fast start, not the first, that made the difference for UW against BYU By Josh Kirshenbaum The Daily PROVO, Utah — The No. 17 Washington football team had figured out its problem with slow starts to begin games, scoring on its first possession twice before Saturday and going into halftime ahead in all three of its games. The issue wasn’t with how the UW opened the first half, but how it opened the second. Saturday afternoon in Provo, the Huskies (3-1, 0-1 Pac-12) started to give an answer in their 45-19 win. “You can’t just talk about things, you’ve got to work on them,” head coach Chris Petersen said after the game. “That’s not good coaching, just talking about how we have to come out in the third quarter. So there were some things in practice that we tried to emphasize and tried to get done to help those things, but they came out, and they played.” In the past two weeks, Cal and Hawai’i each had two thirdquarter drives. All four ended in the end zone, and both the Golden Bears and Rainbow Warriors managed to slow the game down, limit Washington’s possessions, and shift momentum. This time around, BYU went into halftime with the momentum, but the Huskies stopped the Cougars in their tracks with a Trent McDuffie fumble recovery, and soon were blasting their way to the first of three third-quarter touchdowns. “That’s how it has to be,” senior safety Myles Bryant said. “I felt like just understanding that we had to come out in the second half just as hard as the first half is pretty important.” Against Cal and Hawai’i, Washington averaged 5.1 yards per play in the third quarter. Saturday, that number rose to 10.8. After combining for 55 rushing yards in those two games’ third quarters, the Huskies ran for 83 against the Cougars, including Richard Newton’s 3-yard dive to make it 45-12.
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Meanwhile, Jacob Eason went 4-for-5 for 58 yards and the third of his three passing touchdowns. “You always want to come out after halftime with some juice, and I think we did that today,” Eason said. “I thought this atmosphere was pretty new and exciting, and we did a good job of handling it. I was proud of the guys.” That was the offense’s quarter. For the defense’s part, the Huskies got three straight stops — including the takeaway by McDuffie — that all ended up being converted into touchdowns. And on special teams, Aaron Fuller took a punt back 88 yards for his first career return touchdown, and Washington’s first special teams touchdown since Dante Pettis broke the NCAA record against Oregon in 2017. So forget just starting the second half hot; was that Washington’s best quarter of the season? “I would say it was one of them,” Fuller said. “As far as special teams going good, offense and defense, things like that … It was fun seeing everything click like that.” Reach Managing Editor Josh Kirshenbaum at sports@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @J_Kirshenbaum
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UW steamrolls Wisconsin in home opener By Hailey Robinson The Daily The No. 10 Washington volleyball team rolled over No. 9 Wisconsin in its first home game and final nonconference game of the season Saturday night, not just sweeping (2520, 25-20, 25-14) the Badgers, but holding them to one block. “I think one of the biggest things and takeaways from this match is that we were just able to keep the ball in play,” senior Kara Bajema said. “We only had [five] hitting errors, and we only got blocked once.” It was the lowest number of blocks Washington held an opposing team to since Arizona last October, even more notable given Wisconsin’s reputation as a tough blocking team. The five errors were also the lowest Washington has committed in at least four seasons. “Extremely patient attacking from our outside hitters, Conor Courtney The Daily especially hitting with a lot of range,” head coach Keegan Cook said. “All of our outside hitters and our assistant Sophomore Claire Hoffman serves in the second set coach Jason Mansfield have been working on that for six of Washington’s win over Wisconsin at Alaska Airlines months, just being able to hit the entire court. You saw Arena on Sept. 21, 2019. that from Kara, you saw that from [sophomore Claire Hoffman], and when they can do that, they’re tough.” amazing tonight and it made my job really easy, to run the Bajema led the Huskies with 19 kills, hitting .515 offense.” through the match. She was a solid quarter of the All of that was helped along by the serving, and it was Washington offense, which was altogether stellar, hitting easy to see why Washington is known as the best serving .457 with only five errors in three sets. team in the Pac-12, and one of the best in the country. The Huskies went through a stretch earlier this season They had seven aces, and succeeded in getting the Badgers where they were blocked at a high clip, but it’s a problem out of system enough to completely dominate. that seems solved, at least against Wisconsin. With Pac-12 “We wanted to be aggressive,” Cook said. “I thought play arriving fast with a trip to Pullman next Wednesday, Kara has been really good. Ella May, I thought this was it’s something important to have nailed down. one of her best serving matches this season. That pressure, Another aspect of the game that Washington seems to combined with some good blocking from us, like I said, have figured out in time for Pac-12 play is passing. It was people have to play really well.” one of the major hurdles the team couldn’t seem to clear Six different servers combined for Washington’s seven last season, and one a lot of work has gone into fixing. aces against Wisconsin. That overall strength on the serve It seemed like balls were going right to sophomore makes the UW a tough team to play against, something setter Ella May Powell all night, putting her in a good the Badgers saw as they were forced out of system again position to set. Wisconsin didn’t get a lot of aces, but they and again. did have a tough serve that the Dawgs didn’t let phase The Huskies head out on the road yet again to play them. Washington State on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., and “That was something that we struggled with last time Stanford on Sunday at 2 p.m. Both matches will be we played them, so we really focused on continuing to broadcast on Pac-12 Networks. fight the serves off and we did a lot of serving and passing today in practice,” Powell said. “Just constantly thinking Reach Engagement Editor Hailey Robinson about each server, what they have in their toolbox and at sports@dailyuw.com. what we need to do exactly to get on that. They did Twitter: @haileyarobin
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By Rachel Morgan The Daily At Hall Health Center’s Women’s Clinic, patient services include birth control methods, pregnancy testing, and prenatal and postnatal care. Almost every step for avoiding pregnancy or for maintaining a healthy pregnancy is addressed but one. What Hall Health fails to offer to students and faculty is access to abortion on campus.
2023. Universities will not be required to provide access to surgical abortions. While it has not been signed off yet, Gov. Gavin Newsom had pledged to sign similar legislation during his campaign, making it likely the bill will be implemented. Washington needs to follow suit and introduce bills increasing abortion access for students. This year has seen many attempted bans and restrictions on abortion in other states such as Indiana, Ohio, and Alabama. Six states — KY, MS, MO, ND, SD, and WV — have only one clinic left. Changes in Planned Parenthood’s File illustration funding will also affect abortion access in Instead, consulting nurses states. can assist patients in finding Right now, Washington does abortion care at one of the 51 not have any restrictions, such facilities in Washington that as informed or parental consent, provide abortions, with 40 of on abortion access. A new those being clinics. restriction implemented Sept. 1, The California Legislature 2019, does state that abortions has recently signed off on SB at or after viability may only be 24 requiring public universities performed if a patient’s life or in the University of California health is in danger. and California State University That does not mean that systems to offer abortionWashington is immune from inducing pills to students by such bans and restrictions in the
future. HB 2154, which aims to abolish abortion in the entirety of the state, is in committee in Olympia. In the unlikely event that this bill does become a law, U.S. Supreme Court precedent suggests that it would be overturned. Regardless, this bill suggests that abortion in this corner of the Pacific Northwest could be in danger in the future. These political changes regarding abortion have and will continue to contribute to the already existing stigma concerning abortion for women of all ages, not just students. Students face an additional set of problems that need to be addressed with on-campus abortion access. Of the approximately 862,320 abortions performed in 2017, 25% of women had to travel more than 25 miles each way to a facility. For students who rely on public transportation, traveling this distance may not be a possibility; for others who do have cars, it may prove to be time-consuming. In addition, abortions can be costly. Students choosing to have an abortion may want to avoid using their insurance to keep the procedure private, or insurance may not cover an abortion. An abortion without insurance can cost between $350 and $950 for first-term abortions, with second-term abortions incurring a possible additional cost. Conversely, finding a facility that
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For the love of God By Shahbaz Ahmed Khan The Daily Editor’s note: This is the finale of a three-part series where one Muslim writer tries to figure out just what religiousness is supposed to be. It’s something we all have to figure out at some point, so he is trying to do it here. Typically, I begin these articles with a passage of the Qur’an translated by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem. My hope was that analyzing some Qur’anic passages in this series would help to demystify readers who haven’t really engaged with Islam beyond the vague cultural images ascribed to Muslims. But if you’ve ever gone down to the comments section of a YouTube video with the words “Muslim” or “Islam” in the title, you’ve no doubt encountered this translation: “They would dearly like you to reject Faith, as they themselves have done, to be like them. So do not take them as allies until they migrate [to Medina] for God’s cause. If they turn [on you], then seize and kill them wherever you encounter them. Take none of them as an ally or supporter.” (4:89) This verse (and others like it) is a favorite among Islamophobes to justify the Westernized image of Muslims as a tribe of violent barbarians, a sharp contrast to the moderate followers of a “religion of peace”
described by virtually every U.S. president since unprosecuted war criminal George W. Bush. Both of these depictions are limited and monolithic in their own right, but Muslim Americans from all walks of life must contend with them all the same. And I’ll admit, grappling with verses like that was challenging for me. As a kid, I mostly relied on my parents to tell me what was in the Qur’an, and they gave me a pretty solid foundation: pray regularly, give to those you can, take care of the people around you, and don’t do anything that would make God upset with you. Of course, just like any other kid, I started to question the beliefs I inherited from them. Killing, stealing, hurting other people — these are bad, yes, undeniably. Drinking and eating pork? I abstain from them, but I don’t think it’s fair to say somebody’s less religious if they don’t. (And between you and me, I feel the lesson of the people of Lot was more about how you love rather than who you love.) Still, I’m a Muslim who believes the Qur’an is the truth from God. Choosing to only follow some parts of the Qur’an while ignoring others inherently weakens my faith. And I couldn’t ignore the reality of violent verses like that, or other verses that seemingly went against my own independent sense right and wrong. Complicating this for me further was that I’m a citizen of a country that quite regularly
demonizes my religion. So the major moral crisis for me growing up was a question of who it was, exactly, that I was doubting. My parents? My country? God? The lesson I have learned over a lifetime of thinking about this isn’t whether or not Islam is against terrorism (that’s just abundantly clear). No, what I learned is that context is key. Here’s the verse that immediately follows the favored verse of internet trolls that I quoted earlier: “But as for those who reach people with whom you have a treaty, or who come over to you because their hearts shrink from fighting against you or against their own people, God could have given them power over you, and they would have fought you. So if they withdraw and do not fight you, and offer you peace, then God gives you no way against them.” (4:90) Islam is a religion that both advocates for peace and recognizes that peace is not possible without justice. In the face of a group that wants you eradicated — people like the noble class of Meccan society in the early days of Islam — violence is a terrible reality that follows suit. The Qur’an’s violent verses aren’t so much a call to arms as they are a code of conduct during wartime. “Divine Intervention” is a religious reflection, but it’s also a sort of political statement. As a species, humans are far from perfect — we can inflict just as much harm on each other
What does it mean to be religious? as we can foster goodwill. I believe that, at its core, religion and God are meant to teach us how to take care of each other with justice and dignity. Maybe I’m just a bad Muslim shirking his deen, but I think there’s something beautiful in an allpowerful, all-merciful, all-good God making a creation capable
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Dr. Ann Poulson, associate curator of collections, holds up a woman’s cage crinoline for visitors of the “Women’s Lives Through Womenswear” collection to observe its shape.
Clothing, while practical in its use, is also understood as a statement about an individual’s life and self-expression. Walking around on campus, you often see varied styles of clothing and dress and you may make assumptions about the person wearing it, but an individual’s clothes aren’t the whole picture. Many factors contribute to the way we dress, including societal expectation, wealth, and social position. At the Henry’s “Women’s Lives Through Womenswear,” held Sept. 12 in the Eleanor Henry Reed Collection Study Center, Dr. Ann Poulson, associate curator of collections, led an exposition on the dresses and related clothing of American women of the 19th and 20th centuries to explore such ideas. The goal for the event was “to learn more about how the clothing they wore shaped women’s lives, reflected societal values, and projected individual personalities,” according to the gallery’s website. Though a quick spot the difference between an asphyxiating corset of the 1800s and a loose-hemmed flapper dress of the 1920s might tell the viewer something, it was the dialogue and context around the pieces that helped clarify the differing lifestyles of women in these centuries beyond their pop-cultural representation. The brightly lit room teemed with dresses, accessories, and the usually unseen undergarments that often worked as behind-the-scenes ropes and pulleys to perfectly display a fragile dress. Poulson asked those attending to consider many questions while examining the dresses. Some of these related directly to the prepared theme, addressing lifestyle, societal position, and cultural differences of the time period, specifically in regard to the way women were experiencing the world. Other questions prompted deeper analysis, questioning who was excluded from wearing such attire. While collectively examining a beige 1830s evening dress, Poulson posed the question: “What could they do in this dress?” “Stand there,” replied an audience member. The crowd laughed uneasily at the bothersome realization. Poulson pointed out the fact that she was wearing high heels. She explained that while they limit her from being able to do certain actions, they make her feel good too. With them, she’s taller and has better posture. This helped further develop one theme of the night — that clothing can be restrictive in some eyes and enabling in others.
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A woman’s day bodice on display at the Henry Art Gallery dates back to c. 1870-1875.
Visitors to the Henry Art Gallery’s collection, “Women’s Lives Through Womenswear,” carefully observe the various textiles on display.
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‘Composite Gestures,’ opening this week at The Jake, explores intersection of design divisions and their impact on everyday life By Mira Petrillo The Daily From typesetting to the creation of practical medical devices, the design research exhibition opening this week at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery explores design in its many forms. Across all three divisions of the School of Design, assistant professor in industrial design Jason Germany, associate professor in visual communications design Annabelle Gould, and associate professor and chair of interaction design Axel Roesler will showcase their research and creative scholarship over the past six to seven years in “Composite Gestures.” The common thread connecting the designers in this exhibition, other than the fact that each professor is up for promotion, is their works’ contribution to the structure and function of everyday life. “Since each of us is in a different program, we thought this would be a really nice cross-section,” Roesler said. “Showing all the divisions of design and all the intersections. The intersections are in part in teaching, that’s why we have our folders on the wall. [Teaching] is also part of the research.” All three designers mentioned the dynamic relationship between their work, their
teaching, and the design industry, which is where the research emerges in a similarly dynamic form. Alongside industry projects are design projects that examine teaching methodologies and projects collaborated on with groups of students over the years. “I think that you find in design, engineering, and some applied sciences, that the boundary between academics and industry is fuzzier in some cases,” Germany said. “The common thread is that kind of inquiry, so a kind of problem framing and the different solutions and how you visualize those.” For instance, Gould’s research is comprised of her recently launched Design Teaching Research and publications she has designed for clients, as she specializes in editorial design and typography. Gould emphasized that she finds her passion in the more practical side of design and the importance of design craft and practice. On another side of design, Roesler’s work as an interaction designer considers the intersection of people, technology, and work, specifically in highstakes environments such as hospitals and aviation. He will be showcasing his design work with a data organization for a
commercial flight deck at Boeing and the design of an Anesthesia Medication Template that looks to minimize medication errors in operating rooms, along with snapshots of other projects. Germany’s work as an industrial designer ranges from research and teaching projects including wearable computing to product semantics, some lasting multiple years. “The thing that’s kind of interesting or challenging in thinking about presenting this work in a space like this is that many of these projects are multiyear,” Germany said. “It’s a little tricky to try and communicate what went into that. I tried to show a little bit of the final outcomes of these projects, as well some of the process and prototyping and field research that went into that kind of design.” Between the three of them, many corners of the design of everyday life are accounted for, drawing attention to the diverse work that designers do in the tangible present, while also illuminating the potential for design research to ask questions of how design will or ought to shape everyday life in the future. “I would say that our division is a healthy mix of both. I think there’s some faculty that do research that’s more speculative, future-oriented and then there’s more pragmatic or functional
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things that need to get done, whether it’s the form or finish of things or the typesetting,” Gould said. “I think our students benefit from both.” It was clear in talking to Germany, Gould, and Roesler that while what they are showcasing their individual research and design projects, what comes first for them is their work teaching the design cohorts that come through the school every year. “These projects are just anchor points — really what it is is the design program is what makes it possible,” Roesler said. The opening reception for “Composite Gestures” is
Wednesday, Sept. 25 from 5 to 7 p.m. The show runs from Sept. 26 to Oct. 12 at The Jacob Lawrence Gallery in the Art Building. Gould, Germany, and Roesler will also be presenting their work in a lecture form Sept. 26, Oct. 3, and Oct. 10. Reach Editor-in-Chief Mira Petrillo at arts@dailyuw.com. Twitter: mira_petrillo
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Senior lecturer Frances McCue chronicles the teardown and rebuilding of Hugo House in new documentary ‘Where the House Was’
The film, premiering at Northwest Film Forum’s Local Sightings Film Festival, shows that art lives on in Seattle By Sierra Stella The Daily Frances McCue never set out to be a filmmaker. But when she found out about the impending demolition of the building that held Seattle’s Hugo House, which took place in June 2016, it set her on the path that ended with the documentary “Where the House Was.” The film premiered at Local Sightings Film Festival Sept. 21. McCue serves as its producer, narrator, and subject. In 1998, McCue, who is a senior lecturer in the English department, was one of the original co-founders of Hugo House on Capitol Hill (then known as Richard Hugo House) along with two other local writers, Linda Breneman and Andrea Lewis. The space was meant to be a hub for northwest writers, and they named it after the poet Richard Hugo, who was born and raised in Seattle. The house itself had a long history. What began as a Victorian fourplex built at the turn of the century went on to become a funeral house and two different theaters before Hugo House, its final occupant. McCue herself even lived there with her daughter and late husband for a time, in an apartment above the
main part of the house. “She’s definitely an arts instigator,” Ryan K. Adams, the film’s director, said of McCue. “What really sparked this thing was that all the sudden they announced that they were going to tear Hugo House down, and Frances had a very visceral reaction to it and felt a strong desire to somehow capture what the Richard Hugo House was like.” The film is an experimental documentary with intertwining storylines telling the complex history of the old house, of McCue’s connection to it, the story of Hugo himself, and the state of writing in the American West. But that wasn’t always the story they intended to tell. It all started when McCue was teaching a class at the UW about how to write poetry based on Richard Hugo’s book of poetics. She mentioned the idea of creating an archival film about the teardown of Hugo House to her students, and they took her up on it. “[I thought] it would be interesting because Richard Hugo was never there … but for some reason people attached themselves to it thinking of Hugo,” McCue said. “And I think I was trying to make the point to my students that that’s what we
do with good poems … we attach to them in some way because of the way they’re constructed and because of how they speak to us. “So, I was all caught up in this poetic idea and my students were like, ‘No, really, we should really do that.’ … And it turned into a film that had a bigger story behind it than just the teardown. So, that too was kind of like reading a good poem … it’s a small thing on the page but it’s so much bigger when you get into it.” Adams agrees. “The original concept of the film was the shock of the building coming down, and it seemed like a gentrification narrative … And there’s still some of that in there because that is what fueled the initial spark to the film … the pain of gentrification, seeing things that you love get torn away, torn down, rebuilt, and the new thing doesn’t have the character of the old thing,” he said. “But as that narrative got thinner and thinner, for me, what became more and more
Stills from “Where the House Was”
Promotional still of the old Hugo House after demolition. prescient was Frances’ life entwined with this organization and trying to capture something about how that informed what kept it going.” The film itself is made up of many different elements. It tells the history of the Hugo House itself, as well as McCue’s family history with it. When her husband died, his funeral was held there. The film also chronicles the life of Richard Hugo through interviews with his friends and footage of the poet from Annick Smith’s 1976 biographical film, “Kicking the Loose Gravel Home.”
The final strand of the film addresses what is happening to writing and art in the West. “Where the House Was,” fittingly, is narrated by McCue, whose poems became the script for the film. These poems and others by McCue were published by Seattle’s Chin Music Press in the 2017 book “Timber Curtain.” “So when people go to the film, they’re going to see those four lines through the movie, but there are some really big surprises that happen [that] kind of take over the film,” McCue said. She and Adams told the story
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Promotional still from inside the old Hugo House. of the final, unofficial event held in the old Hugo House, a night of readings by McCue and other local writers, accompanied by the cello music of Lori Goldston, the former cellist for Nirvana, who provided cello music for the film. The weather was stormy, and partway through the event, water started coming through the ceiling, shorting out the microphones and causing lights to explode and drop to the floor. “The house literally [was] crying on us,” Adams said. “Water [was] pouring out of the ceiling … it was like the house was done.” The group moved to the slightly safer theater, where they ended the night. “They were passing around bottles of leftover champagne from the hullabaloo, and then Laurie Goldston … [was] playing this beautiful improvisational music,” McCue
Promotional still of producer, narrator, and subject Frances McCue.
said. “And all of that is on film, and we hadn’t expected that. So what you see is the house coming apart in this storm.” And though the documentary does still have a little of the gentrification narrative that McCue and Adams had originally imagined, in the end, the story of the demolition and rebuilding of Hugo House wasn’t at all what they expected. “They decided to keep Hugo House on the property, develop the property so they weren’t wasting money,” McCue said. “So instead of selling it and then figuring out some other way of doing things, they kept Hugo House on the same patch of land, invested their own money in doing an entirely new building, and then [sold] Hugo House the bottom of the building so that [it] will be there forever. So that, I think, is a
really happy anti-gentrification story and that’s one that the film tells.” Talking about how the film, which is playing at Tacoma International Film Festival as well as Local Sightings, didn’t get in to the Seattle International Film Festival, Adams joked, “There’s your gentrification narrative … Art is dead in Seattle, you have to go to Tacoma.” McCue takes a different view. “We all expect the whole situation [with the arts] to end badly. Like, artists are moved out, developers have moved in, we’re all living in Tupperware paying $3,000 a month. But in this case, it was a really generous, amazing story where the people who owned the land did not turn into greedy developers, they turned into kind philanthropists … There’s a lot
of art happening and thriving in Seattle. It’s just not in the places that we once knew.” When asked about what she learned working on the film, McCue reflected on the similarities between this project and a UW education. “One of the great unsung lessons of an education at [the] UW is how to work as a great collaborator,” she said. “All the time students are engaging in collaboration … but it’s not very often that that’s seen as part of what an education is. We usually think of education as content, how much do you know and how can you show it off. But working on a film really displays how essential it is to be able to work with other people. That involves taking and giving good feedback, being loving, and kind, and shrewd, and clear-eyed, and gracious all at once.” “Where the House Was” has
another screening during Local Sightings Sept. 23 at 8:30 p.m., as well as a screening at Tacoma International Film Festival Oct. 5. at 5:15 p.m. The 22nd annual Local Sightings Film Festival runs from Sept. 20 to Sept. 29 at Northwest Film Forum and includes films, VR, animation, music videos, performances, installations, and more from local artists. “[Viewers] can expect ghost stories and hauntings and history,” McCue said of the film. “And they can expect to feel like one old place in Seattle was commemorated, and they can feel both the nostalgia for that and the recovery. How does that sound?” Reach Arts & Leisure Editor Sierra Stella at arts@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @sierramstella
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Frappés and friendship
Cafes to catch up with old friends and meet up with new ones By Ash Shah The Daily Seattle’s coffee scene is varied, to say the least. From loud cafes featuring live music and art to quiet coffee shops mirroring the third floor of Ode, there is no shortage of places to hang out for every occasion. And while this column usually highlights great coffee shops to study in, with the new school year rolling around, here are some of the best coffee shops in Seattle to hang out in and enjoy the last couple of days before the assignments start rolling in.
Street Bean Coffee Roasters
The tiny coffee shop up Roosevelt Way, attached to the University District Food Bank, is easy to miss. It’s small and on a corner where there isn’t much else going on, making it easy to look past altogether. Seating is limited, with only a couple of tables inside and a few outside, but it is rarely crowded due to their limited hours, so it shouldn’t be hard to find a spot. Their cappuccino has the
perfect foam-to-milk ratio, a tricky line to walk. Street Bean also has seasonal drinks, and if I had walked in more than five minutes before closing, I might have tried one. The Crème Brulatte, which deserves five stars for the name itself, seems particularly intriguing and might be something I try next time. Street Bean is a nonprofit that aims to help “street-involved young people” get jobs with their apprenticeship program to help them work toward future employment opportunities. It’s great coffee and for a great cause.
Seattle Sunshine Coffee
In my quest to find the perfect iced latte, I came across Seattle Sunshine Coffee. It’s not too far from University Village, just hop on bus route 67 and head down. The lively nature of the coffee shop, while not great for studying, makes it the perfect place to catch up with friends and bond over the drink of your choice. The iced latte was good but not worthy of the esteemed
“best iced latte in Seattle” title (which I have yet to discover). Their mocha, on the other hand, wowed me. I’m not a fan of extremely sweet drinks and usually steer clear of chocolate and coffee blends, but Seattle Sunshine’s mocha found the perfect middle ground between too much and too little mocha syrup, and was the perfect drink for a rainy afternoon — which, these days, feels like is every afternoon (thanks, Seattle).
Peet’s Coffee
And finally, as a quick shoutout to my Californian roots, I’d love to recommend Peet’s Coffee & Tea. Peet’s serves as the Bay Area’s equivalent to Starbucks. Though Starbucks, with at least one location every three blocks, still dominates, Peet’s has done a great job cultivating a distinct coffee flavor for themselves. The Cold Brew Fog Latte is the perfect combination of the subtle smoothness of a latte with the kick of caffeine that can only come from a good cold brew. Peet’s boasts a large tea menu as
well, but if you’re still unsure of what to order, the baristas are always happy to help you if you can describe to them what you’re looking for. Seattle has a couple of these cafes with the closest one being its Green Lake location. From lattes to London fogs, these cafes have some of the best atmospheres to take a beat and catch up with old friends you haven’t seen in a while or meet up with ones you just met. And of course, if none of these are your speed, this column covers a new coffee shop every week. Reach columnist Ash Shah at arts@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @itsashshah
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Continued from cover Small differences in clothing from varying time periods evoked subtle commentaries on the culture of the time. A corset marked 1908-1910 was fashioned in a simple beige color and lace trim, deviating its bust only upon closer inspection, with a small v-shape to accommodate each breast. It was so flat that at first glance, I thought it was a skirt. Another sat at a far table, this one made almost entirely of lace, making the black body of the garment somewhat transparent. Another corset, dated 19521960, included two distinct cups lined with wiring to not only accommodate but display and give a specific look to the woman’s breasts. So much can be inferred about changing societal attitudes toward women and sexuality just based on the small differences between two similar pieces. “I’m a huge proponent of material and visual history … looking at the remnants of [a] society and not just the textual elements, which we tend to say are the ultimate authority, because a lot of times, that’s not actually what happened on the ground,” Poulson said. “If you look at what’s left, you can better understand the society that framed [these women], that they in turn shaped.” Although examining the artifacts themselves without any outside context can help inform one’s opinion, it’s important to note that there is a give and take between the top-down and bottomup approaches. The topdown approach comes from a preexisting standpoint, using previous knowledge to inform conclusions. The bottom-up involves coming to a conclusion based on the stimuli directly before the observer. For example, Paulson
explained a common misconception that people were smaller in the centuries before, largely due to the prominence of smaller clothing in exhibits. Poulson explained that this is not the case, and that larger clothes were more likely to be handed down and eventually worn out, whereas clothes that were too small and could not find an owner to fit them were the one’s preserved and eventually donated to museum collections. “A lot of times with these eras, women’s stories were not really told … [they] have been largely neglected because [womenswear is] women’s work, it’s frivolity, it’s just fashion,” Poulson said, sarcastically. But as this event showed, there is much to learn about the lives of women of the past through their clothing, just as we can learn much about our present society from the clothes we wear. “A lot of what we wear, what we have worn, is shaped by the societies in which we live, but [it] also shapes the lives that we can live,” Poulson said. “It shapes how you can move, it shapes how you express yourself, and that can be both enabling and restricting … whether it’s your choice to present yourself that way, or whether you feel you have to for societal reasons. It is actually a very complicated and nuanced subject, which I like to explore through the remnants of it, by looking at these garments … looking at the actual objects and being able to imagine their lives that they lived.” Reach writer Jorn Peterson at arts@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @PetersonJorn
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How to not rape: Part II
There are many simple, free, and easy precautionary steps you can take to be sure you don’t rape someone By Manisha Jha The Daily Trigger warning: This article contains explicit references to sexual violence and may be triggering to some readers. A year ago, desperate — as a woman, as the Health & Wellness Editor at The Daily, as someone who’s heard too many recollections of assault from my friends and relatives, and as someone who’s been assaulted herself — to get freshmen to think and talk about the danger associated with their first fall quarter, known as the “red zone,” I wrote an article titled ‘How to not rape’ for the first paper of the year. And I didn’t know it at the time, but last fall would be especially hard for survivors. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified before Congress about her allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh, and women all across the country were impacted in the most personal ways. Closer to home, Washington state found itself launched into the #MeToo conversation when UW lecturer and former State Department and Seattle city official Candace Faber accused then-state Sen. Joe Fain of raping her over a decade ago. She described Fain as a young Brett Kavanaugh in her eyes. At the same time, in just the first few days of school, our own campus was shaken to its core when a group of fed-up UW students created a website, called Make Them Scared, to gather and post anonymous allegations of sexual assault. It was a radical response to a culture of pain. The moderators of the site were the first to say that in a perfect world, such a website wouldn’t exist. One of the site’s moderators wrote to me in October of last year: “I wanted the awareness of the sheer magnitude of unresolved sexual assault experiences that we gained from MeToo to be an impetus for systematic change. I wanted everything that was coming to light not to be buried again. But a year went by, and things faded like they always do. Nothing changed. I knew I’d never forgive myself if I stood by and did nothing while I waited for things to get better.” Like Ford and Faber, she was tired. So our school and our nation were forced to talk about it. Anyone will tell you talking about sexual assault is better than keeping it relegated to the private realms to which it’s always been confined. Talk to your friends, talk to your therapist, read about it. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. It may be liberating, but it f---ing hurts! Women have always talked about these things in private. Whisper networks have always existed. But now, we’re shouting from the rooftops about sexual violence. Everyone warned me about the “red zone” before I came to college. Has anyone warned you about it yet? “People are more vulnerable at the beginning of the year,”
Abigail Dahl The Daily Patricia Atwater, director of health promotion at Hall Health, explained. “They’re trying to make friends. They’re trying to impress people. And so they may be more vulnerable to somebody who is seeking out someone that they can sexually assault.” As a result, more than 50% of college sexual assaults (that we know about) occur in the first six weeks of fall quarter. This is known as the “red zone,” and you’re in it right now. Most “red zone” articles are filled to the brim with tips on how to not get raped, as if the onus is on victims to prevent sexual assault. Albeit well-meaning, this type of language reinforces a culture of victim-blaming. So this, instead, is an article about how to not rape. “Every drink that someone takes is imbued with all of these cultural expectations and societal attitudes toward women and about power,” Atwater told me. Abusers use these expectations and attitudes to manipulate and abuse those who are more vulnerable, like female freshmen. Atwater heavily stressed that alcohol does not cause sexual assault; the root cause of sexual assault is misogyny. With the culture of heavy drinking built into the Greek system and college in general, alcohol often becomes a tool that perpetrators use to coerce or exploit their victims.
This happens when perpetrators get potential victims drunk and test their boundaries by saying and doing things that make them uncomfortable to see if they protest or say no. Atwater said perpetrators of sexual assault intentionally seek out victims that are vulnerable, unsure, and eager to please. Many freshmen are also learning their limits with alcohol for the first time, a fact predators are acutely aware of. Perpetrators will isolate victims, get them away from their friends, and often use only enough force to get the victim to do what they want, according to Atwater. 90% of rapes do not occur at gun or knifepoint but rather use pressure and manipulation to push someone’s boundaries, according to the Department of Justice. Sexual assault can be violent, but it’s usually not. It can be done by strangers, but more often (about 93% of the time), it’s done by a boyfriend, friend, or relative. According to Atwater, half of all sexual assaults involve a romantic partner. She recommended evaluating your own intimate relations, and honestly asking yourself about the level of misogyny you tolerate or support, either from yourself or the person you’re involved sexually with.
wAnd perhaps, if you’re a man and all of your girlfriend’s female friends hate you, you may want to ask yourself why. LiveWell survivor advocate Brittany Bowhall recommends seriously asking yourself and those you engage in relationships with, “How would you know if someone was too drunk or incapacitated to have sex? What would you do to make sure someone is comfortable having sex? How [do you] articulate your boundaries? How do you know if you are respecting the other person’s boundaries?” Ask yourself: Do you have predatory or misogynistic attitudes toward women? Do you not take “no” for an answer? You might be a misogynist. And you might rape someone. While respecting someone’s “no” is easy, sometimes saying it yourself can be hard, especially because women are often conditioned from birth to appease others before ourselves. Unlearning this is possible. “If you can start to shrug off all of that shame about your body and about sex that you have swallowed in all your years of being alive, you start to be more vocal about your needs because it’s not something to be scared of anymore and you start to feel like you are deserving of pleasure and sex and you start to feel freer about being able to express your sexuality and gender,” Atwater
said. In other words, learn what you want to say an enthusiastic “yes!” to, and maybe learning to say no to the other things will become easier. Beyond introspection, we can also go outward to purge rape culture from our school and community. We can shrug off shame internally, but we must talk about it with our peers. Go to campus events on sexual health! Talk to your friends! Talk to your health care provider! Talk to everyone about sex, and the conversations about rape culture will come, too. I know it’s hard and it hurts. But you’re not in this alone. Go to www.washington.edu/ sexualassault/ for a list of sexual assault resources in our community. Confidential advocates, like Bowhall or UWPD victim advocate Victoria Adams, are available 24/7 and can be reached at 206-685-7233. SafeCampus can also be reached if you are concerned about a friend or have been impacted yourself at 206-685-7233 or safecampus@ uw.edu. All calls are private and you can remain anonymous. Reach Senior Investigations Reporter Manisha Jha at investigations@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @manishajha_
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Addressing the national opioid abuse epidemic’s effects in Seattle By Daniel Ko The Daily According to the Seattle & King County Public Health 2018 Overdose Death Report, the number of confirmed drug and alcohol deaths examined by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office has increased from 265 in 2009 to 415 in 2018, marking a 156% uptick in the death tolls resulting from drug and alcohol overdoses in just short of a decade. Over the past seven years, 67% of all King County drug overdose deaths involved opioid usage, while 54% involved a stimulant. The vast dangers that come with strong narcotics abuse alone are well documented; King County emergency department visits resulting from the misuse or abuse of alcohol and opioids — heroin in particular — have spiked upward dramatically between 2014 to 2018. Adding alcohol into the mix in combination with opioids greatly increases that risk, as well as the risk for overdose death. Opioids are a class of drugs that includes prescription painkillers (e.g. codeine, oxycodone), synthetic opioids (e.g. fentanyl, methadone), and illegal substances such as heroin. Heroin is synthesized from morphine, a natural opioid (meaning that it is directly derived from the opium poppy). Synthetic opioids, which include fentanyl and carfentanil, are
produced in labs. The data collected on opioid overdose deaths by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention uncovered an alarming statistic: Every day, more than 130 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids. Although opioid-related overdoses have been escalating since the 1990s, those numbers have started to jump even higher in recent years, effectively making it the worst drug epidemic of the past two decades. Even more worrying is the coinciding upward trends of overdose deaths involving fentanyl and heroin. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, has been increasingly cut into other substances such as heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamines due to its relative ease of production and immense potency — it is up to 50 to 100 times more potent than heroin. As reported by the National Vital Statistics Report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the total number of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl in the United States was relatively stable from 2011 to 2012, but from 2013 through 2016, the number of deaths approximately doubled each year. From 1,663 deaths in 2011 to a staggering 18,335 deaths in 2016, there can be no question as to the need for national concern. Despite the fact that the most recent trend of fentanyl-related
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deaths already marks the third wave in a decades-long opioid epidemic, the epidemic seems to be a public health crisis that nobody is talking about. While treatment for substance abuse is shown to be associated with positive outcomes across many cases, entering into treatment has proven to be difficult due to the barriers that substance abusers experience in seeking it. Strategic advisor and drug policy expert Brad Finegood of Seattle & King County Public
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Health, who helps to create and advise policy on issues and programs related to providing care for drug abuse victims (particularly opioid users), spoke on social stigmatization as being the key barrier to those seeking treatment. “Financial barriers are not actually the biggest barriers; the stigma that is associated with treatment and people that use drugs is usually often the biggest barrier,” Finegood said. “People feel like they’re weak by seeking treatment and they end up hiding in shame due to the association.” Talking about barriers to treatment, Finegood touched upon the fact that severe substance abusers may not even want to get clean in the first place. In situations such as these, a forced period of abstinence may not be the best solution, and in fact may even cause greater risk for overdose death due to the lowered tolerance. Opioid cessation medications such as methadone or buprenorphine can greatly reduce this risk by allowing patients to gradually taper off of opioids. The National Institutes of Health states that “compared to those not receiving medication assisted treatment, opioid overdose deaths decreased by 59% for those receiving methadone and 38% for those receiving buprenorphine over the 12 month follow-up period.” With regards to health communications revolving around opioid usage, Finegood emphasized the need to make light of the potential positive outcomes rather than just the negative ones. One such positive outcome is that overdose prevention is always a possibility; even in the event of an overdose, there are ways to prevent a worst-case scenario. “Opioid overdose is reversible,” Finegood said. “There’s a miracle drug called Narcan, which brings people back from overdoses. If somebody recognizes signs of an overdose, then they can do something about it if they have Narcan on hand. In addition, there’s a Washington state law called ‘Good Samaritan’ law, which protects whoever calls 911 and the overdose victim from drug-possession charges.” Another medication that can counteract an opioid overdose is naloxone, which anyone is permitted to carry in
Washington state. In fact, the U.S. Surgeon General released a public health advisory advising any and all able persons to carry naloxone so as to be prepared to respond to opioid overdose and possibly even prevent death. Washington State law HB1671 provides that Naloxone can be prescribed by any prescriber and that prescription can be filled at any approved pharmacy. Naloxone may also be administered directly by approved organizations such as police departments, homeless shelters, and social service agencies. Finegood stressed the importance of being able to perceive treatment in a different light so as to help mitigate the barrier of stigmatization. “The public should know that treatment is available and it works; if they want, they can get into treatment pretty easily,” Finegood said. “Treatment comes in other forms, too. It doesn’t have to be detoxification or residential treatment — treatment could just be counseling, or it could be working with a medical provider. Treatment works, and people just have to be able to ask. There is no shame in that and there should be no stigma with it.” Finegood also cautioned that unused drugs lying around the household were potential hazards to any and all who had access to them. Most prescription medicines can be safely disposed of by statesponsored medicine take-back programs. To get more information out about the opioid epidemic and what Seattle & King County Public Health is doing to address the opioid issue, King County’s Heroin and Prescription Opiate Task Force has put together a comprehensive report detailing strategies that focuses on opioid abuse prevention and increased availability of treatment methods. The ADAI (Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute) at the University of Washington offers a list of resources for Washington state residents experiencing hardships with mental health and addiction. Reach reporter Daniel Ko at wellness@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @__danielko
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Putting engineering under the microscope New engineering dean envisions an interdisciplinary overhaul for the college
By Thelonious Goerz The Daily At the same time as the Tar Heels say farewell to an innovator, educator, entrepreneur, and distinguished professor, the Huskies welcome a new leader to head one of their most intellectually rigorous and creative departments. Dr. Nancy Allbritton will leave her post as professor and joint department chair of biomedical engineering at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and North Carolina State University to join the UW as the Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of the College of Engineering. For Allbritton, her extensive experience in teaching, leadership, and departmental
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research at UNC prepared her well to lead the College of Engineering (COE). Additionally, Allbritton has founded two biotechnology companies, Cell Microsystems and Atlis Biosystems, underscoring her diverse experience in biological research and medical sciences. “I’ve been department chair for 10 years now, and I think I was excited to have an impact beyond my lab,” Allbritton said. “My sense was that I could, as a departmental leader, have a much broader impact on people.” Research is the main goal driving Allbritton’s deanship. Because she hasn’t been able to fully engage with the faculty at the UW yet, she was reticent to make any concrete claims, discuss specific plans to revamp the college’s outlook on collaboration with other departments, or offer specifics about engineering leadership. Despite her impressive administrative record, Allbritton is no stranger to research, having run a successful lab at UNC and coming from a research-focused educational background. “[Nancy] has been a great mentor and I am very grateful for it,” Rayna Kim, a postdoctoral researcher in the Allbritton Lab at UNC wrote in an email. “She is also open-minded and welcoming to new ideas, possibilities, and innovations, which results in many successful collaborations.”
Before being appointed to UNC, Allbritton received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Louisiana State University, an M.D. from Johns Hopkins, and a P.h.D in medical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and subsequently taught at the University of California Irvine. Allbritton framed her involvement currently in a mostly adversarial manner. “One of the things I really want to do is get embedded, really meet people,” Allbritton said. “From reading websites, one can learn so much, but there’s nothing like being embedded in the environment.” Coming from a bioengineering background and having strong ties to industry, Allbritton stressed that one of her main focuses will be continuing to strengthen ties to the tech industry in Seattle. Currently, the UW has strong ties to Microsoft through the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science and the Paul G. Allen School. Through these industry partnerships and working with the college, Allbritton hopes to bring greater synergy between engineering as a whole college and other departments, notably business, natural sciences, and the humanities. Pointing to engineering feats like the iPhone and biomedical engineering breakthroughs like
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Machine learning provides insight into DNA and protein function A look into the Noble lab By Rhea John The Daily Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series that examines interdisciplinary research in computer science, with a focus on applications of artificial intelligence.
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researchers know about cell differentiation and may hold clues to better understand congenital heart defects. Noble also leads the UW Center for Nuclear Organization and Function. This is a collaboration between a large group of researchers to understand the nucleus of the cell and gene expression. The nucleus of the cell is essentially where the shots are called. It houses the genetic material of the cell as chromosomes and directs the cell’s activities including growth, protein synthesis, and reproduction. Gene expression is how instructions in DNA become products such as proteins that carry out the functions of the cell. “This is a collaboration between many labs with many different focuses … but all are addressed with the same technology,” Noble said. The common thread between all of these projects and what brings together both computer scientists and biologists is the application of machine learning to process large scale data. The field of computational biology has changed rapidly since Noble first entered it in graduate school. According to Noble, most of the change is technology-driven. Over the past couple of decades, computational speeds have increased dramatically changing the scope and time of calculations that are readily available through machine learning methods. Additionally, technology is being invented rapidly, giving researchers new tools with which they can probe data to gather meaningful information. Currently, Noble’s lab includes graduate and undergraduate students from genome sciences, computer science, and engineering. There are multiple projects in motion. Looking to the future, Noble says there are a lot of new possibilities he’s excited to pursue when it comes to applying machine learning methods to understand more about molecular biology. “At any time, we have basically as many projects as we can possibly keep running,” Noble said. Reach reporter Rhea John at science@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @rheamjo
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Oh, Goy! By Hannah Krieg The Daily Editor’s note: Hannah Krieg is often critical of people who accept the beliefs of their parents, or the first and only option they have explored. When she stepped away from Catholicism, she stepped away from all religion without a second glance. So, Hannah is visiting different places of worship to rectify this hypocrisy and hopefully have a meaningful spiritual experience along the way. It’s funny how no matter how many times I approach an unfamiliar place of worship, I still get scared. It doesn’t matter how often you take a fish out of water, it will never grow lungs. Every time, I feel like I might vomit, or I should get right back on the bus and go home. But there’s no Panopto for organized religion — part of the deal is being present. In the same blue dress as always, I mustered up whatever confidence I could manage to fake and walked into Congregation Beth Shalom. Congregation Beth Shalom is a conservative synagogue, which means it toes the line between Orthodox and reform. “[In the reform denomination], Jewish law has a vote, but not a veto,” associate Rabbi Paula Rose said. “[In the Orthodox denomination], there is more emphasis on taking all of Jewish law as binding.” When I first heard Beth Shalom was a conservative synagogue, I imagined a kind of quiet and formality my footsteps could break like eggshells. Like in most of my assumptions, I was wrong. I would later learn that the crowd for the service I attended was particularly boisterous as they were celebrating the b’nai mitzvah
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flop: the kind of thing that happens when you notice a cute boy noticing you back; the kind of thing when you get a little bit existential and a-lot-a-bit grateful that you and your friends met by some cosmic coincidence; the kind of thing when your heart feels so full you could cry. It was triumphantly joyful, and though it was not my chain to join, I felt my eyes well at the sight. Apart from my emotional response, I did not understand much of anything from the Shabbat, so I got in contact with Rabbi Paula Rose to learn a little more about Jewish theology. “There is theology, but ultimately Jewish life is much more about what you do than what you believe,” Rabbi Rose said. For Jewish people, there are shared texts, shared calendars, and shared behaviors, but no consensus and certainly no focus on a hallmark of many other religions: an afterlife. Judaism also stresses covenant, or a symbiotic relationship with G-d. “There’s a relationship between G-d and the Jewish people,” Rose said. “We both have terms and expectations. We certainly have obligations, but I think G-d does also. I think religion is intended to be nourishing.” The kind of effervescence I witnessed at Shabbat definitely seemed like nourishment to me. I’m not sure if I’ll spring for a yarmulke and Hebrew lessons, but I will certainly take with me the value of living with a focus on the present and the expectations of our behavior regardless of divine justice. Reach writer Hannah Krieg at wellness@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @Hannah_krieg
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By Sunny Wang The Daily Washington state hosts some of the most fascinating forests in the country. However, it also provides habitats for pests that feed on trees. These insects, which often cause trees to lose leaves, are known as defoliators. To better understand the behavior of pests and defoliators, Alex Pane, a graduate student from the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, conducted a study on the two major pests in Pacific Northwest: the Douglas-fir beetle and the western spruce budworm. The Douglas-fir beetle is a type of bark beetle that primarily attacks large and mature Douglas-fir trees. It eats the nutritious foam layer under the bark and weakens — even kills — the tree. As a defoliator, the western spruce budworm shares the same host Douglas-fir trees with the beetle. “Western spruce budworms generally come out early in spring as larva,” Pane said. “They consume new foliage. In the spring, the bud bursts and emerge new leaves. That tissue is very nutritious and not defended well by the tree. The budworm takes advantage of it.”
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2018, the hot, dry summer led to an exceptionally high number of dead Douglas-fir trees in Washington state due to attacks from the Douglas-fir beetles. Pane expects his research results to help to identify regions that are likely attacked by bark beetles and defoliators. Such information will guide management decisions in certain forests and maintain a healthy forest system in Washington state. The current challenge is due to the complexity of insect interaction, there is not much good information about how pests interact with each other
and how these activities disturb the forest. Pane is also looking into whether the local pest pattern possibly depends on larger regional patterns which are difficult to target and manage. “This research is important,” Pane said. “It helps to inform how large-scale processes can influence more local-scale issues.” Reach reporter Sunny Wang at science@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @sunnyqwang64
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