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UW Board of Regents discuss President Cauce’s contract, Climate Survey

By Jacob Slater The Daily As Ana Mari Cauce is reaching the end of her five-year contract as president, the question of her future is no longer in doubt. At the Oct. 10 meeting in Allen Library’s Peterson Room, the UW Board of Regents (BOR) announced that it was nearing a deal to keep her on for another five years.

During her report at the meeting, Cauce thanked the BOR for the opportunity to continue serving in her position. While acknowledging that the work is strenuous at times, ultimately, it is her “honor to serve as the school’s president.”

The rest of her speech focused on the excitement surrounding new beginnings on campus, specifically referencing the opening of the new Burke Museum on Oct. 12.

“We’re going to have a really good year,” she said.

Other BOR members gave their own prepared remarks for the opening meeting of the school year, many of whom had optimistic tones.

After three years as a member of the BOR, newly appointed chair Joel Benoliel confidently gave his own first address. He discussed many of their past accomplishments during his time there, from new academic buildings on

campus to a successful period of “capital collecting.”

However, he didn’t shy away from the fact that the group still has a lot of work to do. Much of the capital that the school receives is “earmarked for certain uses on or off campus,” leaving the university leadership with the unique problem of having enough money but not in the right places.

To solve the problem, Benoliel pledged to institute creative strategies to raise funds for the tasks that the administration has flagged as high priority on campus, such as building maintenance and earthquake preparation.

With these solutions, “we can build the future we want to see,” Benoliel said.

Regent Joanne R. Harrell then addressed the BOR to report the developments of the last Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Committee meeting. She outlined their work to create a plan across all three campuses to ensure that underrepresented groups have a voice and that no one is left out of the college experience.

Harrell further explained that the UW Climate Survey had recently been rolled out and that the committee was anxiously awaiting the results to come back in a month. The survey, which was pushed out to all students, staff, and faculty at the three UW campuses Oct. 8, is meant to

establish a bench mark from which the university can grow and “continuously improve the climate” across all three campuses.

The survey is anonymous and attempts to gauge “current attitudes, behaviors and standards of employees and students concerning the access for, inclusion of and level of respect for individual and group needs, abilities and potential.” Come Nov. 8, the closing date of the survey, Harrell and her group will be ready to analyze the information and give a report to the BOR at the next meeting.

CEO of UW Medicine, Dr. Paul Ramsey, also presented on the UW

Medicine budget. While the budget is not on the same pace as last year, Ramsey explained that numbers have not yet been updated for the last two quarters.

He also reported a recent $50 million donation from the Garvey family to set up a specialized brain research institute.

The next BOR meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 13, in Gerberding Hall, Room 142. Meetings are open to the public.

Reach reporter Jacob Slater at news@dailyuw.com.

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Alum Lisa Daugaard may be the best qualified to bring radical criminal justice reform to Seattle

Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Lisa Daugaard, a 2019 MacArthur Fellow, is pushing for progressive change in Seattle’s criminal justice system.

By Aaron Kerschner The Daily Lisa Daugaard, executive director at the Public Defender Association (PDA) and one of the 2019 MacArthur Fellows, has a long history of fighting for criminal justice reform. A Washington native who obtained her undergraduate degree from the UW in 1983, she began actively engaging in justice reform in New York in 1992.

Daugaard began actively working against the “broken windows policing” utilized by the administration of thenmayor Rudy Giuliani. “Broken windows policing” is a strategy based on the idea that disrupting low-level crime prevents more serious criminal acts from happening.

Daugaard explained that this policy

was carried out with zero tolerance. After witnessing how this system led to mass incarceration and long-term detrimental effects for those it targeted, Daugaard became heavily invested in representing minor offenders.

“It became really obvious how the criminal legal system was interfering with every aspect of folx’ efforts to get their feet under them and live a life of meaning,” Daugaard said. “Just constantly being interrupted and compromised by being pulled into jail.”

Daugaard’s interest in the criminal legal system was no longer just fixated on questions of equity and opportunity — she was now specifically focusing on low-level crimes as well.

With four years of legal experience, Daugaard moved back to Seattle and

started searching for ways to assist those who were struggling with similar issues as those in New York. At the recommendation of resident lawyers, she joined Seattle’s Public Defender Association (PDA).

The PDA currently partners with service providing agencies, local community and political leaders, mental health and drug treatment facilities, as well as the police, in order to run a program called Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD).

Daugaard helps run LEAD, the program itself being a result of understanding that simply reducing punitive justice was not enough to counteract the detrimental effects it had already accrued. Rather, many people need care that could help them rebuild.

LEAD distinguishes itself from other methods of incarcerative diversion by putting an emphasis on the interpersonal.

Daugaard stressed the importance of informed care in situations where participants might not be able to operate under strict procedure for receiving aid and that case-by-case consideration is imperative. Also, by having participants actively take part in their own recovery program, clients benefit from a compelling force of hope.

“Folx often gain strength and almost a sense of energy around tackling even bigger challenges,” Daugaard said.

“So they are active participants in the program themselves, not just recipients.”

Additionally, LEAD looks to combat restrictive time constraints by providing an extension of support past when aid might traditionally be considered complete.

“Some people hit rough spots and need to be in contact,” Daugaard said. “We’re not setting people on a two-year track and telling them ‘good luck.’”

Regarding the future of criminal justice, Daugaard believes that cooperation from all agencies involved is vital. She understands how easily it is for activists to condemn sectors that have historically enabled mass incarceration.

However, following continued collaboration with the Seattle Police Department, Daugaard asserts that many

officers agree that there is an intrinsic flaw in the execution of criminal justice and are amicable in working toward a solution.

Likewise, she hopes that other systems will work to improve accessibility. For example, Daugaard wants to see housing become steadily available to active drug users or those with a criminal record.

Additionally, she hopes medical care can be administered outside of office environments and without requiring identification.

“The writing has been on the wall that mass incarceration was a fundamental error for almost a generation,” Daugaard said. “It’s time to figure out what comes next, and for that we actually have to reach across lines of division and find partners wherever we can.”

Though radical criminal justice reform might seem like a massive undertaking, Daugaard is potentially one of the best qualified to undertake it. As a recipient of one of the 2019 MacArthur Fellowship grants, she proved that she possesses “exceptional creativity,” “promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishments,” and “potential for the Fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work” and is receiving a $625,000 grant over five years.

Plus, she’s not alone. LEAD has an abundance of capable organizers and contributors, including Daugaard’s coworkers at the PDA. Tim Candela, a long term associate of Daugaard’s, reflected on her character.

“She holds to her convictions, dynamic at understanding multiple truths, and uplifting those truths,” Candela said.

“Many people love Lisa, many people dislike Lisa, but everyone appears to want Lisa’s approval, I call it the Daugaard effect. Love her or hate her — it’s always nice to get approval from a genius.”

Reach reporter Aaron Kerschner at news@dailyuw.com.

Twitter: @Aaronkerschner

SCIENCE A look at the importance of sustainability and the people behind it at the UW

Monday-Friday, October 14-18, 2019

By Andrew Ronstadt The Daily

doing next.”

The progress seen on campus has largely been driven by students. The UW Sustainability As the growing concerns around the climate crisis office itself was inherently created by students continue to demand change, universities are at the urging the university to sign onto the CAP. To forefront of this global issue. continue this student-led progress, the Campus Being the leading source of research, innovation, and Sustainability Fund (CSF), also created by a the education of global citizens, the UW possesses an student vision, funds and catalyzes student institutional responsibility to set a standard and provide projects around sustainability throughout an example of positive environmental impact. campus.

At the UW, many students are passionate and “The Campus Sustainability Fund has been dedicated to making the university a more sustainable a good model for students to enact innovation institution. and innovative ideas on campus and come at Created to support UW’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) in 2009 to reduce the UW’s overall carbon footprint, UW sustainability from a very diverse lense,” CSF program manager Kyle McDermott said. “We’ve definitely seen Sustainability serves as the connection and organization a number of projects that have helped to shape the of sustainability efforts throughout campus. conversation and the narrative on what sustainability is UW Sustainability works with the different groups on campus.” and facilities on campus to collect and publish the data Many students are not aware of the opportunities CSF on UW’s current state of sustainability. From greenhouse can provide them. If shown to have a potential impact, gas emissions to local and organically sourced food, the their ideas can be operationalized and put into practice sustainability office works with these different efforts on campus. A large number of innovative sustainability to help ensure that sustainability is included in the features you might have seen around campus are student decision-making process of the UW’s operations. efforts funded by CSF, such as the electric bicycle mail “Our role is to act as a connecting hub,” UW delivery system and the expansion of the UW Farm.

Sustainability Director Claudia Frere-Anderson said.

“Operationalizing sustainability on campus is an area “But also to help catalyze and continue to report for where I think we can continue to improve and really transparency and accountability to our commitments.” start to have sustainability part of the culture of the In addition to the UW’s CAP, the university is university in decision making,” McDermott said. currently working on a comprehensive Sustainability Junior and CSF outreach coordinator Fotima Plan, set to be finished Earth Day 2020.

Ibrokhim voiced a similar view on implementing sustainable solutions on campus, pointing out the amount of bureaucracy involved with changes that students want to make.

“I think the university itself doesn’t move unless students push forward,” Ibrokhim said. “A lot of the things that come out of the university really influence how the city is functioning in terms of creating more sustainable solutions. And that doesn’t happen without student action.”

But student action begins with student education.

In April, the ASUW Student Senate passed a bill that calls for an undergraduate sustainability credit requirement. This Lydia Ely The Daily aims to educate students on The Medicinal Herb Garden on campus provides a quiet place to read a book and the intricacies of the climate crisis and make them better center oneself in nature. informed global citizens, according to Emma Wilson, a co-sponsor of the bill and The Sustainability Plan will reach beyond greenhouse co-director of the Sustainability Credit Coalition, an RSO gases to a more complete look at sustainability. It will created around the ASUW Senate resolution. reconsider the goals of the campus with potential “I am hoping that the overall impact of a updates, including factors such as equity, diversity, social Sustainability Graduation Requirement will be to foster justice, and academic practices around sustainability. intersectional thinking in each student on campus,” “The university is currently taking a look at Wilson wrote in an email. “A Sustainability Requirement where we’re at with sustainability and what should would aim to teach students that they must use systems be happening,” Daimon Eklund, sustainability thinking when considering everyday problems and communications coordinator, said. “[The] plan will solutions.” answer some of the questions as to what we should be

Lydia Ely The Daily Though the bill has been passed by the ASUW Senate, it is only student support at this point and must overcome bureaucratic barriers to receive faculty support before it’s implemented into the UW’s academic system.

Kristi Straus, lecturer and associate director of the program on the environment, also emphasized the importance of sustainability education and awareness of the issues at hand.

“I think we’re at a point where it’s dramatically important for people to understand more about sustainability,” Straus said. “Our students are really enthusiastic about sustainability, and I think that we could do a better job with more course offerings.”

While acknowledging missed opportunities for improvements, such as not including dishwashing stations when redesigning the HUB, Straus believes the university is excelling in its overall sustainability, including our commuting practices and the forwardthinking of Housing & Food Services (HFS).

Also started by a student movement, the UW Farm has worked with and educated over 7,000 students on the practices of agriculture and sustainable food systems since 2012. The farm is a substantial contributor to the overall sustainability of campus, reducing the carbon footprint of food on campus and increasing the availability of organic and local produce for students.

“If you know more about the food system, if you know about where food comes from, then you’re able to make more informed decisions and start to take ownership and have more empowerment in affecting change,” UW Farm manager Perry Acworth said. “I don’t think there’s anything, or anyone, or any being, or aspect of our planet that is not affected by what we consider sustainability.”

So far in 2019, the UW Farm has donated 792 pounds to the UW Food Pantry and sold 7,246 pounds through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and approximately the same amount to HFS services.

Excluding personnel, the farm is self-sustained by sales.

“The farm would not exist without the energy and the activity of all the students who keep the farm going without any administrative dollars,” Acworth said.

The effort to increase sustainability on campus has and continues to rely on student action. It’s because of an active student body that we’ve gotten to where we are, and it’s the students who incite and collaborate with the university who will push the UW even further. An educated, active campus is the greatest impetus for any positive change, and sustainability is no exception.

Reach reporter Andrew Ronstadt at science@dailyuw.com.

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Adrift on the ice: Two researchers join a yearlong expedition to the Arctic Ocean

By Sunny Wang The Daily The German research vessel Polarstern departed from Tromsø, Norway, on Sept. 20 and started the largest polar expedition in human history.

The expedition, also called the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC), will last a year on the Arctic Ocean, a mysterious place that is barely known.

Two UW ice researchers, Bonnie Light and Madison Smith, are among the 300 scientists from 19 countries who will study the Arctic ice and climate change

on the five research vessels.

The two researchers will join the expedition summer 2020.

The primary goal of this expedition is to look closely at the Arctic and study how global warming has influenced areas around the North Pole.

Light is a principal physicist at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory and an affiliate professor of atmospheric sciences.

Working with her, Smith is a UW postdoctoral researcher who is interested in improving the representation of sea ice in climate models.

According to Light, the whole team of scientists want to study the atmosphere, the boundary layer, the ice cover, the biology life under the ice, and much more through this expedition. They also want to study how sea ice grows, melts, and rearranges under the current climate.

“I study how the ice interacts with sunlight,” Light said. “We can use an example of white and dark T-shirts. On polar days, sun stay shining for the whole

day and this lasts for six months. Ice is a “white shirt,” so it reflects lots of sunlight.

If you have a crack in the ice or an open water area, it can absorb a lot of heat. We are trying to learn where this heat goes.”

Light mentioned there are some relevant assumptions related to this topic. However, as the global climate changes quickly, many of the observations are expired and updated information is needed. It is also important to look beyond observations and see the underlying physics of the ice system.

The last time scientists put a ship in the Arctic ice to study it for an entire year was between 1997 and1998 in the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) study led by the UW. Light was on board as a UW doctoral student.

According to her, one of the biggest changes at the Arctic is the perennial ice, which is old, thick, and strong enough to resist melting.

“A lot has changed,” Light said. “We used to have a lot of perennial ice that

lasts more than one season. Now we have more new ice that melts in summer and grows again in winter. Perennial ice is getting thinner. Changes in climate has impacted the ice cover.”

The total budget of this project is over 140 million euros, supported by the 19 countries that are involved.

“It is a huge collaboration,” Light said.

“It is good to pull resources and expertise.

There are more sea ice scientists in the world than 20 years ago from different fields of study. We want to make specific measurements on things we don’t know well and improve the global climate model, Community Earth System Model (CESM). Then, we can run the model and study past and future climates.”

Reach reporter Sunny Wang at science@dailyuw.com.

Twitter: @sunnyqwang64

The Daily Science // 5

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Teaching how to teach How a UW professor is changing the way computer science is taught

Tiffany Wong The Daily Amy J. Ko, associate professor and Informatics Program chair, discusses her experience in the STEM field and her current work within the Information School.

By Ash Shah The Daily Editor’s note: Steminism is a biweekly feature column, where Ash Shah highlights work and research being done by womxn in STEM at the UW actively challenging the dominant norms in science.

In Autumn 2019, Amy Ko, an associate professor in the Information School, came out in an open letter titled, ‘I’m trans! Call me Amy.” She spoke about navigating her new position, a unique yet challenging one, as a woman in the field of STEM. “I don’t just represent women in STEM, I represent trans academics in STEM, trans people in STEM,” Ko said.

“There are a lot of layers that I’m still figuring out.”

She talked about the overwhelmingly positive response she has received from

the academic community not only at the UW, but across the world. Fields of work that she hadn’t been able to engage in before were now welcoming her, opening up new avenues for research.

Today, Ko is heavily involved in research. Her lab, the Code & Cognition Lab, runs many different projects studying topics from inclusivity in education to improving productivity in computing.

For her, it all began in 2002.

Fresh out of high school without a clue as to what came next, Ko started her freshman year at Oregon State University (OSU).

Her first task was finding an oncampus job, which unbeknown to her, would change her life entirely.

She applied to one when she came across a listing to help install Wi-Fi at the dorms. Back when Wi-Fi was new and only just being set up in universities, the job offered a whopping $15/hr., making it a convincing offer.

Ko was ready to apply when she saw another sign on the wall that read $15.25/ hr.

The extra 25 cents being all the convincing she needed, Ko applied for the second position — a summer research assistant.

Having no idea what conducting research really meant, Ko scheduled a meeting with OSU professor Margeret Burnett to talk about the job and what it would entail. In only 30 minutes, Ko was convinced she wanted to pursue a career in research.

“Her job was this amazing combination of pursuing curiosities that she had,” Ko said. “There was no one telling her what she could or couldn’t study.”

Upon graduation, she earned a Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University working with human-computer interaction

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professor Brad Myers, researching how people create things using programming.

Ko was always intrigued by the uses of computation. She wanted to learn how people used computation to express themselves or to solve real-world problems but knew just how hard it was to learn how to use computing in the first place, especially for those who hadn’t had prior experience with it.

“Think about classes like [CSE] 142 on campus here, that is a major barrier to anybody expressing themselves,” Ko said.

“A lot of my work focuses on removing those barriers.”

On top of changing tech to make it easier to use by a wider audience, Ko wants to transform the ways we teach computer science and programming to improve understanding and accessibility.

Computer science programming is centered around planning. Given a problem, you have to plan the solution you’re going to write.

“People aren’t very good at planning [their code],” Ko said. “Computer science teachers are not very good at teaching planning.”

She began to wonder, how do we teach those planning skills? Because they are such a central concept to programming and writing code, how can we help people think about their planning more effectively?

Ko decided to study the notion of a strategy — a way of solving a problem when you’re programming. Is there a way to teach novices and new coders strategies that they can use over the blind edit-andtest approach?

To test this, Ko and her colleagues developed a simple strategy to use in debugging problems and then taught that to a classroom full of high school students.

“We discovered some really fascinating thing[s] about self-regulation and

impulse control and how those are prerequisites to be an effective programmer,” Ko said.

Students in the classroom responded in two different ways.

The first group of students, while they recognized the merits of the strategy and could see themselves being more effective while using it, still didn’t use it. These students, impulsive by nature, continued to use rapid editing and testing over a slower but ultimately more efficient choice.

Others, who understood the purpose of being systematic in their work, embraced the strategy and were instantly more effective than other students.

Ko and her team are trying to use what they’ve learned from this to see how computer science curricula can change to teach students in a more effective way.

Additionally, Ko has conducted research on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of computing.

But problems with inclusivity often begin before the college level.

“Academic advisers in middle and high schools will tell students that, ‘I don’t think you belong in this computer science class.’ with some hidden agenda with that having to do with their skin color and gender,” Ko said.

There’s this twisted idea that everyone in those classes is of a certain demographic and you’re not “one of them” so naturally, you don’t belong.

A lot of research in this field was around identifying the structural barriers that influenced those reactions, and Ko’s research seeks to change these ingrained biases in teachers, instructors, and parents.

Reach Assistant Science Editor Ash Shah at science@dailyuw.com.

Twitter: @itsashshah

ARTS & LEISURE

Monday-Friday, October 14-18, 2019

The Campus Sketcher

Connecting with culture and natural history inside the Burke Museum

Written and Illustrated by Eli Pasco After years of waiting, the new Burke Museum is finally open to the public. The UW’s museum of natural history and Pacific Northwest culture has been under construction since the groundbreaking in May 2016.

What sets this museum apart from other natural history and cultural museums is that the new Burke aims to tell a complete story with how they present their artifacts and information. The museum has three floors, each floor specializing in a different aspect of the museum’s work. The ground floor focuses on contemporary cultures of the Pacific Northwest, the second floor focuses on biology, and the third floor focuses on archaeology and paleontology.

Opposite each of the galleries are research labs and open workrooms where one can interact with real scientists and scholars at work and ask them about their current research.

This removes the veil of mystery and invites the visitor to be a part of the research. The idea of accessibility and transparency is evident in almost every aspect of the visitor experience.

My first sketch is of David Boxley, a Tsimshian artist who was working with his two sons on wooden masks in the open artists’ studio. This space is for artists to present work that is in progress and to give them a chance to interact with the public and share their craft and knowledge. This section of the museum was curated with input and consultation from six Northwest Native artists. They selected works from the Burke’s archives they felt the most connected to and contributed their own work to showcase in the exhibit.

This gallery was especially moving for me because my grandmother Betty Pasco, a native Suquamish artist, was one of the co-curators who had her art showcased alongside pieces she picked from the Burke’s collection. Hearing her talk about her craft with such respect for her ancestors reminded me of why it’s so important to keep artistic and cultural traditions alive. This exhibit reminds us that these cultures are thriving and part of a continuous story.

The second floor focuses on the evolution of life. The highlight of this floor is probably the biology preparation lab where specimens are prepared and researched. The day I visited researchers were dissecting a Komodo dragon.

Kids and adults were all crowded around the viewing window as a scientist made incisions, pulled apart entrails, and meticulously took apart various muscles and ligaments.

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The third floor focuses on paleontology and archaeology. For those who love bones and fossils, this gallery is for you. Allosaurus, T-Rex, and Triceratops skeletons all make an appearance.

In the far corner are three giants of the ice age: a giant ground sloth, a Columbian mammoth, and a saber-toothed cat from what is now California.

The mammoth dominates the space, and because of the large windows behind the specimens, which bring in natural light and a view of the environment outside, these specimens feel more at home than surrounded by plaster and a glass case.

The new Burke is a refreshing experience and turns the traditional idea of the cultural and natural history museum on its head. A more complete and inclusive narrative is told, transparency and openness are welcomed, and visitors and researchers occupy the same space to learn, inspire, and create.

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The Burke Museum is finally open The start of a new chapter in the Burke Museum’s history

By Timothy Phung The Daily Nearly three years after breaking ground, the new Burke was finally opened by Gov. Jay Inslee and a giant pair of purple scissors in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 11.

“Today we’re saying that Washington state’s oldest museum is also Washington state’s newest museum,” Inslee said in a speech.

Inslee was among several dignitaries there, which included Sen. Jim Honeyford of the 15th Washington state Legislative

building, and we just wanted to put them out in case someone was looking for them,” director of external affairs Alaina Fuld said about a plush elephant located on the second floor’s biology showcase.

Along with more items on display, the museum now offers up-close views into research laboratories that were previously hidden away. Through giant glass windows, visitors can gawk at working researchers.

“So far it’s been really exciting. There hasn’t been any awkwardness,” Adam Leaché, curator of genetic resources and

to add input about their respective traditions.

“We look at research that builds relationships and creates a sense of belonging and support system for one another,” Holly Barker, curator for Oceanic and Asian culture and a professor of anthropology, said. “It’s much more personal and intimate for students and also signals to community members how much we welcome them here at the University of Washington.”

On the first floor of the building, there is also a wall that acknowledges the dark role museums have had in taking objects away from communities and exotifying them in museums, which is a welcoming sight in a place that is built on the lands of the Coast Salish Peoples.

“Part of the reason for this new transparency is because museums have a horrific past, including abusive relationships with communities,” Barker said. “We have to recognize the violence of the past and work to heal by acknowledging that and trying to rebuild relationships with the people we have hurt.”

As part of an effort to be more culturally sensitive with its artifacts, the Burke has an advisory board of Native Americans from Pacific Northwest tribes, which consults on cultural protocols for the physical and spiritual well-being of the collections, staff, volunteers, and visitors.

Designed by UW alum Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig, the new Burke stands as a see-through monolith of natural history and culture, with the intention of luring visitors with its bright LED sign, once used to attract attention by leaving out the “U” in the word Burke, as well as a massive mastodon near the lower floor entrance, which, if I have to be honest, made me quiver.

Aside from the museum parts, the building houses a gift shop where one can find native art and dinosaur-themed anything, as well as Off the Rez Cafe, which is the Native American food truck’s first brick-and-mortar location.

The Burke Museum offers a great place for visitors to explore natural history and culture with a magical ambiance, something that Cauce commended in her speech.

“My spouse and I actually had our first blind date underneath that Tiffany window,” Cauce said. “The Burke must have worked some magic because it’s been a little over 30 years now.”

The museum’s new 113,000-square foot facility is now open to the public and is free to UW students, staff, and faculty.

If the range of exhibits and the possibility of meeting your life partner haven’t convinced you to go to the Burke, I don’t know what will.

Reach reporter Timothy Phung at arts@dailyuw.com.

Twitter: @TimPhung

Takae Goto The Daily The Culture is Living gallery displays a native canoe at the Burke Museum.

District, King County Executive Dow Constantine, elders from local indigenous tribes, and President Ana Mari Cauce.

“It really is amazing because it has been years in the making,” Cauce said. “I was just talking to Julie Stein about how at one point, I didn’t think it was going to happen.”

Upon being appointed as the executive director of the museum in 2005, Stein realized that the old building was not only antiquated but also did not allow the public to see many of the activities that happened behind the scenes.

The old Burke, which closed to the public late last year, did not have adequate heating and air conditioning to preserve the over 16 million objects that the museum has in its collection.

“There are a couple of friends that [were] left behind in the old Burke that have made their way here to the new

herpetology and a professor of biology, said about working in the public eye. “It’s fun to be in there working. So far, we all like it.”

This open window concept was first tested in 2015 at the old Burke, where much of the public, along with researchers, reacted positively.

However, not all of the Burke is open to the public.

“One collection you can’t see is the reptile and amphibian collection because they are stored in ethanol, so that room has strict fire code policies,” Leaché said before showing me a backroom full of animals in jars.

In addition to natural history, the Burke also houses historical artifacts which allows students to research and learn about the different Native American, Asian, and Oceanic cultures, while bringing in community members

Takae Goto The Daily Six Pacific Northwest Native artists represents their cultural heritage and the artistic traditions of our region.

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» Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day at the newly reopened Burke Museum from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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» Catch the opening night of butoh troupe Sankai Juku’s new work “Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land” at Meany at 8 p.m.

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» Kick off homecoming weekend and show your Husky pride on W Day

19 SUNDAY

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Avie Niece finds her voice

Alex Nagode The Daily Senior Avie Niece delivers a powerful spike in Washington’s five set win over Oregon on Oct. 13, 2019.

Niece finished with 10 kills, two solo blocks, and hit .500 in the match.

As a senior, the middle blocker is becoming a vocal leader for the Huskies

By Hailey Robinson The Daily When senior middle blocker Avie Niece showed up at Washington for her freshman season, she was quiet.

“She used to be blessed with the gift of silence,” head coach Keegan Cook said. “You knew she wanted to say something, but she didn’t know how to say it.”

In her senior season, however, Niece is emerging as a vocal leader for the Huskies. Instead of just focusing on herself and growing as a player — something she says is a necessary part of making the transition to college volleyball — she’s confident enough in her game that she’s able to help out the people around her.

“I think that’s the biggest change that I’ve made as a player,” Niece said. “Getting outside yourself really helps your

own game because you’re not just focused on yourself, you’re focused on the team.”

To see just how much Niece has grown as a player, though, you have to go back to the beginning.

In middle school, Niece was looking to switch sports due to a recurring injury that was aggravated by playing soccer.

Her middle school PE teacher Steve Trachy was also the volleyball coach at Newport High School and encouraged her to try out the sport.

“I used to bug her constantly, ‘Would you just give volleyball a try?’” he said.

Eventually, he got his way.

Niece played JV during her freshman year at Newport and varsity her next three years. She also played four years of club volleyball with Sudden Impact, spending one year on the same

team as senior libero Shayne McPherson.

There was a big learning curve for Niece when she first started playing volleyball. Trachy said she had the athletic ability from the beginning, but learning the sport itself was a challenge.

Then, there was a new learning curve when Niece got to the UW. There are tiny technicalities and specifics that don’t affect the game at the high school level, but make a big difference in college.

“When I first, first started playing volleyball I hated it,” Niece said. “Coming to college, I felt like I was new to the game again. I had to relearn everything. It was just really frustrating.”

That’s just a “freshman thing,” Niece said. Last year’s five-person freshman class went through the same struggles,

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Ethan Uehara The Daily Middle blocker Avie Niece is playing in her senior season on the Washington volleyball team where she has stepped up as a leader for the squad. and, while it isn’t quite as visible because they aren’t playing as much, this year’s freshman class is going through the same.

That freshman adjustment period was tough, but not quite as tough as the transition from soccer to volleyball as a high school freshman.

“I didn’t hate the sport again, I just had to relearn a lot of things and get worse before I got better,” Niece said. “That’s always hard to do.”

Niece found mentors in Washington’s upperclassmen at

the time to help her then, and now she’s taking on the same role for the UW underclassmen.

As a middle blocker, she’s especially a leader for her teammates in the front row.

“She’s one of the hardest working people I’ve ever met,” McPherson said. “She holds so

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Niece says all four seniors have different leadership styles and roles. McPherson and defensive specialist Cailin Onosko work with the back row, while outside hitter Kara Bajema leads by example, almost always leading the Washington offense.

But for Niece, leadership looks a little different from the other seniors.

“Supporting the girls around me and trying to encourage the girls around me when they do well, and making sure that’s noticed,” she said.

Niece is definitely doing a little bit of leading by example as well. According to Cook, she came back from the offseason a lot stronger, and it’s made

her even more of a force to be reckoned with at the net. She’s currently second in the Pac-12 in blocks per set, with 1.51, and leads the team by far with 80 blocks.

It’s been over three years since she had to relearn volleyball, and now she can just spend her time getting better.

“As much as I am trying to help people around me, in practice I’m honing in on one or two things instead of 100 like I used to be,” Niece said.

In the first half of Washington’s home-and-home with Wisconsin she had 10 blocks, one solo and nine assists, to add to Washington’s total of 14. She was named Pac-12 defensive player of the week for the second time in her career.

“She’s always been a pretty explosive player,” Cook said. “But in the past year I’ve just seen her get really committed to doing all

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Most important, though, is how the once-quiet middle blocker has become more vocal, showing leadership by communicating with her teammates and her coaches.

“Every facet of her game has changed but mostly her changes as a person are what impressed me most,” Cook said. “Her ability to communicate what she sees and share information in practice and in matches, she’s put in a lot of work.”

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Everyone benefits from affirmative action The advancement of Asian Americans need not come at the cost of affirmative action

By Estey Chen The Daily Federal Judge Allison Burroughs ruled in a 130-page decision filed Sept. 30 that Harvard University’s consideration of race during the admissions process did not intentionally discriminate against Asian American students.

The decision reaffirmed past precedent established in Supreme Court cases like Grutter v. Bollinger, which held that the University of Michigan Law School’s “narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions” to achieve the educational benefits of a diverse student body did not violate the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.

It was a temporary victory though, as the group that brought the lawsuit, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), filed a notice of appeal Oct. 4, illustrating SFFA’s intention to bring the case to the Supreme Court.

Caught in the crossfire of this public battle over race-conscious admission policies are Asian American students, like myself, who strongly defend affirmative action in its pursuit of a more just, equitable society and are looking to support Asian American political advancement.

Clearly, I am not alone in this sentiment as surveys conducted by Asian American

advocacy groups have found that the majority of Asian Americans continue to support affirmative action’s use in higher education.

There is significant ethnic diversity among Asian Americans, and these less represented minority groups can benefit from affirmative action.

I believe in increasing representation of Asian Americans in government and in demanding that legislators pay attention to our needs. I hear too often from fellow Asian Americans that their political apathy stems from the frustration of feeling sidelined and overlooked by elected representatives.

However, I also believe that affirmative action in college admissions enriches the academic experience not only for students of color but for the entire study body.

Students of color often experience a heightened self-awareness upon entering predominantly white spaces and change their behavior in anticipation of preconceived notions held by their peers, an idea known as stereotype threat. After all, skin color is an inescapable visual marker of difference.

Perhaps these students reflexively anticipate shouldering the uncomfortable burden of speaking for their entire racial group. Or perhaps they’re already

imagining having to brush off a misinformed comment.

Students from underrepresented groups may feel more comfortable participating in classes if surrounded by students, and even professors, who share their background.

“If we have something of a critical mass, it’s less unusual for that one person and hopefully helps minimize [feelings of distress],” Chadwick Allen, associate vice provost for Faculty Advancement at the UW and co-chair of the diversity council, said. “Students in classes might be experiencing stereotype threat if they’re worried that a professor might have an opinion about them that’s not based on their work ... that could affect whether people are willing to speak up in class, share their work, or go to office hours.”

These benefits extend beyond underrepresented groups as illustrated by a 2017 UCLA study that reported that students from all four observed racial groups — African American, Asian, Latino, and white — felt “a lower sense of social vulnerability, (i.e., feeling safer, less victimized and less lonely),” as ethnic diversity of sampled middle schools increased.

For the entire study body, race-conscious admissions also ensure the contribution of new,

A portal into other cultures

By Tiasha Datta The Daily It frustrates me that almost every American I talk to about language says “I learned [insert foreign language] in high school, but I forgot everything.”

English is one of the most influential languages in the world and is seen as a gateway to power and success. English is both economically and socially necessary.

Because of this special status, the United States has gotten away with being mostly monolingual for so long. According to a 2013 YouGov survey, 75% of Americans only speak English. The U.S. Census estimates that about 80% of our population only speaks English at home.

We are more powerful and speak a “superior” language. Other people can learn our language, so why should we learn theirs?

Everyone in America admires my trilingualism, but it’s normal for many states in India to speak three languages (their mother tongue, Hindi, and English).

We need to promote speaking multiple languages in the United States.

Bilingualism needs to be a priority for the American public.

Enforcing a language in our education system will not change society’s mindset, but exposure could influence individual mentalities.

Passionate Italian lecturer Sabrina Tatta is an Italian native who sees many positives in bilingual learning. “[Languages] help us embrace diversity instead of running away from it,” Tatta said. “[It] helps us see the ways we are similar to people who seem different from us because of their language or religion or country of origin.”

Recent graduate Katie Mills found excitement in learning about Arab culture through Arabic classes since she grew up in a small town with little cultural diversity.

“I had a friend who was Arab, and he would talk about fearful looks he would get in public, or how it was rare for someone to sit next to him on the bus,” Mills said. “I thought that if more people took time to educate themselves about the culture there would be less fear, because it is a beautiful culture and it deserves more appreciation.”

Tatta commented that one’s “tolerance for ambivalence” increases with new languages. This means that one will be more open to new experiences, like leaving one’s home country or moving to a new position at work, and more open to contradictions.

Early on in language learning, students come to terms with understanding the gist of conversations in a foreign tongue instead of knowing the definition of every word.

To me, this means that language students have to let go of having full control of their lives.

In turn, language learning lends itself to fostering confidence.

Studying foreign languages also gives applicable classroom to career skills, such as improved communication and pattern recognition.

“Higher tolerance to ambivalence is a characteristic that lends itself well in the workplace,” Tatta said. “You’re more easily self-directed, can make decisions without needing as much guidance or feedback.”

We are living in a globalized world. Not only are we surrounded by hundreds of languages in the workplace, but we encounter

refreshing perspectives into discussions that would otherwise feel stale. Students may walk away from diverse classrooms with greater empathy and better prepared to engage in multicultural, collaborative work environments.

Furthermore, test scores, an area of the application that Asian American students historically outperform their peers, may not be accurate predictors of success.

The National Association for College Admissions Counseling 2018 report on test-optional admissions found that “a wellexecuted test-optional admission policy” led to increases in both total applications and enrollment of underrepresented minority students at the observed schools.

I believe that students should

be judged on their merits, but structural, systemic barriers often limit access.

We should not assume that a student attending a school without counselors to guide them through the confusing college application process or the financial resources to retake the SAT or ACT numerous times is any less capable of excelling academically.

So while Harvard’s admission process is imperfect, the evidence overwhelmingly indicates that everyone benefits from diversity in our classrooms and, as long as this is true, colleges should be permitted to practice race-conscious admissions.

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Americans need to increase their exposure to other languages

more when we travel for fun.

That being said, students need to conjure the desire out of themselves to learn languages in college.

Enforcing the requirement will never make good language learners because it will not influence their motives. Throughout high school, most of my peers half-assed their Spanish classes.

They were there because it was a requirement and because they didn’t care, they didn’t learn as much as possible.

I observed a similar trend in my college Arabic course. There were some students that were just there to fulfill a requirement, and they did not put in the emotional investment needed to absorb a different tongue.

America needs to change its mindset on languages and how valuable they are. My Arabic class was composed of students curious about language, culture, and faith, and it was amazing to see so many inspired students together.

This language value needs to be instilled in students at a young age.

Psychology graduate student Margarita Zeitlin laid out immersion schools and changing the one-size-fits-all teaching styles as suggestions for early language learning. In addition, more money and research needs to go into currently unsuccessful youth language education.

If children are introduced to language earlier, these values will better carry throughout one’s educational life.

The UW admissions currently requires two high school years, equal to two college quarters, of a foreign language for all applicants. Each college at the UW also has its own general education requirement. Many colleges

Milo Nguyen @silverkoolaid have no language requirement, while others require three quarters of beginner level language.

Until about a decade ago, it was difficult to fulfill the college requirement with high school credits, Tatta explained. The highest placement could be into the third class of a beginner language series. Today, the requirement only necessitates three years of high school language.

According to Tatta, this may have something to do with the economic recession and the UW wanting students to graduate on time.

Tatta remembers that the language requirement used to be a gateway to language majors.

Some students begrudgingly took the necessary courses but liked the subject so much, they decided to take on the major.

Without the gateway classes, there are not enough students in upper division language classes, which means that the likelihood of these courses being offered diminishes, which has happened with Italian classes. “[Students] might come to it because it’s a required course but if and when they start to like the

subject, if the motivation to learn becomes the desire to communicate more proficiently, study or work abroad, or anything other than checking a requirement, the end result can be incredible,” Tatta wrote.

Unfortunately, the current situation does not reflect the ideal world I imagine, in which students will desire to learn languages on their own. “[Students] don’t know what they don’t know,” Tatta said.

“They don’t know what opportunities and benefits language study will bring them. They don’t necessarily realize the degree to which the classroom to career skills of a language major are transferable and valuable.”

I love languages more than anything in the world, and I want everyone else to experience that same joy. Students should understand how useful and valuable languages are in this world. College is all about opening yourself to new worlds, and language is an ideal portal to this.

Reach writer Tiasha Datta at opinion@dailyuw.com.

Twitter: @TiashaDatta2

HEALTH & WELLNESS

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Wait, did we just go on a date?

By Hannah Krieg The Daily Editor’s Note: Thirst Trap is a weekly column on dating and relationships in college.

I like to think I’m somewhat observant. I’m no anthropologist, but I do notice human behavior and try to make sense of it.

However, sometimes reading signals and noticing cues in a romantic context can get a little tricky. Did I just smash Whiteclaws with a bro or a boo? Those words are very similar, and as a dyslexic, you can probably see my confusion.

What makes this kind of speculation difficult is confirmation bias. We want our conclusions to be correct as to

not destroy our thin illusion of reality, so we look for the clues that proves us right. You think it was a date? You will likely see how their knees are angled toward you and cling to how they noticed you did something different with your hair, and tell all your girlfriends how there was totally a moment where you thought they wanted to kiss you. All that evidence aligns with your theory, and more importantly, your hope. You might not include details like how they brought up another girl at least four times or how they called you “homie.”

As humans, we kind of operate in opposition to science.

In science, we have a hypothesis, then we find evidence, then we draw conclusions. In this case, it’s more like a conclusion,

hypothesis, and then evidence in retrospect. I’m not saying you have to or even should conduct internal thought processes up to scientific standards, but bearing that in mind might give you stronger conviction in your claims.

That being said, look back at your time together with an open mind. Try not to hang on to those cute, romanticcomedy quality moments, and look at the big-picture things: beginning, middle, and end.

First, think of how this all started. It is not enough to be alone with a member of your preferred gender(s). Why are you alone? If it’s just the two of you because all your other friends bailed, it is not a date.

However, if the two of you made one-on-one plans when you normally would not, that might be leaning more toward “date,” especially if it was not a special circumstance, like going to see a band that only you two have ever heard of or tagging along for an art show they were headed to anyway.

Next, think about the middle, the “meat” of your meeting.

Think about the subject matter of your conversation.

Relationship talk, so long as it is not about an ex, can

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be a pretty clear indicator of where their head is at. If they want to talk more about other people than they want to talk about you, chances are the interaction is platonic. If you have a solid friendship as foundation and the tone of this meeting seems to have shifted from what it was previously, that may be a sign. On the flip side, they could be having an off day and need moral support more than they need you overanalyzing their mood.

And now the end. Did they reach for the check? I know it’s old school, and regardless of the gender makeup of our relationships, we should strive for fair financial burdens, but if someone tries uncharacteristically to cover your boba, they might be in date-mode.

Take note of how the night starts to wind down. If they ask about your plans for the rest of the night, they might want to be a part of those plans. If they walk you home, count that as evidence that you might have been on a date all along. A good test is tell them to text you they get home safe. When I tell my friends that, they almost never text me, and I just have to assume

they are asleep in bed and not dead. My friends usually forget to check in because they get distracted, but if someone does text you that they are home, you are still on their mind.

Regardless of how many of these signs they display, the only surefire way to know if it was a date is to ask. You can try to sneak around the question. You could assume it was a date and tell that you had a great time and that you should do it again sometime.

You could get your friends to get the dirt, middle-school style, or you could just ask like an adult. That may sound way too risky and confrontational, but if you want to know for sure, it’s the only way.

Reach columnist Hannah Krieg at wellness@dailyuw.com.

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