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NEWS
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Nearly three decades later, has anything changed?
Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford visit UW, talk local and national politics 25-year-old working for Clarence Thomas.” Hill was joined onstage by surprise guest Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, whose own experience, which parallels Hill’s, begged the question: Have things really changed? Almost three decades after Hill’s testimony, Ford accused thenSupreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were both teenagers. Just a year later, the Senate voted 50-48 to confirm Kavanaugh despite Ford’s testimony accusing him of sexual assault and his infamously tumultuous Courtesy of Emile Pitre hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Anita Hill (left) and Christine Blasey Ford spoke at the Meany Center for confirmation was highly Performing Arts at the University of Washington on Nov. 6, 2019. divisive. Conservative she noted that pundits made it groups like the UW By Emily Young The Daily seem like she had invented the College Republicans celebrated concept of sexual harassment. the alleged perpetrator’s Lawyer, professor, and activist Although several women confirmation and mocked Anita Hill came onto the brought forth sexual harassment survivors with “beers for Brett” national stage in 1991 when she accusations in the ‘70s, events. accused then-Supreme Court there was no government Ford has made few public nominee Clarence Thomas of or academic research on appearances since her testimony sexual harassment when he workplace harassment until to the Senate Judiciary was her supervisor at both the the ‘80s. It wasn’t until 1986 Committee just over a year ago. U.S. Department of Education that the Supreme Court first Just a week before the event at and the Equal Employment acknowledged that sexual the UW, however, she accepted Opportunity Commission. harassment was against the Civil an Empowerment Award from In her Nov. 6 lecture, hosted Rights Act of 1964. the Silicon Valley chapter of the by the UW Graduate School, Hill explained that she YWCA, revealing that Hill’s own Hill explained how things were testified in front of “11 white testimony inspired her to come different during her testimony. men who had no appreciation forward in 2018. When she first came forward for what I had gone through as a “This work can be really hard with her accusations that year,
and it can be really discouraging at times,” Hill said of the fight for gender equity. “We will not ever turn back to the past without a fight.” Hill explained that many important sexual harassment cases were brought forward by black women, and judges often told them that these matters were personal and not something that the law should control. In recounting her own hearing, Hill lamented that it “could have sparked important conversation about how power is abused in so many different ways. But it didn’t.” Instead, Joe Biden, who was chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time of Hill’s testimony, infamously failed to call forward additional witnesses who could have backed up Hill’s accusations and sat back while other senators grilled her on her accusations. Just before his announcement of a presidential run, Biden called Hill to express his regret over how she was treated during her testimony, but Hill has said that an apology is not enough. Hill concluded her lecture by listing a number of ways everyone can work to fight sexism. “You cannot end abuse, bias, and discrimination without taking on diversity inclusion in an institution,” Hill said. She explained that the one thing which has been found to decrease abuse in institutions is a diverse body, especially a diverse body of decision-makers.
She expressed disappointment in the perceived failure of Washington Referendum 88, which would repeal a ban on affirmative action in Washington. At the time of her speech, initial ballot counts indicated that the majority of Washington voters voted against affirmative action. Ballot drops later in the week have narrowed the margin. Other recommendations Hill gave for fighting sexism included acknowledging microaggressions, embracing intersectionality, making institutional change, and including men in the conversation on sexual harassment and assault. Hill also critiqued a number of 2020 presidential candidates, who so far haven’t discussed plans to address gender violence and women’s rights. Hill encouraged everyone to think about the role of the leadership of the country who are responsible for selecting and confirming Supreme Court justices in the culture of gender violence. She explained that Supreme Court decisions can change not only laws, but also ways of thinking, and are therefore extremely important. “If you want to do this work, find something or someone that inspires you,” Hill said. Reach reporter Emily Young at news@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @emilymyoung7
SPORTS
Huskies make NCAA tournament for first time in four years By Josh Eddy The Daily
and play us.” The rest of the bracket includes No. 1-seeded Florida The Washington women’s soccer State and No. 2-seeded UCLA. team was selected for the 2019 Should Washington win its first NCAA tournament on Monday match, it would then head to and is set to face off against Florida State, who will host both Seattle U. The Huskies (11-6the second and third rounds of 2, 7-4-0 Pac-12) were given a the tournament. 4-seed in their bracket. The Redhawks (12-7-2, 6-1-1 “The biggest thing for us is WAC) and Washington have just to 100% not take this game already faced off in the UW’s for granted because we’re a seed, second game of the season; and we’ve just made it through it ended in a 0-0 draw. The Pac-12’s as a third-place team,” head coach Lesle Gallimore said. Huskies outshot the Redhawks “We have to play the game on the 16-4 in the game, and even had a penalty kick, which was saved in day against a team that’s gonna the 50th minute. be fired up to come over here “It was the usual tight game we typically have on the books come out on the Washington upper hand, on the better end in it with results,” Gallimore Seattle U said. “It was one of those games we were disappointed with the draw, but it’s tournament time Florida now, that all goes bye-bye, anything that’s happened in the past, that South Florida doesn’t matter.” The Redhawks
are riding a four-game winning streak and were the winners of the WAC tournament. Coming into the season, this was always the primary goal for the Huskies, they wanted to make it to the postseason for the first time since 2015. There were certainly some stumbles along the way, but following a 2-0 loss at Texas, Washington really turned things around. The next game featured a 3-1 win on the road to a TCU team that was ranked No. 17 at the time. “I think the players finally decided ‘Wow, we’re good, we’re good enough to beat anybody that we play against,’” Gallimore said. Then, throughout Pac-12 play, Washington took down No. 20 California, No. 25 Arizona, No. 7 USC, and capped it all off by beating No. 24 Washington State for the first time since 2003. Those impressive wins helped soften the blow of a couple of home losses late in the season to Colorado and Utah, which sat toward the bottom of the Pac-12 standings. The Huskies found themselves either in or right outside of the top-25 for most of the back half of the season, so this selection wasn’t a big surprise. Since the last time the
Conor Courtney The Daily Washington's Makena Carr hugs Helena Reischling after scoring in the first half of Washington’s match against New Mexico at Husky Soccer Stadium on Sept. 1, 2019. Huskies made the tournament was 2015, no players on this year’s team have played in a postseason game. Redshirt seniors Taylor Sekyra and Jessica Udovich were on the roster, but did not play in 2015, when Washington lost 2-1 at Texas A&M. “I remember what it felt like to go down there and go as a team, and that really cool, I wanted to do that [again] before I left the place,” Sekyra said. “I don’t really remember
too much to be honest with you, as far as how the game went, unfortunately, we lost in the first round, but that’s not really how it’s gonna be this time, so I’m looking forward to kind of resetting history.” The first round, cross-town match will take place at Husky Soccer Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 6 p.m. Reach reporter Josh Eddy at sports@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @JoshTreEddy
NEWS
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WATCH DAWG
ICE sues UW professor to maintain secrecy on children detained in WA ‘black sites’
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By Alexander Tufel The Daily A few hours south of Seattle is the Cowlitz County Youth Services Center, where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is holding a number of undocumented youth. Their identities and reasons for being detained are mostly unknown. The Human Rights at Home project, an initiative started by the UW Center for Human Rights (CHR) in 2016, discovered the existence of such facilities last year while researching the activity of ICE in Washington state. “Nobody seems to even be paying attention to the fact that these are children’s lives that are ticking away in a secret jail,” director of the UW CHR Angelina Godoy said in a tweet Sunday. Currently, three youth detention centers are known to be holding minors beyond the 72 hours permitted by the Flores Settlement Agreement: The Cowlitz County Youth Services Center in Washington state, the Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facility (NORCOR)’s juvenile division, and the Abraxas Academy in Pennsylvania. The agreement, which was established in 1997 under the 1987 Flores v. Reno court case, created standards for the treatment of incarcerated immigrant minors. The Immigration and Naturalization Service must place minors in a safe and sanitary environment that includes toilets and sinks, food and drinking water, medical
assistance, supervision, and contact with family members, among other requirements. Additionally, the detention centers don’t appear on online maps of ICE facilities and detainees cannot be located using the official federal detainee locator, which only applies to adults. Reports concerning the conditions of the facilities are also unavailable.
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hundreds of freedom of information and public records requests, which are an essential tool for their research, according to CHR project coordinator Phil Neff. Records requests were often ignored or denied based on exemptions that the CHR called “capricious.” In September of last year, the UW filed a lawsuit in federal court under the Freedom
Godoy described an environment where detained children have engaged in self-harm and endured harsh forms of punishment. For example, some have been placed in solitary confinement and strapped to a chair, where they are monitored by multiple security cameras.
The CHR has referred to these facilities as “black sites” and accused ICE of operating as “secret police.” When Godoy — who is also a professor of international studies and law, societies, and justice — requested information from Cowlitz County about the youth detained there, the county initially agreed to comply. That is, until ICE blocked Godoy’s request, citing a federal law that prohibits the release of information pertaining to those detained by ICE. The CHR has issued
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of Information Act against the Department of Homeland Security, citing Customs and Border Protection and ICE as defendants. What little information they were able to obtain about the detention center in Cowlitz County showed that some detainees had been there for almost a year, Neff said. Unaccompanied minors are usually turned over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement within 72 hours. However, at these facilities, ICE can detain minors for an extended period of time
and in jail-like conditions. During an interview on Anderson Cooper’s “Full Circle” in late October, Godoy explained that, per the contract that ICE has with the county, all that is known about youth detained at these facilities is that they “may have committed a chargeable offense” in the judgment of ICE. “That’s a very different thing than having been convicted in a court of law,” Godoy told Cooper. “This represents a fundamental challenge to due process to which all people are entitled to under the U.S. Constitution — not only U.S. citizens.” The attempt by ICE to deny Godoy the information she sought spurred Cowlitz County to file a motion for declaratory judgment in state court to determine what action they should take, according to the CHR website. ICE has since moved the case to federal court, with Godoy and the UW named as defendants. According to the CHR website, “ICE is not alleging we have engaged in wrongdoing. But by seeking to fight us in federal court, they are compelling us to either withdraw the records request or engage in a battle to defend our right to the information about these unaccompanied children.” In a series of tweets, Godoy criticized ICE for a lack of transparency and questioned their interpretation of laws. She posted a photo of what appears to be a list from NORCOR of crimes committed by detainees, their release dates from detention, as well as their country of origin. Godoy believed some of the crimes
listed were not real. “ICE considers a range of things criminal that aren’t even crimes,” she tweeted, referring to a crime listed as “sodomy.” Godoy said she learned about the experience of two detainees in Cowlitz County: a Guatemalan boy taken from his family in Massachusetts and a Salvadoran girl who is the mother of a 1-year-old child. Neither of them understood why they were transported to Cowlitz County or what would happen to them. Referring to the testimony of a former detainee in Cowlitz County, Godoy described an environment where detained children have engaged in self-harm and endured harsh forms of punishment. For example, some have been placed in solitary confinement and strapped to a chair, where they are monitored by multiple security cameras. According to an Intergovernmental Service Agreement for Housing Federal Detainees document, Cowlitz County makes $136 per day on a detainee. Once a detainee turns 18 years old, they are transferred to the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma to be deported. “Families fear endangering themselves or their kids if they speak out,” Godoy tweeted. “And ICE is suing to make sure the info never gets out. This has to stop.” Godoy did not respond to requests for comment. Reach reporter Alexander Tufel at news@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @alexander_tufel
HEALTH & WELLNESS
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Destroy ‘normality’
How the D Center is challenging the social constructs of an ableist society By Anh Nguyen Contributing writer Even in the most progressive cities in the United States, the word “disabled” is still taboo in many conversations. “There is a stigma, a fear, of what words we use to describe disability,” Lesley Ellis, an advisor at the D Center, said. “To a lot of people, ‘disabled’ is still an offensive word.” Historically, Ellis explained, people with disabilities have been oppressed by the idea of “normality,” which is a social construct that constitutes how the body and the mind should act, think, and move. “We haven’t accepted the fact that normality is a completely false concept,” Ellis said. “Disability is only one part of human diversity.” For this reason, many people with disabilities are not commonly engaged in digital and physical environments because these environments are not built to meet their needs — this is known as non-universal design. “When I say I’m disabled, what I mean is that I’m disabled by the external environment that I navigate as regards to the impairment that I have,” Ellis said. “The disability comes when I try to access the world that is not designed for me.” On a social level, disability is still left behind in conversations, despite progress for other identities such as gender and race. Even the most progressive people avoid addressing disability by replacing it with euphemisms, such as “special” or “differently-abled,” or The interviewed student recalled her struggle to find turning disability into inspiration porn which has the study groups because she feared that other people would potential to be insulting rather than supportive. judge her for falling behind in class. “We watched the Democratic presidential candidates “When you’re reviewing, it feels weird being the do an LGBT town hall,” marketing coordinator of the D Center Camille Bishop said. “That’s amazing, but most of person who needs more explanation,” she said. Recently moved to HUB 327, the D Center is a them don’t say the word ‘disabled.’” student-led disability and D/deaf cultural center that The Daily previously focuses on fostering a community of reported that the dropout rates disability and creating an inclusive for students with disabilities environment. in college are higher than When I say I’m disabled, To create a more visible culture, the those without; the barriers D center partners with communities on what I mean is that I’m to finishing higher education campus to host events that advocate for are usually due to the lack of disabled by the external disability arts and culture. In the past, support and accessibility from environment that I navithe center hosted a keynote address the university and professors. by Haben Girma, the first Deafblind gate as regards to the “I spent most of my first graduate from Harvard Law School, year struggling,” an informatics impairment that I have disability open-mic nights, and an all junior, who wished to remain bodies dance workshop. anonymous, said. “I came to On a micro-level, the center provides UW wanting to be a computer peer support for students by offering a science major, but those classes social space to meet new people and develop friendships. are generally weed-out classes. With ADHD, it’s hard The low light and quiet design accommodate students for me to reach out and be open about it. I would suffer who don’t engage socially in neurotypical ways or don’t internally because it feels like shame seeking out for feel comfortable being in highly stimulating areas, Ellis help.” explained.
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Abigail Dahl @abigailgracedahl According to a newsletter from the D center, the room is also mobility aid accessible and scent-reduced. “Students coming into this space can feel recognized and acknowledged,” Ellis said. “My goal is to have people come to the D Center, let down their guards, and be themselves without judgment.” This year, one of the center’s missions is finding employment for students with disabilities, because having work experience during college can be a vital difference between employment and non-employment after graduation. The D Center also helps students who are abled by providing allyship training to challenge the social construct of an ableist society. The D Center will be hosting an open house Nov. 14 at 2 p.m. in HUB 327 for visitors to enjoy a beverage and get to know what the center has to offer. “The fact that disabled students are at university now is because of 40 years of direct activism and advocacy across the country,” Ellis said. Reach contributing writer Anh Nguyen at wellness@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @thedailyanh
Oh snap, oSTEM! UW’s RSO for queer people in STEM Anna Schnell @artistannaschnell By Miranda Milton The Daily Editor’s note: The Gay Agenda is a column about LGBTQ experiences and issues. oSTEM, an RSO specifically for LGBTQ people in STEM, is hosting its first event of the year this Thursday: an LGBTQ trivia night at the Q Center. The RSO is a place for LGBTQ students to build community and share resources. “The STEM fields are typically quite isolating for minority groups,” oSTEM graduate outreach coordinator Emma Cave said in an email. “oSTEM offers a way to combat that isolation.” You don’t even have to be a STEM major, just someone enrolled in a STEM class. “We don’t want to be exclusive at all,” oSTEM secretary Ashley Dostie said. “The biggest thing is promoting a safe
space and a community for people to feel welcome.” Allies are welcome too. oSTEM was created to give LGBTQ people in STEM a safe and welcoming space because of the historic lack of LGBTQ representation in the STEM areas. Famous, openly LGBTQ individuals are primarily in the arts — Laverne Cox, Neil Patrick Harris, and Ellen Page to name a few. Some famous LGBTQ individuals branch out from acting to the political field, like Rachel Maddow and Anderson Cooper, but few come from STEM fields. I can’t think of anyone besides Alan Turing and Issac Newton, though the latter’s homosexuality is speculation. The trivia night oSTEM is hosting Thursday is a generalized trivia game with LGBTQ-focused questions. The goal is to help students learn about LGBTQ history, art, and culture. The trivia night
purposefully comes shortly after the end of October, LGBT history month. “It goes back to needing a role model in order to feel like there is a space in that environment for you,” Dostie said. By spreading awareness and creating a space for LGBTQ STEM students, oSTEM hopes to foster a sense of belonging and community at the UW. “My favorite part of oSTEM is being able to meet queer people from all different departments,” Cave said. “I forget just how big this university is sometimes, and it is nice to realize that there are people from all different fields and levels who live shared experiences of being queer in STEM.” Trivia and game nights are only some of what oSTEM does. It also has a program coming up in winter quarter that pairs a graduate student researcher with an undergraduate student for a day. This is to get undergraduates interested
in research and show them what being a researcher is like. Once a quarter, oSTEM also hosts a mental health workshop, typically around exam weeks. This quarter’s workshop will be run by a mental health therapist and will focus on stress management and selfcare. It will be held Dec. 4 at 5 p.m. in the Q Center. oSTEM meets in the evenings at the Q Center (HUB 315). For more information and meeting dates, email ostemuw@ uw.edu. Trivia is this Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in the Q Center. Bring your friends or form teams there, and compete in the Jeopardy-style game to win prizes. Reach columnist Miranda Milton at wellness@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @mirandamilton99
SCIENCE
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Rebuilding the brain
How a researcher is studying the injured brain’s ability to fix itself
By Ash Shah The Daily By now, I’ve spoken to enough researchers to know that there isn’t one clear path into one’s respective field. People find their passion as early as elementary school or decades later. For Samira Moorjani, a research assistant professor at the UW, this journey started during her graduate school years. Moorjani majored in biomedical engineering as an undergraduate, and enjoyed working with tech and figuring out how things worked. She was uninterested in the Indian biotech market, which focused primarily on agriculture, prompting her to move to the United States and try her hand at something else. Over the next couple of years, she worked in labs and studied tissue cultures on an almost exclusively subcellular level. During her postdoc, she
began studying the neuron itself, introducing her to the field of neuroscience. It was around this time that her husband was diagnosed with a movement disorder. She began reading different studies and found a disconnect between the literature and the clinical research. The literature studied the brain in the way Moorjani understood it, dynamic and ever-changing, but that wasn’t how they treated it in the clinical setting. “In clinics, the adult brain was seen as more static,” Moorjani said. She disagreed. Brain plasticity is the brain’s capacity to modify and strengthen its connections to essentially rewire itself in cases of injury or degeneration. The brain has certain cues for changes where various inputs can change the brain itself. Moorjani wants to study how
to harness these cues to induce plasticity. Moorjani explored the natural ways in which our brains induce plasticity and strengthen neural connections, often induced by exercise and enrichment of the brain. Researchers study this by observing rats, comparing the ones who live in the enriched environment to the caged rats. The enrichment arena works on cognitive enrichment where the rats solve problems, get treats, and have running wheels. They also add aspects of novelty in which the rats have new toys to play with each week. They also try to study social learning by placing injured rats with injured ones, who are typically more motivated, in hopes that the injured animals will learn from the others. While the natural methods are extremely powerful in their own ways, they are not always sufficient. Moorjani and her team are working on artificial ways of inducing the same plasticity. These are more applicable in cases of injury where remedies such as exercise and enrichment just won’t cut it. Their method uses closedloop electrical stimulation reliant upon on spike timing. The idea is that researchers will artificially fire neurons in close
proximity of when other neurons have fired and, theoretically, their collective connection is strengthened. The second artificial technique is the delivery of neuromodulators. Neuromodulator is merely a fancy term for a type of chemical that plays a role in plasticity by helping neuronal growth. This chemical works on the neuron itself, elongating its various parts such as dendrites and axons which induces a strengthening connection, which is essentially the baseline concept of plasticity. Her lab is a collaborative space with engineers working on electrical stimulation and neuroscientists studying the effects of brain plasticity. “The way we are approaching this is sort of more general,” Moorjani said. “We hope that our interventions will be applicable across a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders.” From an engineer to a neuroscientist, Moorjani’s path was unconventional but led to her research today. She
hopes to use the concept of brain plasticity and apply it a large array of disorders. While she acknowledges that her research on its own cannot do that, it’s a step forward. Reach Assistant Science Editor Ash Shah at science@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @itsashshah
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ARTS & LEISURE
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Seventh stop: Taqueria La Fondita #2 demonstrates the beauty of taco trucks
Taco excellence well worth the trek to White Center
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outside of a mobile vehicle; a much more preferable way to get fresh air than “hiking” in “nature.” UW students have this whole “loving the outdoors” thing all wrong. Taco trucks are actually much more of a phenomenon in the United States than in Mexico. Walking around Mexico City, the holy land of tacos, you will see an abundance of street stands, but few trucks. Compare that with walking around Los Angeles, where you’ll find thousands. Los Angeles, in fact, is where the first taco truck is
said to have been opened. Raul Martinez converted an old ice cream truck into a gem of tacoAuthor’s note: Taco Odyssey is a making machinery and ignited weekly column that highlights a a food trend that would take the new Mexican restaurant every country, and then the world, by week in hopes of finding Seattle’s storm. most scrumptious taco. The best taco truck in Seattle, for my money, is Taqueria La It would be an immense error Fondita #2 in White Center. for a column that dedicates itself Why #2, you ask? No one really to the art and beauty of tacos to talks about number one, so it’s ignore one of the greatest of all sort of been forgotten; kind of taco delivery mechanisms: the like a weird distant cousin that taco truck. There is something dropped out of high school to inexplicably satisfying about start a jazz band in Belarus. eating tacos from a paper plate White Center is an unincorporated area of King County, featuring a diverse community and a culturally rich food scene. Yet, as we witnessed in our post-taco stroll, gentrification is taking its hold. Alongside family businesses and community staples, rolled-up jeans and cortados have joined the ecosystem. La Fondita, however, remains strong as ever, serving truly delicious, traditional Mexican food. We indulged in carnitas, carne asada, birria (a spicy, braised beef with origins in Jalisco, the state in Mexico where I used to live) as well as lengua (braised cow’s tongue.) If Sammi Bushman The Daily you’re trepid about cuts of meat like tongue or beef cheeks, I’d Tacos de pollo at La Fondita, affectionatly known as simply "Taco recommend getting over yourself Truck.”
Sammi Bushman The Daily Armon Mahdavi orders at La Fondita in White Center. and your culinary bubble and indulge in the things that other cultures have found a way to prepare beautifully. You’ll be glad you did. Being the food nerd I am, I gained an early fascination with the Michelin Guide, the most prestigious rating system for high-end restaurants in the world. Ranking from one to three Michelin stars (even one is a great honor, with three being the rarest, most exemplary prize), the guide describes a restaurant worthy of three stars as “exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey.”
Although a taco truck is far from what the Michelin guide generally targets, that description is a perfect way to describe La Fondita. While one may deem it too far from the U-District and an inconvenient detour, I implore you to make the “special journey” there and try the wonderful, “exceptional” food they have to offer. What you’ll find when you arrive is, to me, pure joy. Reach writer Armon Mahdavi at arts@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @armonmah
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OPINION Editorial
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Student journalism is journalism The Daily stands in support of The Observer
By The Daily Editorial Board Last week, The Observer, the student newspaper at Central Washington University (CWU), publicly shared the difficulties it has faced working with different administrative branches of CWU in the past year. The expectations imposed on The Observer staff are unacceptable and devalue the work of student journalism across the country. As stated by Observer contributors, the paper “works under the same ethical standards and strives for the same credibility as any professional outlet.” Despite maintaining these standards, administrators have asked that student journalists disclose interview questions to secure an interview.
This practice violates industrywide journalistic standards. Revealing questions prior to an interview allows sources time to prepare answers and consult outside sources. This changes the power dynamic between sources and journalists, giving sources the upper hand. In this case, CWU administrators are reinforcing power over the student press. Student journalists face censorship and external regulation, compromising our ability to report stories fully. Despite the passage of Washington’s New Voices Act in 2018, which guaranteed rights to student journalists at the university level, this phenomenon is not isolated to CWU. When an institution such as CWU denies freedom of the press to student journalists, they are denying support to
the future of the journalism industry. Our media is filled with misinformation, and the only way to fix that is by encouraging a new generation of journalists to practice ethically, and by giving them the tools to do so. Student newspapers shouldn’t be working with the caveat that they are not professional media outlets. Student newsrooms are undoubtedly providing the public with pertinent information, just with a much younger staff. As a student newspaper, The Daily strives to serve the UW and U-District communities by publishing stories that our reporters have unique access to. We have the ability to tell stories that we find on our campus that would otherwise remain untold by a larger, professional media
outlet. Since 1861, The Daily has stood as a respected institution on the Seattle campus. We stand with The Observer staff in support of a transparent and ethical student journalism industry that is respected by the universities we cover. Editorials are written, edited, and approved by Opinion Editor Rachel Morgan, Engagement Editor Hailey Robinson, Development Editor Devon McBride, Health and Wellness Editor McKenzie Murray, and Co-Copy Chief Sam Steele, and reflect the opinions of The Daily Editorial Staff. Reach the Editorial Board at opinion@dailyuw.com.
Dalal: UWCR may be stripped of their namesake, but their right to assemble means continued harassment By Suhani Dalal The Daily
For years at the UW, one small group of ignorant students has made recurring headlines for their continued inflammatory opinions and actions, all done while masked behind their title — the UW College Republicans (UWCR). It was only last spring quarter when students gathered outside the HUB to stand face to face with the handful of UWCR members. The group’s presence and associated protestors angered many with their utter disregard for Polynesian Day. Anchored behind their advertised antiaffirmative action bake sale, the UWCR was wholly transparent. While offering few substantiated claims and even less knowledge on the issue they felt so opposed to, the group incited the crowd and distracted
from the UW Polynesian Student Alliance’s day of celebration. Loosely united on the generically controversial anti-affirmative action position, the group maintained proud grimaces as a mass of students demanded informed conversation. For a majority of the UW community, the UWCR’s hateful sentiment is not just unwanted; it is built on a rhetoric of white nationalism, promoting a racist agenda, and the group has finally been denounced by the College Republican National Committee (CRNC). Whether it be the MAGAhats, emblems of the current corrupt presidency, or their 2017 sponsorship of former Breitbart News Network editor Milo Yiannopoulos, or the decision to sue the UW for necessitating security costs for the group’s own event, or for inviting Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys to the
UW campus — the actions of the UWCR have prompted their title revocation, leaving the Husky College Republicans as the new group officially recognized by the CRNC. The UWCR has lost its RSO status and will be forced to convene under a new name, if it so chooses to continue its unethical reign, which UWCR President Armen Tooloee has already stated he is likely to do. Denouncing the UWCR would be one thing, but to formally strip it of its affiliation with the CRNC legitimizes all of the former RSO’s futile jabs at public attention. Though this is truly momentous, it is not enough for the club to stop provoking others in the future. While there may be an issue of censorship of the UWCR in the case it does recreate a new group, the school should act with greater responsibility to its
student populace that does not take kindly to the group’s history of shameless offense. Having differing opinions and offering a public space for students with these opinions is constitutional and necessary in promoting the freedom of speech. These entitlements, however, must be well defined, especially on a school campus that should be a safe space for all. Inviting Yiannopoulos to campus in 2017 inadvertently led to an individual being shot. This event utilized campus grounds to host individuals known for their hateful agenda. Although members of the UWCR were not involved in the shooting, it was at an event they sponsored, inviting violence to campus. The UWCR has affirmed their bad reputation time and time again, assembling as a small group, but capable of immense academic distraction
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and personal inhibition. For many at the UW, the group has made campus feel unwelcome, capitalizing on their right to mobilize with such with limited regulation. The UW should enforce the CRNC’s statement for the group to disband under their current title and implement greater RSO oversight for the inevitable reconstruction of this group, ensuring that the club does not merely reform under the same guiding principles, or lack thereof. Campus is a shared ground that should really be better protected, and the administration should be more aware of protecting the safety of its student body. Reach writer Suhani Dalal at opinion@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @DalalSuhani
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Imposter syndrome affects women in all spheres of life
By Tiasha Datta The Daily In community college, junior Jessica Howard did research with professors, was president of the honor society, and excelled in school, but still felt like she did not belong. She attributed the uncertain feelings to taking more years than her peers to reach that point in her academic career. “Even when I got my acceptance letter to UW, it didn’t
feel real,” Howard said. Howard often feels as though she is not smart enough to be at the UW and that she took a place from someone who was more deserving. In class discussions, Howard hears other people using seemingly perfect terminology and bringing in ideas from previous classes, while she is not able to respond to the same questions in a similar fashion. “It just felt like other people
were really getting it, and I was just pretending to get it,” Howard said. Imposter syndrome, characterized by “feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident success,” often shows up in every aspect of women’s lives and prevents them from pursuing opportunities. To combat this, women need to take more risks, be more confident, and have an increased sense of community.
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