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Students, lawmakers move to put crisis hotlines on student IDs

By Hope Morris The Daily

State legislators and UW students are hoping to mitigate mental health issues on college campuses by putting crisis hotline numbers on the back of newly issued ID cards. These numbers would most likely include the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and local crisis lines, according to ASUW Senator Alex Davidson.

It’s a change that’s already been implemented at Gonzaga and Washington State University, and last spring state Rep. Gerry Pollet (D-46) introduced a bill that would

require all state universities to do the same.

HB 1735 focused on behavioral health and encouraged state universities, including community and technical colleges, to provide numbers for mental health services.

While it ultimately did not pass, Pollet was undeterred, noting that the change could happen without governmental action.

“I’m a little bit scratching my head about why the UW and other schools aren’t doing it without a legislative mandate,” Pollet said. “There’s no real

cost … it’s a real easy change to make.”

Pollet also spoke on the bill at the ASUW Legislative Reception on Friday, Nov. 15, which inspired Davidson to further lobby for the issue on campus.

According to Davidson, Housing & Food Services (HFS), who controls the Husky Card account and office programs, confirmed they would start discussing the idea as soon as their next meeting.

“At the moment, I’ve stopped working on the legislation,” Davidson said, hoping HFS will quickly decide to make the change. He noted that mental

health has been a “driving force” of the student senate.

The state Legislature has also shown a similar effort. In their 2017-2018 session, they passed SB 6514 concerning the ability of higher education institutions to prioritize suicide prevention.

Putting mental health resources in reach of every student would improve the currently lacking services at the UW. Currently, wait times for mental health counselors can be several weeks for students.

Hall Health and the Counseling Center are currently working toward overhauling the UW’s entire mental health system.

Youth suicide rates have increased dramatically in recent years, and Pollet noted the usefulness of having that hotline available.

“This is, I think, a no-brainer … it dramatically increases the use of crisis lines and we know it’s a tool that will save lives,” Pollet said.

To get help, call the National Suicide Prevention Line (1-800273-TALK), or (1-800-2738255).

Reach reporter Hope Morris at news@dailyuw.com.

Twitter: @hopexmorris

A look at Seattle’s overlooked Jewish history

Sephardic studies program seeks to broaden historical and cultural understanding at seventh annual International Ladino Day

By Thelonious Goerz The Daily What do the fall of the Ottoman Empire, newspapers, and the historical and cultural development of Seattle have to do with each other?

The connection between them is Ladino.

Ladino is a language commonly referred to as JudeoSpanish, which was originally spoken by Sephardic Jews after they were expelled from Spain in 1492. Simply put, the language is a combination of loan words from Turkish, Greek, and Arabic, with a basis in Spanish, but written in Hebrew script.

“Ladino is a mixed language, having borrowed elements from Spanish, Hebrew, Turkish, and other languages over the course of its history,” Molly FitzMorris, Ph.D. alumna in linguistics, said in an email. “This makes it really interesting, and challenging, to study.”

In the early 20th century, many Sephardic Jews immigrated to the United States.

Although some stayed in New York, many moved west to Seattle on the recommendation of Greek fishermen who emphasized that Seattle’s coastal geography and trade patterns were similar to their European homes.

“Already, in the 1930s, you have young people who were born in the Ottoman Empire getting degrees, writing theses about Sephardic folklore and

history,” Dr. Devin Naar, the chair of Sephardic studies and Isaac Alhadeff professor, said.

“So early on you have this kind of special connection not only in Seattle but also at the University of Washington.”

By virtue of this connection, many Ladino newspapers in New York also reported heavily on issues in Seattle. Even for the size of Ladino journalism, there was still a vibrant culture and historical perspective. Today, that has almost been lost.

At the UW Sephardic studies program, the library’s body of Ladino texts is larger than the one kept by the Library of Congress and Harvard University. Many of these texts are newspapers undergoing digitization.

Though this connection to Seattle is strong, few Seattleites and even fewer students know about Ladino. Naar explained that much of Ladino’s culture and history was lost after World Wars I and II. Additionally, dominant media has represented Judaism as homogenous and consisting exclusively of European Jews.

On top of that, there is a double exclusion in academia, as Sephardism was historically deemed unworthy of study.

Many Sephardic Jews who lived in the Middle East, where the dominant religion is Islam, were under Western subjugation and were excluded from academia and visibility.

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For Naar, the experiences of Sephardic Jews and other underrepresented groups are vital to understanding world history and religion and the history of Seattle — but time may be running out.

Ethnologue, a resource for language data, classifies Ladino as having somewhere between 10,000 to 1,000,000 users, few enough for the language to be classified as endangered.

In Seattle, there are few native Ladino speakers, and many of them are over 70. Naar also noted that many voices in the Jewish community have been predicting Ladino’s death for the past century.

In a 1928 article from The Jewish Transcript archived in the UW libraries, one reporter questions whether Ladino and Yiddish are doomed in the wake of Americanization.

This year, the seventh annual International Ladino Day seeks to offer students and the surrounding community a chance to engage with Ladino, and whether Jewish or not, experience the multitude of intersections that Ladino sits at the center of.

Assistant director of the Sephardic studies program Makena Mezistrano noted that the event is aimed at Sephardic students who may not have seen their heritage in an academic context. They also hope to appeal to students of other Jewish cultural backgrounds as well as

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non-Jewish students. migration, and change.

Though there are no new Ladino day will be held in the generations of native Ladino HUB Lyceum at 7 p.m., Dec. 5. speakers being born anywhere Students can pre-register for free in the world, and the language online. seems as though it may be lost, Naar is optimistic.

Reach Science Editor “Ladino day comes at this Thelonious Goerz moment of ending, a kind of at news@dailyuw.com. ending of a 500 year history,” Twitter: @TheloniousGoerz Naar said. “That also signifies a new beginning, and that new beginning is a Ladino culture that is what scholars call post-vernacular.”

While Ladino won’t be spoken every day, Naar hopes that it can still be an important language to explore for people with and without Sephardic backgrounds.

Naar emphasizes that this new dimension of Ladino is one that can move from a language and culture specific to Sephardic Jews to one that is relevant to anyone interested in Jewish, Middle East, and Courtesy of Devin Naar European history.

It is relevant to La Vara, “The Staff,” the main Ladino those interested newspaper was published in New York, 1922in language shift, 1948.

SCIENCE GAMER group in pursuit of the human behind the code

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Game research at UW explores the accessibility and uses of video games

By Tatum Lindquist Contributing writer The term “game research” sounds like the study of video games, but the Game Research (GAMER) group at the iSchool investigates much more than that.

“When I came here, I tried to think about how to grow as a researcher and expand the scope of my research, and naturally, I gravitated towards games because I’m a gamer,” founder and director of the GAMER group Jin Ha Lee, Ph.D., said with a laugh.

Historically, the game industry consists of one dominant demographic: white, young, and male. Even now, this demographic makes up the majority of esports and other game scenes. For a time, video games and interactive media were only ever geared toward this demographic.

While past and current projects investigate a range of questions, the GAMER’s overarching mission is to make video games and other interactive media more accessible. Some limitations GAMER is investigating include mobility impairment, cognitive impairment, and the effects of these materials on the user’s mental health.

One project, GAME Accessibility Metadata, Excellent! (GAME!), specifically focuses on increasing accessibility for those with motor impairments and examining important standards for video game accessibility.

Another project focuses on developing a metadata schema for video games and other interactive media to increase accessibility. Researchers seek to better organize and standardize essential

Abigail Dahl @abigilgracedahl information about video games and other interactive media, so that users can search for games more easily, thereby improving access.

“If you go look at the traditional library catalog for instance, a lot of them are focused on providing descriptive information, like the title and the published date and the company name, and there’s little that talks about what they are actually about,” Lee said.

Instead, by constructing these models and controlled vocabularies, GAMER can standardize information on various qualities of video games, including the narrative, gameplay, theme, setting, characters, tropes, mood, and visual style.

“We really try to dig deeper into those kinds of elements so we can provide better access to those materials that is beyond just searching for a particular title

or searching based on a platform,” Lee said.

Many projects conducted under the GAMER group investigate user behavior and real-world interaction, such as a Pokémon GO project, which observed the group dynamics of people online meeting in-person to complete this raid together for the famous mobile game.

“Jinha and I, we would go out to watch Pokémon GO players (this is what professors do), and we go out, and I’m like, ‘Why is there a child here with their parent at 10 p.m. at night playing Pokémon GO? Like this is fascinating,” Jason Yip, a GAMER and youth researcher, said.

Titled “Group Interactions in Location-Based Gaming: A Case Study of Raiding in Pokémon GO,” this project conducted observations, online surveys,

and interviews to examine how groups coordinate these meetings in real life and their changing group dynamics.

The final goal of the GAMER group lies in the investigation of using video games and other interactive media as tools for informal learning.

“With educational games, I always kind of joke around: ‘what are we doing here with this sort of chocolate-covered broccoli, broccoli being the education and chocolate being the fun,’” Yip said. “’Is it really mixing well with learning?’ and trying to figure that out with informal learning is a really big question.”

Lee and Yip both collaborated on a now-completed project conducted at Echo Glen Children’s Center for Juvenile Rehabilitation, where a digital arts education program was implemented.

This program connected young people to technology, using virtual reality systems to create concept art.

GAMER’s research pursues preserving this digital story that we can no longer ignore in an age where binary code intertwines itself so richly in human lives.

“There is this critical gap in how we treat these materials in my field, and there’s so much potential because if you think about an average person’s daily life, we spend a lot of time with our media, and a lot of them are popular culture media,” Lee said. “That sort of defines in some way who we are and what we want.”

Reach contributing writer Tatum Lindquist at science@dailyuw.com.

Twitter: @TatumLindquist

UW researchers address habitat connectivity in the climate of tomorrow

By Henry Zing Contributing writer Rising dramatically from a verdant garden at the U.S.-Canadian border at Blaine, Washington stands a magnificent white arch. Within the confines of a modest cottage, known as “American Kitchen,” located on the grounds from which the arch rises, American and Candian researchers met to address the importance of habitat connectivity.

Habitat connectivity concerns the degree to which wildlife is able to travel between separate areas of habitat and is a crucial aspect of a region’s ecological health.

Meade Krosby, a senior scientist for the UW Climate Impacts Group and university deputy director of the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, selected this location not for its amenities, but because researchers from both countries could enter without travel restrictions.

“It’s an international peace park and you don’t have to have a passport to be there,” Krosby said. “It was hysterical.”

Similarly to how legal complications create barriers for trans-boundary research, increasingly disconnected habitats create challenges for wildlife movement in the Pacific Northwest, and scientific researchers from the UW Climate Impacts Group are contributing to collaborative work to address the issue of habitat connectivity.

“Wildlife land has been really fragmented,” Amy Snover, director of the UW Climate Impacts Group and university director of the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, said.

“Lots of animals don’t have the connected habitat that they need to move from feeding grounds to others, or to migrate.”

While urbanization and development are obvious impediments to natural wildlife corridors, researchers from the UW Climate Impacts Group are focused

specifically on how issues of a changing climate relate to habitat connectivity.

Climate change forces many species in the PNW to shift their ranges to more suitable habitats, and habitat corridors provide those species a pathway for that movement. Additionally, climate change affects existing corridors with events such as increasingly severe and frequent wildfires inhibiting movement through certain regions.

“The habitat where wildlife [is] going to live in the future, where it’s suitable in the future, is a different place than today,” Snover said. “You have to make sure that those habitats are connected, so they can get from the habitat of today to the habitat of tomorrow.”

Although the issue of climate change remains politically contentious, habitat connectivity enjoys support from most groups.

“Wildlife movement is something most people really get, like intuitively,” Krosby said.

Much of the work to address habitat connectivity is conducted by the Washington Wildlife Connectivity Working Group, a partnership co-led by the Washington Department of Transportation and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

With a variety of land management groups in control of preserved habitat, Krosby emphasized the importance of international collaboration between federal and state agencies, tribes, nonprofits, and scientific researchers.

“Increasing habitat connectivity is a leading strategy for helping wildlife adapt to climate change,” Krosby said.

“Species need to move to respond to climate change, and that’s only going to get worse.”

Reach contributing writer Henry Zing at science@dailyuw.com.

Twitter: @ZingHenry

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It might as well have been written in stone, as the Washington football team thumped its rival Washington State for the seventh straight year, 31-13.

“I wore it this morning, I wore it in the game, and I’m wearing it now,” Harris said. “I’ll probably wash it because it’s pretty sweaty, but if I could, I’d wear it all night.”

No stranger to winning Apple Cups, the Friday night win against the Cougars (6-6, 3-6 Pac-12) ensures that another Washington senior class graduates without a loss to its cross-state rival.

And after a somewhat disappointing season, including three losses in their last four contests, the Huskies (7-5, 4-5 Pac-12) were victorious again.

“That’s an experience I’ll never forget,” junior quarterback Jacob Eason said. “Being from Washington, first time playing this game, it was a great feeling. Something I won’t forget.”

The game didn’t get off to the best start, with the Cougars marching down the field easily in the opening moments to score the game’s first touchdown. It was WSU’s first touchdown scored in the first quarter since its overtime victory in 2012, its last Apple Cup victory.

But the Huskies responded with a 31-6 run over the course of the rest of the game to win in a dominant fashion once again. But it wasn’t how they won previous games against Washington State.

After rushing for well over 150 yards in each of the last five Apple Cups under Chris Petersen, including over 550 yards in the last two combined, the Huskies let Eason get his rhythm back against a subpar Cougar secondary.

With the run game stymied for much of the game against loaded fronts, Petersen turned to Eason to make throws downfield, and for the first time in weeks, he did.

“That’s the only way to operate if you run that style,” Petersen said of the UW’s run-oriented offense. “You’re going to have to hit some big plays down the field.”

Eason ended his first Apple Cup with 244 yards through the air, with a touchdown, and most importantly, no turnovers. Specifically targeting his tight ends, who combined for nine catches

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Conor Courtney The Daily Nick Harris walks off the field after Washington’s win over Washington State in the Apple Cup at Husky Stadium on Nov. 29, 2019. Harris is a part of another UW senior class that didn’t lose a single Apple Cup. for 142 yards, Eason managed to put in his best performance in the back half of the season.

His counterpart, Anthony Gordon, didn’t fare nearly as well.

A nearly flawless first drive for Gordon quickly went downhill, as the Cougar quarterback managed to complete 48 of his 62 throws for 308 yards, but with two backbreaking interceptions.

As UW alum Budda Baker posted on Twitter that he knew, “every play Wsu [was] running from my years at UW,” it became clear that defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake hasn’t lost his touch against Mike Leach and the Cougs.

“They haven’t switched up their plays so we keep doing the same stuff,” junior nickel back Elijah Molden said.

Petersen and several players reiterated that Leach hasn’t changed his system at all despite past failures against the Huskies, so the Huskies didn’t change anything either.

“That’s a credit to Coach Lake,” senior Myles Bryant said. “He prepares us, he outlines the plays for us. They have a pretty simple system.

Coach Lake has been able to figure it out. As long as Coach Lake is here, they’ll be in good hands.”

While Harris practically guaranteed the Huskies would win the night before when he wrote on his undershirt that, “We don’t lose to Cougs,” a win in the Apple Cup and on Senior Day was exactly what the doctor ordered for a frustrated UW team.

“There’s been a lot of ups and downs,” Bryant said. “Especially it being Senior Night, you have a lot of seniors who have been here a lot, who’ve seen a lot … it’s just a special feeling for all of us.”

Lydia Ely The Daily Outside linebacker Ryan Bowman brings down WSU quarterback Anthony Gordon, forcing a fumble in the first half of Washington’s Apple Cup victory on Nov. 29, 2019. The Huskies finished with five sacks on the night in the dominant win.

Reach Sports Editor Alec Dietz at sports@dailyuw.com.

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game. This year, as the Huskies celebrated on the field, he light-heartedly said he was excusing himself from postgame media availability.

It didn’t matter, as Chris Petersen probably said more or less the same thing Lake would have, albeit in a slightly more tactful way.

“We’ve played them for a long time,” Petersen said in his postgame press conference. “There’s a lot of things we’ve had success in the past with that we certainly did again.”

Or, for a more lively take, go with former linebacker Ben Burr-Kirven’s tweet: “Running the same 5 plays every year and expecting the end result to change is a real bold strategy.”

Mike Leach, for his part, spent his press conference calling members of the media “sanctimonious trolls” for asking why he’s now winless against Petersen. Nothing’s really changed at all.

Washington couldn’t run the ball for most of the first half, and it didn’t matter. WSU nearly quadrupled the UW early in time of possession, and it didn’t matter.

Maybe it’s no wonder Harris felt comfortable putting the writing on his undershirt.

“It’s just truth,” he said. “No inspiration. I’m a truthful person.”

Because it’s true. He and Bryant and every other UW senior will leave without ever having lost to the Cougs. That ticker will keep going, and rise above 2,900 days before Washington State gets another crack at Washington.

We’ll believe that WSU can beat the UW when we see it, and we just went another year without seeing it.

And until it does happen, with the clock hitting triple zeros and the Cougars outscoring the Huskies, they just won’t have convinced us yet.

Reach Managing Editor Josh Kirshenbaum at sports@dailyuw.com.

Twitter: @J_Kirshenbaum

More balance for UW offense in seventh straight Apple Cup win

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he Washington football team had rushed for over 150 yards in all five previous Apple Cups in the Chris Petersen era, and over 200 yards in three of them. With quarterback Jacob Eason throwing five interceptions in the past three games, it seemed unlikely that things would change. But they did.

For the first time in three years, passing yards outweighed rushing for Washington in the Apple Cup, with Eason throwing for 244 yards and the Huskies rushing for just 98.

“We knew we wanted to be aggressive and take some shots and make it into a throw-first style, which is different than what we’ve done,” offensive coordinator Bush Hamdan said.

From the start, things looked different. The Huskies opened their first drive with three straight pass attempts, a strategy that got them back a yard from where they started and forced them to punt. They returned to rushing on four of the five plays on the next drive, but the highlight was a 57-yard pass from Eason to sophomore Terrell Bynum.

While their only touchdown in the first quarter came from a quarterback sneak, not a pass, it was clear the run game wasn’t really working for the Huskies. They rushed for only 9 yards, nothing compared to previous rushing performances.

“That’s been a little bit of our problem in the past,” Petersen said. “If we’re not running the ball that efficiently, and we can’t throw it, you’ve got big problems.”

Then, in the second quarter, Eason threw for 100 yards. The Huskies scored two touchdowns. It started to look like no matter how it got there, the result of the Apple Cup wouldn’t change.

“I think we started taking what they were giving us,” senior Nick Harris said. “They know that we were going to roll them up front; their D-tackles are 250. Then they’ve got to move, they’ve got to bring down safeties, they’ve got to play with a packed box. That’s what they did, and that’s when we started throwing bombs over their head. That’s when we started scoring.”

Washington is a team that has been looking for balance. The last five years of Apple Cups, the Huskies have skewed heavily to the run game.

Washington State knew that.

“We knew that we had to take some shots, because they were going to stack the box,” Bynum

said. “We knew we had to throw it up a couple times, and we made some plays.”

But they looked pretty even for this year’s game. In the first half, Washington ran the ball 15 times, and threw it 14 times. While pass attempts dropped in the second half as the Dawgs rushed successfully a few more times, passing yards and rushing yards were pretty close.

“Today,” Bynum said, “We took a big step.”

Reach Engagement Editor Hailey Robinson at sports@dailyuw.com.

Twitter: @haileyarobin

Conor Courtney The Daily Jacob Eason celebrates after his three-yard touchdown run in Washington’s 31-13 Apple Cup victory at Husky Stadium on Nov. 29, 2019. Eason threw for 244 yards on 15 completions, with no turnovers.

Lydia Ely The Daily Sophomore tight end Cade Otton runs downfield for a seven-yard gain in Washington’s 31-13 Apple Cup win Nov. 29, 2019. Otton and fellow tight end Hunter Bryant combined for 142 receiving yards in the win.

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The Overshadowed Arts, Pt. III: International studies From Russian conspiracy theories to hackers in Brazil, the Jackson School takes you abroad without leaving home

By Theresa Li The Daily Author’s note: The Overshadowed Arts is a three-part series taking a close look at obscure, overlooked, and underappreciated humanities minors at the UW. Politics and globalization are never not going to be messy. We’ve been trying for centuries, and have yet to find something that doesn’t hurt someone.

But this century offers something the past ones have not: unprecedented access to distant lands and information through the internet, university resources, and instant news reporting. I’m not asking you to write political theories or solve world hunger; I’m reminding you that you can take advantage of our erased physical distances, especially with the comparatively ample time in college, to see the world through someone else’s language, culture, and perspective. It closes the cultural gap more than any book or handshake would, and you’ll have one hell of a fun time doing it.

The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS) is housed

in Thomson Hall, next door to the HUB. Their 19 minors cover every geographic region of the world (except Antarctica, but let’s be real) and total 28 or 30 credits. In 2018, 77 undergraduates were enrolled in these minors.

Contrary to popular belief, most Jackson School minors are not usually language-based. You would generally turn to other departments to learn German or Japanese, but you would pursue European studies or Japan studies through JSIS. The minors accommodate interests as specific as comparative Islamic studies or Arctic studies. For those wishing for a broad exploration, or those who perhaps haven’t decided on a particular area, the general international studies minor is a popular option.

The Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies (REECAS) minor grapples with a massive and misunderstood region of the world.

Stretching from the gates of Vienna eastward, as managing director of the Ellison Center for REECAS Phil Lyon puts it, the sheer size and amount of history is daunting.

Most current undergraduates were

not alive during the collapse of the Soviet Union or the fragmentation of Yugoslavia. As a consequence, exacerbated by the region’s physical and political differences from the United States, most of us haven’t received Abigail Dahl formal education @abigailgracedahl about the history or daily lives of the people living in that area.

“Uzbekistan is the center of the silk road,” Lyon said. “Ancient religious centers and commercial centers for trade from China to the West … The tapestry of life there is very rich.”

According to Lyon, the region is in the news more often than you would think. Russia goes without saying, but for anyone interested in foreign policy, security, energy, or human rights, it is also extremely important.

“Central Asia and Central Asians are very much in the news in the plight of the Uyghur people,” Lyon said. “These are a

Turkish speaking group currently part of China. There have been arrests and mass internment … the situation is a human rights tragedy.”

Largely comprised of JSIS electives, the REECAS minor courses include Russian history, foreign policy and communism, and East European film and literature, among others. Like most JSIS minors, there’s a plethora of courses that fit the requirements. You can tailor your focus to whichever aspect intrigues you.

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The Campus Sketcher: The many forms of gathering Written and illustrated by Elijah Pasco The Daily

food, space, or activity is something that can be seen all around campus and it’s a theme I try to subtly include in many of my sketches.

As this is my last article of the quarter, I have decided to return to the heart of what my column aims to do. The idea of gathering, be it around people,

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Budget cuts undervalue humanities advisers

By The Daily Editorial Board Advisers are at the cornerstone of a student’s college experience. From choosing a major to a graduation date, an adviser is able to provide specialized information tailored to your academic plans. By Oct. 1, 2020, humanities majors will be facing an advising reorganization.

On Nov. 8, humanities dean Brian Reed announced that the division will be restructuring their advising into a “consolidated Humanities undergraduate advising unit.” Reed references decreased graduates and inequity of current advising resources distributed among the division’s 12 departments as reasons for the restructuring.

The humanities, one of five divisions in the College of Arts and Sciences, consists of 12 departments: Asian languages & literature, classics, comparative history of ideas, comparative literature, cinema & media studies, English, French & Italian studies, Germanics, linguistics, Near Eastern languages & civilization,

Scandinavian studies, Slavic studies, and Spanish & Portuguese studies.

Ultimately, it is a budget issue.

According to Reed, this lower graduation figure “is not a sustainable institutional situation.” The College of Arts and Sciences operates within a strict budget, and in order to be able to “deliver on the university’s educational mission,” humanities advisers are out the door.

Cutting funding for departmental advisers is not the way to provide a “first-class experience for our students.”

While consolidation will increase interdepartmental coordination, there will be a loss of specialized knowledge.

Current advisers are already skeptical of the changes with the concern that generalized advising may urge students to “check boxes” rather than discover their passions.

It doesn’t matter that the new organization will be “well positioned to advise a range of students about all the possible majors and courses that the division offers,” that is the job of

undergraduate, pre-major advisers.

Departmental advisers are meant to offer individualized knowledge on a degree path. Taking away this valuable resource from students shows how undervalued humanities educations are even within the College of Arts and Sciences.

Departmental advisers can also provide invaluable knowledge and expertise to first-generation students who often don’t have the same kind of support and resources from families as students whose parents attended college. For those students, insight into the college experience on the individualized level that major advisers provide can be integral to navigating college.

What is known is that these changes will be in place within a year, but it is hard to see the certainties beyond this.

What is not known is how these changes will further impact the humanities majors that are already experiencing decreased enrollment.

Outside of the humanities division, the College of Arts and Sciences has

shown that cutting advisers is a viable budgetary cut that may happen in the future to other divisions, affecting even more students. Bob Stacey, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has said that they are not looking to use a “one size fits all approach,” but that doesn’t provide any guarantees for the future.

Advisers are one of the most beneficial resources a department can offer. This adjustment has already been decided for humanities majors, but moving forward, the importance of departmental advising needs to be taken into account when making budgetary decisions.

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Grad student fellowships aren’t a substitute for good wages

By Alexander McCauley Editor’s Note: Here at The Daily, we encourage our readers to submit guest editorials and letters. We welcome all voices to contribute positively to campus conversations. Our submission guidelines can be found online.

On November 20, the provost announced that in order to support graduate students and maintain the competitiveness of our programs, the university is launching a multi-million dollar fellowship initiative.

Reading this message, I had a strange moment of déjà vu. A year and a half ago, our graduate student union, UAW 4121, and the university were in contract negotiations. Jerry Baldasty, the previous provost, told a room of several hundred of us that the university had “no money” to raise our wages — but that during his tenure he had made efforts to secure more fellowships for graduate students.

Now before I explain the problem with fellowships, let me say what’s good about them. I’ve benefited from two over my six years here. Most of the time I teach for my pay. One fellowship

was a supplement to my regular teaching stipend and involved meeting throughout the year with a group of fellows to talk about bugs, climate change, and history. Good stuff. The second fellowship bought out my teaching load and let me spend a whole quarter focusing on my own work. I’m grateful for both, and hope that both fellowships continue.

But while fellowships benefited me as an individual, they are bad as a system for supporting graduate students.

The spots are limited and, for both of the fellowships I received, I knew there were a number of friends and colleagues who were denied that funding.

That’s not the only problem.

Fellowships, when they buy out teaching, are often tied to the regular amount of our stipends.

I love the work that I do, but my compensation for this year is $24,822 — a dismal amount to earn in Seattle. While a fellowship might allow me to get more work done, it doesn’t make up for bad wages.

Now the university has several responses to our low wages. The first is to point out that grad students make a high hourly rate. That’s true. But

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the university likes the hourly rate because it hides the total which, as council member Kshama Sawant pointed out in a public letter to President Cauce last year, is thousands of dollars lower than what counts as a living wage in this city.

The university’s second response is to point out that the wage increases in our previous two contracts were quite large. That’s also true, but it’s important to remember that, when it comes to wage raises, we only have them because we fought in bargaining against the university, which resisted us every step of the way. Now the administration brags for paying us wages it never wanted to pay us in the first place. In fact, in 2018 the university’s first offer was an effective 10% pay cut, and the 2% wage increases we ended up with don’t even keep up with inflation and cost of living. The better way to look at these large increases in the old contracts is that they are signs of how low our wages were compared to comparable institutions, and how little the university was willing to pay

us only a short seven years ago — and how little it dreams of paying us now.

This is a problem of distribution rather than necessity. What we have now instead of good wages is a multi-million dollar fellowship initiative. Let’s do some rough math, using my wages as a standard for the 4,000 or so other graduate students covered by our contract. At that rate, a million dollars is roughly a 1% pay raise for everyone, so for every million dollars put into fellowships, you could instead raise everyone’s wages by an additional percent. At that point, you have to wonder why the university prefers to go through the trouble of creating and administering a new initiative that will inevitably advantage some students over others.

Fellowships provide great opportunities, but they aren’t a substitute for good wages, and they won’t keep the university competitive. Seattle is an

expensive city to live in. Many of my friends survive the University of Washington by taking on other jobs, not just in the summer, but during the school year when they would rather be focused on their teaching and research. This puts us at a serious disadvantage compared to students at other universities, whether they make more than we do or simply live somewhere cheaper. Boundless, indeed.

So here’s my advice to the provost: believe us when we say that the university does not pay its graduate students adequately, and that fellowships won’t solve that problem. But even if you don’t believe us, I know who will: any student deciding between coming to UW or going somewhere else.

Alexander McCauley UW graduate student, CAS: Comparative Literature, Cinema, & Media

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