Keeping the Promise for Higher Education – a Community Conversation Monday, March 7, 2011 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Cleveland High School to make your voice heard. Leading this conversation: KING 5’s Lori Matsukawa Brad Smith, Microsoft Ed Taylor, Un[...]
Archive for March 5th, 2011
March 5th, 2011 - 11:10 pm § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Seattle Meeting, Support for Higher Ed. Monday Evening, Cleveland High
March 5th, 2011 - 1:44 pm § in Misc.
Expediency vs. Morality
What to do about Libya ought to be a no-brainer. An odious dictator with a long record of sponsoring terrorism is now clinging to power in the face of popular revolt by mowing down unarmed demonstrators with jets, tanks, and machine guns. The Libyan people, who want to get rid of him, are facing [...]
Public Forum: “After Citizens United”, 3/10 at Kane Hall
On Thursday March 10, Washington Public Campaigns will present a Public Forum at Kane Hall Room 220, UW. Beginning at 7 p.m., the program will deal with the impact of the precedent-shattering Supreme Court decision on campaign finance, and how citizens can fight the ruling. http://www.washclean.org/[...]
March 5th, 2011 - 10:58 am § in Uncategorized
AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
**FRI – THURS MARCH 11-18, weekend showtimes 10:15 am, 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:30, 11:45 pm, at the AMC Southcenter, 3600 Southcenter Mall Tukwila; The LANGSTON HUGHES AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL in a new collaborative venture called AFFRM- the African American Film Festival Releasing Movem[...]
March 5th, 2011 - 10:27 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
PreMeds: A Different View
The chariot scene in the movie Ben Hur has all the trappings of mindless, driven competition .. just like premed? As an MD and an intellectual, I find the chariot race of pre med stultifying. Too many premeds, too few slots result in competitors who mindlessly do selfless things … whether that[...]
March 5th, 2011 - 4:11 am § in Uncategorized
Hillary Clinton: Al Jazeera ‘Real News,’ U.S. losing “information war”
Despite an embargo by the corporate cable systems, as Secretary Clinton noted, “Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it’s real news, like it or hate it, it is really effective.” Clinton speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the U.[...]