Dear Chris, It is simply NOT fair to ask someone to do the job of Provost this long – he’s already completed one year and would complete at a minimum about 2 1/2 if I started a national search now – with an “interim” title. I’m not defending Jerry against anything[...]
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April 22nd, 2016 - 2:35 pm § in The Ave Scene, UW
UW abolishes shared governance III: A response by the President
April 20th, 2016 - 8:47 am § in The Ave Scene
Goodwin: Silly Seattle Silly Shit
Christopher Goodwin The mayor’s office, in an effort to address concerns of conflict of interest regarding one of the people deciding to spend 1.4 million tax dollars to buy the failing bike share program he has an interest in, announced today “Who cares, it’s not my money” a[...]
April 19th, 2016 - 1:06 pm § in The Ave Scene
Why WASTATE Dems are Fooling Themsleves About Our States Being Lefty
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More than just football players
The NCAA must do more to help prepare current and former student athletes for life after sports. A start would be allowing kids to actually major in subjects they are interested in. In 2002, I received an athletic scholarship, for basketball, from the University of Washington. I attended the schoo[...]
April 17th, 2016 - 7:44 am § in The Ave Scene
FOOD: Seattle Sushi
Christopher Goodwin FACEBOOK Best of Seattle – Japanese Food Maneki, sushi in Seattle since 1904. Awesome food in the basement of an old hotel that served as storage for the Japanese community during the internment. Run by Jean who I love dearly when she is not annoying me, her mother often [...]
April 14th, 2016 - 7:32 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
Two small steps to address UW’s race problem
Black Lives Matter and the protest movement have come to the UW. We are going to have meetings! I do not think “talking about it” will bring much change. A huge part of the problem is Seattle itself. Whether is is called gentrification or black flight, this city has undertone a precipi[...]
April 10th, 2016 - 10:55 pm § in The Ave Scene
Tom Corbett Comes Back!
SpaceX lands a rocket on a drone ship SpaceX lands a rocket on a drone ship http://tcrn.ch/1TGYHD9 Posted by TechCrunch on Friday, April 8, 2016[...]
April 5th, 2016 - 1:37 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Is The UW Now Banned From Interactions with UNC?
Gov. Jay Inslee wrote a memo last week prohibiting non-essential state-funded travel to North Carolina: “Our nation is rightfully moving toward increased acceptance and celebration of diversity. The discriminatory policies being promoted by North Carolina is not something our state condones or [...]
Women should coach Women!
There are eight male head coaches in this years Men’s and Women’s final four. This year’s NCAA Women’s Basketball Final Four features four male head coaches. How ridiculous is that? Yes, all teams feature female assistant coaches, but it is wrong that there is not one female head coa[...]
What Happens When Seattle’s Black Neighborhood Becomes “Schwarzenfrei?”
The most ironic part of the protest against Uncle Ike’s MJ shop is the that the activists are Black but the Central D is now “schwartzenfrei” … that is free of the African Americans who once made this a vibrant center of Seattle culture. The complaints range from cha[...]