Every night in Seattle, hundreds of children are sold for sex. The majority of these victims of coercion are young girls who, on average, first start “turning tricks” at 13 years old. These horrifying/alarming statistics come from the website of the documentary film, Rape for Profit. Rape for Profit provides the perspectives of both law ...
An African-American trans woman named CeCe McDonald was released from prison this past January after serving 19 months for defending herself against a transphobic and racist attack. McDonald is not alone. According to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 16 percent of all trans people and 47 percent of all black trans people have ...
Download complete. The new Help Desk with walk-in services is now up-and-running in the engineering building, room 302. The center offers services ranging from tech support to campus card support. Before the Help Desk began walk-up services, students had to call the Help Desk for any technological issues such as trouble connecting to Seattle University’s ...
If you don’t bike, maybe next year you’ll start. It’s not rare to see bikers speeding about campus, even in the cold weather, or the pouring rain. However, due to a lack of secure bike racks and covered areas to park bikes—students have been discouraged from commuting via bicycle. But as of next fall, this ...
On Thursday, Feb. 27 Jerry Huffman, President of Seattle U’s Human Resources Department sent an email to all faculty addressing Service Employees International Union’s (SEIU) call for a subpoena. Echoing the concerns addressed by Provost Crawford, Huffman argued that SEIU promotes confrontation. He criticized the National Labor Relations Board, saying that they infringe upon the ...
Finding ways to combat spam and hackers is something that IT is constantly working on, it’s a never-ending desire between the two to settle one over the other, to reign as supreme. Last week many Seattle U students received several spam emails that were sent to various school listservs, largely from, what appeared to be, ...
Since I was a young boy, hover boards have always been my most immediate image of the future. Next to flying cars and robot maids, nothing seemed more likely to usher in the turn of the century than my own personal flying skateboard. Unfortunately, science and technology in the 21st century have more or less ...
I’m going to really nerd out this week. I went to a lecture on the mathematical modelling of mouse neuronal networks this last Thursday, and my mind is officially blown. Scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, in conjunction with a lot of other institutes in Europe and Asia, are working on describing and ...
You don’t have to tell college seniors that the job market is rough—trust me, we know. We’ve known since you knew, actually. Ever since about 2008 when we all watched the economy shrivel and crumble. From that moment forward, I was advised away from journalism. It won’t work, people told me. Journalism is dead. But ...