The position of Seattle Police Chief has been dominated by men since the city’s establishment in the mid-1800s—but all that is almost certain to change this June. Kathleen O’Toole, former Police Commissioner of Boston, is Mayor Ed Murray’s choice for the position of chief that has most recently been filled by interims. The other contenders ...
Warning: the following article contains references to rape, violence, and suicide. What you just read was a trigger warning, and it probably isn’t your first exposure to one. Trigger warnings—labels designed to warn would-be consumers of information as to potentially disturbing or graphic content that they will be exposed to—are common fare on television and ...
The time for peace may be just around the corner. Over Memorial Day weekend, President Barack Obama visited the troops in Afghanistan and shortly afterwards announced his plans to bring the war to an end. “The bottom line is, it is time to turn the page on a decade in which so much of our ...
In the coming months, Caroline Ferguson, the incoming Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the Spectator, will be working on more in-depth and refined training on the paper staff in order to polish the reputation of the newspaper. At the end of this year Kellie Cox, the outgoing EIC at The Spectator, will be graduating, thus making room ...
If you’re a student at Seattle University, then chances are it’s happened to you. It’s midnight, and you’re on 18th Avenue and Union Street, contemplating how you’re going to navigate your way home. You have a choice to make: risk the walk, or call the Night Hawk. Unfortunately, the latter option means that, on a ...
Seattle University’s contingent and adjunct faculty unionization efforts remained promising as students publically allied with professors in an on-campus rally. In a march from the Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons to the Administration building on Friday, May 30, students chanted and cheered in support for their contingent professors working to join the Service Employees ...
* This Article has been edited Elliot Rodger thought he was entitled to a woman’s love. So much so, that he killed for it. The 22-year-old made national news this week after he allegedly murdered six people, injured seven, and then killed himself at the University of California Santa Barbara. In one of several Youtube ...
MACKLEMORE’S APOLOGY ACCEPTED Macklemore is known for using his status as a Grammy award-winning artist as a platform to speak out against bigotry and intolerance. Thus it came as something of a surprise when the rapper chose to wear an apparently anti-Semitic costume at a show at Seattle’s EMP Museum on May 16. Since the ...
Seattle University is opening a new college in the fall to focus in on the some 725,000 Seattleites with a partially finished degree. Seattle U is one of the few metropolitan universities in the country that does not offer adult completion degrees or have a school for students who have partially finished a college level ...