Campus Life
Summer 2020
Welcome, new Huskies! One thing we all have in common this year: none of us know what to expect. None of us have ever experienced the UW in quite this format — socially distanced, masked up, and with a triple helping of Zoom classes. But let’s be honest, your college experience was bound to have a few curveballs. Plus, the fact that you are pursuing higher education during a global pandemic, a civil rights movement, and a recession, will be a great story to tell the grandkids (or anyone who gets on your case about your grades). This is truly one of the defining moments of our generation. It’s also a great opportunity to “zoom” (sorry) out and reexamine our priorities as a campus, as a community. How are we going to keep each other safe? How are we going to support each other from afar? What really matters to us? What we are doing in our virtual classrooms is as important as ever, but the world around us is there to provide us with a healthy dose of perspective as well. When you get tired of pondering the big questions, turn here. These pages are packed with tips to enrich your UW experience, venues for late-night shenanigans, and heartfelt well-wishes from current and past Huskies. We at The Daily are nervous but boundlessly excited to embark on this next year alongside you.
Mac Murray, Editor-in-Chief
At this point, it’s a big assumption that sports will happen at all this year. The Pac-12 has already canceled all athletic activities until Jan 1, 2021, and the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage across the country. However, let’s assume sports get the go-ahead from the NCAA and the Pac-12…
The breadth of the humanities and the variety of ideas it traverses can make it difficult to provide a single definition. For incoming first-year students who are interested in the humanities, it’s important for them to understand what this division of the College of Arts & Sciences entails.
Every year, thousands of undergraduate students compete for coveted spots in STEM-related fields such as computer science, nursing, and engineering. But where does that leave students who want to major in linguistics or classics? Or want to take an elective to bury their nose in some Foucaul…
Editor’s note: Many of these options may not be open or responsible right now due to the outbreak of COVID-19. However, the pandemic won’t be around for your whole college experience, and many of these articles are here to get you excited about experiencing campus when this is all over.
Without the parents around comes a new kind of freedom: late-night eating. And let’s be honest, in high school we all romanticized getting french fries at 1 a.m. on a school night in college. Speaking from experience, this exhilarating new freedom is something worth indulging in. These are t…
In 2016, incoming freshman Anthony Tang faced over $34,000 in tuition fees. That didn't include the cost of housing, which Tang needed as an out-of-state student.
If any future Husky was ever hesitant to commit to the UW, a campus tour would surely seal the deal. The campus is beautiful — and it's not just the staff and students who believe this. In 2018, the Matador Network named our campus the third most beautiful in the country, behind University o…
On May 6, the U.S. Department of Education released controversial new regulations regarding Title IX, the law that serves as protection for sex-based descrimination and misconduct in schools. It stipulated that all educational institutions must be in full compliance with the 2,000 pages of t…
ASUW is the foremost student decision-making body at the UW. Here, students have the opportunity to have their voices heard and make an impact on their campus community.
With most museums in the Seattle area closed and in-person art communities moved online, there are still a plethora of ways to engage with many forms of art from home. Here are just a few recurring events to hop into for free or for a very small fee.
With the UW announcing a hybrid model for this upcoming autumn quarter, students may not have in-person classes, RSOs, or anything else that is typically held on campus. While not ideal, this doesn’t mean that we can’t still make connections with our professors, peers, and the UW community a…
If you like dreary weather, you’ve come to the right place.
College is not looking like any of us expected it to, but for freshmen, the transition to online school may be particularly difficult. It may seem like there will be fewer opportunities to make friends and fewer places to study, and those weed-out classes may suddenly seem a lot more daunting.
Disclaimer: Many Dawg Daze details weren’t finalized at the time of printing.
As the university prepares to partially reopen in the fall amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, new and returning students grapple with the decision to return to on-campus housing. With aggressive sanitation, isolation spaces, socially distanced lounges, and fewer amenities, campus residence…
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