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streets, a trend he predicts will
only get worse as more people
and their cars move to the area.
“Growth is not bad,” Lagos
said. “But it has to be managed.”
In the 2015 race, Lagos is
running against incumbent
Jean Godden, who is running
for what would be her fourth
term as city councilmember,
and Michael Maddux, a
leading member of the King
County Democratic Party, who
announced his candidacy earlier
this month.
Lagos announced his
candidacy at Bulldog News on
the Ave after being postponed
a week for the birth of his
daughter with wife and fellow
faculty member Nektaria
Klapaki.
In a part of the state typically
covered in crimson and gray, the
UW is adding a touch of purple
and gold.
In a recent statement,
the UW announced plans
to lease the former Spokane
Visitor Information Center,
approximately 80 miles from
Washington State University
in Pullman, and turn it into an
outreach center for the UW.
The UW will use the center
to connect with the Spokane
business community and serve
as an information center for
prospective and current students
and university alumni in the area.
One person will be hired by the
university to run the center for its
planned opening in early 2015.
“We expect this person will
serve a multi-purpose function
and be a sort of all-purpose
utility infielder,” said Norm
Arkans, UW associate vice
president of media relations and
communications.
Arkans said the center’s
connections with Spokane’s
business community will “be a
resource for startup businesses
who might be interested in
forming a partnership with the
University of Washington.”
The outreach center in
Spokane will help the UW build
a larger presence in the overall
community, according to Arkans.
The lease for the space will
cost a total of approximately
$190,000 over three years.
Although they are not directly
associated with the office,
the UW Alumni Association
(UWAA) and the UW Medical
School will also use the facility
to hold meetings and gatherings
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Taso Lagos, Foreign Studies Director of the UW Hellenic Studies Program, talks with friends and supporters after announcing his
candidacy to represent the fourth district on the Seattle City Council at Bulldog News on the Ave, Nov. 19.
By Eleanor Cummins The Daily
Taso Lagos vividly remembers
his family’s arrival in the United
States from a small village in
Greece. Though he was only
8 years old at the time, he will
never forget the image of his
father kissing the doormat
outside his brother’s home,
awash with relief, and filled with
the anticipation of a better life.
“We came for the American
dream,” Lagos said. “To be in a
place where hard work pays off.”
On Wednesday, Lagos
announced his candidacy for
the fourth district seat on the
Seattle City Council with the
hope of creating a “new Athens”
in Seattle, his adopted home.
The fourth district includes
Ravenna, the U-District,
and other parts of North
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Seattle. Lagos hopes to create
open spaces abuzz with civic
engagement in the district.
As an immigrant and the
Foreign Studies Director of the
UW Hellenic Studies Program,
Lagos believes he has a unique
perspective to offer.
Lagos earned a Ph.D.
from the UW in political
communication and began to
work as a lecturer in various
departments.
He said his time in academia
has humbled him by allowing
him to hear the insights of
his students. Lagos holds
“listening hours,” not office
hours. He believes in what he
calls the “holy space” that exists
between two people engaged in
conversation.
Lagos said he hopes to
continue this in political
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office. He wants to engage in
conversation with all of his
constituents and promote the
voices of those whom he thinks
traditionally go unheard, like
the poor.
If elected to the city council,
Lagos also intends to continue
his work advocating for a
public space to be built around
the upcoming Link light rail
hub in the U-District, and
begin making other civicallymotivated projects a reality.
“We live in the city for ‘the
good life,’” Lagos said. He wants
to make the city, and the good
life, even better.
Lagos said he believes it
is important the work starts
as soon as possible before the
problems he sees in the city’s
infrastructure get out of hand.
He mentioned the congestion of
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At the event, Lagos’
supporters attended, many of
whom believe what sets him
apart is his commitment to
increasing the variety of voices in
political discourse.
Roger Scott, an Access
student, took a course with Lagos
on co-ops and utopias. While
Scott said he knew a lot about co-
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in Spokane instead of renting
spaces or partnering with other
associations.
“Having a UW facility [in
Spokane] gives us a greater
degree of programming
opportunities and a greater
degree of flexibility,” said Paul
Rucker, executive director of
the UWAA.
The UW also has plans for
expanding a medical school in
Spokane and a legislative request
for funding to increase the
Spokane medical school’s class
size. If granted the funds, the
class size would increase by 20
students in 2015 and another 20
students in 2017, which would
double the current population
of the students studying at the
medical school. According to
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ops, he learned even more about
utopias, and the way in which
some cities fail to be their best.
“We both want to see more
democracy in Seattle,” Scott
said. “We think there’s too
much corporate interest in how
Seattle is run.”
Cory Crocker, a member of
U-District Square, identified
with Lagos’ belief in the need to
involve all Seattle residents in
the political process.
“His big idea of just including
Dr. Suzanne Allen, vice dean
for regional affairs at the UW
School of Medicine, students and
instructors will be able to use the
center for events and meet-ups,
such as a faculty development
session in late March or early
April of next year.
“The School of Medicine
is very committed to being in
Spokane and to growing our
program in Spokane,” Allen said.
Before opening, the building
will be remodeled to represent
the university’s new presence in
the area.
“We’re going to have
appropriate signage on the office.
We’ll make sure the purple ‘W’ is
prominent and visible.”
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Makayla Kinsella
at [email protected].
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more voices, so that it’s just more
of a populus campaign … would
chime well with the Athenian
spirit, where you had an
obligation as a citizen,” Crocker
said. “I think that if we had more
of that … it would make for a
much better University District.”
Also in attendance was
longtime family friend Ryan
Eyre, who met the family
through the Continental
Restaurant and Pastry Shop
in the U-District. When Lagos
was 14, his parents acquired
the restaurant, and from then
on, the Continental was the
epicenter of Lagos’ life; it gave
him the opportunity to listen to
and be engaged in political and
social conversations.
“It was unique in the
University District in that it
encouraged more interactions,”
Eyre said. “When it closed it left
a hole in my social life.”
While Lagos has had his eye
on the city council for the last 25
years, it wasn’t until his parents
retired in 2013, closing the
Continental in the process, that
he truly realized the importance
of community and conversation.
“My running for the
council [is] a way to keep the
Continental ‘alive,’” Lagos wrote
in an email to The Daily.
Reach Science Editor
Eleanor Cummins
at [email protected].
Twitter: @elliepses
CRIME BLOTTER
By Sarah Gronostalski
The Daily
Franz Donuts, which cost $2.
When the police arrived, one
officer noticed a man of that
exact description walking
around outside and approached
him in front of the market. He
asked him if he’d been in the
District Market earlier. And
the man replied, “Yes, I took
some doughnuts.” He then
justified his actions saying, “I
was hungry,” and confirmed that
he hadn’t planned on paying for
them. When the officer found
that the suspect had in fact
stolen from the District Market
before, and had been banned
from returning, he was placed
under arrest and transported to
the King County Jail.
In this week’s crime blotter, a
man goes to jail for stealing
doughnuts and the shoe thief is
back in action.
No doughnuts for you
Friday, Nov. 14 was a busy day
for law enforcement. At 10:58
a.m. the UW Police Department
(UWPD) responded to a theft
report at District Market. The
caller, who was the assistant
manager, told the UWPD that
a black man, approximately
6-feet tall with a white beard and
wearing a tan-colored beanie
and blue jeans, had tried to
steal doughnuts. The assistant
manager said she had confronted
the suspect before he’d left, and
he handed back the pack of
No shoe is safe
The Odegaard shoe thief has
struck again. On Nov. 14, a
female student went to study at
the undergraduate library at 4
p.m. and, thinking that her sizeeight shoes were safe from the
notorious shoe thief, took off her
shoes. Four hours later, her left
New Balance shoe was gone and
in its place was a red Converse
All Star Chuck Taylor’s. The
Converse shoe was a size six, so
it’s uncertain whether the thief
simply miscalculated this time
or has run out of size six shoes
to steal. The red Converse shoe
was taken in as evidence. But
if you’re planning on studying
in Odegaard, maybe keep your
shoes on unless you want to risk
walking home one shoe short.
Reach reporter
Sarah Gronostalski
at [email protected].
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‘The Picture of Dorian Gray,’ dir. Rachel Perlot
Dorian Gray and his Wilde ways
| Theater review |
By Eleanor Cummins The Daily
I once read that the best student
films are in black and white.
The muted tones drown out the
visual noise and the inevitable
mistakes that often accompany
a first-time or small-scale
production.
The UW’s Undergraduate
Theater Society (UTS) isn’t
making movies, but it applies
this principle anyway. Its
productions are in a black box
theater. They are intimate,
sparse, and emphasize the
performances, not the minor
details.
The latest production from
UTS, “The Picture of Dorian
Gray,” makes the most of its
space, performing theater-inthe-round. Actors enter from
four directions and move in a
way that ensures each seat a
different view. This is the play’s
greatest strength, but also its
clearest liability.
The actors engage with the
audience, crawling up, and at
times almost on, those sitting in
the stands. While this ensures
peak attention, it can cause
discomfort among those of us
afraid of sustained eye contact
with strangers, which from my
experience at UW, is the vast
majority of Huskies.
If a ticket-holder is willing
to look past — quite literally
— the forced intimacy with the
cast, they will find themselves
enveloped in a bizarre, but
thought-provoking, world.
The play is adapted by Neil
Bartlett, who used words directly
from the original novel by Oscar
Wilde. It tells the story of Dorian
Gray, (Holly Griffith) a beautiful
young man living in 19thcentury England, who comes
to believe the only thing that
matters is beauty.
UTS strayed from the Wilde
and the Bartlett text in one key
way: It made the remarkable and
admittedly wonderful decision to
transform the original character
Lord Henry Wotton into Lady
Harriett Wotton (Sarah Priddy).
Harriett’s primary role is that
of a self-assured aristocrat with
nihilistic philosophical theories
on everything under the sun. She
is the one who pushes Dorian to
believe in the supremacy of beauty,
a conviction that leads Dorian to
commit terrible acts that haunt
him and the audience alike.
Though several other cast
performances are lost in the
play’s psychological swirl, Priddy
demands your attention.
Priddy’s Harriett has all the
self-confidence of a Kardashian,
coupled with the heady cadence
of Katherine Hepburn. The
script requires she pontificate
on her personal philosophy ad
nauseum, but Priddy manages to
tame the text.
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Dorian Gray (Holly Griffith) looks upon the portrait of himself for the
first time
Her words are especially
compelling because they are
those of a Victorian man. She is
authoritative and brusque, which
makes her seem like a feminist,
ahead of her time. But she is also
dismissive of her gender with
harsh comments like: “Women
can’t be geniuses.”
While no one would ever
want to adopt the beliefs of the
characters in the play, their
perspectives are interesting
and unique. UTS effectively
builds on this compelling
script to create a dissociative
space and an entertaining
night of theater.
“The Picture of Dorian
Gray” runs Nov. 20-23 and Dec.
3-7 in the Cabaret Theater in
Hutchinson Hall. Tickets are
$5 for UW students and $10 for
general admission.
Reach Science Editor Eleanor
Cummins at [email protected].
Twitter: @elliepses
The verdict: Go, but make
sure you pick the right seat.
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November Pain
How elections are failing
average Americans
By Cameron Seib The Daily
An article in
the most recent
edition of The
Economist
reported that the
top 0.1 percent of
American families
currently hold 22 percent of our
country’s wealth. That share is
just a bit less than the historic
peak set in 1929, the same year
in which a stock market crash
marked the beginning of the
Great Depression.
Income gaps weren’t directly
responsible for Black Tuesday,
but it’s probably no accident
that catastrophic economic
collapse coincided with historic
levels of disparity between our
nation’s wealthiest and poorest
households. Wealth inequality
harms our economy by stunting
its growth and destabilizing its
foundations. Its effects aren’t
strictly economic, either; income
inequality can be a detriment
to countrywide levels of
educational attainment, crime,
and even physical health.
With such a serious issue
at hand, and election season
(hopefully) still in mind, it’s
a good time to discuss how
problems with the latter
help perpetuate the former.
Politicians in Washington,
D.C., have become dependent
on the enormous financial
contributions made by
corporations and ultrarich citizens in order to win
reelection. This ability of our
nation’s wealthiest to dictate
voting results is tainting the
federal government with aspects
of oligarchy, as legislators put
more and more effort into
satisfying the interests of the few
atop the economic ladder.
Numerous factors affect
the outcome of any given race,
but according to data from
the Center for Responsive
Politics, there’s a particularly
strong correlation between the
amount a candidate spends and
their success on Election Day.
Essentially, the data shows that
if you put more money into your
campaign than your opponent,
you’ll probably get more votes.
This has always hindered the
true equity of our democracy to
some extent, but it became an
especially problematic matter
with the Supreme Court’s
Citizens United ruling in 2010.
The Court’s decision essentially
gave corporations the ability
to spend unlimited sums to
help candidates of their choice
— sums that could never be
matched by ordinary individuals.
This is how businesses and
billionaires have effectively
come to decide election results.
They pick which congressional
hopeful they like, and through
the “independent expenditures”
of super PACs (political action
committees), give the candidate
as much money as they need to
beat their opponent.
The politicians the economic
elite choose to support, of course,
are those they trust to govern on
their corporate behalves. And
they’re not just putting blind
faith into these individuals. You
can bet undisclosed deals are
made in which a corporation
more or less agrees to fund a
candidate on the condition they
pledge to help the business out
once in office. Yes, the lawmaker
could simply disregard that
promise after being elected,
but that would put them at
odds with the corporation
whose financial contributions
they will be dependent on next
election cycle. This leaves us
with a bunch of congressional
members who feel a need to pass
corporate-minded laws just for
some sense of job security.
And that’s how our elections
have become a force that
perpetuates wealth inequality
and all of its consequences.
Dependent on corporate
contributions to win votes, many
elected officials have become
the pawns of our nation’s richest
people. When people like the
Koch brothers and George
Soros are influencing federal
legislation, it’s probably not
good for the prospect of a more
even economy. The fact that 95
percent of the wealth created
under Obama has gone to the 1
percent at least seems to suggest
as much. So do the facts that the
typical male worker’s income in
2011 was lower than it was in
1968, and that student debt has
exceeded $1 trillion.
The obvious solution to the
increasing income gap is to
empower politicians that truly
serve average Americans. How
to actually make that happen,
though, is much less clear.
Reforming campaign finance
laws is the initial inclination.
Citizens United, in legalizing
the unrestricted spending of
super PACs, gave corporations
and the rich that run them a
disturbingly strong influence on
election results. Overturning the
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Supreme Court’s decision would
take the corporate money out
of our politics, by requiring that
all campaign advertising either
be funded by individuals or
standard PACs (ones that can’t
accept corporate donations, and
have spending caps). This, in
turn, would probably decrease
the number of elected officials
who cater to the economic elite.
There are a couple of
problems with that proposal,
though. One, even if the Court
reversed its ruling, billionaires
could still spend limitless
personal funds to promote
a candidate or attack their
opponent. And beyond that,
corporations would likely
just find new, shady ways of
continuing to give at their
current levels. As the Centre
for Research on Globalization
lamented, “Citizens United
merely legalized what was
happening on a hundred
different levels. Massive
accumulation of money will find
its way into politics, one way or
another.”
Frankly and unfortunately,
I tend to agree. Merely
overturning Citizens United
probably wouldn’t do all that
much to make elections easier
for working class-minded
politicians. Maybe a complete
overhaul of our campaign
finance laws would spur
meaningful change, but if that
happens, it’ll be in the distant
future. And if money isn’t leaving
our politics any time soon, we
need to start getting it in the
hands of the right people.
Many would say we’re already
doing that, and that the whole
problem is what I explained
earlier: that these “right people”
rely on the donations of ordinary
citizens, which are trivial
in comparison to corporate
gifts. That’s not exactly true,
though. Major labor unions and
workers’ associations — ones
that generally want to serve
the middle class — exist, and
they have the funds to propel
a candidate to victory over a
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corporate-backed opponent. They
just have to stop giving all that
money to the Democratic Party.
Democrats are usually
seen as the party of the
underrepresented. In recent
history, they’ve governed on
behalf of the have-nots, whether
it’s people facing racial, economic,
or health-related hardships.
Middle-class citizens have long
entrusted Democrats to protect
their interests against the kings
of capitalism, and that’s why
unions and other worker groups
continue funding the party today.
OpenSecrets.org shows that in
the 2013-14 election cycle, the
top-three contributing unions
— the National Education
Association, the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners, and the Service
Employees International Union
— have given almost exclusively
to Democratic Party members.
Some Democrats still strive
to protect the working class. So
do some Republicans. But if our
nation’s current situation is any
indication, it’s clear that too few
politicians from both parties
remain concerned about closing
the income gap. Laborers need
to realize this and demand the
powerful unions they support
start funding more third-party
candidates who are actually
intent on serving their interests.
Much easier said than done,
I know. Political deception,
under-informed opinions, and
the seeming futility of a thirdparty vote all make this much
more difficult than simply
saying, “Union members, wake
up!” Workers will ultimately
have to realize for themselves
that neither Republicans nor
Democrats offer enough of the
candidates they need to close the
widening gap between rich and
poor.
What that’ll take, I’m not
sure. Let’s just hope it isn’t a
second Great Depression.
Reach writer Cameron Seib
at [email protected].
Twitter: @cameronseib
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Bass guitar
An overview
of basic
techniques
It’s all about that bass
By Arunabh Satpathy
Contributing writer
Pick or plectrum:
Photo illustration by Anastasia Stepankowsky The Daily
Getting started
The first things you need are
a bass and an amplifier.
A guitarist friend gave me a
great piece of advice on trying
out instruments. To paraphrase,
he said it doesn’t matter if the
bass is purple with blue polka
dots, you buy it if it feels good.
As a result, I bought my first
bass for $200, and it felt better
than fancy $600 models because
I focused on tone and comfort,
not the look and specific brand.
Cheap new basses can range
between $100 and $300. Used
basses on Craigslist are still an
option, provided you try them
out beforehand.
An individual’s instrument
preference is completely
singular; every bass feels
different, much like different
models of cars.
Among brands, Fender basses
tend to be jacks of all trades,
while Ibanez basses are more
hard rock and metal oriented.
There are, of course, many more
brands, but it’s probably best to
stick to known companies like
Fender, Dean, Cort, Yamaha,
Ibanez, and Washburn for
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deal but the bigger deal was the
defense.”
South Dakota (1-1) returns 12
players, including its two leading
scorers, from a team that finished
19-14 and lost in the first round of the
NCAA tournament to Stanford last
season. The Coyotes enter Thursday’s
game after defeating Drake 83-78
and falling to Kansas 68-60.
“A lot of experience and a lot
of versatility,” head coach Mike
Neighbors said, when asked what the
Coyotes will bring to the table. “They
have a really, really balanced group of
beginning-level basses.
Amplifiers can also be
bought for cheap on Craigslist.
Just make sure they are in
good condition. You can buy
a decent one for as little as
$100. Marshall, Peavey, Fender,
and Gallien-Kruger are big
companies with several cheap
models available. The other
peripherals (picks, strings,
leads, etc.) can be bought new
for under $25 online or through
retailers like Guitar Center.
Seattle is lucky to have a bassonly store downtown called
Bass Northwest, described on
its website as “The Largest Bass
Only Store In The World.”
Learning
scorers, they don’t hit you in one way,
and you can’t relax anywhere. They
have a really good coach that is going
to put them in successful situations.
We are not looking past them and we
scheduled them purposely, knowing
they were an NCAA tournament
team. We wanted to know right off
the bat what an NCAA tournament
team is supposed to look like.”
The Huskies will finish the
weekend with a matchup against
Yale at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Alaska
Airlines Arena.
Reach reporter Erik Erickson
at [email protected].
Twitter: @Erik_Erickson
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However, if you’re interested in
a more serious understanding of
the instrument with the theoretical
basis that jazz or classical requires,
lessons in music theory are
absolutely essential.
That said, any knowledge of
theory is hugely beneficial in any
capacity, whether you are playing
basic rock grooves or complex jazz,
and getting a dedicated teacher will
be helpful.
Inspiration
Personally, Flea from the
Red Hot Chili Peppers and
Victor Wooten have influenced
me the most musically and
philosophically. But here are
some songs to check out posthaste that will get you pumped
up about playing bass. These
particular songs show how
some people have been pushing
the envelope on this amazing
instrument. “Hysteria” by Muse,
“If You Have to Ask” by the Red
Hot Chili Peppers, “The Pot” by
Tool, “Tears in Heaven” by Jeff
Berlin, “Come Together” by The
Beatles, “Pow” by Graham Central
Station, “Selene” by Michael
Manring, and “Roundabout” by
Yes. Find your inspirations.
While formal instruction is
available, most people who play
rock and metal learn informally
through friends. You can also
pick stuff up by ear, where you try
to guess which note is where on
the instrument. It can be slow in
the beginning, but once you get
your ear in, it’s a valuable skill.
YouTube channels like davemarks,
TalkingBass, and Scott’s Bass
Lessons provide a great place to
start; they offer simple lessons that
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get progressively more complex.
This means you pick the
strings of the bass like
a guitar, using a pick or
plectrum. Bass picks are
usually heavier than guitar
picks to survive against
the heavier strings. This
technique makes the bass
sound much grittier and
more metallic, and can be
used to play very fast in
styles such as metal and
heavy rock.
Slapping:
This style is a staple of
disco and funk music
and attempts to use the
bass like a drum kit.
Generally, the side of your
thumb is used to whack
a string and bounce off
it, while your index and
ring fingers hook under
one or more strings and
pull on them, creating
an extremely sharp,
percussive attack.
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Fun & Game
You may not always recognize
it, but the electric bass is one
of the most important musical
inventions of the past century.
Bass is the difference between
tinny laptop speakers and
the full immersion of noisecanceling headphones. Bass
is what you first hear when
approaching a concert from
afar. Bass is the muscles in
your music.
In case you haven’t noticed,
I love the bass. No, not you,
Meghan Trainor.
For those who believe the
bass is just the slow, younger
brother of the electric guitar:
You’re wrong.
The electric bass was first
invented in Seattle in the 1930s
and popularized by Fender in
1951. It has had such success
that it’s hard to find modern,
recorded music that doesn’t use
the bass. Rock, reggae, samba,
and many other forms of music
use it one way or another.
The bass’ position in music
is often at the intersection of
rhythm and melody. The chordal
and melodic roles are handled by
instruments like the guitar and
voice, while the bass plays the
single, low frequency notes that
keep the pulse.
This is both completely
true and massively limiting to
its scope and capabilities. The
simple, straightforward bass lines
that characterize most popular
music are great on their own and
are amazingly fun to play, but
they aren’t even half the story.
There is a whole world of
arcane chords, fuzzy textures,
and esoteric techniques that
people don’t know about.
Perhaps the best introductory
example that combines all of
the above is Victor Wooten’s
humdinger of an “Amazing
Grace” interpretation, which
can easily be found on YouTube.
A whole world of incredible
playing opens up in this song.
The masters who influenced
Wooten, like Larry Graham,
Jaco Pastorius, and Stanley
Clarke, reveal their secrets in
his rendition.
Fingerstyle:
This involves moving
the index and middle
fingers of your picking
hand (which depends on
your handedness) in a
“running” motion so it
produces a steady pulse.
It’s a descendant of the
fingerstyle playing seen
among jazz musicians
playing the upright bass.
A modern variant uses
the index, middle, and
ring fingers for additional
speed. Fingerstyle
techniques usually have
a rounded sound but are
much more difficult when
it comes to playing fast;
speed has to be developed
over time.
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1. Which play will you
remember most from the
UW’s loss to Arizona?
The one that didn’t actually
happen: Casey Skowron’s
missed field goal that was
nullified by the UW’s timeout.
All of the ones that lost the
Huskies the game.
Deontae Cooper’s fumble.
Instead of running out the
clock, it handed Arizona the
ball. Pretty hard to forget that.
Sidney Jones’ interception on
the goal line. Even though the
UW didn’t win the game in
the end, that play looked like
it would be enough for the
Huskies.
2. What is the biggest
matchup for the UW this
weekend?
It doesn’t get any bigger than
competing for a national title,
so the cross country teams
going for glory at the NCAA
championship meet Saturday
in Terre Haute, Ind., tops the
list.
In classic sports speak: We
treat each game the same.
The women’s soccer team
facing Missouri in the
second round of the NCAA
tournament Friday in Palo
Alto, Calif. A win means a
rematch against Stanford,
which the Huskies would love.
Regardless of whom the
men’s soccer team plays in the
NCAA tournament Sunday,
that game will be massive.
3. Are the recent
struggles of the men’s
soccer team as it enters
the tournament cause
for concern?
Yes. The offensive issues may
be forgotten if Darwin Jones
comes back healthy this
weekend, but the defensive
frailties (12 goals against in
seven games) need to get
fixed.
Darwin Jones’ health is my
concern. You would think that
with a name like Darwin, he
would be able to survive the
long season.
A little bit. It’s always better
to be on the upswing, not
the decline, heading into the
postseason.
While losing a key matchup
against Oregon State this
week is demoralizing, the
Huskies still have a genuine
shot at doing well in the
NCAA tournament.
4. What is your favorite
winter sport and why?
Nothing is better than a day
of skiing to take your mind off
everything else that’s going on.
It’s just you and the mountain.
Gymnastics. As a former
gymnast, this is a completely
unbiased answer, of course.
I love basketball, but I can’t
disregard gymnastics. Despite
getting their hair and makeup
done before every meet,
gymnasts perform some of the
most athletic maneuvers you’ll
see all year in UW sports.
Curling, because you can
actually use a broom for
something other than cleaning
your floor.
Huskies return home after
season-opening loss
By Erik Erickson The Daily
The Washington women’s basketball
team is hoping to move past its seasonopening loss to Oklahoma, and the
Huskies will have to do so against
another NCAA tournament team when
they host the South Dakota Coyotes at 7
p.m. Thursday at Alaska Airlines Arena.
“It’s always fun to play at home in
front of our family and friends and
everybody who comes to support us,”
said junior forward Talia Walton, who
finished with 12 points, all on 3-pointers,
in the opener. “This will be a really
good test again as we bounce back from
Oklahoma. Oklahoma was to see where
we were at, and losing to them hurts, but
we learned from it and we can take what
we learned and apply it to South Dakota.”
The Huskies (0-1) learned last
week they may have one of the most
dynamic scorers in the entire country in
sophomore guard Kelsey Plum. Plum set
a school record by pouring in 45 points
against the Sooners in the 90-80 loss,
breaking the previous record of 43 points
set by Giuliana Mendiola in 2003.
Plum, a Poway, Calif., native, finished
15-of-27 from the field, 3-of-7 from
3-point range, and 12-of-12 from the
free-throw line on the way to her recordsetting performance. But in the end,
the Pac-12’s leading scorer and Player of
the Week wasn’t satisfied with the final
result.
“It doesn’t mean a thing to me,
especially in a loss,” Plum said. “I’m just
kind of disappointed. I feel like we didn’t
give our best showing in that game and
we can do a lot better. We have another
opportunity on Thursday in our home
opener to show what we have and play
real defense.”
The Huskies also learned they need to
clean up their play on the defensive end,
as well as limit turnovers. The Huskies
Andrew Tat The Daily
Sophomore guard Kelsey Plum set a UW
record with 45 points in the season-opening loss to Oklahoma.
went into halftime against Oklahoma
with a 16-point deficit after turning the
ball over 15 times. They finished the
night with 20 turnovers.
And although they want to play fast
and in transition, the Huskies can’t lose
control of the defensive end. The Sooners
shot 51 percent and knocked down
seven 3-pointers in the opener, and they
had four players finish in double digit
scoring.
“We scored 80 points, which is a lot
of points, but they scored 90 points, and
against a good team we can’t let that
happen,” Plum said. “Turnovers are a big
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Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 // 5
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UW students provide personal health care to locals in Nicaragua
Learning to LAUGH: Using art to relieve stress
Anastasia Stepankowsky The Daily
Catherine Mayer founded the LAUGH (Letting Art Unleash Great Happiness) program and is currently collaborating with Dr. Bonnie McGregor
from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to use art as a stress reliever for cancer patients and survivors.
By Lilian Liang
Contributing writer
For a few seconds, the canvas
remains blank. Then a thin line
appears, followed by another,
and slowly, a shape begins to
form. Quiet music rises in the
background and in the distance,
the lull of waves swell to the
surface. Blue paint splashes
across the surface, tinged with
the white churning of sea
foam. A child laughs, a colorful
beach ball appears. In a few
minutes, an invisible hand has
transformed the blank canvas
into an idyllic beach. All from a
TV screen in a patient waiting
room.
The magic behind the
living canvas is a product of
the collaboration between
Dr. Bonnie McGregor and
local artist Catherine Mayer.
McGregor is from the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center and an affiliate associate
professor at the UW Department
of Health Services. Mayer
founded the LAUGH foundation
(Letting Art Unleash Great
Happiness). The two started
their collaboration a couple
of years ago with the goal of
using art as a psychological
intervention for healing.
One of LAUGH’s projects, a
“living canvas” called Ambient
Art, is being displayed in
multiple clinics across the
country. Viewers can watch
Mayer paint a bustling cafe
scene or a quiet country lane and
see the process unfold digitally.
The goal is to reduce anxiety in
patients when they are in the
waiting room. Together, they
are working to use art as a stress
reliever for cancer patients and
survivors.
Joanne Munson has been
battling ovarian cancer for
the past six years. She knows
firsthand how stressful it can be.
“Just hearing the ‘C word’ is
hugely stressful; it shuts your
brain down,” Munson said.
“When you go through the stress
of school and everyday life, it
eventually goes away. You’re
able to come down from it.
With cancer, it’s a very long and
stressful process. We face this
constant background worry.”
McGregor, who is a clinical
health psychologist, studies how
psychological factors, such as
stress, affects humans physically.
At a physiological level, stress
affects humans through two
main pathways: the sympathetic
nervous system, which produces
adrenaline, and the HPA axis
(hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal
axis), which produces the stress
hormone cortisol.
Our immune organs are
connected to these systems so
when we perceive things as being
stressful, it stimulates these two
C ampus pulse
By Cassi Flint Contributing
writer
UW and Fred Hutch
researchers study bandage
contact lenses’ effect on graftversus-host disease symptoms
Researchers from the UW and
the Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center have teamed
up to study a special contact
lens that acts as a bandage
for patients with debilitating
symptoms of graft-versus-host
disease (GVHD).
GVHD is a set of
complications that can occur
when donor cells from a stem
cell or bone marrow transplant
attack the recipient’s body. One
of the most severe forms is
ocular GVHD which causes dry,
gritty-feeling eyes, irritation, and
light sensitivity.
“Graft-versus-host disease
is awful,” Dr. Stephanie Lee, a
bone marrow transplant and
GVHD expert at Fred Hutch,
told Hutch News. “People have
to pull over to put drops in their
eyes because they can’t see while
driving.”
Lee and Tueng T. Shen, a
professor of ophthalmology at
the UW, designed clinical trials
on the bandage contact lenses
and produced positive results.
pathways. It triggers an acute
immune response, making
our bodies more vulnerable to
disease.
In her 10-week stress
management course for cancer
patients, McGregor focuses on
the idea of being present and
living in the moment as a way of
coping with stress. If you think
about everything you have to do
in the quarter right now, your
mind and body will react as if
you have to do it all right now.
By being in the present, you
avoid overburdening yourself.
You are only focusing on what
you have to do in that moment.
“It’s a place of balance and
poise,” McGregor said. “It’s like
a serve in tennis. You are better
able to respond to whatever
comes at you.”
That’s where art comes in:
The researchers believe it can
help patients reach a place where
we can simply be in the present.
“It’s hard to get to that place
[of being in the moment],
especially nowadays when
everybody is multitasking and
everything is flashing a mile a
minute,” Mayer said. “I think art
is a great way to trick your brain
into getting to that state without
even realizing it. It slows you
down.”
Although they are still
in the early stages of their
collaboration, some of their
projects have already provided
successful results.
Mayer’s Ambient Art has been
tested in a cardiac clinic and
a dental clinic. In both cases,
it had the greatest impact on
reducing anxiety over aquariums
or other waiting room displays.
Ambient Art is successful
because it provides a multisensory distraction for patients.
Munson, who visited Mayer’s
studio earlier in March with five
other women from McGregor’s
10-week stress management
course, also found art to be a
pleasant distraction.
“My experience with what
Catherine Mayer was doing was
just play,” Munson said. “It was
fun. There was a lot of laughter.
There was a lot of color and
movement. It was such a relief
to put aside the dark stuff for a
little bit.”
McGregor and Mayer are
currently creating an app
that will deliver the healing
properties of art to those who
can use them. Whether it’s
painting or writing a novel, art
can be an enjoyable distraction
from the noisy din of daily life.
“There’s so much that art can
do to help,” Mayer said. “It’s not
so complicated or expensive.
It’s not medication that has
side effects. It can just happen;
anybody can relate to it. And
that’s my goal: to show how art
really does make a difference.”
Reach contributing writer
Lilian Liang
at [email protected].
Twitter: @liang_lilian
EXCERPT
While the contact lenses do
not reverse the condition, they
offer significant relief. Of the 19
GVHD patients who wore the
contact lenses for four months
and used antibiotic eye drops,
54 percent reported a significant
decrease in their symptoms.
GVHD affects between 50
and 75 percent of stem cell or
bone marrow transfer recipients,
and of the total cases of GVHD,
half are ocular, Lee said.
“It’s been miraculous for me,”
Julie Polon, a participant in the
clinical trials and avid supporter
of the bandage contact lens, told
Hutch News. “If it works for
anybody else like it did for me,
they’ll be so happy.”
Iodide may be key to reducing
post-heart attack heart
damage
An innovative study from
scientists at Fred Hutch
proposed a solution to the heart
damage caused by reperfusion, a
secondary effect of a heart attack
where blood is reintroduced to
the heart after the heart attackinducing blockage has been
removed. This rush of blood can
severely damage the heart and
can be life-threatening.
The results of the study,
published earlier this month
in the PLOS ONE journal,
suggests that a simple solution
to reperfusion injury may be
iodide, a form of the chemical
element iodine, commonly found
in table salt.
Researchers found iodide
reduced heart damage by up
to 75 percent when delivered
intravenously to mice induced
with heart attacks.
Dr. Graham Nichol, a UW
professor of medicine, told Hutch
News it is difficult to estimate
the extent of reperfusion injury
in humans, but in animal models
may constitute up to a third of
heart damage.
Heart disease is the
leading cause of death among
Americans: 720,000 people
suffer heart attacks and 600,000
die of heart disease annually,
according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
If the iodide study results
are replicable in human trials, it
could transform medicine and
the leading cause of death in the
Western world, Dr. Mark Roth,
the Fred Hutch cell biologist
whose lab pioneered the study,
told Hutch News.
Reach contributing writer
Cassi Flint
at [email protected].
Twitter: @cassiflint
Washington wolves: After 80year absence, the packs are back
By Jessica Knoth The Daily
A wolf howl is the call of the
wild. But for decades, that howl
was muted.
Grey wolves once covered
North America, but ruthless
hunting nearly drove them
to extinction in the United
States by the 1930s. However,
strong conservation efforts
brought them back from critical
endangerment. UW researchers
have been monitoring the
state wolf population and are
currently in the process of
analyzing the ecological and
economical impacts these
animals have. While wolf packs
have been shown to drastically
improve ecosystems, like in
Yellowstone National Park,
their effect on Washington
State remains to be seen.
“You can’t have a one-sizefits-all approach,” said Aaron
Wirsing, head researcher of
the project. “We want to see if
these documented effects in
parks also occur in managed
landscapes.”
Reach reporter Jessica Knoth
at [email protected].
Twitter: @jessica knoth
Check out the rest of this story
online at dailyuw.com
By Karina Mazhukhina
The Daily
The slogan, “Students
empowering communities,
communities empowering
students,” is a reminder of the
impact a handful of individuals
from the UW School of
Pharmacy made upon arriving to
Nicaragua.
This past June, 43 UW School
of Pharmacy students and
physicians from the Seattle area
teamed up with Global Brigades,
the largest student-led global
health organization in the world,
to deliver health care services to
indigent people in a rural village
in Nicaragua.
“There are very few health
care providers, and if a local
physician is 60 to 100 miles
away, it means that most people
are not accessing health care,”
said Don Downing, clinical
professor of pharmacy and one
of the physicians and advisers for
the trip.
To change that, the UW
group, as part of the Global
Pharmacy Brigade, set up a
clinic in an abandoned church
in Nicaragua. Inside the clinic,
three different stations were
created to serve the patients’
medical needs: intake, triage,
and pharmacy. The patients
would first make their way to
the intake station to have their
height, weight, and glucose levels
recorded. They then moved to
the triage station to meet with
physicians before finally ending
up at the pharmacy to pick up
their prescriptions.
In the process, UW students
encountered a superstition
prevalent in the community.
“Patients only drank hot
drinks,” said Jordan Han, a
member of the Global Pharmacy
Brigade.
Out of fear of getting sick,
the locals hesitated to drink
cold beverages, he explained.
They emphasized that boiling
water kills bacteria and protects
them from getting sick. Since
Nicaragua has poor sanitation,
they wouldn’t take any chances
drinking something they saw
as having the potential to cause
sickness.
“It was definitely difficult
to change the way a person
thought, especially if they were
brought up all their lives with
these notions,” Han said. “We
tried to work around those
beliefs and recommended the
patients to stay hydrated.”
Making the trip a reality
Prior to beginning their journey,
the students held fundraising
events and purchased
prescriptions and over-thecounter medications that were
disbursed to locals.
“We received a lot of help and
contribution from all around
Seattle,” Han said. “Planning
a big venture like this one
takes a lot of time, effort, and
coordination. It was really a big
learning experience for my staff
and I.”
For Han, the chance to
return to Central America was
deeply personal. Having lived
in Paraguay for three years as a
child, he was ready to return to
Central America and empower
the local villagers, as well as
learn from them in the process.
“I just can’t find the words
to describe how much it meant
to me,” he said. “It was a very
emotional journey for me and
a dream come true. I feel like
we saw a lot of patients and did
as much as we could for them,
but we were still afraid that we
wouldn’t be able to do enough.”
In total, the students tended
to 895 patients in just three
clinical days. Most were suffering
from skin and intestinal
infections and general aches and
pains.
“In a country like Nicaragua,
there aren’t any luxury resources
capable of helping patients get to
our clinic,” Han said.
He recalled hearing about a
disabled patient who traveled
with his mother three hours by
bus to receive treatment from
the UW team. For Han, this
reiterated just how big of an
impact he and other students
were able to make in a short
amount of time.
Lesson in hope
The few people that needed
urgent care were referred to local
relief agencies stationed in the
village and taken to Managua,
the country’s capital. Patients
who were diagnosed with
chronic illnesses, like high blood
pressure and diabetes, began
treatment, even if the UW group
could not monitor their progress.
The students kept the patients’
records on a thumb drive, so the
next Global Brigade team could
pick up where they left off.
“For anyone who is interested
Seeing through the smoke
By Maria Giakoumatos
Contributing writer
As she awoke from the
anesthesia, Patricia Atwater’s
doctor broke the news: She
needed to stop smoking
cigarettes as soon as possible.
What started out as heavy
smoking as a young teen soon
grew to asthma, respiratory
infections, chronic bronchitis,
and eventually the chronic
condition Zuska’s disease, which
caused multiple breast infections
and led to numerous surgeries in
her early 20s.
Despite her accumulation
of smoking-related illnesses,
Atwater continued to smoke.
Even after many attempts to quit,
her addiction powered through
the hacking and coughing.
“It’s absolutely frightening
to not be able to breathe,” said
Atwater, the UW’s Tobacco
Studies program coordinator.
Her desire to have a child
motivated her to quit smoking in
her mid-20s. Though she is now
free from tobacco’s firm grasp,
she has undergone surgery,
experiences occasional asthma,
and was unable to breastfeed her
now 1-year-old daughter.
Atwater is not alone in coping
with the effects of smokingrelated illnesses.
In a recently published
study, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration’s Center for
Tobacco Products found more
than 14 million U.S. adults with
at least one smoking-related
illness in 2009. The figure is
shockingly high when compared
to past analytical results.
Dr. Jonathan Bricker, an
affiliate associate professor
for the UW’s adult clinical
psychology faculty and
associate member of the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center, specializes in smoking
prevention and cessation. He
believes these recent figures will
make an impact on government
policies and funding of scientific
research in tobacco abuse
prevention and cessation.
Even with the rise of sin taxes
and smoking bans, tobacco
continues to be a leading cause
of preventable diseases.
“Nicotine is one of the most
addictive substances,” Bricker
said. “More addictive than
alcohol and is at least as hard to
stop as heroin.”
The UW’s Tobacco Cessation
Program works to help students,
employees, and patients of Hall
Health.
“When there’s a high degree
of tobacco use among one’s peer
group, it normalizes it in a way
that presents lots of different
challenges,” said Colin Maloney,
the tobacco cessation program
coordinator. “There’s good
evidence that people are more
likely to start using tobacco if
their peer group uses tobacco,
less likely to make quit attempts,
and that they’re more likely to
experience difficulty quitting if
they make attempts.”
Maloney makes it a priority to
reach out to groups with higherthan-average use of tobacco.
These groups often include racial
or ethnic groups, the LGBTQIA+
community, and people with
mental illness. Atwater believes
her queer identity played an
essential role in her tobacco
addiction.
“As a marginalized group,
the LGBTQA community faces
oppression,” Atwater said. “The
tobacco industry exploits that by
supporting them.”
According to a study
published in The New England
Journal of Medicine, people
living with mental illness smoke
in volunteering with Global
Brigades or just volunteering
in general, I would tell you
what my study abroad guidance
counselor told me at university,
‘just get on the bloody plane,’”
said Max Nash-Howe, chapter
adviser for Global Pharmacy
Brigades. “One of the things I
hear a lot is that it’s a humbling
experience and puts things into
perspective.”
And for the UW students and
the locals, it did just that.
“It really is a hope lesson,”
Downing said of the trip.
Downing describes the picture
that accurately portrayed the
impact students were hoping
to make prior to arriving in
Nicaragua.
“Three of our student women
were inside of the pharmacy
with the light coming from the
window,” he said. “The window
had no glass in it, just an open
gated window and four of
the five local girls looking in
and watching them and their
interactions. They spent a lot of
time talking about whether it
was okay for women to become
doctors. They wanted to know
from our students how they
could become one.”
Downing added, “It gave
them hope.”
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Karina Mazhukhina
at [email protected].
Twitter: @karina9m
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The effects of tobacco-related illness
Logan McColl The Daily
Patricia Atwater, UW Tobacco Studies Program Coordinator, saw firsthand the many effects of smoking
when she was unable to breastfeed her daughter Vera.
at two to three times the rate
of the general population. They
also die from their tobacco use
younger and at a higher rate.
Dr. Abigail Halperin, director
of the UW’s Tobacco Studies
Program, said this is largely
due to myths claiming smoking
helps control psychological
symptoms and its patients who
don’t want to quit. But according
to Halperin, quite the opposite
is true.
“It’s a tragedy that there isn’t
greater emphasis on treatment
for smokers with or without
mental illness,” Halperin said.
“These people will get better and
survive. … Quitting at any time
brings enormous health benefits
and extends the quantity and
quality of life.”
Halperin said tobacco
dependence is a chronic disease
itself and should be treated like
the diseases it causes. Effective
treatment is available, and
patients who receive counseling
and medication have up to 10
times greater chance of success
than those who try to quit on
their own, according to the
Center for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
As soon as patients quit
smoking, their risk for heart
attacks and other diseases
greatly decreases, and can go
back to the risk of a non-smoker
after five to 10 years, according
to the CDC. Healing from
diseases, surgeries, and injuries
also improves after a patient
quits smoking.
Bricker, along with other
researchers from Fred
Hutchinson and the Group
Health Research Institution,
are reaching out to adults
who smoke with their online
program WebQuit.org. He will
be speaking on these topics at an
upcoming TED talk on Nov. 22
at Seattle’s McCaw Hall.
Though the process of
quitting may be tough, success
is a possibility. Atwater used
many methods to quit smoking,
including nicotine patches and
the avoidance of situations
involving cigarettes, coffee, and
alcohol.
“You can quit and get help for
free,” Atwater said. “Every time
you try, you get closer. It is hard,
but possible.”
Reach contributing writer
Maria Giakoumatos
at [email protected].
Twitter: @mgiakoumatos