uw history
June 1, 2000
King for a day
Martin Luther King Jr.'s lunchtime speech at the old Meany Hall on Nov. 9, 1961, came during the legendary civil rights leader's only visit to the Pacific Northwest.
March 1, 2000
So long, Sand Point
Starting this summer, the "temporary" housing left over from World War II will see the wrecking crew.
December 1, 1999
100 memorable alumni
Our unofficial listing of the most interesting 100 alumni of the 20th century.
September 1, 1999
Goal postmortem
Today the UW has a new set of stronger goal posts that cannot be torn down.
June 1, 1999
Standing up for bricks
A student protest in the 1960s prevented the UW administration from tearing up the Quad's brick pathways and replacing them with blacktop.
March 1, 1999
Fore fathers
The UW golf course was doomed the day the University decided to build the School of Medicine.
September 1, 1998
Columns’ origins
Student Marshall W. Gill, son of Seattle Mayor Hiram Gill, came up with the idea of incorporating the columns into a Sylvan Theater.
June 1, 1998
Columns turns 90
A comprehensive look at the history of the UW through the eyes of its alumni magazine as we celebrate 90 years of publishing.
Past, present, future
Somehow, despite budget cuts, student riots, two world wars, the Great Depression and the Internet, this magazine has survived for 90 years.
March 1, 1998
Major malfunction
The 1987 collapse of the newly built addition to Husky Stadium may have drawn more attention, but one of the most painful crashes at the UW that year happened in Loew Hall.
Heated reactions
I expected some reaction from our readers. I was not prepared for an onslaught of letters, faxes, e-mails, phone calls and even personal visits as a result of running a piece on the firing of three UW professors during the Red Scare.
December 1, 1997
Seeing red
Fifty years ago, a hearing on “un-American” activities tore the UW campus apart, setting a precedent for faculty firings across academe.
Radical cheek
It was 1974. On college campuses across the nation—including the UW—a new fad delivered a different kind of naked truth. It was called streaking.
September 1, 1997
UW’s first mascot was a hunk of wood that got around
For three years (1920-23), the UW's mascot was Sunny Boy, a 3 1/2-foot, gold-painted wooden statue.
June 1, 1997
The day the UW campus went ‘Bully’ for Roosevelt
“Teddy" Roosevelt had been out of office for two years, yet his popularity was never higher when he visited the UW in 1911.
Gift will carry Padelford family’s legacy into the next century
Philip Padelford made a million-dollar gift that will carry his family's legacy into the next century and beyond.
March 1, 1997
Monkey business: The story of the UW Medicinal Herb Garden and its guardians
In the 66 years they have rested atop twin 12-foot poles at the entrance of the UW's Medicinal Herb Garden, two guardian monkeys have repeatedly been sitting ducks to vandals.
December 1, 1996
Photographer captured Husky Stadium collapse for posterity
John Stamets captured eight shots as the Husky Stadium addition fell upon itself.