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Visions of Green

A Personal Loss Drove Jim Ellis Toward a Life of Civic Activism that Made Our Lakes Clean, Our Buses Keen and Our Landscape More Pristine. By Jon Marmor

The Best of 1999
The UW Recognizes this Year's Top Teachers, Public Servants, Staff and Volunteers with 18 Honorees and One Organization Cited.

News

• Breaking news about the UW Timely updates on what's happening at the "U"
• UW 'Turns Corner" on Faculty Salaries The1999-2001 state budget gives the UW some flexibility to stop a faculty exodus due to pay levels.
• Surprising Drop in Freshman Applications Some official blame I-200 for the decline.
• Hec Ed Closes for Renovation UW starts a $39 million project to be completed by November, 2000.
• Public Affairs School Named for Evans Former governor and senator honored

• Coaches Cited for Recruting Violations Football Coach Rick Neuheisel and five assistants face UW penalties.
• 26 Graduate, Professional programs in Top 10.
• Commencement 1999 Civil Rights activitst Julian Bond is speaker in Husky Stadium cermony
• Three Generations of Giving Members of the Alvord family give $3 million for two endowed chairs.
• Research Brief: Making Our Bodies Believe Artifical is Real
• Milestones Deans, Chancellor Take Top Leadership Posts

Departments

• Prelude
• From the President
• Letters to the Editor
• Our Back Pages

Extras

• African Statesman Alex Ekwueme, '55, '56, '57, helps Nigeria move toward democracy.
• Not an 'Ex-Jock' Montreal Expos General Manager Jim Beattie, '89, runs baseball's porrest franchise.
• Tragedy in Kenya Aid Worker Deena Umbarger, '90, murdered at border with Somolia.
• On and Off the Ave: Pulitzer for Horsey, 200 Year Old Holly, UW is a Hit on the Web, White Magic

• UWAA Seeks WWII Names With the campus World War II Memorial dedicated May 31st, the alumni association is still seeking names of UW students, faculty, staff and alumni who died in that conflict.
• PEMCO, UWAA Forge 10-Year Paretnership Lecture series a sign of success.
• 70th Birthday for "Brown Bag Girls" Phrateres alumnae still meet, offer scholarships.
• Dawg Improvement: Karn Hosts LA Scholarship Event