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Vote Yes for WashPIRG
- Vote Yes for WashPIRG (new window)
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2010-05-19 |
| WashPIRG wins: We helped get $36 billion more funding for Pell Grants for the most financially needy college students by swinging needed votes from Washington legislators. By voting yes, you allow WashPIRG to continue making college and textbooks more affordable, addressing poverty issues, and protecting the environment, consumers, and democracy. | |
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WashPIRG CSF Campaign and Intern Win Husky Green Awards
- University Week (new window)
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2010-04-22 |
| WashPIRG's campaign to build the largest Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) in the country and WashPIRG Intern Alan Wright both won Husky Green Awards for their work building campus support. The fund would set aside $650,000 to fund projects that increase campus sustainability, prioritize student leadership and involvement and engage the campus community in creating an environmentally responsible campus. Volunteers and Interns on the CSF campaign collected over 5,500 signatures of support, 53 endorsements from student organizations during winter quarter and generated over 30 media hits. The ASUW Senate, ASUW Board, and the Graduate & Professional Student Senate have all passed resolutions supporting the creation of the CSF. The Services and Activities Fee Committee will make a final decision on funding in May. | |
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Revamping of Student Loans Approved by Senate
- The New York Times (new window)
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2010-03-25 |
| Ending one of the fiercest lobbying fights in Washington, the Senate voted Thursday to force private commercial banks out of the federal student loan market, cutting off billions of dollars in profits in a sweeping restructuring of financial-aid programs and redirecting most of the money to new education initiatives. | |
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Students take swing at lending company
- The Daily UW (new window)
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2010-03-12 |
| With a baseball bat and a cardboard box, disgruntled students were able to express their frustrations with Sallie Mae, a student lending company, outside Odegaard library yesterday. | |
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Credit Card Act goes into effect, students discuss implications
- The Daily UW (new window)
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2010-02-23 |
| Junior Reid Mortimer has owned a credit card since his freshman year at the UW. Now, midway through his junior year, he hopes to use the points he’s accumulated to travel abroad after graduation. | |
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New rules about your credit cards now in effect
- King 5 (new window)
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2010-02-22 |
| New credit card rules go into effect today -- it's the second of three phases of changes. College students will no longer be preyed upon by the credit card companies, which now can't solicit students to sign up on campus. | |
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Sweeping Credit Card Reform Takes Effect
- KIRO 7 Eyewitness News (new window)
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2010-02-22 |
| When you open your next credit card bill, you could get a big surprise.Under new regulations that went into effect Monday, your bank will have to tell you how long it'll take to pay off the bill if you only make the minimum payment.The new regulations are designed to cut credit card holders a bit of slack. | |
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Credit Cards and Campuses
- Inside Higher ED (new window)
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2010-02-19 |
| A new era in the vexed relationships between colleges, credit cards and students begins Monday, when most of the new provisions of the Credit CARD Act of 2009 take effect. The law provides new protections to students and imposes new requirements on colleges and alumni groups that offer credit cards. | |
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Historic New Credit Card Rules Ban Tricks and Traps, But More Protection Needed
- YubaNet.com (new window)
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2010-02-19 |
| The new bans on hair-trigger interest rate increases and other unfair credit card practices that go into effect on Monday, Feb. 22, will be good for consumers, but more protection from the banks and credit card companies is needed, a leading consumer group said this week. | |
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LTE response to Court decisions drowning out voices of people
- The Daily UW (new window)
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2010-02-19 |
| Giving corporations unlimited spending power based on the faulty idea that corporations are people and money is free speech has disastrous implications for the fate of our democracy. As vice chair of WashPIRG, I am campaigning on issues that matter to me and my fellow students on a regular basis. | |
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New Rules Place Barriers Between Students, Credit Card Issuers
- US News (new window)
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2010-02-19 |
| Parents expect their children to return home from their first year of college with a better grasp of the world and a perhaps a few new friends. Some, however, are arriving home with an unexpected burden—credit card debt. | |
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New Credit Card Rules Will Ban Tricks And Traps, But Advocates Say That Consumers Need More Protection
- On the Hill (new window)
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2010-02-19 |
| The new bans on hair-trigger interest rate increases and other unfair credit card practices that go into effect on Monday, will be good for consumers, but more protection from the banks and credit card companies is needed, according to a leading consumer group. | |
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Students send climate change Valentines to senators
- The Daily UW (new window)
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2010-02-11 |
| Were Washington’s senators on your Valentine’s Day list this year? University of Washington WashPIRG members hope so. On Feb. 9 and 10, WashPIRG volunteers set up a card-making shop under the Suzzalo-Allen Sky Bridge complete with valentines, glitter, glue, markers, and candy hearts to munch on. | |
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UW Aims to Be National Leader in Sustainability
- National Student News Service (new window)
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2010-02-09 |
| Students at the University of Washington recently proposed a Campus Sustainability Fund to improve the school’s environmental sustainability and to encourage student leadership in "green" projects on its campus. If approved, it will be the largest university sustainability fund in the nation. | |
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Environmental Lobby Day 2010
- Cooper Point Journal (new window)
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2010-02-01 |
| WashPIRG intern Cecilia Carey shares her impressions of Environmental Lobby Day 2010. Cecilia and 14 classmates from The Evergreen State College joined over 400 citizens from across the state to learn how to directly lobby their representatives in Olympia. | |
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New smart-grid initiative puts UW on sustainability map
- The Daily UW (new window)
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2009-11-30 |
| Energy conservation seems to be a new obsession among today’s students — and with good reason. With more and more evidence supporting global warming, the need to reduce carbon emissions and increase energy efficiency is becoming an ever more important aspect of life, especially in a community as large and diverse as the University of Washington. While we already see many initiatives on campus to make the community more sustainable and environmentally friendly — composting stations, for example — projects like WashPIRG’s recent light-bulb swap help the campus to become more energy efficient and reduce its carbon footprint. | |
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A bright idea
- The Daily UW (new window)
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2009-11-25 |
| WashPIRG hosted a CFL light-bulb swap with the help of more than 30 eco-conscious volunteers yesterday, marking the culmination of a project that began earlier this year. | |
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E-books could save students money
- The Daily UW (new window)
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2009-11-03 |
| The HUB lawn was temporarily converted into a graveyard Tuesday last week. Cardboard tombstones lined the pathway, reading “R.I.P. off” and picturing the old editions of textbooks past. The display exhibited the rising cost of books and the often-inflated rate at which publishers print new editions. | |
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Open textbooks!
- Cooper Point Journal (new window)
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2009-11-02 |
| So do you think you are paying too much for your textbooks? We think so too! There is a solution: open textbooks! | |
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UW courses need e-textbook option
- The Daily UW (new window)
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2009-10-26 |
| Buying textbooks is one of those academic chores every student dreads. Expensive and inconvenient to carry, textbooks can add to the stress of an already overwhelmed Husky. | |
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UW’s climate plan signed into effect
- The Daily of UofW (new window)
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2009-09-30 |
| The university’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) was finalized and signed by President Emmert earlier this month, meeting it’s Sept. 15 deadline. The Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee (ESAC) called for student feedback on a working draft of the plan last spring. | |
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UW’s climate plan signed into effect
- The Daily UW (new window)
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2009-09-30 |
| The university’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) was finalized and signed by President Emmert earlier this month, meeting it’s Sept. 15 deadline. The plan outlines several steps the school needs to take in order fulfill its obligations as a signatory of the American College & University President’s Climate Commitment, an effort to address global warming. | |
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Climate Action Plan draft welcomes student feedback
- The Daily of the University of Washington (new window)
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2009-05-28 |
| On May 19, UW students received an e-mail from Dean Sandra Archibald, chair of the Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee, soliciting feedback on the university’s Climate Action Plan, which is being revised and finalized. Students were invited to visit the Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability Web site to read through the 53-page draft and offer their opinions. | |
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WashPIRG movin’ on up
- Cooper Point Journal (new window)
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2009-03-12 |
| WashPIRG is working to create positive change in the community and establish itself on campus. | |
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Class raises awareness about U-district homeless
- The UW Daily (new window)
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2009-03-12 |
| In an urban area like the U-District, homelessness is something many people see, but often have a hard time relating to. | |
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Sock drive brings warmth and awareness to Seattle homeless
- The Daily UW (new window)
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2008-11-14 |
| WashPIRG’s Hunger and Homeless campaign has decided to hold a sock drive competition to benefit Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission. The drive will continue through Friday, Nov. 21, and is coinciding with National Hunger Awareness week, which runs from Nov. 16 through the end of the drive. | |
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Presidential election breaking party lines, students say
- The Daily UW (new window)
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2008-11-03 |
| With the election only a day away, the political excitement on campus has many people wondering how Washington students will vote this year, and whether or not they will live up to the expectation that more students will vote than have in the past. | |
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Students share reactions to final presidential debate
- The Daily UW (new window)
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2008-10-16 |
| UW students, faculty and staff gathered in Odegaard Undergraduate Library last night to view the final presidential debate. The debate watch was the last in a series sponsored by the UW Libraries and the Washington Public Interest Research Group (WashPIRG). | |
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BioTour encourages new thinking on fuel
- The Daily of the University of Washington (new window)
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2008-03-12 |
| The UW chapter of the Washington Student Public Interest Research Group (WashPIRG) booked the bus for a tour stop and invited the student band Old Technology to play a concert on top of it. Though WashPIRG members were a majority of the audience, the curiosity turned more than a few heads and attracted Tukwila School District students who were touring the campus. | |
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WashPIRG chapters fight for energy efficient bills
- The Daily of the University of Washington (new window)
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2008-02-25 |
| Students from WashPIRG chapters around the state, including the UW and Evergreen State College, met on the front steps of the capitol building in Olympia to hold a press conference with state legislators on Friday. | |
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