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With tennis in the blood, brothers open dream courts

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Roger Mark, a tennis coach, and Byron, his younger brother and business partner, started playing tennis when they were 9 years old. At the time, tennis was considered a rich white man’s sport and Asian American players playing at private clubs was unheard of. However, Roger and Byron Mark recently gained ownership of their own tennis club.

Editorial: Remembering a trailblazer: Dr. Sam Kelly

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On July 6, Dr. Sam Kelly passed away from congestive heart failure. Kelly was perhaps most known for being the founder and first vice president of the Office of Minority Affairs of the University of Washington in 1970.

UW Women’s Center face cuts … no one is happy

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The University of Washington is feeling the economic crunch. What it’s doing to cope is not garnering many fans …

UW’s Southeast Asian department takes learning outside of the classroom … and puts it on the stage

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The final exam for the Re-Writing Difficult Dialogues class at the University of Washington is not going to be a multiple-choice test. Rather, the culmination of this Southeast Asian (SEA) studies course is a public performance of a play researched, written, and performed by the students …

Custodians angry over shift changes

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By Jane Mee Wong Northwest Asian Weekly Swing-shift custodians at the University of Washington are coming together across ethnic lines and language barriers to keep their work shifts. The predominantly […]