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Since well before last November’s election the term “socialist” has been tossed around American politics like a schoolyard (or Cold War) epithet.

KOMO reports that UW is testing out the use of the Amazon Kindle in their classrooms this fall. The University's Computer Science & Engineering Department will give every CS&E graduate student a Kindle DX, which will replace textbooks and research papers in their first-year courses. Kindle-edition textbooks and other materials will also be given to them free of charge. Amazon's sending Kindle DXs to six other universities throughout the United States. UW will be the first to get the book-killers.

Isn't the first day of college supposed to be about getting lost on campus and desperately searching for a classroom you should have been in twenty minutes prior? Nowadays, UW freshman have it way too easy with their new fancy-schmancy University of Washington iPhone app (and a mobile phone site no less!) that was launched yesterday. TechFlash reports that not only does the mobile mommy app provide a campus map, it also offers sports scores, a course catalog, school spirit-inspired wallpaper, and personalized class schedules. We can only assume herein marks the end of the dorm room dry erase board era.

UW was awarded $126 million from the National Science Foundation to build an ocean observatory to study the Pacific Ocean. The $126M is part of $385 million being parcelled out by the NSF over 5½ years as part of its ocean observatories initiative, which is intended to build an underwater network to study climate variability and issues in circulation and acidification. UW will get $35 million in 2010 to install about 500 miles of cabling and sensor nodes on the sea floor, which will give researchers real-time access to oceanic data. They'll have their hands full.

All other universities should be green with envy, as University of Washington was named the greenest university in the U.S.

SDOT has issued a traffic advisory that lasts from noon to 6 p.m. and also announced that Montlake Boulevard will be closed from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m., so getting from say eight-tenths of the city to the University Village to buy flip flops and $8,000 patio ensembles will basically end for the day. That’s okay. Those attending the graduation will take up all the Village parking spaces anyway.

Join UW athletic director Scott Woodward, crew coach Michael Callahan, and the studs of Husky crew as they celebrate the Huskies' win at last weekends IRA Championship. Show up at Conibear Shellhouse at 6 p.m. for the free event--complimentary food and drink provided. Our bet: Someone will be thrown in Lake Washington.

Over the weekend, University of Washington's varsity eight men's crew beat long-time rival California and the hoity-toity East coast crews in the last 100m to win the 107th Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships. The final strokes proved powerful enough, as the UW bow ball passed the finish line a second faster to win the race. Final race times: UW 5:50.91, Cal. 5:51.80, Stanford 5:56.45, Brown 5:58.73, Harvard 6:01.64 and Boston Univ. 6:02.68.

• A part of University of Washington football history was lost over the weekend, when former UW coach Jim Owens (yes, he's the statue in front of Husky Stadium) died at the age of 82.
• Sporting many shades of pink, thousands were out to "Race for the Cure." Grand Marshaling the quest was SPD Lt. Robin Clark.
• Tiny dancer Louise Nadeau took the ballet stage for the last time on Sunday, as she finished her 19-year career at the Pacific Northwest Ballet with a program that naturally concluded with Swan Lake.

Highlights above of Washington's 3-2 victory in game two of the Women's College World Series, giving them a sweep of Florida for the championship. It's the first national championship for Husky softball, the fifth overall NCAA title for the school.

The University of Washington women's softballers are one win away from a national championship after spanking Florida tonight. Sorry to compare Husky softball to Mariner baseball, but this game reminded us so much of the Mariners' 1995 one-game divisional playoff win, we have to mention it.

The University of Washington softball team, led by known Canadian Danielle Lawrie, will face the perennial NCAA Champions in everything University of Florida Gators in a best two-out-of-three series starting tonight. Yesterday the Huskies beat Georgia on the second try, and the Gators beat Alabama on a walk off grand slam, holy crap.

At about 2:12 this afternoon, there was a major Haz-Mat response to the UW's Hall Health Center building, at 4060 East Stevens Way. A tipster tells us: "A bystander said the people in the waiting room started coughing from something in the air." It looks like a half-dozen medic units rolled, in addition to something called DECON1. The Seattle 911 blog says "a substance spilled in the basement." We'll update as we hear more details. [UPDATE: the UW now says the Haz-Mat team couldn't find anything Haz-Matty to report, after poking around for a bit. No one knows what might have set off the breathing problems.]

Imagine a New Orleanian's reaction should Michael Brown make the National Emergency Managers Hall of Fame, and you'll get halfway to capturing what Husky fans will feel upon hearing that former UW athletic director Barbara Hedges will be inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Athletic Directors' Hall of Fame. Hedges' repeated bumbling drove the once-proud football program into the ground; she's up there with Clay Bennett and the Super Bowl XL refs in the Seattle sports villain pantheon.

With a steady stream of information and misinformation about the current outbreak of swine flu swirling about, the UW Department of Global Health has put together a panel discussion, "Update on the Evolving Swine Influenza Outbreak," set for Monday, May 4, at 5:30 p.m. in Hogness (no kidding) Auditorium in the Health Sciences Building. Directions can be found here.

EARTH DAY: The UW's Green Coalition invites you out to the campus today for some live music, a gallery of environmental art, a zero-emissions electric car show, a social on the Lake Washington waterfront, and a presentation about sustainable business practices from Jerry Heinlen of Yakima Products to be followed by the movie The Eleventh Hour. Don't worry--there's more earthy doings on tap if you can't make that.

"Before you slip into unconciousness, I'd like to have another kiss." by The Fruit Tht Ate Itself-, from the Seattlest Flickr Pool.

"The Reading Room" by Weston Hutchins (westonh) , from the Seattlest Flickr pool

Seattlest's new roving correspondent Roger van Oosten just sent us this report from the Husky sidelines.

So we've been reading in the Seattle Times that Governor Gregoire thinks a 28 percent tuition hike over two years is firm but fair, the editorial board seconds the motion (Ryan Blethen is a Cougar, we note in passing), and the UW's Mark Emmert praises this kind of "flexibility" on tuition because the UW is currently "one of the best bargains in the country." The actual tuition price would shoot up between $1,300-$2,000 over two years, though there's the usual promise of financial aid to defray, etc. We want to point out two things: 1) student loans don't make things less expensive, they make them more expensive, and 2) it's awesome that the primary stakeholders here, the students, are being circumvented in this discussion.

The Husky NCAA Tournament train rolls on to round two. Those who picked Mississippi State as their upset special have literally had their brackets thrown to the wolves.

This is fascinating, and thanks to the Big Blog's Scott Sunde for bringing it up: UW researchers have discovered that people with autism have a more intense response to looking at faces than the average Joe. The more social impairment, in fact, the more intense the response to someone's face.

It’s the best thirty-six hours of the year, and for Husky fans the two most stressful will start around 2 p.m. when #4-seed UDub faces #13-seed Mississippi State down in Portland.

After seeing that the Huskies would be playing Mississippi State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, our first thought was, Surprise! Who knew Mississippi was still a state? We just assumed that after the Civil War and Trent Lott, America would just kind of let the lease run out.

Our Staples Center Bureau chief, Ryan, was not amused with the Huskies 75-65 loss to Arizona State on Friday night.

Following the Huskies win on Saturday, we declared that all we wanted next was an injury free Pac 10 Tournament.

Here with a preview of tonight's Washington vs. Seattle University game is Seattlest's SU Winter Sports Correspondent Cody Goins.

Earlier in the week Seattlest/Sports NW Seth had some actual analysis regarding tonight’s big Husky game against Arizona State.