New Ana Mari Cauce Email Regarding Omicron: "This Feels a Little Familiar, Doesn't It?"

January 12, 2022 by J.B.

Dear UW Community,

It’s back. Mmm, that sinking feeling in your stomach, not knowing when the next time is that you’re going to leave the house. Yeah, I bet you like it, you’re gonna go back to being a disgusting little gremlin that never exercises and eats like a child of divorce whose parents aren’t around. You told your psychiatrist to lower the dosage on your meds? GO BACK. DOUBLE THEM. God, you'd better, you sickening, sickening person.

UW Counseling Center Employs 6 New Fidget Toys To Address Student Mental Health

January 10, 2022 by J.N.

With the reintroduction of remote learning this quarter, you would assume that students would find themselves disoriented socially, and struggling to transition into online school again. However, this week the UW Counseling Center impressed the local student body by adding 8 new fidget toys into the center’s waiting room.

UW College Republicans Gather in Red Square Awaiting Return of George Washington

November 24, 2021 by G.J.

While news headlines recently were dominated by word of QAnon crusaders flocking to Dallas, TX to witness the second coming of Our Lord and Savior John F. Kennedy Jr., the University District has been just as shocked by the congregation of the same group to our beloved campus in hopes of another notable presidential return.

UW Pro-Life Protestors Recruit Baby in Puffy Jacket

November 18, 2021 by C.C.

Anti-abortion protestors have frequented Red Square in an attempt to persuade pro-choicers with images of the little red goblin shrimp fresh out of your 9 hour old pad. To everyone’s shock and dismay, these efforts have been mostly ineffective.

Breaking: Unrest and Chaos on Greek Row for no Fucking Reason

November 15, 2021 by J.D.T.

This past Saturday, all hell broke loose on Greek row sans any reason at all. Street signs were stolen, fire alarms were pulled, scooters were trashed, and pedestrians were hazed in the “highly contentious” background of week 8. When asked about the current state of affairs on Greek row, local frat boy Chad Fratington panicked and hurled his iPhone 12 across the street shouting “AAhh! I dunno! I dunno! I dunno!”

Burke Museum Starts Destroying Dinosaur Fossils Cause Dinos Are for Babies

November 09, 2021 by J.N.

A tantrum broke out at the Burke museum this past week, as local paleontologist Greg Polinsky began destroying dinosaur fossils in a fit of passion. “I DON’T WANNA PLAY WITH DINOSAURS ANYMORE” yelled the 56 year old, smashing a baseball bat into the skull of a Spinosaurus. Fragments of glass and fossilized bone spewed over the floor.

“We Want them to Know they’re being Punished” Humanities Department Uses Smith Hall to Prepare Students for Future

November 04, 2021 by K.E.

It is accepted among students and faculty that Smith Hall is much like a day-old banana, pretty on the outside, a post-apocalyptic war zone on the inside. The 10:30 Philosophy 101 quiz section is currently being held atop a loose floorboard suspended over a gaping hole in the floor of Smith 217. There is a rabid raccoon-bat infestation on the third floor. Not raccoons and bats, this is a new species entirely. And yes it has rabies.

Fall 2021 Deemed “Super Regular Quarter”

November 02, 2021 by C.C.

After six consecutive “extraordinary circumstances” quarters, the Office of the Provost has designated this Fall 2021 quarter as a “regular chill quarter where everything is super normal and fine.” This was announced in an email blast that also mentioned the bomb cyclone warning, a raise in tuition, and the third armed robbery of the week. To get a sense of where the administration was coming from, we sat down with members of the committee behind this decision…

Student Satisfaction Soars to 8% After UW Returns to In-Person Classes

October 26, 2021 by J.B.

In a recent poll conducted by the Department of Statistics, student satisfaction soared to 8% after sitting comfortably at 2% since COVID-19 hit campus (Note: 2% margin of error). The University of Washington has returned to in-person classes after a year and a half of online school, and students are happier than ever. Awkwardly avoiding eye contact with strangers on the street has returned, friends that weren’t quite close enough to ignore social distancing guidelines have reunited, and professors’ endlessly recycled jokes have been totally killing it.

UW Tries Students but Don’t University: Tragic

October 21, 2021 by J.N.

Sunday that when the Student goes to the HUB. It keeps the student try to go. This problem is very much there. Because there are student, they and the University are on Sunday when that happened. This is why:

Every time student go to the HUB it try to University too. But why? This is because that when University go, student go too. This is very sad. Faculty at UW try too. But fail. Unfortunately, this is at a heavy price but also when midterm yesterday and the other but behind in the but here’s the thing: mother’s folder in the orientation. But when. When? And why? Help me.

Where Dreams Go to Slowly Die: School of Art Lowers Graduation Requirements Due to Derivative Capstone Submissions

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October 18, 2021 by J.L.

The school of art + art history + design has recently announced that, effective immediately, senior capstones are no longer required for those who intend to graduate with a concentration in photo/media. The email announcing this change went on to say that students may actually be penalized for sending in capstones and that they "might just send you to fishery sciences or something idk."

Student Overpopulation Study: By 2064 UW Will Form Writhing Mass Ball of Undergraduates

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October 09, 2021 by J.N.

If you’ve tried to get food on campus you’ve seen it: lines and lines of students. This Fall quarter, campus has seen more lines than a frat house coffee table. The recent increase in student population is not a new phenomenon; between 1854 and 1889, the UW student population increased from 30 students to 300.

If this data is correct, then UW undoubtedly increases its student population by tenfold every 35 years. This means that by 1924, the UW should have had 3,000 students. By 1959, 30,000. This brings us to today, wherein the University of Washington has 2,314,286 students on campus.

Important Campus Updates For New and Returning Students

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October 01, 2021 by L.E.

Hello Huskies! It’s been quite a while since we’ve been back on campus, and we’re excited to see you all soon! Before you get back to campus, there are a some important changes that have happened in our absence you need to be aware of.

UW Apologizes For Failing To Create An Unhealthily Competitive Environment In ASUW Elections

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May 03, 2021 by J.N.

The University of Washington expressed guilt in a statement this morning regarding the recent controversy surrounding the Daily’s coverage of ASUW elections. As President Ana Marie Cauce expressed:

“We were appalled to hear that the ASUW elections were being run uncontested. We try our best to create a toxic learning environment, where students are forced to give up their hopes and dreams due to fierce competition.”

Cauce concluded the email by stating that “The University of…

Top 10 Ways I Used Dubs’ Death To Get Out of Online Classes

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April 28, 2021 by J.N.

Let’s face it: a beloved mascot dying is nothing to joke about. Dubs was not only a symbol of school pride for many, but a relief from the everyday stresses of undergraduate life.

Like many of you, when Dubs died I was super excited at the possibilities this situation presented. Being in online classes can get so boring and I really don’t want to go to them. So in honor of Dubs I made a list of 10 ways that I have (and you should) use his euthanization as a means to get out of zoom, and be happier because of it.

UW Fraternities Face Minimal Repercussions After Synthesizing Mustard Gas, Violating 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention

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March 01, 2021 by J.N.

Several University of Washington Fraternities were thrust into the hot seat this past Monday after reports arose of sulfur-based biochemical warfare agents being released during a hotboxing event. UW Administration was quick to react, stating that there would be measures taken to prevent future injuries.

“We really mean it this time,” said an anonymous faculty member. “If this happens again, we are going to get super mad.” This…

UW Students Strike, Refuse to Pay Full Tuition

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February 13, 2021 by M.J.

This Valentine’s Day Weekend, UW students came together to demand kinder treatment from their beloved institution. Rather than sending their tuition checks as usual, students will be mailing in homemade coupons for various romantic gifts and activities.

Strike leader Hart Smith (’22) commented that “We all love the University of Washington. But sometimes, we feel like the University of Washington doesn’t love us.” Smith then raised a protest sign that read “We Accept the Love We Think We Deserve,” and marched off to write a coupon for one home-cooked, candlelit dinner.

Shocking Reveal! While Awaiting Cease of Right-Wing Terrorist Threat, Congress Played “Spin the Bottle”

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January 26, 2021 by Off Leash News

Of what is sure to be but the first of 2021’s many crises, the attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol Building will inevitably go down as the most appalling. There is no doubt that the events on the sixth of January were the fruit of this nation’s ancient hypocrisy and indecency. However, there is also no doubt that said events paved the way for the most bountiful harvest of all: the realization of the long-germinating Congressional romance the American people have awaited.

2020 Revealed To Be Elaborate Banksy Art Piece

January 14, 2021 by J.N.

In a shocking turn of events this past week, the London street artist Banksy came forward as the man behind nearly every major news story of 2020. In a recent Instagram post, Banksy had this to say for himself:

“I don’t keep my identity secret because I want it to be separate from my art. It is because I wish to cover up my crimes of treason, chemical and biological warfare.”

Banksy began to list out a series of shocking events that he played a part in.

“Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was killed on the orders of me because I ran out of things to make art about. Also I thought…

Off Leash News Issue 5: Achieve Enlightenment for only $5 (Plus Shipping)

January 14, 2021 by M.J.

What if I told you that I could sell you a guide to inner peace for the low, low cost of $5 (plus shipping)? You’d probably laugh and tell me to fuck off, because you’re no fool, and you know a fraud when you see one. But what if I told you that, for only $5 (and a little extra for shipping), you could hold in your hands a physical copy of Off Leash Magazine’s newest issue?

That’s right, baby. Off Leash is back.

And this time, we’re coming at you with our boldest, most creative, most completely bonkers edition yet: The Conspiracy Issue.