Co-Events: What was going on in the world at the same time...

Co-Events

Discussions on the Quad related to various signs were influenced by information given to people in the media on a variety of campus, local, national, and world events that took place contemporaneously. Below is a list of those which were most significant:

University of Washington

Winter Quarter

Campus event: Flirting 101 class taught at University of Washington Experimental College

Quotes: “There were no cheesy pickup lines taught --just a reminder to smile and make eye contact.”

January

National event: a new edition of Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn published with all instances of “nigger” replaced by “slave”

January 1

National event: Kirk Nugent’s “Signs of the Times (I Need You to Remember Part 4)” released on youtube

World event: Bill Ryan interviews the man sent to “deal”with him

January 6

Campus news: “A team of UW engineering students won a$40,000 award to develop their method of monitoring water purification using the sun’s rays.”

National event: the Constitution of the United States is read aloud on the floor of the US House of Representatives for the first time in history  

January 8

National event: a congresswoman is injured and a US district court judge and six bystanders are killed in gun attack in Tuscon, Arizona

January 11

National event: We Are Change Tampa confronts county commissioners on water fluoridation

January 12

Campus news: Residence Hall Student Association approves resolution in support of gender neutral housing options in UW dormitories

Quotes: “The RHSA survey found that 2.63 percent, or approximately 113 students, “do not identify as ‘male’ or ‘female’ or haven’t decided [their] gender identity and would feel more comfortable in a gender-neutral living environment.””

January 13

Campus event: UW Housing and Food Services holds Custodian Appreciation Day

World event: Canadian Broadcast Standards Council rules Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” too offensive for broadcast because of use of the word “faggot”

January 14

World event: the Tunisian government falls as part of the so-called “Arab Spring”

January 15

National event: UW students and alumni take part in Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary celebration

January 17
World event: David Rockefeller is confronted at a Chilean airport

January 18

Campus news: UW Students Adapt Gaming Hardware For Robotic Surgery

National event: Sargent Shriver dies

January 19

Campus event: film director Spike Lee gives a lecture at Meany Theater

January 20

Campus event: Christian, Jewish panelists discuss openness of homosexuality in religion

World event: Sexy Cora, German pornographic actress, dies at 23 from a heart attack minutes into her sixth breast-enlargement surgery

January 21

Campus event: The UW United Students Against Sweatshops(USAS) group launched a series of protests Friday, demanding a commitment to change treatment of workers from Sodexo representatives at the National Food Service Conference in Haggett Hall.

January 23

World event: world business leaders are told that flying saucers are real and extraterrestrials exist 

January 24

World event: terrorist bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia

January 26

Campus event: Some Faculty Upset With Nature Of Humans Vs. Zombies Game In Light Of Tucson Shooting

Quotes:

- “Because the game involves students handling toy weapons, concerns regarding the violent spirit of the game have been voiced. As a result, the UW Student Activities Office (SAO) has met with HvZt leaders about the untimely scheduling of the game, which was played at the same time the tragedy [the shooting of the congresswoman in Tuscon] occurred, and the nature of the game as a whole.”

- “After a week each quarter since 2008 of [zombies] “hunting” humans, there has not been one incident of crazed students biting people on campus.”

Campus news: A group of UW researchers definitively concluded that disparities in healthy eating habits among different socio-economic groups is due to the cost

National event: a $170 million mock city is unveiled at a marine base to be used as a part of urban warfare training

World news: number of world internet users reaches 2 billion

February 2

World event: American reporters Andersen Cooper and Katie Couric are attacked by protesters in Egypt

February 4

Science event: scientists reveal a tiny artificial brain, derived from rat neurons, that exhibits 12 seconds of short-term memory

February 5

Internet event: Anonymous hacks a security firm investigating it

February 10

Campus event: “The Vagina Monologues,” the annual event, adopting a new monologue entitled “Clitosaurus Rex,” premieres in Kane Hall

Quotes: “If your vagina had to get dressed in the morning, what would it wear? If your vagina went to a karaoke bar what would it sing?”

February 11

World event: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns as part of the so-called “Arab Spring”

February 16

National event: a computer called Watson beats human contestants on the game show Jeopardy

Quotes: “To build a machine capable of connecting the dots between 15 trillion bytes of data that mathematically arrives at the correct answer just to play against some schmucks in Oxford shirts — and expecting the middle-aged humans to compete — is a cruel joke.”

February 17

National event: a hummingbird-like "Nano Air Vehicle" is demonstrated for the first time, in an attempt to secure a DARPA contract to create small surveillance aircraft

February 18

National event: it is revealed that the US Air Force ordered software to manage an army of fake virtual people

February 22

Internet event: Mr. Freeman (parts 59, 60 and 61) posted on youtube

February 23

National event: an embarrassing phone conversation Wisconsin governor Scott Walker has with a man impersonating wealthy donor to his election campaign, David Koch, is made public

February 24

Campus event: Everybody Every Body Fashion Show held in Kane Hall to promote body acceptance and eating-disorder awareness

Quotes: “The Be(You)tiful panel will mostly be addressing questions like, ‘What can I do if I feel my friend has an eating disorder? What are the signs? And how can I help?’”

February 26

National event: 70,000-100,000 protest state budget cuts in Madison, Wisconsin, the largest labor protest in US history

February 28

Campus event: Gay Bisexual Lesbian Transgender Commission Ninth Annual Drag Competition held at Meany Hall

Quotes:

”...the competition showed that things are not necessarily black and white, and that events such as the drag show expose people to the idea that there is no strict gender binary.”

“It definitely solidified for me my love of drag, and I’ll be in it next year[too],” said Donnelly about the support from the crowd. “We were embracing what we shove aside in ourselves. We were f---ing fabulous.”

March 4

Campus event: Asian Student Commission Talent Show held

Quotes: “The audience anticipated something big the moment it saw the opening-act men drop their pants behind the big screen. What followed was a rendition of Brown Eyed Girl’s “Abracadabra” dance — a Korean pop song with women doing a sultry, hip-swinging dance — but this time the male dancers were the ones wearing the black revealing spandex.”

Campus event: The Multiracial Student Organization, and the Queer People of Color Alliance (QPOCA), host a spoken-word open mic on the topics of skin color and body image.

Cultural event: premiere of the film The Adjustment Bureau

March 10
Internet event: The Wayseer Manifesto video posted to youtube

March 11

National event: iPad2 released

World event: earthquake and tsunami strike Japan

March 14

Internet event: Anonymous leaks Bank of America Corp. documents

March 17

World event: the United Nations Security Council creates a no-fly zone over Libya as part of the so-called “Arab Spring”

March 18

Cultural event: premiere of the film Limitless

March 26

National event: Joe Bageant dies

March 26

World event: Charlie Veitch of the Love Police calls to “Occupy London” six months before Occupy Wall Street

March 29

Campus event: University Way Northeast is closed from Northeast 47th Street to Northeast 50th Street for more than two hours after a two-and-a-half-year-old child is hit by a bus.

April 1

Campus event: Cranes For A Cause: Japanese Student Association working on relief efforts for earthquake in Japan

Cultural event: premiere of the film Source Code