SEATTLE — University of Washington regents on Friday unanimously recommended that Mark Emmert, chancellor of Louisiana State University, be named as the university’s next president.
The deal to appoint Emmert, 51, a Tacoma native and UW graduate, is contingent on successful negotiation of a contract, university spokesman Bob Roseth said.
Roseth said the regents were impressed with Emmert’s academic leadership, his advocacy of LSU with government officials and others, and his desire to return to his alma mater.
The UW presidency has been open since the regents encouraged former President Richard McCormick to leave in November 2002 because of what he later agreed publicly was an inappropriate romantic relationship with a woman in his administration.
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Olympia: Lawmaker resigns Senate seat
State Senate Majority Caucus Chairwoman Pat Hale is resigning from the Legislature to join the U.S. Small Business Administration. Hale, R-Kennewick, told the Tri-City Herald that her resignation will take effect April 15, but she plans to leave as soon as next week for Virginia, where she’ll be a senior policy adviser for the agency, making $133,000 a year. Hale’s announcement puts her seat on the ballot in November for the remaining two years of her term, and again in 2006, when she would have been up for re-election.
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Judge joins race
for Supreme Court
Mary Kay Becker, a state Court of Appeals judge and former Democratic lawmaker from Bellingham, announced a bid for the state Supreme Court on Friday. Becker’s candidacy for the seat being vacated by Justice Faith Ireland raises the prospect that the court could continue to have a majority of female jurists after the November election. Becker co-authored the 1974 novel "Superspill," a fictional account of a massive oil spill in Puget Sound. She ran for the Legislature that year, serving four terms in the House. While she concedes that environmental concerns first drew her to public life, she said she’d remain impartial as a justice.
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D.C.: Canadians trace mad cow’s origins
Canadian officials have traced to two mills the feed that probably caused North America’s two cases of mad cow disease, one in Canada in May and the other in the United States in December. The feed from the Canadian mills could have contained infectious protein from imported British cattle, said Dr. George Luterbach, an official of a mad cow working group in the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. He said Canadian law prohibits disclosing the identity of the mills. Canada reported its only case of the brain-wasting disease in an animal on a farm in Alberta. The United States followed with an announcement that an animal in Mabton had bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Both animals had been raised on farms in Alberta. And both ate feed containing meat and bone meal while they were calves.
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Tacoma: Patrol’s first female captain sues
The first woman to become a captain in the Washington State Patrol has filed a sexual harassment and gender discrimination lawsuit, saying she was treated unfairly in her job because she’s a woman and was fired when she complained. Colleen McIntyre, who joined the State Patrol in 1979, lost her job in 2002 and was reinstated this year after the state Court of Appeals in Tacoma ruled that she had been let go illegally. Capt. Fred Fakkema, a spokesman for the State Patrol, said the agency has strict rules and policies to ensure a harassment-free workplace, and "there were legitimate reasons for taking disciplinary action against Ms. McIntyre in terminating her employment with the patrol."
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Two jailed in California for defrauding woman
Two men, one from Washington state, have been given 150-day jail terms for defrauding a nearly blind 85-year-old Camarillo, Calif., woman who bought 210 years worth of magazine subscriptions from them. Jonathan Carey, 22, of Tacoma and Jeremy Marquez, 21, of Sacramento, Calif., were each sentenced Wednesday to jail terms plus probation. District Attorney Greg Totten said the magazine sales representatives went to the woman’s home Dec. 20, saying they represented United Family Circulation and wanted donations for college. The woman signed two blank checks with the promise that each would be made out for $130. Instead, Totten said, the men made each amount $3,360 and forwarded the checks to their employer, Empire Sales, a United Family subsidiary. The woman realized she had been defrauded when she received her bank statement a month later.
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