The Bellingham Herald

• Reinstating football not an option at WWU
  Reinstating football at Western Washington University is not going to happen anytime soon or in the foreseeable future. That was the message representatives of a group trying to save the school's football program heard loud and clear at WWU's board of trustees meeting on Friday, Feb. 13.

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• WWU runners break six school records
  A contingent of 10 Western Washington University athletes broke six school records and had six NCAA Division II national provisional qualifying efforts Saturday at the University of Washington Indoor Track and Field Husky Classic at Dempsey Indoor.
  

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• Vikings rout UAF
  Forward Gabby Wade, who had a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds, was one of three reserves to score in double figuress as Western Washington University dominated University of Alaska Fairbanks, 81-48, in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference women's basketball contest Saturday, Feb. 14 in Fairbanks.
  

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• WWU men fall to Western Oregon
  Despite a game-high 27 points from guard Ira Graham, nationally ranked Western Washington University saw its six-game winning streak come to a close as the Vikings fell to Western Oregon University, 85-83, in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference men's basketball game Saturday at the Physical Education Building.
  

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• Bellingham mayor lobbies in Olympia for more funding
  Frustrated with the potential cuts to higher education and K-12 schools, Mayor Dan Pike decided to take his own ideas to the state capital. On school funding, Pike said that recent discussions with education leaders in the area, particularly at Western Washington University, left him frustrated. WWU officials are still trying to figure out how to cut about 5 percent of their budget, even after raising tuition 7 percent. One option under discussion is reducing enrollment.
  

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• WWU career fair shows there are still jobs out there
  With all of the economic turmoil that's taken place in the past six months, there was a slightly different look this year at the Western Washington University Winter Career Fair. The event, held last week on the Western campus, attracted the same number of employers as last year, with 83 companies and groups recruiting people for internship programs or jobs. The difference this year was the makeup of the companies, as well as the group of people coming in this year, said Effie Eisses, employer relations manager at Western's Career Service Center.
  

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• NW Indian College to hand out first 4-year degrees this spring
  Northwest Indian College will grant its first four-year bachelor's degrees this spring, a milestone in the college's evolution into a four-year institution after more than 25 years as a two-year school.

Seattle Times

• Technology delivers emergency medical care around the globe
  If you see Andrew Cull hunched over his iPhone, don't bug him. The 30-year-old paramedic-turned-chief executive may be dispatching a helicopter to rescue a fallen mountain climber in Nepal or overseeing the evacuation of a sick scientist from a research station in the South Pacific. The company actually began on a Dell laptop, when Cull was a student at Western Washington University and working on the side as a paramedic. He built a Web site and began offering wilderness first-aid training.
  "I was planning to go to medical school," he said. "The more I started mapping out a business plan, the more interested I became.
  

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• College costs soaring - even for babies
  Psst, here's a tip: If you have children and want to make ironclad returns on your money -- without anyone named Madoff in charge -- the time to invest is now.
  

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• It's Higher Education Day at the Washington legislature
  It's Higher Education Day at the Washington Legislature. State university presidents are meeting with lawmakers.The state House Education Appropriation Committee is meeting Tuesday to review proposed budgets four the state's four-year colleges: University of Washington, Washington State University, Western Washington University, Central Washington University, Eastern Washington University, and The Evergreen State College.

KHQ Spokane

• Woodring alumnus killed in skiing accident
  The 33-year-old skier who was killed Saturday when he skied off of a groomed trail at Silver Mountain Resort and crashed into a tree has been identified as Justin Cottrell by the Shoshone County coroner. Cottrell, a schoolteacher from Yakima, reportedly lost control while skiing on Junction, an intermediate-level run at Silver Mountain just before 10 a.m. Saturday. Silver Mountain general manager Jeff Colburn confirmed Monday that Cottrell was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.

EurekAlert

• What if Washingtonians don't address climate change?
  "The costs identified in the report illustrate the types of costs Washingtonians will face from uncontrolled climate change," said Hart Hodges, another member of the Program on Economics steering committee and professor of Economics at Western Washington University. "The report demonstrates that there's a real chance we'll face very difficult impacts if we do not act now."