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Save the UW Club!

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Jeffrey Chamberlain
4 years ago

All top Universities need a space for the community to meet and socialize

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Karen Cheng
4 years ago

The UW Club is a much loved and missed facility. I fully support a return!!

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David Ribes
4 years ago

Key to scholarly community!

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Charles Sleicher
4 years ago

I can't imagine the UW without the Faculty Club. UC Berkeley has a splendid faculty club, as does UBC.

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Alexander Mamishev
4 years ago

Glad to see this petition is started. Sad to see that a decision like this even needs a petition and and the need for the university club has to be "explained".

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Marie Albrecht
4 years ago

I am the wife of Robert Albrecht. He died 2 years ago but I speak for him. I know he would very much like to see the club functioning again.

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Margaret Byers
4 years ago

Please save this place in which so much interdepartmental, interdisciplinary, intergenerational connections are born and flourish.

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Sandra Silberstein
4 years ago Featured

Virtually all of the interdisciplinary initiatives and coauthored papers I participated in were hatched at the Faculty Club. And what a gem it was to have someplace to go alone to get work done while feeling in community. There is no substitute on campus.

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Philip Hurvitz
4 years ago

It is an unparalleled and unreplaceable resource on campus.

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Kurt Johnson
4 years ago

big loss....need it back!

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Liz Behlke
4 years ago

My Dad, Robert Albrecht, started an informal group called the Wednesday Lunch Bunch that met weekly at the Club for 20 years. Anyone could join the WLB just by sitting down and sharing in the conversation. The WLB continues weekly on Zoom - even after the loss of both my Dad and the UW Club. Bring back the UW Club and you will see the Wednesday Lunch Bunch again - every Wednesday.

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Jon Wellner
4 years ago

Yes!

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Michael Honey
4 years ago

We need a place to meet, as at other large campuses, and this was a beautiful place.

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Frank F Vincenzi
4 years ago

It is more important than ever to reopen communication between 'silos'. The UW Club made that possible in the past. Bring it back!

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Kai-Mei Fu
4 years ago

We could also make the UW club open to postdocs like Caltech does.

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Werner Stuetzle
4 years ago

The assorted coffee shops on campus are no replacement for the UW Club.

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Anonymous
4 years ago

The UW club is unparalleled. It was the social core of the UW community.

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Oscar Olvera Astivia
4 years ago

When I was hired, I was quite impressed by the UW club. I hope it can be saved.

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Angela Ginorio
4 years ago

The fortuitous meetings in the Faculty Club were as important as the planned ones.

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Marina Meila
4 years ago

The UW Club is more than that: it's the home of a decades-long, intergenerational, university wide community, the origin of friendships, collaborations, dialogues. Please do not take it away.