How do you proselytize during a pandemic?
When pamphlets and handshakes go virtual. COVID-19 continues to rage across the Greek system. And how much can you trust digital information?
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What comes to your mind when I say Mormon missionaries? Likely it’s pairs of earnest young men in matching shirts and ties, coming to your home to preach the word. What does proselytizing look like when you can’t knock on doors, shake hands, or have long face-to-face conversations? We asked Larry Beardall, president of the Washington Seattle Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
COVID and Greek life
UW’s Greek row COVID-19 outbreak continues to spread, with over 200 people testing positive in the last month. That’s distinct from the similarly large cluster that happened over the summer. And yet fraternities keep having house parties. To find out what colleges and universities can and can’t do about this, Bill Radke spoke to Vox’s Terry Nguyen.
How much can you trust Wikipedia?
How much can you trust Wikipedia? You may have been dinged from citing it in school reports, but there are some things at which it’s unparalleled, says WIRED magazine reporter Richard Cooke.
How much can you trust ANY digital media?
Information across the internet should be taken with a grain of salt, says the UW Center for an Informed Public’s Rachel Moran. But figuring out how to apply that grain of salt, and the ensuing media literacy, is worth pursuing.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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