In brief

Apprentice casting call today in HUB

Fans of the Donald and NBC's competitive corporate reality series The Apprentice will have the chance to audition to be a contestant in the show's upcoming season.

An exclusive casting call for the show will be held on campus today from 1 to 5 p.m. Prospective apprentices will be interviewed by the show's casting directors in HUB 108.

The Apprentice premiered in January 2004 and has enjoyed a level of success up to the standard of its star, businessman Donald Trump. The show features contestants looking to work their way up the corporate ladder by managing events and performing other tasks. When contestants goof up, they are fired by Trump himself.

The casting call is open to all students, faculty, staff and alumni, according to Faraz Zarghami, ASUW arts and entertainment special events coordinator.

Students can also visit www.nbc.com for an application to become the next apprentice.

-- Blythe Lawrence

Documents removed for declassification

Five federal agents removed eight documents they deemed "classified" from the archives of the late Sen. Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson in the Suzzallo and Allen libraries last week.

"It's not an unusual practice for classified documents to be pulled," said Carla Rickerson, head of special collections, with a laugh. "[But] it was unusual for us."

The federal document security team included staff from the U.S. Energy and Defense departments, the CIA and the Industrial Security Oversight Office. According to Rickerson, agents spent three days rifling through 400 boxes of documents in the special collections reading room, located in the library basement.

Rickerson said she wasn't familiar with the documents that were removed.

"It was material this team deemed classified," she said. "If I had seen them I didn't know it."

The documents are still on campus, awaiting declassification in the office of facility security. They will eventually be sent to different federal offices, Rickerson said.

"It's very likely [the papers] will be returned to campus," she added. Pieces of confidential information may be removed before the documents are made public again, she said.

Jackson's papers have been housed at the UW since 1983 and open to the public since 1988. The entire collection is kept in about 1,200 cubic-foot boxes that take up 1,613 linear feet of shelf space, Rickerson said.

-- Lydia Wright