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Welcome Chas. As most of us started, we all had to read, re-read and keep reading the laws to know them as well as we do.
Also, it really helps a lot to get together with fellow OC'ers to discuss laws, experiences and methods of carry. We used to do a monthly meet for dinner or lunch, but it's gotten a little hectic recently. I'm hoping that now that the weather's improving we'll be doing that a little more often.
Edit: Sorry, I replied without reading the latter part of your post with the questions...
There are rules and regulations in the Code of Conduct and Student Code of Conduct of every institution of higher education and there are only two that I know of where you're "okay" or have a loophole to carry on campus, those are the U of W and South Puget Sound CC. SPSCC copies state law in their code and the UW says that possession of firearms is considered misconduct, but then goes on to say that nothing in that section is to be construed to deny a student their legally and/or constitutionally protected rights:
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=478-120-020 (see subsections (3)(f) and (6)).
Second, there's nothing barring you from carrying at the State Capitol Building as long as you are following state law in RCW 9.41, as mentioned in
WAC 236-12-470 at the end of subsection (1).