Women’s basketball team builds on strong start toward promising 2013-2014 season
The women’s basketball team has begun the season strong with a 5-2 record. They started their year in a tournament in Santa Cruz. With a successful 2-1 record in the tournament they have set the pace for the young season They started out playing Whittier College. In this game, their defense shut down the Poet [...]
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Getting to the bottom of the ugly sweater fad: Students discuss thrifting and elitism in hipster culture
Speak Out Loud held a discussion on Nov. 14 in the Student Diversity House titled “Popping Tags.” The name of the event was borrowed from the infamous Macklemore song “Thrift Shop” and was intended to ask questions about the cultural and social implications of thrift shopping, especially when “thrift” is not the ultimate goal. Primarily, [...]
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Museum of Glass provides glass-making lessons at Gather evening
By CASEY DEY University students from around Tacoma gathered at the Museum of Glass on Nov. 22 to enjoy “University Night,” a free event for college students to get a taste of life as a glass artist and experience what the Museum of Glass has to offer. “Gather. Noun: the process of collecting molten [...]
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Hitting the slopes: where to ski near Tacoma
As temperatures continue to drop and fall slowly morphs into winter, ski and snowboard season is quickly approaching. Here are some places to get out and hit the snow, whether it be on skis, a board or just relaxing in the lodge with some hot cocoa. 1. Crystal Mountain, which is around an hour and [...]
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News
Tacoma Entrepreneur Network hosts business competition
The Tacoma Entrepreneur Network (TEN) hosted a business plan competition on the Puget Sound campus on Thursday, Nov. 13. Eighteen teams competed for the chance to receive funding to move forward with business plans pitched at the event. Individuals and teams worked throughout the semester to put together proposals for the November competition. Some of [...]
Features
Treasure hunt: finding hidden gems in the library archive
On the first and third Tuesday of every month from 4-5 p.m., the Archives and Special Collections at Collins Memorial Library holds a series of informal presentations called Behind the Archives Door. These presentations aim to shed some light on some of the rare books in the library, unique resourses and interesting works that are [...]
Arts & Entertainment
One Acts at center stage
By KATHRYN STUTZ The final project of the students in Professor Jess Smith’s Directing Class, the One Acts Festival—beginning on Dec. 9—includes 15 different shows by 15 different directors. All of the plays, whether short dramas, monologues or scenes from larger works, will be spread out over the course of the three days. There [...]
Opinions
“Social discovery” app detrimental to society
If you’re looking for a fail-proof way to reinvigorate your romantic social life without stepping away from the comfort of your computer screen, there is (yet another) app for that. Joining the ranks of existing Facebook dating apps like Tinder and LuLu, a new Facebook app was made available to the public on Nov. 1. [...]
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Model UN team clearly accomplishing far more than actual UN ever has before
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Model UN team clearly accomplishing far more than actual UN ever has before
A study released Thursday by the Cato Institute found that the Puget Sound Model United Nations team is doing more things more efficiently than the actual United Nations has ever done in its rich 168-year history. The study, which defined things as any action that could potentially affect people and efficiency as if things are [...]
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SPO TRIP: Are you a Super Punny Outdoorsperson? Well then beefcakes have we got a trip for you. Wanna guess where we’re headed? CAPSLOCK MOUNTAIN CAPSLOCK MOUNTAIN ALL ABOARD FOR CAPSLOCK MOUNTAIN! BE AT THE TROLLFACE RAGESTATION AT 5:45 A.M. SHARP BECAUSE WE’RE GETTING OUT OF HERE LIKE EXCLAMOBANGS ON HOT CHEESE. LOVENOTE FROM [...]
Cute on-campus owl actually the undead
Onlookers were mesmerized earlier this week by a wild Barred owl that has taken up residency on campus in the President’s Woods. This adorable creature, while majestic, is in actuality a revived corpse. The owl is part of an ongoing research project between the University’s Biology Department and the Slater Museum of Natural History. The [...]
Campus drug abuse finally becoming a valid concern
An anonymous poll reinforces the campus authorities’ concern over students abusing drugs, shown today. A whopping 68 percent of students “consume some form of dietary supplement,” Detective Joe Parsons announces. “I mean, sure, you’ve got a lot of vegans and vegetarians that say they take supplements to get enough iron and other minerals that they [...]
One Acts at center stage
By KATHRYN STUTZ The final project of the students in Professor Jess Smith’s Directing Class, the One Acts Festival—beginning on Dec. 9—includes 15 different shows by 15 different directors. All of the plays, whether short dramas, monologues or scenes from larger works, will be spread out over the course of the three days. There [...]
Men’s soccer team ends their successful season; Loggers lose in second round of playoffs to Trinity
The Logger men’s soccer team saw a fantastic season come to a close in San Antonio, Texas in a 4-0 loss to the Trinity Tigers. This marked the first time in the second round for the Loggers in over a decade. The opening half of the game seemed promising for the Loggers, holding the Tigers [...]
Treasure hunt: finding hidden gems in the library archive
On the first and third Tuesday of every month from 4-5 p.m., the Archives and Special Collections at Collins Memorial Library holds a series of informal presentations called Behind the Archives Door. These presentations aim to shed some light on some of the rare books in the library, unique resourses and interesting works that are [...]
Darfur whistleblower speaks out, encourages speaking up
Dr. Mukesh Kapila, known as the whistle blower on the genocide in Darfur, visited Puget Sound on Nov. 20 to talk about his new book, Against the Tide of Evil. Kapila, who currently works as a professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester, was appointed the head of the United [...]
Women’s basketball team builds on strong start toward promising 2013-2014 season
The women’s basketball team has begun the season strong with a 5-2 record. They started their year in a tournament in Santa Cruz. With a successful 2-1 record in the tournament they have set the pace for the young season They started out playing Whittier College. In this game, their defense shut down the Poet [...]
Professor Spotlight: Dr. Gwynne Brown
Dr. Gwynne Brown, associate professor of Music History and Music Theory at the University, came to speak to the Music Education club about her experiences as a professor and to give advice to aspiring music educators. Brown is a musicologist, pianist and player of a Zimbabwean instrument called the mbira. An alumna of the University, [...]
