Combat Zone

Dear Puget Sound Community, Last week, the Combat Zone ran a satirical announcement about a bear-trapping trip from Puget Sound Outdoors (PSO), the school’s outdoor adventure organization. This week, I’ve received over 80 letters, texts, emails, tweets and HEY YOUs alerting me to the fact that the article was offensive and that I should go straight to Hell (which is about three miles south of Greeley, Colo.). In addition to complaints about the tone of the article—which implied that the school’s outdoorsy students are nothing more than passive-aggressive faux-hippies who...

Puget Sound Outdoors would like to welcome any student who passionately loves bears to attend an informational meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 8 p.m. to arrange a bear trapping trip in the North Cascades. The trip will last through the following weekend, and we hope to capture both black and grizzly bears. Trip leader Serenity Blume has related that she intends to capture the bears with trapping systems involving granola, hemp and a Northface tent. Serenity encourages students to not be afraid. She has personally lived with bears for...

In a move sure to upset NATO leaders, Libya’s transitional congress has turned its back on Western-style democracy and placed government power in the hands of another dictator. A statement made by Mohamed Mohamed, spokesmen for the National Transitional Council, outlined Libya’s new direction. “We will never forget the atrocities committed against the Libyan people under the oppressive regime of Muammar Qaddafi,” Mohamed said. “However, an insane dictatorship is an intrinsic part of Libyan cultural heritage,” continued Mohamed, “and we refuse to turn our backs on our past and placate...

Since the unveiling of the new capital campaign One at Weyerhauser Hall’s opening night, the administration has updated its 10-year Master Plan for the University of Puget Sound. Here are some recent additions to the plan: Weyerhauser Hall is to be demolished to make way for the Weyerhauser Hall Memorial. It will be dedicated to the memory of those two construction workers that died during the destruction of Weyerhauser. The Arboretum will be populated with exotic animals such as tigers, cheetahs and okapi to help Environmental Studies students learn to...

Tacoma police announced the apprehension of 32-year-old Lance Boyle on Wednesday. The arrest came after a game of “Never Have I Ever,” in which Boyle confessed to being the serial killer known as the South Sound Jerker. The Jerker, who has terrorized the greater Puget Sound area for the last 10 years, rose to infamy as the only killer to use a dildo as a lethal weapon. His years of activity left a trail of nearly 50 victims. Those who were not killed were left confused and rather embarrassed. “I...

Through secret administration cables made public on the whistle-blowing website Loggerleaks, The Trail has been made aware of a program designed to encourage female athletes of the University of Puget Sound to mate with the vastly superior male athletes from visiting teams. What has been named “Operation Conjunction Junction” in leaked cables is likely the combined work of the administration and the Eugenics department. It is hoped that the offspring of these encounters will combine the superior athletic abilities shown by our women’s and by the visiting men’s athletic teams;...

All of Tacoma was plunged into darkness on Monday. Temperatures dropped and loggers bundled up as the sun disappeared entirely. All evidence points to a long, damp and dark winter. We have been cursed. We won’t see the light of day for the rest of the school year. And it’s all Joey Duckess’ fault. Joey thought it would be cool to buy a bag of assorted herbs from a barefoot mountain man he met while slacklining. After selling Joey the herbs, the supposed mountain man gave Joey instructions on the...

When Becca Figurski graduates this Spring, she will have completed UPS’ very first Internet Studies major, despite the fact that no such major exists. Her major is self-proclaimed, the product of years of passionate exploration of the web. In declaring her major, Becca hopes to raise awareness for the thousands of students who just want to browse the net in a scholarly capacity. Becca starting her life of spleunking the tubes of the net when she was 10. Her father gave her a dusty Macintosh with Internet Explorer. By 13,...