Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
Ian Fox, ‘14, wins Collins Book Collecting Contest, will compete at national level
Many DC and Marvel enthusiasts collect comic books and paraphernalia, but Ian Fox takes his passion for one DC superhero a step further. Fox’s entry “Hunting the Dark Night: Books on the Batman” took home the $1,000 grand prize at the 2013 Collins Memorial Library Book Collecting Contest, an event that Library Director Jane Carlin [...]
Students weigh in on a year of changes, and consider what is to come at Puget Sound
The 2012-2013 school year was filled with plenty of excitement and transformation. As Puget Sound’s 125th birthday fades into a history of accomplishments, I asked students what the biggest change at Puget Sound was for them. Most responses had to do with the new residency options that will soon become available. Beginning in the 2013-2014 [...]
Healthy eating ideas from a fellow Logger
Loggers love to eat. For the first year or two of our lives in which our parents no longer put food on our plates, we students eat at the school cafeteria. It was a brave new world, the S.U.B.—six different kinds of sandwich meat, breakfast for dinner … the possibilities were practically endless! Or so [...]
Reflecting on Puget Sound’s recent sustainability accolades
The last issue of The Trail featured a story about Puget Sound being awarded a spot in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges, a huge honor for a school that puts a lot of effort into spreading ideas of sustainability and general environmental friendliness. On paper, it’s very hard to argue with the [...]
PacRim abroad program to undergo changes
This spring, a small group of Puget Sound students received possibly one of the most exciting pieces of news in their lives: They had been accepted into the Pacific Rim/Asia Study-Travel Program (PRAST or PacRim for short). Unique to Puget Sound, PacRim is a kind of study-abroad-on-steroids in which students travel for a year to [...]
Students recognize Pres. Thomas’ unique accessibility
It’s no secret that the president of our university is quite the campus celebrity. President Ronald Thomas has achieved almost mythological status here at Puget Sound, inspiring memes, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts. Students literally sprint to sign up for the Fireside Dinners and other events hosted at his home, eager to check off another [...]
Walidah Imarisha promotes social justice poetry in student workshop
The Race and Pedagogy Chism Series invited Professor Walidah Imarisha to Puget Sound last week as one of their Artists-in-Residence to lead a multi-media presentation on the role of youth in educational justice. Imarisha is an educator, writer, professor, organizer and spoken word artist. She has taught in Portland State University’s Black Studies and Women’s [...]
Psi Chi philanthropy event raises funds for CASA and hits home
The Puget Sound branch of the International Honor Society in Psychology, Psi Chi, held a philanthropy event in conjunction with the Psychology Club on Friday, April 23 to raise money for the National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association. The event, Psi Pie and Tie Dye Day, provided attendees an opportunity to buy and dye t-shirts [...]
Funny, right?: Prof. Noel Carroll speaks on morality and humor as Undergraduate Philosophy Conference keynote
On Friday, April 26, students from all over the country filed into Trimble Forum to kick off Puget Sound’s second Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. Noel Carroll, professor of philosophy at CUNY graduate center and one of the leading contemporary philosophers of art, presented a lecture on his upcoming book, The Philosophy of Humor: An Introduction for [...]
Campus celebrates international education with panel, film
The campus community bore witness to Puget Sound’s International Education Week from April 15-19, in which the Office of International Programs offered opportunities for Puget Sound’s international and internationally minded students to learn more about the department, located in Howarth 215. The University’s International Education Week is hosted annually about five months after the national [...]
