By: Nora Hess   Beloved campus member Perno Perno passed away on Aug. 29, 2024, 10 years after she helped form and became the director of the University of Puget Sound’s Department of Student Accessibility and Accommodations (SAA). Her loved ones and the Puget Sound community memorialized her lasting impact with a funeral mass on Sept. 17 and a celebration of life on Sept. 25.   Over the past few months, Ruby Collins, the assistant director of SAA, has kept the department running as usual by taking over many of Perno’s responsibilities....

By Molly Clement  The World Health Organization has recently released alarming reports surrounding a deadly new epidemic: bowling. Scientists around the world are calling bowling the new smoking. Here's what you need to know. Using borrowed bowling shoes is rapidly spreading foot fungus, athletes foot, trench foot, and other unimaginable skin deformities. Bowling causes sped up decay of the muscles by 30%, as well as the bones and skin by 10%. Bowling balls have begun to transmit these diseases. Putting your fingers in the same holes as others is not...

By Ishaan Gollamudi  Cannons rang out in the night air of September 25, 2024, as undergraduate members of the Pacific Lutheran University (PLU)  ROTC marched down Commencement Walkway, intending to depose the current student government of the University of Puget Sound. The Trail later confirmed that this cannonfire was simulated for the benefit of the students rehearsing Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture in the Music Building; the actual overthrow of the Associated Students of the University of Puget Sound (ASUPS), was entirely bloodless. In fact, although this military incursion was intended to...

By Skye Sheehy   With the 2024 presidential election a mere two months away, hot-button political issues have the potential to become the difference between victory and defeat. This election is especially important for reproductive rights, which encapsulates the right to abortion and alternative modes of conception, such as in vitro fertilization, or IVF. Support for abortion access has increased steadily since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022; 7 in 10 Americans agree that abortion should be legal, according to AP News. This is also the first time in...

By Charlie Cronk and Sofia Pieralde  On August 1, Dining and Event Services changed the prices of food items sold in campus cafes and diners. Along with these pricing changes, which upset many students, came various changes to the menu items offered. “The change in pricing is something that we do every summer as the spring semester winds down. Our culinary team evaluates the cost of goods, of all the items that we serve on campus, and they do menu adjustments, we add new items, take new items out, and...