By Andrew Benoit, Editor-in-Chief A not so closely guarded secret of The Trail is the comprehensive digitized archive of our publication dating all the way back to 1895, when the student newspaper was called Ye Recorde. Back then, the University called itself “Puget Sound University” and would hop from new campus to new campus four times as it struggled with constant financial woes. The Ottoman Empire still existed, the Lumiere brothers had only just invented movies, and the first professional football game had just been played. Our archives preserve a...

An Introduction: At the beginning of the semester, our professor asked us to think about something we were discouraged by and were also eager to change. We mentioned various topics, but the area that we all continued to return to and focus on was one related to our own campus community. Despite being from varying backgrounds, we all were concerned about how race and class operated on our campus. We had been learning about the complexity and compoundedness of race and class in our African American Studies (AFAM) courses, but...

By Ainsley Feeney Last Monday, April 17, Bystander Revolution Against Violence (BRAVe) and Peer Allies hosted an information session on Intersectionality and Sexual Violence. The event was part of a month-long series observing Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The session was hosted by BRAVe coordinators Grace Stensland (‘23) and Rene Donnes (‘23). Stensland and Donnes opened their presentation with some shocking statistics about the effects sexual violence has on marginalized groups. They reported that gay and bisexual men are over ten times more likely to experience sexual assault than straight men,...

By Albert Chang-Yoo I was working on an article last semester about A Sound Future, the University’s financial plan for the next few years. A full 160-page proposal was released for community feedback from students on October 10. It was an attempt at transparency, but just a week later the report was made confidential again. As a student reporter, I was confused. Why not involve more students in a process that will affect all of us? Most students at the University of Puget Sound weren’t even really aware of this...