By Grace Farrell and Taylor Irwin With Nov. 7 fast approaching, many Puget Sound students are passionate about exercising their right to vote in the upcoming election. University of Puget Sound students have voted at high rates in the past two elections, with 60.2% of eligible students voting in the 2016 election and a record-breaking 84.9% voting in 2020 according to the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement from Tufts University. The Trail spoke to students who were excited about continuing trends of high voter engagement.    U.S. Politics and...

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...