Several Puget Sound organizations have recently made an anti-vandalism poster targeted towards stopping hurtful and disrespectful messages on campus. The poster depicts a student writing on a desk covered in pejorative words and symbols, some of which could be considered explicit. “Starting last year, we spent some time trying to address concerns that had been brought to our attention, specifically from our facilities crew, of the markings on the desks in Wyatt Hall,” Director of Multicultural Student Services Czarina Ramsay said. One of the poster’s slogans, “Break the Cycle. Don’t...

Oracle PeopleSoft is a software upgrade meant to optimize the heavy traffic and growth of Puget Sound’s modern needs. The program, however, has had negative feedback from students, especially when registering for classes for the upcoming semester. “Conversion to PeopleSoft is an enormous undertaking, and it is definitely valid to ask why we are doing this,” said the Technology Services page that discussed the transfer. The page had been following the course of PeopleSoft’s integration since it became part of campus in the spring of 2013. Prior to this upgrade,...

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine lists Puget Sound among the top 100 liberal arts colleges for affordability and education in 2014. A rough economy has left thousands of students across the country in debt, and new students depend on this kind of information to determine the best value for their education. “Though none of these lists really ever captures the full story of what you get out of any particular college education, this is one attempt to identify colleges balancing a quality education with affordability,” media relations manager Shirley Skeel said....

The Tamanawas Yearbook has been a staple of the Puget Sound community since 1920, but it is in danger of being discontinued. Rising print costs and the increase of social media usage has made many feel that yearbooks are obsolete. Print media as a whole has been criticized by proponents of online journalism as burdensome and costly. Yearbooks have endured, however, and as a form of commemoration they remain popular. “A physical yearbook has a certain permanence that an online yearbook simply does not,” yearbook editor-in-chief Marissa Croft said. “It’s...

Technological demands have increased at an astronomical rate over the past few years, and the Technology Services department is struggling to keep up. The demand for bandwidth has led to campus-wide internet issues for students and staff alike. The latest statistics from Technology Services indicate that each student on campus carries, on average, more than four devices that utilize the campus’s internet. This equates to over 10,000 electronic devices, wired and wireless, demanding online access. To accommodate this need, Puget Sound has had to use financial and technological resources more...

On Sept. 21, the Puget Sound Loggers’ football team beat the Whittier Poets 42-31 on the road in Whittier, Calif. This game marked the first victory in an away game since 2008. The Logger football team’s reputation had been declining due to 20 consecutive losses. “Football has been on a not-so-hot losing streak for the past two years,” running back Justin Brush said. “And we beat …and it was phenomenal.” College football has been renowned across the country as one of the most important sports a university can have. However,...

By Paul Goudarzi-Fry Puget Sound’s general acceptance rate has increased to about 85 percent for fall 2013, with early acceptance rate at 88 percent. That rate is about 30.7 percent higher than 2010. According to the university’s website, Puget Sound accepts about 675 new members of the freshman class each year from several thousand applications. What this new rate does, however, will not affect the current amount of students coming into the new class. “The increase in our acceptance rate is due to a change in the way we count...