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Dear Campus Community,   I’m writing today to follow up about the offensive image published in the Combat Zone on March 15 and let you know more about how we plan to respond and move forward.   First, though, I want to clarify that though myself and my staff members have reached out to different experts and resources on campus to ask for advice on how to respond to this situation, ultimately our mistakes and our response are our own and no one else’s, and we take full responsibility for...

Dear Campus Community,   I write to you today to express on behalf of myself and The Trail our deepest regret and apology for publishing an offensive and insensitive image in the Combat Zone section of the March 15 issue. The image was intended to be a lighthearted joke about the weather involving President Crawford, but the effect of the image was inappropriate and dehumanizing, and contains echoes of offensive portrayals of people of color that have contributed to a culture of racism and intolerance. So, though the image was...

By Nayra Halajian Studying abroad can be a crucial experience in a college education. But what if you can’t afford it? In January, the University of Puget Sound temporarily extended merit-based financial aid to the Pacific Rim Study Abroad Program (PacRim) for 2017-18 . This action reversed a measure by the Cabinet of the Board of Trustees approved in Spring 2009. In 2008, the University noticed they had lost a significant amount of money due to the financial burden of Study Abroad programs. Parallel efforts by the International Education Committee...

By Aidan Regan Dec 6th, 2016 “We are asking the University to…not be complacent like we were during WWII when our Japanese students were taken from campus and our University did nothing,” Amanda Diaz, a Puget Sound junior, said about the petition to classify Puget Sound as a sanctuary campus. “Sanctuary campuses are those that promise to not assist federal immigration officials in the investigation of the immigration status of members of a campus community—students, faculty, and staff alike,” President Crawford wrote in his campus-wide email responding to the petition...

“This school is so white,” was my first thought coming to this school. But I won’t judge a person just because of their skin color and the stereotyped elitist status that comes with it. Yet I quickly began missing La Ciudad de Los Angeles where left and right was a sea of pigmented skins, from the palest of whites to the darkest of blacks. I can do this. These people’s skin color mean nothing. They’re young adults with open minds who will accept me and my Guatemalan culture. Who will...

In 1987, American author Bret Easton Ellis published his second novel The Rules of Attraction. The novel recounts the debauchery of bratty, sophomoric and elite students at a small liberal arts college on the east coast. The backdrop of the novel, showing the fictional Camden College, bears a striking aesthetic resemblance to University of Puget Sound in size and general disposition of the students. The connection between Ellis’s second novel and the debate on whether or not Puget Sound should continue to issue merit aid may seem nebulous at first;...

The rise of discourse surrounding gender and sexuality has reached unprecedented heights over the last generation. While a measure of progress is hard to determine, the strides that have been made for such marginalized individuals is still worth celebrating. Connecting with this is the concept of “coming out,” celebrated by National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11. Individuals of non-normative sexuality and gender are commended and, to a degree, encouraged to come out of the closet and express themselves openly. As the discourse extends, so does the holiday. As the...

On Tuesday September 22, the internet’s leading source on all purpose cynicism and mob justice, Gawker, published a story regarding a recent controversy at Wesleyan University. According to Gawker, students at the Connecticut university are seeking to defund their campus newspaper, The Argus, after the paper published an op-ed piece entitled “Black Lives Matter Isn’t What You Think”. The Argus piece claimed that the Black Lives Matter movement is inconsistent, contradictory and fraudulent. The piece strongly defended police forces around the country. There are at least 150 signatures for a...

It was a beautiful weekend in Oregon as Junior Jaci Young (Aiea, Hawaii) made her 12th start of the season against conference foes Linfield. Young had a strong performance, but was unable to get the win. Puget Sound’s softball team lost both doubleheaders against Linfield and Willamette on April 3 and 4 while in Oregon. The Loggers’ first game of their road trip was at Linfield. The final score was 8-0 in favor of Linfield. Young was on the mound for the Loggers with a strong showing, giving up only...

While sexual assault, misconduct, and harassment have always been a part of the conversations on college campuses (sometimes in good ways and sometimes not), this year there has been a venerable explosion of coverage around the nation on this topic. Not to be left out of the conversation, Puget Sound students have taken up the call and have been asking, demanding, and shining the spotlight on these issues and what the campus has been doing or not doing. The culmination of these conversations were the Speak Up! forums. These talks...

  With the 2014-2015 Logger women’s basketball season now making headway, first year Katie Vold (Spokane, Wash.) is ready to take on the challenges of playing collegiate ball. Vold first officially began playing basketball at the age of five, although she has been shooting around on driveway courts before she can remember. Her older brother Taylor got her interested in the sport in the first place. “I remember sitting in gyms all the time, watching his games and thinking about how much I wanted to be like him,” Vold said....