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You are a college student. You are probably totally in debt. Your family might have medical debt from when you got appendicitis last semester and had to be rushed to the emergency room in an ambulance. Or they might have housing debt after buying property in an expensive suburban area for the good schools. Automobile debt from when you got that car last summer. Credit card debt from Christmas. Student loan debt so you could be here, at this university. How much debt do you think your family has? Think...

Campus Films has recently been trying to start a few programs out side of their normally scheduled campus films, most recently the Frightmare Theater: a midnight showing every Friday of a different B-rated sci-fi horror film. However, these efforts have been met with a virtual deadwall from the campus. So far, Frightmare Theater has brought in only a handful of students, mostly friends of the Campus Films club member who puts them on, freshman Zack McDowell. The two main problems that McDowell is faced with putting on these alternative shows...

In a world where resources are decreasing and demand increasing, the conflict between humans and animals, or civilization and wildlife, is deepening. The film Milking the Rhino, filmed in 2009, covered the various aspects of community-based wildlife conservation in Africa – specifically, in Il Ngwesi in Kenya, and the Marienfluss Conservancy in Namibia. However, this documentary differed from most wildlife films in that the perspective was flipped – rather than a focus on the wildlife themselves, the film aimed to capture the story of the local people, and the part...

Dr. Paul Harris has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University’s School of Music since 2008. “I was originally brought in here to replace Geoffrey because he was going on sabbatical.” He was planning to only stay at the University for one year teaching a variety of music history classes, “But the academic job market is tough right now and it’s tough for people to find positions. Puget Sound continued to offer me various full-time and part-time positions.” Harris said. Next year will be Harris’ last year of full-time,...