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Get out your jackets and boots and start heading down to the pumpkin patch to pick out your pumpkins! This is your last chance to buy a pumpkin or visit a corn maze or haunted maze in the year 2012. Pierce County has several pumpkin patches that offer pumpkin picking, mazes and even pumpkin sling shots. Double R Farms is located in Puyallup and is open seven days a week. The farm sells pumpkins for 29 cents per pound. They are open seven days a week, weekdays 3-6 p.m. and...

Two very necessary components of life are food and safety. Everyone needs to eat, and nobody wants to be harmed. Students at Puget Sound who express any interest in these areas should know that there is a committee on campus for just those two things: the Food and Safety Committee. “I never heard of it before, though,” a S.U.B. worker said. The Food and Safety Committee was started by John Hickey, former Director of Food and Safety Services. Although both committees were not linked to begin with, Hickey had supervised...

California recently became the first state in the union to ban what is commonly known as “gay therapy” for minors. In an article on NBCnews.com discussing the new ban, Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights said, “Governor Brown has sent a powerful message of affirmation and support to LGBT youth and their families. This law will ensure that state-licensed therapists can no longer abuse their power to harm LGBT youth and propagate the dangerous and deadly lie that sexual orientation is an illness or disorder...

The Intersection of Spirituality and Gender writing workshop and talking circle took place Sept. 24 in Trimble Hall. The session aimed to address stereotypes surrounding how we shaped our identities and where our spirituality comes into play with our intrinsic self. Associate Professor Amy Ryken sponsored the event with much support from other groups such as Puget Sound Queer Alliance, Collin’s Memorial Library, Gender Alliance of the South Sound (GASS) and TransSpiritual Alliance. Wren Walker Robbins, TransSpirit council member and teacher of professional development, led the meeting with a discussion...