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Loggers love to eat. For the first year or two of our lives in which our parents no longer put food on our plates, we students eat at the school cafeteria. It was a brave new world, the S.U.B.—six different kinds of sandwich meat, breakfast for dinner … the possibilities were practically endless! Or so we thought. After our seventh day in a row of burritos, we realized we needed to escape. Most of us took solace in Safeway and the Metropolitan Market nearby, but there are many more creative...

The last issue of The Trail featured a story about Puget Sound being awarded a spot in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges, a huge honor for a school that puts a lot of effort into spreading ideas of sustainability and general environmental friendliness. On paper, it’s very hard to argue with the commitment shown by the students, faculty and bigwigs in Jones to bolster the reputation of the University as a leader in campus sustainability, state- and nationwide. The abundance of clubs and organizations devoted to sustainability,...

The Race and Pedagogy Chism Series invited Professor Walidah Imarisha to Puget Sound last week as one of their Artists-in-Residence to lead a multi-media presentation on the role of youth in educational justice. Imarisha is an educator, writer, professor, organizer and spoken word artist. She has taught in Portland State University’s Black Studies and Women’s Studies Departments, and Southern New Hampshire University’s English Department. She has toured nationally and internationally with various groups performing, educating and challenging her audiences. Before leaving Puget Sound, Imarisha hosted a poetry workshop titled “Our...

The Puget Sound branch of the International Honor Society in Psychology, Psi Chi, held a philanthropy event in conjunction with the Psychology Club on Friday, April 23 to raise money for the National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association. The event, Psi Pie and Tie Dye Day, provided attendees an opportunity to buy and dye t-shirts picturing the iconic psychologist Sigmund Freud with the words Pink Freud printed underneath. Initially it was to be held outside but weather made this an unfortunate impossibility. However, the rain did not dampen the philanthropic...

On Friday, April 26, students from all over the country filed into Trimble Forum to kick off Puget Sound’s second Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. Noel Carroll, professor of philosophy at CUNY graduate center and one of the leading contemporary philosophers of art, presented a lecture on his upcoming book, The Philosophy of Humor: An Introduction for the keynote address. “We had the first conference last year and it turned out to be a great success so we decided to have another one this year,” Professor Ariela Tubert of the Philosophy Department...

“We turn to literature to deal with many things,” Professor Martha Webber said as she opened the English Coffeehouse Open Mic Night on April 17. The English department puts on an open mic event once a semester, allowing students and professors alike to gather and share their work. About 20 people gathered in the Murray Boardroom for the event. Writers shared several forms of literature; there were multiple personal essays and a short story, but the bulk of the night’s performances consisted of poems of varying lengths and styles. While...

Seattle Pacific University held its 7th annual Social Venture Plan Competition on Wednesday, April 17.  The SVPC was sponsored by their School of Business and Economics’ Center for Applied Learning, and was designed to encourage students who wish to develop projects that will solve social needs across the globe. The purpose was to create a platform for students to develop their entrepreneurial skills by learning how to engage various cultures and change the world. A social venture is an entrepreneurial activity that relates to both financial and social areas. Social...