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By Parker Barry Photo Credits To: Parker Barry St. Petersburg captures the meaning of melancholy: grey weighs on the city regardless of the sun’s presence. It makes sense that Dublin and St. Petersburg are two cities famous for their depressing poetry and prose. James Joyce, an Irish unapologetic alcoholic genius — starving from poverty and going blind from a condition called “Iritis” (a very painful inflammation in the colored part of the eye), wrote some of the best prose of the twentieth century and practically invented the stream-of-consciousness narrative style....

By Angela Cookston Professor Dexter Gordon, who started at the University of Puget Sound in 2002, has had a profound impact on the on and off-campus communities alike. From changing the on-campus conversation about race to teaching freshman seminars, he is a trailblazer for the African American Studies and Communication departments. Gordon is currently the director of the African American Studies program, and is also a professor of Communication. As a professor, Gordon faces many challenges. “I often teach … these issues that students have very little experience in a...