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On March 7, Emma Klein, a graduate student at Seattle University, visited campus for a discussion on her experience visiting Palestine. Klein is a Jewish American who grew up in Boston, Mass. “My perspective really comes from my Jewish education,” she said during her introduction. Her presentation was sponsored in part by Jewish Voices For Peace, an organization in Seattle, and Justice and Service in Tacoma, or JuST. She is a dancer and a performance artist, and her work with the Israeli-Palestinian movement has led her to testify as a...

Formerly known as Vertical World, the downtown bouldering gym Climb Tacoma is looking more and more like an extension of Puget Sound’s outdoorsy on-campus community. On any given weekday afternoon, you’d be hard-pressed not to spot at least one Puget Sound student decompressing on the climbing walls after a long day of class. Unlike in past years, students’ callouses and toned forearms are no longer the byproducts of Edgeworks’ advanced climbing routes; Climb Tacoma is now flourishing due to its routes, which cater to climbers of every experience level, and...

Jared Paul came to Puget Sound on Friday, March 8 and shared his poetry with the Loggers in attendance through engaging narratives and bold storytelling. Paul is an artist, activist, anti-capitalist, musician and former caseworker. From one glance, Paul may not seem like a loud-spoken radical, but once he’s on stage there’s no denying his passion for activism. “Radical means to get to the truth; to get to the root,” he explained. Paul used to wonder about whether the time and effort he spent fighting for socialism was just making...

“Literally every genre of popular, genuinely ‘American’ music was created by black musicians. Jazz, rock, punk, hip-hop, techno all have roots in African American life and culture,” KUPS’s Kirby Lochner said. KUPS and the Black Student Union (BSU) are halfway through their collaborative film series, which Imari Romeo of BSU hopes will serve to “educate our community on Black culture and its influences in music.” All of the films featured in the series are about Black musicians, and the next two films will share the common thread of either marginalized...

For one golden week we are freed from the grind of academia in favor of an annual rite of passage, one embodied by youthful abandon and excess. Tickets are booked for Las Vegas, Fort Lauderdale and various tropical locales, destinations subconsciously influenced by 90s episodes of The Real World. It’s almost the same as going abroad, right? Bags are packed with extra-strength Advil and cameras are charged; they’ll be needed to record unforgettable nights that may be a little fuzzy in the morning. For this one week it is socially...

The room went quiet as somber images passed across the screen in Rausch Auditorium. Pictures of corpses lying along dirt roads seemed to transport the minds of viewers out of the safe haven of Puget Sound and into El Salvador’s violent streets. This tortured country is where the documentary film, Fruits of War, begins. The film, which opened the first of the Latino Studies Film Series, tracks the lives of four men—Bullet, Rebel, Weazel and Duke—who immigrated to Los Angeles as children to escape the civil war in El Salvador....

Every year, the School of Music grants a large budget to either the orchestra, the wind ensemble or the Adelphian Concert Choir to fund a multi-state tour. Now it is the Adelphians’ turn to fulfill their ambitious plans as they sing throughout Utah, Idaho and Colorado over the course of six days during spring break. This year, Adelphians’ repertoire represents a vast array of cultural and linguistic traditions, including pieces sung in German and Hebrew. The variety of the repertoire displays the scope of the choir’s musical aptitude, hopefully enough...

We’re all familiar with the Career Fair drill: dress for the job you want (not the job you have), keep your handshake firm and don’t get the crisp new copies of your resume wet as you run from Collins in the rain five minutes before the event. On Thursday, Feb. 28, Marshall Hall was filled with students in business-casual attire waiting their turn to talk to representatives from companies and non-profits ranging from Target to Teach for America. Following the event, Career and Employment Services sent an email asking all...

On Feb. 15, 6th Ave. café Bluebeard Coffee welcomed droves of Tacoma artists and art appreciators to join performers in their spacious seating area for a poetry slam—though, frankly, no one seemed very interested in sitting down the whole evening. The slam’s roster largely consisted of current or former contributors to Wrist Magazine, but there were also some Puget Sound students and even a few pleasantly unexpected drop-ins near the end. A couple of the performing Puget Sound students were Sean Tyree (’14), a spoken-word poet also known for heading...

Why bottled water? This question will be posed every time you reach for one of those big plastic Puget Sound water bottles in the S.U.B. In mid-March, Students for a Sustainable Campus will be replacing the labels on bottled water with a simple but bold label that asks, “Why Bottled Water?” Annie Bigalke, SSC officer and campus sustainability coordinator, said that this change is part of the Why Bottled Water Campaign that aims to get the campus community to evaluate why they buy bottled water over drinking tap water when...

On Monday, Feb. 18, Julia Garcia, nationally accredited speaker, author and founder of truality.org, visited the  Puget Sound Fieldhouse to share her time with student athletes and Greek Life. Julia has made a business out of traveling around the world and speaking at different schools and college campuses to spread the word about the TRU movement she created. TRU is an acronym for The Real U, as well as a slogan that expresses being honest and open all the time, even when talking about issues that it hurts to be...