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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...

Okay, seniors. The time is approaching when many of you will be released from the loving arms of Puget Sound and will enter the big wide world of the nine-to-five. Of course, Career and Employment Services tries to provide several resources to make this transition a little bit smoother, one of which is the upcoming career fair on Thursday, Feb. 28 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sue Dahlin, CES's Assistant Director for Career Advising, believes that the Career Fair is an opportunity that students shouldn’t miss. “The Career Fair...

From the first moments of his performance on Feb. 10, it was already clear that Bill Cosby wasn’t here to offer us an ordinary comedic experience. His deadpan facial expressions and stilted timing, which defined his comedic style on television shows such as The Cosby Show and Kids Say the Darndest Things, were as intact as they were twenty years ago. Cosby’s charm was also potent as ever when he proudly voiced his appreciation for the Northwest landscape. “I never realized just how beautiful this area is,” he said. However,...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” While the Declaration of Independence was used as a document of protection against the perils of British tyranny, it failed to acknowledge the bondage and servitude that ran rampant through cultures of people living within “the land of the free.” When a majority race of whites dedicated their life in the pursuit of blacks to...

For those on campus who lament the fact that there is only one musical performed at Puget Sound every four years, you are in luck. Director Sara Freeman has chosen contemporary musical Spring Awakening as this year’s Main Stage production, which will open in a few short weeks on campus, fusing morality, sexuality and rock and roll. A true coming-of-age story, Spring Awakening is a powerful account of teenagers exploring the tumult of burgeoning sexuality in the face of adulthood. The play explores themes of sexual suppression and questions the...

As we all know, winter break is just around the corner. Finals week and all the stresses that breed from our impending exams are leading the way, but pretty soon those tests will fade into the bitter chill of memory instead. What is there to do now that the academic portion of this year is coming to a close? Do we fall apart and plead for winter homework? Fastidiously hold onto every chapter of Kierkegaard left in our collection? Or do we take the time out to get to know...