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By EMILY ALFIN JOHNSON   A visiting professor in the Philosophy department for 2012-2013, Professor Nate Zuckerman spoke with me about how he came to Puget Sound, what it is like to be a visiting faculty member and how he spends his free time his first year in the Pacific Northwest. Where are you from originally? Northern Virginia. I got to grow up on the East Coast, go to school in the middle of the country on the third coast and now work out here. I had never been out...

Spoken Word and Poetry (SWAP) Club held an Open Mic night Nov. 17 in Club Rendezvous starting at 7 p.m. The open mic night was open to all students who wished to perform on stage. Several types of acts took place, from singing to spoken word to rhythmic poetry. Any kind of literary performance was accepted. Constant streams of concurrent sounds seeped into the atmosphere as listeners gathered to see the rounds of performers all standing their ground. Open Mic night began to unfold in thrilling sequence to its poetry...

On November 8, 2012, two days after the election, Robert Jones spoke in Schneebeck Concert Hall about the role religion is playing in American politics and how it is changing. He started off by talking about the issues that voters valued in 2012, which were same-sex marriage and abortion. For the same-sex marriage initiatives, the results were the same percentage wise as public opinion polls taken right before the election. On abortion issues, people were divided on the legality of it, but only 15 percent want it illegal in all...

Students from the University of Puget Sound, University of Washington, Tacoma and Pacific Lutheran University gathered together in the Rotunda on Saturday, Nov. 3 for Puget Sound’s annual entrepreneurial test of the mind. “Innovate! Create!” is a collaborative entrepreneurship competition in which groups of students are given the same problem to solve and three hours to create an inventive approach to correcting it. “Innovate! Create!” is sponsored by Tacoma Entrepreneur Network (TEN): College Edition with the direction of Associate Professor from the School of Business and Leadership Lynnette Claire. Claire...

It turns out that even though sexual violence isn’t the easiest thing to talk about, there are still plenty of Loggers who care enough to not keep silent. Late in the evening of Oct. 30, more than 40 students packed into the Student Diversity Center, filling up all of the couches, seats and most of the floor for a discussion on rape, sexual assault and harassment in the Puget Sound community. Everyone had different reasons for being there, but they all shared similar goals and interests.  Almost everybody had close...

For this entry in the Professor Spotlight series, I spoke with Associate Professor of Japanese Jan Leuchtenberger who returned from sabbatical this past spring, about her personal history, how she came to teach Japanese literature and how she spends her time outside the classroom. Where are you from originally? I was born in Massachusetts, but I never lived anywhere longer than six years till I came here. I have also lived on Long Island, Lema, Peru, then back to New England and Japan. But being here has been nice because...