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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...

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...