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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...

For the last couple of weeks, campus has been buzzing with the excitement of what will be, for most students, their first opportunity to vote in a presidential election and have a say in who will lead our country for the next four years. As a liberal arts university, Puget Sound encourages students to evaluate our world with a critical eye and the way we think about motives for voting is no exception. On Thursday, Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Schneebeck concert hall, Robert P. Jones, CEO of the...

On Monday, Oct. 22, Wetlands Magazine screened the film Killing Us Softly 4. The film features Jean Kilbourne and looks at advertisements and how they depict women. Jean Kilbourne has been producing these films and researching the advertisement industry for over 40 years, and she claims that advertisements about women’s body image have “only really gotten worse.” She has devoted much of her adult life to raising awareness about these images and how they have caused a health issue for women because they essentially depict how every woman is supposed...

Get out your jackets and boots and start heading down to the pumpkin patch to pick out your pumpkins! This is your last chance to buy a pumpkin or visit a corn maze or haunted maze in the year 2012. Pierce County has several pumpkin patches that offer pumpkin picking, mazes and even pumpkin sling shots. Double R Farms is located in Puyallup and is open seven days a week. The farm sells pumpkins for 29 cents per pound. They are open seven days a week, weekdays 3-6 p.m. and...