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I’m sure all of you have seen those equations going around the internet. Sleep plus social life equals bad grades; good grades plus social life equals no sleep; good grades plus sleep equals no social life. But we as students should be able to balance all of those. Studies show that seventy percent of college students do not get enough sleep. Let’s look at the effects of that on students, shall we? Do you want to die? No? Well that alone should be motivation to sleep. Of course it’s only...

Each fall, as the sun finally makes way for the autumn cloud cover and campus settles in for the semester, the season of film festivals begins with gusto. One of the most anticipated festivals this season is the Honors Film Series, whose 2011 Series on the post-apocalypse included Wall-E, Shaun of the Dead and Delicatessen, and left campus eagerly awaiting this year’s installment. I sat down with this year’s student director, Ariana Scott-Zechlin, who is organizing the Honors Film Series for the third year, to talk about the work that...

The decision whether to work or not while being a student at college can be as challenging as deciding what courses to study. How much time it will take, what the responsibilities will be, and whether additional preparation is needed before starting all come into consideration before anyone commits. Once students are involved, however, the rewards immediately begin to compile. A lot of reasoning comes into play when determining why students work. Why seek out a job, why accept one of multiple options, why put the time and effort into...

By CASEY KROLCZYK   It is the beginning of another academic year, and the freshman class is bringing a look of its own to campus. This incoming class is sporting higher SAT scores, more first-generation college students, a narrower gender gap and a higher percentage of students of color. Here’s how the class of 2016 breaks down: (1) 631 enrolling first years, slightly smaller than the current classes. (2) 47:53 male to female ratio, compared to the 43:57 ratio across all classes. (3) 28.6 percent self-identify as students of color...

Walking from class to class may take five, maybe 10 minutes at most. Getting to and from the S.U.B. or Collins Library is not something that takes a lot of planning beforehand. University pavements are maintained and structured to provide ease of access for students and passersby to get from place to place. Step off campus into the worn concrete of Tacoma and suddenly traversing from locations takes a little more effort. Many students have extra forms of mobility like skateboards or bikes, but the general population of those in...

In college it seems like all books ever do are collect dust on our dorm room shelves or clutter our backpacks, but what if in that mess of text books and paperbacks there was $1000? For the last three years, the Collins Memorial Library has essentially been doing just that. The annual Book Collecting Contest, encourages students at the University to develop a deeper appreciation of print material and the value of owning such works, by encouraging them to find a collection out of what they may have at school...