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“We turn to literature to deal with many things,” Professor Martha Webber said as she opened the English Coffeehouse Open Mic Night on April 17. The English department puts on an open mic event once a semester, allowing students and professors alike to gather and share their work. About 20 people gathered in the Murray Boardroom for the event. Writers shared several forms of literature; there were multiple personal essays and a short story, but the bulk of the night’s performances consisted of poems of varying lengths and styles. While...

Seattle Pacific University held its 7th annual Social Venture Plan Competition on Wednesday, April 17.  The SVPC was sponsored by their School of Business and Economics’ Center for Applied Learning, and was designed to encourage students who wish to develop projects that will solve social needs across the globe. The purpose was to create a platform for students to develop their entrepreneurial skills by learning how to engage various cultures and change the world. A social venture is an entrepreneurial activity that relates to both financial and social areas. Social...

Relay For Life is an annual global fundraising event to raise money and support for cancer research and cancer survivors. Relay For Life started right here on the Puget Sound campus in 1985, when a surgeon named Dr. Gordy Klatt decided he wanted to raise money for the American Cancer Society to help his patients. Klatt came to the University and walked and ran for 24 hours around Baker Stadium. During his effort, people in the audience donated money and cheered him on. Klatt raised $27,000 on that day to...

April 12-14 was Spring Family Weekend, which explains the spike in families and strange faces on campus and in the surrounding community. In addition to the various activities like Lu’au, award ceremonies and guest speakers on campus, there were several activities off campus in the Proctor district. These activities are referred to collectively as Spring Zing, an event that is put on by ASUPS and the North Proctor Merchants’ Association to align with Spring Family Weekend, which is more strictly put on through the University. The main draws to this...

“I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter the time or the place, but I’m here with family, with brothers.” This was how Father Alejandro Solalinde greeted his audience on Wednesday, April 10—with kindness, sincerity and peace. Solalinde was the keynote speaker for Puget Sound’s eighth annual Spanish Matters Colloquium, Narratives of Immigration: Latino Studies in the 21st Century. “The Spanish Matters Colloquium has been a forum to share research in our respective academic areas. It has also served as a platform to showcase the work of prominent undergraduate and graduate students...

Eco-friendly initiatives abound on campus, from PrintGreen to the recent campaign to chasten those who still favor the obscenely large plastic water bottles at the S.U.B. It should come as no surprise, then, that Earth Day­­—April 22—turns into Earth Week at Puget Sound, celebrating current sustainability efforts and promoting eco-awareness. Kaitlan Ohler, Sustainability Program Manager for Sustainability Services, and Annie Bigalke, Student Sustainability Outreach Coordinator, talk about the upcoming Earth Week events, particularly the electronic waste campaign and collection drive hosted by Sustainability Services. In 2005, President Ron Thomas established...

KUPS and the Black Student Union have recently paired up to bring a series of films to campus that center on the lives of black musicians. There are four films in the series, which has been playing since the end of February. KUPS and BSU partnered with The Catherine Gould Foundation to show the third film Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians on April 4 in Rausch auditorium. The director of the documentary, Ben Harbert, was present at the screening to discuss the direction he took in the...

The Slater Museum of Natural History finds its home in Thompson Hall, the science building. Typically, the museum displays several stuffed large birds of prey, and much more taxidermy that is available for young interested scientists to investigate. However, the museum took a step back from methodical scientific exploration of the world this spring when the doors were opened to an art exhibit displaying pieces that combined the fields of the arts and natural science. The pieces displayed in the exhibit ranged from the fully scientific and technical­­—an armadillo preserved...