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Ubiquitous They provided their audience with some much-needed comic relief and an escape from the stresses of student life as they energetically performed their bi-annual sketch comedy show on Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30. Comedy sketch shows are composed of several short scenes, typically under 10 minutes long, that explore a certain concept, event or situation. Each sketch was student-written, directed and performed. While the title of the show was You. Are. A. Machine—a line from one of the sketches—the show covered  myriad topics, from bringing home the...

Hunger is a growing problem nationwide. Too often, advocates of food  justice look overseas to other countries to implement strategies for eradicating hunger, but the need for food does not necessarily stretch that far. One in six people living in America has to deal with hunger. Washington State’s food insecurity rate is above average. Food insecurity refers to the USDA’s measure of lack of access to enough food for an active lifestyle for all household members, and limited availability of nutritional foods. Food insecurity may reflect a household’s need to...

Senior Eryn Eby has been awarded two prestigious scholarship opportunities, one from the Luce Scholarship Program and another with the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Both programs are designed to give graduating students like Eby the opportunity to explore their passions and develop skills that will help them make the world a better place. Eby is a graduating in May with a degree in Politics and Government and a focus in Global Development Studies. Her passion is in international relations and she hopes that the opportunity she has been given will...

On March 7, Emma Klein, a graduate student at Seattle University, visited campus for a discussion on her experience visiting Palestine. Klein is a Jewish American who grew up in Boston, Mass. “My perspective really comes from my Jewish education,” she said during her introduction. Her presentation was sponsored in part by Jewish Voices For Peace, an organization in Seattle, and Justice and Service in Tacoma, or JuST. She is a dancer and a performance artist, and her work with the Israeli-Palestinian movement has led her to testify as a...

Formerly known as Vertical World, the downtown bouldering gym Climb Tacoma is looking more and more like an extension of Puget Sound’s outdoorsy on-campus community. On any given weekday afternoon, you’d be hard-pressed not to spot at least one Puget Sound student decompressing on the climbing walls after a long day of class. Unlike in past years, students’ callouses and toned forearms are no longer the byproducts of Edgeworks’ advanced climbing routes; Climb Tacoma is now flourishing due to its routes, which cater to climbers of every experience level, and...

Jared Paul came to Puget Sound on Friday, March 8 and shared his poetry with the Loggers in attendance through engaging narratives and bold storytelling. Paul is an artist, activist, anti-capitalist, musician and former caseworker. From one glance, Paul may not seem like a loud-spoken radical, but once he’s on stage there’s no denying his passion for activism. “Radical means to get to the truth; to get to the root,” he explained. Paul used to wonder about whether the time and effort he spent fighting for socialism was just making...

“Literally every genre of popular, genuinely ‘American’ music was created by black musicians. Jazz, rock, punk, hip-hop, techno all have roots in African American life and culture,” KUPS’s Kirby Lochner said. KUPS and the Black Student Union (BSU) are halfway through their collaborative film series, which Imari Romeo of BSU hopes will serve to “educate our community on Black culture and its influences in music.” All of the films featured in the series are about Black musicians, and the next two films will share the common thread of either marginalized...

For one golden week we are freed from the grind of academia in favor of an annual rite of passage, one embodied by youthful abandon and excess. Tickets are booked for Las Vegas, Fort Lauderdale and various tropical locales, destinations subconsciously influenced by 90s episodes of The Real World. It’s almost the same as going abroad, right? Bags are packed with extra-strength Advil and cameras are charged; they’ll be needed to record unforgettable nights that may be a little fuzzy in the morning. For this one week it is socially...

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....