Arts & Events

Between midterms, finals, surprise essays and the ever-so-dreaded idea of 8 a.m. classes, it’s fair to say that college can be a stressful experience. When faced with the challenges of what amounts to a usual college week, it’s important for the students of the University of Puget Sound to have somewhere where they can forget their troubles and laugh for a while. Luckily, there’s a group on campus that can help with that. They’re called Ubiquitous They, and they’ve been making students laugh for nearly 15 years. Started originally as...

Did you ever play the nonsensically-titled GameCube game “Sonic Adventure 2 Battle?” Well, it was actually an American port of a Dreamcast game, but do you remember the gem-hunting levels, featuring Knuckles the inexplicably red echidna and that bat chick who had literally no part in the history of the Sonic franchise until that game’s 2002 release? OK, last question: could you do me a favor and put this website into your preferred web browser: https://ecovirtual.bandcamp.com/track/lavender-club? Don’t try to tell me you can’t see the connection here. Take your pick;...

What do you get when you give a well known senior his own morning show on KUPS? If you’re a student who tunes into the University’s renowned radio station Thursday or Friday mornings, you may have just found out. Beginning Thursday, Sept. 25, Lee Pennebaker took to the airwaves and debuted his new early-morning talk show: “Ain’t Nothin’ But A Morning Show.” On the inaugural show, he sat down with Passages co-coordinators Brandon Johnson and Brad Heusinkveld, speaking with them about their experience with the program this year. The show...

University of Puget Sound’s French Film Series opened with its first film, Les Quatre Cents Coup, on Sept. 24. The following two films in the series, Á Bout de Souffle and Cléo de 5 á 7 will be shown on Oct. 15 and Nov. 19, respectively. The French Film Series is an event hosted by the newly established University of Puget Sound French Studies department. “This is the first semester we actually are a department of French Studies. We haven’t had in a couple years,” Arnaud Perret, French Studies professor...

This summer, two students created stunning works of art as part of the University’s summer research program. After applying for and being awarded summer research grants in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, seniors Bianca Jarvis and Karina Harper devoted ten weeks to the research of a subject of their choosing. Harper took the opportunity to travel to France, inspired by native Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s empathetic portraiture of the late 1800s, hoping to locate or create a fuller understanding of what the portrait means in today’s increasingly digital and shutter-happy society....

With the last day of class fast approaching, what better way to celebrate the end of another semester than sitting on Karlen Quad enjoying some of everyone’s favorite poplar music? “Pops is a concert on last day of classes—the afternoon concert on last day of classes—where wind ensemble and members of concert band play popular music,” sophomore music education major Minna Stelzner said. Specifically, “soundtrack music with student conductors,” sophomore music education major Stephen Abeshima added. “The purpose of Pops is three fold: it’s final for wind ensemble, the final...