Combat Zone

By Ishaan Gollamudi   Adapting to the Musk administration’s recent freeze on NIH funding, faculty in the Puget Sound Biology Department have been forced to find alternate ways to fund their research. Fortunately, considering the University’s own history of financial difficulties — and its ongoing broke-ness — faculty on campus are well-versed in operating on a shoestring budget. At this point, it might as well be tradition.   As early as 1889, one year after the founding of the University of Puget Sound, the campus’s financial problems became undeniable. After members of...

By Skye Sheehy   In the wake of Trump’s victory and subsequent flurry of executive orders, many marginalized communities are fearful of what the next four years will bring. In the midst of this, the sense-of-humor community is experiencing a different kind of fear. Humor is a valuable tool in coping with political horrors, but those of us who would normally crack jokes about what hypothetical atrocity Trump will sign for next are facing a unique challenge: the power of manifesting.    What would be a run-of-the-mill “wouldn’t it be crazy if...

By Molly Clement  As the 2024 Summer Olympics have come to an end, the Olympic Committee has been reviewing the idea of new sports and events to be added into the 2028 Olympic Games. One of the top contenders is allowing fraternities to compete independently from their country. This means that our very own Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon will be competing against each other in four years. With the potential of competition, our frats are evidently already hard at work training for the upcoming competition. ...

By Emmet O’Connor   The world seems to be going wonky. Whether it is abnormal weather, the decaying state or international plagues, something seems out of whack. For many university students, the upcoming end of the world does signal one thing: an end to student loans.    If the world does descend into a fiery hellscape, there will be some comfort in the fact that no one will have to fill out a FAFSA application again.. One student that was approached said “it would be nice to not have to pay...