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A new financial aid initiative known as the Tacoma Public Schools Commitment will offer local students a chance to attend the University of Puget Sound at a lower cost. From fall 2015 onward, the University is committed to meeting the full demonstrated financial need of all graduates of Tacoma public high schools who receive an offer of admission. Students must be enrolled for three consecutive years with the exception of military students. Transfer and home schooled students are not eligible. The University will meet this financial need by making up...

  Anonymity has always been something that attracts people due to its ability to create “freedom” and “safety.”  The Puget Sound Confessions page has evolved. Students are using an app called Yik Yak to post anonymously. Yik Yak is a seven-month old app that has made its way on to Puget Sound’s campus. The app is self-described as an anonymous gossip app. “It was created by Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll in 2013,” according to Yik Yak’s website. “It just blew up,” co-creator Buffington stated on Yik Yak’s website. “One...

Diversions Café is starting a new sustainability program called Grizz Groundz. The program will include packaging used coffee grounds and giving them back to the campus community; neighbors, students, faculty and staff will be free to take home the used grounds. Community members can use these coffee grounds in their gardens, as coffee can be reused for many types of soil enhancement; this serves the dual purpose of reducing the campus’ carbon footprint as well. The community can pick up Grizz Grounds outside the Diversions Café/Wheelock Student Center entrance. “Instead...

This September, the Race and Pedagogy Initiative will be hosting its third National Conference. First appearing in 2006, and again in 2010, the conferences are collaborative efforts with the University of Puget Sound and members of the South Sound community, intended to encourage students, educators and other community members to think critically about racism and issues pertaining to racial equality. The conference will host a number of different speakers from around the country, each one a distinguished academic in their respective fields. The university is especially lucky to host the...

Puget Sound seniors Kelsey Crutchfield-Peters and Haley Andres have been awarded the prestigious $28,000 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. They were two of 43 winners chosen from over 700 student candidates worldwide and the only ones from the Pacific Northwest. Watson scholars are given the opportunity to pursue a research project in four countries for a year. Haley Andres, a double major in painting and psychology, will be researching the use of art therapy in helping victims of trauma through their recovery. Her project is titled, “Art, Trauma, and Creative Healing:...

Physics professor Andrew Rex recently wrote a book entitled Commonly Asked Questions in Physics. Published in February, this book is intended for anyone who would like a concise, introductory explanation of modern physics. “This book is definitely going for a broad audience,” Rex said. “I wouldn’t say the whole general public, it’s not like a novel, but there are a lot of people that are curious about physics.” Rex, who is also the chair of the physics department, was propositioned by the publishers of the Commonly Asked Questions series to...

Relay for Life has been involved in a lot of fundraising this year to prepare for their annual event on Saturday, May 3 from 4 p.m.—10 a.m. Students and families can participate individually or in teams. Some teams camp out overnight on the field and each one is asked to have at least one participant on the track at all times doing laps. The event honors cancer victims and survivors while raising money for cancer research. According to the Relay for Life website, over “14 million cancer survivors” will celebrate...

On April 22, a special re-election will be held for proposition no. 1, which failed to pass last November. Sponsored by the Metropolitan Park District of Tacoma, this proposition would use approximately $198,000,000 for street improvements and safety upgrades. “From what I’ve read, it seems to be a relatively reasonable solution to keep Tacoma safe and maintained,” freshman Katelyn Rosen said. The money would be generated by placing an additional two percent tax on the revenue of utility companies such as electric, telephone and natural gas companies. However, almost 75...