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Last Wednesday, April 8, at 8:30 p.m., more than 60 students met in the Wyatt Atrium to participate in Puget Sound’s Take Back the Night Rally and Speak Out. Lindsey Conrad, the Sexuality Issues, Relationships and Gender Education (SIRGE) Coordinator of the Office of Intercultural Engagement, led this event. “Take Back the Night is this annual event that goes on at college campuses all throughout the U.S. and all throughout the world, as a space to reclaim the night and reclaim dangerous spaces, or spaces that are labeled as being...

Relay for Life is a community-based fundraising event run through the American Cancer Society where individuals organize into teams. It is an overnight walk where teams camp out on the track and members from those teams take turns walking throughout the night. This year it will be happening on May 1 starting at 5 p.m. when President Ronald Thomas will be speaking at the celebration for Gordon Klatt. The event will take place at Baker Stadium. The event starts with a survivors’ lap where all cancer survivors at the event...

It was a beautiful weekend in Oregon as Junior Jaci Young (Aiea, Hawaii) made her 12th start of the season against conference foes Linfield. Young had a strong performance, but was unable to get the win. Puget Sound’s softball team lost both doubleheaders against Linfield and Willamette on April 3 and 4 while in Oregon. The Loggers’ first game of their road trip was at Linfield. The final score was 8-0 in favor of Linfield. Young was on the mound for the Loggers with a strong showing, giving up only...

Sustainability Services is a student-led program that strives to reduce waste on campus with the mantra, “reduce, reuse, recycle.” These students stand by this mission by wheeling around on golf carts to the major waste removal sites and dealing with that waste daily. Most of their efforts do comprise recycling of student waste. For example, recycling one ton of cardboard saves 90kW/hr. of electricity, 46 gallons of oil, and 9 cubic yards of landfill space. However, this April Sustainability Services is refocusing their efforts on reducing the overall production of...

Editor's note:The following is the report from the Harassment Response Officers detailing all reported incidents of discriminatory harassment. Campus policy requires that the report be published each year; starting now, however, it is being released each semester. The Trail has chosen to print the report in full to remind the community of the unacceptable prevalence of these incidents and the culture that allows them.  The Trail supports the decision to release the report each semester and hope the Office of Deans will continue a culture of transparency. After reading this...

Editor's note: The following is a verbatim testimony from a survivor of sexual assault. The survivor is a student at the University of Puget Sound and agreed to share their story to bring awareness to the existence of sexual assault and harassment on this campus. I was raped last semester. It happened here in a fraternity on campus. I was friends with him. I trusted him. I had been drinking that night but when I went out with him I didn’t ever think that is how the night was going...

Wetlands Magazine has been inducted as a media department under ASUPS. Previously an ASUPS-sponsored club, Wetlands now joins the roster of literary outlets at Puget Sound on the ASUPS Media Board. Established during the 2011-2012 school year, Wetlands turns a critical eye to social issues, including gender, sexuality, ability, age, class, race, embodiment, intersectional identities and social justice. In 2013, the magazine was included as part of the Gender Studies Program at the University, and has been entirely funded by students until this recent election. “We had long wanted ASUPS...

In 2011, the year Mariana Molina ‘14 marticulated at the University of Puget Sound, the Undocumented Students Work Group (USWG) delivered policy recommendations to the President’s Cabinet in an effort to combat the various problems that undocumented students face at the University. Since those recommendations, professors at Puget Sound have begun taking part in developing campus-wide actions. For instance, Professor Oriel Siu’s Drop the “I” Word campaign event with writer and strategist Monica Novoa was a targeted effort to bring awareness to the dehumanizing effects of calling people ‘illegal,’ an...

As midterms came to a head this past week before spring break, University of Puget Sound students were also frantically doing their best to elect a new leadership council for the coming year for the Associated Students of the University of Puget Sound. After weeks of hard work and campaigning, the ASUPS winners were finally announced on March 14. Nakisha Renee Jones was elected president, Alissa Hartnig: Vice President, Sullivan Marsters: sophomore senator, Lydia Bauer: junior senator, C.J. Queirolo: senior senator and Gwen Bartholomay and Beatrix Evans: senators-at-large. In speaking...

At the beginning of the school year, a group of students organized and called themselves the Gender-Neutral Bathroom Action Group. A group called PISSAR—People In Search of Safe and Accessible Restrooms—that was formed at the University six years ago inspired them.  According to a previous member of the group, Skylar Bihl, Assistant Director of CICE and Puget Sound alumnus ‘08, the PISSAR’s goal was to incorporate the disability rights movement into collaboration with queer rights work to create fully accessible restrooms. For many queer students, using a regular bathroom is...