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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...

A position as a Food Justice Programs Assistant is available at University of Puget Sound. “Both positions are new to the University, so a lot of our work involves setting the tone for an officially supported role in food justice, with succession and project sustainability in mind,”  current Food Justice Programs Coordinator Renee Meschi said. Food Justice Programs Assistant oversees two existing food justice food programs: Food Salvage and Backpacks of Hope. Food Salvage donates unsold food from the S.U.B. to the halfway housing, Guadalupe House and New Phoebe House,...

ASUPS Presidential and Vice-Presidential Candidates held debates on March 9th in the Rotunda of the Student Union Building, moderated by current ASUPS Vice-President Marc Fagaragan. The debates provided an opportunity for the tickets to elucidate their platform, and allowed voters to view them in relation to one another. Focusing on the their aspirations for ASUPS to be more engaged with the Campus community, Alexia Ingerson and Sergio Espinzoa and emphasized the fact that neither have been involved in ASUPS student government. Coming from an outsider’s perspective, they seek to improve...

The student-organized Perspective Inspired Experience  (PIE) Conference will be held March 7 at 10 a.m. in Upper Marshall Hall. This conference will feature more than 20 speakers discussing each of the three parts of PIE. Among the speakers are professors from Puget Sound, local activists, educators and directors who are all seeking to answer the tagline posed by the conference: “What frames your world?” “Each speaker… twelve minutes to speak about a passion or an experience or some ‘thing’ that really impacts the way that they see the world,” alumna...

Editor's Note: The following article is an updated version from the article published in the March 6th edition of The Trail. The original article contained certain factual inaccuracies. The Trail is dedicated to providing accurate reporting and apologizes for any misinformation. On Feb. 19, Greg Reeser brought grievances to the formal senate meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Puget Sound regarding Sophomore Senator Kyle Chong and the Pogar/Vallance voting ticket. Reeser’s allegations included misrepresentation, polarizing the senate, manipulation of private conversation and political manipulation to secure further...