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By Nayra Halajian “Puget Sound has not declared itself a sanctuary campus,” the University website states, “but continues to be deeply committed to offering services and resources that help our students achieve their educational goals, including the provision of accurate and specific information regarding privacy protections and support for students.” On Friday Feb. 3 from 12 pm to 3 pm, “Here to Stay: Sanctuary Campus Learn-In” was held in the Rotunda to discuss the current University policy for protecting all members on campus. The Learn-In began with a reading of...

By Val Bauer A man was shot and wounded on Friday, Jan. 20 during protests outside a speech given by Milo Yiannopoulous at the University of Washington (UW) Seattle campus. The protests were both directed toward Yiannopoulos and Donald Trump, as the speech took place on Inauguration Day. Yiannopoulos, a controversial alt-right writer for Breitbart News Network, was invited to speak at UW by student-run club University of Washington College Republicans (UWCR), which was met with resistance from members of the UW community. Community members created a change.org petition “Ban...

By Aidan Regan With the start of the semester, ASUPS is particularly busy. Right now, each ASUPS Senator is working on a project. “Every single one…represents some kind of a demonstrated need campus,” Senate Chair Kyle Chong said. “The senate is…working around the clock to make sure it can do the work for the student body,” he continued. Of the Senate’s projects, several seek to bridge the gap between the rest of the student body and its leadership in ASUPS. “We want to let students know that we’re actually here,”...

By Keely Coxwell   In a letter to the campus on Jan. 16, 2016, after a flier that listed 22 people with inflammatory descriptions attached to each name, University President Crawford wrote, “while the university supports and defends freedom of expression, it has clear policies prohibiting harassment of any kind. Information about those policies and related information appears below.”   The integrity code defines harassment as, “conduct of any type directed against a person (or group of persons) because of his or her (or their) race, color national origin, religion,...

By Aneyceia Brim Dec 6th, 2016 The club has received new leadership after being inactive for months. Monica Dymerski, a second-year transfer student who plans to graduate in 2018 and Leslie Machabee, a first-year student, have been the driving force behind restoring the club. VOX is a national organization targeted towards college students. “Vox” is the Latin word for voice. The club encourages young adults to get involved in lobbying for reproductive rights and healthcare. The club directly supports Planned Parenthood, a national clinic that offers reproductive health services and...

By Aidan Regan Dec 6th, 2016 “We are asking the University to…not be complacent like we were during WWII when our Japanese students were taken from campus and our University did nothing,” Amanda Diaz, a Puget Sound junior, said about the petition to classify Puget Sound as a sanctuary campus. “Sanctuary campuses are those that promise to not assist federal immigration officials in the investigation of the immigration status of members of a campus community—students, faculty, and staff alike,” President Crawford wrote in his campus-wide email responding to the petition...

By Nayra Halajian  On the afternoon of Monday Nov. 7, University Chaplain, Reverend Dave Wright, sent out an email to the campus community regarding the death of a fellow Logger, Eric Heins.  Eric is remembered as “a profound blessing to his family and friends,” in an obituary written by his parents.  “He honed his debate skills in school as well as over the family’s dinner table. He tasted the college life at University of Puget Sound. He was able to experience loving relationships. The pleasures and highlights of his life lie...

By Nayra Halajian On the afternoon of Monday Nov. 7, University Chaplain, Reverend Dave Wright, sent out an email to the campus community regarding the death of a fellow Logger, Eric Heins.  Eric is remembered as “a profound blessing to his family and friends,” in an obituary written by his parents.  “He honed his debate skills in school as well as over the family’s dinner table. He tasted the college life at University of Puget Sound. He was able to experience loving relationships. The pleasures and highlights of his life lie...

By Aneyceia Brim The Standing Rock protests have garnered nationwide support, and students from Puget Sound are no exception. About 100 students attended Matt Remle’s talk about Standing Rock’s opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline on Nov. 10 and joined in the Medicine Creek Treaty Tribes Stand With Standing Rock’s protest. The protest took place on Saturday, Nov. 12 in downtown Tacoma. Matt Remle is one of the leaders in the Standing Rock movement and a counselor in the Marysville/Tulalip school district, roughly an hour away from Puget Sound. He...

By Molly Wampler “Food is the essence of culture, from the collection, to the preparation, to the serving then eating of food; it is what makes us who we are,” the first panel of the “Salish Bounty: Traditional Native American Foods of Puget Sound” exhibit currently at Collins Memorial Library reads. These panels primarily quote from a book called Feeding the People, Feeding the Spirit, by Elise Krohn and Valerie Segrest. On loan from the Burke Museum at the University of Washington, this exhibit showcases a history of Salish food...

By Keely Coxwell  The accessibility of our campus is constantly improving, but is not yet fully accessible to everyone.  The Director of Student Accessibility and Accommodations (SAA), Peggy Perno said, “ mission is to remove obstacles...by providing support and accommodations to otherwise qualified students with both visible and invisible disabilities. We are also committed to promoting a universal design to improve the environment for all citizens and to decrease the need to ask for special accommodations.”  Perno said that 20% of the student body goes through her office at some...