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Bringing the secrets of the Pentagon to the University of Puget Sound

By Keely Coxwell “Chelsea Manning and Snowden are my personal heros,” Daniel Ellsberg said. On Thursday, Oct. 5, students, faculty members and members from the community filled every pew and stood in the back of Kilworth Memorial Chapel to listen to Daniel Ellsberg’s lecture, “SECRETS: From the Pentagon Papers to Snowden and Beyond.” “I was surprised that so many people were there,” Thomas Aquilina ‘19 said. “I went in blind; I didn’t know anything about Daniel Ellsberg or the Pentagon Papers before the lecture.” According to Ellsberg’s website, he “worked...
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Tacoma makes bid for new Amazon headquarters

By Marcelle Rutherfurd Tacoma is making a bid to be the home of Amazon’s second headquarters. The Seattle-based web delivery company is currently searching for a place that fits the necessary requirements to be the home of the building dubbed “HQ2.” “Amazon is outgrowing its hometown of Seattle, and Tacoma hopes that by offering more room to expand and a short commute to the original headquarters, it can beat out Amazon’s other suitors,” Geekwire reported. If Tacoma were to beat out its competitors for HQ2, it would mean big economic...
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