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By Albert Chang-Yoo   On the morning of Oct. 28, a ballot box in Vancouver, Washington went up in flames. The incident was reported to local police around 4 a.m. and followed a string of attempted arson incidents within the Vancouver-Portland metropolitan area. Footage of ballots burning at the scene was filmed by local news outlet KATU and quickly spread over social media. Vancouver, about 135 miles south of Tacoma, is in the midst of a hotly contested Congressional race that has attracted national attention.    Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey told...

By Grace Farrell and Taylor Irwin With Nov. 7 fast approaching, many Puget Sound students are passionate about exercising their right to vote in the upcoming election. University of Puget Sound students have voted at high rates in the past two elections, with 60.2% of eligible students voting in the 2016 election and a record-breaking 84.9% voting in 2020 according to the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement from Tufts University. The Trail spoke to students who were excited about continuing trends of high voter engagement.    U.S. Politics and...

By Charlie Cronk and Sofia Pieralde  On August 1, Dining and Event Services changed the prices of food items sold in campus cafes and diners. Along with these pricing changes, which upset many students, came various changes to the menu items offered. “The change in pricing is something that we do every summer as the spring semester winds down. Our culinary team evaluates the cost of goods, of all the items that we serve on campus, and they do menu adjustments, we add new items, take new items out, and...

  By Jack Leal   This year, there have been delays in students getting their FAFSA information nationwide. Students applying for college in the next academic year have a deadline to submit an application in order to secure financial aid based on their family’s financial need. The federal government rolled out a simpler version of this form due to the Simplification Act, passed on Dec. 27, 2020, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. However, these progressive strides toward making the FAFSA process easier also led to complications....