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By Val Bauer   The harassment reporting process was discussed at the third conversation in the Wednesday noontime campus series “Campus Climate Brown Bag Conversations.”   Grace Kirchner, Professor of Education, Harassment Reporting Officer (HRO) and Sexual Harassment Complaint Ombudsperson, led the Feb. 1 discussion in the Social Justice Center (SJC), also known as the Sage House. A part of the campus community since 1975, Kirchner has a “deep knowledge of the institution’s history,” Dean and Professor Amy Ryken said.   “The goal of these Wednesday noontime gatherings,” the website...

By Matthew Gulick Career and Employment Services have devised a new way to pop the Puget Sound bubble. For the second consecutive year the University is offering the Summer Fellowship Internship, and new this year, students can participate in the Summer Academic Internship. Both programs are designed to allow students to intern with Tacoma-based nonprofits by providing funding or credit, the Fellowship providing grant money and the Academic Internship giving class credit. Together, they constitute the Summer Immersion Internship Programs. Their focus is on experiential learning, on finding real-world applications...

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 Nayra Halajian Studying abroad can be a crucial experience in a college education. But what if you can’t afford it? In January, the University of Puget Sound temporarily extended merit-based financial aid to the Pacific Rim Study Abroad Program (PacRim) for 2017-18 . This action reversed a measure by the Cabinet of the Board of Trustees approved in Spring 2009. In 2008, the University noticed they had lost a significant amount of money due to the financial burden of Study Abroad programs. Parallel efforts by the International Education Committee...

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...