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The student body will be re-voting for both Senators-at-Large that were elected in this year’s spring 2015 cycle. On April 10, the Honor Court found that Kyle Chong had violated the sanctions levied against him by the Elections Committee but should not have been disqualified from the ASUPS Spring 2015 Elections. Initial charges of corruption were brought up against former senator Kyle Chong in February by Greg Reeser. While he was not found completely guilty by the ASUPS Senate Elections Committee, the committee had Chong’s name taken off the general...

Over Parents’ Weekend, the Lu’au wowed the students and their families with fascinating dance, food and traditions from the Hawai’ian culture. Meanwhile, as we were captivated watching hula dancers onstage, the land from which many of the dances  originated was facing deep turmoil.  Currently on the island of Hawai’i, colloquially  known as the ‘Big Island’ scientists are building a 30-meter telescope projected to be one of the world’s most powerful. What could be wrong about such significant scientific progress, you might ask?  This $1.4 billion telescope has been fueling much...

Reporter Paul Goudarzi-Fry sat down with senior Senator C.J. Quierolo to discuss activism, rhetoric and some of the issues at Puget Sound. The thoughts and opinions expressed in this interview are subjective observations and musings, and do not represent an official stance by Quierolo regarding their work in The Trail, Wetlands, Black Ice or ASUPS media and its affiliates. Paul Goudarzi-Fry: How do you move an audience, as an activist, from awareness to engagement? C.J. Quierolo: I feel like the way that audiences or just… people come to be engaged...

The Rainiers baseball team has partnered with University of Puget Sound to provide a night for Puget Sound affiliates. On April 21, University of Puget Sound students, faculty and alumni are encouraged to attend a Rainiers baseball game at 6:00 p.m. at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma. Tickets are $11.50 each, which includes a ballpark meal. Business Leadership Program member Lauren Thomas got the idea for the event from her BLP mentor who works for the Rainiers, and decided to reach out to the team. “Something that the Rainiers cherish as...

Last Wednesday, April 8, at 8:30 p.m., more than 60 students met in the Wyatt Atrium to participate in Puget Sound’s Take Back the Night Rally and Speak Out. Lindsey Conrad, the Sexuality Issues, Relationships and Gender Education (SIRGE) Coordinator of the Office of Intercultural Engagement, led this event. “Take Back the Night is this annual event that goes on at college campuses all throughout the U.S. and all throughout the world, as a space to reclaim the night and reclaim dangerous spaces, or spaces that are labeled as being...

Relay for Life is a community-based fundraising event run through the American Cancer Society where individuals organize into teams. It is an overnight walk where teams camp out on the track and members from those teams take turns walking throughout the night. This year it will be happening on May 1 starting at 5 p.m. when President Ronald Thomas will be speaking at the celebration for Gordon Klatt. The event will take place at Baker Stadium. The event starts with a survivors’ lap where all cancer survivors at the event...

Sustainability Services is a student-led program that strives to reduce waste on campus with the mantra, “reduce, reuse, recycle.” These students stand by this mission by wheeling around on golf carts to the major waste removal sites and dealing with that waste daily. Most of their efforts do comprise recycling of student waste. For example, recycling one ton of cardboard saves 90kW/hr. of electricity, 46 gallons of oil, and 9 cubic yards of landfill space. However, this April Sustainability Services is refocusing their efforts on reducing the overall production of...

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...