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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...

Editor's note: The following is a verbatim testimony from a survivor of sexual assault. The survivor is a student at the University of Puget Sound and agreed to share their story to bring awareness to the existence of sexual assault and harassment on this campus. I was raped last semester. It happened here in a fraternity on campus. I was friends with him. I trusted him. I had been drinking that night but when I went out with him I didn’t ever think that is how the night was going...

Wetlands Magazine has been inducted as a media department under ASUPS. Previously an ASUPS-sponsored club, Wetlands now joins the roster of literary outlets at Puget Sound on the ASUPS Media Board. Established during the 2011-2012 school year, Wetlands turns a critical eye to social issues, including gender, sexuality, ability, age, class, race, embodiment, intersectional identities and social justice. In 2013, the magazine was included as part of the Gender Studies Program at the University, and has been entirely funded by students until this recent election. “We had long wanted ASUPS...