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At the beginning of the school year, a group of students organized and called themselves the Gender-Neutral Bathroom Action Group. A group called PISSAR—People In Search of Safe and Accessible Restrooms—that was formed at the University six years ago inspired them.  According to a previous member of the group, Skylar Bihl, Assistant Director of CICE and Puget Sound alumnus ‘08, the PISSAR’s goal was to incorporate the disability rights movement into collaboration with queer rights work to create fully accessible restrooms. For many queer students, using a regular bathroom is...

A position as a Food Justice Programs Assistant is available at University of Puget Sound. “Both positions are new to the University, so a lot of our work involves setting the tone for an officially supported role in food justice, with succession and project sustainability in mind,”  current Food Justice Programs Coordinator Renee Meschi said. Food Justice Programs Assistant oversees two existing food justice food programs: Food Salvage and Backpacks of Hope. Food Salvage donates unsold food from the S.U.B. to the halfway housing, Guadalupe House and New Phoebe House,...

ASUPS Presidential and Vice-Presidential Candidates held debates on March 9th in the Rotunda of the Student Union Building, moderated by current ASUPS Vice-President Marc Fagaragan. The debates provided an opportunity for the tickets to elucidate their platform, and allowed voters to view them in relation to one another. Focusing on the their aspirations for ASUPS to be more engaged with the Campus community, Alexia Ingerson and Sergio Espinzoa and emphasized the fact that neither have been involved in ASUPS student government. Coming from an outsider’s perspective, they seek to improve...

The student-organized Perspective Inspired Experience  (PIE) Conference will be held March 7 at 10 a.m. in Upper Marshall Hall. This conference will feature more than 20 speakers discussing each of the three parts of PIE. Among the speakers are professors from Puget Sound, local activists, educators and directors who are all seeking to answer the tagline posed by the conference: “What frames your world?” “Each speaker… twelve minutes to speak about a passion or an experience or some ‘thing’ that really impacts the way that they see the world,” alumna...

Editor's Note: The following article is an updated version from the article published in the March 6th edition of The Trail. The original article contained certain factual inaccuracies. The Trail is dedicated to providing accurate reporting and apologizes for any misinformation. On Feb. 19, Greg Reeser brought grievances to the formal senate meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Puget Sound regarding Sophomore Senator Kyle Chong and the Pogar/Vallance voting ticket. Reeser’s allegations included misrepresentation, polarizing the senate, manipulation of private conversation and political manipulation to secure further...

This year’s Associated Students of the University of Puget Sound (ASUPS) Spring Elections are approaching. While campaigning officially began on Friday, Feb. 27, polls will open on Monday, March 9 at 6 p.m. and close on Saturday, March 14 at noon. “Voting will be online, our Director of Technology Services will make the ballot and students will just enter their username and password to validate that they are students, and vote according to their class. All students will get to vote for President and Vice President,” ASUPS Vice President Marc...

University of Puget Sound’s Forensic Parliamentary Debate team has qualified for the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence (NPTE). This year’s tournament will be hosted at William Jewell College in Missouri from March 20-22. The Policy Debate team is in the process of qualifying for the National Debate Tournament (NDT) hosted at the University of Iowa from April 3-6. The Forensics team competes in two tracks: “Policy, which has one topic for a whole year... Parliamentary Debate, which has a new topic each round,” junior and Forensics team member CJ Queirolo...

On Jan 31, the University of Puget Sound Philosophy Department partnered with Access Program students from Foss High School to participate in the Ethics Bowl, hosted by the University of Washington. The Director of Access Programs, Joseph Colon, was excited to see an event like this become available. An ethics bowl is a philosophy-based competition. It is a collaborative, competitive event during which teams of students analyze various ethical issues and put together a case. They then present their cases to the judges. The Ethics Bowl encourages teamwork, critical thinking,...