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By Mercer Stauch   On Nov. 6, 2024, library student employee August Grey (‘27) discovered and reported vandalism in Collins Memorial Library’s main floor men’s restroom. The message, written before the 2024 presidential election, read: “I hope Trump wins so that pedo men stop going into women’s bathrooms.” The message was accompanied by a swastika symbol and the acronym “KKK.”   Security Services, which chose not to comment due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, removed the vandalism and filed a report within an hour of Grey’s alert. Before that,...

By Andrew Benoit   Former President Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States, decisively defeating Vice President Kamala Harris by carrying most battleground states including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina and Georgia. Harris, who conceded to Trump on Wednesday, consistently underperformed compared to Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. Despite the effort by the Harris campaign to target moderate Republicans and suburban white women, which included an endorsement by Liz Cheney and a promise to put a Republican in Harris’s cabinet, registered Republicans voted for Trump at...

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...