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Consistently one of the top producers of volunteers and participants for both Teach for America and the Peace Corps, the University encourages students to consider these alternative non-profit, service-oriented opportunities for post-graduation. With application deadlines approaching, it is important that students, especially graduating seniors, understand their options and utilize available resources on- and off-campus. Upcoming deadlines for Teach for America are Jan. 11, 2013 and Feb. 15, 2013. According to the Teach for America website, the advantages to applying earlier are: earlier notification of admission status; access to more available...

Rausch Auditorium, housed in the basement of McIntyre Hall, is used by students and professors alike for such events as movie showings, comedy sketch shows and theater productions. But while the screen makes showing movies a simple process, the Theatre Arts community has spoken up about the outdated and impractical lighting for the stage. “The difficulty with Rausch lights is that our lighting options are extremely limited,” Kelly Sener, a Theatre Arts major and Co-Publicity Chair for Student Initiative Theatre, said. According to Sener, the lights are unable to serve...

  The final presidential debate held on Monday, Oct. 22 offered insight into the election beyond the candidates’ ideas on foreign policy. The focus of this debate was foreign policy; however, the candidates frequently reverted to a discussion of domestic, specifically economic, matters. The tendency of the debate to stray from foreign policy reflects the candidates’ attempts to appeal to voters.  Numerous political experts, including the University of Puget Sound’s Politics and Government professor Seth Weinberger, agree that foreign policy is less important to votersthan many of the other factors...

The University of Puget Sound makes a huge effort to improve diversity levels on campus, just as many schools do across the country. Ensuring that a wide range of students from different backgrounds and ethnicities attend a college campus creates a more enriching learning experience for all students. Achieving these high levels of diversity throughout public universities has been threatened recently by a possible ban that could potentially disallow public universities to practice race-conscious admissions. This possible ban has been brought to light because of a recent case that has...

Puget Sound students, faculty and staff welcome families, friends, alumni and members of the community for Homecoming and Family Weekend 2012, which begins today and continues until Sunday, Oct. 28. “I see this weekend as an opportunity for members of the Puget Sound family to realize that their involvement with Puget Sound is a lifetime investment, not just a four-year experience.  It is a chance for alumni to reconnect with campus and with all they love about it,” President Ronald Thomas said. Today, Puget Sound alumni and parents will be...

The Resident Student Association will be hosting the annual Casino Night event on Saturday, Oct. 20. The event will be available to all students and staff on campus, and will last from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. in Marshall Hall in the S.U.B. Casino Night is partly a fundraiser for different parts of Puget Sound. While there is no entry fee to the event, the RSA has stated that a $5 donation is suggested at the door. This money will go toward the RSA Programming Fund, used to financially assist...

As the fall semester continues  and midterms rapidly approach, classes and extra-curricular activities tend to become more stressful. Because of this stress, sickness and discomfort creep up on many students, lingering in the more vulnerable ones.  Stress and sickness leave students feeling weak, slow and disoriented. Keeping a healthy mind and body while maintaining stress levels throughout the school year is an extremely important key to every student’s success. Making sure to receive adequate sleep, keep proper eating habits, and reach out for help or advice when needed will help...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Adelphian Concert Choir.  A celebration will be held on Homecoming and Family Weekend from Oct. 26-28, during which there will be performances by numerous choral groups on campus as well as a choir comprised of Adelphian alumni. This anniversary is more than a celebration of the length of the choir’s existence; it is a celebration of the musical excellence displayed by the Adelphian Concert Choir since its beginnings and the community that has been created in the process of this dedication to...

Students and staff studying in the field of International Political Economy will be delighted to hear that the Kaimas Foundation, a private foundation based in Colorado, has donated $300,000 to help the IPE program support students and faculty studying abroad. Considering the fact that more than three-quarters of IPE students choose to study abroad, this donation provides major assistance to the program. This donation will be made out to the Nicholas Vasilius Endowment Fund, established in 2009, which helps professors in the discipline “to pursue scholarship abroad, mentor student research,...