Highlights

The Tamanawas Yearbook has been a staple of the Puget Sound community since 1920, but it is in danger of being discontinued. Rising print costs and the increase of social media usage has made many feel that yearbooks are obsolete. Print media as a whole has been criticized by proponents of online journalism as burdensome and costly. Yearbooks have endured, however, and as a form of commemoration they remain popular. “A physical yearbook has a certain permanence that an online yearbook simply does not,” yearbook editor-in-chief Marissa Croft said. “It’s...

Technological demands have increased at an astronomical rate over the past few years, and the Technology Services department is struggling to keep up. The demand for bandwidth has led to campus-wide internet issues for students and staff alike. The latest statistics from Technology Services indicate that each student on campus carries, on average, more than four devices that utilize the campus’s internet. This equates to over 10,000 electronic devices, wired and wireless, demanding online access. To accommodate this need, Puget Sound has had to use financial and technological resources more...