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The beginning of college can be nerve-racking: a new chapter in life, a new school, a new city and for some, a new state. However, Puget Sound’s orientation program, Preludes, Perspectives and Passages, consistently proves its capability at alleviating the fear for new students. A few days after arriving on campus, every batch of first years at the University is thrown into the three P’s of orientation—Prelude, Perspectives and Passages—and this year was no exception. Prelude introduces students to college-level academics in a one-day course that gives a rundown on...

The spoken English language contains a wide variety of words, but it lacks a gender-neutral singular third-person pronoun. This means that people who do not identify as either gender must use pronouns that they feel uncomfortable with, or they can use the pronouns “they/them,” which may sound awkward because those pronouns more often imply plurality. A gender-neutral singular third-person pronoun would be useful because it would allow people to be more respectful to those individuals who wish not to be addressed with gendered pronouns. On campus, both students and members...

As the end of the year approaches, more and more students are beginning to make a slow realization: they have 200 dining dollars left. There are plenty of students who have been there. Whether we eat like rabbits and purchase large amounts of inexpensive vegetables or purchase 20 ounce Java Chip smoothies daily, we need to reevaluate the way we think about our dining dollars. For many, dining dollars are just an added bonus to your awesome LoggerCard where food purchases happen with great ease and a bit of technological...

1982 marked the beginning of the construction of a familiar Tacoma landmark: the Tacoma Dome. The Dome, designed by two local architects, won an international design competition. Their design was brought to life 44 million dollars and one year later in 1983. During this time, the city invited its citizens to submit ideas to decorate the top of the Dome. During the submission process the city received a design idea from prominent pop-artist Andy Warhol of a giant flower that would cover the span of the entire dome. The submission...

An education is a long and strenuous process, made harder by the numerous prerequisites students must take in order to graduate. At the University of Puget Sound, the first core class students must take is the freshman seminar. Known as a “Seminar in Scholarly Inquiry” (SSI), this requirement entails two semester-long classes on a wide range of subjects. Courses offered this semester include “Suburbia: Dream or Nightmare?,” “Communicating Forgiveness and Revenge” and the best title of them all, “Dogs.” Over the course of the year, many seminars ask students to...

Netflix and similar video-streaming sites  have become an indispensable part of the college experience. Today, almost everyone has an account. Students use the video-streaming service to watch popular shows like “Breaking Bad,” “How I Met Your Mother” and “House of Cards.” In my experience, college students spend a large chunk of their time watching shows rather than hanging out with friends or studying. This definitely seems like a problematic occurrence on the Puget Sound campus, but to what extent is it affecting the socialization between students? According to Business Week,...

For most college students, summer is not the time to sleep in and relax. With an increasingly competitive job market, college students are faced with the daunting task of getting real world work experience that can help them get a job after college. According to Fox Business, “employers are looking for students who have done meaningful work,” said Lynn O’Shaughnessy, author of The College Solution. “They’re not just interested in students who may have devoted a lot of time studying and getting straight As. They want students who have shown...

The police don’t always get the best press. In movies and TV shows, they are portrayed as highly overbearing, sometimes idiotic, useless and aggressive individuals blinded to the needs of others by their position of privilege or their own bureaucratic agenda. They almost always deter progress rather than promoting it, and are often used as the punch line of a joke. But in some cases, how the police are portrayed in the media is far too real. Police brutality is something so ingrained in modern culture that we have become...

By LUC SOKOLSKY We’ve recently had an early glimpse of the summer-to-come here in Tacoma. Almost everyone loves the sun, so when it makes an appearance, students flock to the outdoors, sitting in front of the S.U.B., playing sports, tanning on the lawn and more. Yes, we crave vitamin D, and we all probably suffer from some degree of seasonal affective disorder whether we realize it or not, but our time in the sun comes at a price. This last month of school is the most academically rigorous, which is...

You might notice that you see about a hundred stickers around campus that say “Loggers Live Green.” These stickers are on everything including water bottles, binders and walls. But how much truth is there to what these stickers say? Puget Sound talks a lot about sustainability, and to some degree, they follow up on those initiatives with actions that prove their commitment to sustainability. There are a great number of practices on this campus, however, that are less than environmentally friendly. There is more that everyone can do to live...