Opinions

Marissa Stafford, first year: “It broadened my understanding of what other people go through and how to teach according to this.  I hope that people will be more understanding of others’ differences.” Talena Graham, first year: “It made me consider it in a new light. Racism is always something that has been present and prevalent in the world, especially in the recent months with the issues in Ferguson, and I think it’s really become a larger appearance in the media lately; it’s definitely something that people have been considering in...

by Jaegar Doty On Sundays, I enjoy working at a daycare. Kids have the unique ability to somehow be both incredibly amusing and unbelievably frustrating. The children in this daycare are typically the former; however, oftentimes I find myself rocking one of the more temperamental children, a young boy dubbed “Baby JP” by the other kids. Typically I rock him until he calms and can return to sticking blocks in his mouth. When initially presented with this task, I was struck by the incredible vulnerability of a child this age....

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...