A Seattle-based research firm has concluded that Pierce County had the highest amount of pollution out of the 12 Washington counties surveyed. This score, on the “Sound Behavior Index” scale, resulted in the country being the lowest in terms of environmental friendliness and highest in impact to the surrounding ecology. It has already been established that the Puget Sound population contributed to severe damage of the ocean and the surrounding area. This study, which pinpoints the impact from region to region, showed San Juan county as having the...

  Puget Sound is now home to the UPS Magic Club, an organization of students dedicated to the Magic: The Gathering fantasy card game. Players and those wanting to learn are welcome to join and sit in to watch, participate and experience the MTG community with their peers. The UPS Magic Club meets every Tuesday and Thursday from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Thompson 310. The card game has been played since 1993, stemming from northwestern Washington and spreading around the world. Tournaments are hosted from coast to coast...

    Puget Sound spring break will last from March 18 to March 22. For that time, campus will remain open for residents of the University and food services will be limited to students and faculty. While a number of students choose to remain in the area for that time, several others will be journeying home for the week. Others will be participating in campus-sponsored activities and events. Puget Sound Outdoors will be taking students adventuring through the northwest on their Spring Break Trips 2013 program. Events consist of day...

After a national search for potential candidates, Michael Benitez Jr. will be appointed to serve as the Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at Puget Sound. This position will provide Benitez with the responsibility of organizing and strategizing Puget Sound’s Plan for Diversity in order to create the most inclusive learning environment possible for the University’s students. “This includes overseeing access and achievement programs, monitoring and evaluating the campus environment, developing new resources, and collaborating with campus leadership, faculty, and students to advance the college’s diversity goals,” the University’s press release...

For over half a century, the seven houses of Greek Row at Puget Sound have been encouraging students on campus to join the fraternities and sororities available on campus. This spring, once again, the Greek community will welcome Potential New Members (PNMs to the houses for various events, in order to let students decide which house is best for them. Formal recruitment for joining a sorority or fraternity will take place during the first couple of weeks of the spring semester. Registration forms are available on the Puget Sound website....

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...

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 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...

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,...