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...

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...

There are the Emmys, the Tony Awards, the Grammys and the Video Music Awards. The Peoples Choice Awards, the Golden Globes and the Country Music Awards. You pick a category, there is an annual awards show dedicated to rooting out the best of the best. There is even the Kids Choice Awards, a youth-centric event that exposes children to the award show racket, starting them off young on the road to award show consumption. Award shows are staples in the American television diet, but not for the right reasons. The...

The dream of the 90’s may be alive in Portland, but that doesn’t mean they have a monopoly on throwback fashion. On the Puget Sound campus, our style of dress is still influenced by the most recent trends. If a stranger were placed on our campus to observe the student body and their fashion practices, what would they notice? It is my belief that they would recognize three distinct fashions worn by Puget Sound students, which I would categorize as the outdoorsperson, the athlete and the ever-popular ‘hipster’ style. The...

Watching popular television is a cornerstone of modern social interaction. When a new season of a favorite TV show airs, it is always a highly anticipated event, and the only thing better than watching the premiere episode is talking about it with your friends the next day. However, what do you do if TV is not your forte? How can you connect with people that live for TV shows? All of the jokes, references and insights are foreign and meaningless, bombarding you constantly to no avail. For example, if you...

Masturbation is a common practice. In a survey run by the Journal of Sexual Medicine, by the age of 16-17 over half of males and about a quarter of females in the sample size said they had masturbated at least once in the past month. In the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, one study of a sample of undergraduate college students said that 98 percent of men and 44 percent of women reported having ever masturbated. But when was the last time you remember having a conversation about it...

As an underclassman, finding a job was the last thing on my mind. I knew I had plenty of time to enjoy the newfound freedom attending college gave me from my family and from having to work a full-time job. With no intention of going to grad school, I assumed I would find a job right out of college but never put much thought into how this job would come about. As an up-and-coming senior, however, I am coming to realize that the search for a job is much more...