On Friday, April 26, students from all over the country filed into Trimble Forum to kick off Puget Sound’s second Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. Noel Carroll, professor of philosophy at CUNY graduate center and one of the leading contemporary philosophers of art, presented a lecture on his upcoming book, The Philosophy of Humor: An Introduction for the keynote address. “We had the first conference last year and it turned out to be a great success so we decided to have another one this year,” Professor Ariela Tubert of the Philosophy Department...

“I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter the time or the place, but I’m here with family, with brothers.” This was how Father Alejandro Solalinde greeted his audience on Wednesday, April 10—with kindness, sincerity and peace. Solalinde was the keynote speaker for Puget Sound’s eighth annual Spanish Matters Colloquium, Narratives of Immigration: Latino Studies in the 21st Century. “The Spanish Matters Colloquium has been a forum to share research in our respective academic areas. It has also served as a platform to showcase the work of prominent undergraduate and graduate students...

Ubiquitous They provided their audience with some much-needed comic relief and an escape from the stresses of student life as they energetically performed their bi-annual sketch comedy show on Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30. Comedy sketch shows are composed of several short scenes, typically under 10 minutes long, that explore a certain concept, event or situation. Each sketch was student-written, directed and performed. While the title of the show was You. Are. A. Machine—a line from one of the sketches—the show covered  myriad topics, from bringing home the...

“Literally every genre of popular, genuinely ‘American’ music was created by black musicians. Jazz, rock, punk, hip-hop, techno all have roots in African American life and culture,” KUPS’s Kirby Lochner said. KUPS and the Black Student Union (BSU) are halfway through their collaborative film series, which Imari Romeo of BSU hopes will serve to “educate our community on Black culture and its influences in music.” All of the films featured in the series are about Black musicians, and the next two films will share the common thread of either marginalized...

The room went quiet as somber images passed across the screen in Rausch Auditorium. Pictures of corpses lying along dirt roads seemed to transport the minds of viewers out of the safe haven of Puget Sound and into El Salvador’s violent streets. This tortured country is where the documentary film, Fruits of War, begins. The film, which opened the first of the Latino Studies Film Series, tracks the lives of four men—Bullet, Rebel, Weazel and Duke—who immigrated to Los Angeles as children to escape the civil war in El Salvador....

Why bottled water? This question will be posed every time you reach for one of those big plastic Puget Sound water bottles in the S.U.B. In mid-March, Students for a Sustainable Campus will be replacing the labels on bottled water with a simple but bold label that asks, “Why Bottled Water?” Annie Bigalke, SSC officer and campus sustainability coordinator, said that this change is part of the Why Bottled Water Campaign that aims to get the campus community to evaluate why they buy bottled water over drinking tap water when...

Okay, seniors. The time is approaching when many of you will be released from the loving arms of Puget Sound and will enter the big wide world of the nine-to-five. Of course, Career and Employment Services tries to provide several resources to make this transition a little bit smoother, one of which is the upcoming career fair on Thursday, Feb. 28 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sue Dahlin, CES's Assistant Director for Career Advising, believes that the Career Fair is an opportunity that students shouldn’t miss. “The Career Fair...