Friday the 13th: For some people, this date simply means bad luck. For others, it means avoiding dark alleys and sleeping with the lights on. What sort of dark secrets will students discover on this evilest night as they walk home alone from the library? Many students at the Puget Sound unwittingly practice the perpetuation of common myths and superstitions, such as lucky pens or places to study. Most of these superstitions are innocuous, but some myths can be more unsettling. There are a few enigmatic presences on the University...

College students, especially nearing the middle and end of the semester, tend to complain about too little sleep leaving them sluggish and in desperate need of caffeine to revitalize them. Not having enough sleep can lead to inefficient time management, which can lead to more stress and more sleep loss, creating a destructive cycle. Unfortunately, it gets worse—studies by the National Sleep Foundation show that junk food, which can comfort stressed students at their lowest moments, cause students to sleep less restfully when they finally put their heads down. Last...

“I feel like I am treated differently because of my height.” “I have heard a lot of jokes about my red hair.” “People think differently about me when I tell them I am a devout Jew.” “I notice a lot of people throwing sideways glances at me as they walk by.” “Whenever I tell someone I am bisexual, they take me less seriously.” “I feel like I don’t fit in at the University.” Discrimination is a community issue. It is not exclusive to racial discrimination. It can include social or...

Professor and well-known writer Tiphanie Yanique visited Puget Sound on Monday, September 16. She read a short story from her book How to Escape From a Leper Colony, a collection of stories set in Africa, America and all over the Caribbean. Yanique was the first speaker in a series hosted by the African American Studies program. The series, The Caribbean Writer, will bring celebrated cultural writers and artists from the Caribbean Islands to read and share their experiences. Students took powerful interest in Yanique’s writing process, her style, and her...

Loggers love to eat. For the first year or two of our lives in which our parents no longer put food on our plates, we students eat at the school cafeteria. It was a brave new world, the S.U.B.—six different kinds of sandwich meat, breakfast for dinner … the possibilities were practically endless! Or so we thought. After our seventh day in a row of burritos, we realized we needed to escape. Most of us took solace in Safeway and the Metropolitan Market nearby, but there are many more creative...

The Puget Sound branch of the International Honor Society in Psychology, Psi Chi, held a philanthropy event in conjunction with the Psychology Club on Friday, April 23 to raise money for the National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association. The event, Psi Pie and Tie Dye Day, provided attendees an opportunity to buy and dye t-shirts picturing the iconic psychologist Sigmund Freud with the words Pink Freud printed underneath. Initially it was to be held outside but weather made this an unfortunate impossibility. However, the rain did not dampen the philanthropic...

“We turn to literature to deal with many things,” Professor Martha Webber said as she opened the English Coffeehouse Open Mic Night on April 17. The English department puts on an open mic event once a semester, allowing students and professors alike to gather and share their work. About 20 people gathered in the Murray Boardroom for the event. Writers shared several forms of literature; there were multiple personal essays and a short story, but the bulk of the night’s performances consisted of poems of varying lengths and styles. While...