The percentage of humanities majors has dropped nationally from 14 percent of college students in 1970 to seven percent today. This same phenomenon of declining interest in the humanities is not occurring at Puget Sound. Although there are different ways to look at the statistics on a national scale, the numbers for students majoring in the humanities at Puget Sound over the past 10 years do not show a decline. The percentage of students majoring in non-STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields has remained steady despite warnings that those...

Property crime in Tacoma saw an increase in reports from 12,113 in 2011 to 12,889 in 2012. The three areas of Tacoma with the most reported property theft are South Ninth Street and Tacoma Avenue South, Pine Street and South 45th Street, and 72nd Street East and East M Street. Despite the increase in property crime in the city of Tacoma from 2011 to 2012, the incidence of property theft on campus is lower this year than it was last year. Although Tacoma residents reported 153 car thefts in Tacoma...

After the economic downturn of 2008, the former spaces of businesses were left empty. In response, cities began to allow artists to fill the spaces temporarily without paying rent. This initiative gave rise to Spaceworks Tacoma, a program launched in 2010 that matches creatively inclined entrepreneurs with commercial building property owners. The program gives artists without the financial means required to get a business off the ground an opportunity to test the profitability of an idea. Spaceworks then matches the entrepreneurs with property owners who donate the space. “Property owners...

S tudents now have more late-night    entertainment options with the introduction of Wee’Ours, a group whose primary goal is to ensure the availability of on-campus events after 8 p.m. on weekends. “We do this by organizing events ourselves and helping clubs by providing additional funding and reserving rooms to organize events in this time frame,” senior Krista Haapanen, the group’s leader, said. Helping Haapanen are two work-study employees, sophomore Cooper Weissman and senior Ryan Coleman, who do the grunt work required to ensure the events run smoothly. While Wee’Ours...