Relay for Life is a community-based fundraising event run through the American Cancer Society where individuals organize into teams. It is an overnight walk where teams camp out on the track and members from those teams take turns walking throughout the night. This year it will be happening on May 1 starting at 5 p.m. when President Ronald Thomas will be speaking at the celebration for Gordon Klatt. The event will take place at Baker Stadium. The event starts with a survivors’ lap where all cancer survivors at the event...

In 2011, the year Mariana Molina ‘14 marticulated at the University of Puget Sound, the Undocumented Students Work Group (USWG) delivered policy recommendations to the President’s Cabinet in an effort to combat the various problems that undocumented students face at the University. Since those recommendations, professors at Puget Sound have begun taking part in developing campus-wide actions. For instance, Professor Oriel Siu’s Drop the “I” Word campaign event with writer and strategist Monica Novoa was a targeted effort to bring awareness to the dehumanizing effects of calling people ‘illegal,’ an...

At the beginning of the school year, a group of students organized and called themselves the Gender-Neutral Bathroom Action Group. A group called PISSAR—People In Search of Safe and Accessible Restrooms—that was formed at the University six years ago inspired them.  According to a previous member of the group, Skylar Bihl, Assistant Director of CICE and Puget Sound alumnus ‘08, the PISSAR’s goal was to incorporate the disability rights movement into collaboration with queer rights work to create fully accessible restrooms. For many queer students, using a regular bathroom is...

On Jan 31, the University of Puget Sound Philosophy Department partnered with Access Program students from Foss High School to participate in the Ethics Bowl, hosted by the University of Washington. The Director of Access Programs, Joseph Colon, was excited to see an event like this become available. An ethics bowl is a philosophy-based competition. It is a collaborative, competitive event during which teams of students analyze various ethical issues and put together a case. They then present their cases to the judges. The Ethics Bowl encourages teamwork, critical thinking,...