Whether you are looking for a cheap kitchen set or a used pipe organ, the UPS Women’s League Flea Market offers a variety of items at bargain prices. The annual event, which began in 1968, will take place on Saturday, March 17 in the Fieldhouse. Though the event is during spring break, Chairperson Grace Mills hopes that some students will be able to attend. “People come from all over, it is amazing the people that come. They line up waiting to get in before we open at 9 a.m. and...

The Puget Sound class of 2012 wants to be the best ever and when it comes to donating to the annual Senior Class Gift Campaign (SCGC), they have a good chance of success. The SCGC’s leadership is looking to best the mark set by the class of 2009, which had 59% participation. Participation in the SCGC, which is run through the Office of Annual Giving with student support, entails making a five year pledge to donate to the University annually for a total of $75. According to Assistant Director of...

Inspired by his experience learning Chinese in high school, current sophomore Phillip Brenfleck came to Puget Sound with his sights set on yet another linguistic challenge: learning Arabic. To his disappointment, however, the University did not offer an Arabic language course. Brenfleck began working with Michel Rocchi, the Director of Language and Culture Programs, in the fall of 2010 to try to bring Arabic to Puget Sound. One year and some 300 signatures later, Brenfleck and nearly 50 other students are learning the language on-campus, free of charge. Yasmine Khattab,...

In the timeless words of 90s rap duo Salt N’ Pepa, let’s talk about sex, baby. At least that is what ASUPS’ newest club, currently known as the Puget Sound Sex and Sexuality Publication, wants us to do. The club hopes to publish an erotic art magazine once a semester starting this spring, along with a supplemental blog. “With the tangible, physical magazine we’re looking for a balance between visual art and literature,” Co-president Anya Callahan said. “We want to give a realistic portrayal of what sex is. It’s not...

ASUPS would like Club Rendezvous to live up its name and is turning to the student body for help. The Rendezvous is the lounge space attached to The Cellar in the basement of the Student Union Building. ASUPS Vice President Garner Lanier initiated the discussion over the future of Rendezvous at a Nov. 20 meeting with student leaders and managers of The Cellar and Diversions Café. “I think a lot of people would agree that Rendezvous is currently an under-utilized space that needs some major changes,” Lanier said. “Rendezvous is...

For the Apple enthusiasts on campus still mourning the death of Steve Jobs, it turns out you had a closer connection to the tech scion than you may have known. Mainstream news outlets from the Wall Street Journal to the New York Times have run stories in past weeks about Jobs’ relationship to his estranged biological father, Abulfattah “John” Jandali, a Syrian political scientist-turned-casino manager with whom he never reconciled. Articles focused on the tumultuous circumstances of the adoption and how Jandali sought to reconnect with Jobs after Jandali learned...

The Underground Christian Fellowship (UCF) is taking steps to be reinstated as an official campus organization after being placed on suspension last spring by the University’s Integrity Code Board (ICB). Before the suspension, the group was known as the University of Puget Sound Christian Fellowship (UPSCF) and functioned as a chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, a national campus ministry organization. Associate Dean of Students Donn Marshall issued formal sanctions against UPSCF after the Integrity Code Board revealed that the club had violated University policies. He stressed that no constitution may...

Coal is a hot topic on campus once again thanks to Jacob Gellman, ’13, and Students for a Sustainable Campus (SSC). After interning with the Sierra Club this summer, Gellman is spearheading a campus effort to prevent coal exports from passing through the Pacific Northwest. The campaign had over 300 signatures on a petition as of Oct. 6 and ASUPS is considering passing a resolution in support of the students’ efforts. Student environmental advocacy groups throughout the Pacific Northwestare working together on the issue. “Our goal would be to all...

By almost any standard, Four Horsemen Investments (4HI) is not your average investment group. Technically a charity with the IRS denomination of 501(c)(3), 4HI is the only peer-to-peer student-managed microfinance fund in the world today. The group was founded in 2009 by Puget Sound finance professor Lynda Livingston and then-student Tom Glassman as a way to incorporate charitable goals with business and microfinance experience for students. Today 4HI’s six members are all seniors at Puget Sound, but the group is completely independent and is unaffiliated with the University. “4HI represents...

Thinking about walking down to 7-11 for a slice of pizza or a corndog later this evening? Director of Security Todd Badham wants you to think again before making your 2:30 a.m. snack pilgrimage off campus. This time of year has had some of the highest crime rates in the past, and Security Services would like to help change that trend. “This time of year can potentially be the biggest crime period because there are a bunch of new people that don’t know Tacoma or haven’t lived by themselves before....

Thanks to a previously overlooked legal technicality, Wal-Mart may be coming to town after all. A California-based developer has submitted plans to build a 150,000 square-foot Wal-Mart supercenter on Union Ave. next door to Target, where the Tacoma Elks Lodge is currently located. Although the Tacoma City Council passed a 6-month moratorium on all big-box retailers on Aug. 30, it did not take effect until it was printed and publicized in accordance with Washington state law.  The developer submitted plans for the Wal-Mart on Aug. 31, the day before the...

Muted controversy turned to uproar earlier this month following the distribution of the most recent edition of The Rattler, a satirical spin-off of the ASUPS’ Tattler newsletter. Criticism of the formerly-anonymous publication focuses on a series of jokes in a section entitled “10 worst pick-up lines” that reference sexual assault. The list included “does this smell like chloroform to you?” And “what, you don’t like roofies? Oh, this is awkward.” The newsletter, which has been published off-and-on for more than a year, was distributed throughout Marshall Hall. It has no...