This September, the Race and Pedagogy Initiative will be hosting its third National Conference. First appearing in 2006, and again in 2010, the conferences are collaborative efforts with the University of Puget Sound and members of the South Sound community, intended to encourage students, educators and other community members to think critically about racism and issues pertaining to racial equality. The conference will host a number of different speakers from around the country, each one a distinguished academic in their respective fields. The university is especially lucky to host the...

University of Puget Sound participated in the Ethics Bowl on April 4, a statewide debate tournament in which students from 10 colleges discussed topics that demonstrate their understanding of applied ethics. The competition, presented by the Independent Colleges of Washington at Seattle University, consisted of three preliminary rounds, a semi-final and a final. In each round, two opposing teams of five students debated on the ethical issues presented in two cases involving actual or hypothetical scenarios. Students were judged based on their abilities to apply critical ethical reasoning to the...

Tuition for the academic year is set to increase once again. According to the university’s Budget Task Force (BTF) report, the administration has decided to increase the tuition by 3.75 percent for the 2014-2015 academic year. The tuition for this year was set at $41,640, and the increase will put it at $43,200. The figure may seem hefty upon first glance, but this is in fact the lowest increase in tuition that the university has seen in 42 years. There is the old saying that one cannot put a price...

Members of the ASUPS Student Senate have officially endorsed the University’s Knowledge, Identity, and Power (KNOW) proposal. Earlier this month, members of the ASUPS Senate voted on whether or not to endorse the proposal which, if passed, would create classes designed to encourage discussion about power and identity struggles within different cultures from around the world. Students would take one or two KNOW classes in their first and second years as another requirement for graduation. On March 25, faculty members voted on whether or not to pass the proposal and...