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Underaged drinking: the age old question Opinions page 3

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Men’s basketball clinches title Sports page 6-7

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With election approaching, candidates spar on the issues B y M at t A n der so n n ews edi to r debate between two sets of candidates for ASUPS executive office took place in Marshall hall, Monday, Feb. 16.

The debate included myriad topics, ranging from the budget for next year to executive transparency and to approachability.

Sophomore James Luu and Junior Holden Sapp (who are running for president and vice president) as well as juniors Becca Bryant and Sam Stookesberry participated in the hour-long debate. Juniors Summer Nazer and Arjun Dhillon did not attend the debate.

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the students,” junior presidential candidate Becca Bryant said during the debate.

The debate focused, in large part, on transparency and approachability within ASUPS. Both sets of candidates at the debate and Nazer and Dhillon have made commitments, if elected, to help improve communication between the student body and ASUPS officers.

“Getting people to come to you is hard, but going to them is much easier. And that’s what James and I plan to do,” Sapp, a vice presidential candidate, said.

While Sapp and Luu, who are running mates, plan to take a more active approach in getting student feedback for ASUPS, the other sets of candidates will attempt to increase the number of avenues by which students have

the opportunity to contact them.

For instance, Nazer and Dhillon, plan to create a new “Student Activities Network,” according to the Nazer and Dhillon for ASUPS Facebook page. “[Summer and Arjun plan to] install computer kiosks around campus and produce a Facebook application that will let students access an up-to-date calendar of every single UPS event, including club meetings, lectures, concerts and even parties,” the Facebook page states. “Instead of relying only on poster advertisements, e-mail updates and word of mouth, students will be able to instantly connect to nearly everything happening on campus.”

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For more information on each of the candidates for the Executive Offices of ASUPS (President and Vice President), as well as ASUPS senators, turn to The Trail’s Features section on pages 8 and 9

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board, to be hung in the SUB, which would help to organize the poster system, and they hope, help to increase student awareness on campus as a result.

As a result of the likely deficit from this year’s ASUPS budget, a result of the extremely low interest rates, next year’s budget was discussed extensively at Monday’s debate.

“ASUPS gets money from students each year ($195 which is included in tuition fees) which goes into an account that gains interest each year,” Sapp said.

“The money gained from the interest is taken into account when budgeting for clubs and other things. Because of the drop in interest rates, ASUPS will be more than $5,000 short of costs at the end of the year – next year’s budget will reflect the lower interest rates and state of the economy.”

All candidates at the event agreed that club spending must be reduced.

“The smooth sailing that ASUPS has known for the last decade is no longer the case,” Bryant said.

Additionally, Nazer and

cont. from page 1 Dhillon feel as is they the experience necessary to pull through this tough time.

“We will use Summer’s experience as a senator and my experience managing a $500,000 student budget to run a care and transparent ASUPS budget process,” Dhillon said. “We want to open up commmunication with every group on campus to make sure that everyone gets the financial assistance they need.”

Luu and Sapp, with experience as both the person allotting funds and as the one asking for funds also feel as if they have the necessary skills to draft a successful budget for next year.

“Holden and I really compliment each other. One great eample is the budget committee,” Luu said. “I sat on the ASUPS side of things, as a senator, while Holden sat on the other side of the table representing clubs that work with ASUPS...We have connections on both sides of the table.”

Voting started Thursday and continues through Monday to determine the next president and vice president of ASUPS.

Mumps case found on campus B y Kat h a r i n e Weiss Asst. News E d itor On Feb. 6, 2009 an e-mail was sent out to Puget Sound students and staff alerting them of a case of mumps diagnosed on campus. The e-mail contained a list of symptoms as well as advice to students on what to do if they think they have contracted the illness.

Mumps is a disease spread by droplets from the nose or throat when someone coughs or sneezes. Some of they symptoms include fever, headache, muscle ache, fatigue and loss of appetite.

While it is required for all students to receive an MMR vaccination before coming to UPS, students can opt out of the vaccination by signing a waiver.

“Our medical records at CHWS show that 281 students have chosen to be exempt from immunization, meaning they

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are at increased risk of infections should there be a communicable disease on our campus,” stated the e-mail.

Linda Everson, director of counseling and health, said that the case was diagnosed off campus but by law the health department was required to follow up by contacting any close contacts including the university and the surrounding Tacoma area.

Mumps can be contagious for 7 days before a patient shows symptoms and has an 18-day incubation period.

“I’m not overly concerned at this point. There was potential but it is unlikely we will see any more cases,” Everson said.

Everson says that if students have questions about their immunization status they should contact CHWS. If faculty has questions they should contact their primary care giver.

“Our primary focus is the students,” Everson said.

Security Report The following incidents occurred on campus and were reported to Security Services between Feb. 10 and Feb. 16, 2009: • A student reported his 2000 Honda Civic was stolen from the parking lot on the south side of the Wheelock Student Center. The incident was reported to the Tacoma Police Department.

• Security staff responded to a complaint of marijuana use in a residence hall. The Resident Assistant reported smelling marijuana outside a room.

• Security staff discovered an external door to one of the satellite offices in the Facilities Services complex kicked in. Nothing was discovered missing from the area.

Please contact Security Services if you have information about any of the incidents described above. All information is kept confidential.

• Courtesy of Todd A. Badham, Director of Security Services

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Selections: Marc Phillips, an RA on the third floor of Todd/Phibbs hall, speaking to a student. The selections for next year’s Resident Assistants were announced earlier this week.

Hiring process underway for 2009-2010 RAs, RCCs B y Jen i O ppen hei m er n ews wri t er he hiring process for Student Residents staff is underway.

“We had 75-80 applicants and 17 returning applicants and there are 51 RA and RCC jobs” Barnaby Knoll, the Resident director for Anderson Langdon, Shiff and Harrington said.

The difference between the two is the RA’s live in the halls and RCC’s live in the on-campus houses or in Trimble.

The qualities that they are looking for in an RA or RCC are “an understanding of people and where they are coming from. They also must be great team players who can work well with 5-13 people and are reliable people that can keep confidential information and can make people feel comfort-

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ordinator positions available and 10-12 people applying.

“Because there isn’t a specific number of people that must be hired back, hiring all former staff back is a rare exception,” Barnaby said.

Most students prefer to do the job for 1-2 years and it is rare to find someone who continues for three. Everyone who applies must be able to commit to a full year because “we are trying to build communities and when new people are being transitioned in and out it makes that difficult,” Barnaby said.

When students are forced to leave the position mid-year their replacement is usually pulled from an alternate pool.

“This situation is rare because the people involved usually take a lot of pride in the job what they do,” Barnaby said.

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Puget Sound took another step towards solving the exclusive-use housing dilemma on North Union after the Committee meeting on Feb. 11 all but decided the occupants of the current Beta Theta Ki house for 2009/2010. As Beta Theta Ki was the sole applicant for their house, it seems certain that they will retain residence.

The fate of Sigma Nu’s former residence is now up to Residential Life because there were no applicants for the facility.

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able,” Barnaby said.

The application process is rigorous and involves two short essays and a résumé and several letters of recommendation. On top of this applicants participate in a group process and an interview. During the group process applicants go through five scenarios where they may have to do or make something.

“The goal is to see how people interact together in a team,” Barnaby said.

The group process allows former Resident Advisors to be involved in the hiring process.

“There are 6-8 candidates, one professional staff member and 2-4 student staff members who give feedback by filling out a form and participating in a debriefing,” Barnaby said.

In addition to this hiring, there are 7 greek housing co-

Unit B, which were the Beta and Sigma Nu houses, were due on Feb. 4 and only Beta reapplied. The goal of these facilities is to cater to larger groups if they’re out there. It’s in our best interest as a University to keep them full,” Marta Palmquist-Cady, Director of Student Development, said.

The Uber-Outhouse, a PSO organized group of outdoor enthusiasts, applied for the facilities last year in the same process. Any groups still interested in the facilities should talk to the Director of Res Life.

The review committee will now make a recommendation

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to the Director of Res Life based on the presentation Beta gave at the meeting on Feb. 11. The Committee is comprised of two professors, two students, and Palmquist-Cady.

“We were looking for the three men from Beta to come in and tell us that they are on a good path.

They need to find out if they are a fraternity that really wants to be here,” Palmquist-Cady said.

Beta has had issues filling the 33 bedrooms in their residence for the past three years. The University requires groups to fill the facilities to at least 90% capacity, which is one of the reasons why Beta has been made to reapply.

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A timeless debate: Under age drinking raises No room moral, legal questions on college campuses

By P et er New O p i n i ons Wr it er

Under-age drinking: wrong.

Would you consider it?

The law exists; the law is a college freshman’s archenemy.

“Because it exists, it must be broken” say the iconoclastic free spirits who swarm the Puget Sound campus for the first time each fall, for whom the allure of intoxicated social gatherings might be intriguing enough in itself for the heavy tuition fee.

Since this is an Opinions piece, an argument in response to a simple debate suitable for a mass readership must be offered.

Here it is: under-age drinking is wrong. The conditions, the most necessary aspect of any ultimatum (read: law) to our enlightened ears, follow.

I posed the question “Is drinking alcohol when you are under the legal age limit right?” on a piece of white paper to 26 students in the SUB on Friday the 13th of this month. The letters, “Y” and “N” were placed underneath the question, and underneath those letters was the word, “Comments” followed by a colon. Fifteen responders circled “Y”, nine responders circled “N”, and two circled neither.

These are the facts of the sur-

vey: the unexpressed variables are not so easy to print. Only two responders did nothing but circle one of the letters, because “What is right, anyway?” and “It’s such a vague question” and (no one said this but I will posit it for the truly honest ones out there) “What does “Y” or “N” mean?”.

So here is the dilemma we face, if we are in this together at all: people turn into statistics through surveys. Elected officials have a duty to represent the people by introducing the people’s opinion, which is made known to them through lobbying groups, which have biased constituencies of their own, ideally represented only by public opinion polls or town hall meetings. Just as I cannot write the comments of each responder to my small survey, governmental bodies cannot create a law to encapsulate each individual’s idea of proper moral behavior.

The previous paragraph will most likely be easily reduced to a simple phrase: bias is embedded into representative government.

(The word bias needs discussion, please don’t hesitate to ask me about what I mean, or talk to a friend or the wall about it.)

And so we are left with questions like, “Should the present legal age limit for consuming

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The ever popular “college-kegger” draws a lot of attention to minors for the quantity of beer readily available to them. alcohol (21) be changed?” and answers like, “Y” (while I hold in my mind, “legal age should be 18—old enough to fight, old enough to die” or, “limits are only calls to rebellion”) or, “N” (while the explanation is more nuanced than can be expressed here). Or you deny the categories in question, refuse to reduce a human being to a nameless cog in the machine of a moralizing aristocracy, withhold voting for either Barack Obama or John McCain, and join SDS. But alcohol makes good drunkenness time, alcohol is a sweet nectar of life, alcohol encourages a blurring of social hierarchies (I was at a party last semester where football players and urban hipsters were nodding their heads to the same live music!).

Alcohol, however, makes me forget the details of my personal inhibitions, allowing me to forget where I end and someone else begins. This is a word of caution for those who are not fond of the herd instinct.

So alcohol is the devil, alcohol is the brain-deadener, alcohol is the European poison.

If the conditions of the ultimatum posed above have not revealed themselves to you (see, I am on your side, I will even

allow this article to be acting on you), I will be more explicit with shades of my opinion.

If you are running away from the potential MIP that a copper approaches your kegger with, run to Washington D.C. to lobby for changing or eliminating the drinking age. If you don’t want to deal with the shit that this will entail, have no fear, it will soon enough deal with you. If you feel guilty after being pressured into drinking by a faceless multitude of brethren, don’t drink.

Here are my conditions for now, though I must admit I will forget their exact wording almost immediately. Perhaps a fitting paraphrase of the thread woven through this article is, “Own your actions, as if you had to demonstrate your possession by telling someone who could get you in trouble for them.”

We need a new understanding of ethical living, in which a police officer is granted as much respect as a casual drinking partner.

If it has not become obvious by now, the drinking age is not the central concern of this article. This article is about building the bridges of community in the light as opposed to slow roasting them to their eventual destruction in the dark.

Newspapers are widely regarded as one of the best ways to get unbiased news coverage.

Believe me, I realize how oxymoronic that sounds, coming from a newspaper article. Unlike television news, which relies on sound bites and personality-driven coverage, or blogs, which do not contain the same scrupulous fact checking and multiple sources that newspapers require reporters to use.

Newspapers help present to the world a picture of the day’s events that is both informative and understandable. They appeal across markets and genres, with a subject-section division unique to media. Newspapers appeal to every cross section of the American public, bar the illiterate. They were considered paramount to our democracy by the Founding Fathers.

Why is it, then, that major newspapers across the nation, including our own local Seattle Post-Intelligencer, are putting themselves up for sale? And, more importantly, what would a world where print newspapers are rendered obsolete mean for our intake of information?

We live in an era where style has overtaken substance in our beliefs of what is important.

Newspapers are to television as voice actors are to movie stars— similar work without the glamour attached to it. While reporters can certainly garner repute, they are more likely to be in the business for personal gratification than they are for money and fame. In fact, one of the key reasons that newspapers across the country are declaring bank-

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The secret is out; deepest thoughts revealed anonymously

By Lisa Gr iswold O p in ions Wr i t er Do you have secrets? I bet you do. Everybody does or else life wouldn’t be so interesting, right?

Recall your childhood: secrets were passed from a hand-covered mouth to an ear, in a handwritten note under the desk, or even by coded hand gestures from across the room. Secrets proliferate and always will, but most people would never have imagined that secrets come out on postcards.

Postcarding your secrets is the latest phenomenon that displays our need to publically express feelings in an anonymous way.

While dreaming in Paris, a man named Frank Warren conceived the idea of what is now one of the most popular blogsites: PostSecret.com. Seeing his newly purchased postcards with secretive

messages displayed in his dream, Warren woke up and desired to recreate the design. Everyday citizens can mail in secrets anonymously on one side of a handmade postcard that divulges a secret about themselves or others.

The concept of PostSecret is probably the most interesting and controversial aspect about this trend. . If we must send our inner, deepest thoughts to be read by complete strangers, what does this say about our society?

It seems that we relish in the idea of someone knowing our secrets, but in most cases, those who read our secrets do not know us and probably never will.

The release of thoughts that are so reserved and guarded into the minds of anonymous people yields a sort of detached comfort knowing we are not alone.

PostSecret is truly a fascinating display of human thoughts and

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emotions because it is essentially an international conglomeration of feelings. A sense of power is granted to both readers and writers. The writer feels a sense of release and connection to all those who are to read the secret.

All readers have the opportunity to witness thoughts that the writer chooses to release to the public. Consider the idea of PostSecret: the writer refuses to be comfortable with sharing a secret with the people with whom they actually have a relationship: friends, family, neighbors, etc.

Instead, as the reader, you have access to thoughts that are anonomously given to you with an abundance of emotion attached.

Because Warren allows for complete, unrestricted access over the topics of discussion, people send postcards containing anything from humorous jokes to troubling releases. The postcard

secrets can range from the comical, “I thought buffalo wings were made of buffalo” secret to the more controversial, “I’d rather get skin cancer than be pale.”

Responding to criticism about the abundance of depression and suicidal secret posts, Warren has made a point of integrating help resources and information into his international campaign.

PostSecret is an entertaining and most interesting trend, but the secrets should be viewed with a grain of salt. I find it hard to fully ascertain the emotional attachments to the more controversial posts, but a sense of reader’s reserve should be required. In any case, PostSecret is ultimately a creative outlet that provides a fascinating look into the hidden thought processes and crafting abilities of many fellow human beings.

With thousands contributing to the PostSecret project, new post-

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cards are posted online every week at http://postsecret.blogspot. com/ and will not disappoint.

The PostSecret phenomenon has

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so much acclaim that it has prompted art exhibits, lectures, and a series of four books. In fact, you have the ability to publish your own secrets. Send your most regarded thoughts or jokes or whatever you wish to share to PostSecret 13345 Copperridge Drive, Germantown, MD 20874. Or you can just do what I and many others did while in a bookstore, write a secret on a scrap of paper and stick it inside one of the PostSecret books.

Someone is bound to find it.

A rainy day marked the end of a 43 day drought in the northwest.

It was a streak of days without rain that had been unprecedented.

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Free alternatives to cable subscriptions

By Ha r ry Yu O pin ions Writ er

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday nights are problematic for me. Scrubs is on at the same time that Fringe is. I’m busy at 9PM on Wednesday, and I do other stuff besides watching Battlestar Galactica on Fridays at 10PM. Since I live in a dormitory and have no VCR or TiVo I might be out of luck, but happily I’m not. Just a quick entry of “watch battlestar galactica” into Google and I get thousands of sites that have links to last night’s episode, usually by the next morning.

Faster Internet speeds mean more than just loading pages faster: high speeds mean you can stream video. The writers’ strike last year was, in part, due to the writers not being recompensed for the episodes of shows that were being streamed on the station’s website. There is a lot of money in streaming videos online. With streaming video, the viewer gets to decide when they want to watch the episode or series. With that kind of convenience, why bother watching the show on television?

I admit, if I did not have any pressing engagements on Wednesday nights, I’d be watching Lost on the tube. There’s just something about watching shows on a television. Thankfully, ABC posts the episode online so I can watch it in bed on Thursday mornings. You can even watch Lost from Season 1 to the most current episode on the network’s website. And the best part is, it streams ridiculously well: there is little to no lag in the loading of the video. Regrettably, other networks’ sites are not as high quality as ABC’s. My sister and mom told me I should watch Fringe but FOX’s site only has

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the last 3 episodes of Fringe up at any given time. So I typed “watch fringe” into Google and, just like Battlestar Galactica, I got a huge number of hits.

You do have to sort through the trash sites, where they link you back to FOX’s site but eventually you can find a good one that has all the links. The links lead to video hosting sites, like megavideo, supernovatube, or youku just to name a few. And this is what just does not make sense to me: if every site were to do what ABC is, why would people go anywhere else to watch these episodes online? Going into full screen on the non-official sites results in a pixilated picture whereas on the official site, it’s crisp and clean. And the worst part is, these unofficial sites are getting ad revenue that should rightly be going to the show’s staff.

A new site, Hulu.com, was launched fairly recently and it has a multitude of shows to watch. Hulu.com is an official site but the loading is simply unbearable. You have to load chunks of the show, which take about 5 minutes or so to load.

I’d happily watch Battlestar Galacitca on Hulu but it takes far too long. On one of the unofficial sites I can just open the window with the video and go do something else while it loads the entire episode. ABC intersperses ads into its shows, but they only take 30 seconds and then the show streams perfectly.

If every Network site were as good as ABC’s, I’d be watching the shows on their sites, but most of them are not. If people can find sites that have the show they want to watch, they’ll continue to use them until the networks realize this and hopefully improve their own sites. Now I’ve got some Battlestar to watch.

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ruptcy is because news print is not a profitable venture—in the age of digital information, newspapers don’t make money.

Newspapers have always made the bulk of their profits from advertising revenue. Lately, though, sales of ads have been way down, and Internet advertising cannot make up for the lost money. It is a sad truth that newspapers have never made enough money by merely selling well, but that is the price paid for such affordable newspapers.

Circulation has also been way down, crippling the faith companies have in the prudence of choosing newspaper advertising over other media modes.

If newspapers in metropolitan areas, like Seattle or Denver (whose Rocky Mountain News may well suffer the same fate as Seattle’s P.I.), lose their newspapers, how will people keep informed of local events?

Local television does not incorporate opinions with news, art and science with local business with the same amount of depth that a newspaper can. The public forum of letters to the editor and the candor of political cartoonists does not compare to any other form of public discourse. The comments on blogs are often bogged down in a sea of petty bickering and

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Digital papers such as the New York Times, London Times and Chicago Tribune leave suscribers feeling unloved.

spam, interspersed with a few remarks of careful and prudent consideration of the facts.

The age of instant communication has made us reckless with our thoughts, unthinking. It has dulled our senses to intelligent debate and has reduced written challenges of belief to the YouTube comment pages.

It is almost inevitable that newspapers one day go entirely online, thereby reducing our ability to get the news for free.

Many theorize that purchasing

online subscriptions will become the norm, and the age of ‘free news’ of all varieties will be past. There is more to newspapers than the simple nostalgic return to a simpler time that they bring to mind. I hope that people do not simply write off newspapers and move onto television or blogs to get their news—for while they are certainly fine side dishes, nothing can match the newspaper in terms of accountability and reliability, and it is a fine main course.

Student-professor informalities create unprofessional atmosphere Addressing professors by their first names detracts from academic quality in classroom B y Wa lt Mi tc h ell O p i n i o n s Wr i t e r When we arrived at the University of Puget Sound as incoming freshman, we steeled ourselves for a number of unknown social interactions.

Will I get along with my roommates? Will the upperclassmen tolerate me? Are college girls really that much cuter?

Aside from these predictable interactions though, new students encounter another unexpected social arena: student-professor interaction.

Throughout most of our schooling (at least for those of us who were public schooled) class sizes were fairly large, and unless a teacher made a personal effort to get involved with individual students, the classes were fairly impersonal.

Indeed, for those students who chose to attend a state school, that distance was maintained, if not magnified. Lecture-based classes with hundreds of students are hardly conducive to a personal connection with the professor.

At UPS, the situation is entirely different. While large

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state schools have dishearteningly high student-faculty ratios (California State, 22:1) Our University maintains small classes and a low ratio of 11:1.

The big question is: so what?

Great, I can call my professor by his first name, and maybe even include a smiley when I send an email because we’re just close like that. How is that relevant to my education?

I’ll tell you why. When professors are able to make a strong connection to each and every student, the overall quality of education skyrockets. Students are held personally responsible for their work (or lack thereof ), questions are more easily addressed, and professors are more active in their classes.

Those who teach language courses have long observed this truth. As students learn a second or third language, the professor’s effort and interaction with the students is vital to their success. Students will continually make the same mistakes without the personal instruction of the master.

Why not apply this method of personal instruction to all schools of the liberal arts? Surely the math major would better solve his prob-

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lems if a mathematician were to point out flaws in his logic, and personally lead him away from unsound reason. Surely the music major would benefit from a practiced musician taking an active role in strengthening the student’s personal creative processes.

In this regard, the University of Puget Sound has got it right. We enjoy personal interaction with almost every one of our professors, excepting perhaps entry-level chemistry and biology classes.

Since we enjoy this luxury in almost every class, we might take these relationships for granted. Students with less fortunate situations at other, larger schools might like to remind us of this privilege should we forget it. The opportunity to learn in such a personal setting is something we should all cherish.

So the next time you call your professor Doug or Alison, acknowledge the connotations of that familiarity: these professors have made the effort to personally connect with us, as to better instill in us the knowledge they wish to share. You may not use their last name, but show respect regardless.

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Puget Men’s basketball clinches top Tennis Sound seed in upcoming playoffs teams lack women Loggers take care of business in home wins experience continue Men and women to impress lose bouts to tough Oregon opponents

B y David Skoln ik Sports Wr i t er

In the penultimate home game for the Logger women’s basketball team, the Pirates of Whitworth came to Memorial Fieldhouse on Friday, Feb. 13.

There was no doubt that one of these teams would feel the effects of this most unlucky day, and in the end it was Loggers who were the bearer’s of bad news, sending the Pirates home with the sting of a 54-46 loss.

The Loggers couldn’t help but be excited when they came out onto the court, Friday night was an official “white-out” for Puget Sound fans that came decked out in all the white they could find and were united in their support of the Logger women. The team responded by jumping all over the Pirates in the first half. The Loggers nearly doubled Whitworth’s offensive output, and took a 3419 lead into the intermission.

In the second half the Loggers continued to play well, holding off any threat of a comeback that the Pirates attempted. The final score was 54-46 as Puget Sound shot 44% and held Whitworth to only 35% shooting for the game. The Loggers were led by Freshman Jocylen Riordan (Oakland, Calif.) who scored 15 points. Junior Claire Ely (Walnut Creek, Calif.) added 12 points and 8 rebounds.

Senior Karen Chase (Yakima, Wash.) added 11 points and 7 rebounds on the night.

In their final home game of the regular season, the Puget Sound women’s basketball team had to deal with the Whitman Missionaries. The Missionaries gave their best effort and the game was close throughout, but in the end the Loggers were victorious, 68-63 on Saturday, February 14.

It didn’t take long for the

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Senior Karen Chase uses the glass in a lay-up over two defenders.

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the NWC championship with a ten-point victory over the Whitworth Pirates.

On Saturday, fresh off their title win, the Loggers once again stepped out on their home court to face off against the Whitman Missionaries. Early in the first half, Whitman took a surprising lead, capitalizing off a three pointer just 21 seconds into the game and turning it into a ten point gap.

The lead didn’t last long, as the Loggers fought their way back within two points with just seven minutes remaining in the half. Senior Antwan Williams (Portland, Ore.) narrowed the lead down to just one point off a pair of free throws, and a lay-up by Jason Foster (Spanaway, Wash.) left the score favoring Whitman at 38-36 heading into the second half.

The Loggers changed it up in the second half, moving from their full-court pressure to a more traditional half-court defense.

The change helped, and the Loggers took their first lead of

The Puget Sound men’s and women’s tennis teams lost all of their matches this weekend, but view their losses as an opportunity to learn and improve.

The men’s team was away for the weekend and lost on the road in Forest Grove, Ore. 4-5 to the Pacific Boxers on Friday, Feb. 13.

Their second match of the weekend was an 8-1 loss, played the next day against the Linfield Wildcats in McMinnville, Ore. The women’s team also played Friday and Saturday, losing both days to Pacific and Linfield respectively. but their matches were at home in the Tennis Pavilion.

The men’s matches on Friday were played at the Tualatin Hills Tennis Center in Beaverton, Ore. The Boxers started their season off right with a strong lead from two double wins early in the evening. Those wins helped Pacific secure a longstanding lead, which eventually resulted in a win, putting them at 1-0 for the season.

Third seed partners Andrew Timmons (Shoreview, Minn.) and Alex Harrison (Southborough, Mass.) lost 8-2, while second seed Zac Peller (Sandy, Utah) and Scooter Sabel (Sun Valley, Idaho) also lost 8-4, but Puget Sound was redeemed by first seed partners Jamie Hosmer (Tucson, Ariz.) and Nick Kelley (Denver, Colo.) who escaped victoriously with a 9-8 win in a close tiebreaker.

The three lower flights of matches were taken by freshmen Kelley, Sabel, and Timmons with ease, starting singles off on a high note.

However, the Boxers were able to regain the lead, winning the top three seeds to win the night’s overall events.

Once again the Logger men fell in an away match with Linfield on Saturday, Feb.14 and once again Kelly came through for Puget Sound.

The only singles match win came from the Colorado native against Linfield’s Walt James, third seed. The Wildcats, who are now 2-0 in NWC, were successful in brushing aside any opening season jitters.

After they defeated PLU Friday the Wildcats beat the Loggers, who are now 0-2.

The men’s number one competition played a close match

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Junior Guard Colin Koach plays tight defense against a Whitworth player. Puget Sound held the Pirates to 71 points last weekend, going on to collect the win and secure a first place finish in the Northwest Conference.

By Chris D u gov i c h Sp orts Wri t er

It was another exciting weekend for the Puget Sound men’s basketball team as they not only won both of their games, continuing their unprecedented winning streak, but also clinched the Northwest Conference Championship in their victory over Whitworth.

Despite the record breaking and championship winning, the players aren’t letting it get to their heads as they look on toward the post-season.

“One of the sayings is that we always take one game at a time. So right now, even though we have clinched the conference, our concentration is on next weekend against Pacific and Willamette. We are now playing for seeding in the national tournament, which is a huge advantage if we host at home,” Junior Connor Gehring (Port Orchard, Wash.) said.

Friday, Feb. 13, the Loggers faced off against the Whitworth Pirates, a team that in recent years has become one of Puget Sound’s fiercest rivals. Despite the pressure, the

record breaking Loggers continued to so what they do best, and clinched the NWC title, defeating the Pirates 81-71 at the Memorial Fieldhouse.

Logger fans showed up in droves, clad in bright white, and eager for the intense game they were about to witness. It was clear right from the tip-off that the two teams were in for a long battle.

The game seemed to go that way until the Loggers made a 14-0 run towards the end of the first half, fixing the score at 32-18 with 6:27 left in the half.

The Pirates didn’t take long to get back on their feet, however, driving the score to a much closer margin, at 3225. By the end of the half, after a late push by the Loggers, the score was 38-27.

The same dynamic played out through the second half, with the Loggers pulling ahead by 14 and the Pirates doing there best to play catchup. At one point, Whitworth was able to come within five points of Puget Sound, but it wasn’t enough to stop the unrelenting Loggers.

With the crowd roaring, the Loggers clinched

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7 Trail Featured Athletes - Rob Krauel, men’s basketball Senior Rob Krauel (Phoenix, Ariz.) has been a vital part of the Puget Sound basketball program this season and in the past.

His leadership on both ends of the floor are extremely valuable.

This season for the Loggers, Krauel has been the same consistent player the fans and coaches have come to expect, averaging nearly 14 points per game while shooting 58.4 percent from the field, including 51.4 percent from behind the threepont arc. Krauel has moved to the starting lineup this season and is second on the team in minutes at 25.3 per game. With the up-tempo style the Loggers play, this is a testament to Krauel’s skill and reliability.

With only two regular season games before the conference tournament, and national competition quickly approaching, Krauel will undoubtedly be a major role-player for Puget ASUPS PHOTO SERVICES/Westley Dang Sound in the post-season.

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Junior Claire Ely (Walnut Creek, Calif.) has been a major part of the women’s success this season. On a roster with only two seniors, Ely has accrued impressive numbers, making herself a leader on the team.

Loggers to warm up as they fed off the energy of the crowd that turned out for senior night.

With the game tied at 6-6 early, the Loggers reeled off a 12-2 run that gave them the lead, 18-8.

The Missionaries slowly fought their way back throughout the half, getting as close as two points with just under five minutes to play in the half. The Loggers used a mini-spurt to head into the halftime break up 31-24.

The Loggers opened the second half in much the same way as they had the first, using hot offense to build a double digit lead. They were ahead by

13 points less than four minutes into the half. Whitman showed their spirit once again, pulling within two points with eight minutes to go in the game, but the Loggers held them off to get the win, 68-63.

The Loggers were led by a career-high 24 points from Junior Claire Ely (Walnut Creek, Calif.), and 11 points from Senior Andrea Edwards (Yakima, Wash.) in her final regular season home game. But the spotlight shined brightest on Senior Karen Chase (Yakima, Wash.) who scored 9 points and reached the 1,000 point plateau for her career.

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The fact that this was the last regular season home game for some of their teammates was not lost on the Loggers.

“Our seniors have been amazing this year. The leadership, passion, and unrelenting work ethic have carried us this far, and we are willing to do anything and everything it takes to keep their season going for as long as possible.” Ely said.

The Loggers will head out on their final regular season road trip next weekend, looking for one more win to claim second place in the NWC and a first round home game in the NCAA Tournament.

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Junior Guard Austin Boyce drives to the hoop past a flat-footed Pirate. Boyce played 28 minutes in the 81-71 victory over Whitworth.

the game with help from Williams and Freshmen Nadav Heymen (Corvallis, Ore.).

From that point on, the Loggers turned up the heat, pulling ahead by ten points with 14 minutes left on the clock.

Despite efforts to make a comeback, the Missionaries lost their fire, and the half ended in another Puget Sound victory with the score at 81-71.

Senior Robert Krauel (Phoenix, Ariz.) led the Loggers with 14 points, followed closely by Williams who added another 13. Junior Bryce Levin (Everett, Wash.) came off the bench contributing 12 points to the Logger victory. Finally, Jason Foster left the floor with 8 points, 11 rebounds, and four blocks for the evening.

“Every game is a big game and every team we play has a chance to beat us. However, if we play with energy, focus, and as a team, there is no one that can beat us. No team can beat us, we can only beat ourselves.” Gehring said.

The NWC Champions will end the season on the road next week, facing off against both Pacific and Willamette.

With the wins last weekend, the Loggers clinched the top seed in the NWC tournament, ensuring they will return to the Memorial Fieldhouse on Feb. 26 for the first round of the playoffs.

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Fresh start: Of the 13 players on the womens’ tennis team roster, more than half are new to the Puget Sound student-athlete scene.

between Kyla, Anderson, and Linfield, who won their Hosmer, scoring 7-5 and 7-6 hundreth consecutive tenThe Puget Sound women’s nis match on Saturday, were tennis team is young, with a force to be reckoned with. seven freshThey took men. Friday’s all of the match introdoubles, as “I think we learned a few duced the well as the things about our dynamics new athletes six singles to the harsh Friday and then implemented m a t c h e s . realities of them on Saturday If anything, “ E v e n the very though we it was good practice .” competitive lost Saturday -Devin Fields it was still NWC Conference.

It an improveappeared to ment from be a very mentally challeng- Friday. I think we learned a ing match for the Loggers, few things about our dynamwho had many tough rallies, ics Friday and then implebut were ultimately unable mented them on Saturday. If to close out their opposition. anything, it was good pracThe Logger women faced- tice,” Freshman Devin Fields off again Saturday against (San Francisco, Calif.) said. seven-time Northwest ConThe Loggers travel to ference Champs, the Linfield Willamette for a chance to Women’s Wildcats, suffer- test their newly practiced ing a 9-0 loss. The Loggers skills on Friday then return remain confident in their to the Tennis Pavilion to future ability to succeed match up against Pacific Luwith a more practice and theran on Sunday, Feb. 22 more matches behind them. for another home match.

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Three tickets to compete for ASUPS Executive offices

James Luu & Holden Sapp

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ey Loggers, James and Holden here!

We would be honored to have your support in the election for ASUPS President and Vice President. Both of us have over five full years of combined experience with ASUPS. If you are looking for a ticket that will represent YOU, we are the ones that have the experience from all sides of the table. We are running on three main ideas.

Approachability: Everyone is a part of ASUPS. Even if you’re not in an elected or hired position you can make a change, and what better way to do, that than through us?

ASUPS is not an elitist organization. That is why, as your ASUPS President and Vice President we will make sure that your ideas come first. We are approachable with questions, comments, and concerns.

Transparency: Ever since starting at UPS, James has been working on the ASUPS side of things. Ever since starting at UPS, Holden has been sitting on the other side. We know that together we are the best candidates for President and Vice President because if elected, we will bring all different perspectives to the table. One thing we both agree on is that ASUPS needs to be more transparent with the students. We will ensure that YOU, the students, will how ASUPS is spending YOUR money. This can be easily remedied by a weekly ASUPS report in The Trail Success Through Experience: Through working heavily in the ASUPS Senate, James has gained experience in many avenues. He has served on the budget, election, and student concerns committee and is the only candidate that has served as Senate Chair. He is knowledgeable on all aspects of how all committees work together. One of James’ greater qualities shows in his outgoing personality. If you’ve met James, you know what we mean. This is going to make James the best President ASUPS has ever had.

Holden brings a completely different viewpoint than any other candidate. Over the past three years, Holden has been heavily involved in other avenues outside of an ASUPS elected position. Through working with Puget Sound Outdoors, UPS Alpine Ski Team and ASUPS Photo Services he has developed a great working relationship with nearly all offices here on campus.

His background with ASUPS clubs, media and Student Development compliments James in such a way that will allow them to look at all situations from all angles.

Come talk to us, we both love to chat and would love to hear about the time you’ve had here at Puget Sound. We plan to implement a free bus pass system for all students, helping students stay sustainable and financially responsible.

So go vote a-SAPP, because vote for LUU is a vote for you!

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Summer Nazer & Arjun Dhillon

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ummer Nazer has been an assertive voice in the ASUPS Senate for nearly two years. In this time she has been actively involved in many projects and committees targeted to improve the student experience here on campus. She has worked to distribute awards and scholarships to students, address campus issues on the Student Concerns committee, and work with clubs as the ASUPS Club Liaison. Summer is also the sole creator and manager of the Ticket to Tacoma project, the student discount card that recently began distribution to students. She is a very passionate student representative, and if elected as President, Summer would continuously strive to be a thoughtful, responsible leader.

Arjun Dhillon has an extensive amount of experience in student leadership at the college level. He was the Student Body President at the University of WisconsinFox Valley before transferring to UPS to focus on his pre-med coursework. When he got here two years ago he fell in love with the UPS campus, and since then he worked hard to give back to the UPS community. He has been an active member of the Student Concerns committee, a dedicated volunteer at food banks and homeless shelters in Tacoma, and a passionate student health worker at CHWS. If elected as Vice President, Arjun is prepared to use his leadership experience to be a progressive and careful manager of ASUPS business.

The experience that Summer and Arjun have makes them uniquely qualified to represent every student at UPS. If they are elected they will implement a detailed plan to increase student access and strengthen the UPS community.

Summer and Arjun will help connect students and streamline communication on campus by creating a new Student Activities Network. They will install computer kiosks throughout campus and produce a facebook application that will let students access an up-to-date calendar of every single UPS event, including club meetings, lectures, concerts and even parties.

If elected they will help pop the UPS bubble by reaching out to the surrounding community. They will work to increase relationships with local organizations, creating more opportunities for UPS students that want to get job experience, participate in summer internships, or start working in Tacoma after graduation.

They will expand the Ticket to Tacoma project as well, adding even more local businesses to the discount card.

Summer and Arjun will also work with the administration to make the class unit system more fair. Units should be based on how much lecture and lab time a class requires, and not all classes are created equally. Summer and Arjun will work to make sure that science lab classes and other intensive classes are worth more than just a single unit, since the class time and workload is more than normal.

Most importantly, Summer and Arjun promise to provide thoughtful leadership to the entire UPS student body. Thank you for your support!

Becca Bryant & Sam Stookesberry

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ecca Bryant and Sam Stookesberry are both juniors at UPS, who have been actively involved here since they stepped foot on campus freshman year.

Both of them have taken leadership roles within the UPS community, and both of them have played active roles in ASUPS over the last 3 years. Becca served as Freshman Senator, Sophomore Senator and Senator-at-large, and Sam served as Greek Senator and sat on the ASUPS budget committee. They have worked with 3 different administrations, and won’t need to waste time learning the system.

Becca and Sam worked together on several projects in senate, and have exceptional ASUPS experience across the board, having served on essentially every ASUPS committee. Throughout the course of their combined 4 terms on Senate, they have established relationships with key members of the administration. They look forward to having the opportunity to once again serve the UPS community as they have been for the last 3 years.

During this time of economic turmoil, Becca and Sam fully understand the fiscal realities facing ASUPS. Through their experience on the budget committee and finance committee, they recognize that ASUPS, along with every student, faces economic challenges in the coming year. They are prepared to ensure that every club receives the funding they need to function.

As former chair of the ASUPS Student Concerns Committee, Becca has proven adept at understanding and addressing student concerns on campus. She spearheaded creating more student concerns boxes around campus, a facebook group, and a weekly public forum in the SUB. Based on her experience, she will be able address student concerns as ASUPS president with confidence.

Sam brings experience with groups from across campus, whether living in Schiff hall freshman year, or his commitment to community service through his work with Relay for Life. He and Becca intend to create a University Events board in the SUB that will effectively publicize campus-wide events by organizing each announcement by date. This will enable students to have easy access to campus events, and encourage a cohesive campus community.

The ASUPS President acts as a liaison between the students, the administration, and the student government. Becca’s working relationships with many administrators, as well as her ties within the student body, have prepared her to be an effective ASUPS President.

The main role of the ASUPS Vice-President is to work closely with clubs, as well as prepare the budget for the year. Sam is the most qualified candidate for the job, and is ready to use his experience to help achieve fiscal responsibility, and provide clubs with the funding they need.

UPS is distinct in that ASUPS is one of the most autonomous student governments across the country. Becca and Sam understand that the unique challenges of being ASUPS executives differ greatly from the challenges of similar positions at other universities.

Remember, Becca Bryant and Sam Stookesberry stand for Smart Money, Unrivaled Experience, and Proven Leadership.

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ASUPS Senatorial race uncontested in all seats B y L i z z y Sta h l News Wr i t er

Elections will be held between 9:00 am Thursday, Feb. 19 and 6:00 pm, Monday Feb. 23 to determine who will serve as ASUPS President and Vice President for the upcoming academic year. Three teams of students have submitted their candidacy for the Executive positions. Six chairs in the Senate are also up for election, but only one candidate has applied for each position.

Election results for all positions will be available within 24 hours of polls closing.

Candidates whose names appear on the ballot were required to turn in paperwork by 5:00 pm on Friday, Feb. 13.

Ross Heyman, ASUPS Vice President, commented on the lack of broad participation in the Senate race. “As you can see, there is no competition for Senate seats. This was an issue last semester as well.

Despite increases in publicity, there was no more interest shown this semester. It would be ideal to have more competition,” Heyman said.

The six available Senate seats are designated for two Senators At Large, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior class senators, and one Greek Senate seat to serve for half of a term.

Even though the Senate elections are uncontested, Heyman expressed confidence in the candidates and their commitment. “Fortunately, the stu-

dents running for Senate seats are highly motivated and have continually shown their dedication to ASUPS in terms of time and energy,” Heyman said.

Given the apparent lack of interest in participating in Senate elections, Heyman emphasized the importance of voting in these elections for the student body. “It is crucial that students are informed and vote. Voting has been made easy in the past few years, it is all electronic and available in the SUB and online everywhere,” Heyman said.

Despite technical issues surrounding previous elections, ASUPS officials anticipate that this round of electronic voting will run relatively smoothly and efficiently. Jeff Ammons, Director of Technology Ser-

vices, and Stefan Moluf, Senior Technical Lead, have redesigned the campus electronic voting system that will be used in these elections, replacing the flawed uVote program. “uVote has been scrapped. Both Jeff Ammons and Stefan Moluf have been working tirelessly to recreate a new and improved version. The name has not yet been determined, but it will not be uVote,” Heyman said.

Because so many of the programs and services made available to UPS students are sponsored by and affiliated with ASUPS, elections mean each student is guaranteed a voice in the decision making process that could affect their time on campus. Heyman emphasized this point. “While we have a

better voter turnout than many universities, I have always thought we could do better.

Everyone should use their vote.

Ask any club leader, media head, or ASUPS programmer and they will probably tell you that having good ASUPS leadership has, in some way or another, impacted their experience with ASUPS,” Heyman said.

Heyman also reflected briefly on his time in office. “Yusuf and I have had an amazing experience with ASUPS this year.

We have learned, grown, and lost sleep. We are confident that we are leaving ASUPS in even better shape than we found it, both financially and organizationally, and hope the next group of executives will do the same,” Heyman said.

Senatorial Candidates

Disclaimer: The Trail ’s goal is to provide a forum for getting to know candidates. Each candidate was asked to submit a photo and short biography. All content is user-submitted and The Trail has not edited this content in any way. The following candidates did not feel it necessary to submit to The Trail: Bella Vaynberg, Jorden Greiner. -Ed.

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y name is Vannak Uk. I want to be ASUPS Senior Senator because I want to make visible changes on campus. I want promote more diversity on campus. Furthermore, I am active leader in various campus clubs at the University of Puget, and a member of Sigma Chi. In high school I was involved in a spectrum of community service organizations. I served as the Project Coordinator of the Earth Service Corps. (ESC),

working in tandem with the YMCA. In addition, I took on more leadership roles by being nominated by my peers to be Treasurer in my high school business program. I was responsible in managing the class budget for our senior trip, keeping accurate data of spending and figuring out fundraising projects. I think that with my combine experiences that I have in the past and now, I will make an outstanding Senior Senator.

Emma Ayers Junior Senator

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urrently serving as an ASUPS Senator at Large, Rob Griswold has had extensive high school experience in student government. As both Jr. Class President and ASB President, he was able to garner a skill set enabling him to successfully coordinate projects, run effective meetings, and work to promote student welfare. His experience as an RA has provided him a unique opportunity to address the issues between

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mma Ayers was born twenty years ago to her parents in rural Pennsylvania, spending her early formative years feeding the chickens and playing in the sandbox. A few years later, at the age of two, Emma’s family moved across the country to her child and adolescent home in southern Idaho. Through her experiences during the

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next eighteen years, Emma acquired apt senatorial skills such as problem solving, creativity, ethical sensibilities, and a love of babies. She comes to you now, committed to UPS, with an excitement and fresh perspective with which to serve you as ASUPS Junior Senator that has been brewin’ since the 80’s.

ResLife and Greek life and work to build and strengthen ties with those on either side of Union Ave. If elected ASUPS Greek Senator, Rob plans to keep a direct line of communication with Panhellenic Council and IFC as well as House Presidents. He would also greatly appreciate any feedback from members of the Greek community on ways to improve Greek life on the Puget Sound campus.

Claire Buetow Senator-at-Large

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y name is Claire Buetow and I am a returning Senator running for re-election.

In my first year with Senate I weighed in on many critical ASUPS funding allocations and worked diligently on several Senate projects including adding a custom egg station in the SUB and planning an annual CES ASUPS collaborative “Dress for Success” event. I believe I am a strong returning Senate candidate because of the

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campus networks I have in place from my past experience representing the student body as a Senator at Large, as well as my residence life and campus visit program participation. I’m very approachable and open to taking on any other concerns you the students may have in the coming year. Thanks for taking the time to educate yourself about the candidates and remember to get out and vote! And don’t forget, Claire Buetow for Senator at Large.

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Puget Sound to replace every computer with stones, chisels Ch a n ce N . Coun t ier Ston e Spec i a list University staff released a report yesterday stating that by the year 2014, all campus computers will be replaced by tablets and chisels.

This change was sparked by a growing fear of intelligent machines, which has steadily worked its way into the public consciousness. Movies like Terminator, IRobot, and Wall-E have shown the common citi-

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zen that machines in the future may come to hate mankind.

“Humans are inherently hateable, any animal or machine that has gained self awareness and cognitive thought eventually comes to realize that mankind should be destroyed,” explains James Chu, professor of biology and all things robotic.

This fear of all things technological has prompted the university to replace all computers on campus with tablets.

The age-old tradition of writing in stone goes back to biblical times when God used the tablet method for the first time and gifted the prototypes to Moses. Administration toyed with the idea of using typewriters, paper and pencil, or even very small computers.

“We explored all the options,” says Puget Sound trustee Carson Pantene. “Typewriters are too smart. If you hit a letter, it knows what letter to type. That is too smart for me. The pencil

and paper idea seemed good until we took into account mechanical pencils. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to play party to that kind of machine.”

In order to acquire the rock needed for the tablets, a mine will be dug on campus. Though the location of the tablet mine is yet to be determined, the geology department has allocated work-study students to mine the precious tablets.

There has been a lot of support from the environmentally conscientious students on campus. Renold Tibbs, an agent with the United States Geological Survey, weighs in with his belief that tablets are the best option. “Rock is the most sustainable thing on this planet; in fact it is this planet.”

The first Tablets will start showing up next year. For those worried about the switch over, there will be night classes on chiseling and Roman numerals starting in March.

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Octuplets mom sells babies to Disney, sitcom on its way Sid Upa n D onslouch ba by A pprec i ator

Disney struck a deal last week with Nadya Suleman, the recordbreaking Southern California mother of octuplets, to purchase all eight of her new children and star them in their very own show.

This concludes a series of lengthy negotiations in which Disney President and CEO Robert Iger attempted to get some sort of discount for buying in bulk.

“We are disappointed Suleman did not offer any kind of two-for-one bargain. We at least hoped for an arrangement where we could buy seven of them and get the eighth one free,” said

Iger upon the closing of the deal Even so, Iger says Disney is pleased with the result, and hints that the show Octotots will debut in just a few years on Disney Channel.

“We are excitedly anticipating several spin-offs to air as the children age. We are already drafting scripts for Octopre-teens, Octo-tweens, Octoteens, Octo-Wife-Swap, and Octo-geriatrics. This is a gold mine that won’t ever go dry.”

Disney is working on releasing merchandise in retail stores across the country, and Disney Octo-Dolls are already being sold in CostCo stores.

“I’m excited to buy these dolls

for my daughter. It was always a dream of mine that little Susan become a mother of many children, and now she will know what my specific expectations are,” said one Costco Employee.

As one might expect, Suleman was initially concerned at letting go of her children and reportedly drove a hard bargain. While exact details are unknown, Disney reported paying upwards of eleven dollars per child and even more for the healthy ones.

Suleman plans on using the extra cash to pay for several more visits to the fertility clinic and anticipates starting her own business in child production.

Horoscopes

“Now, with extra science!”

ARIES Finding quality soccer cleats for your cat will prove difficult this month, but do not give up; this season could determine both of your futures.

TAURUS A long distance romance is complicated this month as you receive a package containing a two-pound bag of “Fancy Mixed Nuts” and another containing a map of Djibouti.

GEMINI People will be especially dismissive of your requests to perform medical tests on them this month. It could be related to the fact that the emblem on your forged medical degree is coming unglued, or that it is from ITT Technical Institute.

CANCER You will be tempted to pick up a penny off the ground this month, but resist. It belonged to a female math major named Deborah who works as a clown on the weekends.

LEO Around the end of the month, you will be endowed with the power to speak quackletongue, the language of the ducks. Use this gift to discover the great secrets of the world, such as whether or not ducks liked the Transformers movie.

VIRGO Future plans might possibly be affected by an event in the past, or an action in the present.

This could make you feel a certain way, if you’re not careful. And possibly even if you are.

LIBRA The sound of the ostrich mating call will be music to your ears this month. But hearing it will always come at a price. It is wise to insure your recording equipment, and also your life.

SCORPIO You suspect this month that your parents have only loved you for all these years for traits of theirs they see reflected in you, such as your rosacea and your high-pitched hyena laugh. Test the bounds of their love by speaking

only Russian, wearing plastic ponchos, and dying your hair.

SAGITTARIUS The answers to your questions are: 1. Greenish-brown 2. A hairdresser named Wendell.

He’ll be the one by the window, in the poodle pajamas 3. Because sometimes parrots just say things like that.

CAPRICORN Your robot arms will start to gain consciousness of their own this month, or at least that’s what you tell people as you touch them inappropriately or steal things from them.

AQUARIUS Take some time to pause and lick your wounds this month, it’s been rough lately.

Especially since you had to start wearing that cone around your neck to prevent you from licking your wounds.

PISCES Substituting pinches for handfuls, and handfuls for pinches will spice up some classic recipes this month.

Also, assume that everything could use more salt and lard.

Disclaimer: Combat Zone is a work of satire, humor, or general silliness and does not reflect the views or opinions of The Trail, its staff or the administration. Please send complaints or suggestions to trail@ups.edu.

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The Den opens doors, supports live local music

By Jen Davis A& E Wri t er

Happily, I continue to be surprised by the capabilities of my peers. In the face of a global recession, the cultural vacuum of hipsterdom, and the inescapable pretention of the collegiate universe, there remain individuals who strive for change and are able to make a name for themselves doing it.

The opening of The Den, a new all-ages music venue in the back of Urban Exchange, marked the fruition of one such effort. Sat. Feb. 7 saw the familiar storefront, located on Pacific Avenue, swarming with anticipatory onlookers, whose carefully crafted veneers of apathy were little match for the general air of excitement surrounding the event.

Initiated as a project after the success of the Alder Arts Walk, The Den marks the collaboration between the owner of Urban Exchange, Julie Bennett, and Puget Sound’s own Abby Wollman and Allegra Oxborough. Inspired by Tacoma’s potential as an attractive music scene to emerging west coast artists, Wollman and Oxborough booked the evening’s acts, played hostesses, and even baked vegan cookies.

Slated to perform were perennial UPS favorite Kusikia, Washington native singersongwriter Karl Blau, Olym-

pian enigma Calvin Johnson, and Phil Elvrum’s musical creation, Mount Eerie. The show began around 7:30 p.m. with

Kusikia, whose loyal community following turned up in droves to support them.

Karl Blau, fresh off his 2008

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Den: Phil Elvrum, a Washington-based artist, played at the open of Tacoma’s new venue, The Den.

Broken Social Scene bids old hits farewell B y Li n ds ey Fl att A& E Wri t er

The best part of live shows, is that they give you the chance to not only hear the music differently, but to experience it. When you experience the music at a show, you are no longer a passive listener bobbing your head and singing along (or standing and staring sullenly at the band, depending on your preference).

You become an instrument in the dynamic emotional interplay between band and audience. The singer makes you feel exactly what they were going through when they wrote that

song. The music touches something inside of you, awakening corresponding feelings and memories, that allow you to empathize, creating the illusion that this is a vocalization of your own agony, anger or ecstasy.

When a band is able to induce this in their audience, the atmosphere becomes electric.

This was the case at Broken Social Scene’s Feb. 5 Showbox SODO performance.

Current lead singer Kevin Drew apologized at the outset for the group’s last Seattle performance, lamenting that it just didn’t feel right and voicing his hope that they

could make up for it this time.

They more than did.

The night was a blend of BSS fan favorites, including “Superconnected,” and “Fire-Eyed Boy,” interspersed with several songs from the Broken Social Scene Presents… series, the side project of Brenden Canning and Kevin Drew. Because several others among the nineteen member lineup of Broken Social Scene are currently working on solo and side projects, the group was small (though still quite large by normal standards).

The sizeable gap left by Leslie Feist, was more than adequately filled by Lisa Lobsinger, whose

heartrending vocals on “Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl” made it one of the show’s most memorable songs.

The simplistic lines, repeated over and over, built up into a grinding, dramatic howl that, honestly, made me cry a little.

In the middle of the show, an intermission of sorts was held, during which the audience acted as guinea pigs to the introduction of Spearin’s solo experiment, The Happiness Project.

Spearin played several recordings of his neighbors talk-

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Tacoma lacking in outdoor entertainment B y Ha n na h Ch ase A & E Wri t er

Downtown Tacoma is no more than a ten minute drive or a fifteen minute bus ride from campus, and yet its close proximity does not make it alluring to my freshman mind. Yes it does have its perks in the form of Hello Cupcake and the Museum of Glass, but other than that it is far from glamorous.

Based on my experiences downtown, I have come to believe that the city is lacking in

richness. Perhaps I have gone on the wrong days, but I would think that a Saturday afternoon downtown would be alive and a center of activity. So far, I have been proven wrong.

The streets are empty and quiet.

The only noises that I heard were car and bus engines roaring by on the street. It was far from exciting, but I have a biased opinion.

Coming from California I am used to cities, no matter how small, to be a flurry of activity. No matter the day, there is always something go-

ing on. Farmer’s markets, wine tasting, rallies and concerts are quite popular where I am from.

Also, I expected that Tacoma would share the attraction factor of Seattle. Oh Seattle.

With its site-seeing, shopping and delicious hole-in-the-wall restaurants, it is worth the three dollar bus fair (one way) and the forty-five minute ride.

The streets are filled with commotion. Rallies fill every plaza and every corner hosts one of Seattle’s many street performers and how those street performers amaze me. It takes great courage to perform for a group let alone perform for a living.

However, street performers create the very essence of any city.

“Street performers represent a part of society in which a single person can represent their culture in a public setting,” freshman Kyle Purdy said, and I believe this to be an accurate statement.

The music is pure and raw. It comes from the very heart of the performers. It is their soul

for all to see and hear and yet its power does not overshadow the fact that it is their job. It is how they earn a living to provide for themselves and their loved ones.

It is a free concert on every corner, but it is amazing to see the gratitude in their eyes when you place even the smallest contribution in the guitar case or bucket at their feet.

“I promote the viewing of those who have the courage to sing their hearts out on the street,” Purdy said. “It amazes me what they can do.” I respect them for that.

Perhaps this is what is missing in Tacoma. There is no music on every corner, no twang of the banjo, no heartfelt violin solo. It is missing the power of music, the very essence of culture that unites people from all backgrounds.

I admit that I do not know Tacoma like the back of my hand, but I believe that it is far too quiet. It needs more harmonicas, it needs more bucket drum players and it needs more noise.

release of Nature’s Got Away, fit nicely into the aesthetic of the space. The venue itself—a long, alley-esque brick-walled room with a stage space on the floor at one end—had both positive and negative aspects: the prior being the intimacy of bandto-crowd distance, and the circular acoustics of playing in a long, narrow hall. The latter included terrible sight lines, tall hipster boys, and having to sit quietly on the floor while distorted guitars wailed overhead.

Calvin Johnson performed his set, complete with a song tribute to the late Cramps singer Lux Interior, in his infamous baritone drone with sparse acoustic guitar accompaniment. The avant-garde spirit of Johnson’s repertoire, his adjoining hand motions, and piercing stares through inch-thick cokebottle glasses perfectly melded with the spirit of the evening.

It was a night not only to be entertained but, more importantly, to support the advent of something new happening in Tacoma, a cause in which each and every attendee, conscious of it or not, played a vital part.

Phil Elvrum was the last

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Beekeepers advocating for beehives on campus

By Ja so n S c h um ac h er A& E Wr i t er Noah Brod wants to dispel misconceptions about bees. He is the founder of the University of Puget Sound Hive Minders, a student organization dedicated to the practice of apiation, more commonly known as beekeeping.

The organization wishes to establish two to four stable honeybee hives on campus by the end of the spring semester and is currently petitioning ASUPS for funding to assist the club with this project.

When I first heard of Brod’s plans to bring honeybee hives to campus, I was, admittedly, alarmed. After all, I stepped in a bee hive when I was twelve and ended up with a dozen or so stings as a result.

However, in my interview with Brod, one of the first points that he brought up is that most people have unfair and incorrect misconceptions when it comes to bees. I was surprised to hear that, in most situations, those who think they have been stung by a bee have actually been bitten by a wasp or other similar insect. Bees, according to Brod, do not sting humans unless the bees or their hive are mortally threatened.

Despite bees being relatively safe, Brod is proposing to establish the honeybee hives on top of buildings, far from student interference. He is facing opposition from Facilities Services, which

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Tacoma Boys offers extensive selection of fresh food B y R ose Th o m pson A& E Wri t er

It is hard not to fall in love with Tacoma Boys, a locally run grocery store on 6th Avenue.

Best described as a combination of a Trader Joe’s and a farmer’s market, Tacoma Boys strikes a perfect balance of organic, upscale, local and great prices.

Their motto “Quality is always a better buy” rings true, and while you may save more at big box grocery stores, the food at Tacoma Boys is simply better.

For a store packed with Read enough food more: to satisfy even the most disGo to www. criminating tacomaboys. com for reci- g o u r m a n d , Tacoma Boys pes, driving maintains a directions, surprising ly and weekly unassuming attitude. flyers.

This attitude dates back to the market’s humble beginnings, selling food from a roadside tent in 1985.

Red and white tents are still set up outside Tacoma Boys’ three locations in Tacoma, Puyallup and Lakewood, and serve as a reminder of this quaint history.

The Earth Friendly Gourmet theme house is a huge fan of Tacoma Boys.

“It’s like the Met but better!” sophomore An-

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nette d’Autremont said.

“It’s a nice way to get off campus while running errands. It’s cheap, mostly local and organic which is really cool,” Abby Phillips added.

On a recent visit, I was impressed by beautiful Valentine’s Day displays of roses, chocolate, champagne, and much more. Their seasonal decorations are consistently on par with, if not better than those of their competing retailers.

Browsing the fruits and vegetables displays at Tacoma Boys is a must. They consistently boast perfect arrangements of fresh produce.

All staple produce can be found, and so can more exotic choices, like star fruits and edible cactuses. Look indoors and outdoors for specials like two-for-adollar red peppers and avocados.

In general, the produce is easy on the eyes and the wallet.

For the over-21 crowd, check out a worldwide selection of beer (and every variety you could ever want from the West Coast’s own finest breweries) and over 3000 varieties of wine.

Tacoma Boy’s huge selection of meat also must to be noted.

Skip ahead if you’re a veggie, but read on if you love quality steak, chicken, pork chops, sausages, and deli meats. Buying meat there is like a trip back in time; butchers wait to take your order and hand wrap your choice of meat.

A current special is a stuffed

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Grocery: Tacoma Boys is unique for the diversity of choices it offers its customers in every section.

pork tenderloin and chicken breast with feta, cranberries, and spinach. This is just one of many delicious meat concoctions offered, all homemade on the spot of course.

Tacoma Boys is proud to report

that they also make their own jams, jellies, fudge, chips and salsa. Chips and salsa samples are always on display for samples and the store welcomes customers to taste-test the wide variety.

The Pico de Gallo salsa is a must.

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to take the stage. Playing under the moniker Mount Eerie, Elvrum’s innovative blend of epically distorted guitar loops interspersed with almost whispered poetic lines, calls to mind a musical structure not unlike that displayed by a young Patti Smith: poetry over music, separate but working in tandem.

After initial mic troubles, a regrettably common occurrence at a venue’s first show, Elvrum played a set consisting mainly of his new music.

While as a convention this sometimes serves to distance the audience, for its entirety the room was glued on Elvrum, due both to his ability as a musician Tickets are $6.50 with your student ID!

and the occasion of the night.

People initiate new and creative endeavors all the time. Often the only thing hampering their success is support from others.

Tacoma proved that it wants to hear new music, see new art and build a city with amazing potential into one that puts that potential to good use. All it needs is help.

So, student body, I ask you to go forth and support new ideas in any way you can, whether it be going to see live music, a play, an art show, or merely helping move sound equipment.

The change is ours to make, so make it wisely.

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I was surprised to hear that Brod’s proposal has some precedent at Puget Sound. Robin Foster, associate professor of psychology and advisor for the Hive Minders, has two hives on campus with which she conducts her research.

Research is not the only benefit honeybees have on campus.

Honeybees have a range of twomiles in which they travel, pollinating and generally improving the quality of the surrounding vegetation within this radius.

If ASUPS accepts Brod’s proposal, he predicts that the introduction of two new hon-

cont. from page 11 eybee hives on campus will improve the health and beauty of the vegetation on campus and in the surrounding area. This in turn would encourage more diverse forms of life to flourish.

Additionally, Brod predicts that the hives will produce 35 to 40 pounds of honey per season.

Brod has been impressed with the number of people who have expressed interest in being a member of UPSAC. He has spoken to approximately thirty Puget Sound students that have expressed great interest in the club, and a recently created Facebook group (titled the University of Puget Sound Hive Minders) has nearly twenty members.

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One could go on and on; options for gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian, meat lovers and chocolate lovers are abundant.

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BSS: Kevin Drew and Leslie Feist, notable members of Broken Social Scene, serenade loyal fans.

ing about love and happiness, while Kingstone matched the cadence and pitch of these voices on his sax. The result was impressive. The first album from The Happiness Project was released Feb. 14 and is well worth checking out.

Throughout the show, Drew made enigmatic comments stating that most of these songs would never be heard again live, an indication perhaps that their old hits are soon to be retired from the performance circuit.

Although this is regrettable, there is comfort in the fact that I had the chance to hear all these old BSS favorites live. The two hour, fifteen minute show culminated in an epic fifteen-minute version of “It’s All Gonna Break”.

The length and slow, steady build-up of this last song were slightly draining, but after this conclusion the audience walked away visibly exhilarated.