Crew cruises to first place in Vancouver regatta
In preparation for the NCRC Championships on April 21, the Puget Sound women’s varsity crew team continued their winning ways on Saturday, taking their original Division III heat over Mills and Lewis and Clark with a time of 07:09.9. The eight-person boat then fell at the hands of Division II squad Humboldt State in the [...]
read more‘Pink Slime’ beef controversy wildly overblown
I’m sure the majority of you have been made aware of the recent controversy surrounding the revelation that around 70% of ground beef in the United States contains a concoction deliciously coined “Pink Slime.” Pink Slime, or Lean Finely Textured Beef (an especially innocent-sounding industry euphemism), is produced by mixing copious amounts of ammonium hydroxide [...]
read moreNational Occupational Therapy Month raises awareness
April is National Occupational Therapy (OT) Month, and the OT department at Puget Sound is celebrating by raising awareness about their field. Occupational Therapy is a rehabilitation therapy that focuses on helping a wide variety of people participate in their everyday occupations or activities. This covers a variety of daily tasks such as getting dressed, [...]
read moreRain shortens doubleheader against Bearcats
After a delayed start, the Puget Sound women’s softball team fell 10-0 to the visiting Willamette Bearcats. The loss was their nineteenth straight defeat, with 13 of the losses coming from Northwest Conference play. The Loggers fell to a 2-21 record while the Bearcats, currently ranked third in the NWC, improved to 14-8. Alex Watilo [...]
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Your daily dose
Most everyone knows the feeling—headache, drowsy, trouble concentrating. Maybe you are irritable, anxious, or have suddenly become very clumsy—all simply because you missed your morning dose of caffeine. It is estimated that in North America between 80 to 90 percent of the adults and children consume caffeine daily. Caffeine is the most commonly used mood-altering [...]
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Third annual Book Collecting Contest to award cash prizes
In college it seems like all books ever do are collect dust on our dorm room shelves or clutter our backpacks, but what if in that mess of text books and paperbacks there was $1000? For the last three years, the Collins Memorial Library has essentially been doing just that. The annual Book Collecting Contest, [...]
Arts & Entertainment
Orgasm-free sex?
You know that moment when you’re with a partner, when you’re just about to hit the big “O” but something interrupts? Maybe your cell phone rings. Maybe your roommate walks in. Maybe the fire alarm goes off. Hell, maybe your partner can’t quite get you to the edge. The point is, when you’re trying to [...]
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‘Pink Slime’ beef controversy wildly overblown
I’m sure the majority of you have been made aware of the recent controversy surrounding the revelation that around 70% of ground beef in the United States contains a concoction deliciously coined “Pink Slime.” Pink Slime, or Lean Finely Textured Beef (an especially innocent-sounding industry euphemism), is produced by mixing copious amounts of ammonium hydroxide [...]
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Orgasm-free sex?
You know that moment when you’re with a partner, when you’re just about to hit the big “O” but something interrupts? Maybe your cell phone rings. Maybe your roommate walks in. Maybe the fire alarm goes off. Hell, maybe your partner can’t quite get you to the edge. The point is, when you’re trying to [...]
Lubricating the discourse
The back door is a frontier some are frequent visitors of, while many others remain scared to even approach the porch. For all the nasty porn videos that zoom in on a girl’s face in agony, the rumors that poop gets everywhere (it doesn’t; poop is in the colon further up) and all the conceptions [...]
LA-based Dot Hacker releases eponymous debut
On Feb. 20, 2012 the Los Angeles-based Dot Hacker released their eponymous debut EP. The EP collects three of four previously issued songs and includes a new track called “Rewire”. Dot Hacker was founded in 2008 and is a supergroup of sorts. Fronted by Josh Klinghoffer, who is notable for being the Red Hot Chili [...]
Alder Arts Walk: finish the year with a bang
At the iconic climax of Kubrick’s black comedy masterwork Doctor Strangelove, Major “King” Kong straddles the business end of a nuclear warhead as it dives from a bomber, plunging the Earth into thermonuclear war. It’s the beginning of the end, and Kong waves in the apocalypse with a manic grin and emphatic sweeps of his [...]
Radiohead review
A long time ago, before many a Logger had even applied to college, a band called Radiohead graced the state of Washington with a visit during their In Rainbows tour. On April 9, almost four years later, the band came back to Washington, this time performing in Seattle proper for the first time in their [...]
Senior Art Show reveals talent
On Wednesday, 19 graduating art majors hosted their fellow colleagues to an opening reception in Kittredge Gallery for this year’s Senior Art Show, exhibiting pieces that culminated their artistic careers at Puget Sound. The reception included the announcements of various student awards and which piece was chosen for display in Collins next year. The artists [...]
I Love You, It’s Cool falters under the weight of one too many synth beats
So often in the musical community, one must grapple with the constant question that looms over new indie music; is this good music because it sounds cool or is this good music because it’s genuinely creative? One genre that brings to mind that concern is the fascinating spawn of the New Wave/New Romanticism movement. Every [...]
Mug cake
It’s the end of the year– what better way to celebrate than with cake? But when you just want a slice of celebratory cake after having finished your final paper, you probably don’t want to go to the trouble of baking a whole cake, especially if you aren’t celebrating with a huge party. Well, look [...]
Laura Marling, Andrew Bird delight
Two very darling soft-spoken musical artists occupied the Paramount stage in Seattle on April 9. Andrew Bird and Laura Marling delighted the crowd with their sets, with Marling opening for Bird. All audience members felt the anticipation of the concert as they waited for it to commence. When the house lights dimmed and the stage [...]
Love, faith and fish in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
A deeply romantic film hidden behind intersecting spheres of professional life, international relations and the personal politics of “pedestrian” life, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen proves that with the right director and the right concept, even familiar A-List actors can perform unexpectedly touching roles. Even though the premise’s eccentricities might have been better suited by [...]
