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Puget Sound Recognized Among Leaders in Peace Corps Service
University of Puget Sound is once again in the top five small schools producing Peace Corps volunteers. The volunteer program provides services in more than 70 countries.
A Musical Evening with Langston Hughes, Friday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Soprano Awilda Verdejo will be featured in this unusual program that sets poetry by Langston Hughes to music by a variety of 20th-century composers.
- Ann Putnam's Book Full Moon at Noontide is Re...
- Loggers Breeze by Bearcats in Women's Basketb...
- Puget Sound No. 4 in Peace Corps Volunteers
- Ely, Koach, Riordan, Shelton Earn Academic Al...
- Thinking of Becoming a Teacher? Q&A with Teach...
- Wild Men, a New Book by Douglas Sackman
- Jeff Thomas Named New Head Football Coach
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February 1, 2010
IPE: Leigh Barrick '09 in Honduras
Greetings from Honduras! After graduating from UPS last May, I enjoyed the summer in Portland before heading to Juticalpa, Honduras to work as a sixth grade teacher. Six months into my time here, I am really enjoying myself. I work at a private K-12 bilingual school called Day-Star, which is owned by a couple originally from the United States. Day-Star fills as many teaching positions as possible ...
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January 21, 2010
Lisa Griswold '11: Hello Copenhagen
Since Copenhagen streets are so skinny, the bus we were on couldn’t go down the road of my dormitory. Thus we got out a few blocks away and started to drag the oodles and oodles of luggage towards our new home. Here we were, about 35 American students traipsing across Copenhagen’s heavily cobble-stoned streets with unnecessary amounts of luggage. It was like a band of horses clip-clopping through th...
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January 23, 2010
Adrienne Kehn '09: Footloose in Deutschland
As a general rule, I like to connect the travel dots in the most direct manner possible, which would account for my stepping onto a small Germanwings plane in Prague the day after Christmas, instead taking the train and enduring multiple transfers. I had registered a month earlier as a participant in the Buddhist Youth Festival, an annual gathering of young people from all over the world who have ...
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February 3, 2010
Politics & Gov: Brown Bag on Prop 8
In 2008 the citizens of California passed Proposition 8 which prohibits same sex couples from marrying. A few weeks ago two same sex couples brought a case in federal court, charging that Prop 8 violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. In this brown bag discussion led by Professor Kessel, we'll talk about Proposition 8, the arguments for and against same sex marriage, and the ne...
