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But Some of Us are Brave
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Puget Sound Department is a Model for Civic Learning
TACOMA, Wash. – University of Puget Sound has been named one of 22 colleges across the country offering exemplary programs that aim to ensure students understand their civic and moral responsibilities to their fellow…
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Dear Graduates of Color
Once there was a woman from America’s heartland who was black and imperial and seated at a desk. Her right hand clasped a Dixon Ticonderoga No. 2 pencil, which she held above a yellow legal pad. There, the woman brightly…
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Black Lives, Black Voices
For people of color, what happened wasn’t new—it was merely a reminder of what they have seen and experienced all their lives. To gain perspective, we asked three people to reflect on the issues the country has been grappling…
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A Change Is Gonna Come
When Serena Sevasin ’22, Mimi Duncan ’22, and Jaylen Antoine ’22 stepped up into the bed of a pickup truck in the parking lot next to Memorial Fieldhouse and prepared to address the crowd of thousands of people, they knew they…
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A Journey to Africa
This is an expanded version of the roundtable discussion that appeared in the spring 2020 issue of Arches.
The history of Ghana, on Africa’s western coast, is, in part, a brutal one. From the 1500s through the 1800s,…
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University of Puget Sound student advocates for Black voices
In early August, with the summer sun high overhead downtown Tacoma, Chloe Pargmann-Hayes ’24 climbed the steps of Tollefson Plaza with a paint roller in hand to help put the finishing touches on a massive mural. This was the…