Welcome to Puget Sound's faculty-staff e-newsletter
Welcome to Puget Sound's faculty-staff e-newsletter
Discounted ski tickets and equipment rentals at The Expy this week. #IGetOutside Every story begins with you. 2015–16 President's Annual Report Logger basketball and swimming host home events over winter break
Happy holidays, Loggers! This is the last issue of Open Line for the semester. See you in January!
KNOW THIS campus news and announcements
Every story begins with you. In the past year, you have made possible thousands of stories on campus and beyond—stories of enterprising students who advance the common good, of professors who explore new frontiers, of research that uncovers new knowledge. Take a look at just a few in the 2015–16 President's Annual Report.
#IGetOutside. Puget Sound Outdoors is offering equipment rentals during winter break and discounted lift tickets for all campus members and their families. Crystal Mountain tickets = $64; Summit tickets = $54. Youth, night, and lesson packages are also available. Rentable equipment includes snowshoes, cross country skis, and more. Pay for two weekends, and keep the equipment all break! For more info or to rent equipment or buy tickets, contact or visit The Expeditionary: pugetsound.edu/outdoors, x3103, or 1506 N. Alder St. Expy hours this week: Monday–Wednesday, 4–7 p.m.
Give the gift of music. Registration for community music spring classes is open. Available classes include Kindermusik for ages 18 months to 7 years and the "Nurtured by Music" early childhood Suzuki class, as well as individual music lessons for all ages and skill levels. More information and registration forms are available at pugtsound.edu/communitymusic.
Wheelock parking lot gets fenced in for winter break. This is it! The fence goes up around the Wheelock parking lot this week to help prevent theft from and vandalism to student vehicles parked in the lot during winter break. Faculty and staff members should begin parking in the lots on N. or S. Lawrence Street, or at N. 18th and Lawrence streets, Wednesday, Dec. 14. Questions? Contact Todd Badham at x 3313 or tbadham@pugetsound.edu.
Winter weather reminders: Class and campus activities delays/cancellations will be posted to the home page (as one of the first three "spotlight stories" highlighted near the top of the page, just under the large, rotating feature image). Brush up on weather emergency procedures and other campus emergency plans at pugetsound.edu/emergency.
Save the date for staff recognition. Mark your calendar now for the 2017 Staff Recognition Luncheon, May 26, 2017. Want to participate in the program? Be a presenter!
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DO THIS featured events
Guest Lecture: Fighting for Dreams That Mattered, Harold G. Moss, Dec. 12, Murray Boardroom.
Pop-Up Extravaganza: Laura Russell, 23 Sandy Gallery, Dec. 14, 11 a.m.–noon, Collins Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections.
Last chance! Food for Fines ends Dec. 16, Collins Memorial Library.
LoggerUP. Remember Puget Sound staffers and family members get in free with a valid campus ID. Home games and meets happening over winter break:
  • Women's Basketball vs. Willamette, Jan. 6, 6 p.m.
  • Men's Basketball vs. Willamette, Jan. 6, 8 p.m.
  • Swimming vs. Pomona, Jan. 7, 1 p.m.
  • Women's Basketball vs. Lewis & Clark, Jan. 7, 4 p.m.
  • Men's Basketball vs. Lewis & Clark, Jan. 7, 6 p.m.
Loggers keep learning. Register now for January's Professional Development and Enrichment Conference, featuring a special, full-day learning opportunity led by renowned educator and filmmaker Shakti Butler, Ph.D. View the conference schedule and complete list of more than 40 workshops at pugetsound.edu/professionaldev.
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BE PROUD noteworthy and in the news
Siddharth Ramakrishnan, neuroscience, and Tomoko Inagaki, biology, co-wrote the article "Cross-generational Effects of Parental Low Dose BPA Exposure on the Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone3 System and Larval Behavior in Medaka (Oryzias latipes)," published in the December 2016 issue of NeuroToxicology, with Logger alumni Natalie Smith ’16 and Kara Sherva ’15.
The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and members of Logger athletics donated holiday gifts for several local families as part of the Adopt-a-Family Initiaitve.
Sam Liao, philosophy, posted an essay about the marginalization of Taiwan, in response to the way media covered Donald Trump's phone call with Taiwan's president, on Medium
Jennifer Utrata, sociology and anthropology, recently published a chapter in the new edited volume Beyond the Cubicle: Job Insecurity, Intimacy, and the Flexible Self, published by Oxford University Press. The chapter is titled "'Relying on Myself Alone': Single Mothers Forging Socially Necessary Selves in Neoliberal Russia."
Carrie Woods, biology, co-wrote the article "Ethiopian Church Forests: A Hybrid Model of Protection," published in the December issue of Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
A new issue of the Race & Pedagogy Journal, edited by students Paige Zimmerman ’17 and Haley Newman ’18, has been published Sound Ideas. The student editors are members of the clas Library as Collaboratory.
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JUST BECAUSE
Uh oh, might be trouble. Sometimes the stars align, and the universe gives us a gift we didn't even know we wanted—like this mashup of a miracle run by an iguana escaping a den of snakes from BBC's Planet Earth II "narrated" by former Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch, recalling his famous "Beast Quake" run from 2011.
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