1.  Vision & Leadership

Athletic Director Amy Hackett is retiring this December after 21 years at Puget Sound. On her watch, the Loggers won 36 conference titles and competed in 110 NCAA championships.

2.  Spirit of the Game

Luna Wagner ’27 competed in the World Junior Ultimate Under-20 Championships in England this summer, helping Team USA capture the gold in the final match.

3.  Always a Logger

Alumni are invited to join President Isiaah Crawford and Prof. Nick Brody in New York City and Washington, D.C., for Loggers Keep Learning. RSVP today to save your spot!

The Long Road to Paris

Paracyclist Clara Brown ’17 is heading home with a bronze medal for after competing in the C1–3 road race at the Paralympics in Paris. This is Brown's first medal and her second time at the Paralympics. After suffering an incomplete spinal cord injury when she was 12, Brown was paralyzed from the neck down, but with intense rehabilitation and sheer determination, she learned to walk again. At Puget Sound, she was a Matelich Scholar and it was during college that she took up cycling—the rest is history.

Labor Relations

Professor Emeritus of Sociology & Anthropology Leon Grunberg was quoted in an article about contract negotiations between Boeing and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers after talks between the aerospace giant and the union faltered last week.

“Because they haven’t had a contract negotiation since 2008, the expectations would be high,” said Grunberg. “But Boeing’s in such a vulnerable place right now that this is probably as generous as they could be.”

Be Prepared

Practice makes perfect or, at least, prepared. This Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 10:40 a.m., we will hold our annual lockdown/shelter-in-place drill. During this drill, you are asked to:

In the event of an actual campus emergency, students, faculty, and staff will receive Security Alerts via text message to their university email addresses and/or personal cell phones. To ensure that Security Alerts are properly delivered, campus members should update their contact information through myPugetSound. You must have a cell phone number on file to receive mobile alerts.

Language Matter(s) Within the Carceral State

Author, poet, and associate professor of English at the University of New Haven Randall Horton read from his memoir Dead Weight and his other works at an event on campus last week. Horton's reading is part of a series funded by a Mellon Humanities for All Times grant  led by Professor of Religion, Spirituality, & Society and Director of Crime, Law, & Justice Studies Tanya Erzen and Associate Professor of African American Studies Renee Sims. The grant supports unique approaches to questions of the carceral state, prisons, and the criminal legal system in the U.S.

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