2008 Woodie Awards
Byron Steiger, a professor of sociology and anthropology, will retire after 34 years at Pacific University. Steiger earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Oregon. Steiger currently serves as a Chair of the Sociology Section Oregon Academy of Sciences.
After a 10-year wait on behalf of the world languages department, the Center for Languages and International Collaborations, otherwise known as CLIC, will be coming to Pacific. Last week the department was notified that their grant proposal to the Collins foundation for $150,000 was honored.
A Boston Globe headline saying, "Spate of violence rattles UMass-Amherst campus," caught my attention. It focused on five athletes from University of Massachusetts at Amherst that engaged in a drunken brawl with baseball bats, lacrosse sticks, and bottles.
On March 4 at 7:30 p.m., taiko group Hanayui will be giving a free performance at Pacific's McCready hall. Hanayui consists of Chieko Kojima, Uoko Fujimoto and Mitsue Kinjo. Each member specializes in traditional Japanese dancing, drumming, singing, and/or koto playing (the koto is a traditional Japanese stringed instrument).
Oregon native and Spring 2008 transfer student, Nicolle Brossard, found fate and family lineage urging her to join the army reserve in February of 2001. Brossard is the fourth generation of her family to enlist in the army, but this was not the only reason she decided to join before going to school.
This is the place to find everything that's going on with our on-campus bands - all your favorite student musicians and musical groups - and see their upcoming gigs. If you are an on-campus musician or band drop us a line and tell us what's new with you and we'll do our best to get some students at your next gig.
American ratings for this year's Oscars ceremony have slipped down more than 20 percent from previous years. The significant decline could be attributed to a lack of upbeat movies, or simply a decreasing interest in visual entertainment altogether, as we turn our attentions to more pressing matters - the upcoming election, for example.
Former president of Pacific's Alumni Board of Directors, Sig Unander, Jr., will present a documentary film Friday evening on the Mexican Eagle Fighters Squadron 201, and the Mexican-United States alliance that was formed during World War II - one of the first successful intergovernmental projects between the United States and Mexico.
Here are the answers to the puzzles printed in the paper.