2008 Woodie Awards
Digging through old issues of The Pacific Index you'd be surprised what you'll find. Here's a story we found from March, 1976 involving our beloved mascot. Thirty-two years ago this week, students were wondering where Boxer was and if the bronze statue would be returned to Pacific in the near future.
Whether you fancy yourself a swashbuckling pirate or simply revel in musical mishmash, the Celtic punk sound of Flogging Molly could be just the band to appease your taste. The difference is that their newest work, Float, feels more like a breezy ocean liner cruise than the gritty shipwrecked semblance of prior albums.
He claimed he was an at-risk youth trying to improve his public speaking. He looked 18 and smelled like one too-rebellious from authority. He had these droopy eyes, polished white sneakers, and a windbreaker jacket. It had just started to rain. I had to leave for work five minutes after he rang my doorbell; a sound that still frightens me.
Based on the novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" plays like a historical soap opera complete with scandal, betrayal, and a scheming family hoping to increase their class standing by whoring their daughters to the King of England. In the story Mary Boleyn (played by Scarlett Johansson) and her sister, Anne (Natalie Portman), compete for the affections of Henry VIII (Eric Bana), whose desperation for a male heir tears apart England in history, and women's bodices on screen.
"The U.S. is the most beautiful country in the world and I never fully appreciated how wonderful it was until I risked everything for it," said Mark Organ, U.S. Marine and Pacific Student. Within two years, Organ was deployed three different times and experienced an array of both amazing and horrifying experiences.