Arches is the alumni magazine of Puget Sound, serving more than 40,000 Loggers worldwide.
Guided by the intellectually curious and humanist values of the liberal arts, Arches strives to capture and convey the ethos of the college through stories that are relevant to the times we are living in and that amplify the voices and experiences of Loggers in an effort to foster understanding and fuel connection within our community and beyond.
What’s it like to start college in the middle of a pandemic? We reached out to our fellow members of the Class of 2024 to see how things are going.
Three students show their mettle in an online internship. (Spoiler alert: They also fight off a Zoombombing.)
Soccer was Maya Mendoza-Exstrom’s way to a Puget Sound education. Now, 16 years after graduating, she’s making sure that local children can reap the benefits of the sport she loves.
A riot is raging in a hallway of a New York prison. Barricaded inside the prison’s media center, the editor of the jail’s literary magazine—an unnamed Sri Lankan prisoner—is writing. This is the scene readers find themselves in when they open Riots I Have Known, the first novel from writer Ryan Chapman ’04.
Twenty years ago, Tanya Saine Durand ’93 and her colleagues at the nonprofit Children’s Museum of Tacoma found themselves wondering if their jobs—their mission—should continue to exist.