What We Do Podcast University of Puget Sound

Jess K. Smith '05, assistant professor of theatre arts and McKenna Johnson '18 talk about their experience living and working together on campus this past summer as part of the ARTBARN theater residency.

Regular listeners will recognize the voice of Chuck Luce, What We Do host and editor of "Arches" magazine. A few days before his retirement in May, Chuck sat down with Cathy Tollefson ’83, P’17, associate editor and guest host, to share some of his favorite behind-the-scenes stories from nearly 20 years at the helm of "Arches."

Should we keep someone on life support to gestate her fetus? What is brain death, anyway? This week we're joined by Professor Suzanne Holland and two of the students in her Practicum in Clinical Bioethics, who spent the semester navigating these and other real-life ethical questions both in the classroom and at Tacoma General Hospital.

Guest host Presley Reed ’18 chats with Puget Sound tour guides Clara Brown '17 and Bobby Stewart '18 on Facebook Live, answering admitted students' questions about life as a Logger, ranging from food and frats to studying and the social scene on campus. #pugetsoundbound

In the mid-1990s, Congress eliminated all federal funding for college in prison. The prison system is filled with people who have never had access to higher education opportunities, the vast majority of whom come from under-resourced communities and communities of color. Freedom Education Project Puget Sound aims to change that. Program co-founder Professor Tanya Erzen and volunteer Carsen Nies ’17 talk about the benefits of providing educational opportunities to incarcerated women, for both the inmates and Puget Sound students.

This week we have a special guest host, Simone Moore '20. Simone is an Adelphian singer, and this week she sat down with Rob Hutchinson, Professor of Music Theory and Composition, to talk about "Take Time," a piece he composed to commemorate the inauguration of President Isiaah Crawford.