CCASL is developing a new mission trip called Justice in January. It is an eight-day trip from Jan. 8 to Jan. 15 in which participants will stay in the Hill Top neighborhood of Tacoma, Wash. The registration took place online in October, and nine students signed up to attend.
Five male students compete in AKPsi recruit class event
Henry Harper is the new "Big Man on Campus," according to Alpha Kappa Psi's Mr. Zag competition. The event, which was held Nov. 19 in the COG as a fundraiser by AKPsi's recruit class, pitted five male students against each other in a variety of contests.
Kate Catlin is sitting in a Nicaraguan Internet café, drinking water to fight the 100-degree heat and brushing sweat out of her eyes. Her image is grainy, distorted by the distance and a slow Internet connection. Despite this, or perhaps because of this, the 21-year-old Gonzaga junior's passion about social justice, economics and climate change is contagious.
Freshman Destiney Shaffer isn't sure if she will be at Gonzaga next semester. She might be, she hopes she will be, but she doesn't know. Schaffer, who is the first in her family to attend college, is studying nursing and paying for school through a complicated series of loans, scholarships and grants.
In addition to feeding Gonzaga students and faculty, Sodexo is expanding its reach to aid the Spokane community with its food drive campaign. Each year, Sodexo raises money and collects food to donate to Spokane's Second Harvest Inland Northwest.
The president of Gonzaga University and the president of the Gonzaga Student Body Association covered topics ranging from the plans for a new student center to discussions about sex on a Catholic campus on Tuesday, Nov. 15, in a Fireside Chat.
When Venerable Geshe Thupten Phelgye and his family made the two-year journey from his birthplace in Tibet to India, Phelgye never considered that he would later teach at a Jesuit university. Phelgye was born in Tibet in 1956. When Phelgye was 3 years old, his family moved to India.
Logan neighborhood resident Don Winant thinks he's figured it out. "I think she has more than one lover," he said of the abandoned cat he recently took into his home and named Tigress Woods. "Plus she's world-class at what she does best — mousing.
Gonzaga is in the first phase of an ambitious project — a new structure that will not only be the biggest building on campus, but will take over the functions of two of Gonzaga's most beloved buildings — Crosby Student Center and the COG.
Five residents of a house on the 900 block of Augusta have been fined twice this year by Student Life to the tune of $1,500, an average of $300 per person. According to the residents, Spokane Police Department broke up two small get-togethers before they received an email from the Student Life office.
There are two things the Spokane Public Library loves about Freegal: the radical expansion of the music selection they are now able to offer the Spokane community and how easy and straightforward it is to use the service. According to A/V Librarian Mark Pond, these reasons make Freegal a favorite addition to the library.
Is anyone at Gonzaga 100 percent satisfied with the food at the COG? Junior Sheila Canavan and sophomore Breanne Flynn certainly are not, which is why they're working to create a new club that would strive to improve the on-campus food. Ethical Awareness Together is entirely centered on food.
"Hate crimes or not, recent attacks are all disgusting" reads an Oct. 12 headline of a Spokesman Review article, citing three to five recent downtown Spokane hate crime allegations, violent encounters that have left several members of the Inland Northwest LGBT community battered, bruised and outraged.