Primary Storyteller for Pacific Returns
Blake Timm, alumni and former Sports Information Director is back and ready for his new journey ahead. Blake Timm has a history with Pacific University—as an undergraduate student and then a decade in the school’s sports department. But he has … Continued
Player Profile: Mara Murphy
An inside look at Pacific’s 2023 volleyball season Number ten on the Boxer volleyball team Mara Murphy is one of Pacific’s star athletes. Murphy, a junior hailing from Salt Lake City, finished as a First Team All-Northwest Conference selection in … Continued
What’s With All of this Construction?
The new and improved Pacific Hall is coming soon. But just what are they doing behind those fences? Whether it’s mechanical whirring, repetitive hammering echoing through campus, or the seven foot tall chain-link fence blocking a main path along Trombolley … Continued
Reporter’s Notebook: Student Senate Meeting
The weekly meetings create an environment where a student-run committee can promote ways to help the university excel as a community. Located on the second floor of the library, the infamous conference room that you see when you walk up … Continued
Inside the Mind of a Pacific Athlete
A look into the busy lives of college athletes A month into the fall term—and for student-athletes, nearly halfway into their competitive schedules, the weight of juggling athletes and academics can start to feel a bit heavy. For many fall … Continued
Pacific University Theater Department Presents Tunnel City
Debuting in October, Tunnel City tells the story of Harry Allen, a transgender manwho lived in the early 20th century. In mid-October, playwright Grayson Ashford, director Elliot Lorenc, and Pacific University’s theater department will debut “Tunnel City,” a play that … Continued
Can the Boxer’s Make it to the Moon?!
The Boxers have hit the road and been racking up miles to fire up the year! Our fall sports teams have had a packed preseason going into their regular season. volleyball traveled to Chicago, two-thirds the way across the country, … Continued
Going Local: More Than Just Food
What’s on the Farmers Market menu besides something to eat? If you haven’t gone to the Wednesday Forest Grove Farmers Market on Main Street, what are you even doing? (Hopefully studying.) Here are the basics: It is an event that … Continued
Teaching in the Kindest Way Possible
Long-tenured band director at Pacific loves his students and program Michael Burch-Pesses is a professor and band director at Pacific University. He is beginning his 29th year of teaching at Pacific—and Burch-Pesses has his sights set on some exciting endeavors. … Continued
Fumbling Student Athletes!
Higher roster numbers are associated with declining retention rates for male athletes at Pacific Student-athletes are a major source of enrollment—and pride—for Pacific University. Nearly 60 percent of incoming male students play sports—a statistic that Pacific boasts about in speeches … Continued
Another Year, Another Lawsuit
Pacific University’s name is in the news yet again—and again for a lawsuit. This time the bill is big, $4 million dollars. A week before students returned to campus, a jury in Portland handed down a troubling verdict: Pacific University … Continued
Speak Up! Student Senate wants to hear you!
The 2023-24 Student Senate has big ambitions