PLU Debaters Make History at Linfield Tournament

Forensics Team is Off to Another Strong Start PLU debaters who competed at Linfield College include, top row, left to right: Hannah Bates and Matt Aust and, bottom row, left to right: Angie Tinker, Brendan Stanton, Austin Ballard and Caila Fautenberry. (Photo: Kaitlyn Porter) Members…

MediaLab Premieres documentary about food waste

Wastefulness can produce distressing results. This is especially true in the international food industry, in which more than one-third of all food produced globally each year goes to waste, resulting in economic, energy and environmental losses totaling more than $750 billion annually, according to the…

PLU Digs into the Merits of Meat

What goes into the production of a quarter pound burger? According to J.L. Capper in The Journal of Animal Science, 6.7 pounds of feed, 52.8 gallons of drinking water, 74.5 square feet of grazing, and the equivalent amount of energy it takes to run a microwave…

Resident Artist, Jessica Spring, Wins Major Award From Tacoma Arts Commission

Jessica Spring Will Accept AMOCAT Award—and Exhibit Her Work—in Tacoma Oct. 2 By Taylor Lunka ’15  PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker Pacific Lutheran University resident artist Jessica Spring has been selected to receive an impressive AMOCAT award from the Tacoma Arts Commission. Every year, the…

Professor Encourages Peers to Engage in Public Dialogue in New Book

In the recently published  Prophets, Gurus, and Pundits: Rhetorical Styles and Public Engagement , associate professor of communication Amy Young addresses the shortcomings in university academia, mainly that intellectuals are not encouraged, and in some ways, don’t know how, to become engaged in public dialogue. “I’m…

You can’t argue with Success

At a liberal-arts college such as Pacific Lutheran University where open dialogue is not just encouraged but expected a healthy argument between students is a common occurrence. But no one crafts strategic arguments like the Lutes of PLU’s historic Speech and Debate team . You…