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for 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, in Olson Auditorium. Tickets may be purchased by calling the PLU athletic department at 253-535-7352. Jason Thiel: Football 1991-94 and Track and Field 1991-94 Jason Thiel was arguably one of the greatest defensive linemen to play football at PLU, and he also placed himself among the best in the Track and Field record books. Thiel amassed remarkable stats as a defensive tackle, and as a star hammer thrower and shot putter. Thiel started in 27 of the 29 games that he

horror that was going on in lower Manhattan that day,” Senn told us. “Going into work I had a spring in my step, couldn’t wait to get there.” Everything changed at 8:45 a.m. As soon as he arrived on scene, he witnessed the tail end of the second plane just before it hit the south tower. Looking up at the towers, he said he could see people in the windows one hundred floors up. They started jumping. “It was an excess of 100 degrees up there,” Senn said. “They knew this was it. There was nothing we

, and the USA motivates her re-examination of a British literary “canon” populated by white authors. She originally completed what would later become Unmarriageable for her MFA thesis at the University of Georgia in 2017. Her personal essay ” Pride and Prejudice and Me” (2019), found in the book’s endmatter, details her creative inspiration: “I wanted to write a novel that paid homage to Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice, as well as combined my braided identification with English-language and

day, bond with those who mean the most to us, and safely store our most treasured personal effects. Yet across the country, millions struggle to consistently access this fundamental element to stability and success. In the Puget Sound region, for example, home prices jumped by 53% between 2012 and 2017, spurred by the region’s economic success. Meanwhile, rents climbed by 47% during the same period. The vast majority of low-income households in King County spend more than 30% of their monthly

artist Craig Cornwall for a printmaking workshop that covers etching and drypoint. Cornwall is a Master Printer in lithography trained at the world-renowned Tamarind Institute.  He has taught workshops all over the country and operates a professional print workshop working with other artists to produce limited edition prints. Cost: $50 for members, $60 for non-members. Educator Evening with Edvard Munch and the Sea, Thursday, April 21, 5 – 8 pm, Location: TAM Educators are invited to explore the

again… “what are symbols and why are they important?” My audience, a mix of children ages 6 to 10 and their families, settle into the question. Some have an intentional look about them; brows furrowed, eyes fixed on the book we’re discussing. Others look down, away, hoping I won’t call on them to answer. One of the parents, Kathy, is the first to speak up. She is in her late 30’s and accompanies her son, an 8-year old, every Tuesday to this community reading and discussion series. Prime Time Family

along surprisingly well with each other given the potentially volatile combination of Red Sox, Yankees, and Mariners fans. Zachary Lyman is Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), where he teaches classroom music, directs the trumpet ensemble, coaches chamber music, and performs with the Lyric Brass Quintet, and was the 2017 recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Trumpet Performance and Pedagogy from the

experience would not have been as educational, as fun, or as significant had I not met the people I did,” McBride said. Following graduation, McBride will start work as an emergency room scribe at Gray’s Harbor Community Hospital. She plans to attend medical school in fall 2017. Her advice to other Lutes with time left on campus includes getting involved, studying away, staying caught up and having a good time. “I encourage other students to have fun,” McBride said. “Find a balance between your school

. III The 1918 flu epidemic waned the first of August.  And then all hell broke loose.  Somewhere, somehow, the virus mutated into a killer.  By late August 1918, the second wave of flu hit widely scattered Atlantic ports, including Boston’s crowded piers.  Thereafter, influenza quickly spread northwest of Boston to Fort Devens crammed with 45,000 transient troops. Inevitably, on September 8, Fort Devens reported its first case.   Shortly thereafter, a shipment of draftees from Ft. Devens arrived at

child-like capacity to always ask “why?” I remember so clearly heading off to college many years ago in search of great knowledge and certain answers.  And I recall the surprise of leaving college 8 years later, with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in my drawer, and a brand new Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in my pocket, with a new awareness of how shockingly little I know.  But, now, as I look back, I realize I left school prepared to wrestle with a lifetime worth of questions, and with a