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am not sure whether or not I regret. I moved back to the Pacific Northwest at 18, and before coming to PLU, I went to Pierce College to earn my associate’s degree.The years 2015 and 2016 were hard for me. I almost gave up on music. Anxiety and depression affected me a lot. I felt like I had lost my craft as a composer. In the Spring of 2017, I was looking for degree plans outside of music. I went to PLU’s Choral Union concert because my sister had a coworker in the choir. Choral Union is a

is they bought at the Lute Cafe before class. Professor Mike Rings is a Resident Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Pacific Lutheran University. He started at PLU in the Fall of 2015 teaching Writing 101 and then became a Visiting Professor in the Philosophy Department the following semester (Spring 2016). Professor Rings has been teaching since he was in graduate school at Indiana University in 2005.  He received his PhD in philosophy from Indiana University. During Fall 2020

. Sometimes they would ask me about a word, and I would try to describe it in a different way. A lot of them had translator apps so they could look up words. Yaden: Students there were less comfortable, less experienced with group work. I did a lot of metacognition with them to talk about this difference. Students in China were content to listen to me talk for three hours — if I were to do that. But I didn’t – I wanted to de-center myself as the teacher and center students so that they would engage, talk

nearly $1.9M in medical debt in Washington, Idaho, and Montana May 20, 2024 PLU Faculty Directs Local Documentary November 8, 2022 Scholarship Application Tips October 17, 2022

August 20, 2024 Pacific Lutheran University Communication students help forgive nearly $1.9M in medical debt in Washington, Idaho, and Montana May 20, 2024 PLU Faculty Directs Local Documentary November 8, 2022 PLU’s Student-Radio Station Lute Air Student Radio Produces Monthly Concerts August 18, 2022

family. As musicians, we spend most of our time in our isolated world of personal practice and rehearsals. To make connections with this piece to the greater campus community is all the more special since that is really what the liberal arts, and Lutheran Higher Education, is all about.” Tickets to the April 23 concert can be purchased online, over the phone (253-535-7411) and at the door: $8 general admission, $5 senior citizen and alumni, free for PLU & 18 and younger. The Lyric Brass Quintet is

July 8, 2008 Face the Music Inevitably, worried parents will arrive on music professor Greg Youtz’s office doorstep after their child has announced they want to become a composer. “Now what?” the parents ask Charged with running the university’s composition program, Youtz usually succeeds in calming the parental fears during such visits. No, composing isn’t exactly a growth industry, but for those who are called to compose, there’s really no escaping the urge. “I tell the worried parents that

important that we participate in the process and know what’s going on,” he said. Commitments have been made, but the follow through has to happen, Smock added. “You hope that what they’ve done to this point will get them to follow through,” Eastman said. “My hope is that we see a campus that on the day of the election has a lot of energy.” Where to vote Polling Stations Students, faculty and staff who vote within PLU’s voting precinct (558) can caste their ballot from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4 at

June 8, 2014 Free Summer Jazz Series Brings Stars—and the Community—to PLU A crowd enjoys the music at a 2013 Jazz Under the Stars concert at PLU. (Photo: PLU student John Struzenberg ’15) 16th Annual Jazz Under the Stars Kicks Off July 10 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communication As a gift to the community—and really, to everyone who attends—the Pacific Lutheran University Department of Music kicks off its free summer concert series, Jazz Under the Stars, on July 10. The 2014

“Kiki” Katest said, “People are not like roads and buildings. How do we rebuild a human being?” So in 2005, Katest founded Ingoma Nshya, the first and only female drum troupe in Rwanda—breaking the taboo against women drumming and bringing together women from both sides of the conflict. For Marta, a Hutu whose Tutsi husband was killed; Seraphine, who was 8 when she lost her whole family; Regine, whose parents were imprisoned as killers; and more than 50 other women aged 16-60, the troupe has been a