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I was going to do was to get the staff to acquire member e-mail addresses. We had 44,000 members at that point and we had 8,000 e-mail addresses. We now have e-mail addresses for most of our members and I send e-mails to them twice a month, which means that they are getting something from us on a regular basis. In order to build membership, we needed to educate faculty about who we are and what we do. So I had the staff hire 12 graduate students during the summer to collect e-mail addresses of

within the natural frame of the liberal arts education—a part of learning to be a vital member of the community in service to the world and others. Why do you think these needs are becoming more important? Personal and collective trauma. A need to reconnect with our bodies, with our selves and with each other in a safe space with people who “Get me“ to help make the next step in regrounding, and reconnecting with the strengths and skills to move forward into meaningful living in the unfolding new

acquaintances and friends. Waller recalled the opportunities he’s had to interview those on the “front-lines” of genocide—the people who actually do the killing, he said. From these interviews, Waller described murderers who were not “dead behind their eyes,” or psychotic as many people assume, but instead regular people:  someone’s son, sometimes a member of faith. Waller stressed early on in his speech that “it’s ordinary people like you and I who commit this type of extraordinary evil.” He reminded the

January in China, however, conflicted with an equally important part of her life. Klauder is a member of the PLU swimming team. And she’s no ordinary swimmer – she qualified for the championship finals in five individual events during her first three years at PLU. Swimmer Jessie Klauder seeks the balance between the personal expectations of being a student and the personal and team expectations of being an athlete. While Klauder dove into her studies at the University of Chengdu, learning how to

members and community. We can’t offer that.  Instead, we think about what we can uniquely do on campus.PLU Campus MinistryPLU Campus Ministry seeks to welcome and affirm every member of the PLU community as we collectively respond to the spiritual call to justice and transformation.What are a few examples of programs or activities that have come from that thinking? A lot of our students are ripe with questions at the intersection of faith and daily life. They want to reflect on how their faith and

Kitsap Pumas. The Pumas came this close to the national PDL (Premier Development League) Championship title in August against the Michigan Bucks. •    Derek Johnson ’14, who led the PLU team in goals his senior year, is just starting his pro career, Yorke said, as a forward with the Sounders U-23. He jetted off to Sweden in August to finish the rest of the season there. Croft is now a goalkeeper for the professional Seattle Impact FC,  a member of the brand-new 24-team Major Arena Soccer League. He’s

starts when a concerned party — a friend, parent, coach, faculty member — files a report. That report is catalogued and distributed to a so-called “super care manager,” such as Connie Gardner, director of Student Rights and Responsibilities. Gardner will reach out to the students and help connect them to resources, or simply listen. “I think the Student Care Network in general is really good at working with students to give them a very realistic picture about themselves and their future and where

is how I interact with my clients,” she says. “By giving them the same standard of high compassion and socially responsible care everyone deserves.” Study away during J-TermLearn more about 2024 J-Term opportunitiesStudying Away in Oaxaca (J-Term 2023) Surla (bottom right, black jacket), her follow PLU nursing students and faculty member Carrie Ann Matyac pose for a group photo at PROSA: Promotores de la Salud, a health services clinic in Oaxaca. Surla with Macrina Mateo Martinez, the founder and

landlords and property managers to get them approved for apartments. What goes into that work? A lot of it is done before the refugees arrive in the country. There is a lot of coordination with volunteers. We work with what we call U.S. ties of the family, so either a close friend or a family member, to determine the best place that we can settle them in. Then it’s about making sure their transition goes pretty smoothly during their first days here – helping them settle into a place and getting them

multiple percussion instruments since high school. She was a member of PLU’s Percussion Ensemble and plays the marimba, steel pan, and drum set. “It’s been an amazing hobby to help relieve the pre-med stress,” she says. She sought out opportunities to play music while on her first trip to Namibia in 2020, which was cut short after only three months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “(That first trip) was not only a chance to study abroad, but it was this super-impactful moment for me because during my