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on our world. This year, the 10th Biennial Wang Symposium comes full circle, with a focus on “Healing: Pathways for Restoration and Renewal.”“Even as I was planning the 9th biennial symposium two years ago, I was already thinking that the next symposium would be on a topic that would bring forth ideas and practices about how to bridge polarization,” said Tamara Williams, Ph. D., executive director for the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education.  The topic of healing soon took on

PLU Associate Professor Rebekah Mergenthal to Join Actor Danny Glover at Buffalo Soldiers Museum Event Posted by: Sandy Dunham / January 20, 2015 January 20, 2015 [Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army Materiel Command/ Creative Commons License] By Zach Powers PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 20, 2015)—On Jan. 25, one of cinema’s most trailblazing actors, Danny Glover, will visit Tacoma’s Theatre on the Square for a fundraising event in support of the Buffalo Soldiers Museum. Rebekah

organization’s approach to the fall semester. Why do you see Fall Semester as an opportune moment for RHA? We’re in a unique position, coming back to campus after the difficulties we all faced last year. There’s so much energy right now and I think RHA can be a pinnacle organization helping bring the campus together. We can build off that energy by planning some rockstar events and bringing more perspectives to our work by making sure we have a DJS (diversity, justice and sustainability) focus to our

wanted it to be a networking opportunity for Kinesiology students as well as providing opportunities for building professional portfolios,” said De Jong. He said he hopes the club will prepare members for graduate school. The KFC board is comprised of: President: Zepernick Vice President: De Jong Secretary: Katie Nelson Treasurer: Sam North Chief Information Officer: Kevin Long Associate Professor of Kinesiology Harry Papadopoulos advises the club. The Scavenger Haunt was the club’s first major event

.”About PLU's MediaLabMediaLab, an award-winning, student-run media and applied research organization, is part of the Center for Media Studies located within the School of Arts + Communication at Pacific Lutheran University. MediaLab students work on projects for external clients across the media spectrum, including market research, photography, graphic design, web design, writing, video, public relations, event planning and more.In addition, Waste Not also is a finalist in the National Broadcasting

concert hall. He’s also still involved with LASR, currently advising student staff and helping manage the station’s shows and events. “It was kind of serendipitous that after not being able to really do anything vocationally, I was essentially pulled back to Tacoma to do what I was doing before, but on a professional level,”  Lindhartsen said.  While Lindhartsen’s major had him interacting with bands and focusing on the excitement and many moving parts of event planning and promotion, Query focused

? The collaboration has been very fulfilling! In the simplest terms, Geoffrey Boers, a PLU alumnus who conducts the University of Washington Chamber Singers, as well as the Tacoma Symphony Chorus, realized that all our performances of three very different Passions were bunched together within a 10-day span, and he approached me about tying the events together into a larger, more regional event. In this way we could pool our resources, hopefully reach and feed off of each other’s audience, and bring

to an event that may yet be defined as the greatest crime in modern history,” Kurt Mayer wrote. “I am telling my story because we must continue to learn from the lessons of the past.” Mayer was the first person of the Jewish faith to serve on Pacific Lutheran University’s Board of Regents, serving from 1995 to 2005. He was instrumental in the development of the university’s Holocaust Studies Program. Mayer’s family was one of two prominent Tacoma area families who funded a $1 million endowed

few hours earlier. Hansen opted for the five for $5 deal and managed to eat two of his fried butterballs before telling his friends, “I think I’m going to puke.” With their stomachs full of fried American delicacies, the three decided to get in some time on the rides and try their hand at the ring toss before it was time to head back to campus. The trip to the fair is an annual event, but this was the first year International Student Services planned it. In years prior, the International Student

discuss the organization’s approach to the fall semester.Why do you see Fall Semester as an opportune moment for RHA? We’re in a unique position, coming back to campus after the difficulties we all faced last year. There’s so much energy right now and I think RHA can be a pinnacle organization helping bring the campus together. We can build off that energy by planning some rockstar events and bringing more perspectives to our work by making sure we have a DJS (diversity, justice and sustainability