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-centric, Lute-focused and engaging to an impatient audience is literally my job from week-to-week. When we arrived, the first quote was from the Second Amendment Foundation’s Director of Development—“60 to 70 percent” of people were “carrying” tonight, he said. Tweeted that. The most memorable part of the evening was in the bathroom. When I went to take a quick journalistic break, I found something interesting: four gun-related magazines and “The Little Red Book of Obamunism.” Tweeted that. That

Year” by the Society of Professional Journalists of Western Washington. Now, Kari returns home to PLU as the Senior Editor for Content Development for Marketing and Communications where she uses her writing skills to lift up stories of her fellow Lutes. Plog with her press pass at Super Bowl XLVIII What is the most exciting part of returning to PLU? The most exciting part about returning is seeing how the campus has changed and, more importantly, how it hasn’t. The community is just as thoughtful

Nettles and Kathy Collins. Prior to teaching at PLU, Geller taught at Stockton State College in New Jersey and Wagner College in New York. During her career at PLU, Geller was able to expand class offerings from basic black and white film development, to more advanced color photography and computer imaging. When she first arrived, black and white film photography was the primary class offered. This was followed by color photography where “my students and I refurbished a color processor that had been

?” It is this last sentence that has become the cornerstone of the Wild Hope Project, challenging students to ask: “What will I do with my one wild and precious life?” Funded by the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment, the project helps students develop a sense of their personal vocation, and provides support to faculty and staff in nurturing this development. Born in Maple Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, Oliver attended both Ohio State University and Vassar College in the mid-1950s, but didn’t

vice president for the Residence Hall Association, Siburg is currently working on his capstone project for religion and economics. His research examines the religious promotion of sustainable development in third world nations. Siburg is the third PLU student to receive the fellowship. Read Previous Basketball adventure Read Next Art grants support PLU faculty COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing

development, and maintains the company’s Website. He hopes Fantazimo can expand and provide nutritious lunch options to more parents and children in the region. “We want to be there for parents,” Gradwohl said. “We want parents to know wherever their kid is at, we can deliver them a lunch.” Read Previous The Rose comes home Read Next Gift for all-purpose field primes athletic facilities transformation COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker

the Civil War. His argument focused on the profitability and viability of slavery on the eve of the Civil War. Despite the rising prices of slaves and the profitability to slaveholders, and to some degree, non-slaveholders and northern and European consumers, Coclanis argued that the economy was too dependent on slave labor. “Slavery hindered the long-term development of the southern economy,” Coclanis said. “The South, in a relative sense, had been rendered into an economic backwater.” With the

March 25, 2013 A path of discovery By Katie Scaff ’13 For Austin Goble ’09, volunteering after graduation was anything but a gap year. Goble wasn’t ready to jump right into the workforce, so after graduating in December 2009 Goble spent a year volunteering with Lutheran Volunteer Corps (LVC), and then a year with AmeriCorps. “For me a year of service was intentional,” said Goble, “an intentional path of self-discovery.” Goble met a recruiter from LVC at a career development fair before

, an independent online news site devoted to covering aid, development, global health, poverty and the humanitarian community, purposefully combats our urge to simply skip over humanitarian journalism. Instead, says founder Tom Paulson ’80, it is “geared toward making people really care about poverty.” “When I was in college, we didn’t even know this stuff was going on,” Paulson says. In his quest to keep humanitarian stories interesting, evermore relevant and impossible to skip over, Paulson says

for Education Abroad as established by the Forum on Education Abroad, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit, membership association recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as the Standards Development Organization (SDO) for the field of education abroad.The Forum provides training and resources to education abroad professionals and its Standards of Good Practice are recognized as the definitive means by which the quality of education abroad programs may be judged. For PLU