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Welcome Back Lutes PLU students safely and enthusiastically return to campus Posted by: Logan Seelye / November 1, 2021 November 1, 2021 By Zach Powers '10ResoLute EditorMost PLU alumni remember their first move-in weekend vividly. The nervous excitement you felt walking into your residence hall. Meeting your roommate for the first time. Just as you were starting to feel settled, it was time to head to your first New Student Orientation event. And so went a whirlwind few days of new places, new

September 9, 2011 Bashair Alazadi, who helped form the Muslim Association and Allies this fall, spoke of Islam and its similarities with Christianity and Judaism at the service. (Photo by John Froschauer) Remembering 9/11 and looking to the future By Barbara Clements It is right to remember the tragic events of 9/11 and remember the victims who lost their lives when the towers fell in New York, and planes slammed into the Pentagon and a lonely field in Pennsylvania. But it is more important now

third-year law student with employment lined up after graduation, an activist philanthropist and an upstanding community member, Kim checks all the “American” boxes. Except for one: actually being a legal citizen. Kim is one of the approximately 800,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients in the United States. DACA grants temporary visas to young people who arrived in the United States with their parents as undocumented immigrants. While Kim might not be an American legally, he is

February 1, 2013 Fire drill between Feb. 25 and March 1. There will be a Fire/Evacuation drill in PLU non-residential buildings (Blomquist, CC,  E. Campus, Health, Ingram, Hauge, MBR, Mailroom/Warehouse/Printshop, Memorial, Morken, Mortvedt, Names, Neeb, Olson, Payroll House, Ramstad, Rieke, Theater, UC, Xavier) the week of Feb. 25-March 1 in the morning. The exact time and date will not be announced. A building fire alarm will trigger the drill in most buildings. Please read the following so

July 2, 2010 PLU alum gets a ringside seat to history as U.S. plays in World Cup Last month By Barbara Clements PLU alumna Kelsey (Dawson) Goodson, ’08, accompanied her husband and U.S. soccer player, Clarence Goodson IV, to South Africa to represent the U.S. team at the World Cup Although the team lost to Ghana on June 26, Kelsey noted it was great being at the World Cup, rooting for the U.S. and blowing those darn horns until you were blue in the face. She recently described her experiences

Students take on the new Karen Hille Phillips Center Mainstage Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 19, 2014 March 19, 2014 APO Production, “In the Garden of Live Flowers” opens March 7 In the Garden of Live Flowers: A Fantasia of the Life and Work of Rachel Carson, by Attilio Favorini and Lynne Conner, opens March 7 in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Eastvold Auditorium. The production will run March 6*, 7, 8, 14 and 15 at 7:30pm and March 16 at 2pm. Produced by our

Students take on the new Karen Hille Phillips Center Mainstage Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 19, 2014 March 19, 2014 APO Production, “In the Garden of Live Flowers” opens March 7 In the Garden of Live Flowers: A Fantasia of the Life and Work of Rachel Carson, by Attilio Favorini and Lynne Conner, opens March 7 in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Eastvold Auditorium. The production will run March 6*, 7, 8, 14 and 15 at 7:30pm and March 16 at 2pm. Produced by our

May 15, 2011 Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke to a crowd of 15,000 at the Tacoma Dome urging them to change their world for the good, one act at a time.   Tutu urges 15,000 in Tacoma Dome to be the spark that changes a community, a life. By Barbara Clements If you see people who are hungry, feed them. If they need pants, give them a pair. After all, Levi’s are not just going to float down from above. And, in the end, our humanity is ultimately defined by our relationship to each other. These clear

January 3, 2013 Editor’s Note: Dr. Michael Haglund gave the Distinguished Alumnus Lecture during the Homecoming 2013 festivities in October.  Neurosurgeon, alum follows his heart and passion to Africa By Heather Perry ’13 May 18, 1980 is the day Mt. St. Helens blew its top, but Dr. Michael Haglund remembers it as the day he graduated from Pacific Lutheran University. More than three decades and multiple degrees later, Haglund is now a professor of neurosurgery, neurobiology, and global health

budget with a very modest surplus again this past year — a balanced operating budget, I am proud to say, for the 16th time in 17 years. Likewise, the strategic and wise management of our endowment corpus and a significant flow of new gifts is allowing us to gradually restore and then, as we look to the future, plan once again for increases in our endowment fund. Yes, Pacific Lutheran University continues to meet the economic challenges of our time. We have worked together. We have demonstrated our