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establishment of the Steen Family Symposium on Environmental Issues.David ‘57 and Lorilie Steen ’58 have generously donated funding to the PLU Environmental Studies program to support this new annual symposium. The gift is being invested in PLU’s endowment to go toward the university’s Earth Day celebration and to bring notable national speakers to campus. The symposium is the first piece of a significant investment the Steens are making in Environmental Studies at PLU. The Steens bring together generosity

seen. Its value has been appraised at more than $100,000. Her family has made donating religious artifacts to universities one of their philanthropic endeavors. After she has collected the religious items, she searches for an institution that has the ability, knowledge and facilities to truly appreciate them. She discovered PLU was one of those places because her daughter has several friends who attend the school here. “This is a wonderful gift you give us,” Torvend said, upon reception of the

Theater and a scene shop. The Tower Chapel will also be renovated, which has been renamed the Ness Family Chapel. On lower campus, several changes are being made that will be a benefit not simply PLU’s student-athletes, but all students. A new baseball field is being installed – scheduled to be finished in September – with the literal re-skinning of the field. In addition, a new synthetic turf field was installed, with a completion date of Aug. 10. The pool, after closing in January due to damage

has affected his family personally, and he is frankly embarrassed and dismayed by recent headlines of the rising rate of rape and sexual assaults within all branches of the military. “Our institution is built on honor,” Keller said. “And it’s personally embarrassing to see these reports. No mother, sister, wife should have this happen to them. “We need to get out of the ‘man box’ that society has put us into, where we need to be controlling to be a man,” he said. The Take Back the Night event was

the LGBTQ+ community is woven into the fabric of Tacoma,” said Ruiz in his closing statement. “We are a part of every community, every neighborhood, and every family.”Watch the entire event Read Previous Special education teacher Erin Azama ’01, MAE ’06 discusses her distance learning transition Read Next Tacoma Rescue Mission Executive Director and PLU alumnus Duke Paulson on adapting through the pandemic COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might