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Lutheran University political science major Jeremy Knapp ‘21 swears he has no desire to run for office, but his resume speaks of someone with great political aspirations nonetheless.The junior turned 21 on March 4, and he already has nearly seven years of political work and volunteering experience under his belt. Just last year, he was campaign manager for Bellingham mayoral candidate Pinky Vargas, a field manager for Bellingham councilwoman Hannah Stone, and served as Lute Vote Volunteer Coordinator

. He was particularly moved by the energy from the first-year students. “They were really excited,” he says. “Their last full school year in person was their sophomore year of high school. There’s been so much that they’ve missed out on in this last year and a half. So they came in with a lot of energy, wanting to make friends right away.” LUTE Welcome organizers combined lessons learned throughout the previous 18 months with traditional LUTE Welcome plans to create a COVID-safe experience unique

manage my time well and really focus on what I needed to do.  “I like getting into the weeds of something like network security and thinking about how we are securing the network using the tools we have, and also thinking about what new pieces of technology could help us be more efficient in that work.” -Mark Miller ’88 Do you think anything about your PLU experience helped prepare you to be a good manager of people? My senior year I got to serve as one of the co-captains of the football team, and

completely different from an undergraduate application. What was your process for entering the Benson Summer Research Fellowship Program in 2022, and how did you discover your research topic? I developed a research proposal and spun it off of my History 301 research. I settled on the topic of agricultural constructive resistance and food sovereignty in Palestine. My own experience knowing Palestinians in the military and examining constructive resistance sheds new light on what is going on over

King 5 Seattle sports reporter Chris Egan ’95. “This could be their only chance to have their dad survive. I just thought of it as giving someone another opportunity.” For Bainter, it all came down to that “S” in Lutes — that commitment to service shared by generations of PLU student athletes. “My experience at PLU and my coaches instilled in me that when you have an opportunity to impact others, you should take it.” This article is part of the Fall 2023 issue of Resolute Magazine. Read Previous

that’s happened to you since coming to PLU? So many wonderful things have happened to me since I arrived at PLU, it is difficult to choose a favorite. My first production, Our Town, was a wonderful experience for me. I have always loved that play and the PLU students and faculty made the play something truly unique. I continue to feel blessed to work in SOAC. The faculty, staff, and students are inspiring, extraordinarily kind, and supportive. We are a family here. I have felt that since my first

, on a very cold and very rainy and windy day – so windy that my umbrella flew out of my hand.” He admitted, “I’m glad no one was filming me chasing that darn umbrella before it landed in the Volturno River!” Alcuin Library, Saint John's University Dr Torvend also spent a week in the archives and library of the Pontifical University of Sant’Anselmo in Rome. “That was a great experience, as I was able to work with early medieval monastic “chronica” or chronicles, unavailable in the U.S., to get a

one site, San Vincenzo al Volturno, the largest abbey of the early medieval world, on a very cold and very rainy and windy day —so windy that my umbrella flew out of my hand.” He admitted, “I’m glad no one was filming me chasing that darn umbrella before it landed in the Volturno River!” Dr Torvend also spent a week in the archives and library of the Pontifical University of Sant’Anselmo in Rome. “That was a great experience, as I was able to work with early medieval monastic ‘chronica’ or

tiresome and crappy and just want to get on to the next project. I just finished a third novel for HarperCollins and had the same exact experience as well, so I’m guessing that’s the new normal for me. Q: Kirkus also called Perfectly Good White Boy “engaging, perceptive, witty and at times gut-wrenchingly sad.” That seems a perfect combination for any audience, but how do you adapt your style and approach specifically for young adults?   In my mind, I don’t actually write for young adults. Instead, I

Archives at PLU White’s analysis of historians and philosophers of the nineteenth century argues that their attempts to attain historical truth have been influenced by strategies of “emplotment” (structures of narrative), ideology (political beliefs), patterns of formal argument (founded upon various epistemological commitments), and styles of “tropic configuration” (different ways of giving order to our experience of the world at a preconceptual level). This intricate and difficult volume has