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(qualifying time), I decided to stay on course. Coach was okay with it.” “PLU values the study away program,” Sellman explained. “If swimming as a sport didn’t fit into that philosophy, we would shoot ourselves in the foot. The swimming program is part of the greater PLU community, and as their coach I want them to have the best experience they can have while they’re students at PLU.” There are tradeoffs, Sellman admitted, because of sacrifices made by individual student-athletes and by their teams when

long scenic walkway along Ruston Way offers a gorgeous panoramic view of Commencement Bay, Vashon Island and the Olympic Mountains. Frank remembers coming here to experience Puget Sound’s beauty as a kid. “My dad took me along Ruston Way when I was little,” said Frank. “It was the first time I was out here on the water.” Chihuly Glass Bridge and the “Hot Shop” at the Museum of Glass (10.4 miles from campus) 1801 Dock Street, Tacoma, WA 98402 Known as the gateway that welcomes people to Tacoma, the

English and plans to use his passion for wildlife photography to bring awareness to the plight of our world’s animals. “When I looked into the eyes of a parrot, it was quickly apparent that a highly intelligent, thinking, charismatic being was looking back,” he says. After his experience in Africa, Granum feels strongly that parrots should not live in cages, but in their own wild environment. Granum recently wrote about his experiences in The News Tribune. “Imagine a creature this intelligent, this

think the value of literature and writing is even more paramount as we move forward, because it’s acting as kind of a resistance to forces in our culture that want to reduce or simplify experience,” Barot said. “What literature does is restore complexity to the things that people feel and do and think, and celebrate complex emotional, social, intellectual experiences.” As for the future of the Rainier Writing Workshop, Barot looks backward and forward, always with the founders’ vision—and

also the head coach of men’s soccer at Bellevue College; coach of two FC Alliance Premier Soccer A-teams in Woodinville; a coach with Washington’s Elite Player Development youth soccer program; and co-founder of a nonprofit called PlayUp, created to empower, support and develop youth through soccer and mentorship. Sometimes, it would appear, your vocation finds you, even if you turn your back on it. “Who knows where I would be now if I hadn’t quit?” Croft said. “It was a good learning experience

newspaper as a bullet storm. Shumaker retired from the military in 2013 and says that during his 12 years of service, each deployment was an experience of its own. “Those are significant life events,” Shumaker said. “When you are saying goodbyes to your family for a year or more, it really sticks in your head.” First Deployment: Afghanistan, April 2004 (Duration: 12 months) The most memorable event of this deployment, Shumaker recalled, was an assignment on the day Afghanistan held its very first

years. When I first started teaching, I had the goal of being named Montana Teacher of the Year. The goal wasn’t to gain recognition, but to be a really great teacher. To me, past Montana Teachers of the Year represented a category of excellence that every teacher should try to work toward. These awards are a demonstration of the hard work and effort I’ve put into my teaching practice, efforts to transform learning for my students. How will you remember the experience of being honored, along with

this choir — including our fearless leader and director, Richard Nance. This trip was the perfect way to ring in my final semester at PLU. See a snapshot of the choir’s tour below. Read Previous Pageantry and Protests: PLU students experience ‘messiness of democracy’ at President Trump’s inauguration Read Next PLU alumnus Scott Foss ’91 serves as a top paleontologist for the Department of the Interior COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad

they went through was a chance I never thought I would have.” Visiting the Minidoka site helped Kitajo connect with that family history he had yet to engage. It’s an experience Kitajo says is common with younger generations of pilgrimage participants, especially those who travel with former incarcerees. Kitajo says the pilgrimage often stirs memories and brings long-hidden narratives to the surface. “Overall, there’s just so much trauma for many individuals — not just survivors, but sometimes their

field, which is rare, we’re using longer shotgun mics to keep our distance and bringing the proper protective equipment. PLU: Are there specific challenges you’re having to navigate to produce segments and stories?? Plog: It’s hard to tell compelling stories about the human experience when you aren’t having human interaction. We’re putting more of a burden on our sources to collect sound and record scenes as they happen, since we can’t be present to record those scenes ourselves. Something KNKX