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Building in downtown Tacoma. His last day is Wednesday, Jan. 9. “It’s another challenge,” Villahermosa said of his new position. “I’m excited to bring a lot of what I learned here – the skills I learned, the knowledge and especially the culture – to my new job. “I’ll definitely miss it here, I’ll miss the people.” A reception to bid farewell to Villahermosa and welcome Berger is slated for Jan. 9 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. Berger has 21 years of law enforcement experience

the PLU Emergency Operations Center (EOC). Those interested in volunteering at the station can email w7plu@plu.edu. Campus community members who are already licensed as amateur radio operators (technician, general or extra class) are also asked to contact the station at the above e-mail address. Currently, the EOC relies on computers and cell phones to function. In the event of a catastrophic event, it’s likely cell phones, the Internet and possibly satellite phones won’t work, Oakman said

in Nordquist Lecture Hall recently, but Wilkens knew he had to stay. Friends and colleagues would be quickly butchered if he didn’t. In a two-hour talk organized by PLU, Charles Wright Academy and the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, Wilkens urged the audience to realize that one person can make a difference, even in a dire and insane situation. “While there are many stories of neighbors turning in neighbors, there were many who did not,” he said. In fact, is was the

the chance to discover under the sea. Even on land, he’s busy reconstructing a whale skeleton  that will someday “swim” through PLU’s Rieke Science Center. You might say that Behrens, assistant professor of biology, grew up wiggling his toes in salt water. As a baby, he was part of family outings where he was strapped into a backpack and brought out to the coast. This ritual continued as he grew older. “As a kid, I remember spending a lot of time at tidepools,” he said.  By the time he was 13 or

flurry of fundraising that brought the total to the needed $1 million. At last Tuesday’s festivities, an obviously surprised Toven smiled broadly as he went up to the podium in the Scandinavian Cultural Center, which he helped establish. He said that creating an endowed professorship of Scandinavian studies is important, especially at universities  with a deep Lutheran heritage, such as PLU. Faced with tough times, some universities are reducing or phasing out their Norwegian studies programs

Berguson, associate professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian area studies, “the responses seemed natural and anything but naïve.” The Scandinavian Cultural Center and the Department of Languages and Literatures sponsored Berguson’s lecture, “My Little Country’: Norway’s Responses to Terror,” on Tuesday, Sept. 19, to honor the lives lost and provide insight into Norwegian responses to the acts of terror. “The summer became more than what any of us had imagined,” she said of the attacks. Berguson was in

October 21, 2011 Laura Rudquist ’12 (center) talks with a colleague at Campus Ministry offices during her regular shift. Rudquist, from Minnesota, said PLU feels like home, yet still challenges her in her studies and world view. (Photo by John Froschauer) Minnesota Lute finds a welcoming new home, challenges when she arrives at PLU By Barbara Clements When she was choosing a college, Laura Rudquist ’12 had a few requirements – no 40 degree below winters please, a location near a big city and

Dooley. Cooley said she is especially grateful to Facilities who will be responsible for maintaining the panel system after it’s installed. In addition to the solar panel system, PLU will also be receiving a kiosk, which will likely be set up in the University Center. The kiosk will show real-time usage of the electricity being produced by the panel, as well as information about renewables in the Pacific Northwest. “We definitely have a campus-wide effort for sustainability,” Dooley said. “We are

. “That was my 15 seconds of baseball fame,” Krise said dryly to the standing room only crowd in Morken Center in late November during the State Farm MBA Executive Leadership Series at PLU. But, Krise said, it’s always good to say “yes” to new opportunities, even if it puts you in totally unfamiliar situations. This particular situation offered her a chance to play against some baseball greats, such as Catfish Hunter, Brooks Robinson and Yogi Berra – a chance she wouldn’t have otherwise had. Krise

of a blow up mattress on a friend’s living room in Queens, Hobson left his wife behind and took the risk. And that made all the difference for the Puyallup native. Within a few weeks, he’d landed a role in Next to Normal, a Broadway play that later won the Pulitzer Prize that year for theater. Hobson has been working steadily since, with parts in musicals such as “Leap of Faith,” “Bonnie and Clyde” and he co-starred in “Sweeney Todd,” at Oregon’s Portland Center Stage. Aside from working in the