Search

surprise, I was missing a lot of what PLU would’ve offered. So much so that I left after that first semester to go back home, this time to community college. I figured if PLU was in Parkland, there was no way it was offering more than what a community college could give me because the area didn’t seem “special” enough to be like a “real” college. In the end, many years later, I ended up right back at PLU for the absolute best 5 years (thank you, PLUS year) of my life where I not only learned about my

hosted an “Hour of No Power,” a screening of the documentary “The 11th Hour”and a campus-wide sweater swap. For the sweater swap, RHA bought sweaters at a reduced price from Goodwill and encouraged students to bring in sweaters they didn’t want and trade them for new ones. “The sweater swap was such a success we’ve already had students asking us if we’ll do another one,” Drew Huff, the Sustainability Director of RHA, said. With all the attention around the swap, RHA is considering holding a second

offered the internship.” While Noble is looking forward to her internship this summer, she has one small regret: “I wish I would have done it earlier or sooner in college.” “I didn’t know what to do or how to do it,” Noble said. “Now, I’m realizing that I should have done it sooner. I think you just need the experience of going and talking to professional people” PLU is hosting a Career Expo this spring from noon to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 7,  in the University Center’s Chris Knutzen Hall. Noble

basketball team made it to State last winter (that’s now her favorite high-school memory). She always knew she wanted to play sports in college, but she did not decide on a sport until her junior year of high school. Many were surprised by her decision to play softball, but she said she looked at where she could succeed the most. “I’m not really that tall,” she said. “I’m 5-11, and my parents told me I was too short to play post (in basketball), so I decided on softball,” Miller said. “I knew I would be

student leaders led the eager freshmen in a handful of ice-breakers to help them get to know a few people they didn’t know before and maybe even take a step toward a new-found friendship. “I hope to meet new people, make new friends and hopefully discover more about myself,” she said. These relationships are important in building a campus culture, said Campus Pastor Dennis Sepper. “As a university that comes from the Lutheran tradition, we believe that everybody has a place, purpose and a role to play