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DC watching President Barack Obama take the oath of office and become the 44th president. I can’t think of another time that will bring me mere feet away from Chris Matthews or when I will watch Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow reporting live in front of me. So all of you at home, I hoped you enjoyed your warm houses, your HD TVs with surround sound. Yes you probably had a better view than I did and I was frozen from the inside out by the end of the day and yes I got windburn and probably some
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September 15, 2009 Giving a people a voice, a face Filmmaker Neda Sarmast stood in front of more than 200 attending PLU students preparing for the screening of her documentary. Her film, “Nobody’s Enemy: Youth Culture in Iran,” takes the viewer into Iran to learn about, listen to and meet the youth of Iran. The size of the crowd was impressive, exciting to Sarmast. “I was just so moved to see how powerful you are and how powerful your international programs are,” she told the crowd about her
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May 10, 2010 www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ANB9w73E4 The Dead Gentlemen return to PLU – Ben Dobyns ’01, Don Early ’00, Matt Vancil ’01 and Steve Wolbrecht ’99. The Dead Gentlemen filmmakers return to PLU By Barbara Clements Once upon a time, there were five Lutes, who had a passion for gaming, and making up silly stories and movies when they should have been studying for finals in 1999. While looking for another excuse to not study Matt Vancil, Ben Dobyns, Don Early and Steve Wolbrecht, created a
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August 23, 2010 From Harstad Hall to the Morken Center, donors have built the academy In October 1891 the cornerstone of “Old Main” was laid on the rocky woodlands of Parkland. It was the first step in the construction of the first building at PLU. It’s now known as Harstad Hall, named for Bjug Harstad, the first president. Funding Old Main was a monumental struggle. As dollars came in, the building went up. It wasn’t until 1949 that the top floors were made habitable for the first time. It was
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September 24, 2010 Determination pays off By Barbara Clements Sally Osborn was sleeping on a friend’s couch. She was worried about her two kids, who were staying with a relative. She was also trying to figure out how to juggle her job and her classes at Pacific Lutheran University. Sally Osborn first started looking at PLU when she discovered the textbook in her community college course was written by PLU Chemistry Professor Craig Fryhle. (Photo by John Froschauer) And her father had just died
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will be job shadowing and helping plan some of their events. Jeremy Loween ’12 landed his dream internship at ESPN 710 by having a great attitude and working hard during an internship at Disney. His dream is coming to fruition because of someone Loween met while doing a Disney internship through the Disney College Program at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida in spring 2011. About two months into his internship at Disney, Loween met Galen Gordon, coordinating producer for ESPN’s show First Take
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March 23, 2014 PLU’s MediaLab Documentary Wins 2014 National Broadcasting Society Award Film premieres on campus April 10 By PLU Marketing & Communications and Valery Jorgensen ’15 Pacific Lutheran University’s MediaLab has won a 2014 Grand Prize Award from the National Broadcasting Society-Alpha Epsilon Rho for its documentary film Tapped Out: Unearthing the Global Water Crisis. Tapped Out, which premiered publicly in Seattle in October 2013 and will debut on the PLU campus at 7 p.m. April 10
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October 2, 2014 PLU Line Cook is Set to Sizzle at National Competition Jason Sipe, an MBA student and line cook at the Anderson University Center, has been selected to compete in the first-ever ment’or Young Chef Competition. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) By Taylor Lunka ’15 and Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications Most days, MBA student Jason Sipe works as a line cook at PLU’s Anderson University Center. But on Oct. 30, he’ll take his considerable culinary skills to the swanky
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recruit, prepare and retain STEM teachers in a more inclusive way.”The scholarships, dispersed to qualifying seniors and teacher candidates in the MAE program over the next five years, will ideally target students looking at careers who plan to work locally — creating a pipeline of successful, diverse educators that feeds back into the South Puget Sound school districts. “We hope that it will be able to remove some financial barriers for those students who are interested in teaching but may not think
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central highlands of Mexico and back to the lands of the Nisqually peoples.Originally from Arizona, Jakowchuk entered PLU with a dance scholarship, tentatively planning to study history and become a teacher. But a physical anthropology class in biological diversity with department chair Dr. Bradford Andrews introduced her to a field—and a way of seeing the past—that piqued her interest. And then in Dr. Andrews’s introduction to archaeology course, Jakowchuk said she just fell in love with the field
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