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, Kiana, it’s me! Well, actually it’s you,” Norman wrote in a column about her diagnosis published on the website The Mighty, dedicated to documenting personal stories about people’s experiences with disabilities, disease and mental illness. She submitted the piece for consideration as part of the site’s bipolar disorder section after the writing assignment rose to the level of “class favorite” in her upper-level communication class at PLU.Resources for mental illness PLU Counseling Center Suicide

vision when she was a child, but that hasn’t stopped her from showing up. And she’s continued to show up all the way to the world stage.McCarthy spent the evening and afternoon of March 15 and 16 — her birthday and the day after — at Pacific Lutheran University talking to students about the importance of always showing up. “That’s half the battle,” she said. The athlete-at-heart has maintained a deep passion for rowing that took her from the PLU crew team all the way to the world championships

E. Benson lecture in Business and Economic History, a yearly opportunity to hear from a nationally prominent speaker on economic history and the world of business. To prepare for the event, Pacific Lutheran students and faculty from 10 courses studied Alaska Airlines and its business practices throughout the Fall semester. The students then wrote questions and voted on them, so that the most useful questions could be posed to the Alaska Air Group CEO in a conversational format, which allowed for

creates colored-pencil masterpieces.Born in rural Japan to Lutheran missionary parents, Kullberg lived there until she was 7 and has loved drawing for as long as she can remember. She said her parents were incredibly supportive, always making sure she had art materials even “when the budget was already stretched too tight, and there really was no extra money.” Arriving at PLU in 1975 from her new home in Oregon, Kullberg was drawn (pun intended) not to art but instead to classes in Japanese, thanks to

from our Diversity Center’s My Language/My Choice campaign: “That’s so gay.” “Retarded.” “What are you?” These phrases all lead to one overarching question: Do I belong here? It’s a question we have to address for everyone, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, socioeconomic status, physical disability—everyone.And, while PLU has addressed issues of diversity in our campus community through robust discussions and events, reminders of the need

is sponsored by PLU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies minor, which includes the Kurt Mayer Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies and the annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. (In Fall 2014, PLU became one of only a handful of universities nationwide to offer a minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.) The debaters’ visit follows PLU’s October 2014 standing-room-only screening of Sweet Dreams, a documentary about Rwandan women working to rebuild their lives in the wake of the 1994

which words fail to express the extent of human compassion. Dr. Antonios Finitsis It took place in mid-August in the island of Chios, Greece. Chios is located in the central Aegean Sea, just 4.3 miles from the Turkish coast. It’s early afternoon in a grocery store across from Vounaki Park in the capital of Chios. Patrons are lining up for the cashier, and I am behind the person who is ringing up. We are all caught in our individual time bubbles. Some are rushing to finish shopping and get on the

campus and observe these two subjects at play in various sites around Tacoma. For students this means a lot of field trips. “Being able to see the different temples has been really great because you get to see that not every Buddhist does the same thing,” said sophomore religion major Haley Bridgewater.The course was originally meant to be a part of the new Tacoma Immersion Experience Program (TIES). This study away program had intended to take PLU students off campus and into Tacoma. When students

and counselors to share information about the scholarship, which awards students who qualify with full tuition for four years at PLU by a combination of federal, state, and PLU grant and scholarship aid. First-year students beginning at PLU in fall 2016 will be the first eligible to receive the scholarship. The 253 PLU Bound Scholarship will be awarded to College Bound Scholarship eligible students who attend a high school within the 253 area code, have a 3.70 or better cumulative high school GPA

doctoral degrees in educational leadership. Prior to that, she served as executive director of the San Francisco School Alliance, where she brought community leaders together to correct funding inequities and support education reform initiatives for the nearly 60,000 students of San Francisco Unified School District. “Terry is perhaps best known for her bold and visionary work to develop a statewide system of academic standards and assessments grounded in deep knowledge of human development and based