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, the university has placed 14th, 11th and 45th out of about 500 schools on the continent in Recyclemania. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) There will be many events around campus while the competition goes on around the country: On Feb. 20, at the home basketball game, Sustainability will partner with Athletics for a night of recycling events during the game, along with a halftime show. On Feb. 26, “Wall-E” will be shown in The Cave as a way to bring the campus community together. March 13 will be the

independence that comes with living in the on-campus dorms, but also feels reassured that his parents are only a 20-minute drive away in Tacoma. Other homesick students — whether from Alaska, Colorado or Wisconsin — make him value the proximity of home and running into his mom on campus. Last semester, Morris had a class that ended just as his class began, so they’d run each other when buying coffee, or she’d see him hanging out with friends. Speaking with both, it’s obvious how much the two respect one

October 2, 2012 After applying as a cellist for the Broadway musical Spring Awakening, just for fun, Justin Huertas ’09 found himself on a national tour and is working on turning the experience into his own show. (Photo by Kristina R. Corbitt) Pursuing the Dream By Leah Traxel ’14 Justin Huertas ’09 was ready to “break up” with acting and playing the cello to pursue a steadier paycheck, when fate stepped in. Huertas, who has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from PLU, had worked fairly steadily

while hanging out in the cozy little house, and especially learned a lot from Bobbi Hughes. My time at PLU and at the Women’s Center helped shape my career choices to where I am now working with survivors of domestic violence.” Lindsey Paxton ’07 “The Women’s Center helped me feel more comfortable in myself and my identity as a woman and a feminist. In addition, when I was going through a rough time during my freshman year, Jennifer (Warwick) helped me find resources on and off campus to keep me

women in physics. The meeting will provide ample opportunities for interacting with fellow physicists. The conference will include the following activities: Presentations by professional physicists on their cutting edge research and personal career paths Panels featuring career opportunities outside academia Workshops or panels offering guidance on how to get involved in summer research, the graduate school application process, applying to transfer to a four-year college from a community college

March 12, 2012 Four time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Steinar Bryn shares his experiences with the PLU community. (Photo by John Froschauer) Peacemaker visits PLU Campus By Katie Scaff ’13 Dialogue involves movement, visibility, relationships, and understanding, according to Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Steinar Bryn. Bryn was on campus from March 6 to 8 visiting classrooms and talking to students about his work in peace building. “Dialogue is important because it’s necessary to develop a better

June 4, 2009 Surviving ‘and thriving’ when bad things happen to good people Sunbeams massaged their way over Allison Parks’ shoulders, as she savored her coffee and perused her copy of “The Shack.”The book, which details a conversation a man has with God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost after his young daughter is brutally murdered, sums up a concept that Parks struggles with. Why do sometimes monstrous things happen to good people?The question is even the topic of her capstone project. As a religion

: Lakeside High School Third place: Olympia High School Novice Division First place: Tahoma High School Second place: Bonney Lake High School Third place: Garfield High School “This year, I sent out the group email three or four weeks before the contest,” Blaha said. “With a week and a half left to go, I actually had to close the registration. We can’t handle much more than 80 students—and we had 82 students, on 31 teams.” By any standard, PLU’s 2014 High School Programming Contest was a resounding

congratulated a room full of healthy-campus advocates last month at the White House, one of the three Lutes in attendance couldn’t contain her emotions.“When she stepped in the room, I immediately started crying,” said Tolu Taiwo, prevention coordinator for the Center for Gender Equity. Taiwo was visiting Washington, D.C., on behalf of Pacific Lutheran University’s Health and Wellness Committee, which recently won the Healthy Campus Challenge along with 60 other institutions from around the country. The

,Lizard Boy is a “somewhat-autobiographical solo-show-with-three-actors” that follows a boy with lizard skin who fights evil and learns about love. Huertas attributes some of his triple-threat skills in performing, composing and writing to his theatre education at PLU. “Doing theater at PLU was awesome!” he said. Specifically, Huertas recalls that the study of Shakespeare and the Theatre Program‘s emphasis on language “stuck with [him] forever.” “How does this language inform what the characters are