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April 12, 2010 Upright dignity:Making a difference, one wheelchair at a time By Chris Albert In the distance as the dust sifts through the air, a middle-aged Iraqi man walks to a makeshift United States military medical station. Draped in his arms is a young child, his son. It is apparent the boy does not have the use of his legs. His father has brought his son to get a wheelchair. As the father and his boy get closer to the station, soldiers tell him, “You don’t have to carry him the whole way

.    Kristi Bruner ’09 graduated with a degree in International Business and a minor in Spanish and is now a Marketing Project Manager for Inviso Corporation, working closely with its main client, Microsoft. 3.    Chelsea Gorrow ’08, a journalism major, works for The Daily Astorian. 4.    Nike employee Bre’ Greenman ’09 earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree focusing on marketing while minoring in communication. 5.    Graham Johnson ’05, a communication major, is an on-air reporter for KIRO 7

August 20, 2013 PLU Professor Jan Weiss in Namibia. One on One: Jan Weiss By Barbara Clements A 22-year-old Jan Weiss walked into the elementary school southeast of Portland, Ore., and looked at her third-grade class. Twenty-five faces looked back. And Weiss realized that she knew nothing about their world, nor they, hers. Weiss grew up in a relatively prosperous home near San Jose, Calif., where dad was an engineer who worked on the Apollo and Gemini launches for a major aerospace company, and

July 13, 2014 Workers install new furnishings in a Stuen Hall room on July 8. The renovated residence hall will be ready for residents in Fall 2014. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) PLU Upgrading Residence Halls With $10 Million Bond PLU Marketing & Communication Pacific Lutheran University will save millions of dollars in interest on upgrades to three residence halls, thanks to bonds issued July 10 by the Washington Higher Education Facilities Authority. The upgrades will include structural and

January 22, 2013 PLU chef Erick Swenson ’91 checks on a tray of shrimp from the oven. Food For Thought By Katie Scaff ’13 Twenty years ago, you’d never find pav bhaji – a curry dish served on dinner rolls – alongside the burgers and fries in the University Commons – but a lot has changed in 20 years.  Two decades ago Erick Swenson ’91 was a junior studying music at PLU. He’d eat dinner with fellow choir students at long industrial, cafeteria style tables that have since been replaced by smaller

Outdoor Opera Rehearsal Posted by: Reesa Nelson / March 12, 2021 March 12, 2021 Opera students spent a sunny but chilly March afternoon rehearsing under a tent in Red Square for an upcoming production of Die Fledermaus on May 21-22. Because of the ever-changing nature of the global pandemic, we won’t know for several weeks if it will be safe to have any kind of live performance with an audience or if the production will need to be streamed to a virtual audience for safety reasons. Nevertheless

video using scraps of story lines from the Godfather and the Mario brothers to hold for “ransom” a favored stuffed toy of Matt’s called “toad.” Or something like that. These guys have a tendency to talk over each other in the telling the story, as they gathered last week for a mini-reunion of sorts on the PLU campus. They had so much fun making the film, when again, they should have been studying for their classics or engineering finals, they made a film – Demon Hunters (think Buffy meets Monte

these are students who haven’t had experience with reaching out and asking for help for themselves,” Mitchell said. “And much of the time that is because they haven’t had those resources available to them.” SCN helps students on multiple levels, from those who may suffer from diminished mental health to students struggling with academics, and everything in between. Issues that arise could include a death in the family, sleeping through a lecture, failing a class or financial aid worries. In an era

March 14, 2008 Art software has applications across campus It looked like a photograph of a cell phone sitting on a table, only it wasn’t. The image wasn’t real at all. It was created using a 3-D digital modeling tool called Rhinoceros Software, Rhino for short. Created by Seattle-based Robert McNeel and Associates, the software is the newest addition to the art department. In February, McNeel employee and 1985 PLU graduate Dale Fugier donated 30 software licenses and several rendering packages

February 10, 2014 PLU Ranks 3rd Nationwide for Peace Corps Volunteers PLU Marketing & Communications Pacific Lutheran University has catapulted 15 spots up the Peace Corps’ list of the top volunteer-producing colleges and universities for 2014—from No. 18 all the way to No. 3. The annual list recognizes small, medium, large and graduate institutions; PLU tied for third this year in the category of small universities (fewer than 5,000 students), with 16 undergraduate alumni currently serving as