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Talking Sports—for a Living Ryan Tootell ’04 Hosts a New Radio Show on ESPN Montana By Brenna Sussman ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker For Ryan Tootell ’04, talking about his favorite sports teams all day isn’t just fun—it’s his job. The PLU graduate…
heavily involved in student media during his college years and was awarded a prestigious SPJ award for his work at PLU. He initially was attracted to PLU because of the prestigious student media and during his time on campus worked for both the student TV and radio programs, doing broadcasts at football and basketball games. Tootell, who initially came to PLU to pursue broadcasting, credits the university with teaching him valuable lessons that expand far beyond his broadcasting career. “PLU really
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About five years ago, Donovan Conley realized his passion for cooking and good food was something more than a pastime. As an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at University of Nevada, it dawned on him that food had everything to do with his scholarly work.…
perception of taste can serve as a channel for social change. Catering to the students in the audience, Conley will be cooking up something ‘mind-bogglingly easy,’ cheap, and delicious. “The idea would be to connect a simple dish, or two or three, that anyone can make in ten to fifteen minutes (something like fried egg spaghetti) to the new fast food phenomenon, Loco’l,” Conley says. Loco’l’s idea, which Conley is excited about, is to dismantle the existing fast food industry by creating a fast food
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Ian Lindhartsen entered PLU with a plan. The 253 PLU Bound scholarship recipient from the Key Peninsula began his first year with plans to major in music education. But best-laid plans often go awry. Lindhartsen soon realized that wasn’t the path for him. He knew…
to develop a music business degree. “Through my involvement with LASR — the on-campus student media radio station — I was able to explore the music community and learn about careers outside of composition, performance and education,” Lindhartsen said. He credits his advisor, music professor Greg Youtz, a songwriting and production course, and putting on concerts through LASR for helping him realize the individualized major would be the best way to gain the experience needed for this type of work
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Jazz music is a dish best served live and in person. A fusion of African-American, European-American and international musical traditions, jazz is known for its energy, creativity and ingenuity. Its iconic founding fathers and mothers are revered as some of the greatest improvisational artists in…
Lee Cierley will perform a live studio session on KPLU to showcase PLU jazz and promote PLU Jazz Day at Tula’s.Listen Listen Now ( ) Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery("#audio-2267").jPlayer({ ready: function () { jQuery(this).jPlayer("setMedia", { mp3: "/media-files/2016/02/jazz-sound-trio-2-re-encode.mp3" }); }, preload: "auto", cssSelectorAncestor: "#player
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Online learning during the pandemic has presented multiple challenges to professors and students alike. But one of the shining diamonds to grow out of this pressured environment has been the creation of new opportunities for virtual master classes. Guest artists from around the state and…
composition. Three students have shared their compositions which you can listen to here: Dylan Cummins '21 ( )Bassoon and Chemistry Major Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery("#audio-2997").jPlayer({ ready: function () { jQuery(this).jPlayer("setMedia", { mp3: "//www.plu.edu/music/wp-content/uploads/sites/465/2021/01/2020masterclassblogdylancumminscomposition.mp3
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PLU Music Professor Gregory Youtz teams up with prominent Chinese poet Zhang Er, Professor at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, to create this new work around the life of an extraordinary woman poet of ancient China, Cai Yan. In this new opera, Fiery Jade:…
situations of social upheaval and war. Large sections of Cai Yan’s original poems are used amongst Zhang Er’s own elegant language. In 2011 she showed a draft to composer Gregory Youtz who has long studied and taught Chinese culture in his PLU courses and written numerous works exploring the combination of western and Chinese musical ideas. Youtz was immediately intrigued and set several scenes as experiments. Both librettist and composer were delighted with the results, but unsure whether to proceed in
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TACOMA, Wash. (April 7, 2015)—The Black Student Union of Pacific Lutheran University is holding a “Die-In“ protest at 10:30 a.m. April 8 in the Diversity Center. All members of the Pacific Lutheran University community are invited to attend—and lie down, as if dead—in response to …
inequality on campus. Continuing a critical dialogue is another step that can help gain solidarity on campus.” According to a 2014 USA Today story, a white police officer killed a black person twice a week from 2005 to 2012. This statistic, in the opinion of Harris, transcends any fading media focus. “Just because Ferguson may not be a hot topic any more in the media or on campus does not mean that it is not within the black community,” she said. “This a reality we are forced to live.” Read Previous
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A film produced by MediaLab students at Pacific Lutheran University has been nominated for the College Emmy Awards. Living on the Edge tells the story of North Cove, Wash., one of the fastest-eroding U.S. coastlines, which loses roughly 150 feet of land per year. The…
media organization that works with clients in the Tacoma community and creates yearly documentary projects.Living on the Edge captures the story of North Cove residents who refuse to give up without a fight. The fates of homes, businesses, cranberry farms and fisheries will be determined by the quickly eroding coastline. The Pacific Ocean is projected to engulf the area by 2050 if left unchecked. Director Garrett Johnson states, “I hope people will continue to support North Cove’s fight against
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Travel with our music students in the footsteps of the Masters.
Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan February 28, 2023 Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at Octave 9 in Seattle October 5, 2022
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Leading the fight Mark Twain once complained that everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. With apologies to Twain, I’d like to suggest that many people today are talking about global health but nobody seems to agree on what to do…
watching in frustration as many died from diseases that easily could have been prevented or treated in the United States or Europe. Generally speaking, it was a poorly funded, neglected field handled by a relatively small cadre of dedicated folks working on shoestring budgets. The answer to the “Why does it matter?” question was that, back then, all this really didn’t much matter – at least when measured in terms of money, political will or media attention. AIDS, of course, has been a big and highly
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