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meetings we have.” For her, the PLU football family has been accepting, and there was never a discussion about her gender; she is simply a member of the team. “This team is very different,” Smith-Ortiz said. “Everyone here plays for the heart, and it’s a real team.” In addition to making history at PLU, Smith-Ortiz also has high hopes for life after college. Currently studying Pre-Med and a member of The Reserve of Officers Training (ROTC) at PLU, she plans on becoming an Army surgeon and serving her

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as Dick and Paula Hopkins of Hopkins Forestry, a private company respected by natural resources professionals across the nation. Even though Farnum specializes in veteran relations, students from all over campus are invited to join the program and he encourages environmental studies majors and minors to get involved. “I did the project for many reasons,” said Ron Berg ’18, one of this year’s participants. “To hopefully connect a bit with some Lutes out of

the Military Appreciation Football Game is free to all armed forces veterans, active-duty members and their families. The Lutes will take on the Linfield College Wildcats in their final home game of the season. The game will be played at Sparks Stadium in downtown Puyallup and kicks off at 1 p.m. PLU has a rich history of working closely with the military community. Located just 4.9 miles from Joint Base Lewis–McChord, PLU ranked fourth among regional universities in the West in the 2015 U.S. News

chronicles his use of graphic arts to forge documents used by Jews to escape the Nazi regime in the 1930s and 40s. The conference concludes with a performance by Baith Jaffe in Lagerquist Concert Hall at 8 p.m. Founded by Sascha and David Schönhaus, the Swiss ensemble integrates contemporary European jazz with evocative melodies of klezmer music, a distinctive form of religious and secular music with roots in Hasidic and Ashkenazic Judaism. Admission to the concert is free. Goodwill offerings will be

also co-founder and program director of PLU’s Innovation Studies program, an interdisciplinary minor that draws faculty and curriculum from eleven academic units on campus, including computer science, business, economics, and history. As part of his work, Halvorson directs the Dale E. Benson academic fellowship program, a generous endowment designed to support student-faculty research in innovation across the University. At home with Alexa. Read Previous Benson Student Research Fellows to Present

event, which is free, is sponsored by PLU’s Women’s Center, the Women’s and Gender Studies program and the Diversity Center. The last 40 years of queer and trans politics has seen a drastic shift, Spade says: Much of 1960s and ’70s queer and trans activism had complex and explicit ties to anti-war and anti-police movements, as well as to feminist disruptions of traditional gender roles, including militarized masculinities. Today, a highly visible, corporate-funded gay and lesbian rights agenda

Kueter from 15 Now Tacoma, the group that penned and petitioned for the initiative; opposing the resolution is Tom Pierson, President and CEO of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce. Founded in 1947, PLU’s debate team is one of the oldest and most-decorated forensics programs in the country, with a long history of intercollegiate competition. Regionally, nationally and internationally active, the program attends 10 tournaments per year and hosts two other annual events on PLU’s campus: the T.O.H. Karl High

. “It will be really helpful because there are not really a lot of resources on campus to help people with screenwriting,” said Emily Khilfeh, Showrunners’ head writer and director of photography. “I am really excited to learn about it. It is really different than other kinds of writing.” Showrunners at PLU, now in its fourth year, is a recent addition to the Center for Media Studies, located within the School of Arts and Communication. Showrunners, a student-run program focusing on quality TV

MediaLab at PLU: MediaLab is an award–winning, applied research and media production organization housed within the Center for Media Studies at Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Arts and Communication. MediaLab students work on projects across the media spectrum, including market research, photography, graphic design, web design, writing, video, public relations, event planning, filmmaking and more. Read Previous PLU awarded total of nearly $590,000 in state grant money for intensive, alternative

explain what they were seeing. While Premo helped develop the course, he says he learned from the experience, too. “I just didn’t consider that many people don’t realize what the police do on a daily basis,” he said. “I hope this class has given the students some insights into what the police do and why it is so important in our society.” Read Previous DCHAT Podcast: PLU Dean of Natural Sciences Matt Smith answers alumni questions Read Next Black History Month at PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are