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September 10, 2010 Best Foot Forward By Kari Plog ’11 When first-year students came to campus for orientation weekend this past September, organizers made sure that, on that first Saturday, those students were promptly sent off campus. About a dozen first-year students rolled up their sleeves and got muddy at Left Foot Organics, a non-profit farm which aims to promote self-sufficiency, inclusion and independence for people with developmental disabilities and rural youth. It was part of PLU’s On

waters, followed by their coach in a motorboat. Head Coach and PLU Director of Rowing Thomas Schlenker will call drills, and, on each boat, there’s a coxswain, who will manage the rowers on their boat and steer, while the other two, four, or eight students on the boat row. In the fall, they will practice for four or six weeks and have a single 6k regatta, or race, to prepare for, and in the spring, they practice for 13 to 15 weeks and have six 2k regattas. Each practice is a little different, but

bright stars and the Milky Way. Little Bear asks about where they live and is in for a surprise; wise Mama Bear describes the land, ocean, Earth, solar system, galaxy and beyond.``Little Bear's Big Night Sky`` Now available in paperback or on Amazon and Kindle Where did you get the inspiration to write a children’s book? Little Bear’s Big Night Sky was inspired by my passion for astronomy and stargazing in night skies of the American west. I used to ask, “What’s up there?” Searching for an answer led

It’s Mylie Miller’s job to market Wild Waves. And yes, she has a lot of fun at work Posted by: Zach Powers / November 22, 2019 Image: PLU alumna Mylie Miller works in marketing at Wild Waves Theme & Water Park in Federal Way. (Photos by John Froschauer/PLU) November 22, 2019 By Ernest JasminGuest Writer for Marketing & CommunicationsMylie Miller ‘19 had only visited Federal Way’s Wild Waves Theme & Water Park once before last spring, and that episode ended with her looking like a pint-sized

concentration in finance. What prompted that switch? Accounting just wasn’t for me. I am not a human calculator. When I took my first finance class, the professor told me I should do finance. I took a couple more advanced finance classes and went, “I want to do finance.”When did you add the double major in economics? I was taking economics courses for my business degree, and Dr. Priscilla St. Clair—huge shoutout to her—pushed me to think about how humans make choices. I thought that intersected with

March 14, 2008 Civil War love letter inspires wind ensemble As the story goes, Maj. Sullivan Ballou was like most men in the Northern army at the start of the Civil War. He fought not to end slavery, but to preserve the Union. At 32, Ballou had a promising career as a lawyer, a wife and two sons. An ardent Republican and devoted supporter of Abraham Lincoln, he volunteered in the spring of 1861. Ballou and his men left Providence, R.I., for Washington, D.C., on June 19. Ballou wrote a letter to

September 15, 2008 Student rounds up a few abandoned bikes and voila, a co-op. PLU’s bike co-op gets rolling BY Barbara Clements It is not just PLU employees who are seeking better, more sustainable and less expensive ways of getting to and from campus. Students are thinking about this too. And one student, with a few abandoned bikes, is doing something about it. Senior Eric Pfaff will open PLU’s first bike co-op this fall, an opportunity for students to run errands, commute to work or school

August 5, 2010 BIOL 125/126: Molecules, Cells and Organisms/ Genes, Diversity and Ecology Name: Sean Boaglio Hometown: Longview, Wash. Major: Undeclared, leaning Biology Professor: Jacob Egge, assistant professor of biology Sean’s advice to first-year students: “Study with someone. It is a great way to meet people in your class. And when you explain something to someone else, it also helps you understand it better.” For students who want to enter PLU’s rigorous Health Sciences track, the first

get to sleep in the same bed all year ’round,” he said. “It enriches my work. It is reflected in my work.” For the 2011 OSF season, Comins is performing in two productions: William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” in which he’ll play Mark Antony, and a world premiere about the assassination of San Francisco mayor George Moscone called “Ghost Light.” Both productions will be cast in OSF’s most intimate venue, the New Theatre. It requires a different approach than in the company’s larger stages, such

March 30, 2011 Port of Tacoma CEO sees strength in community Northwest native and Port of Tacoma CEO John Wolfe ’87, prides himself for being part of an organization that creates jobs. Established by the citizens of Pierce County, Wash., in 1918, The Port of Tacoma is among the largest container ports in North America. But Wolf sees the port as so much more than that – as a catalyst for community vitality, and a creator of economic growth for both the county and the state.“At the end of the day