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  • Join six adolescent outsiders who are vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is coming to Pierce County this week. The award-winning musical comedy, performed by Pacific Lutheran University’s Theatre Program will be sure to knock your s-o-c-k-s…

    . They are $8 General Admission and $5 for PLU Community. Originally published in May 2013 in SOACtivities. Read Previous Louis Hobson ’00 shares experience and advice at PLU workshop Read Next Center Stage: The $20 million Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts officially opens in October LATEST POSTS Theatre Professor Amanda Sweger Finds Family in the Theatre February 28, 2023 Twisted Tales of Poe: A Theatre/Radio Collaboration May 16, 2021 Theatre Guest Artists in Spring 2021 February

  • Theater opens the Spring semester with their student series performance, Blood Wedding. The show is presented by Alpha Psi Omega, the Theatre Honor Society at PLU. In this poetic tragedy, an arranged country marriage between the children of two rich, landowning families is endangered by…

    Upcoming Sweeney Todd LATEST POSTS Theatre Professor Amanda Sweger Finds Family in the Theatre February 28, 2023 Twisted Tales of Poe: A Theatre/Radio Collaboration May 16, 2021 Theatre Guest Artists in Spring 2021 February 16, 2021 Hints and Help for Your Virtual Theatre Scholarship Application January 18, 2021

  • Pacific Lutheran University has earned a “Top Ten 2024-25 Military Friendly Spouse School” designation. PLU was ranked sixth among private universities offering doctorate degrees, up from seventh place last year. Institutions earn Military Friendly designations based on their efforts in creating sustainable and meaningful education…

    offering doctorate degrees for the 2023-2024 cycle. Pacific Lutheran University has earned a “Top Ten 2024-25 Military Friendly Spouse School” designation, placing sixth among private universities offering doctorate degrees. Read Previous Elijah Paez ’24 developed passions for environmental justice, mathematics and bird watching during his PLU years Read Next Big picture learning: Physics major Julian Kop ’24 studies the universe and his family background at PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are

  • Theater opens the Spring semester with their student series performance, Blood Wedding. The show is presented by Alpha Psi Omega, the Theatre Honor Society at PLU. In this poetic tragedy, an arranged country marriage between the children of two rich, landowning families is endangered by…

    Upcoming Sweeney Todd LATEST POSTS Theatre Professor Amanda Sweger Finds Family in the Theatre February 28, 2023 Twisted Tales of Poe: A Theatre/Radio Collaboration May 16, 2021 Theatre Guest Artists in Spring 2021 February 16, 2021 Hints and Help for Your Virtual Theatre Scholarship Application January 18, 2021

  • When the principal of N/a’an ku sê, a rural school in Namibia that serves the San people, asked PLU music education major Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 to expand their existing music program to include children in junior primary (grades K-3), she initially felt daunted at…

    .’” Delos Reyes was also very aware of how she was seen by students—how she didn’t fit the image of the white American they expected. Delos Reyes became comfortable telling students about her heritage, and she appreciated being able to travel to a country with distinct urban and rural regions that reminded her of the Philippines, where her parents were born. Throughout Delos Reyes’ life, music has been a thread connecting her upbringing to her education. “My whole family is very musical,” she says. “A

  • World expert addresses masculinity, violence Silence is not golden. That was the message from Sut Jhally , founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation . Jhally’s address last Thursday marked the beginning of PLU’s first Men Against Violence Program conference that examined men’s…

    silence of the rest of us, the silence of the rest of us who consider ourselves the good guys.” A communication professor at the University of Massachusetts, Jhally is one of the world’s leading scholars on the role advertising and popular culture play in the processes of social control and identity construction. At his talk, he said gender identity does not occur naturally; instead it’s learned from images in the media, from peers and family members, and people simply act out the culturally-accepted

  • Bill Gates Sr. urges students to ‘Show up’ Bill Gates Sr., the father of Bill Gates of Microsoft fame, told a packed audience in Lagerquist Hall Tuesday night that the number one quality students can cultivate is “to be concerned.“Not necessarily about everything, but be…

    Gates Foundation, and serves as the advocate for the foundation’s key issues, which includes education and world health, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention. Tuesday night, Gates spoke on campus about his new book, “Showing up for Life, Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime.” In small vignettes, Gates discusses lessons learned growing up in Bremerton, Wash., serving in WWII, getting his law degree, marrying, raising a family, and now of course, being father to one of the most

  • Bashair Alazadi ’13 and Carlos Sandoval ’13 look forward to talking about the perceptions and the realities with the Muslim club. (Photo by John Froschauer) Engaging faith: A Muslim Student’s Perspective The first question that Bashair Alazadi ’13 gets from fellow students usually is framed…

    students. Alazadi’s family comes from Iraq, and fled to the U.S. in the1990s, during the Gulf War,  Her parents were initially nervous about her coming to PLU, which they feared would be populated by “white Lutherans.” Not quite the case, she discovered. Instead she found a welcoming community.  “This school is very tolerant,” said Alazadi, decked out today, in a pink hijab, pink PLU sweatshirt and pink top. Meanwhile, Sandoval, 21, a sociology major, was on his own spiritual journey. He was raised

  • Ed Hrivnak ’96 with a poster of his new book “Wounded,” which tells of his experiences in the Iraq War. (Photo by Quinn Huelsbeck ’16) Scribbled notes on surgical tape become new book about Iraqi War by PLU nurse By Barbara Clements University Communications In…

    and in the New Yorker – by scribbling notes to surgical tape and then sticking them to his flight suit while he was out in the field. He’d then transcribing thoughts to a notebook and to emails home to his family in 2003. The notes talked about parties and practical jokes – a la MASH –  to let off steam, and of soldiers, looking up from ruined bodies, begging Hrivnak to tell them everything was going to be alright.  Hrivnak reflects on survivor’s guilt, along with the frustration with the American

  • By Zach Powers PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 16, 2015)—PLU community members are encouraged to attend a “community listening session” regarding proposed cuts of 11,000-16,000 active-duty and civilian positions from Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The session will take place at the McGavick Conference Center…

    Lewis–McChord is the world’s fourth-largest military base. Home to more than 200,000 people and 25,000+ active-duty service members, the base serves as a training and mobilization center for all military services. The most requested military base in the Army, JBLM comprises a 90,000-acre campus that includes 5,000 family housing units, 12,000 barracks spaces, 10 child-development centers, six  elementary schools, nine chapels, and 11 dining facilities. The JBLM population is an important economic