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20-day overtime session. The budget adopted by lawmakers maintains current funding levels for the State Need Grant program, despite earlier proposals to cut as much as $9 million.The final adopted budget allocates $18 million to the SNG program by shifting funds from the College Bound program, maintaining fiscal year 2015 service levels for fiscal years 2016 and 2017. The compromise avoided affecting 2,300 low-income students attending public and private colleges and universities, including those

, Montana, Ellie Lapp ’17 is passionate about a wide variety of social justice issues. She’s hopeful that her tenure as president of Associate Students of Pacific Lutheran University (ASPLU) will be remembered for bringing students, staff and faculty members together for important conversations. While she says the role of public-facing leader of PLU’s student government isn’t one that comes naturally to her, the former peace scholar is learning to embrace it and has big plans for the year to come.When

spends much of her time in the Pierce County courthouse, supporting clients during their protection order hearings. Her participation in court cases, Saathoff says, exposed her to a new interest in law. “Although it can be tiring to hear so many cases and testimonies, it is extremely fascinating to see our legal system in action and very rewarding when that system can offer protection and safety to our clients,” Saathoff said. “It has inspired me to think about a future as a lawyer and using it as a

administrators to China in four summer study tours of three to four weeks each,” he said. “The purpose was to engage more American educators in the study and teaching of China, and we helped create school-to-school partnerships in the U.S. and China, focusing on both Sichuan as Washington’s sister province in China and Fuzhou as the sister city. I joined the Sister City Committee in 2008 as part of connecting that committee to the PLU project and to the Tacoma Public Schools, with whom we were working

Currents” premiere is free and open to the public, though reservations are encouraged to secure seats. Visit www.changingcurrentsdoc.com/rsvp for more information about the film and to RSVP for the event. Michelle McGrath ’17 is a senior PLU communication major and a member of MediaLab. About 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

and students care about all these and more.” In rating institutions based on their contributions to the public good, Washington Monthly defines those three categories further: Social Mobility: recruiting and graduating low-income students; Research: producing cutting-edge scholarship and Ph.D.s; and Service: encouraging students to give something back to their country. The Washington Monthly also named PLU a “Best Bang for the Buck” university, meaning that a PLU education offers the best value