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November 17, 2008 Serving so others don’t have to While serving in Iraq Col. Scott E. Leith came to know one of the luckiest or unluckiest people he has ever met.“It depends on how you look at it,” he told a crowd last week at the Veterans Day Celebration in Mary Baker Russell Music Center Lagerquist Concert Hall. Leith and about 1,000 of his “best friends” were positioned in the backyard of the Iraq Insurgency. Their days were filled with firefights during the ongoing battles. There he met an

spiraling staircase joins the two floors that open up into a lofty central lounge complete with comfy couches, study tables, hall decorations, and even a kitchen. Here, residents can study, chat or just have a midnight snack. “The house communities are a good way to meet people from other floors that you might not normally talk to. It gives people a place to congregate other than their rooms. Tingelstad is really big, so you have a lot of opportunities to meet new people,” Gunter said. And there are a

power point and really tap into a way for people to not only hear the information, but also listen to it, Branch said. Like Pitassi, Branch found the topic of body image engaging. “It’s something everyone struggles at one point or another,” she said. With their song on the video, “Isn’t it Wrong,” the two went about singing and showing how the society, media and even insurance companies project unrealistic, and sometimes unhealthy, ideals of the perfect body or weight. “Our main goal with this video

Team will be joining other U.S. teams from MIT, Stanford, Harvard and Yale at the tournament. There are preliminary rounds and then 32 teams head on to the finals, all with the goal of dethroning the debate kings from the Land Down Under. The Aussies? Yes, both woman agree, they are, year after year, the team to beat. “They are a juggernaut,” Franke said. As are the Irish. Whether PLU places in the finals or not, both women say they can’t wait to try out their debating skills on the world stage

December 2, 2010 Lute and her pals from Montana win Folgers jingle contest By Barbara Clements Oh why not? That was the general idea when Jenny Snipstead and her friends from Montana decided to enter a Folger’s Jingle Contest. The grand prize was $25,000 and the winner would get a chance to record their jingle and see it played on national TV. Jenny Snipstead, ’11, along with her Montana pals to entered the Folgers Jingle Contest last spring. And they won! Now the group will see their song on

November 11, 2011 SFC (retired) Michael Farnum during the Veterans Day Ceremony at PLU. (Photo by John Froschauer) Extending a hand to veterans By Chris Albert Extending a hand of thanks embodies the spirit of Veterans Day, said SFC (retired) Michael Farnum during the Veterans Day Ceremony at PLU. “Today I come to you as a retired soldier with a message of peace on my tongue,” he said to the assembled crowd of more than 100 people in Lagerquist Concert Hall Friday, Nov. 11. Farnum began his

research team in the Andes. On this day in late November, Hegland and Todd were busy reviewing rocks brought back from Todd’s 2010 trip. The “rock boxes” as they are known, will be filled with food, which will then promptly be eaten through the next three months. Once empty, the boxes will fill up with rock samples collected from the mountains about 1,000 miles from McMurdo Station, the jumping off point for all Antarctic study teams. Hegland, who is considering graduate school after he finishes his

February 13, 2012 In 2010, Thorleif Thorleifsson and BØrge Ousland spent 80 days sailing around the Arctic Ocean. (Photos courtesy/Norwegian Embassy) Exploring the Arctic In 2010, Norwegian explorer Thorleif Thorleifsson and BØrge Ousland, became the first to sail around the Arctic in one, short season. Thorleifsson and Marit Archer Saether, environmental counselor with the Norwegian Embassy, will come to PLU on a lecture tour to discuss arctic exploration, climate change and its effect on the

, the university has placed 14th, 11th and 45th out of about 500 schools on the continent in Recyclemania. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) There will be many events around campus while the competition goes on around the country: On Feb. 20, at the home basketball game, Sustainability will partner with Athletics for a night of recycling events during the game, along with a halftime show. On Feb. 26, “Wall-E” will be shown in The Cave as a way to bring the campus community together. March 13 will be the

on College and University Campuses organized by the Centers for Disease Control.Warwick, who has worked with the Department of Justice since 2006 with PLU’s Campus Grant Project and over the past three years as a private contractor to review grant submissions, was recommended by the DOJ to take part in this meeting of experts who will compose a set of guidelines for funding future grant projects out of the CDC. “The purpose of this Think Tank is to pull together 40ish professionals (including law