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Dining and Culinary Services offers a taste of something different during the annual Ghoulish Food event on Halloween. (Photos by Jesse Major ’14) Ghoulish Food By Jesse Major ’14 Dining and Culinary services offered dishes designed to take students out of their culinary comfort zone…
present stuff common to other cultures,” said Doug Hinners, sous chef. “These dishes are only weird to us.” “We have chosen dishes that go just outside a person’s normal reality,” Hinners added. Fried chicken gizzards are a normal dish in the south, Hinners said. “Many people have reservations for eating raw fish,” Hinners said. Once you do it though, you see how enjoyable it actually is, he added. Hinners championed the tuna poke for this reason. Another fishy dish that was out of the norm was the
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Jack Burrows ’25 won first place in the 2023 National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Competition in San Diego earlier this month. The Pacific Lutheran University music major participated in 5 rounds of auditions and competition to earn first place in the Upper Classical…
category. “When I won first place for the upper college classical TBB division I felt ecstatic and felt how much growth I’ve had since I started applying for the NATS NSA when I began vocal study in 2020 with my first voice teacher Ryan Bede and Holly Boaz in 2021,” Burrows said. “This fabulous win couldn’t have been possible without all the coaching I’ve had from voice lessons, recording sessions with incredible accompanists, and the world-class music program at PLU.” In the final round of the
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The Faculty Excellence Award in Service recognizes a faculty member who demonstrates academic leadership and who influences the life of the university through service in areas of faculty governance, the university and the community beyond the university. This year, we honor Heather Mathews, Associate Professor…
coordinator of the University Gallery & PLU Permanent Art Collection, overseer of the annual Studio Art, Design, & Media Artistic Achievement Awards, and manager of equipment, supplies, and repairs for all art and design studio area courses. Mathews’ service extends beyond PLU, where her role as co-coordinator of Visual Culture for the German Studies Association highlights her commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration. She leads with inclusivity and democratic practice. Her extraordinary service
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The PLU Dance team opens with their upcoming show on Saturday, November 10th in the Eastvold Auditorium. The winter show will center around original works created by members of the PLU Dance Team that portray various emotions, events and concepts. The stories describe the highs…
were carefully selected for each piece to ensure that they could portray both the skills and emotions that the choreographer envisioned. “This showcase has always been something I’m really proud of, and as the senior captain, it’s bittersweet having this be my last one. It’s a pleasure to direct such a diverse and talented group of people and to put this on every year with my team.” “Dance is an artform that can be portrayed in both conventional and non-conventional ways, and we try to explore both
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One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea, opens the last week of October on the PLU Eastvold stage. In this famous tragedy, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the…
two children, Jason abandons her for a more favorable match, never suspecting the terrible revenge she will take. This particular story was originally written by Euripides. In Euripides’ rendition, Medea was ahead of its time when first produced in 431 BCE. While it wasn’t well received at the time, (after all, a woman does carry out a most awful murder and is then saved by the Gods), it has become one of the most popular Greek plays ever produced. It experienced greater interest of the late 20th
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“But Christmas is a time of joy! It’s the only time I know of when men and women open their shut-up hearts and think of the less fortunate. And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold in my pocket, I believe…
.) One of the most recognizable and loved Christmas performances, A Christmas Carol is coming to the PLU theatre the last weekend of November. In this classic Christmas tale, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by a string ghosts on Christmas night and forced to examine how he has lived his life. Through this journey, he learns the impact that a person can have on the lives of those around them and the importance of being kind to your fellow man. A Christmas Carol has become a holiday tradition for many
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As Katherine Voyles’ insightful essay on the discourse around Persuasion (2022) demonstrates, historical inaccuracy has been pegged as one of Carrie Cracknell’s unforgivable misdeeds, especially related to the use of contemporary language and even the protagonist’s bangs . Yet when I finally watched the film,…
does Anne Elliot have a pet rabbit? Reddit discussion thread on Anne Elliot's pet rabbit. The Reddit forum highlights why the motif is confusing for readers of the novel since, as noted on another online venue, “[r]abbits aren’t mentioned in [Persuasion]” (Ajello). In fact, the novel does not depict any pets, except for the “long-petted Master Harry [Musgrove]” (Vol. II, Ch. 1, 146) [1]. In an adaptation, details such as a pet rabbit represent aspects of the novel that cannot be fully translated to
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Who: Jermey Mangan – Graduated from PLU in 1998 with degrees in fine art and German Many SOAC students hope their careers turn out like Jeremy Mangan’s. Currently, he is included in Tacoma Art Museum’s 10th biennial, a group exhibition at Cornish College and a…
Alumni Feature: Jeremy Mangan Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / April 20, 2012 April 20, 2012 Who: Jermey Mangan – Graduated from PLU in 1998 with degrees in fine art and German Many SOAC students hope their careers turn out like Jeremy Mangan’s. Currently, he is included in Tacoma Art Museum’s 10th biennial, a group exhibition at Cornish College and a finalist for the prestigious and generous award called the Neddy. He’s the subject of a feature in an upcoming arts and culture publication and
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Student-athletes at PLU earn how to build on their teammates’ strengths, overcome failure and achieve collective goals. We spoke with Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) officer Connor Lemma ’23, —who is also a philosophy and Hispanic studies major —about the impact athletics has on their development…
baseball for the Lutes. What does it mean to be an athlete at PLU? Being an athlete at PLU means being able to participate in a sport that we love, while at the same time finding out who we are outside of our sport. What are you proud of in how the athletic teams -and your team -engages with the community at large? I’m proud of PLU’s commitment to care and how that informs every aspect of campus activities. This is the same for athletics. How has PLU shaped you? PLU has shaped me into the best version
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The PhD Program in Biochemistry at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York is currently recruiting students to join our program in Fall 2021. Here are some highlights: Our PhD students take classes at the Graduate Center building diagonally across the Empire…
senior campuses of CUNY that are located throughout the 5 boroughs of NYC for their thesis research. Students are mentored by world-class researchers and enjoy access to state of the art facilities and instrumentation at the campuses and in central and collaborative research buildings such as the Advanced Science Research Center or at the Belfer Building that is jointly operated with Weill-Cornell Medical Center. Students receive a guaranteed 5-year, $30,000 per year Science Scholarship, full tuition
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