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for the lively genre, but jazz music may be most at home in culturally vibrant metropolitan nightclubs. New Orleans, Chicago and New York City are often cited as the country’s most well-known sites of historic, quintessential jazz clubs, but Seattle, just 40 miles north of Pacific Lutheran University, has been a West Coast Jazz haven for nearly 100 years. On Sunday, May 3, PLU faculty and student jazz musicians will pilgrimage to the Emerald City to showcase their chops at Tula’s Jazz Club in

med school to have a deep impact. Gavidia decided to major in computer science, redirecting his career trajectory toward tech instead of medicine. Gavidia immersed himself in his new field from the start, becoming a computer lab teaching assistant during the spring semester of his freshman year. “It was rewarding getting to help students and having them get to that ‘ah ha’ moment.” He continued to tutor other students during his sophomore and junior years. In the spring of this sophomore year

grader at the time, and said she began writing the piece to sort through her confusion. Within the essay, she weaves together her band director’s suicide, pieces of Bach’s Cantata 147 and facts about Bach. As the grand prize winner, Andrews’ essay will appear in the anthology “Best of Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 3,” to be published next year. She also read her piece at the Ding Dong Lounge in New York City during the Association of Writer and Poets Conference in January. Andrews said she’s been slowly

, and a volunteer work party to get the plot’s first official growing season started. The Garden Club has been working throughout the year to prepare the new site for planting. Many months and man-hours later, the site has 22 garden beds and the soil is ready for planting. This year marks the third growing season for the community garden. First established in 1997 by student Brian Norman, the community garden didn’t live past his graduation a year later. In April 2006, Becky Mares ’07 and Kate

child and had to deal with her self image, while Ifill grew up during the era of black pride. “She internalized that,” Valerius said. “So there wasn’t anything anyone could say to make her feel she wasn’t beautiful.” Both Barack and Michelle Obama are also breaking apart the stereotypes that have often shaped how black women and men see themselves, Valerius added. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from St. John University in New York, Valerius went on to earn her

pawed through the detritus on the forest floor. The “one” was a red back salamander,  which had been hiding under a log where students were busily whacking away invasive species that had choked out native plants along Puget Creek in North Tacoma decades ago. The reddish-brown creature, about 6 inches long, seemed rather stunned to be the center of attention as faces peered down at it. The amphibian was then covered with moss and then students carefully worked around its new hideout, so as not to

them to kickoff their PLU experience: mixing with alumni, faculty and current students before they come to campus to start classes.” With all the festivities already associated with the newly remodeled Cheney Stadium, what would have already been a great event will only get better with a planned 500 Lutes in attendance. “With opening day rapidly approaching on April 15, the new Cheney Stadium is anxiously awaiting its $30 million dollar debut,” Santman said. “Featuring amenities that you will find

said “it’s the law that bridges complexities and brings order to our differences. Without it, there’d be chaos. We need it if we’re to make any progress.” Zee has come a long way from his days on the PLU campus when, as a young, wide-eyed kid from Hong Kong, he was exposed to new ways of thinking while developing many of the values he’s used successfully in his professional life. He thrived in the smallness of the university and valued its liberal arts tradition and the close attention he received