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has been as we build on our accomplishments and plan for the future. SURROUNDED BY CHANGE While we like who we are, and what we do, there can be no doubt that the drumbeat of change is rumbling around us. Said more formally, there will be significant changes in the educational landscape in the coming decade and no institution will stand apart from the individual and collective impact of these changes. First, there are major demographic changes ahead in our region of the country. The number of

August 14, 2012 Campaign ends, surpasses goal by $22 million A performance in the Studio Theater in Eastvold Hall, which was recently renamed the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. By Greg Brewis The university’s most recent fundraising campaign was launched amid buoyant economic times, in October 2007. By a year later, the bubble had burst, ushering in the Great Recession and years of financial turbulence. Still, the campaign concluded May 31, 2012, surpassing its $100

separate times – two spring semesters and a J-term. As a double major in political science and global studies with a concentration in international relations, Bolton felt that he wanted to dive in and start learning as much as he could about the world abroad. He even did an independent research project at Oxford.“There’s a region there that they made a pedestrian-only zone,” says Bolton. “My research project was about the public’s reaction to that, and if that significantly affected their view of their

June 22, 2014 The Career Whisperer Hans Stegemoeller ’14 shakes hands with Scott Myhre of Pariveda Solutions at the 2014 Career Expo at PLU. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) New Graduate Had a Job Before He Had a Diploma By Shunying Wang ’15 Many college seniors encounter a real-life challenge even before they graduate—finding a job that matches their interests and skills and pays the bills. Hans Stegemoeller ’14, however, didn’t have the same struggle. Stegemoeller received a deferred job offer

Monty, and Clapp said it will provide audiences with singing, dancing, acting and fun. “This is your traditional American musical,” Clapp said. “It’s really underpinned to what’s happening right now with the economy.” Although he didn’t want to give away too much of the surprise, Clapp said there will be portions of the play with “suggested nudity.”Clapp, who started teaching and directing at PLU in 1995, is no stranger to productions such as this one. He estimates that in the last 16 years he has

March 19, 2009 Something I Thought I’d Never Do: I never thought I’d become a rock climber Stretched out against a mock rock face at Tacoma’s Edgeworks Climbing Indoor Rock Gym, Kristi Reidel ’09 considered her next foothold, as she step-by-step scaled a 30-foot vertical wall with routes named “Big Scary Future” and “Channel the Hate.” This test of mental and physical endurance is one of the reasons Reidel, a senior at PLU, decided, almost on a whim, to take an outdoor survival and

July 1, 2011 PLU Associate Professor Vidya Thirumurthy draws a kolam, an artful design that Hindu households use to communicate with their community. (Photo by John Froschauer) Connecting the dots: Letting neighbors know “all is well” with the world By Steve Hansen, Scene Editor Each morning, on the doorstop of every home in Vidya Thirumurthy’s hometown of Chennai – indeed, in much of Southern India – women and girls create what’s known as a kolam out of rice flour. An intricate geometric

July 2, 2013 Into the clouds By James Olson ’14 On the rare cloudless days, from PLU’s campus, Mt. Rainier can be witnessed asserting its sublime dominance over the Pacific Northwest. The day I met Allison Stephens ‘01 was not one of those days, but its call could still be heard, muffled and resilient. She told me that she would be climbing the mountain in August and that she was apprehensive about it. She also told me that she has never done anything like this before. The summit would be