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in the first place? One student points out a typo on the handout. “Great, I’ll change that next year,” MacDougall responds. This is MacDougall’s fourth year of teaching, after a seven-year career in broadcast journalism. Though the job and the money was good, MacDougall started to chafe. What difference was he making by giving the sports report each night? So he decided to go back to school to get his masters and start teaching. His wife is supportive, he said. His friends are another matter

April 19, 2010 Claim: Nuclear weapons always make a country more secure Nuclear proliferation is driven by the perception that nuclear weapons always enhance national security. Yet Britain has been a nuclear power since 1952, and there is no evidence that its nuclear weapons make it more secure. The cancellation of the Blue Streak missile program in the early 1960s left Britain dependent on American rocketry and guidance systems – first Polaris, then Trident. Britain is the only nuclear weapons

value in education is something she still carries with her. When I graduated it was the happiest day of my life and the saddest day because I knew I wouldn’t be able to live on campus anymore,” she said. But that didn’t keep her from supporting a place she enjoyed so much. For a number of years, Birkestol has contributed to the funding of Eastvold Hall, the Mary Baker Russell Music Center and much more. She’s given an annual Q Club gift since 1979 and has also contributed to the Scandinavian

original document starting at noon Sept. 17 in Red Square. Pick up a copy, then prepare an informed question or two for some pretty serious governmental experts. Heck (D-Wash.), who represents Washington’s 10th Congressional District (covering most of Pierce and Thurston counties and part of Mason County), will discuss what he’s observed about our government during his first term as a member of Congress. Following his address, Heck will moderate a roundtable discussion among Washington Rep. David

home in the Presidential Center for Faith and Learning at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, the institutional sponsor of the publication. Intersections extends and enhances discussions fostered by the annual Vocation of the Lutheran College Conference, together lifting up the vocation of Lutheran colleges and universities. It aims to raise the level of  awareness among faculty, staff, and administration about the Lutheran heritage and church-relatedness of their institutions, especially as

Pacific Lutheran University’s Jazz and Wind Ensembles go “Down Under” this summer Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / May 21, 2013 May 21, 2013 The University Jazz Ensemble and University Wind Ensemble will travel to Australia May 28 –June 11, 2013, to discover the “Down Under” and share their music with an international audience. Traveling to Melbourne, Bairnsdale, Canberra and Sydney, 49 students will discover both the rural and urban aspects of Australia, and perform and participate in musical

everybody in here. Music majors. Academics. Athletes. And people like me who just like to hang around and socialize,” McKnight said with a laugh. “I am still surprised how much I have bonded with everyone in my hall.” Hinderlie has developed a few reputations over the years. It does have a lot of music students, given its close proximity to the Mary Baker Russell Music Center. But there is another, more mysterious, reputation: Hinderlie Hall has been known for years for having the best front desk. Why

sort of fell to the wayside.” As a high school student, Akerman set about pursuing a career in another field she was passionate about: teaching. She enrolled here at Pacific Lutheran University and earned a bachelor’s in English literature and a master’s in education. That was when she discovered a way to combine her passions. “While I was working on my master’s here I started volunteering at the zoo, and that opened up a whole new world,” Akerman says. “I realized that they have education

, or otherwise get around without having to fill up a gas tank. And, it’s healthy. The program was kick-started with the donation of nine bicycles that had been sitting unused in Harstad Hall’s basement for more than two years – presumably abandoned by former students. Pfaff and his team started fixing up the bicycles for use by the co-op. He’s still working out the fee structure and some of the liability issues, but Pfaff expects most of the bikes will be rented out on a per-semester basis, and at

superstars Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. The agency’s first project was building Kobe Bryant’s Website, kb24.com, and creating original content and films that are featured on it. Ford uses multiple formats to shoot campaign ads – even his Super-8 camera. “I fell in love with filmmaking at PLU. My friends and I would make videos and skits that led to more nuttiness,” says Ford. Ford became a copywriter in 1999 and spent the next seven years writing ads for Wieden + Kennedy, a Portland Ore., ad agency. In