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. Contributors included Jon ’63 and Mari Kvinsland, Naomi (Roe ’53) and Don ’50 Nothstein, and Gene ’62 and Carla ’64 LeMay. Martin J. Neeb Center A new home for the university’s award-winning jazz and NPR news radio station, KPLU, was funded by the campaign. It was named for Martin J. Neeb who served as general manager of the station from 1981 to 2007. Martin’s brother, Larry Neeb, a PLU regent, was the largest single benefactor of the building. Athletics, Wellness and Recreation Capital Projects Several

March 8 | 7:30 p.m. | Anderson University Center (Scandinavian Cultural Center) This year’s distinguished speaker is Dr. Jim Anderson, Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at Harvard University. His lecture is titled “The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change.” Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts March 15 | 8 p.m. | Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Members of PLU’s choral and jazz ensembles will perform selections from Duke Ellington’s “Sacred Concerts.” Religion

in a “very PLU way,” he said. “These aren’t just positions,” Belton said. “They’re people.”Alumni InvolvementWe’ve received many passionate comments in response to the FJC’s provisional recommendations. Here are some ways alumni can help and have their voices clearly heard:  Voice support for PLU and faculty. Reach out to the professors who help shaped your life and let them know you support them. Faculty members have hard work ahead as they determine PLU’s curriculum, and there are no easy

Thomas Horn '17 By Kiana Norman-Slack ’17 Thomas Horn, a sociology major from Enumclaw, has deep roots planted in Pacific Lutheran University’s community. His brother graduated two years ago. His mother works in Career Connections. Now, he’s a couple weeks away from joining the alumni community. “I thought it would be fitting,” Horn said of attending PLU. Horn spent the bulk of his time at the university performing with the Jazz Ensemble. Under the direction of Professor David Deacon-Joyner, he was

of him and of her voice being discredited as well as her vulnerability as a “fallen woman” was the reason Clara had not spoken out before the cusp of the wedding date. In a later heart-to-heart between the two women before Clara gifts her son, Esther reflects on how deluded she had been by Edward and how relieved she was that her fears that she was unloved and abandoned by her husband were “ghosts in [her] mind, nothing more.” Clara replies “placed there by me and Edward,” to Esther’s response

citizen of the world. Ramstad Hall, also on the square, houses counseling and testing. At first, you will be reluctant to spend any time here, but once you have cried for an hour during the tragic and beautiful experience of giving a voice to your deepest thoughts and beliefs, with the walls around you painted a calm sea green and the rain pouring down outside, you will come to know it as a place of comfort, of support, and of discovery. We’re walking on the side of Eastvold on a sort of “backroad” on

especially empowering. “I was able to use my voice,” she said, “and advocate for the State Need Grant”—a program that supported her, and that she considers particularly important for mothers returning to school while raising children. “I was proud to go to Olympia and advocate for them, and I will continue to do this as long as I have some breath in me,” she said. Nuunyango’s political activism dates back to her youth in Namibia, and was continued at Green River; she also maintains a charity to support

; working in the PLU Bakery as a student baker; PLU’s Office of Admission as a Voice of PLU Supervisor; and the Center for Community Engagement and Service Club Keithley Coordinator. My favorite PLU memory: “One of my favorite memories was in the summer between my junior and senior year when I lived right off campus—we had barbecues in my front yard with PLU friends, had a blast exploring Tacoma and getting to know the incredible people I was with. That summer, I backpacked the Wonderland Trail (10-day

what had gone unmentioned for years. The moment David stepped into my house, the strength of character and zest for life that so many remember him for was immediately on display. When he saw my 16-month-old daughter, his face lit up. “Look at this sweet, beautiful little girl!” he exclaimed, his voice cracking with delight. He bonded with her throughout the afternoon, twice pausing our discussion to read her the children’s books she placed in his lap. We discussed memories we shared at PLU. We

incorporate issues of diversity and equity into our work. He argued that “issues of power and voice are at the heart of th[is] effort,” and made a provocative connection between Lutheran Higher Education and the writings of Malcolm X: Malcolm, the separatist who could throw his sharpest arrows at a predominantly white university, saw education as the sine qua non of self-determination. A Lutheran university can not only celebrate that latter commitment with him, but in the recognition of his own need for