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, heroically, against the Nazis in the Resistance Movement. Once the war ended, Giza was ripped from Danusia and her family’s arms after learning of her biological parents’ death in Auschwitz and Treblinka. Giza and Danusia never forgot one another, never learning to overcome the other’s absence. This is a novel conceived as a project of investigative journalism which progresses through interviews and documents revealing the fears, the losses, the silences and the incessant fight to recuperate the lost

college degree snapped into focus on that taxi ride home. A year later, Eckstein,  a communications major who hopes to pursue a career in public relations or television journalism, says the advertisement changed his life. “Actually, working at the funeral home was one of the most rewarding jobs I’ve had,” says Eckstein. There was  the human element, but also, he was an event planner. “It was rewarding to be “the guy” that everyone came to,” in a difficult situation, he says. He quickly became “the guy

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

October 1, 2013 Editor’s Note: A Warm Winter Welcome Welcome to the winter edition of Scene—and, in the spirit of the season, a stockingful of newness. Starting with me. My name is Sandy Deneau Dunham, and I’m Scene’s brand-new editor. As a journalist who’s been away from journalism for a spell, I am thrilled and honored to join Scene—and Pacific Lutheran University. I had bumped into PLU here and there over my 20-plus years in the Pacific Northwest—first as an editor at The News Tribune, and

end up in Iceland?AS: I found Global Treks on multiple online internship sites for environmental studies. I knew I wanted to find an internship for the summer that would give me experience in my field, and when I saw that this one combined environmental studies and journalism, it seemed like a perfect fit for the path I wanted to pursue. The goal laid out to us during interviews was that we would be formulating an anthology of Southern Iceland, and each intern would research and write a chapter to

with an emphasis in journalism. “It goes by really fast. It’s kind of like a crash course in journalism,” said Perry. “I finally got to figure out what I’d be doing if I pursued this.” While a dozen or so students cover these parties into the wee hours of the night for the News Tribune, other students find themselves inputting data for local TV news stations, like Q13 and KOMO. Communication major Meghan Arnston went to Q13 during the 2011 election and KOMO during the 2012 election, and she’ll be

up in Iceland? AS: I found Global Treks on multiple online internship sites for environmental studies. I knew I wanted to find an internship for the summer that would give me experience in my field, and when I saw that this one combined environmental studies and journalism, it seemed like a perfect fit for the path I wanted to pursue. The goal laid out to us during interviews was that we would be formulating an anthology of Southern Iceland, and each intern would research and write a chapter to

manager mentioned nearly half of those 10,000 troops were African-American, Wells decided it was time to dig into this relatively unknown story. “This really made my ears perk up. I had no knowledge of this history until then,” he said. Wells established a student-faculty research project in investigative journalism and recruited Shannon Schrecengost ’09 to help. The two quickly set to work poring over thousands of documents and conducting hundreds of interviews. All of this was compiled into a film

the recipient of the donation. For more information go to www.emptybowls.net. Read Previous “Physicality of the Present” opens in the University Gallery Read Next Education and Journalism: Hard work and worth the effort LATEST POSTS Meet Professor Junichi Tsuneoka August 20, 2024 Pacific Lutheran University Communication students help forgive nearly $1.9M in medical debt in Washington, Idaho, and Montana May 20, 2024 PLU Faculty Directs Local Documentary November 8, 2022 Scholarship Application

been a busy year, but we’ve learned so much,” Scaff said. “Our goal now is to bring awareness to this issue, so people can identify it and know how to cope.” Rile and Scaff, both communication majors concentrating in journalism, as well as Herzfeldt-Kamprath, a English major and communication minor, are members of PLU’s MediaLab. Established in 2006, MediaLab provides students with opportunities to explore various methods of mass communication. “Overexposed” marks the seventh film produced by