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From First-Year Communication Student to Election Night Reporter With the Pros Posted by: Sandy Dunham / November 26, 2014 November 26, 2014 By Matthew Salzano ’18 PLU Communication Student TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 26, 2014)—I woke up at 8:15 a.m. Nov. 7, 2014, to an email from Michael Bartanen, Chair of the Communication department, with the subject, “You’re famous.” I came to PLU intending to focus my Communication degree on public relations and advertising. By the end of October, passionate

hope is that I will help my generation understand and appreciate that style of music,” Leibold said. Turns out she and Abbott share a musical interest, too. Abbott is pursuing a Bachelor’s of Music with a concentration in Vocal Performance for Opera and hopes to sing with an opera upon graduation. In addition to working three jobs and competing in pageants, she’s also a member of PLU’s Choir of the West. The scholarship money from the pageants is definitely a plus, but Abbott also uses the pageants

law firms. “[It is] a lot of meetings, from 10 to maybe three or four. And then, you work after that for the work day,” he says. The intense hours involved surprised Harris — to a degree. “There’s this idea that if you go into public interest, you’re going to have a much better worklife balance,” he says. “Right now, there are a lot of challenges to voting rights and democracy in America. So, even though the hours can be intense, it’s something I embrace. I love the work.” Pre-Law AdvisingPLU’s

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interns also write a lot of the brief stories like area event picks; film recaps; and an on-the-street comment section, where you go to a public place and get five different people to answer the same question related to the feature story. Beyond those basic tasks, we write other stories for print and online. Have you had the opportunity to attend and report on any events or concerts for The Inlander? I have! My best friend and I had the opportunity to attend the Walla Walla Gentlemen of the Road

Faculty Feature: Meet Amanda Sweger, Associate Professor of Theatre Posted by: Reesa Nelson / April 9, 2020 April 9, 2020 The PLU Theatre & Dance Department is lucky to have Amanda Sweger as a faculty member. Amanda has taught at PLU since fall 2012. She focuses on lighting and scenic design and has a professional practice outside the classroom. Continue reading to get to know Professor Sweger and learn more! What is your educational background? I graduated with a BFA in Design and Technology

Faculty Feature: Meet Amanda Sweger, Associate Professor of Theatre Posted by: Reesa Nelson / April 9, 2020 April 9, 2020 The PLU Theatre & Dance Department is lucky to have Amanda Sweger as a faculty member. Amanda has taught at PLU since fall 2012. She focuses on lighting and scenic design and has a professional practice outside the classroom. Continue reading to get to know Professor Sweger and learn more! What is your educational background? I graduated with a BFA in Design and Technology

their thoughtful inquiry and imagination. The finale has become an annual event on campus, growing in size and production every year. “We’ve done five years of out-staging ourselves,” Finitsis said. “Each year the students get me thinking, ‘How am I going to keep this growing?’” The project culminates with a finale on-campus at 6 p.m., April 19 in the CK of the UC. This past year, the project won a NWACC Award for Innovation in Educational Technologies and a Carol Sheffels Quigg Award for Excellence

by the Benson Family Foundation during the 2005-2006 academic year and brings to campus outstanding members of the academic and business community. The topic for the Monday night’s lecture came from McCloskey’s series of books, The Bourgeois Era, which explore the relationship between moral virtue and capitalism. She argued that innovation, ingenuity, and the drive of societal change are characteristics of the middle-class, and that it was from the liberation of this class that the modern world

community and the public during emergencies and natural disasters. “We are the first university to tie our outdoor speakers into the system,” said Greg Premo, director of Campus Safety. “Most universities use the emergency ‘Blue Phones’ for outdoor notification, but that route would have been very costly since we would have had to add a lot of new cabling, power and other installation costs.” The new Metis system, funded in part by a $15,000 grant from the Puget Sound Energy Foundation, provides greater