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intellectually intense, the competition is also physically grueling; students usually sleep no more than three hours a night. Despite frequent team runs to Bigfoot Java, Duffy, a third-year computer science major, got sleep paralysis twice in 24 hours. Yet the stress and the fun go hand in hand. Madeline, a second-year physics major, particularly loved waiting for the problems to open and for the timer to go off. “And then it’s just violent brainstorming,” she added. “Every single room has eight whiteboards

about La Boehme is that the chorus isn’t on until act two,” Marzano said. “I get to sit backstage and watch act one. I’m just trying to take in everything I possibly can from this experience.” Marzano, who plays a French soldier in the production that opened Feb. 23, comes on stage in the second act with another soldier to grab lunch in the town café, where he encounters the main character, the town flirt, Musetta. (He said that’s why he was caught with such a dumbfound look in the photo we got of

in orchestras like the Virginia Symphony or the Boston Camerata. Some are music teachers and professors. One of my most talented former ear-training student is now TYC conductor Dr. Leann Conley-Holcom! I even have a former student that is a movie director and another one that records for Hans Zimmer in Hollywood! By night, I play in Symphony Tacoma, but I also run the Second City Chamber Series that performs chamber music concerts around Pierce County year-round. And I have a string quartet. And

sleep no more than three hours a night. Despite frequent team runs to Bigfoot Java, Duffy, a third-year computer science major, got sleep paralysis twice in 24 hours. Yet the stress and the fun go hand in hand. Madeline, a second-year physics major, particularly loved waiting for the problems to open and for the timer to go off. “And then it’s just violent brainstorming,” she added. “Every single room has eight whiteboards, and everyone is just spewing ideas. It is the most chaotic and one of the

weeks on this all-expenses-paid trip. For the live show, the group performed a rendition of the song “Low” by Flo Rida and received positive remarks from the judges. Following the live performance and nationwide voting, PLUtonic was in the last elimination round during the live results and was the second-to-last act eliminated, bringing their journey to an end. Marzano said that even though PLUtonic didn’t move on in the competition, the group was happy with the performance. “I wasn’t bitter but I

peers had to offer. “The community aspect is an interesting and innovative piece of the program,” Tilghman said. “There’s a great energy in it.” Part of the innovative community aspect that impressed Tilghman was the required outside experience that students must complete during their second year. The MFA outside experience allows students to remove themselves from everyday life and “be the writer,” Rubin said. Others develop a community-based experience that enriches their writing lives. Tilghman’s

dash in addition to running the second leg on both of PLU’s relay teams. Two weeks earlier, Bollen finished fifth in the conference decathlon championship meet. At first, track and field didn’t come easily for Bollen, who grew up in Grayland, Wash., a small community located on the central Washington coast. In the eighth grade he finished last in a 400-meters race. He took that as a personal challenge. By the time he was a senior, he shaved 30 seconds off of his time and ended up placing fourth in

Edwin Black will take part in a lecture about “IBM and the Holocaust.” This year, an expanded edition of the book was released, with 32 pages of new information and photos included. Black will be on the Pacific Lutheran University campus Oct. 16 at a brown bag lunch which is one of two fall lectures under the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies programs. The second lecture will be on Nov. 15, when Peter Altmann will present a special viewing of  “Adele’s Wish,” which tells the story of Altmann’s

great Mediterranean and American cuisine. Located at 2214 Second Ave.PLU Jazz StudiesLearn more here.Live In-Studio at KPLUWednesday, April 29 at 2 p.m.The Jazz Sound Trio and students Zach Miller and Brandon Lee Cierley will perform a live studio session on KPLU to showcase PLU jazz and promote PLU Jazz Day at Tula’s. Read Previous Student Organizes April 24 Salary-Negotiation Workshop to Combat Gender Wage Gap Read Next PLU Presents Service Awards to Students, Staff and Community COMMENTS*Note

campus life—and present a moving, enlightening evening of personal storytelling and public debate. The four students are part of iDebate Rwanda, a nongovernmental organization that uses debate to give young East Africans the tools to change their world by teaching them how to think critically, solve problems creatively and impact their society. PLU is the second stop on the group’s 2015 U.S. tour, “Voices from the Post-Genocide Generation’’—and one of only two on the West Coast. The students’ visit