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  • Melissa Castor ’14 helps a sixth grade student at Keithley Middle School with her math work. (Photos by John Froschauer) Lives of Service: It’s what neighbors do By Chris Albert In Mrs. Allen’s sixth grade math class at Keithley Middle School , Ms. Castor is…

    two go over the math problem, “and then just show your work by writing it out.” Figuring out the area of a shape takes steps, Melissa Castor tells the students. Her role in Denise Allen’s class is to assist the students while Allen teaches the material. Castor ‘14 is one of about 25 PLU students who volunteer their time at the Franklin Pierce school that is a neighbor to PLU, as part of Club Keithley. “My students have benefited so much by having them in my classes to help,” Allen said. “My

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 26, 2016)- Joel Zylstra said Pacific Lutheran University’s partnership with the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity began with a cup of coffee at 208 Garfield four years ago. Zylstra, director of Center for Community Engagement & Service (CCES), said his perception of Habitat…

    money was raised, about 250 PLU students traveled to the Woods to assist with the build. Students contributed to tasks such as construction, writing messages on the steps of the home and attending the dedication ceremony. This home also held a special significance to PLU, as the matriarch of the family moving in had recently finished her master’s in counseling at PLU. “That was cool (because) there was a connection there,” Stockstad said. “The university was trying to look at their community in

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 7, 2020) — No matter what field or industry you work in, the COVID-19 pandemic has probably dramatically reshaped the way you do your job every day. For Kari Plog ‘11, a digital journalist for local NPR affiliate radio station KNKX, telling…

    station, it was difficult in the beginning to keep up. This story didn’t just change daily, it changed hourly. That creates logistical challenges when writing and producing for broadcast, to keep your coverage relevant and up-to-the-minute. As a digital journalist for our station, I leaned heavily on social media sharing and web-first reporting in the beginning. As numbers of COVID-19 cases grew, and the scope of those affected changed, we adapted to take a big-picture approach. Our top priority now

  • Elizabeth Larios ’21 decided she was going to be a neurosurgeon in the fourth grade. That’s when her class took a field trip to a science museum and Larios saw an exhibit about the human brain. Returning home that day, she told her mom: “I’m…

    grant as a way to finish what she started — both with her research and music interests. She poured nearly a year into writing a thesis and gathering letters and endorsements from faculty both at PLU and in Namibia before submitting an application in October. She waited three months before finding out she was a semi-finalist, then another three months before finding out she was a finalist in April. Each year nearly 5,000 applications are submitted annually from students and faculty nationwide. The

  • By Damian Alessandro ’19. In most popular histories of computing, the Apple II personal computer (1977) stands out as a pathbreaker among early devices in the PC Revolution. But how innovative was Apple’s first mass-market computer, and what design features and ideas helped it stand…

    , in 1978, a floppy disk drive called the Disk II was provided with the Apple II. This attached via a controller card plugged into an expansion slot, which users could access by taking apart the case. The video display device was initially a television hooked to the Apple II, but later a screen could be attached as a peripheral. The Apple II would also originally use Integer BASIC for writing programs, which would be encoded into the Motherboard ROM chips. However, the computer later used Applesoft

  • Tutoring program touches refugees The makeshift classroom buzzed with life as dozens of Somali Bantu children worked with PLU student-volunteers to solve math problems, sound out words and learn their colors. Jessica Baumer ’09 tried to get 13-year-old Murjan Jatar to focus on completing his…

    comparison, they’re really not.” Jamila Haji, 13, has been in the United States for two years, and is still working on her reading and writing skills. But the teen is quickly adapting to the options her new country presents for her future. When asked what she wants to be when she grows up, Haji rattled off a “top four” list of career options that doesn’t sound much different from the aspirations of a native-born teenager: doctor, lawyer, singer, teacher. When asked which was best, she said, “The best

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 20, 2016)- This summer, Taylor Bozich ’17 affirmed what she long assumed to be true about humanitarian work — it isn’t easy. She also reaffirmed that’s exactly the kind of work she wants to do after graduating from Pacific Lutheran University. Bozich…

    profoundly impacted by whatever they did,” she said. Bozich, a global studies and biology double major, completed her public health internship in August. She spent two months over the summer living in D.C., assisting with program development and grant writing, as well as learning about the politics surrounding humanitarian work.She said her experiences underscored her passion for a future in public health. “This internship definitely re-instilled the passion in me to work with women’s health and

  • Originally published in 2016 But, for the time being, here we all are, Back in the moderate Aristotelian city Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience, And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it. It…

    always the case in the Humanities that Time and Eternity, Heaven and Hell come to expression in words. So, in “The Poem is a Letter Opener,” Barot speaks of … a poem that is old and full of days, a poem like an old china plate that is the color of time, the dusk having its supper of fog and people walking through the fog, the fallen leaves in the parks like strewn credit cards, which are also poems, like the typewriter writing the letter one little tooth at a time, one love at a time, in our city of

  • Originally published in 1999 My lifelong commitment to the liberal arts took root in the fourth grade, when I met my classmate and dear life-long friend Sally. During that entire year, Sally rode her bike to my house, and after school, we both rode our…

    liberal arts and professional undergraduate education pragmatic or even possible? And though clearly honed in response to consumer demand, is it in fact serving the best interest of PLU, in terms of our endowment and identity, and for that matter, of the minds and careers of our students?  And finally, does it uphold, in practice, the tenets of our mission statement? In particular, does it allow a student’s undergraduate education to provide “the necessary and essential foundation for the technical

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 11, 2017)- In a lively yet ominous steampunk world, a boy and a bully clash in the classic struggle of good and evil. The stakes: bravery and freedom. The battle: a simple game of marbles. Such is the world depicted in a…

    . The film took three years to produce. With Swingler’s input, the world surrounding Jameson and Wolf gained a playfully dark atmosphere and a Dr. Seuss-like rhyme scheme. Petersen said telling the story through rhymes was one of the most strenuous aspects of writing the film: “Sometimes we would agonize over one line, but if we changed that, then we’d have to change the paragraph before that.” "There were all these various things in the theatre department that I had to work on that I realized