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and making an impact in the lives of others. It’s a value that two Lute football teammates put into action this past year. Just a few months apart, Jai Alapai ’24 and Erik Bainter ’23 were identified as matches for patients battling life-threatening blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma. Both players completed the five-to-six hour peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) extraction procedure to donate millions of their stem cells. The story starts back in April 2022, when Alapai and Bainter took part

and become a worthy member of our Lute community that you, too, will find your own ways to contribute to our culture of care.  As you do so in this particular time in our society’s life, please focus on ways to overcome our racial divisions, and help heal our communities, large and small, and to be kind and compassionate to one another.  I hope that you will find caring faculty members and fellow students who are committed to doing the important work of – once and for all – righting the wrongs of

is they bought at the Lute Cafe before class. Professor Mike Rings is a Resident Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Pacific Lutheran University. He started at PLU in the Fall of 2015 teaching Writing 101 and then became a Visiting Professor in the Philosophy Department the following semester (Spring 2016). Professor Rings has been teaching since he was in graduate school at Indiana University in 2005.  He received his PhD in philosophy from Indiana University. During Fall 2020

world view and cultural understanding that started with my childhood in Ghana. I am very grateful that I have been able to either major or minor in all the subjects I came to PLU pursing, with many thanks to the advisers and professors I have had. I have been able to live on campus all four years so I can definitely say that I have experienced firsthand the trends and transitions in the Lute Dome. And that feeling of the opposite of loneliness that I have felt through my four years here can be

September 8, 2009 In Times Challenging and Uncertain: Plans Change – Values and Mission Endure By President Loren J. Anderson Welcome to our 2009 University Fall Conference. This morning we gather and prepare to launch the 120th year in the life of Pacific Lutheran University. We do so with a spirit of hope and excitement, confident about the days ahead, and energized by the presence of one another. As we begin anew, it is an honor to welcome our faithful retirees and emeriti faculty to this

not a place where we want to be our own miniature world, isolated within this community. We actively as a university work at breaking those walls down and being a part of Parkland, being partners in this neighborhood and calling this place home.”Get started now Apply Inquiry Read Previous Breaking down Fences Read Next Lute journeys with fellow Samish tribal members in canoe Power Paddle to Puyallup LATEST POSTS Summer Reading Recommendations July 11, 2024 Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in computer

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and strategic planning. These skills I have transferred to the many internships and volunteer opportunities I have been fortunate to be involved in. I have made friends from across the globe; China, Namibia and Korea to say the least and have been adopted off campus whole-heartedly by the magnificent Bronner family. Mom, I missed you so much, but the love and support I have received both inside and outside of the classroom walls is indescribable. The Lute Dome has become my home, fostering my

classify diseases and diagnose patients according to medical theories based on the Chinese concept of yin and yang, across the ocean the PLU women’s swim team hosted four Northwest Conference opponents, losing to three of them. Klauder’s desire to study away during her competitive season points to a decision that some Lute student-athletes, and their coaches, face every year: How does the student-athlete balance the personal expectations of being a student with the personal and team expectations of

institution, not its mission for sustainable living. Tegels said everyone still has a long way to go before reaching a perfectly green lifestyle, but he said the goal that PLU has for a healthier planet is the first step. “It’s very much the mindset of the individual that will determine where we go with all of this,” Tegels said. “Education and honest education is a crucial factor in that.” Read Previous Lute reaches for the stars Read Next Learning from the floor COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated