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  • PLU junior’s first production fields university’s first all-black cast Josh Wallace ’19 wanted to do something different for his directing debut with PLU Theatre. A creative who also dabbles in acting, music and art, the junior figured the time was right to take on a…

    University takes great pride in its dynamic and challenging Theatre program. We train students in all aspects of theatre – from acting and directing to stage management, producing, playwriting, technical theatre and design.Set in the 1950s, the play centers on an African-American father and his relationship with his son. Troy, a Negro League baseball player who never got a legitimate shot at the segregated major leagues and instead became a sanitation worker, tries to quash the football dreams of his son

  • Lutes often find ways to show gratitude to the community that supported their education, but Justin Foster ’02 got started early. An entrepreneur, marketer, and technology developer, he has been an active supporter of PLU and the School of Business since graduation. “I received a…

    put in is something you don’t get at a larger school,” Foster said. “My professors really cared about my success, and I really felt a huge impact on my life.” To this day, Lee proudly recalls Foster’s role in creating PLU’s Electronic Commerce and Technology Management Center (ePLU), including co-authoring a major grant proposal. Co-founding the center, Foster reflected, “really cemented and solidified my relationship with Dr. Lee. He’s been hugely helpful in my career.” As a student, Foster also

  • Port of Tacoma CEO sees strength in community Northwest native and Port of Tacoma CEO John Wolfe ’87, prides himself for being part of an organization that creates jobs. Established by the citizens of Pierce County, Wash., in 1918, The Port of Tacoma is among…

    what the team needs.” Westering stressed how to be part of a team and how to work together toward a common understanding of success. In his position at the port, Wolfe draws on his PLU experiences daily as he works with commissioners, customers and the community. Wolfe’s role at the port includes working with the Board of Commissioners to ensure strategic alignment, customer satisfaction and community involvement. “We invite the community in,” Wolfe said. “It’s really important that we connect with

  • Business Alum’s Startup Gets Huge Boost From Salesforce.com Neil Crist ’99 Plans to Use Funds to Expand Venuelabs’ Services By Brenna Sussman ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker It takes a lot of work to get a startup company off the ground—something Neil Crist…

    staff at PLU, and how that helped lift his aspirations. With these new funds from Salesforce.com, Venuelabs plans to further expand its customer base and continue to develop and expand technology to a wider range of clients, Crist said, such as small businesses, universities and governments. Read Previous PLU’s Resident Artist Wins Major Award From Tacoma Arts Commission Read Next PLU Screens Award-Winning Documentary ‘€˜Sweet Dreams’ – €”Complete With Ice Cream COMMENTS*Note: All comments are

  • Both Douglas McGrath and Autumn de Wilde seize upon the holiday scenes in Emma (1815), the only Austen novel with a Christmas scene. Each film’s Christmas scene display the cultivation of relationships and community-building. However, in their respective representations of Emma and Mr. Elton (McGrath)…

    this desire to strengthen their relationship with a particular member of their community. Douglas McGrath’s 1996 film introduces what I am calling an oppositional binary. I am using this term to refer to how characters are positioned in relation to each other in a way that entrenches their contradictory natures. In McGrath’s film, it is Emma and Mr. Elton that are in this dynamic. Throughout the Christmas scene and the proposal, they operate as if they are mirror images. His continual and

  • How I Learned to Drive , by Paula Vogel, opens March 8 in the Studio Theater of the new Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at Pacific Lutheran University. Often described as one of the most disturbing love stories in theatre, How I…

    How I Learned to Drive – a vehicle toward empowerment Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 3, 2013 March 3, 2013 How I Learned to Drive, by Paula Vogel, opens March 8 in the Studio Theater of the new Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at Pacific Lutheran University. Often described as one of the most disturbing love stories in theatre, How I Learned to Drive contains issues of pedophilia, incest and misogyny. The audience is urged to examine their relationship with the term

  • How I Learned to Drive , by Paula Vogel, opens March 8 in the Studio Theater of the new Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at Pacific Lutheran University. Often described as one of the most disturbing love stories in theatre, How I…

    How I Learned to Drive – a vehicle toward empowerment Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 3, 2013 March 3, 2013 How I Learned to Drive, by Paula Vogel, opens March 8 in the Studio Theater of the new Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at Pacific Lutheran University. Often described as one of the most disturbing love stories in theatre, How I Learned to Drive contains issues of pedophilia, incest and misogyny. The audience is urged to examine their relationship with the term

  • This September, The News Tribune committed to a generous pledge to MediaLab, allowing them to continue to grow both at PLU and within the community. It is the News Tribune’s intent to continue the partnership with MediaLab for the next three years, through the 2014-2015…

    The News Tribune continues support of MediaLab Posted by: Todd / October 19, 2012 October 19, 2012 This September, The News Tribune committed to a generous pledge to MediaLab, allowing them to continue to grow both at PLU and within the community. It is the News Tribune’s intent to continue the partnership with MediaLab for the next three years, through the 2014-2015 academic year. MediaLab’s relationship with the News Tribune began six years ago, when the News Tribune became the first major

  • Tilden flies high as Alaska Airlines’ new CEO By Barbara Clements As a boy, Brad Tilden ’83 would look up from the yard at his home and see airplanes launch into the sky from the nearby Seattle- Tacoma International Airport. Someday, he wanted to fly.…

    don’t think you’d find a team like ours anywhere else in the industry.” Despite the recession, the company is in good shape, with $1 billion cash on hand (much higher than other airlines), and the airline has snagged another JD Powers award for customer satisfaction. And as to what keeps him up at nights? There’s the competition of the low-cost airlines such as Virgin and Southwest always nipping at the company’s heels. “To be competitive, you really have to keep innovating, and keep changing,” he

  • When Mark Mariani ’98 was a student at PLU his singular goal was to become a medical doctor. A member of the football team and a biology major, Mariani loved his science courses, but he also found he was interested in a range of disciplines…

    . He oversees the 34 Indigo Urgent Care clinics MultiCare operates across Washington. Urgent care clinics meet a public need for convenient access to unscheduled medical treatment for minor illnesses and injuries that don’t warrant a visit to an emergency room. “First and foremost, we pride ourselves in delivering exceptional customer care that is safe and highly effective,” Mariani says. “There’s also the business side of it, being as innovative as possible, and embracing and integrating