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August 23, 2010 Lute athletic facilities: ‘Defining a vision, planning for the future’ What does it take to mount a successful athletic program these days? A few things immediately come to mind: talented and highly motivated student athletes; experienced, dedicated and supportive coaches and staff; and high-quality equipment. According to Laurie Turner, director of athletics, PLU is doing all of these things very well.“We have had remarkable success over the years in our athletic program,” she

March 4, 2013 ASPLU Lute Vote wins grant from Washington Secretary of State By Katie Baumann ’14 In an exciting turn of events, the Associated Students of Pacific Lutheran University (ASPLU) project titled Lute Vote has been awarded the “Laying the Foundations: 2013” grant from the Washington Secretary of State. Part of a coalition of campuses across Washington state striving to increase civic engagement on campus, ASPLU Diversity Director Karter Booher and his team set a goal of registering

Blog Post: A Great Day to Be a Lute! #PLUGrads Posted by: Lace M. Smith / May 24, 2015 May 24, 2015 2015 Commencement Remarks to the Class of 2015 Your Majesty, Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen.  Welcome to this happy celebration of achievement!  Congratulations to the graduates of 2015, and a warm welcome to your family and friends who helped you on your journey!  On this day, when we mark PLU’s 125th anniversary year—our Quasquicentennial Jubilee—the entire global PLU community is deeply

treat all of our resources with respect,” she said. “We recognize that when we consume meat that it has a spirit, for example. “He said as Indians we are taught not to mistreat or disrespect resources because if we do then things like global warming happen.” After going through that entire explanation process, Hall and her elder worked through a new phrase:  sqw’ó7 tse mékw’-stáng. Hall said this directly translates as “united the everything.” In other words, everything is together or united. She

Area Studies programs and especially in the Scandinavian Cultural Center (SCC), which in September takes those roots on the road and to the public. In celebration of PLU’s 125th anniversary, the SCC has created a special exhibition called PLU at 125: Lutheran Education on the Frontier, which will be displayed at the internationally recognized Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood from Sept. 26 to Nov. 10. (The Lute community is invited to join PLU President Thomas W. Krise at an

Performing Arts. She was a ceramics teaching assistant for two years and also won first place in the Student Juried Exhibition this past fall. Extending her successes beyond the Lute Dome, Henderson studied away in Bali during the J-Term of her junior year. “It was amazing!” she said. For her senior capstone, Henderson completed a project called “Dynamic Tension” – a series of four mixed media sculptures involving animals in strange or awkward positions, she said. “Dynamic Tension essentially explains

everyone up, and both Lute teams chanted with the other fans. We attended another Chelsea game later in the trip, which happened to be the opening game of the English Premier League. We also toured major soccer stadiums like Old Trafford Stadium and Emirates Stadium. The trip wasn’t all about soccer, though: We traveled to historic parts of England, as well, walking around the birth city of William Shakespeare and trying to make the guards at Buckingham Palace notice us. Overall, England was the most

was sure I’d bring out the naked baby pictures or something,” she said, laughing. Now, Mary keeps in contact with those who were closest to Brian. She once invited a couple of his female friends over to sew. If Brian knew that, Mary said with a laugh, “he would be mortified.” Mary said her son’s spirit lives on through connections made by she and her husband, Paul, with people they would never have met otherwise. “We’ve learned more about Brian than we would have,” she said. Among the many stories

alma mater has decided that Foss Hall will not be a part of the university’s future, but that does not mean that I am unaffected. Someday I will give my daughter a tour of PLU’s handsome woodland campus, enthusiastically recounting to her my days as a Lute and not-so-subtly lobbying her to follow in my collegiate footsteps. As I name residence hall after residence hall on our tour, my daughter will no doubt ask me which one I lived in when I was a student. That will be a sobering moment. But that

How to be a Lute: Let’s Spend a Day in Tacoma Posted by: vcraker / May 26, 2021 May 26, 2021 Ready to explore? Tacoma native Lindsey Hansen ’22 shares some highlights of her favorite Tacoma hang-out spots. Read Previous Interested in studying Psychology? Read Next How to be a Lute: How to weather the Pacific Northwest weather LATEST POSTS Summer Reading Recommendations July 11, 2024 Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in computer science while interning at Amazon, Cannon, and Pierce County June 13, 2024