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) KonopaskiMajor: Business Administration with a concentration in Finance. Hometown: Port Angeles, Washington. Accomplishments at PLU: PLU single-season record holder in saves and ERA, PLU career record holder in saves and ERA; Northwest Conference record holder in single-season saves and career saves; three-time First Team All Northwest Conference relief pitcher; 2014 d3baseball.com First Team All-American relief pitcher; 2014 ABCA Second Team All West Region pitcher; 2015 d3baseball.com Preseason First Team

the right choice when they asked me: “What do you want to do with your one wild and precious life?” This question, the people I met, and the opportunities all led me to PLU, my second home. My PLU experience: I was one of the lucky few who met their best friends in their orientation group. I found this solid group of friends to encourage me through college. I worked on campus at the concierge desk and the office of Humanities. I was a Resident Assistant in Harstad Hall, President of the Christian

of the first part of the novel and to the possibility of Anne’s “second spring” (Vol. II, Ch. 1, 147). Rabbits were frequently portrayed with young women in allegories of autumn as harbingers of spring. The connection to Anne’s pet rabbit is evinced in the character poster for Anne Elliot, which is in conversation with eighteenth-century allegorical portraits, such as Rosalba Carriera’s (1673-1757) “The Girl with a Rabbit” (undated). Carriera’s portrait allegorizes autumn by creating a connection

the wild, smuggled to Lebanon, give forged documents, confiscated almost by luck in Cyprus. Second, we studied African grey parrots as paradigmatic of the problems in the global problem of wildlife trafficking. Between 2 and 2.5 million African grays have been trapped for the wildlife trade in the last 20 years. They are among the most popular animals in the global wildlife trade, largely because they are so intelligent. Dr. Goodall told us of one African grey parrot with a vocabulary of 1,600

in English literature Why PLU? After taking a tour, I was convinced. PLU felt like home. I was excited about the Wild Hope Project, International Honors, and the small class size. I sat in on a class and the professor knew everyone’s name and the class itself was a space where people could come together as valued intellectuals on a common search for more knowledge. There was no feel of hierarchy, just a shared passion for learning. That’s exactly what I wanted out of my collegiate experience

reaches under the letter “U” next to it as if to symbolize our collective intention to care for you, for others, for our communities, and for the earth. Please always know that I care and will care for this institution, for everyone in this room, and for our once and future colleagues not with us now or yet, and for our students, who are the real reason we’ve dedicated our lives to this work. Read Previous Game On! Read Next PLU professor to speak at the Second Annual Peter Berger Lecture at Boston