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DickersonLutes are invited to honor Steve Dickerson’s coaching career at a celebration May 6 at the Washington State History Museum, 6-8 p.m. A short program at 6:30 p.m. will highlight the impact Dickerson has made on many people’s lives. Registration for the event available soon at golutes.com. Email athletics@plu.edu to learn more. Dickerson hopes that message continues after he’s gone, one he’s worked to build for 14 years at PLU. He started as an assistant, coaching alongside his former college roommate
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surrounding Christian students who prayed outside the dorm rooms of openly gay students. “There was a lot going on,” Brewer said. “It was a bit of a scary time to be figuring out your sexual orientation.” Still, Brewer found support from Harmony and a variety of faculty members. She said Professor of History Beth Kraig, Dean of Students Eva Frey and Diversity Center Assistant Vice President Angie Hambrick were especially valuable. “Honestly there were a lot of staff — both queer and straight — who were
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the sun. It’ll make groundbreaking history in getting as close as we’ve ever been to the sun, which is really cool. I’ve actually gotten to go see the probe and everything! It’s not very often you get to say that you’ve seen a spacecraft that isn’t coming back to Earth after they launch it. Justin DeMattos '19 On a normal day, I’m mostly working on a computer doing programing. This internship is mostly computer science. So, I’m working on trying to develop visualization tools for a website to help
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Canon camera to shoot the documentary and a laptop to edit the film, Chan taught herself necessary skills. “I really enjoyed using film as a cool way to tell my story, which is not often talked about in education,” she says. Chan visited Seattle Public School high schools to talk to students, teachers and activists. She researched how the Eurocentric focus within history, literature and STEM education fields has affected people of color in damaging ways. For her achievement in film and activism
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dilemmas can be solved without broad, multifaceted expertise. Addressing climate change requires business savvy. Understanding modern racial unrest takes an understanding of American and world history. International diplomacy is often informed by religious traditions. Some of the most successful business managers are experts in psychology. Yet, despite these realities, far too many American universities are neglecting to provide an integrated education—an education that fuses the liberal arts
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Musician turned math major is excited to teach in his community Posted by: vcraker / May 4, 2022 May 4, 2022 Kevin Canady-Pete ’22 has a history with the Pacific Lutheran University campus. He grew up down the street, just a couple of miles from the university. The Franklin Pierce High School graduate came to PLU intending to pursue a music education major. While he enjoyed playing music at PLU, he discovered he had a passion for math. He will graduate this winter with a degree in mathematics
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PLU places in English and Spanish Worlds at Mark O. Hatfield Memorial Posted by: Todd / February 22, 2017 February 22, 2017 Tacoma, WASH. – ¡Sí se puede! For the first time in T.O.H. Karl history, debaters participated in a bilingual tournament with simultaneous divisions in English and Spanish. Eight varsity English Worlds teams and one varsity Spanish Worlds team from Pacific Lutheran University competed at Willamette University Feb. 18-19 and led in preliminary and elimination rounds
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opportunity for people of color to finally have their chance in the limelight and to share the story of their people. For the first time in the history of Vpstart Crow, Fences was produced with an all black cast. Student director, Josh Wallace made this decision “to level the playing field and show that inequality is something that can be defeated with the right amount of hard work, dedication, and patience.” Vpstart Crow is a student-created organization that provides support to Theatre majors interested
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picking papayas and mangos from a grocery, we either fell asleep on the bus or attempted to on the asphalt of the parking lot. All of us are boarded at Makerere University in apartments on the edge of campus. The students are currently out for summer break, but even so the campus is alive with students and professors. The school houses about 13x as many people as PLU, numbering around 39,000 people and we were given the opportunity to learn from professors and students about the history and culture of
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] Paul Tillich.” Paso graduated with a degree in religion and German, and after spending some time working in downtown Tacoma at a church, left last year to Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship to work with Armin Kohnle, director of the Institute of Church History at the University of Leipzig. With Kohnle, Paso studied “common chest” ordinances in the early reformation period. “Common chest” literally refers to a locked box where donations where kept for the poor in a church. “It was basically early
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