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  • Please dig into your archives, clear the cobwebs, and help us come up with a suggestion for our next Hall of Fame nominee from the rowing crew.

    this time around, but it was not to be. Last year our nominee was the men’s Varsity 4 from 1970 and 1971. That 4 was undefeated in the spring of 1970, beating UW in the Western Sprints (West Coast Championships), and traveling to the IRA (national) regatta in Syracuse, New York. They placed 3 rd , beating Harvard and others, losing only to Rutgers and MIT. The next year with a different bowman, they were undefeated as well, until the Sprints, where they were nudged for the gold medal by Washington

  • The Thorniley Collection of Antique Type, a massive donation to PLU’s Publishing and Printing Arts Program, has elevated the university’s letterpress resources.

    too small after all that,” she quipped. “It’s either patience and endurance or we are crazy. I’m still not sure.” Thousands of keystrokes on a laptop fall short of capturing the essence of the Thorniley Collection of Antique Type, which arrived at its new home on Pacific Lutheran University’s campus earlier this year in the form of a massive donation from WCP Solutions, formerly West Coast Paper. The collection of typefaces, printing presses and more — which appraised at $311,330 — has elevated

  • The University Jazz Ensemble, a 19-piece performing group, will present the concert A Tribute to Women Composers on Friday, November 8, 2019 at 8 PM.

    saxophonist Ernie Watts, on April 26 at 8 p.m. on the Pacific Lutheran University campus. Mr. Watts is one of the most versatile and prolific saxophone players in music. He has been featured on over 500 recordings by artists ranging from Cannonball Adderley to Frank Zappa, always exhibiting his unforgettable trademark sound. Mr. Watts has toured with Charlie Haden’s Quartet West and the Rolling Stones. He is featured on the albums of Frank Zappa, Glenn Frey, on various Motown albums and movie soundtracks

  • In their own words Compiled and edited by Chris Albert This spring, new PLU graduates closed a chapter in their lives and prepared to turn the next page. In the following, some Lutes shared their stories of why they came to PLU, what their experiences…

    office, the physics department, choir, and my classes. I also am incredibly blessed and grateful for my four years in PLU choirs, which have taken me on a journey I could never have dreamed of, including a tour to Germany and France last summer with the Choir of the West. And, of course, no engineering education is complete without the construction of a trebuchet. All of these experiences are integral to who I am today and I would not trade them for the world. What’s next? I will be attending Oregon

  • Washington D.C. (March. 9, 2017)- The small group of Pacific Lutheran University students, standing huddled together in a jam-packed section toward the front of the National Mall, remained silent. Some shook their heads in disbelief. Others wore expressions of shock. Two couldn’t stop tears from…

    to get more involved and learn more about the issues, because I want our country to do well and I want people to be equally represented,” Fleming said. Sullivan, still wearing the same T-shirt, quietly took it a step further: “It really just made me think about how far we have to go.” × × × Read Previous PLU alumna serves as interim director of Tacoma’s Rainbow Center Read Next Lutes sing their way through the Southwest on Choir of the West tour COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the

  • Major in Theatre 44 semester hours, plus a minor THEA 160: Introduction to Theatre (4) or THEA 102: FYEP 102: DJS Seminar (4) THEA 225: Running Crew I (4) THEA 250: Acting I - Fundamentals (4) THEA

    Analysis IB (2) MUSI 136: Music Theory and Analysis II (3) 2 semester hours from: MUSI 151: Keyboard Musicianship I (1) MUSI 152: Keyboard Musicianship II (1) MUSI 251: Keyboard Musicianship III (1) 6 semester hours of MUSI 204/404: Private Instruction Voice (1-4) 4 semester hours from: MUSI 360: Choir of the West (1) MUSI 361: University Chorale (1) MUSI 362: Knight’s Chorus(1) MUSI 363: University Singers (1) MUSI 366: Opera (1) Additional credits in MUSI 204/404: Private Instruction Voice (1-4) THEA

  • He was working by age 8, picking cherries and apples under the Yakima Valley sun. In the spring he worked as a smudger. He’d sleep overnight in an orchard and when the alarms rang he’d sprint to light the smudge pots that warmed the trees…

    , the scholarship is expanded to include students from anywhere in Washington State.Throughout the past few years, a small Lutheran university in Tacoma’s Parkland neighborhood has quietly cemented its status as a trendsetter in higher education. Currently ranked number one in Washington state for financial aid by LendEDU and third in the west for “Best Value” by U.S. News and World Report, PLU has doubled-tripled-and-quadrupled down on its commitment to access and enrollment equity by rolling out a

  • Two years before he founded the only local peace prize in the nation, Thomas Heavey ’74 was in the middle of a war.

    director) and Polly Davis (associate director) for “doing whatever it takes to restore peace in troubled regions, often accepting the risks without a fee.” The Rev. Ron Pierre Vignec Vignec founded the Salishan/Eastside Lutheran Mission in 1985. He was pivotal in revitalizing the Salishan neighborhood in east Tacoma, the largest federal housing project on the West Coast. Vignec’s work helped drop virtually every crime statistic in Salishan, an area once steeped in violence, drugs and prostitution

  • A year of achievement and a Decade of Change Dear Colleagues and Friends, It is a great joy for me to welcome each of you to University Fall Conference as we prepare to launch the 2010-2011 academic year, the 121st year in the life of…

    AND AWARDS Finally, the 2009-2010 academic year was also a year to remember in terms of institutional recognition and awards. More than once last year the world noticed that, way up here in the upper left hand corner of the nation, 1600 miles west of the Mississippi, and two mountain ranges apart from the vast majority of independent colleges and universities, one Pacific Lutheran University is doing really exceptional work. Last year at Opening Convocation the university received the Senator Paul

  • 9:55 a.m. | March 5 | Regency Room Click here to see a recording of Dr. Ara Norenzayan's talk! Who: Dr.

    Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity (Liveright 2019) The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen (Norton 2010) The Ethics of Identity (Princeton 2007) Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Norton 2007) In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (Oxford 1993) Mitri RahebFaith in the Age of Hijacked ReligionsCANCELLED DUE TO TRAVEL DISRUPTION Made possible by the generous sponsorship of Mountain View Lutheran Church, Edgewood, WA 6:30 p.m. | March 6 | Chris Knutzen Who: Rev