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professors (known as tutors). View the Oxford program “I think rowing is one of those sports where once you start you’re never really out of the rowing community,” Lindberg said. “I just love watching races and being in the races or participating in any way.” Upon returning to PLU, Lindberg spent the 2015-16 academic year as a coxswain — the person in charge of the boat — for the men’s club team. “One of the biggest things I learned was just taking risks,” she said. “I had no idea how I’d do on this

philanthropist and an upstanding community member, Kim checks all the “American” boxes. Except for one: actually being a legal citizen. Kim is one of the approximately 800,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients in the United States. DACA grants temporary visas to young people who arrived in the United States with their parents as undocumented immigrants. While Kim might not be an American legally, he is certainly a Lute. Kim graduated in 2015 with degrees in mathematical economics and

gaming culture, but it treats nerds as people as opposed to stereotypes. “We really work hard to create projects that you don’t have to feel guilty about laughing at,” he said of his production company, Zombie Orpheus Entertainment. “We’re not punching down.” That approach directly relates to Dobyns’ activism, which started during his time as a student at PLU. He was heavily involved with Harmony, an advocacy group for the LGBTQ community at the time. He said using media to bring people together is a

grabbed me other than journalism,” she said. So, after a stint with National Civilian Community Corps, a branch of AmeriCorps, and teaching kids garden art as part of an after-school program, Laumb decided to turn a quirky hobby into a fun new job. She traveled and performed with the Flynn Creek Circus, an animal-free circus, for three months over the summer. The circus showcases knife throwing, flying trapeze, hoop diving and more. Laumb said it’s a contemporary circus with French-influenced flair in

or domestic service programs. And this is just the next step for PLU and the Peace Corps. More than 260 Lutes have served in the Peace Corps alone, and even more have joined service programs such as AmeriCorps, Lutheran Volunteer Corps and Jesuit Volunteer Corps. PLU is one of three universities in Washington state to offer a Peace Corps Prep Certificate Program. “I think fits so well with the mission and PLU’s focus on care and creating a community of care for others,” said Katherine Wiley

interdisciplinary conversation and collegiality.” Griswold, now a graduate student at Penn State University studying industrial organizational psychology, was a junior when she joined the project and collected data using an online survey of her peers. It was part of statistics coursework for a class with Grahe. “I like working with other researchers on one document,” she said. “It takes a lot of interpersonal skills.” Griswold said the student-faculty research opportunity prepared her for the rigorous process

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Netherlands to create the tiles and other pieces. Atlantis Rising (Photos by John Froschauer, PLU) Several thousand copies sold during the game’s circulation, Ciscell said. It even sold internationally in countries such as France, Belgium and Canada. “There are copies of it all over the world,” he said. It’s no longer in circulation, but copies are available to purchase online, he added. Ciscell said board game companies are much like book publishers — they look for inventors, pay an advance for

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