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PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan Posted by: Marcom Web Team / February 28, 2023 February 28, 2023 By Zach PowersPLU Marketing and CommunicationsThe Pacific Lutheran University Department of Music and the Dick and Helen Weathermon Joyful Noise Endowment for Jazz Studies will host the PLU Weathermon Jazz Festival on Tuesday, March 21. The public is invited to the festival’s evening concert showcase featuring Aubrey Logan, the PLU Jazz Ensemble and PLU Jazz
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teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of rebellion, converting unbearable emotional pain into manageable physical pain. The Adlers analyze this troubling behavior, point to its effects on current and former users, and predict its future as a practice for self-discovery or a cry for help. Self-injury is a practice that spread dramatically in the late 1990s and early 2000s, largely due to the internet, where practitioners could find others engaged in the same behavior. Self-injury
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gathered together on Friday to celebrate 20 years of dedication and service by Loren and MaryAnn Anderson, and spring a big reveal on President Anderson. After Bruce Bjerke ’72 praised the Andersons for their long service to PLU – noting that during their tenure PLU has seen the creation of five endowed chairs and professorships, an endowment of $75 million and the recent completion of a capital campaign topping $120 million – he had a surprise in store. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuZH-Ddc3c
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March 20, 2014 Lutes Follow Their Hearts on Alternative Spring Break Trips James Olson ’14 peers into the Grand Canyon during a previous Alternative Spring Break trip. (Photo: courtesy of James Olson) By Shunying Wang ’15 As the cherry blossoms burst to new life each year, Lutes embark on local and global journeys to learn about themselves and the world around them. At PLU, these unique journeys are offered by the Alternative Spring Break program and focus on service near and far. For 2014
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nothing back: If something was wrong with a student performer’s shoes, posture, grammar, pacing or pitch—she called it. Blythe is recognized as one of the best in her generation. She has visited the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the San Francisco Opera and is performing in Semele with the Seattle Opera through March 7. Vocal Studies professor James L. Brown told PLU’s The Mast that Blythe “is an advocate for opera and a champion of the whole gambit of vocal music.” Fifty Lutes applied to perform
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advocate for issues she is passionate about.“Elana Meyers Taylor is an iconic athlete and a passionate champion of important causes, including access and resources for female athletes, concussion research and public education,” said PLU President Allan Belton. “We’re thrilled she will be joining us to celebrate PLU’s class of 2023.” Meyers Taylor is a four-time World Champion, eight-time World Championships medalist, three-time Winter Olympian and medalist (2010, 2014, 2018) and 2015 World Cup champion
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his keynote presentation, titled “Facing Uncomfortable Truths,” Dr. Richard Lapchick, renowned human rights activist and pioneer for racial equality, will delve into his lived experience as a social justice advocate within sport settings. Lapchick will reflect on the past and shed light on the future of social justice work. He will impart insights on how students and the community can actively contribute to the ongoing fight for equity, inclusion, and improved access to sports. Lapchick, widely
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Printing Madame DupinLast fall, Students in French 401, “Women and Print in Early Modern France,” got to try their hand at something really new (or old?!): letterpress printing. The occasion was momentous. They were putting into print, for the very first time, the manuscript words of Madame Dupin. Dupin is best known as the châtelaine of the beautiful castle of Chenonceau in the Loire valley, and for saving this historic site from destruction during the French revolution by allowing
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A Semester in OxfordMédecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Oxfam, British Parliament, world class professors, highly focused seminars, and individual tutorials. These are just a few of the opportunities for students participating in the International Honors (IHON)-Oxford Program on social justice. The 2014 inaugural year of the program was better than we could have imagined. Among other things, students learned that their PLU education prepares them to engage with the very best of
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NotificationsThroughout August Fall Semester 2024September 3 - December 13 New International Students Check InAugust 27 All Residence Halls Open (Check your PLU email for move-in times for incoming and continuing students)Friday, August 30 Lute Welcome: New Student Orientation Friday, August 30 - Monday, September 2 Labor Day (offices closed)Monday, September 2 Opening Convocation (10:00am)Tuesday, September 3 Classes Begin (11:50am)Tuesday, September 3 Mid-Semester Break (No Classes - Offices Open)Friday, October 18
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