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packages back home for the holidays. While former classmates generally remember Parnell as a reserved student, Sandy Parnell remembers a young man who was a really nice guy. “I tease him because he seemed to be the big brother to a lot of the girls on campus, but I think that’s why I liked him a lot – he was kind and always treated people with respect,” she said. The two started dating their senior year. Sean Parnell earned his law degree and went into private practice. Sandy Parnell still works part

patient’s lives. To me it’s a beautiful marriage between practice and the health care needs of the community. When that happens, it’s magical.” Moss, the program’s nurse navigator with MultiCare, said this program might be one of the first of its kind in the nation. Not that the program, at first, didn’t have its detractors among doctors as well as students. Nursing student Megan Armstrong admits she was one of them. She was cynical and skeptical of how much good it would do. Another “to do” in a

practice. Then, on Feb. 4 at the PLU baseball field, Beatty was on the mound. He beat Concordia on that day, pitching two innings of shutout ball. Five days later in Arizona, he shut down Concordia (Texas), ranked No. 16 in Division III baseball, on five hits in eight innings. With two wins that week and an average of nearly 1.5 strikeouts per inning pitched in those two starts, Beatty earned Northwest Conference Pitcher of the Week recognition. “It has been absolutely incredible having Max back out

work interested me. I also wanted to study the Bible more, so I chose a second major in religion. My junior year, I went on the PLU exchange program to Chengdu and loved my time there, but really missed piano. When I came back to PLU, I still wasn’t able to play piano much because I was too busy with other classes. It was also at this time when … I decided to switch my religion major to a music major—it seemed like the perfect excuse to practice piano more! How do you hope to use both majors in

, Africans and African-Americans relations, and critical service-learning as a pedagogical practice in peace education.DR. ROBIN DiANGELORobin DiAngelo, Ph.D., is director of Equity for Sound Generations, Seattle/King County, and a consultant and trainer for over 20 years on issues of racial and social justice. Growing up poor led her to explore class oppression and how her experience differed from others in poverty because she is white. Her work on “white fragility,” a defensive response to real

. Responding to endorsement questionnaires and doing endorsement interviews was incredibly time consuming but was a great way to get to know organizations and their priorities. The forums were challenging but were a great way to get to know what some members of the community care about. And meeting people at their doors and asking what they care about took hours and hours and hours but was a great way to get to know the voters. Ultimately, I think running for office was the best practice for the job — but

says. Trepanning wasn’t designed to kill but to help those with headaches or head injuries by relieving pressure or pain. But the practice was also applied to “release evil spirits” or “a stone of madness” from those who were injured or mentally ill, which we would today understand perhaps more correctly as neurodivergent or intellectually disabled.  The modern revival version arrived in the form of lobotomy, a surgery that continued into the 1970s as a method of attempting to “fix” individuals

Success, Pat Roundy, and other faculty and staff across the campus, is student success and retention. I am pleased to report that fall to fall retention of our 2009 first year students currently stands at 84 percent, transfer students at 83 percent, a solid increase in both cases. Part of our success can be attributed to a new assessment tool, MAP Works, that is permitting more targeted and informed intersection with student needs, while the largest measure of success has resulted from the work that