Trans Students’ Deadnaming Leads to Questions of Safety and Respect from Administration

PJ Sills Staff Reporter Here at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), there are a great deal of students who do not identify as cis-het (identify with sex assigned at birth and/or heterosexual)....

Students’ Reactions to the Tent’s Removal are a Mixed Bag

Natalie Elskamp Staff Reporter This article is intended to be satirical. Names and quotes have been fabricated and do not represent actual people. The tent above Red Square was removed mere weeks...

Self Love is Not Selfish

Mia Ruhoff Staff Reporter Self love is not selfish. It is easy to dismiss this phrase as just an idyllic caption found only on some cat poster or Pinterest quote collection,...

Why Unions are Actually a Good Thing

Kendan Bendt Staff Reporter Unions are a hot topic right now in the United States. Whether you have heard about railroad workers threatening to strike, wondered why Amazon workers have to...

Fulton’s Music Room September 2022

Fulton Bryant-Anderson Staff Reporter Fulton Bryant-Anderson is the General Manager of Pacific Lutheran University’s Lute Air Student Radio (LASR). At the Mast, he writes Fulton’s Music Room, Professor Plays and interviews...

LASR Concert in the Cave Review

Kaely Harding Staff Reporter On Sep. 8, students came together to support PLU’s student-run radio station, LASR in hosting the first concert in The Cave of the school year. This lively...

Professor Plays: Sergia Hay, Professor in Philosophy

Fulton Bryant-Anderson Staff Reporter Meet Associate Professor of Philosophy, Sergia Hay. Hay teaches ethics, environmental philosophy and the history of philosophy. I recently caught up with her and asked her what...

Remembering a National Treasure: John Denver

Natalie Elskamp Staff reporter Wednesday, Oct. 12 marks twenty-five years since the beloved American singer and songwriter Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., commonly known as John Denver, “left on a jet plane”...

Top New Albums of September 2022

Annika Nelson Staff reporter Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9 Heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne released his thirteenth studio album, Patient Number 9, on Sep. 13, 2022. This album comes after the...