“Vote or Dye” gets students engaged

BROOKE THAMES A&C Editor thamesbe@plu.edu With the 2016 Presidential election swiftly approaching, one Pacific Lutheran University organization is doing its best to get students politically charged. ASPLU hosted “Vote or Dye” Wednesday Sept....

Leaves are falling, bringing trees with them

LUCAS SCHAUMBERG News Writer schaumlc@plu.edu If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Who knows, but when a tree falls at...

Annual conference coincides with tragic anniversary

BEN COX News Writer coxbd@plu.edu The Lutheran Studies Conference helped the Pacific Lutheran University community learn more about another culture and religious belief. The annual conference was held last Thursday, September 24. Several...

Paleoanthropology: Alive & well at PLU

PARIS FRANKLIN Copy Editor franklpm@plu.edu Since Sept. 10, the internet has been abuzz with anthropologists discussing the discovery of a new species of homonid in a remote South African cave. The research was...
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Lutes purge cave of garbage

SAM ELLEFSON Guest Writer ellefssc@plu.edu President Krise and Pacific Lutheran University faculty can sleep soundly knowing that some of their students took sustainability to heart this past weekend. While spelunking in Ape Caves...

Does PLU have a hunk of Bern-ing love?

LIBBY POSTOVOIT News Writer postovlg@plu.edu “Look out, Hillary Clinton! Bernie Sanders is right behind you!” That’s what national polls should say. While Clinton’s approval among Democrats slipped in April from 48 percent to...

Campus thrift shop ready for comeback

DAVID MAIR News Editor mairdl@plu.edu Looking to pop some tags? Only $20 in your pocket? A new store on campus is just the place to go. SurPLUs makes a comeback this year as...

Homecoming: Anyone can be a princess

The homecoming dance is Cinderella story: you get dressed up, find a date and at the end of the night you go back to your normal life of school,...

Lutes prove power of peace

LIBBY POSTOVOIT News Writer postovlg@plu.edu Pacific Lutheran University’s 2015 Peace Scholars, juniors Ellie Lapp and Taylor Bozich had quite the summer. As part of the Peace Scholars Program, they went to Norway and...