Sustainability teaches nasty course in Garbology

Nearly every school in the country today recycles, but students at Pacific Lutheran University have turned it into a science. Last week, five members of the student-led organization Sustainability held...

Annual Wang Center symposium will focus on catastrophe

The Wang Center at Pacific Lutheran University has held a symposium to better educate the community for the past five years on subjects relating to water usage and advances...

Understanding through humor and friendship: Interfaith Amigos promote religious pluralism

A rabbi, an imam and a pastor walk into Pacific Lutheran University. No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke. It was the beginning of a presentation by the...

Students deal with attendance policy and Seahawk parade

Unlike Seattle Public Schools, which excused absences for students who attended the Seahawk parade Feb. 5, Pacific Lutheran University made no exception to its attendance policy. The day before both...

PLU recognized for multicultural outreach

PLU isn’t as diverse as Director of Multicultural Recruitment, Melannie Cunningham, would like, but it's getting there. Because of Cunningham’s efforts to diversify PLU and to create a welcoming environment...

Professor researches PLU’s first president

Few know as much about PLU’s first president as Associate Professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian Studies Claudia Berguson. Berguson has studied Harstad for the last 4 years. She first wrote...

President Krise leaves office, enters classroom

President Thomas Krise plans to leave the president’s office and go to the classroom at least once a year. Krise is currently teaching English 213, Management Lessons from Literature, a...

Recent alum finds vocation in social work

By Alyssa Luttrell, Guest Writer A fear all seniors face as their final semester and commencement approach: what am I going to do after college? Some have a job previously...

Campus club to help students conquer dead week stress

By Kjersti Andreassen, News Writer Dead week — beginning this Monday — is the week before finals start. Many schools cancel classes to let students cram for exams, but at...