Scan center exhibit celebrates native Scandinavian culture

By Una Tingvik Haave, Guest Writer The Pacific Lutheran University community had the chance to learn about the musical art of joik when Risten Anine Gaup, a Sami from Northern Norway,  performed traditional...

New solutions for Campus Safety escort

Students have been using he Campus Safety escort program not only as a way to travel safely, but also for convenience. Campus Safety Director Greg Premo and other members of...

Sex Positive with multiple partners: polyamory

Pacific Lutheran University’s Women’s Center and Diversity Center have been hosting an award-winning Sex Positive series focusing on spreading knowledge and understanding of sex and relationships. To start off...

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...