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News focusing on Parkland and the greater Pierce County community.

SUNDAY FUNDAY: PLU Church Event Engages Community

BROOKE THAMES A&C Editor thamesbe@plu.edu As a university that seeks to exemplify inquiry, service, leadership and care, Pacific Lutheran University constantly pursues opportunities to impact the community. This weekend, PLU hosts PLU...

PLU President, Faculty respond to sale of KPLU

The news of KPLU’s sale to KUOW Thursday met mixed reactions from students and faculty at Pacific Lutheran University. In an email sent to several PLU faculty members, Professor of...

Voices of courage

RHIANNON BERG News Writer bergau@plu.edu Tears of courage filled the eyes of sympathetic audience members and five domestic violence survivors as they told their stories Oct. 30 at the University of...

Community Corner: 9 Floors of Tingelstad through 2 residents’ eyes

ELISE ANDERSON News writer anderser@plu.edu Through the window, Sam could see Mt. Rainier in the distance – just his daily reminder that he will someday climb it. The mountain is my motivation,...

TIES: An immersion experience in your back yard

For the first time, Pacific Lutheran University will offer students the chance to study away for a semester in our back yard. Tacoma Immersion Experience Semester (TIES) will give...

PLU Confess… or censor?

EDDIE MCCOVEN News Writer mccovee@plu.edu At private college institutions in the U.S., students do not have the freedom of speech that is assumed by all. According to the Pacific Lutheran University Freedom of...

Community Corner: Greetings from Hong

ELISE ANDERSON News Writer anderser@plu.edu This week’s Community Focus highlights the diverse residential life of Hong International Hall. Pacific Lutheran University’s campus provides a variety of residence halls to students; Hong, however,...
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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...

In black and gold, a new team assembles

  Jake Bilyeu, Guest Writer A new team has assembled to combat incidents on campus dealing with the degradation of specific groups of people. Aiming to entertain, five student athletes from Whitworth University...