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News focusing on Parkland and the greater Pierce County community.

Tacoma Officers Receive $500,000 to Leave Police Force

The City of Tacoma is giving $500,000 each to former Tacoma Police officers Matthew Collins, Christopher Burbank, and Timothy Rankine to leave the Tacoma Police Department, according to a...

House fire near PLU displaces community members, students

  https://youtu.be/2iP-d_r6zJ0 RHIANNON BERG News Editor bergau@plu.edu A house fire across the street from Pacific Lutheran University Wednesday night left a charred home, lost family photos, displaced students and unanswered questions. “I felt the...

Navigating PLU through disability

By Solen Aref, Gurjot Kang, Kiyomi Kishaba, Victoria Norman and Chloe Wilhelm Reporter, News Editor, Reporter, Arts & Culture Editor, and Opinion Editor Walking from one class in Morken to a...

Student art sale features Lutes’ work

BROOKE THAMES; Editor-In-Chief; thamesbe@plu.edu As spring semester winds down, students vigorously work to put the cap on their capstones. Senior Elizabeth “Liz” Perkins is no exception as she places the finishing touches...

Parkland Community Raises Money to Protect Buildings

One year ago in May of 2022, the Parkland community was shocked to find that the 115-year-old Parkland School building was to be demolished to make way for a...

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...

Undocumented students stay gold

RIZELLE ROSALES; News Writer; rosalera@plu.edu Editor’s note: Names in this story have been changed to respect the source’s anonymity. Andrea Molina Rojas came to the United States as an undocumented immigrant at three...

LASR and The Mast publish audio story detailing 2021 PLU vs. UPS football game

Brennan LaBrie Editor-In-Chief On November 6, 2021 the Pacific Lutheran University football team faced off against their rivals, the University of Puget Sound Loggers, at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup. This was...

New campaign asks PLU community to Listen

RHIANNON BERG; News Editor; bergau@plu.edu  This is the first article in the new Mast Media series “Exploring Diversity.” It aims to contribute to and report on campus conversations about diversity.  A new Pacific...