Wanderlust: Food Adventures

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} A common thought when people imagine Italy is food. Pasta, pizza and, of course, tiramisu occupied my mind on the plane...

Professor Plays: Marnie Ritchie, Professor of Communication

Fulton Bryant-Anderson  Staff Reporter Meet Assistant Professor of Communication, Professor Marnie Ritchie. Professor Ritchie teaches rhetorical studies, critical/cultural studies and oversees the debate team.  I caught up with Professor Ritchie and asked...

PLU hosts the ‘Grammys’

JULIA GROSVENOR Satirist grosvejm@plu.edu It is a little known fact that long before the Grammy Awards became televised in the 1950s, Pacific Lutheran University created an award of the same name, in...

Moving monuments

Carly Stauffer; Guest Writer; stauffice@plu.edu Anyone with a calibrated moral compass recognizes August’s Charlottesville tragedy as corrupt and heartbreaking. The bloody clash of white supremacists rallying against the removal of a statue...

Wanderlust: The Land Down Under is full of Surprises

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} By Madelyn Bernard, Guest Columnist Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} When I first set out on my...

A Feminine Critique: Don’t let false physiques keep you off the beach

By Ruthie Kovanen, Columnist It’s getting to be that time of year when parkas and rain boots are put away and exchanged for swimsuits and flip flops. Similarly, it’s about that...

A semester of sales: A senior summary

Chloe Choi Business & Ads Manager Thank you to The Mast staff for supporting and helping me these past few months. The experience has been eye opening, learning about the paper...

Letter From the Editor: Basics Unite

By: Allie Reynolds, General Manager of Mast TV A lot of girls get offended when they’re called basic. It’s just another one of the hundreds of negative labels society uses...

Realize the real cost of K-Cups

Haleigh Missildine, Guest Writer K-Cups are small, single-serve coffee pods that people can use in their Keurig coffee makers. Keurig also makes them for tea and hot chocolate for those...