Diversity Debacle: New residential communities are not diversity
KIANA NORMAN-SLACK; Online Copy Editor; normanks@plu.edu
Starting next year, Pacific Lutheran University will have residential wings exclusively for marginalized groups in PLU residence halls. The few new ones that I...
Letter to the Editor: Student Life VP on repairing the campus climate
Dear Pacific Lutheran University Community,
Student Life educators often ask one another the question, “What keeps or wakes you up at night?” Often our responses focus on shared worries about...
So long, Salzano
MATTHEW SALZANO;Â Editor-in-Chief;Â salzano@plu.edu
This is my last issue as Editor-in-Chief of The Mast.
My time at Mast Media has given me great perspective and pride for this university and all its students,...
A day without women is insignificant
KELSEY LITTLETON; Staff Writer: littlekn@plu.edu
After the success of the Women’s March on Washington this January and the various other marches around the world, many are wondering what will come...
The Grammys SUCK
JEFF DUNN; LASR General Manager: dunnja@plu.edu
As a rule, I don’t watch the Grammys. Never mind that I don’t have cable; even if Comcast wasn’t the devil, I’d still find...
Numbers don’t count (for everyone)
RIZELLE ROSALES;Â Mast Magazine Assistant Editor; rosalera@plu.edu
It was a rainy morning in October 1789 when thousands of French women marched from the streets of Paris to Versailles protesting national starvation,...
DeVos’ incompetence will hurt millions of children
MADISON SHEWMAN;Â Staff Writer: shewmama@plu.edu
On the outside, my brother Logan looks like an average kid. What you would not know by looking at his bright smile is this: When he...
Letter to the Editor
Dear President Krise, Athletic Staff and Friends of PLU,
TI have recently learned of a movement within the PLU administration which revolves around the use of the term EMAL (Every...
LGBTQ staff letter to PLU
Dear Pacific Lutheran University Community,
As LGBTQ faculty and staff and their allies at PLU, we write to express our outrage at the rise in bigotry and hate speech in...