Letter to the Editor: on the budget

Dear Editor, I recently read the April 8th article, “PLU’s budget: some hard facts, some soft ones” with a certain amount of bewilderment. While I applaud the effort to understand...

Deserted life on campus: Q&A

PARIS MORWOOD FRANKLIN Opinion Editor franklpm@plu.edu Cate Rush is a first-year Nursing student. She works for Campus Safety and is a coxswain for the Rowing Team. She stayed on-campus in order to...

Let’s talk about sex! What is it really like to have lunch with an...

The weekly, anonymous “Let’s talk about sex” series will look into a different topic about sex and sexuality in an effort to raise awareness, bring education and be a...

Problems with a bipartisan system

LUCAS SCHAUMBERG Guest Writer schaum@plu.edu As a far-left college student on a liberal arts campus (a rarity, I know) I often find myself tired of the entrenched neo-liberalism and hypocrisy in the...

Letter from the Editor

Hello, Lutes! My name is Paris, and I am the new Opinion Editor for the rest of spring term. A little bit about me: I am a first year Anthropology...

Letter to the Editor: On finding a new Pastor

Editor: Thanks to Maddie Bernard for her article, “The Search for the PLU Pastor”, and Eddie McCoven for his opinion piece, “Calling a new pastor.” (Mast Magazine, February 26, 2016)....

Letter to the Editor: in response to ‘Doesn’t get better than this’

Dear Editor, Recently I visited KPLU to do an interview about my brother, humanitarian Bob Dickerson.   It was there I found the current copy of The Mast. I read with...

K-12 education bill impact

HELEN SMITH Opinion Writer smithhe@plu.edu The governor of Washington, Jay Inslee, used his 2016 leap day to sign a new K-12 education bill into law. The new bill is meant to answer the...