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...

Social protest and change at the Oscars

ERIN BAKER Guest Writer bakeree@plu.edu On Feb. 28, the one and only Leonardo DiCaprio snatched a prestigious Oscar Statuette. For many people, including myself, this event was a long time coming. I heard about...

Progressive or petrifying?

RACHEL DIXON Opinion Writer dixonrp@plu.edu The debate over transgender people’s rights to use the bathrooms of the gender that they identify with is an old one. Yet on February 15, 2016, there was...

Doesn’t Get Better than This

CARLY STAUFFER Opinion Writer stauffce@plu.edu I recently read an opinion editorial by Leif Wenar in the New York Times entitled “Is Humanity Getting Better?” The article took me on a stroll through the...

Need for change:

ANNIKEN GROENENG Guest Writer gronenaa@plu.edu Ag-gag laws first saw the light in the 1990s when state legislators made it a crime to take pictures or shoot videos in farms and slaughterhouses without the...