Pacific Lutheran University News

It's not his 6-foot-7 frame that earns him this distinction. Rather, it's his role in stamping out smallpox and helping to set a global agenda for tackling the world's worst health problem.

Sidney Rittenberg has been called Chairman Mao's favorite American. The 90-year-old Fox Island resident spent 34 years in China, sometimes at Mao's side and at other times in prison.

Coaches with college experience see a need for unbiased and neutral football skills clinic for youth football players on the peninsula.

Lectionary blog for Pentecost Sunday, May 27, 2012 Texts: Ezekiel 37:1-14, Acts 2:1-21, and John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 Susan Briehl, Dan Erlander and I were the campus pastors at Pacific Lutheran University in the early 1990s.

Pierce County students submitted 1,233 poems, short stories, drawings and photographs in the "Our Own Expressions" contest sponsored by the Pierce County Libraries.

The Norse were defeated by Pacific Lutheran University 8-0 in five innings. The Lutes scored four runs in the third and fifth innings.

It's May.A That means colleges throughout the Seattle area are preparing to celebrate and bid farewell to the Class of 2012.A Part of that celebration includes the choice of a commencement speaker whose words will seek to inspire the graduates as they step out into the world.A Here's a little bit about those will be providing this commencement ... (more)

The boundary between satire and reality can blur when it comes to the behavior of despots, particularly in East Asia.

By Michael C. Moore mmoore@kitsapsun.com 360-792-9218 To say that the documentary "The Revolutionary" was a long time in the making is an understatement.

The newscast is winding down, but not before South Kitsap High School senior Marcos Sagrero issues a challenge to his fellow anchors.

Just up the freeway from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, a new piece of music is premiering Tuesday: a mammoth choral and symphonic meditation on the human results of war.

Wow, does University Place have some talented teens or what? A trio of themA Matt Patterson, Lexy Hobson and Penny Mae Rhines all were winners in the Pierce County Library System's Teen Writing & Art Contest - Our Own Expressions Matt took first place for the Grades 7-8 division in the short story category Lexy took first place for the Grades 9-10 ... (more)

If you're still looking for a college to attend in the Fall, you're in luck.A This week, NACAC published its annual Space Availability Survey Results .A This list includes the names of colleges all over the country that are still accepting students.

In 1898, Pacific Lutheran University was in such dire financial straits that its first president Bjug Harstad headed off to Alaska for a year and a half hoping to find enough gold to bail out the school.