by katelyn rose staff writer In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the village of Katwatwa has a vision to build a school. Katwatwa has the land and the laborers. All it needs are materials. PLNU wants to help. For the season of Lent, the 40 Days for Katwatwa committee, headed by Brian Becker, director of [...]
by rebecca rossiter staff writer The deadline is coming up for students to turn in the form that dictates the amount of student financial aid available to them: the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The deadline for the FAFSA is March 2, and the application is free and only takes about half an hour [...]
by kyle lundberg staff writer War is an immoral failure of foreign policy, a group of veterans told PLNU students Wednesday. “I encourage you to question with deep sincerity what you’re being told by the government, your peers and the media about war,” Vietnam War veteran Gerald Bunch told the almost exclusively female audience at [...]
by tory ordoña staff writer Last year, the Green Fund created a garden by Nease Hall and had a solar water heater installed on the roof. Applications for more Green Fund projects are due by Feb. 24. Created in 2009, the Green Fund is a student organization with an advisory board of 10 members from [...]
by callie radke staff writer With room draws just around the corner (the event will take place at the end of March to early April), awkward roommate discussions and frantic searches for the fifth apartment member are abounding. This year’s room-draw process looks a little different than it has in years past. To help alleviate [...]
by katie callahan staff writer On Tuesday night, teachers from the San Diego area met for a monthly event hosted by PLNU called “Perspectives on Science.” Anca Segall, a professor and the chair of biology at San Diego State University, led the seminar with her presentation of “Site-Specific DNA Recombination in Nature, Biotechnology and Medicine.” [...]
by kate bernath staff writer PLNU’s Martial Arts Club offered a self-defense class for beginners Wednesday evening in the Rec Room. About 20 people attended the event. Some said they were lured in by the idea of seeing their math professor Tom Blamey perform martial arts, while others said they felt the need to be [...]
by callie radke staff writer From the end of January until March 31, PLNU students will be joining more than 600 other schools, including the University of Arizona, Stanford University, Harvard University, Wheaton College and Duke University, in an effort to decrease trash and increase recycling by measuring how much waste and recycling is produced [...]
by brittany naylor staff writer The Great Escapes program took 23 PLNU students on its first-ever trip to El Cajon Mountain on Jan. 28. On this trip, dubbed “The Gauntlet,” students hiked nine miles and rappelled 600 feet into sheer nothingness—a challenge to what they said they believed possible. Before this year, Great Escapes did [...]
by katie callahan staff writer The Associated Student Body has created a new position, Coordinator of Spirit, to represent ASB in collaborating with the athletic department this semester. According to the job description, this new role should “maintain and enhance the school spirit of PLNU.” The Coordinator of Spirit will promote athletic events, develop athletic [...]
