Tickets sold out for Pacific University's 50th annual Lu`au after only five days, which will be held on campus Saturday, April 10. Pacific's Hawai`i Club, N? Haum?na O Hawai`i has been preparing and practicing for this event since the end of last year's lu`au.
Thursday, March 4 marked a new era in Pacific history with the inauguration of our 17th president, Dr. Lesley Hallick. Respects were paid and congratulatory wishes were made. Now comes the next step; getting to the dirty work. During her first year as Pacific's president, Hallick has tried to establish a list of university priorities through her series of open forums.
This spring, the Pacific University Speech Team will be traveling overseas to Berlin, Germany for the International Forensic Association tournament. The IFA tournament is an invitational only tournament that involves a handful of American schools across the nation which are asked to compete.
At the annual Oregon Women in Higher Education conference, OWHE bestowed individual honors to two Pacific University professors. Martha Rampton, a history professor and the director of the Center for Gender Equity at Pacific, received the She Flies with Her Own Wings Service Award.
It was no surprise that the tickets for Na Haumana O Hawaii's 50th annual Pacific University Lu'au sold out. The surprise was that they sold out within the first five days of going on sale. Tickets for the event have been selling out for years, but usually within the last two to three weeks before the event, which always takes place the second weekend in April.
Students living on campus will not be able to retain their rooms next year, according to the Residence Housing Association's Jean Flory and Lisa Geraci. This means that all students that want to live on campus next year must enter into the housing lottery.
Two Pacific University professors have turned their enthusiasm for college football into a research project. Mathematics professor Chad Williams and computer science professor Mike Rowell teamed up this summer to take the first steps of creating a software program designed to accurately rank National Collegiate Athletics Association division one college football teams and predict the outcome of their games.
After 25 years of history, Pacific University's Tom McCall Forum is officially over. However, not willing to allow the spirit of the forum to die, faculty and administrators have set their sight on a new goal: the Tom McCall Center. "The President announced that there's going to be a Tom McCall Center, as a part of her Vision 2020 program," said politics and government professor James Moore, referring to university president Lesley Hallick's inauguration speech on Thursday, March 4.
