Student brings style to PLU
Jacob Greene
mast news intern
Perris Wright was initially recruited to PLU to play point guard for the basketball team. Wright, then a senior at Foss High School in Tacoma, decided that he would attend PLU, but not for sports. Despite Wright’s decision not to play, the sophomore has still found ways to make an impact on campus.
While most college students take jobs at restaurants or retail stores to afford the expensive college tuition, others work summer jobs such as construction to save up enough money. Perris Wright took a different approach, deciding to use his interest in fashion to make money. The result was a streetwear clothing line dubbed “Flawed 2 Perfection,” Wright’s own creation.
“Flawed 2 Perfection” was started in 2006 by Wright and childhood friend Umi Wagoner, currently attending Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles. The clothing line was originally called “Verseau,” which means “Aquarius” in French.
“Umi and I started the brand to be able to express our style through various t-shirt designs,” Wright said.
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Workers pour rice into bags to be loaded on to a truck for distribution in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Cyclone victims in Myanmar’s biggest city faced new challenges Wednesday as markets doubled prices of rice, charcoal and bottled water.
Myanmar toll may reach 100,000
Carly Petesch and Lily Hindy
Associated press writers
People swarmed the few open shops and fistfights broke out over food and water in Myanmar’s swamped Irrawaddy delta Wednesday as a U.S. diplomat warned that the death toll from a cyclone could top 100,000.
The minutes of a U.N. aid meeting obtained by The Associated Press, meanwhile, revealed the military junta’s visa restrictions were hampering international relief efforts.
Only a handful of U.N. aid workers had been let into the impoverished country, which the government has kept isolated for five decades to maintain its control. The U.S. and other countries rushed supplies to the region, but most of it was held outside Myanmar while awaiting the junta’s permission to deliver it.
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Faculty Assembly votes to revise General Education Program
April Reiter & Jessica Baumer
Editor in Chief and Mast News Reporter
Over 120 faculty members voted Friday, May 9 at a monthly faculty assembly meeting in Leraas Lecture Hall in the Rieke Science Center to adopt Plan B, one of the three proposed plans to revise the General Education Program. This vote culminated a four-year process of institutional and outside research to amend the GUR requirement structure at PLU.
The plan must now be approved by the Board of Regents before it can be implemented, according to the Faculty Handbook. Following approval, it will not come into effect until the 2009-2010 school year.
The meeting covered a few other agenda items before the time to vote was announced.
Faculty members were given the opportunity to discuss the plans before the actual vote, but no suggestions for an amendment were allowed. Plan B was mentioned briefly by one supportive faculty member who also remarked on the similarity of all of the plans.
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Edited Sunday May 11, 2008 at 7:23 PM PST by JKMP.
