My name’s Daniel Ahrendt and I’m a first year at PLU. Photography has been a serious hobby of mine for three years now. It’s dandy, like candy, but when I’m at the beach it’s a little sandy. I intend to major in Music/Comm. My favorite musician is Nick Cave. I like chocolate. And sea chanteys.

Deacon Barfield is just another boy with a sink full of dirty dishes.

Jenna Calhoun has learned to love the risks of drinking orange juice that has survived its expiration date and diving face first down uncertain snowy slopes. Thanks go to all who have pushed her from her comfortable habits.

Jason Comerford: I am currently a sophomore at Pacific Lutheran University. I first became interested in Photography at the age of 12, and have since spent much of my time practicing and studying photographic technique. I’m currently an Art Major, with an emphasis on Photography and Graphic Design.

Roxanne Cooke has a bad habit of accidentally channeling radio stations to play “Roxanne” by Sting any time she enters a building. Even in Australia.

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Aimee Eggink: I’m currently a senior, graduating this year with a BFA, emphases in painting and drawing. I work in a naturalistic style, focusing on landscape and figurative subject matter. I plan on going to graduate school and teaching art in the future.

Margaret Ellsworth has been a poet since the age of ten, when she discovered that writing was more fun than listening to teachers talk. (Any professors reading this should know that she usually pays attention these days… usually…) She thanks The Mark, friends, and family for listening.

Samantha Glover is a sophomore art student at PLU. She aspires to one day be a bag lady, living alone in a hut in a forest. She is the color red.

J.L. Gray would like to thank the friends and professors who shaped her experience here at PLU, but also her alter egos––a certain costumed crime-fighter in particular. I couldn’t have done it without you, Babs. So long, and thanks for all the fire alarms. (Okay, too solemn. YUB-YUB, COMMANDER!!)

Jacob Carl Harksen ate the plums and did not leave a note.

Kathryn Helbling likes the rain. That said, she is a Taoist, an Anime Geek, a Graphic Design major, and a lazy-bum freshman. She loves Robert Ripley, Alfred Hitchcock, the History Channel’s History of Sex, The Planet of the Apes Series, and The Silence of the Lambs. Hello, Clarice.

JP Kemmick is a senior at PLU graduating with a degree in English writing and a minor in French. (Birds) His future is undecided but he hopes to pursue a career in either writing or environmental activism. (The birds and I hope) He appreciates you taking the time to read his work. (Hope is all we can do)

Liz Knoff plays outside. Liz likes oboe. Liz tired. Liz hungry. Liz gotta go do her genetics homework.

Sean McPherson is currently a sophomore at PLU. He finds himself inspired by art, music (especially Tom Waits and Nick Drake), his close friends and family, nature, and foreign cultures. Photography is only a hobby at this point, but he hopes it will play a larger role at some point in his future.

Laura Mickelson is a senior majoring in English who uses photography for stress relief and a way of showing others a unique perspective of our big, beautiful planet. She is a self-proclaimed travelholic who enjoys eating kalamata olives and is overly obsessed with men in kilts. The end.

Hilde Moen is one of our international students. She grew up in Norway—the land of the Vikings—and came to PLU to learn more about life, culture and language, and nonetheless to pursue a fine arts degree.

Erika Nelson is a crime fighting ninja by day and a warrior princess pirate by night, sailing the seas pirating chocolate and fine clothing.Someday she will rule the wold and all the elephants will be genetically engineered to be purple. But honestly, I am another face in the crowd, there is nothing to write worth listening to… except for the words Callipygian and Amomoxia.

Jake K.M. Paikai is neither noun nor verb but interjection: Spark! He enjoys saying his middle name, queer readings of Beowulf, and obvious phallic symbols (hello George Washington Monument). He hates doing laundry. He wishes to thank China, Nathan, Christ, Anne, The Mark, Germany, Vaginas, Hawaii, Resultative Complements, and his Jewish Mother. There, Happy?

Carl Pierce: I’m a junior political science major from Spokane, WA. I can’t draw to save my life so I stick to photography. I enjoy music, frisbee, and spending time with people.

Bryanna Plog enjoys life, also bread and cheese. She wants a job where she can travel around the world, write, and take as many pictures as possible. If anyone knows how she can get this job, please let her know. Perhaps you, the reader, know someone high up at National Geographic?

J. Soule: I grew up in a small town, a little hole in Mt. Rainier called Eatonville. Having little to do, I entertained myself by drawing and vowed to one day shake off the dust of this one-horse town and take my art to the corners of the world! I have gotten as far as Parkland.

Sondra M. Tripp lives in color, dreams in stories, and speaks in Latin (or so she wishes). She loves snow and her future husband. Her clarinet makes her happy. Her reeds don’t.

Did you know when Geoffrey Waterman walks he doesn’t move his arms? You should watch. Ask him about his scones. They’re as big as his love for you.

Lindsey Webb is on a lifelong quest for her best truth, and she is pretty sure it can be found on facebook.

Abby Fagan
Sondra Tripp

Sadie Ayers
Nathan Bendickson
Karlin Bruegel
Patrick Carlisle
Tim Chalberg
Breanne Coats
Margaret Ellsworth
Rebekka Esbjornsen
Kevin Fortune
Jen Gray
Jacob Harksen
Nathan Himes
JP Kemmick
Jillian Kempe
Liz Knoff
Kristen LaBate
Jake K.M. Paikai
Stevie Pearce
Jeremy Soule
Stephanie Takase
Geoffrey Waterman

Solveig C. Robinson

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