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Location, Location

My WorldHailing from Kailua, Hawaii, Gerald Shaddock had a hard time adjusting to Seattle. The rice wasn’t sticky enough, people didn’t understand pidgin, and he was one of the only ones wearing shorts. But at SPU, he found Ohana O Hawaii, a group of students inter-ested in the Hawaiian culture. “I could be myself and

speak pidgin. I could identify with the people there,” he says. Now in his junior year, Gerald is a leader in his residence hall, an educational ministry major, and a member of Men’s Choir. “Once I found the right people, I’ve felt at home,” he says.

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Seattle’s always been on the cutting edge — even in 1914 when the Smith Tower was built. The city was barely on the map at the time, but the 42-story tower was known as one of the tallest office buildings in the world. Now it’s the place where Desiree Valdovinos works in a physical therapy office. Countless opportunities exist for SPU students to make use of Seattle’s innovative resources. If you’re going to learn from a city, wouldn’t you want it to be one that’s known for changing the world?

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Big Ideas

Something smells good! Could that be SPU’s own community kitchen? Also, Melissa Steffan tells what it’s like to write for The Washington Post. And meet faculty member Carlene Brown in our “Prof Quiz”!

Real Life

Just this year, Hot Bodies in Motion released their first album, wrote a song for a major motion picture, and attended a Hollywood premiere. Next, follow Falcon goalie Liviu Bird on his typical SPU day.

Heart & Soul

Hubble scientist Jennifer Wiseman came to campus and explained how scientific discoveries draw her into worship. Plus, learn how a flood did the same thing for a team of SPU students.

SPU: Nuts & Bolts

This is where you’ll find all the nitty-gritty details, such as majors, deadlines, financial aid, and more. Plus Jerrell Davis reveals which scholar-ships help him pay for school.

Inquiring Minds

Meet Jubilee Brenneman. Hailing from Tigard, Oregon, she’s knowledge-able in the arts of fencing, babysit-ting, and kayaking. Plus she thought-fully answers your questions about what it’s like to be an SPU student.

Urban Adventure

Downtown Seattle is where famous companies such as Eddie Bauer, Nordstrom, and Starbucks got their start. It’s also a favorite SPU hangout and home to Seattle’s best-known sites.

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Hometown: Tigard, Oregon

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Hobbies: Hiking/backpacking, swimming, reading, babysit-ting, horseback riding, piano, kayaking, fencing (I’m in the PE class!)

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A city of world-changers

We were selecting apples in the produce section when my husband, Darren, looked up and saw a bearded man with a “Kindle Fire” hoodie. As a friendly Canadian, Darren never hesitates to talk to strangers. “Hey, I’ve been thinking of getting one of those. Do you have one?” The man looked at Darren, said nothing, then walked away. But the woman who was with him piped up and said, “Actually, he built it.” It reminded me of our friends who are developers for Microsoft Windows, and the strange feeling of going to a Starbucks in Europe and thinking, ‘This started in my city.’ Things happen in Seattle that affect the world. Growing up here, I didn’t realize how unique that is for a city of 600,000 people. But about half of SPU’s students come from different states, and talking to them gives me perspective. This is a unique place to be a student. Your music professor may play trumpet for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Your biochemistry class may make proteins for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Cen-ter. Or you might find an internship with The Seattle Times or the Seattle Seahawks. This is a city of possibilities, and it's a place where change begins. Just ask some-one like Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. His office is a couple of minutes from campus.

We ask students to answer your questions because — let’s face it — they know best what it’s like to be a student at Seattle Pacific University.

Inquiring Minds want to know …

So what do you want to know? Really. Anything.

How do SPU students demonstrate school spirit?

— JENNA HARMON, VENTURA, CA

We have some pretty crazy pep rallies in Gwinn before big games; there are great prizes given out, loud music, and tons of energy! Often students show up with painted faces, and sporting their awesome SPU gear; sometimes we fill the bleachers wearing only white, creating a whiteout. One thing you can count on during a basketball game, without fail, is the pres-ence of Ashton’s own Orangemen. These guys know how to get a crowd excited, and have jokingly been called the cheer-leaders of SPU. Whatever the event, it’s a lot of fun to join in all the chants for our lively school.

What role does faith play in the classroom?

— KELSEY VAUGHN, MEADOW VISTA, CA

A lot of my classes, especially the core cur-riculum, present material from different faiths. I love the way professors teach from a Christian perspective, but allow students to think for themselves rather than telling them what to believe.

How’s the food at SPU? — MALIA BOULLION, MILILANI, HI

Gwinn Commons was one of my favorite places to hang out last year; I sometimes went in to get meals or snacks as many as four times a day. It was really enjoyable to

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We’re here to help. We’ve got SPU students who will tell it like it is. Submit any thoughts, concerns, or questions to etc@spu.edu.

share great company while eating great food. Recently, Gwinn even ranked number nine for best college eats in the country by the Daily Beast. Although I don’t frequent Gwinn as much this year, I feel blessed to have a solid cafeteria compared to other universities.

What would be a good way for me to start meeting new people now?

— DAVID WANG, HONOLULU, HI

Hawaii is pretty far away, which makes it more difficult, but there are still some easy ways to get in touch! Before coming to school, I joined the Facebook group for my freshman class and for my floor. That was a great way to start conversations, meet the people I was going to live/hang out with, and ask lots of questions. Also, you’ll probably be surprised what a small world it is. … I ended up running into several future SPUers before the year started!

Is there respect for ROTC?— BRAD POIRIER, MOXEE, WA

Freshman year I had University Seminar (USEM) with some students in the ROTC program, and still know a few; they are just as much a part of the school and campus life as everyone else. Some are even involved in school sports like cross country and others hold campus jobs.

Do you have questions about university life?

How do you go about landing a scholarship?

— TOREY PAIGE, ST. LOUIS, MO

I received an academic scholarship from SPU, as well as a few others. For instance, the Fine and Performing Arts Scholarship was just an audition away. Other outside scholarships can be found through vari-ous search engines advertised on the SPU website. From there it just takes time, effort, and lots of essay writing.

How well do you know your professors?— JACKIE TYLER, PHOENIX, AZ

I got to know several of my professors freshman year, especially my USEM prof. We went on a few field trips and excur-sions as a class, even meeting his wife and granddaughter. He is my faculty advisor, and always stops to chat when I see him on campus. A lot of classes are small enough that after a few class periods professors know you by name! Just the other day I happened to see two profs from last year who still remembered me and said hello.

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Location, LocationSeattle Pacific University is in a city, and professors know how to use it. That’s why you’ll hear of art classes going on exclusive, behind-the-scenes tours of the Seattle Art Museum. Music students play on stage at Seattle’s world-class Benaroya Hall. And biology classes have sea labs set up in the Puget Sound. While pretty much every area of study at SPU uses the city or region in some way, we decided to zoom in on a few. We want to show that while Seattle will give you things to do in your downtime, it will also enhance your learning opportunities. (No wonder it’s considered one of the nation’s smartest cities.)  

Performing Arts Technical Director Jerry Collum helps students build the set for the winter production of Much Ado About Nothing. He has worked in several theatres in Seattle and knows most of the technical production staff in the city.

How Seattle Helps Students Learn

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Ready for a Big Break It’s not easy for Joseph Swartz to find a sound-board opera-tor to cover him for a show. He’s a Seattle sound designer who works five to six nights a week in local theatres. So he was thrilled to find Michael Simon ’11, whom he met while working on several shows at Seattle Pacific University. SPU’s theatre program pulls in Seattle professionals to work the shows alongside students. “It’s a lot different than working in the big professional venues because the kids at SPU are a lot more enthusiastic,” Swartz says. “It reminds me of when I started out 20 years ago.” Professional actors, playwrights, directors, and others also come to campus for theatre forums. According to Jerry Collum, the performing arts technical director at Seattle Pacific, most of the speakers tell stories about how doing production work helped them get into acting, writing, or directing. “We say, ‘learn how to hang a light, and you might find yourself getting that theatre job you want eventually,’” he says. “The speakers that come reinforce that.” SPU also shares equipment and resources with other the-atres. In 2007, the University purchased a new automation system that controls a revolving piece in the stage floor for a show. Kate Jordan ’08 was in charge of working with it, and Collum connected her with the technical directors at Village Theatre and the Seattle Repertory Theatre, who both worked with the same system. “I got a lot of exposure to people who are important in technical theatre,” Kate says. Those connections helped her to get a technical produc-tion internship at the Seattle Rep, which led to her current job as the lead stage hand at the Seattle Children’s Theatre. “When professionals see the ability of our students tech-nically, they get hired,” Theatre Professor Don Yanik says.

“Our students will do what they’re asked to do. I’ve heard people say, ‘I don’t sweep floors. I’m an actress.’ We teach our students that they’re just a piece in the whole process here. You’re not the star. We don’t have a star system.” Collum adds that humility and commitment are two values that are taught in the theatre tech program. “I’ve defi-nitely heard back from my colleagues that they appreciated that and it makes the students hirable,” he says. Both Yanik and Collum have considerable ties to Seattle’s professional theatre community, and students like Michael Simon say that those connections are invaluable. “I don’t think I’d have the same opportunities or connections if I had gone to the University of Washington. Theatre is all about networking, and SPU knows this.”

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Network CityWhile an impressive resume is nice, it’s probably not your main ticket for getting your first job after college. According to Karen Altus, a senior career counselor at Seattle Pacific University, “The reality is that people hire because of some-body that knows somebody.” Luckily for SPU students, Seattle is loaded with oppor-tunities to meet professionals. Just talk to junior transfer student Desiree Valdovinos. Desiree is from a small town, where she took dance since she was six. Whenever anyone sprained their ankle or got a stress fracture, Desiree would

be the first person to help. “I like being able to tell someone what to do: to ice it, to elevate it, to get ibuprofen — just little things that are so common.” When Desiree took a sports medicine class in high school, she knew that she wanted to be a sports or dance doctor. She’s currently majoring in physiol-

ogy at SPU, and has a work study job at Pioneer Sports and Physical Therapy in downtown Seattle. Her faculty advisor plans to introduce her to a doctor that works with the Seattle Mariners, and Dave Leffman, the physical therapist she works for, also has connected her to sports medicine doctors in Seattle. “Seattle is on a national average one of the better medical communities,” he says. “It has a medical school and some fantastic research facilities, and that gener-ates better practitioners and influences the overall medical culture.” Kristin Hunt, employer relations and technology manager at SPU’s Center for Career and Calling, says there isn’t a field she can think of where Seattle lacks resources.

“Whatever a student wants to do when they graduate, they can probably find a relevant internship in Seattle,” she says. While Desiree doesn’t plan to become a physical therapist, she’s enjoyed working with patients, who include judges, doctors, and someone who works at Pixar. “I don’t just get a taste of physical therapy,” she says. “My job brings more connections and I’m able to network more.”

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talk about things like the achieve-ment gap in the public schools. The project gets them to see that with their own eyes,” he says. He has a rotating list of neighbor-hoods that he chooses from, all of which have elements of density, diversity, and disparity. “Seattle is not a rough city,” Leong says. “If we were in Detroit, there’d be a number of neighborhoods that I’d want to send students to, but couldn’t. I don’t ever worry that anything will happen here.” The groups profile and interview people from a religious organization and a secular organization to help get a theo-logical perspective of the neighborhood. The group chose Rainier Beach Presbyterian Church and Saars Marketplace. After five trips to the neighborhood, it seems like students are getting those new lenses. “Before going there it was easy to listen to what people from the outside were say-ing about Rainier Beach,” Kristi says. “But after talking to locals, I don’t think we give Rainier Beach enough credit.”

Renewed VisionWhen the Rainier Beach neighborhood shows up in a Seattle Times headline, it’s often not flattering. And after looking at statistics on the neighborhood for a few weeks, junior Kristi Holley was nervous to go to the Saar’s Market Place near Rainier and Henderson streets to interview locals. “I thought every other person would have a knife in their pocket,” she says. But once she started talking to people those fears went away. She met Jason Lu, who went to work making buoys at 6 a.m., and then went to the nail salon that he ran with his girlfriend in the afternoon. “All I know is work,” he said, and then added that he attended night school as well. Then she talked to Frank Taylor, a barber shop owner whose son graduated from SPU five years before. “After talking to them, I forgot that I was in Rainier Beach,” she says. “It didn’t seem like an unsafe place.” The night of interviewing was part of a class project for her Intro to Global and Urban Ministry class. David Leong, assistant professor of missiology, says the goal of the project is to give students a new set of lenses. “In my class we may

More than 60 languages are spoken in Rainier Beach.

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A group of students from the Intro to Global and Urban Ministry class went to Saars Market Place to interview Rainier Beach residents.

Left to right: Junior Kristi Holley, junior Megan Snyder, and freshman Jackson Smith stand at a bus stop in Rainier Beach.

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Spending the night at the Blakely Island Field Sta-tion (BIFS) is a little like stumbling onto an Ewok village. Sleep comes in an earthy structure in dense forest to the sounds of frogs, owls, and a gurgling stream. “It’s magical in the mornings,” says Star Wars fan and premed student Jordan Vaughan. The native of Kalispell, Montana, has studied ecology, plant biology, and environ-mental physiology on the island. “Watching the sun rise and steam dance on the lake make learning extremely enjoyable.” While Seattle Pacific University enjoys an entire metrop-olis for its extended “classroom,” just 70 miles to the north it owns a 967-acre nature laboratory on mostly undeveloped Blakely Island. The isolated location draws scores of SPU students on weekends and in summer for up-close encoun-ters with trees, freshwater lakes, tide pools, and wildlife such as kingfishers and river otters. “You can learn about nature from books,” says Associ-ate Professor of Biology Eric Long, “but at some point, you really should get your hands dirty.” Jordan, who used his BIFS credentials this summer when applying to medical schools, can’t get enough of Blakely. “There’s an indoor lab, but much of the classwork takes place out in the field. It’s sort of like summer camp. In our free time, we canoe and hike. The food’s fantastic and the staff are good people!”

BY CLINT KELLY | PHOTOS BY MIKE SIEGEL

An Academic GetawaySPU may be located in a city, but it also has its own field station on a secluded island

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class of biology majors, some of whom are specializing in ecology, others in pre-med.

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SPU may be located in a city, but it also has its own field station on a secluded island“For one study session at Blakely, we investigated human circa-dian rhythms. I awoke at 3 a.m. to check my roommate’s blood pressure for the experiment and discovered that he had punched out a double-paned window in his sleep and cut his arm. That was a weird night.”

— Jordan Vaughan

“I picked up a garter snake only to have it regurgitate a frog that hit the ground and hopped away.”

— Justin Borcherding

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Edible Education

Butternut squash roasts in the oven. The scent of carrot cake baking and onions simmering intensifies. Laughter, conversations, and questions about how to properly toast pumpkin seeds fill the kitchen. This isn’t your grandmother’s kitchen, though: It’s SPU’s Food Lab and Community Kitchen. The Food Lab is located in the basement level of Peterson Hall, which houses the Family and Consumer Sciences Department. That’s where the dietetics, food and nutrition, and nutrition in sports and exercise majors are grouped. The lab received a major makeover in 2010, and is now equipped with six cooking stations, complete with brand-new stove tops, ovens, and prep areas. The remodel inspired Associate Professor of Food and Nutrition Daniela Geleva to start a community kitchen. It provides affordable food; meal-planning skills; education on eating locally, seasonally, and nutritiously; and a chance to cook and share a meal with others. She is assisted by food and nutritional science majors who select the recipes and ingredients, analyze their nutrient content, and lead participants in the meal preparation. Students like senior Megan Lukens know the importance of shared meals. “I grew up in a family where we all made dinner together; it was a joint effort. I loved that. And to actually sit down and share a meal together enables you to invest in others and build relationships.”

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Senior Heidi Laabs-Johnson, who coordinates the community kitchen events alongside Geleva, wants to become a registered dieti-cian, and is hoping to work with pregnant women, and in sports nu-trition after she graduates. She also has a passion for farm-to-school programs and urban farming. “Lots of the recipes we use depend on the season and what’s available,” she says of the kitchen. Hence the copious amount of winter squash grown by local farm-ers at this particular event. Geleva demonstrates how to properly cut a squash — butternut, to be exact — and Heidi gives a quick lesson on safety tips in the kitchen before everyone goes to work on the various dishes. Tonight’s menu includes a hummus-like white bean dip, roasted acorn squash stuffed with quinoa, butternut squash, and cranberries, and an easy-to-make and healthy carrot cake. Once everything is prepared, the participants push tables and chairs together to make one long, skinny, banquet table that seats more than 20; everyone oohs and ahs over the beautiful dishes that were collectively created, and begins to dig in — and visit. An older woman named Dodie talks about her favorite screwball comedies of the 1940s. A group of Ethiopian and Somalian women chat quietly over their meals. “It’s indescribable to watch not only the food, but also the people, come together, and be transformed from individual parts to one community,” Heidi says. But the horn-of-plenty doesn’t stop there: Participants also get to take home Thai-style carrot and coconut milk soup, cheesy pasta with roasted butternut squash, and rice pilaf with roasted vegetables. It’s impossible to leave the community kitchen hungry.

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Directions:Combine the cucumber, fennel, red onion, banana peppers, cilantro, honey,lemon juice, cayenne pepper, salt, and pepper in a bowl. Allow mixture to sit in the refrigerator for 20 minutes before serving. Slice the avocado length-wise and run under cold water (to slow down browning), then pit and dice. Toss with the other ingredients just before serving.

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PHOTO BY JOHN KEATLEY

At Seattle Pacific University, we have 205 full-time faculty members who are experts in their respective fields. Each issue, we’ll introduce you to one and maybe you’ll learn some-thing new — we always do.

Prof QuizMEET THE WOMAN WHO BROUGHT THE FIRST UNDER-GRADUATE MUSIC THERAPY PROGRAM TO WASH-INGTON STATE — AND TO SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY.

Carlene J. BrownAssociate Professor, Music

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CURRENT RESEARCH? I am doing a systematic reviewof research on music and pain management for the Cochrane Library. Doing this research will help us to be experts on what can be said about music and pain. Then I’d like to set up our own clinical study within the next two years.

Reporting From the Capitol

MELISSA STEFFAN WAS SURROUNDED BY THE BEST STORIES AND STORYTELLERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., AS AN INTERN AT THE WASHINGTON POST.

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YOU PLAY THE PIPE ORGAN AT SAINT BRENDAN’S CATHOLIC CHURCH ON SUNDAY MORNINGS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT THAT INSTRUMENT? There is nothing like the soundthat comes from a full organ and more than 1,000 people singing in unison. I don’t need an entire orchestra. That one instrument can bring people into extremes of passion and joy or create the most subtle sound to accompany prayer.

HOW DID SPU’S MUSIC THERAPY PROGRAM, THE FIRST UNDER-GRAD PROGRAM IN WASHING-TON STATE, COME ABOUT?

It started because the students pushed me. When I told them about my back-

ground in music therapy, they asked, “Why can’t we have that here?” I saw the connection because the students at SPU really care about what it means to serve and that’s the essence of why someone would be a music therapist.

EXPLAIN MUSIC THERAPY.

It’s a clinical setting where weassess a client, their needs, and set up a treatment plan. It could be an autistic child who needs to learn vocaliza-tion, eye contact, or tying shoes. The question is: How do you use music as a means to reach a goal?

I run through a mental checklist as I run out the door of my apartment. Voice recorder? Check. Notepad? Check.Washington Post identification card? The last item is critical. Without it, I cannot enter the newsroom of The Washington Post, where I intern at the On Leadership and Inno-vations blogs. But I am not a coffee-grabbing, copy-making intern. I report, interview, write (and re-write) real stories. I live for the hope of a mainstream byline, my name at the top of a published story. When you are an aspiring journalist, noth-ing beats a byline. But I never expected to see my name in The Washington Post. After all, the Post is the most-read newspaper in Washington, D.C., and it remains one of the most dominant news sources in the country. How did I get here?

I arrived in Washington, D.C., in August 2011 to participate in a semester-long program called Washington Journalism Center (WJC)through BestSemester. WJC allows students from around the country to live on Capitol Hill and experience journalism at real-world pub-lications all over D.C. Somehow — with help from God, no doubt — I ended up with a desk in The Washington Post newsroom. At work, I know we have entered “the digital age” in a city where news moves faster than you can say, “Tweet that.” I work with two web-sites, and we are always on deadline. My edi-tors publish content as soon as it is ready. But though my work is almost entirely online, the elements of good journalism remain the same. I learned crucial reporting skills through my classes at Seattle Pacific Uni-versity, where I also spent three years writing for and editing SPU’s student newspaper, The Falcon. My experience as editor-in-chief of The

Falcon gives me confidence in D.C., because I can apply basic journalism principles to any story — whether it is for The Falcon or The Washington Post. When I interview people for the Post, it does not matter if I am speaking with the Chilean minister of mining, the CEO of Kiva.org, or a “man on the street.” I still need to quote everyone accurately, whatever it takes. Once, I even scribbled notes on paper scraps I found in my purse after I received an unexpected phone call while riding the Metro — but I got the quote.

And that is important because words have power. Journalism, if it is done well, can make a positive difference in people’s lives; if it is done poorly, journalism can harm and hurt as well. For a young journalist, that is a huge responsibility, one that keeps me humble. But I have moments of pride, too. The first time one of my stories “went live” online, I ran through my apartment screaming with excitement. A few weeks later, my first byline appeared in the print edition unexpectedly, I was speechless. Bylines in The Washington Post before I graduate — when I first began studying jour-nalism as a college freshman, I never would have dared to imagine it. After all, people used to tell me journalism was dying. They used to say, “Why would you want to write for a newspaper?” Now, when I tell them I intern at The Wash-ington Post, they just say, “Wow.” That is still what I say, too.

BY SENIOR MELISSA STEFFAN | PHOTOS BY GRACIE FERRELL

HOW DO YOU SEE GOD IN MUSIC?

That’s where my passioncomes from. I’m just grateful that I have the ability to play on a level where I can be a vehicle. There is nothing more gratifying than someone com-ing to me in tears and saying that they were touched. And that’s the moment. Playing music is how I say, “Thank you, Lord, for what I have.”

DO YOUR YOUNG ADULT CHILDREN PLAY MUSIC? I wish! They started out, butthen sports took over.

IS THERE A PIECE OF MUSIC THAT YOU DON’T LIKE? Yes! I’ve played it so much thatI’m sick of it, and unfortunately my students know what this piece is. I’ve been teased with gifts of CDs devoted entirely to this piece of music; an original arrangement played by a brass ensemble just before they graduated (do you realize how loud brass can be?), and most recently, a surprise a capella vocal performance by three music majors as I began teach-ing music theory at 8 a.m.! My feelings for this piece of music are in direct contrast to how I feel about our SPU music majors. I love them!

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Pop star Justin Bieber sat just a few rows behind three Seattle Pacific University graduates at the red-carpet premiere of the movie Abduction. But when movie-star Taylor Lautner shifted gears on his big-screen motorcycle, it wasn’t Bieber’s music that rocked the theater. It was their own. Now, let’s start at the beginning. In May 2011, the blues-rock band Hot Bod-ies in Motion — Ben Carson ’09, Scott Paul Johnson ’09, Zach Fleury ’08, and Fleury’s high-school friend Tim LoPresto — got an astonishing call from Lionsgate Entertain-ment’s film music director. She wanted “an anthemic song for a high-octane scene” in Abduction. The band turned in a song called “Under My Skin,” and soon found themselves on a plane to Hollywood. When they arrived at the gala premiere for the film and got out of the car, paparazzi

harassed them: “Get out of the way!” “You’re blocking my shot!” But then Abduction direc-tor John Singleton put his arms around them. Things changed. Tim laughs. “Little fish in a big pond.” Zach adds, “I remember thinking, why is the popcorn free?” Dazzled by the glamour and honors, Ben realized he could say, “I belong here.” He introduced himself at the after-party saying,

“I’m Track 5 on the soundtrack.” Meanwhile, after-party tickets sold for $1,000. Why did their music catch Hollywood’s attention? “It sounded like old-school rock and roll,” says Scott, the lead guitarist. “Nobody’s doing that today except 40- and 50-year-old guys. Our music is like ‘dad music for kids.’” Old-school or not, Hot Bodies in Motion makes audiences act out the band’s name. Their concerts are what it’s all about. Their recent Seattle CD-release party sold

Fast Track to theBY JEFFREY OVERSTREET | PHOTOS BY JASON TANG

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out before the album was finished. A smile flashes in the beard of band manager Nate Berends ’09: “A hundred and fifty people were turned away at the door.” At Seattle Pacific, they got to know each other in the performance group Unlimited and the SPU Choir. Zach remembers how, in a business-writ-ing course, Tom Trzyna, professor of English, wrote three letters on the board: A, P, and O. Audience. Purpose. Organization. “If you remember anything from my class,” said Trzyna, “remember this.” Zach puts that to work. “I’ll ask myself, ‘Who are you making this music for? What’s it for? And how are you going to organize it so that it achieves its purpose?’” It seems Trzyna’s advice works. “We started out playing for free nachos,” says Zach.

“Now we’re playing for movie soundtracks.” “Yeah,” says Ben. “Now we’re playing for free popcorn!”

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Good Music by Former FalconsBY JOEL HENG HARTSE ’03

Hot Bodies in Motion is not the only group of Seattle Pacific University graduates who has gone on to produce a noteworthy album or two. Joel Heng Hartse, a 2003 grad who writes about popular music for publications such as Paste, Blurt, and Christianity Today, pulled together a list of “some of the best records I’ve heard” which are also by SPU alums. So get on Grooveshark and enjoy some Falcon tunes.

So They Ran The Republic (Jeff Gough ’02,Chris Gough ’00, Adam Finch ’02)

U.S.E. United State of Electronica (Jason Holstrom ’98, Noah Weaver ’00, Peter Sali ’98, John E. Khanjian)

Get Cool The Catch (Alissabeth Newton ’05)

Waking Holding Dreaming Dying Lacey Brown ’03

The Thieves of Kailua Jason Holstrom ’98

Like the Season Josh Ottum ’00

Evenings and Weekends SYNTHAR (Andrew Best ’02, Matt Basinger ’03)

Sweeping, Soaring The Luckless Pedestrian (Gwen Thomas ’04)

Ghosts and Spirits Phil Woodward ’05

The Coachlight Woods Glowworm (Kevin Davis ’03)

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Absolutes Barcelona (Chris Bristol ’06, Brian Fennell ’06, Rhett Stonelake ’07)

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam BandMt. St. Helens Vietnam Band (Benjamin Verdoes ’06, Jared Price ’05, Traci Eggleston ’07)

The Opiate Mass Volume 2: AlbatrossVarious Artists (Lacey Brown ’03, Matt Chism ’01)

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9:30 a.m. 10:15 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m.11:00 a.m.

A day in the life of a soccer player at SPU is busy, to say the least. Finding time to study is dif-ficult when you are expected to be at your physical peak for practices

and games. We are under constant pressure from a number of differ-ent places: our coaches, our team-mates, our professors, our fellow students, and ourselves.

Athletes, maybe more than any other students on the SPU campus, are constantly under the magnify-ing glass. Everybody knows who we are because of the way we dress, the company we keep, and

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2:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 7:45 p.m. 8:00 p.m.

Imagine living your college life surround-ed by your closest friends. You see them around campus all day. You eat with them. You live with them. That’s been the last four years of my life in a nutshell, except I have about 25 of these friends. I am a senior goalkeeper on the Seattle Pacific University men’s soccer team. College is always a tumultuous time, but it is also a time of great growth. The friends most people make in college are the best friends they will have. This is true for teammates on SPU’s athletic teams. Student-athletes are a special breed.

because SPU is small enough that it’s easy to know a lot of people. But it’s this pressure that has built the soccer team into such a tight-knit community.

My best memories of college will be of those practices and games in the fall, the break-of-dawn conditioning sessions in the winter, and the road trips I experi-enced with my 25 best friends.

We are lucky to do what we do, and we know it. Long after the soreness of the season fades from our legs, the sense of camaraderie we shared remains. And we are forever changed because of it.

Play by Play

My life as a

student- athlete

By Senior Liviu Bird | Photos By Luke Rutan

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The Heavens DeclareBY SENIOR ANNIE MAE PLATTER | PHOTO BY MIKE SIEGEL

How great would it be to have a comet named after yourself … before you graduate? Jennifer Wiseman never planned on being an astronomer, but when she discovered a comet as an undergraduate student, there was no turning back. As a little girl growing up on a farm, she and her parents would go for late-night walks with their dogs and stargaze under the Arkansas sky untainted by city lights. Later as a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy, she discovered her love for astronomy. “Thankfully, not once did my parents say, ‘Astronomy! What the heck are you going to do with an astronomy degree, and how are you going to feed yourself?’” she says. They encouraged her to study what she was interested in, and she has always been thankful for their support. The more she knew about science and the universe, the more she learned about the Creator behind it all. Wiseman grew up seeing science as a way to reveal the handiwork of God. When she started her work for NASA, her universe got infinitely bigger. During her speech at Seattle Pacific University’s 10th AnnualDay of Common Learning, Wiseman showed a video of the launch of the space shuttle that held the crew and the equipment to upgrade the Hubble telescope. In the background, the audience could hear Wiseman’s delighted exclamations, “Oh, my gosh … oh, my GOSH!” as smoke billowed and the rocket disappeared. She and her team had spent years working on the technological upgrades the astronauts would be installing. She showed pictures taken by the Hubble telescope that introduced SPU to stars and galaxies far, far, away, where time is measured in billions of years, and distance and temperature are gauged by the color spectrum. Wiseman made it clear that she was presenting her own views, not those of NASA, as she explained how humbled she felt at the sight of the Hubble images. The intergalactic tapestries that God had orchestrated in the sky had been unseen by human eyes until the Hubble was in place. As she laughed about how astronomers call anything fuzzy or gaseous a “nebula,” she went on to explain how the magnitude of the universe reflects God’s patience, persistence, and power. “The church has gotten a bad reputation for shutting down science,” said freshman Joel Dejong. “It was great to hear a scientist saying that there doesn’t need to be conflict.” Wiseman acknowledged that not everyone is like her, but the more that she studies the universe, the more she sees reason to praise God. “So many people can look into the heavens and realize we’re part of something amazing that’s created by an amazing God,” she says. “I hope each of you takes time to be quiet in the face of the awesomeness of nature and let that draw you into a deeper worship of God.”

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The Heavens Declare Astronomer Jennifer Wiseman explains how groundbreaking science can give us a glimpse of God

Jennifer Wiseman, senior project scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope, showed a number of photos — like this one of dust and gas in the Carina Nebula — at the 10th Annual Day of Common Learning. She told the crowd, “We live in a privileged time where we are only beginning to understand the magnitude of the universe.”

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Heart & Soul

UgandaFlooded in

Students encounter God like never before

BY JUNIOR ALEX CROSSPHOTOS BY MATTHEW SUMI AND THE UGANDA TEAM

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Uganda

The rain began falling in sheets the afternoon the Seattle Pacific Reach Out International (SPRINT) team drove down the mountain from their home base of Kapchorwa. It was the third week of their summer trip to Uganda and the team had piled into the truck at 11 a.m. to divide into pairs to do home-stays for an adult literacy program. The rain kept up for five hours, long enough for the team to attend a wedding and deliver the first two pairs of students to their destinations. By the time the team had made it down the mountain to the plains, the rain had stopped. But hours of non-stop deluge had taken its toll. The roads were rutted, rivers had flooded, and the mud was ankle deep. Between trying to maneuver the treacherous roads and getting out to push when the truck got stuck, it was slow going. At 3 a.m., the truck’s head-lights revealed that the bridge

before them had disap-peared be-neath a large river. “You could not tell that there was ever a bridge there. I’m sure that’s what most people thought if they had not been

there before,” says Kenneth Arap Wasawas, an SPU junior from Uganda.

Bridge Under Troubled WatersIt had taken the team 12 hours to get this far. They were coated in the mud and sweat of traversing nearly 80 miles of Uganda’s rain-ruined roads. Their destination, the village of Korite, was only

one hour away on the other side of the river. “We have been in this truck for so long,” said senior Holly Kok. “We are getting to this homestay! I am not going back to Kapchorwa.” Some locals waded out into the river and helped locate the bridge. (Not an easy feat because there wasn’t much to it — not even a handrail to use as a guide.) They had no idea how deep the water below the bridge was, but the water rushing over the bridge was chest-deep.

Forging AheadA couple of the locals offered to stand in the river to mark off the edges of the bridge for the driver. The driver lined up the truck to go between them, gunned the engine, and the truck plunged into the water. “All of us were so quiet, so determined,” says Ken-neth. The river threatened to spill in through the windows, and the water’s strong current grabbed at the truck. Kenneth, standing on the back bumper, held on for dear life. Before driving into the river, he let his teammates know he couldn’t swim. “If anything happens,” he told them, “just fol-low me and rescue me.” Now he was up to his waist in a swiftly flowing river. The river’s current had been strong enough to be obvious from the shore. The water flowed to the right and everything in the river was swept the same direc-tion. But the moment their truck met the current, the truck shifted left, against the current, keeping them on a straight path across the river. “That still amazes me,” senior Claudia Luna-Meza says. “I know physics, and that shouldn’t happen!”

Lightbulbs OnThe truck plowed through the river for several heart-pounding moments, tires remaining in contact with the bridge. Then suddenly — almost before they realized it was happening — they were pulling out of the river on the other side, water streaming from their truck and both their headlights out, short-circuited by the submersion. “When we were on the other side, we were all trying to nar-rate what happened, how it happened, and the driver said, ‘I don’t know,’” Kenneth remem-bers. “That’s when you’re like, ‘Man, it’s God.’” The team duct-taped two flashlights to the front of the truck to replace their short-cir-cuited headlights and continued on their way. At 4 a.m., the team arrived in Korite, where Claudia’s and Holly’s host family was wait-ing with warm Ugandan tea and Irish potatoes. Claudia had mud up to her thighs, and ended the day by taking a bath in a roofless bathhouse. “I looked up at the Milky Way and thought, ‘Oh man, God. You are so good!’” At church the next morning, the people of Korite were prais-ing God for the previous night’s rain. Claudia and Holly didn’t understand why until someone explained: Korite had been suf-fering from a bad drought. The news stunned Holly and Claudia. “It was so easy to think, ‘Why is this happening — why can’t we just get to where we need to be?’” says Claudia. “But then we found out that these people were in the middle of a drought and that rain was a huge blessing. God works in larger ways than we can see.”

THE UGANDA TEAM BACK ON CAMPUS, LEFT TO RIGHT: KENNETH ARAP WASAWAS, HOLLY KOK, MARGARET HANSCOM, SEFANIT GHEZAHEGN, SAMANTHA WING, CLAUDIA LUNA-MEZA, LAURA FISK, AND ADDISON LIN.

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Jet City

Juniors Aryn Schatz, Kenneth Jaimes, Zach Munger, and Amanda Reeves use a crosswalk like good Seattle citizens.

Urban Adventure

Jet Citydowntown SeattleFind your favorite spots

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The view from the 40th floor of the Columbia Tower Starbucks may be overwhelming at first. Spread out

before you, the streets, shops, and buildings of down-town Seattle all vie for your attention. Where do you begin to explore? But if you’re at this particular Starbucks, the good news is that you’ve already discovered

Kenneth takes a look at downtown Seattle from the city’s tallest Starbucks.

By Senior JAZZY OSHITOYE | Photos By LUKE RUTAN

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Urban Adventure

one of the tucked-away treasures of downtown Seattle. With no street-level signs indicating the location of this coffee lover’s sky-high haven, you may be even more Seattle-savvy than some Seattle natives.

Look Out BelowWhile a caffeine-high and sights from the 40th floor may create enough of a rush for some, for a fee of $5 ($3 for students), you can see an even better view from the 73rd floor. “It’s cool to see Seattle from above — not from the side or from afar on a hill. Especially since you’re a part of what’s going on. You’re right in the middle of downtown,” says junior Kenneth Jaimes. Once you’re up there, look to the south. If the Seattle Mariners, Sounders FC Soccer Club, or Seahawks are playing, it would be hard to miss the buzz of activity at Century-Link or Safeco fields. If professional sports aren’t your thing, look in the opposite direction to bring the Space Needle into view. As a new Seattleite or visitor, you might not know that in the same direc-tion lies Westlake Center — not only a prime location for Apocalypse-wary sign holders, but also a wonderland for the avid shopper. After two quick elevator trips down from the top of the Columbia Tower and a 12-min-ute jaunt or 9-minute bus ride, you could find yourself in front of the waterfall structure at Westlake Park. Cross Pine Street to enter Westlake Center, where you can buy vegan soap and Gorilla Perfume at LUSH, head to Fireworks for entertaining gifts such as a Darth Vader flash drive and bacon ties, or score spe-cial savings for people visiting from at least 50 miles away when you show your ID at Made in Washington. If you haven’t had your shopping fix yet, across from the Westlake Center is the flagship Nordstrom, which often hosts special events promoting its merchandise. Of course, Nord-strom would be hard-pressed to put on a show that could compete with the Cinerama, an old-fashioned movie theater with a high-tech makeover, located three blocks away at Fourth Avenue and Lenora Street.

The Tasteful and the TackyVisitors and residents would miss out on the full Seattle experience if they did not visit the Olympic Sculpture Park and Pike Place Mar-ket. Both are student-friendly (a.k.a. free) and can provide hours of entertainment.

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1) You may have heard that there are a lot of Starbucks in Seattle. Downtown has about 40 alone. 2) Welcome to the Olympic Sculpture Park. Walk around or take a seat. 3) Picture frame or sculpture? 4) Don’t worry: the gum wall is not the germiest tourist attraction in the world. That’s the Blarney Stone. The gum wall is next in line though. 5) The Columbia Tower looks pretty cool from the street. But it’s the view from the top of Seattle’s tallest building that will really make you stand in awe.

Aryn Schatz, a junior at SPU, says that Piro-shky Piroshky is a favorite place to visit at Pike Place. “The apple-cinnamon roll is a family favorite,” Schatz notes, adding that her dad and brother would bring back rolls after attending a Mariners game at Safeco. If you’ve been tipped off by an amiable Seattle native, you may know that just under-neath the busy Pike Place Market, away from the warm smells of Piroshky Piroshky, is an alleyway that is home to the disgusting, yet beloved, gum wall. Though the idea of several feet of masticated wads of Orbitz and Bazooka may cause nausea at first, the fact that so many people sacrificed flavor or good breath to create a mural of 3D color somehow replaces any ill feelings with awe. If you feel particularly con-nected to Seattle, feel free to leave your mark by squishing your piece of Bazooka among other Seattle visitors’ colorful wads of gum. Just know that Seattle offers many other reasons to stick around.

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6) The sculpture “Wake” is meant to be an interactive piece. Walk through it, and become a part of the sculpture. 7) It’s an American classic, and an SPU favorite. 8) If you go to Pike Place Market, try some doughnut poppers from Daily Dozen. The smell will make it hard to say no. 9) Follow the sign to another Seattle down-town neighborhood. 10) That’s some pig! Rachel the pig collects roughly $6,000–$9,000 annually to fund Pike Place Market’s senior center, food bank, and other services. 11) Left to right: Juniors Ken-neth Jaimes, Amanda Reeves, Zach Munger, and Aryn Schatz take a coffee break. 12) Another Seattle original.

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Why do you still work at SPU after going to school here?  I believe in our mission to engage the culture and change the world. I love help-ing prospective students find the place where they are called to be. And, it’s icing on the cake that I get to eat in Gwinn, our outstanding dining facility. What should students write about in their personal statement?   Write about what makes you unique. You have incredible stories and life experi-ences. If you are funny or sarcastic, let that show in the essay. Just make sure the grammar is correct. What was it like to transition from L.A. to Seattle as a freshman? Transitioning from Los Angeles to Seattle was an adventure! During my only cam-pus visit before enrolling, I experienced really nice spring weather so I didn’t know what to expect at other times. My first winter was tough. I had never experienced 45–50 degree weather and dressed like it was a sunny autumn day in Southern California. I learned that getting through the winter has a lot to do with your choice of clothing. Don’t forget your coat!

How on earth did you manage to get “recruiting in Hawaii” as part of your job description?A colleague of mine could not make the trip so I was actually a last-minute replacement. It was a good fit since I was a member of our Hawaiian club as a student. Now I am the advisor for the club. SPU has a strong and growing community of students from Hawaii who are having an important and positive impact on our campus. I love the Hawaiian culture! 

Jason ChiversAdmissions Counselor

My 2 Cents’ Worth

SPU: Nuts & Bolts

— Jason Chivers

“If you are funny or sarcastic, let that show in the essay. Just make sure the grammar is correct.”

AccountingAnthropologyArtArt HistoryBiochemistryBiology (Cell and Molecular, Ecology, Human, Physiology)Business Administration (Entrepreneurship, Finance, Information Systems, International Business, Management, Marketing, Social Enterprise)ChemistryChristian ScripturesChristian SpiritualityChristian TheologyClassicsClothing and Textiles (Fashion Merchandising, Apparel Design)CommunicationComputational MathematicsComputer ScienceCreative WritingEconomicsEducation (Elementary, Secondary, Special Education)Educational MinistryElectrical EngineeringEnglishEngineering (Appropriate and Sustainable, Computer, Mechanical)Elementary Education (Integrated Studies)European StudiesExercise ScienceFamily and Consumer SciencesFashion (Apparel Design, Merchandising)Food and Nutritional Sciences (Dietetics, Sports and Exercise)FrenchGeneral StudiesGermanGlobal and Urban MinistryGlobal Development StudiesHistoryIllustration/New PicturesIndividual and Family DevelopmentInformation SystemsInterior DesignInternational Service CertificateJournalismLatinLatin American StudiesLinguistics and Cultural StudiesLiteratureMathematicsMusic (Composition, Education, Performance, Technology, Worship Arts)Music TherapyNursingPhilosophyPhysics

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SPU by the Numbers 1 President Philip W. Eaton

3,194 Undergraduate student enrollment

973 Graduate and post- baccalaureate student enrollment

1,726 Students living on campus

49% Freshmen from out of state

205 Number of full-time SPU faculty

3.34–3.86 Middle 50 percent GPA of entering freshmen

14:1 Student-faculty ratio

37 Inches of rain a year in Seattle (less than Miami, Boston, New York, and Chicago)

12 Intramural sports

95% Undergraduate students who receive scholarships and/or need-based financial aid

0 Classes taught by graduate assistants

1050–1240 Middle 50 percent combined SAT score (critical reading and math) of entering freshmen

22–28 Middle 50 percent ACT score of entering freshmen

26% Ethnically diverse undergraduate students

90% or more of SPU applicants are consistently accepted to pre-profes-sional health programs including dentistry, physical therapy, veterinary medicine, optometry, occupational therapy, and medical school

85% Retention rate for first-year freshmen

NCAA Division II Sports:

Political Science (Geopolitics, International Affairs, Leadership, Public Policy and Law)Pre-LawPre-Professional Health ProgramsProfessional StudiesProfessional WritingPsychologyRussianReconciliationSociologySpanishStudent-Designed MajorsStudio ArtsTheatre (Performance, Production, Teaching)Visual CommunicationWomen’s StudiesYouth Ministry

Off-Campus Programs SPU Study Abroad Programs: Belize (Tropical Marine Biology), Canterbury (English), China (Business), European Quarter, Galápagos Islands (Tropical Marine Biology), Guatemala (Global Development, Physics, or Spanish), Japan (Theology), Korea (Family and Consumer Sciences), Morocco (English), Paris, Philippines (Family and Consumer Sciences), Rome (Arts and English), South Africa, Vietnam (Transcultural Nursing)

Programs Through the CCCU: American Studies (Washington, D.C.), Australia Studies, China Studies, Contemporary Music Center (New York), Film Studies (Los Angeles), India Studies, Latin American Studies, Middle East Studies, Oxford Honors Program, Oxford Summer School, Washington, D.C., Journalism Center, Uganda Studies

Other Student Visit Programs: Clark Atlanta University, Christian College Consortium Student Visitor Program, Daystar (Kenya), Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandis-ing (Los Angeles), Fashion Institute of Technology (New York City)

Men’s and Women’s Basketball, Crew, Cross Country, Soccer, Indoor/Outdoor Track and Field; Women’s Gymnastics and Volleyball

Academic Programs

SPU #3 for “Best Values” in the West

— U.S. News & World Report 2011 College Rankings

Information based on 2011–12 statistics, unless stated otherwise.

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Scheduling Your Visit — Call the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at 800-366-3344 toll free to schedule one of the following. Check out spu.edu/visit for details.

Preview Events — Previews include stay-ing overnight in the residence halls, meals in Gwinn Commons, and classroom visits.

Admitted Student Preview: April 12–13, 2012

One-Day Visits — One-day visits usually include a campus tour, faculty and student panel, lunch, and more.

SPU Fridays: February 24, 2012 March 2, 9, 2012 April 6, 20, 27, 2012

Summer Visit Days: June 22, 2012 July 13, 27, 2012 Aug 3, 10, 27, 2012

Individual Visits — Customize your visit! We’ll help you set up a campus tour and a meeting with an admissions counselor.Give us two weeks’ notice, and we can arrange a class visit, a meeting with a faculty member, or an overnight stay.

Fine Arts Scholarship Auditions — Come to campus and show us your skills in theatre, music, or visual art. For details, visit spu.edu/fpascholarships.

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November 15Early Action Deadline

January 1First Day to Submit FAFSA

SPU: Nuts & Bolts

Each quarter,SPU hosts morethan 1,300student visitors.

Don’t missout on theexperience.

spu.edu/visit

Important Dates Interested in applying for Autumn 2012?

Come Visit! You’ve got to see this place!

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February 1First-Year Freshman Application Deadline (in order to be considered for scholar-ships and the best financial aid awards)

April 1Transfer Priority Application Deadline (in order to be considered for scholarships and the best financial aid awards)

May 1National Candidates’ Reply Date: $200 Advance Payment Due

July 1Transfer Application Deadline

February 1FAFSA Deadline

Tiffany Loop: There’s nothing else like it in Seattle.

Take the online tour today! spu.edu/tour

Apply! Important things to know if you decide to apply for admission

How and When to Apply

Go to spu.edu/apply. (Simple, right?) We use The Common Application to make things even easier.

Early Action PlanThis is a great choice if SPU is one of your top choices. Early Action gives you priority status in financial aid and housing.

Admission Deadlines• EarlyActionDeadline:November15• First-YearFreshmanDeadline:February1• TransferPriorityDeadline:April1• TransferDeadline:July1

Some Things We Look For

Grades and Grade Trend: These are important because we want to make sure you will succeed in SPU’s challenging academic environment.

Incoming Freshman Class Middle 50 Percent:• HighSchoolGPA:3.34–3.86• SATScore(CR+M):1050–1240• ACTScore(CR+M):22–28

Test Scores: We accept either the SAT or the ACT. SPU’s test codes: SAT-4694, ACT-4476.

Essays: Tell us about you! Be creative — but, even more important, be authentic.

Recommendations: We consider the opinions of your teachers, mentors, and youth leaders essential.

Interview: This is optional, but it allows us to connect a face and a personality with your admission file. A phone interview is also an option.

Mission Fit: We look for students who are energized by SPU’s vision to engage the culture and change the world.

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SPU Annual Costs for 2011–12

• Tuition&Fees=$30,339

• Room&Board=varies;$9,081average

• TotalDirectCost=varies;$39,420 average

If those numbers look intimidating, we have good news for you. We want to help. Next year, SPU will help award more than $80 million in scholarships and financial aid to qualified students. Find out what you qualify for!

How to Apply

1. Apply to SPU. Your application for admission also serves as your application for most SPU scholarships. Get your appin early for your best chance to receive merit scholarships. spu.edu/apply

2. Submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The info you provide on the FAFSA is used to determine how much money your family is expected to pay (a.k.a. Expected Family Contribution).

Financing Your Education

All the basic things you should know about financial aid

Your EFC is the same no matter what school you choose. To send your results to SPU, include the SPU code (003788). fafsa.ed.gov

3. Respond Accurately and on Time. For the best scholarships and most gener-ous financial aid packages, meet all finan-cial aid deadlines.

Financial Aid Deadlines

Freshman SPU Scholarships and GrantsApply for admission by February 1.

Transfer SPU Scholarships and GrantsFor priority consideration, apply for admission by April 1.

Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)You’ll want to do this as soon as you can. Start after January 1, and complete no later than February 1.

Did you know? SPU

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Financial Services.

Pay for CollegeHow Real Students

A name and a face to go with the numbers Recipient: Sophomore Jerrell Davis, business and sociology double major.

Scholarship: Ames Scholarship for underrepresented students of color who have demonstrated significant community or church involvement.

The finances: I get $5,000 a year for up to five years, but the amounts given vary.

How did you qualify: I am a black male, had good grades in high school, was involved in the Black Student Union, and am involved with my church. I also like to talk openly about diversity and racial and ethnic issues.

Requirements for keeping the scholarship: You have to maintain academic competency, and stay active on campus.

Campus involvement: I’m a part of SPU’s Black Student Union. I also attend In Context, which is where students, staff, and faculty come together on Thursday mornings to talk about race and ethnicity.

Why do you think it’s important to talk about issues surrounding race: These are things I’ve been faced with every day of my life. I feel like I have no choice but to involve myself and to raise awareness about different topics. Not just because I’m black, but because we’re all children of God.

“Some people give SPU flack about the lack of diversity, but that’s all colleges. I give SPU credit for wanting to change that,” says Jerrell Davis.

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SPU: Nuts & Bolts

Undergraduate Admissions(visits, admission information, transcript evaluations, transfer requirements)206-281-2021800-366-3344 Toll Free206-281-2544 Fax*admissions@spu.eduspu.edu/admissions*Note: Faxed transcripts will not be accepted as official documents.

Student Financial Services(financial aid, student employment, student accounts, payment plans) 206-281-2061800-737-8826 Toll Freespu.edu/sfs

Scholarship Information and Applicationsspu.edu/scholarships

Scholarship Amount Award Guidelines

FRESHMAN MERIT AWARDS

SPU Scholar Awards* Full tuition Apply by invitation onlyTrustees’ Scholar Awards* $14,000 GPA: 3.95; SAT: 1325 or ACT: 30President’s Scholar Awards* $12,000 GPA: 3.75; SAT: 1225 or ACT: 27Deans’ Scholar Awards* $10,000 GPA: 3.55; SAT: 1110 or ACT: 24 FIRST Robotics Scholarships $5,000 For high school seniors who have participated on a FIRST Robotic Competition team Engineering Scholarships $5,000 For incoming freshmen who plan to(Deffenbaugh or Burwell) major in an engineering disciplinePhilip W. Eaton Scholarships $3,000 Significant leadership and service in school and/or in the communitySPU National Merit Scholarships $2,000 National Merit Corporation semifinalist or finalistOTHER AWARDS (FOR FRESHMEN AND TRANSFERS)

Ames Scholarships Varies For underrepresented ethnic minority students; details at spu.edu/amesFine Arts Scholarships Up to $3,000 Details at spu.edu/fpascholarshipsFree Methodist Scholarships $2,000 Affiliated with the Free Methodist Church Alumni Scholarships $1,500 Parent(s) graduated from SPUMinistry Service Awards $1,500 Parent(s) employed full-time with a Christian church, mission, or para-church organizationChurch Matching Scholarships Up to $500 Church must apply to participate

ROTC Academic Achievement Awards Room and board ROTC requirements

NCAA Division II Athletic Scholarships Varies Contact coaches: 206-281-2085

*GuidelinesreflectanaverageofGPAsandSAT(CR+M)scoresearnedbystudentswhoenteredSPUinAutumn2010.Amounts awarded could change for following classes. A student may receive no more than one of the awards noted with an (*) in the same academic year. Note: If you’re a transfer student, please visit spu.edu/transferscholarships to see merit awards.

What to Expect in an SPU Financial Aid Package

Several forms of aid may be included in your aid package:

• SPUScholarships• Federal,State,andSPUGrants• StudentEmployment(WorkStudy)• StudentLoans

For details: spu.edu/sfs

Eligibility: What Matters Most

Scholarships: Grades, test scores, and involvement in school, church, and commu-nity are all considered important.

Need-based financial aid (grants, loans, student employment): Family and student income/assets, number of family members in college, size of family household, and age of eldest parent are all considered. In some cases, unique financial circum-stances will also be considered.

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Her parents used to hide her novels so she could finish her homework. Now, a senior English major, Heidi McElrath reads at least a book a week and once wrote a novel in a month. “I love how God spoke the world into creation and how Jesus taught in stories,” she says. “I think telling stories is a part of who God

My Worldis and something I’m meant to reflect.” Heidi also helps select art for the SPU gallery, acts in SPU plays, and is an editor for SPU’s literary journal. And she gets her homework done — especially since it could include reading David Copperfield or Jane Eyre.

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