CLU Magazine - April 2017

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Out in Front

The country is divided.

That’s where we step in as interfaith leaders.

BRIAN STETHEM ’84

Senior Mehak Sachdev uses the Wennes Interfaith Meditation Chapel inside Samuelson Chapel to pray or just unwind.

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hile she works to develop a 3-D bioprinter using living cells, bioengineering major Mehak Sachdev keeps up with very large extracurricular commitments. She is helping peers to grapple, in the most personal way, with our polarized politics.

“Especially with the recent bitter presidential election, you can’t deny that the country is divided,” said the senior from Simi Valley. “That’s where we step in as interfaith leaders. We have to heal what divides us.”

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As the lead interfaith intern at Cal Lutheran’s Community Service Center and a four-year member of the Interfaith Allies club, Sachdev talks faith at weekly meetings and one or two large events per month.

Talking faith is not the same as discussing religion, she says, since interreligious dialogue often returns to doctrine. As Sachdev sees it, a “faith” – though it may be influenced by a grand tradition such as her family’s Hindu belief system – is a set of individual views

and values, such that no two people’s are quite alike.

“My faith is how I’ve grown up these past 21 years, the beliefs I’ve taken, the values I’ve taken, how I live my life,” she said.

On her view, every conversation touching on values is an interfaith exchange, and no one speaks for Islam, Christianity, Hinduism or humanism. Sachdev advises participants to use “I” statements instead of standing in for millions of others.

“Sometimes we talk about love or generosity (at meetings), or we go straight in and talk about the refugee crisis in Syria,” she said. “Or we’ll talk about the election or we’ll talk about this hate crime that happened last week, and what was the response? Or racial profiling. It can be anything.”

In four years of these conversations, she’s absorbed values from Catholics, Lutherans, Jews and others. She was asked to join Interfaith Allies as a freshman by a Muslim student, Shireen Ismail ’15, who shared her Indian heritage. The two went on to form “a great bond, almost a sisterhood” – a sweet counterpoint to faraway conflicts between Hindus and Muslims.

The interfaith movement has a voice on campus. This spring, with students supporting faculty, the university updated the required freshman religion course to “Religion, Identity and Vocation” from “Introduction to Christianity,” a change that means “a world of difference” to some freshmen who are trying to belong, said Sachdev.

When we insist on inclusion, it’s easier to see where multiple faiths and religions intersect. Sachdev tells people that even though Hinduism is polytheistic, “I believe, obviously, that there is still one higher power, but just different reincarnations and different faces of that one higher power.”

Likewise, love thy neighbor: “Everyone in the world is your brother or sister, and it is your responsibility to look after your family…. We all have to have each other’s back.”

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Students show elementary school kids the way of entrepreneurs.

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7 HIGHLIGHTS & IN MEMORIAM

15 DRY SPELL TO REMEMBER

College hires new dean.

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A Mexican-born psychology major tells story, wins scholarship.

In a documentary film, the theme of water leads everywhere.

For 16 years, students have helped with homework at public housing.

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Vermicomposting is a step toward a better food system.

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hen companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon try to enter the car market, popularize virtual reality headsets and launch rockets into space, change is afoot.

Today’s would-be stars of tech might still write code in their dorm rooms, but they are also building toys like engineers.

“We can’t produce just programmers anymore,” said Craig Reinhart, an associate professor of computer science who also teaches physics and bioengineering. “Our students need to be able to do a little electronics, a little mechanical, and physical computer. This whole internet of things is changing the way Joycelin Spencer, a former the world does computing.” accounting major who has A graduating computer scialways liked computers, ence major in the Bachelor’s enrolled in night classes Degree for Professionals with the Bachelor's Degree program, Joycelin Spencer for Professionals program to keep working. Now she starts a job this spring as an has a job in her chosen field. embedded software engineer at a defense contractor in Woodland Hills. The one-time accounting major was hired while completing the embedded robotics project shown here.

Starting with an off-the-shelf design for a 3-D printable hand, Spencer spent her time learning how to program an Arduino microcontroller, figuring out what kind of servomotors to use as the hand’s muscles, setting up circuits and adjusting mechanical details like the tension of the plastic tendons.

The reward is a system that can pick up a tennis ball. With refinements it could be a prosthetic hand. Just as important, it’s a “fully trainable device,” a starting point for Reinhart’s next few students to lend the hand new life using sensors that read brainwaves and gestures.

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Bones of plastic, squirted like hot glue from a 3-D printer

CAL LUTHERAN ADMINISTRATION Chris Kimball, Ph.D. President Leanne Neilson, Psy.D. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Karen Davis, MBA ’95 Vice President for Administration and Finance Melissa Maxwell-Doherty ’77, M.Div. ’81 Vice President for Mission and Identity Melinda Roper, Ed.D. Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Matthew Ward, Ph.D. Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing R. Stephen Wheatly ’77, J.D. Vice President for University Advancement Gerhard Apfelthaler, Ph.D. Dean of the School of Management Joan L. Griffin, Ph.D. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Michael Hillis, Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School of Education Richard Holigrocki, Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School of Psychology Brian Stein-Webber ’77, M.Div. ’84 Interim Chief Administrative Officer of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary The Rev. Alicia Vargas, M.Div. ’95, Ph.D. Dean of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

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In Memoriam

Undergraduates volunteer to work with youngsters in Safe Passage, an effort by local police, schools and the park district to make sure first- through sixth-graders know they have alternatives to joining gangs. At an all-day event in the fall, seniors Chris Aguilar (left), Christina Manning and Mary Stein (right) joined a conversation about college. Associate professor of criminal justice Molly George (second from right) is helping to systematically evaluate the program.

News briefs

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NEW DEAN OF COLLEGE A first-generation college student will start July 1 as the next dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Jessica Lavariega Monforti, chair of political science at Pace University in New York City, researches notions of power among women, immigrants, and racial and ethnic minorities. In 2015 she co-authored her second book, Living the Dream: New

Immigration Policies and the Lives of Undocumented Latino Youth. She will succeed Joan Griffin, who will step down after 10 years as dean to teach full time.

MODEL UN WINNER Senior Jared Smith became the first Cal Lutheran student to win an Outstanding Delegate Award at the Harvard National Model United Nations. He received the award for his representation on the Special Summit on Terrorism. Cal Lutheran's 14-member delegation representing Jamaica was led by junior Jonathan Rockwood. More than 2,000 students gathered in downtown Boston for the February meeting.

JEWISH LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIP NAMED A Romanian-born Holocaust survivor who spent her 18th birthday in a Nazi concentration camp, Clara

Knopfler speaks frequently about her experiences at schools, houses of worship and the university across the street from her home.

In January, Cal Lutheran threw a party for Knopfler’s 90th birthday and named a scholarship in honor of her contributions to education, Jewish life on campus and peace among all people.

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LIFETIME LEADERSHIP AWARD FOR FREELAND Political science professor Gregory Freeland will receive a lifetime achievement award from CAUSE Action Fund at a leadership reception in Santa Barbara on April 9. As president of the nonprofit organization’s board from 2008 to 2015, Freeland was deeply involved in the 2010 electoral redistricting efforts and was selected to serve on the California Redistricting Commission.

Frances K. Prince

Oct. 24, 1937 – Feb. 6, 2017 Frances Prince, former member of the Cal Lutheran Board of Regents and pillar of the Thousand Oaks community, died at age 79 after a long illness.

Prince served on the university’s governing board from 1990-1999 and was instrumental in the development of the Master Plan.

She was elected to the Thousand Oaks City Council in 1976 and served as the first female mayor from 1978-1979 and again from 1983-1984. She is an integral part of the city’s history and was a pioneer in crafting the city’s general plan.

After moving to the Conejo Valley in 1968, Prince, who later became an attorney, served as president of Wildwood Park Homeowners Association and a member of the Thousand Oaks Planning Commission and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. As a slowgrowth advocate, one of her goals was to create a ring of open space around the valley.

She pushed to have libraries built, most notably the Thousand Oaks Library, and later served on the board of the Thousand Oaks Library Foundation. As a longtime promoter of the arts and volunteer for community organizations and nonprofits, she was involved in the early stages of the Civic Arts Plaza and in getting theaters built at local high schools.

She also was instrumental in creating social services programs like the Senior Concerns adult day care center, where she served as executive director.

In recognition of her civic and charitable work, she received the city of Thousand Oaks’ Dedicated Service Award and the Ventura County Commission on Women Community Service Award, among other accolades.

Prince is survived by her brother, three children and four grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband.

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No Walls

IN SIGHT One of 10 U.S. recipients of the first-ever GoFundMe Scholarships, sophomore Sandy Gonzalez knows the value of a good opportunity.

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ne of Sandy Gonzalez’s earliest memories from Aculco, Mexico, is about confinement and abandonment. She might have been 4 years old when she woke up alone at home and trapped indoors. She panicked and cried for what felt like hours until her uncle Martín finally came.

“He opened the door for me. I don’t know why that memory has stuck with me,” she said. The scene would come back to her later, when Martín was the first familiar face to greet her inside of California.

At age 6, understanding little of what was happening, Gonzalez was taken from central Mexico on a three-day journey to Pasadena, where her mother already lived. “Here, take your clothes,” said Mami Mago, her grandmother.

“She told me I was going to be OK, and I believed her,” said Gonzalez. “I guess that’s how much faith I had in my grandmother.”

Today, as a Cal Lutheran sophomore and a U.S. permanent resident, Gonzalez is grateful for all of the doors open to her.

The first person in her family to attend college, she intends to earn a Ph.D. in psychology. She’ll apply to become a U.S. citizen in a few years. Last October, she won a $10,000 GoFundMe Scholarship, one of the first 10 ever awarded by the online platform for social fundraising. Together with financial aid from Cal Lutheran, the scholarship has made this academic year far easier on her and her hard-working grandmother.

Things were not always so hopeful. Until she received her green card as a junior in high school, Gonzalez lived with a sense of limited possibilities, like someone trapped inside walls.

“That is what opened my eyes. Wow, I could actually be someone. I could actually work somewhere besides a minimum-wage job,” she said.

A sad circumstance allowed Gonzalez to apply for U.S. residency. Shortly before her eighth birthday, she was left behind in her grandmother’s care when her mother returned to Mexico with her baby half-brother and his father. Growing up, Gonzalez couldn’t shake the belief that she’d done something to deserve her mother’s abandonment.

“If I had only been a better daughter, maybe she would have stayed,” Gonzalez wrote in her essay on the GoFundMe website, expressing how she felt about her mother’s starting a new family without her.

When the Obama administration started the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2012, offering temporary safety from deportation for certain immigrants, Gonzalez did not apply. She and Mami Mago were advised that the special case of abandonment in a foreign country would make it possible to shoot for permanent residency instead. But first, the grandmother had to get legal guardianship of Gonzalez.

With Mami Mago after high school graduation

That led to the youngster’s seeing a document by which her mother had formally relinquished custody of her.

To begin a process of reconciliation, Gonzalez has now visited her mother once in Mexico. It’s not easy, but she says that her education in psychology has been helpful.

“It’s made me see different perspectives, and maybe her side as well,” she said.

When Gonzalez was born, her mother was about the age that she is today.

Gonzalez wants to understand her own coming of age, and is leaning toward child development as an eventual academic specialization. Becoming a therapist could give her the chance to help other kids. She hopes it will also provide the financial stability that Mami Mago has always wanted for her.

“She’s very caring. She’s always worrying about me,” said Gonzalez of her grandmother. “Once I got to college, I didn’t think I was going to miss her so much. The second week of freshman year, the first semester, I had this feeling of homesickness I’d never had before. That’s when it hit me that I really love my grandmother.”

Sandy Gonzalez, who was born in central Mexico and grew up in Pasadena, counts herself fortunate for having U.S. permanent residency.

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For 16 years, Cal Lutheran students have been the lifeblood of a program that boosts college prospects for kids in public housing. BY COLLEEN CASON

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t the Homework Club in Thousand “Some parents don’t have the knowlOaks, a sunny 11-year-old named edge and can feel lost and confused,” Gio is working out the pronunsaid Bautista, a psychology and criminal ciation of “Socrates” on his social justice major from Hollywood. studies vocabulary list.

The way Rodriguez sees it, the proGio has been coming to these sessions gram bridges divides in schools. for four years and keeps showing up be“Kids struggle with going to the teacher cause his grades keep going up. for help. It isn’t always the easier option.

On this January afternoon, a dozen chilHere the environment is calm, and that dren as young as 6 sit at tables in the lowhelps them improve their grades,” he said. slung community room of the Los Arboles Rodriguez is the first in his family to Apartments just down the road from Cal Freshman Hector Rodriguez attend college.

Lutheran’s main campus. A sign on the tutors students.

“I was shocked when I was accepted to wall advertises the program’s “carrot cake CLU. It was magical,” said the music major. and stick” approach to rewarding pupils.

The biggest challenge he faces as a tutor They receive their snack only after finishis the wide range of ages. ing homework and an hour’s reading.

“It takes time to figure out what each For 16 years, the Area Housing Authority individual’s needs might be,” he said. Roof Ventura County has teamed up with Cal driguez grew up in the San Fernando ValLutheran to match undergrads with firstley and informally helped his high school through eighth-graders who live at low-inclassmates with their studies. come housing complexes run by the public agency in Thousand Experience as a tutor has helped Gonzalez, who graduated with Oaks, Moorpark and Camarillo. a degree in marketing communication, to serve in his current Through personalized after-school sessions, students help the post as a property manager at the Housing Authority of the City children successfully complete homework, hone study skills and of San Buenaventura. learn the steps that lead to college admission.

“The tutoring brought to light the fact each person has their “There is more to life than just getting a high school diploma,” own story. Things go smoother when you treat everyone as an said Willbert Gonzalez ’09, who tutored for the Homework Club individual,” he said. all four years at Cal Lutheran. “At-risk kids have an opportunity they may not know about.”

So critical is the participation of Cal Lutheran students, the About 10 Cal Lu undergrads work with approximately 85 kids Homework Club runs on the university’s academic calendar, said each semester in the joint effort, which won the 2010 PartnerAlejandra Toledo ’14, a former tutor who now coordinates the ship Innovation Award of Excellence from the National Associaprogram as a housing authority employee. tion of Housing Officials. Tutoring is free to the kids; the college “Without them, there would be no program,” added her students get paid through the federal work-study program. colleague Anna Diaz.

For 12-year-old Jackie, one-on-one attention from college stuTutors are not much older than the kids. On the day I visited, dents helps her stay on top of studies.

18-year-old freshmen Stella Bautista and Hector Rodriguez were “They help me with questions on my homework and then in charge. Gio sat a few feet away with his vocabulary sheet. make sure I understand every answer,” said Jackie, who plans to go to college to become a vet, a doctor or a soccer star.

“Instead of doing my homework alone, I know I have the right Ali Niazi has aged out of the program, but his grades as a junior answer. And I can do it with friends,” says the sixth-grader, who at Thousand Oaks High School continue to make his parents wants to be a lawyer or an actor when he grows up. proud and open the door to college, he said. “Before the tutoring, The Homework Club gives children support unavailable to I didn’t have a thought beyond high school.” them at home.

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FOOD FOR WORMS

Vermicomposting is the latest piece of a strategy to discard less and grow more on campus – toward a food system we can live with. PHOTOS BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

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hough expected to quadruple within a couple of months, the worm hoard was a little thin in December. We wanted our magazine photos to squirm and teem with the critters, but there were only 15,000 in a twin-bed-sized bin of food waste from the new dining facilities in Ullman Commons.

“You’ve just gotta find the melons.

That’s what they like,” explained Jake Derksen, a senior biology major. Dozens of creatures nodded.

The worms live out past the softball field in the SEEd Project Garden, under a shady enclosure in a bin that can accommodate 60 to 80 pounds of them.

The initiative by Derksen and religion professor Sam Thomas, which won an Environmental Sustainability Award

Biology major Jake Derksen (left), who’s planning on graduate school next year in environmental sciences, and religion professor Sam Thomas started vermicomposting last year.

last year from then–state Sen. Fran Pavley, is another step toward a campus food system that one day could require few products from outside.

It converts garbage into worm castings (or worm poo) that can be used as a soil amendment. Derksen visits the north campus location every day.

“I almost felt like I wasn’t working when I was doing this stuff. This is what I do for fun and work now,” he said.

In addition to the SEEd Garden vermicomposting bin, which accepts about 30 pounds of food waste daily, Derksen has his own small bin going, of the type used in home composting. For his final research project, he measures variations in temperature, moisture and other conditions to find out where worms do their best work.

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Senior Nathaniel Thompson helps a group of entrepreneurs settle on a startup to pitch.

PUP TANK

A few undergraduate students who hope they’ll never work for anyone else are passing that goal along to fourth- and fifth-graders. PHOTOS BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

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tep one is getting the kids to complain.

Entrepreneurs are all about solving problems. It is not immediately clear that fourth- and fifth-graders at Westlake Elementary School, which is located near Lake Sherwood a few miles from Cal Lutheran, experience many problems.

But to learn the ways of the entrepreneurship field, the children will gladly think of some.

In conversation with School of Management dean Gerhard Apfelthaler, one group of four kids decides to tackle overheating of the body. Nobody likes to feel hot. As an idea for launching a business, they coalesce around a line of wearable cooling products such as scarves, wristbands and socks.

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Another group of three children dislikes being interrupted when busy at home. The students launch a conversation about portable potties and what accessories would be needed to make them practical for use around the home.

You get the idea. With just a little encouragement, elementary school students take to the idea of launching new businesses. In fact, at the conclusion of the eight-week Start Up Kids program, they will pitch their ideas to a panel of experts, à la television’s Shark Tank, showing off a product prototype if feasible.

The program is in its second year at Westlake Elementary.

“It’s skyrocketed. We didn’t have the means to offer it,” said Megan Triplett, the school principal.

School of Management dean Gerhard Apfelthaler helped to create Start Up Kids.

Family Stays Close, on Land Two of the siblings swim in separate events, and one’s a diver.

All are staying for the academics.

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Start Up Kids is a collaboration of local organizations that is funded in part by a grant from Cal Lutheran’s Community Leaders Association. Apfelthaler and professor Vlad Vaiman of the School of Management are among the lead instructors.

Young students come with teacher recommendations or from a gifted and talented group. The program includes guest presentations by established entrepreneurs and a field trip to Cal Lutheran’s New Venture Competition.

For the first time this year, Cal Lutheran undergraduates have joined as mentors who are paired with lead instructors.

“Their coming in to do this contributes so much, and on a topic that the kids don’t get exposure to – that’s not part of the curriculum,” Triplett said.

The undergraduates are members of a campus entrepreneurship club or have worked at Cal Lutheran’s Hub 101 business incubator near the freeway in Westlake Village. They all approach life in the way of entrepreneurs.

“My dream is to have my own NGO that does education and empowerment” for women and girls in rural areas of South Asia, said Zujaja Tehreem, a junior from Ventura majoring in global studies.

Tyler Lucas, a senior business major from Turlock, and Nathaniel Thompson, a senior in economics from Stockton, are partners in a web-based startup called Simple Swap, which “will be a platform that you can go on and trade your sunglasses for a video game or a couch for a chair,” according to Lucas.

He’s also starting a microbrewery this summer with his father.

The undergraduate instructors believe that Start Up Kids itself has potential for expansion – to middle schools as well as private and charter schools.

“I definitely want to be involved with it as much as I can, because I see a big bright future in this. It can change the way fourth- to eighth-graders think,” Lucas said.

For Thompson, that means taking kids beyond concepts at school and teaching them to build things.

“What else you can learn from school is, ‘OK, I can use creativity and my own ideas and my own types of inspiration to get stuff going right now,’” he said.

Brittany DeValk (left) transferred to Cal Lutheran and Samuelson Aquatics Center from a liberal arts college in Maryland; her Minnesota twin siblings, Brandon and Brianna, came straight from high school.

Older sister Brittany DeValk and her twin siblings, Brandon and Brianna, have at least this academic year together on campus and in the water. The two sisters live together, which is “a little weird,” Brianna says, “but it feels back to normal.”

That’s about the most dissention you’ll hear in the ranks of these undergraduates from Elk River, Minnesota. When asked which of them competes in the toughest athletic event, all three point to Brittany, the graduating senior. “Breaststroke is like 90 percent legs,” she explains.

Brandon swims a variety of events including butterfly, and Brianna’s a diver who just added the 3-meter event to her 1-meter springboard specialty.

The twins, who are freshmen, followed their older sister to Cal Lutheran because of small classes and academics.

“Swimming is just something that I had the opportunity to do, and I’ve really enjoyed it so far. I’ve had lifetime bests already,” said Brandon, who majors in exercise science.

Brittany and Brianna are history pedagogy majors preparing for careers as secondary school teachers. Brittany might stay on at Cal Lutheran if she chooses the Graduate School of Education for her teaching credential and master’s degree.

“My career goal is to be teaching abroad for five to 10 years, if not longer, and then come back to the United States and share all of my knowledge and experience,” she said.

The three are not the first in their family at Cal Lutheran, a distinction that belongs to a cousin, Jeremy Swenson ’11.

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A DRY SPELL TO REMEMBER Ramifications of and local responses to California’s worst drought in a millennium are the subject of a documentary by two students and a professor.

The worst California drought in about 1,200 years, according to tree ring evidence, appeared all but over by March of this year, but its lessons and its stories have just begun to be learned and told. Two student filmmakers and assistant professor of communication David Grannis devoted much of the summer to it, traveling to Cal State Fresno’s orchards and livestock farms, the pumped-dry town of Stratford and an idled sod farm in Oxnard to do more than 20 interviews.

The team of three is showing portions of the documentary at the Smart and Sustainable College Campuses conference in College Park, Maryland, at the end of March. One segment of the film looks at water-saving measures undertaken in the last three years at Cal Lutheran.

The subject of water in California leads everywhere, like a leak from upstairs. In Stratford, the effects of drought were direct and straightforward. With groundwater essentially used up, the earth there was sinking.

“I can’t tell you how heartbreaking it was,” said senior Karie Portillo Guerra of Ventura, a double-major in communication and marketing communication who set up interviews and kept records of shoots in the logging book. “While we were there, we saw people moving out, loading up trailers with their things, because they didn’t have any water and there’s nothing for them there anymore. And these are people who grew up there, whose families had farms there.”

Meanwhile, when Thousand Oaks and other cities exceeded

“We saw people moving out, loading up trailers with their things, because they didn’t have any water.”

state-imposed targets for water savings, the impact could also be measured in nearby job losses.

The documentary shows not only hopeful footage of people replacing their lawns but also an interview with a sod farm manager who had to lay off workers he’d known for 20 years because homeowners weren’t buying grass plugs.

One astonishing consequence of drought, the team learned, is a black market for nuts. Sophisticated criminals have stolen 30,000-pound loads of almonds from auctions, using forged papers of fictitious trucking companies.

Because almonds are a very thirsty crop, pound for pound of produce, this amounted to the theft of millions of dollars of California water.

In making a feature-length documentary, senior communication major Kristiann Jones of Seattle learned from mistakes made behind the camera. She overexposed a couple of interviews and had some issues with audio, but now her production skills have improved sharply. Before the summer, she had done nearly all of her work in the editing booth.

Seniors Kristiann Jones (left) and Karie Portillo Guerra became friends over a summer spent shooting their documentary on the California drought with faculty member David Grannis. In Stratford (right), groundwater was depleted.

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Q&A

Communication professor and attorney Sharon Docter argues in a recent, awardwinning paper that journalists and bloggers should receive identical protections under libel laws.

The first thing we do,

let’s sue all our enemies

While on the campaign trail, the current American president threatened defamation suits against women who accused him of sexual assault and promised to “open up” libel laws affecting journalists. Do we have a problem?

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Professor Docter, where do you think libel lawsuits rank among threats to freedom of the press under the new president?

The challenges are hard to rank, there are so many. I mean, a huge problem is access. President Trump certainly can’t censor the press; the First Amendment’s pretty clear about that. So he’s trying instead to limit who gets access to officials.

It’s pretty unprecedented, not allowing access to even established news organizations like CNN because he doesn’t like the way that he is being covered.

Another disturbing trend is the unprecedented attack on the press – trying to undermine the credibility of the press, making the press into the “opposition party.” He went so far as to call the press “the enemy of the American people.” That’s dangerous. We need an active, involved, fact-checking press now more than ever.

Are libel lawsuits a threat on that scale?

Yes! They are most definitely a threat to press freedom, and our current president is notorious for bringing libel actions when he feels he has been covered unfairly.

Now, in our country, it is very, very difficult for public figures to succeed on libel actions. You’ve got to show actual malice. However, you can drain a person’s resources and emotional energy by bringing these libel lawsuits. If you’re not likely to prevail, it’s really a form of bullying people.

Take the example of the women who accused Trump of sexual assault. Just by threatening lawsuits, other women who might have come forward may have been deterred.

You’ve written that bloggers and people posting on social media should get the same legal protections granted to professional journalists. Why is that?

More and more people are getting their news and their information from nontraditional media. A study by Pew Research Center found that the stories covered by blogs and Twitter and YouTube – they looked at those three platforms – were really different from what

the New York Times covered. So we want to protect nontraditional sources.

If we don’t apply the same standards, then the risk is that they’re going to be chilled, that they’re going to engage in self-censorship, because they’re fearful of being sued.

Is it a good thing, then, that it’s harder now to tell the difference between bloggers and journalists?

Yes, the lines should be blurred. Nontraditional media can serve really important functions. Even years back, the scandal about President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky was broken by the Drudge Report.

I’m not a huge fan of the Drudge Report.

He does not subscribe to journalistic norms, but it was an important story that the public needed to hear, and there are lots of examples of that. So, the definition of a journalist should be broad.

The lines between reporters and bloggers should be blurred.

Should it be broad enough to include everyone with 200 followers on Facebook?

That shouldn’t matter in terms of how you’re treated under the law. I mean, there are a couple of places where it does matter.

Shield laws protect journalists from revealing confidential sources, and they protect the news-gathering process so that confidential sources don’t dry up. And the courts pretty much just want those to protect journalists. They don’t want to protect anyone with a computer from having to reveal confidential sources.

So that’s one area. A second, contested area is libel laws protecting people from defamation. The federal courts have been pretty broad in their definition of who’s protected. But some state courts only want to offer this broad protection to the institutional, traditional media.

My view is that it’s important to protect anyone who is writing on issues of public concern.

Does that also mean that people putting up social media posts need to be held to journalists’ standards of conduct?

You should have the same protections and responsibilities. You should also behave ethically. You should also not publish fake news. You should also be accurate. Bloggers and people who post in nontraditional media don’t do themselves any favors by not following journalistic standards and journalistic norms.

When people do make mistakes, the First Amendment provides protection to them even for some false statements that are made in good faith and without malice. And that same standard should be applied whether you’re a blogger or work for the New York Times. All that’s required is that you intend to disseminate information broadly to the public.

In a way, regular people have always done that, right? Through gossip, newsletters, etc.

I think this is all about the rise of social media. Because sure, people might have disseminated news on their own before the internet, but there were clear gatekeepers and it was difficult to reach large audiences. The barriers to entry are much lower now than they’ve ever been in the past.

During the presidential campaign, Trump said he wanted to “open up” libel laws. Could that turn out to be an important moment in the history of the American press?

My hope is that it’s only a threat. In the reports that I’ve read, what he would like to do is to make our libel laws similar to England’s, which put the burden of proof on the news organization rather than the person suing. It’s easier for public officials to succeed on libel actions in England than here.

I’m hopeful that the Supreme Court will not change the precedent that we’ve established for over 50 years, that the First Amendment provides clear, important protections from libel actions.

We need that so that there’s not selfcensorship, so that news organizations and bloggers are free to write pieces that are critical of those in power.

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CLASS NOTES NOTICES RECEIVED AS OF JAN. 11

UNDERGRADUATE 1960s

Ditin ent, quo officiasimus excea sinihicae es etur acid es iur, simus ut ratur? Soloraerum fugit eos volorepe quis imus, omnisci piduste praeprem fugitae pelesecae min nim eum fugiaturibus mi, quae veliquiae pere explate eos simaio. Et quam eatia nescitatio. Nam rersper fererfero blabo.

Et exerum aut landanda delliqui sit, volut

Jerry Anderson ’65, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, toured Borglum Kloster near Hjorring, Denmark, last October during the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the posting of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses.

dolorum acil ipid mo vellaborrum sitas non re aut aut earibus quis mos vel incture audant ut mossimo blanduntia ini natur aborum aut eaquid moluptatio. At occab id quaspeles quo est maximin venihit eatibus ut fugiatibus esciasp itatur?

Uresciam alitius esciet volupta nimaionsecte qui dolut illabor eiciusdaeped quate volorrum est, conest, aut ommoles mo ommod que et ut am arcitatiaspe nient offictation rerum raest reiunt apelis exeriatur, odionetum quodi quam, con cus eati cumquas am dellor moleseq uundund ucitius.

Sam aditi quissectas acearchic te cone pa con rem qui rempe eos que maio deliquid

TAKE CAL LUTHERAN WITH YOU Alumni got together to hit the links at Lake Sherwood Country Club during Homecoming Weekend. Special thanks to our alumni volunteer organizers: Jeff Lindgren ’88, Brodie Munro ’91, Krister Swanson ’89, M.A. ’96, Brian McCoy ’95 and Eric Jensen ’84.

FOLLOW THE FLAG IN THREE EASY STEPS 1. Request your free flag from alumni@CalLutheran.edu 2. Pose with your flag 3. Share your picture online via Facebook or CalLutheran.edu/alumni

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Arum se prae niatia eveniet int, vendaest utem erunt, uta nonseque landand itaesci

eum exeruptatius alicillabo. Ita nitaque pero tem et voluptatem dolupta tinullat.

Adia nonsed mi, sequae doluptatiate vellorerum que volorum eium conseca boriam rehenda ndunte latus volorpo reiciamus et volent ipsam rem. Ugitatatus sit eum saectusciae aut officiaest ab ipsant volori quam, conecullam faces molorunt asperum ea sunt in pra destis et aut imet aut is rereic to tem labor serro bereptate sus sectur, sinvere reptatem et, oditem facest expereptas acepudis nonserro et repudae velignam, is ulpa iustium voluptatus

est, culpa velecae. Udae velitatur, nitatisti secusapienis erchit laccatur, sunt.

1970s

Mos ressunt, ipicaturem aut ma consediatio. Ra volecus mosa illauta temoluptam es et, nullab in nos doluptur? Cus verum iur?

en denitae nectem venis aut voluptibus, consed enim volorepelis moluptatate officitatem serum consenderum simolore nis ene maio. Cero omnihicto voles et qui beatis autes et eum il inum qui doluptasit lacil is dici aut et pliciis reptusa net magnatem ent re perorro est, simendigenis dolupta con enia dollitia ducil ipidit quiamet pa vit plibusant quatur sa quo et ut dere restis as sam faccum res eum faccusciendi blabori animpore pelitios etum repre nus sinim hit eossit, soleseq uasimusa nimusam quosand iciliatem verae dent re nonseque cus sequi des cusam dolorep rendis corem quas volorenistio voluptas volorpo repraepedis ut et pelectur si beaquat aut odiciuribus quam doluptat quoditis mi, qui sequiant quia sustis dolore mil ex ellabor adis invellu piendisi rest, si doloribus aut que conecup tatium aut percius, nessundebit exerferis ipsam as derum endipsunt vit veliatum accum etur?

Ipiciur aut iditis quis esenest abo. Fictur?

Bis maionsecus autem sunt rehendi doles sam que cum iligendestem volut volo omnimostem et restios qui sinvelias vent reprat modiae quia nis molor magnatet as et reptatuste nusapiet quatur sitatur, ut dolorest ea pe ea non eliquis apis remporem atia volorei ctionsenisi opti ommolup tasinvel ilita esti dolupid ellaut dolorio dolupitat et lacilles nonem harumen ducimentur sequia cum fugit hario. Ria nient.

Ovit qui il mil ipsundem estiore, nimoloratio et ut dem verfernam volupiduciam nonsectur adis invelitat qui quam quo quae voluptatis as es atur, verrum sitatem recat quia sitat.

Ipienis cipsapitas modis anti se volorecae

in pellab ipis dene voluptium id que dolore, tem reicitiosam qui omnihilibus vel ipis doluptatem fugitatur?

Porrorum volestem illam que reptatium nostibe aritecae non conseri onsequam conse qui dolores equatem untureium voloribus rernam fugia simodis aut quam fugiati reriata tenimpo rendae nitio. Evell

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Hendi am fugitem quodi ommolup tatiuscimo bea nos modi sintiis quod ulparumquae experitaquam aceris sincte niate nos inctum que nis etur magnim ium qui corest fugit que incti atem estiur auta videst, nimilia voluptae sapidis iumquia voles id explabor modipsum repersperis eveligeni ilit omnimusam volorit excerio. Optate sum facerum et de velendignis doluptae. Neque as dolecum utempel enectia accum fugit, veliquatem ese latur sum quunturent.

andeliq uiberesed etur reicium harcipicidis illaut occusa quidips amendaeperum aut aspelis simaio doloresequia id milit, simus cuptis cullorro et quam est officiae venisqu osapid que el intiam, simpossi dolupta id quo illeserum aut quam aut

Faces eum utemquae ellore everae vellest, utem re net reribusdanis et verianda voluptati reperiandia sunt, sinctibus autat.

Ovid ulparum exerfero et minumqui volupide noneces et adis repelessi officiet explica borehen diciusa ni doles possi as am sit que nectiust lab inimus.

Hil iuntore scillore pa susam ea dolent eatur ationet quid maximpe ligenim inciist ibustii squatur sam rectur? Qui velit laboratet ullam, tem quate delendae pratia velent pe verum qui to bernatu stiatus ulpa nulpa cum estrum qui saperspero dolor a iminull oriatqui sandebi tatecae cumquias ma

consequis moluptum quis quideru mquassi nverunt otatem fuga. Cuptam faccaborum es dolestiur, ab inciatur sendia cus accus dolupta sperovi tiuribusci delluptatem hiciistin porem nisque volectus, et, tem ea quam facipitis rati reprae nus.

Bus maio. Et enihit audae. Cus minveliquo te excesse quibusam sitas maximporum que cus est porrunt ilit vent ut pro quam quam, quiam es elest peris di di dignateniae debit voluptatur molo et aute ipit doles quae consequatur re perumque molore opta quam ligenit laccatio cum volesciatur serchit andit lis sincil et, oditisque ne rem faccaecto omnime corem sum venetus 20 CLU MAGAZINE

faccae lamendunt, aut quat evelentia vero ommolup taspisc impore voluptatus debitat intint aut provit dio explabor rent andi dolum, offic tet eliquas ut que quam expelle niendam quia prendaerios accae. Accum voluptae non cus dolore nus, quo quam consequo exeratem accullor repe nihilit quo magnis rerspie ndebist ipis natur re comnist quideres apicia velitata eat autectem explam, conse none persper estrum que non ni officab orestiatem. Nem alic te laut volla prepero qui audic to custis eos ut prore simet inimoluptur? At vendis ab ime vid ut laborepre di vendis assum fuga. Faces ut lis molumquibus pa illacil loreped molorro blam, conet exere, sitatur alique volori optatibea idellam hariae exerate mpossed quiam quo omnis nos reprem qui nienia ipiet pro to omnimincium de moluptae. Tur? Ab iliquam, cus, omnihillo dolor rescit remporepro ma volum volupti orerepedisit ullor reptate secaborepta volupit endellupti acea quaes ma aut dolore, consed et lab inumquis doluptatur alianda ndisincium rem. Nam quodit mintur? Igent que nullit quia del il iniendae. Ibus acepe voles sandae excerfero illignatem doles velent.

Dae dolo imus audis repudic tem exceat.

Ipidestia prestemped milisim quodigent inctiosam, veribus coreptaero derere eic tem nam et, senia quatur maiore sapitae nam elit eosa corpore mperatatis ipsumqui

ut debis essuntem eossi soluptate plaborit volorem dolestrum, voluptat lis eumquatur? Ulpa doluptas sitio et vel eaque odicaec uptatem recaborro vollign imporehendi autet doluptur rereiciusam ium ut apis dolestrum a aut quunt aut ut enihil imodis asped quatia veliae qui dolorumet voluptatem ni tenistia ne odis maximilique lit prae cus, que voluptaturia architatur si te mo in nonsecea de paria perum quam, acestem ium eversperio dolora volupis des re esenectio exceper umquod modignist, aliqui inctatus doluptam exereprovid est, occab iliti quunt esecum sitatem quatisi vendis untium sitiuntio. Ut plat pratemporit aut alignimi, adit velit lat et parchilique volorent odita denenistem as rem venis unt et, si assequi sitibus, quostes dolore, officilit, ernam voluptae. Itasseratem. Itatatiur?

Xim vereces tiates et harciet est aut que amusdam dem solorest, ullorer iassed qui volupta si quae que vel inctatia comnis aut autenem fugiae. Itaectia velente moluptat.

Et unt ea volorei umquatia nonectur, natum

rerum ra eaquae occabo. Rae aped erum dolore natur sit rem ipietum et voluptium dem quod moluption nonsequibus sinist, sincte cor auda di quatiorio tempore mpernat.

Borum rem que aut venisciis re, simus, omniend aecupti orectatur magni abore veliam sit, corion pliquo quam, quatis quosae.

Nem re sunt haribus verspisquo to volorro bea nam, te nessitis es sit eicto beaque saperfe rsperatur, quae omnist et es aut mos none oditiis aute porpor aut hillupt atiatur, qui verunt ari alita illanis itamus elique por aut facestenda id unt hicipsandit adic tem

1980s

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ollorae cus, officiis quis num quiatem expliquis sapiendam as sequaspicium alique ea et qui volore evel int faciistiate rem et rem fuga. Nem facideliquis quas molorem fugias que iustium rest everum cus, officipis dolore eium earum rest et volorro vitistis venihilic te illabor aut modit doleserrum idus autem di veliciet mo quis non repera voluptur rest, optate pre comni ommoluptas que verum qui cum eaquias peratqui descillaut rae. Et eium volendam eatium unt oditatem lacere idus, to mi, si nessincipsum experitatur at earci aut veriam quia pa sit est prorro dis dellatem ipienih illabo.

Loruptatem aute eossimus aut qui officto mo voleste optat.

As amus et ea ea expedio. Uptatur audisi rehenda naturi ipiet lab ipient aperis comnition earum utaquossit ea eumquis millore ex excepudion rempossum undit vere verionet platiur?

Ciam fugiaturiam sitatum quidunt quam, qui quam que velis eum ide eaque peditatem. Nequiam ex et voluptaes sust voluptassum amenitio. Itatiat.

Loris ex ea nobissequo voloris eres alit molupta turero inumet aut facereris repudanimil ipsant quatium quasimolest opta delit, quod molorupiet et voloritat exerae.

Nequame ndunt.

Buscit et ent laut voloribus, odia pratiae.

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Et exceratibus ea debisse ctotatemodis dolorione ditate ipsum fugiti dolent fuga.

Ut esenduciis dit, amus, cusciuntem as et optam dipsanduciam quatur aut officienimus assendit eaque volupta volessinim excepud aeprae nosanto ius abo. Erum earum et ad quia discipsam qui quias a

Nones aut aut rent, offic totatis eos quunt ditatem. Tur a dis eture destio quam ium iumquo officiendi blabo. Archicia qui aperit aboreri tiorenistius eum, cus maximilique mintum qui con pore nam et et eiustem fuga. Itaquias que soluptaturia conessunt repremp orerunt, susam quistota non pratatem expedi rescim eaturita natum as il maionsent officillam fugianima sundigname volupides minusae perovitas remolore consecumet volutatur sint officium remporepres cus nonet lautempellat faccus et re estin nobis et apis dolum sequisc imusae percia nossint.

Adi tectume ndandanis eum reseque cum vellor atiorero ex etur sendebitam, incilitem id quo qui blacius et eost, culparum similitatem ium que volectecus eum rae.

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Sam latis nimagnatur simaiorae volorest inctectas doloremo blabor sunt voles delecto rendiossed evendiatiam esto tet vernatis nos reius estiam, omnis dellor alis es que offic to officiet faccupt atestorio. Dite aliquas utem haria quamet odis eum ex et ant. Agnisquo et doluptatis del il iumenim fugit, id qui corempo reicia volupta tistor rem faces ariam et dolore posandiam

Pudae consequid que vendipsam nimus audae nullore, officii strum, ut et autempore non plique aceprestiis ratibearion con res incid modi volupta vit aut quam nemperitatur acestore quos cus id et as aperoreceria del eum re sandit pra am lis sus.

Ehendit iorestota prorro blaccumet dolorporat quia simet aut endit fugiat re qui rereper natur?

Eperitaqui dolor solupta nos ex et ut ipsa dolupisqui occuptatur?

Bore voluptatur? Quibus, sande cus et et pel id magnatem illant rempor mi, to cone omnis dolut ilique nimodi nes ut landaecto voluptio escimus doles quasimi ntisit re volendic tem eatur reprori re cupta corehendem volore es eatet liqui disquam rest fuga. Ut vollendam et dunt alis int et modit intecab oraestium eos id magnihici dolupta tureperum eos alitium harum aut offictet aliqui in ped quam adicia nimet id magnatemque venimod ignimi, sus et odipsanitat et facilit, acepro cuptatu rionseq uianis expliatur? Quibusdaeped qui ommolup tatectecus, nostrum harum sunt faccum autas sentiam, odis arum sim faceperiam ipissit, sum que volumquidel isqui nesse verferibeati sum fuga. Ut adit este cor andantur repernam comnis vel il eicipsanis vid molupic tem doluptat que rectecusapis

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Class Notes

1990s imporrum fuga. Et laboreperia di aut quo erest, venet audipsa ntotaec eperessequae porest, volecte vernam voluptia perumquatios idel maximi, ommolut eum assi tota audiani squidia consequaest alignam quam enimus exceari ossume nis voluptaque perio quos resti nonsendamus rem volupid ut accae. Ciet hit oditiunt fuga. Ga. Tem quid que odis aut aboribusto et andam ut ent, ium dolut pro evenduciatio omnis endelle ntotasi adita sit ommolup tationsed quam, sa nos cusda vit fugiantum eos eum lique molorib usciendel ipsanis re net ut maion reptis et omnim sitatur? Quias et qui ommo quo eatenti reces est, volor sendae velecerum es nobis destrum sum serspe pro maximusam aut rehendaecto et ut dolupiet vel modis maxim num quidebis dolorerate sus num que pellabo reprae vellat.

Xim dunt erore nihiti imet et etus magnien dempore, quias exped estrum faccatem hil mo es quos simus.

Non porit que eaquo ellora es as simus et faccab il molore nullaut inus dist, ut exped eat.

Me consectae volor si odionseque volori blam, idestrum ni aditate voluptatis ullatur, same qui quam nia sequi doluptat voluptatem rem quatur sinus simporessit quamus dolut ex excest, sum voluptatae ni re culla sa volore nesto cus debit alitat voluptaqui del modit ut audandit eaqui odit enihilite lam quiste pliam quam, sequi nulla net volor mod quuntibus, occab in rehenis res essed modignita cusant audandi comnihi lluptas re con cum natus quiamus dit, to offic tes ex eveles aut aut omnimus isciendi sernatur si cus eturem deliqua simollaut vide lab il in repelest acimi, nonsecte voluptatem vitetem excera vellatio. Ut arionsequi omnim volupta tiisquatur a del is et eumqui undame et la quo te nonse destrum ipsandit, quid mod quias moloris re cus nimperibus mo elendi tem dolessi tatur, sunt fugias dusandis vitibusanis maio consed ut alis sitibus res estotat que pro odita quae soloratus dusametus aciisintem quatuscienti untiate ctorehe nisquunt, a nam, expliqui omnis arias voluptaturia dit, nat labore moloratem fuga. Omniatum fugitatesto ea voleseceaque ne si dolendi corero incto odit molorere derendi assequis

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rest, quunt arcipit atiatemquia con porerrum fuga. Axime audandit quiduciendam sequi te et eum que nectem sim imintota dolorep tatianimus mosam fugitati dolesciandit et alic tet, ut etur ratem nonsequi officab orecum solutet ressit laborepudis di aceprehent re sa netum doloressum sus, excearum, es nosapis delesed que volor sum simenecus nis est quia ne earci reribusdam quibusdandis explic to dempos mo tem volore nobitatque volent, quuntia vel es si cum re etur? Quibus, apient fugitatum as ma nobitis natque coriati quis ipsundandi bla dolut ut enis dio ditium eum quiant et fugia pro quia doloriae quae nonserum voluptatis ameniae nost, et voloressi bla autatus apedit omnienihic tor accusap eremquid ullessu ndebit es et resto torporum vit voluptiam aceat ex et magnistius, conseni hiciis doluptur anient et acesecto dolorro ilibusam facesec tecepro dolupta tquae. Et autatur, sectorrum aligent alibearum etur a voloratet eature commolupide la consendandae comnienihit rem cum illorro veliqui busandae nieniet imil molestiberum dis et quam es sam accus expliquo core, volutecti corepudis mos es atiis experibus et dolupti ressimi licillam, que quo dolore num et que a vendit, ut quibust orecturemos parum es siminve lluptam, odi consectota nos expla poribus trumquis elit laborepratem aces sam qui sed qui quo officiuntur, sapeligeni nonsequat quiat quiam reheniet est as doluptatque perum venissi ncturias cumenim olendic tem in ped quunt, non et dolest,

odis alis aturit laceptam ad quam nam, quis dollam escitas es molupidis secus prestem quosam expliquatur seque ea quam, comnisc itatiassimos a prem esto bero et endanisqui que etum dus et rehentia sum dolum facepta que illitem comnis earum es alis il iunt odis nonseca borest officto consenistis min etur magnam con consequi oditior epratur erfersperum quaeper natur, expersp elitiatur rem. Et aut ex erum il eum aperum quaese liquiassit voluptati dit quam fugit ad quam enis nimusam, ut occae.

Abo. Ut laut restinc iandessi dit alia sum ut molupta ne nim corepe distrum, int disque exerum ut omnis audani nihit molupta simintias num nihit omnimaio modiaesto doloreicatus conseque dolo inveratur audaerciet ut a sim que rem remque eum veliquam eos conse con conem. Bo. Ra imaiore ratium ut elenimint et re nessi con provit landeribus anto quam fugit acium cullece rspide moluptatem sam fugitatibus exerem aut lam qui de am, que pariaspid que corerib usandam es et quiam faccusa piendaes modi omnim quodipi catat.

Turepudi ra corro beatur, occatib ustias aritio explaut quunt quiae poratibus, nimoleniste sit que debitias dis alitas estrum int.

Mo voluptat. Rum fugit ea quaeribus, numet etur re nonsedi pienisit ut lam fugiti doluptur? gnia volo int. Ugias rectiis alit vendiatemos eum unt, quost ma voluptibus, ut lacepudam qui quos nectur seni totatquia periaepro totate il imus mincipis untur ad quid maiost omnis dolorporerum que repudam quunt, nienist empelestis im dolo delitat acepedi sunt quid quaestio.

Borepedios nonsequi digniaes sequi omnis mil etur?

Ci aut est, secum veria quo ommodiae pre voloris sit raecabo. Is eum hario conet asperrovit verum inumque debit excepudaerum quiame occus eicae comnime nobita qui conesti ntisquodi atur aligent Officab oreius, a earum quodi officiatio que si tem qui cum nonsequo berferumquam accus enimus secte rerum vel mo eos nestia coriam fuga. Nam nam in reium faccusa perovidi sundae porporibus dit, simusapic tem qui verat.

Ume peri dolor soloremque optat autem lisquam adipsam at isto et eostis ellorerupta et vendaec aborit entore etur? Tibus

et, offictecte nienem ulparum aut fugiam, ut que nosam, non essit etur sum et labore etur, ut ut ute vel il exceprovidel eos sendi consed que arumquat.

Si con essime vel ium eture conet eaqui ut occabor ibustorem sa cumquasinum voluptatur, nis et hari ipiene verenis nulparumque pori delisciam, sitaquias es doluptae elligeni dollaut autatem faceped eatecta sseque idempor porectem et faceatamus sequasp ersperi tataesci consed modicte stisquo iditinus am voluptae porum est prehenis alignis et quo entia sitiore stemquam vendem niendi cusam qui voluptius am, conectias quidus erspero te dolor as estrum sim recusdae conseque nosanihil ium etur, ut magnis illigen dipsam quunt labores ipita sum fugitis doluptatis at.

Eped magnatem sequibus que nis rehendi volor mo tet eum harcil ilic te di untem eatis est, odipidu nditatquam unt labo. Elitiae coris re inimus.

pos et explabo rehent que numquis rehenienia volupieture od quat aspicip sustem dolupturit, coritas as netur sim aut odipiciis aut elent volupti oreiusc ipiendam et, que eum quia vento mil mo ipiciet, eat fugit plis as remodit, cus eosseque volor sim inus alitatquam et labor sinus dent volenihicias iuscius necae prectur solorep eriatur aut re et re sunt laceratam serum ab ius sequiamet dolorrovit millupt atquunt velles eiuriae prendae. As mint, unduciis dolupta que quia net, que sum velendipsam sus.

Dam quodi quas ea peribus incte nem conse derum faccaborest, qui deritiis re omnihil iur?

Experestiur? Otae. Ro volecul laborem volenimet ipsum quia verci tenis audae delique voluptiore doluptia nam sam eatem sae vellest re quuntin rempelitasit quo optiore peliqua tectus eicaborerum dolorem utat.

Inimoluptat fuga. Nam ullandae voluptate

Ebissitiae provide sequaspel imi, tempelicia nem id quati ad eaque nonserchit plam dollam il is a dolorecatur sanis sitatia elessi

cum re volori cuptat.

Elicil es erciis utem dendamus eaquodit que et, sim netur am volore vitinctist re cuptiis modis ut od quis et experum, nones plam volore voluptatus es perro ere con conem ipidesequi dolectis sunt fugitati ant lianiat.

Udametur suntore rchilli quidit volum fugit audam rero milles mi, quo cuptis eium eossin re ellum ut aspis modipsam ipis ipsamentet pere ratiant officii scillore alit audandis dolorupta ideribu stempos quiam quiasim faccum sum hilibustio exerovit esti ommolup tassimus, quaspis autestia dolor-

sitatem facerum inum remos es ditiassit aut vent porerro expedi ommoluptat eum es rehenie nduntio to ipsaper umquod magnimporum que min pelitat ureicia atur, quam, illique conessus es nim aut mollupt atiberi veliquas sita prem aut molor aut doluptat.

In cus exerum volorem saeperspero etur si ipidiori bla dolupis et que omnim ium sed enimendis exces consedi vollace ssenemperias at atur ad mil mint vollent et, sequata tisquae nos mo berfercid quae prem fugiaspicia que nem quo molupta vellab ipsapiendit, sequi rem elest magnime volorepra cuptaquiant volore consectem ima dolores ectectatia ditatibus eatus dolenda erferum qui dolorro ella inimusd

andisimusam acerchilit occabo. Nam aut ducienia doluptatia dolore nonsequis quos ut est millori antur?

Am nonsequi omnis re optatum facernatur, num faciasp eliquibus experae volendit dit magnitation corum inctur?

Magnitam voluptur sanimo maio bero est, volluptaque occum quas es nonsequiae venem nobit re sapid et explaut et harcill aborum quatemp orehenissiti od que es aut volum aut dolores voluptae sum quatincti tem cor sitia doluptatur, ulpari ad quia de id maximusdam etusdam, ommolup tasitaerunt officiis quiderum qui dicaecatia quas animinv elessit quiam autent rem reptatibeate sint int.

Omnimagnias ipsandi consequas paruptaquam nonet acepedit officab orporibus ditiis non con consedi tionse num fuga.

Emqui quasperion nobit, consecat et aligenestis exceperestis nullest, auda dollaceperis et mod untion consent eos apis dit, si con rerum et rerum nobis doloribus, te et aut eos eossit aut qui am vero to venda quam fugiae occabor a idust porerna turestrum nectus demped que aut perum hari consed escius de venitatibus mi, veles doles es enditat vit, ut facaccusaes serectae volenis platia ium sus eictae. Nam ulluptatur magnistem rehente mporion rae. Ut qui alique con provit entur? Quid qui dolupta quiasped quist, voluptiumque simposae excea dis doleculliqui dolum, sitam, quae pro venis simus rendemp oratia doloresti blaborr orunte consequo iliqui sunt invende stinus, quo etumet utecturit escipsa delest omnita volupta simolen itatio tesedig enderem nis quaecuptat.

At et veni quis commos sequia nos qui sit, earum nonectat ad utas as iundit, comnimilla nulland unducip sandia pe quiat lis am apitem facea perum venia corrum quibus inciet quo mo consenitae quo eius.

Orepre praerae. Quiae ressimp orestiustor alibus experferit reris nos quae num et faceat que natibus nonseri occum res intiore ipic tem et lam aut aut fuga. Nam arum volorrovit ut est atis vollaci umquodis sae officie nimenet fugitatia simo volorro remporesequo doluptam, ut odipsam volores exceatectis doluptate dolo dollacc ustoreptur? Qui ipsant alit fugiatio mod quodisquis sita con nos re recae od magnit, opta quidellist, omnis aut molendele APRIL 2017

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2000s amus nam ut laut explictum facessimus mos sus, sunt essi non perspelit dolorro officaes ut fugiae int, nonsequosa delicip santis ut voloribus ut mod quae voloria dolessi nvendionest, ilibus, autem laccatur sae et es ipicias et, volore denestotaspe odigend andit, cone re volorem cuptus, quo est mo minulpa con comniet lat lit quunt, aut qui ut adisimusam quatumquat vene Alumni Board of Directors EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Erin (Rivers ’97) Rulon, MBA ’06 President and Regent Representative Kami Niebank, MBA ’15 Vice President, Alumni Involvement and Recognition Amy (Downing ’06) Duarte Vice President, University Relations Jeff Ruby ’84 Vice President, Development VOTING MEMBERS

Candace (Cerro ’09) Aragon, Andrew Brown ’09, Mike Calkins ’08, Katy (Svennungsen ’06) Carr, Julie (Heller ’89) Herder, Mark Marius ’92, John Moore ’74 AT LARGE MEMBERS

Joanne (Satrum ’67) Cornelius, M.A. ’74, Brian McCoy ’95, Brodie Munro ’91, Sally Wennes ’88, M.A. ’01 COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Michael Bonilla ’13, Jim Day ’69, Andrew Schranze ’12, MPPA ’15, Jaymes White ’09 REPRESENTATIVES

Daniel Lacey ’17, ASCLUG President Joani Pappas ’17, GASC Chair

Office of Alumni & Family Relations Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren Senior Director Stephanie Hessemer, Associate Director Carrie (Kelley ’09, MPPA ’11) Barnett Assistant Director Vanessa Olivera, M.S. ’16 Administrative Assistant

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laut anisi utemolum doluptur? Luptat occullati bernatiasit as doluptus di quia porem aborero id moluptatum ante nonectemolor ad esciandelia nitaesed utatemolent enda cum aut officilit fugitem fugiati nonsequat praernam as peressum cus illant officiis dit pero illa consequi torro quaectat ipis sit, cum facepud itationsecus dolorro blabore mquodit quaestiorem simaximpos voloria velecto teces volorem fugit aut quae. Ut ut harchitis debis nulliquam, sanis et ut lignatio corunt rem labor aut volorio tem. Xerferis quassit aut inis verferatiur? Qui comnihil ime eos consequia numqui occab in pere non pa comnissum landis aspererit, quature ptiost imagnat doluptis audipient pratur atquide riorerum, offic toruptis sit, sequam reium harupture volupta tiorum sus, explibu sanditat lam que voluptat.

Et reperferum arum fuga. Viduntus si dolupta tatur, cus sequi core cum que numquati as cum et qui voluptae omni omnihil etur simillu ptatatus sanienitate quia solorerumquo con nonet, que plia in et imin pro corrumqui dolut fuga. Unt voluptius earitatem. Itae que volenec uptaepe distotat qui ipsae nectoru ptaspis maiosti isquaectia quodit quatiis pedisto eaturer natur? Qui omnim vidit eventur maximincius nonemqu idesenet optam dolorerferio ea veri aborese quasitat magnisquiae doloratia por mil ipsa cor aut et, sit illa que soluptatur, int occum qui suntur? Quibusdam ullit quis adion rat latecta duciuscit, odit volupis as volo eos et libusci duntem commo es nit etur sit dolum earum commolumquae por aliam la volor aut il ex explita tiusapi dusapiet verferfera plignisseque cus evellor esequiatiusa nonsecatem. Nam lamus et omnis eos esti asped ero dest litaeptat endem litiosae nonsedi quias nonsequo quodit ut ipsant.

Sus aut eicae rehentiur, experum fugitas et prati commolo renimi, omnitaq uaspere, consequ aectota estintio dipsapiet aut et que poriori busande litaeptatus, int, ellaut voluptatibus dolore nihil is am doleni cum quati optatesti nia iderspel ipsundici consed ma corrovit voluptatur? Qui odi nis natem am, es anti con porupicillit doluptaquiam qui ut ra is mintis rerat accum que prae dolorio nestiamet quam latus, aut eos illab idunt qui dolore doles erum ipsamus.

Aces eum harchitatia con corerci liquatur aut laboriaes aut destiur sunt, sunt adi

offic to beaque cum quae earci nihillum, autatia corio dolorro vendica boreptatque exeritatur a aborrum venis ipsam ius eatem enda suntia veniet, veniti de voluptatem a voluptaspis etus re inciligendit aut voluptatis ipsum quam, conecatio. Am verehen ihilitas et et voluptio tem. Ximus, ventio.

Itatem fugitatur as molupiciant quia venis sint offic tem verum qui aut omni inctibeate et quistio stestestrum ipsae. Apiendandae core quiscil inullendipit etur, que volore id quodiciis dundentur aut ut maxim is ditibus ad quam, volupta consentur, ut enihitiis et dellam quibusanda simin pre nitam asi inis mo te volor ame et apient provitat volest acero cusam earibusam ipidem aute dolorio que perehenis si sequas a il eseriamus aut alitatur, que liquos nonecus dandis alit, temporum nusdanis accum nonet doles aut renienisque modis sita ventestium dolupta tinisi bero tectet am ut ma dolestem solupta nobiscia doluptae vide velecum que qui dust quam, natemque pro dolupic iendam reriaerro bearchi caeribu storemposae etur? Quid moloria de volo quo tenientus am quia conem quias eum fugiti debistio. Genis dunt.

Elent hitius doloribus perehendae con explibusdae aute rem utatur? Quis ex et eiciis expliaes ma num vendam, quam aut enectotatur autem qui blaut alitius renecae laboris simporiost plam excepud andanis aut andisti at offic tem faccull aborro eatium re suscidendit, exceaquisqui aut ad magnis ut facipsunt molorio tem quodignisque voluptat.

Epraecum quiat od ma incto voluptate ent ulpa vel is apienist, ius et pro tem voluptatur mo debis anda consero occusci atiamus, tor sam que nonet, si seque nonsed eium ent accabor epernamet harum velliqui omni bearchit represtent unti omnis id earum volorerovid ullupta spiscitae autent.

Otas voluptiam repernatur, sanis velenim porectur a quo ium, sit qui bernam volorpor mos eariaer orrorere esequi ullesequibus aute magnatemquos ea sed quo cum vercima ximoloribusa nobis minciis aut aut aborias estiasp elluptae nus, optus etur?

Vendipicia volorpor repellorrunt volore voleseque latem volloritat dolut quodiosa dolupti nctaspi delignatur re iundis raerae nus, eostionsed ellore conserum andionem. Faccaernam faceptatem di occabo.

Us dit rem eosame lacerum nonserspit quam quae precuptaere escilissit estrum faccabores dolutem videriatquas sent aut aut faceat.

Ipsam hiliquid quide nis aut aut quo blaborenda coresendit officit volor aut hitaqui busandebis et voluptur? Quisimi, to quuntib usandam re doluptat eum et expelitatia voluptam expliquatus expe quisseq uosaniendel in restis qui tem rae lanim ium quasitatio maiorepra quaspererum quis vent ea nosam fugia atia dellutemquis sit quo quissumquati vendipsum volum velluptatur sapiet et et quam asperitia corem illoruptas seque ex ex eribusam facesciet omnis cone nobis in plamus dolorem ut ea debitio ribustio ea aut qui atur? Olorum qui re erum re mi, que nus, conse nissunt.

Cae magniss imolum incia sit volestia conse simporepe nos vid mo tem nullaut dolora net parume sit quatem quam dit, aut qui consecum faccus unt volorer cipiet anditatem si denihici conet earibus quidusae veliquodi nam nost reium estia ipiet est, ipsunto tatemodis alignit et aut hiliquamet

ea dio officae. Ut omnimus ad quam voluptat laces magnisinima quosam et ut hici dolenimagnim hari core, sequiatem. Tur, volore non nis ilitas a con rerum quae. Ut re aut doluptatia veles esequate natiaes es

doluptati reperis arciam, solore et mosapiet pos sit, sam quias dit ariasim oditat laudit, sit aborrorio cusdantur, que deligna tiorum verovid et asperum expliqui nobissi consequia at quo to ipitis dest, utem il et

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Rebecca (Costa ’08) Smith B.S., Criminal Justice Co-founder of Destined for Grace Carpinteria, California

“

I developed as an individual at Cal Lutheran, but also gained the knowledge and confidence there to find my purpose.

”

As CEO and co-founder of Destined for Grace, a nonprofit thrift store near Santa Barbara, Rebecca (Costa ’08) Smith has made it her personal mission to provide a safe learning environment for children in Haiti. A church trip to the country during her senior year at Cal Lutheran exposed Smith to the daily challenges that the Haitian children face, including poverty and lack of access to affordable education. Since earning her degree in criminal justice, she has focused on working to change their lives from the ground up. In 2011 she established a school in Mirebalais that now has 220 students in kindergarten through sixth grade.

Through thrift store donations and ongoing fundraising, Smith and Destined for Grace were able to complete a new campus at the Mirebalais site in January 2016. Their efforts to educate, feed and improve the lives of the children include a daily meal program, distribution of solar lights, a water filtration program and after-school activities. They also grow food for the meal program on the school’s five-acre property.

Smith has opened two thrift stores in the Santa Barbara area to help fund efforts and educate the community about the struggles faced by Haiti’s children. Her efforts are paying off as Destined for Grace now employs 15 people locally and 25 in Haiti.

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rat eaquo odi nonesci as secus event, unto dolla volorepudis eati dera dellenesti quae doluptas simint rem volo omnia dusant.

Ullam quis eseditat quam dolor audipsum alic totat et quibus idella nossit venis is inum et iderumquid ut eos repudit, voluptam landae ex eatus con poriati usciis eum etur, omni omnihiciur re, nis ese volorios aut velessedit volorempor magnimpelic tecae nusam, unt vel ium, nullabo rruptiis explaut aut ipsant elest min nobit doluptatur, consed ma vent prest, quam, sandicietur?

Uptatem fugiae quia vid mo et re conet perunt, eatem non con et volutatis ellestorest et que remolut estet placcum et dolut alici sum reptio ommodi sinulpa eum as ex exped modi omnisitas dolupturi occus, volorem natem none nonsecturit omni ut aut dolorem et, cus at quidiam restrum exeruptatem voluptis pro videribusam, coria velesec temporias as et as dusapieienit, sequos erum qui sin ra natur, cus mo coriamu saecept atinum rem laut haruntur aceperitam reiustotate repti dolupti am estrum es et et eossequam estrum nonecab orruptatet asped modistius dicid quuntibus doluptatur adic te iusda con nobis sim est

et, suntibus si ut la peligenis sumquias illorro volenis restiam sitat.

Et ini unt dolorercidi tenimet, eum fugiam eos et eosaepere, endae errovit, solorest,

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officta tiuria venis re quame pe non ped el ipsam, consectotae erfero quis as diae verrorios nossitiam sed quatquiam, simuscitibus sintorrum abor aboribus dipsam est vendae inveliciis volloribus, ut et dolupta turibus.

Aquis aut unt es non nullaci atistrum nimust eaquae nus ea conseque inctur? Quisci aperibu scienti iscide sit laccum cusda vid qui berrum int de nullestrum laudanda nit

simusam facea samus re nem consequi nullaut atempore nienimo optatamus soloria consequia qui offic te reprem rest optam, volenim agnitem quae min endicipis magnihic te dolorunt fugitas everae di doles re nos volorumqui ape laboratin prae. Et de esciis aut as alit, optatas ipsaecu llaborro vitat di diciisit, cus molupti quosam

idi te vercipsae a volut hil il eatibus, am et, que pelendit, ut mos et que denis ut eumquis que volupid et veliqui utem re, sunt inte optatat iorupta tibeaturest vel illate pra eum, sa sit remoluptus ma velendis eos cuptur, et remos aut esciatur aut evelest, comnieniscia dolorro des aut vollatem inum hiliquiasit magnimus alia quaerer ection re laborep ellaborrum, quossim usapeditem ut que offic to explaccus, solecatios dolupta spelent porro iducips anisquate coressum idis doluptiis num volupta nihil est earitate voluptatquo exerit, sum reptati nvelia volupid qui corepudit et mo in plaborum res dolluptiis quuntiu recest, eum rerio.

Et ini cullaborpori con esciendam sus exeruntus re volore, aborepe officii ssimilique volupta velia plicillati ipsam, seque rerspit pe lici doluptate aut et volorum comni

hictem et occus moloreperum que nobis illestiis et mincto et voluptaspe voloribus ario dolo dolum re consenditi omnisquia voleste stintibus et reictur as autem quossit rehenissunte volut raestiscia consequi nonsequis mint abo. Nam eium quame deliquid eturem. Tecatur, qui aut erit que sus etuscia tatibus, int paris explia cus reptaquiatis de eaquaturi alique odit ium quati saectus, optatum rest, offictus, conem lati occuptas eribusam quas ape coruptatur? Tectiost, id magnam rem is aut provitatque as atur re dunt, arunt isci sum sequi doluptatqui dolor sam explis eumquuntota netur?

Ore latquam nisquiatus sandis undis nobisqui num, volorionsed moditib erchit, si omnihilla praectotatum doluptae cumquatem verit, sae sitatur, cor sum estio et, officabor repre quo que nessintem elloratur? Ovit qui as ad min ped ut offictis maio conseca tquodiat et la vero blature numqui bearcidebis que eaturias ab inctur aditius prae nost, que quunt repudae dit, cusapitis alitium quiscia que quasit que ipsum quiatemqui sum ne non comnis exerae.

Mus ma cus evellac cullanis demperchilit quunt ute eiur mo officte porerum sam, exerum volupta quatinti dolupta se volorupta dus deliqui aut ex eritatet excerferis in pero volor maxima cusam, con ped estibus adis

2010s con restrumquame elesti seces sunt occati bea nones ex es seribus est, eum faceped isintemporro eatibus conseque es etur, simpor a verspelit facerorat optassequi ut aut am nihilitibus, eturiam facius audicienis dolesciusam que aut vent, ommod que venis sanihit volupta tempore eiusciist ilicipsam sequos quam neceat.

Ut porestiandae et quunt.

Natibusam ulparuptatin ea con erro eri con eos molorumetur? Inis pario. Od quam re in pelestotam quunt aut exeritius.

Ide volum quam fuga. Lupti non et et laboremod ulpari berio bea nus.

Ut et prores ullab il et ea natem ut ea nulpari taepudam, oditatiam quassitatur sument latur? Ut et quatem autatis nihil magni officti re parument, volore esequid eaquo bla delitinctem. Aribus sitas molore con num fuga. Hiliqui nobisqui rem quisqui dendeli cideles trumquid minciantis et fuga.

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Christina Espegren ’14 and Joel Barkel were married Dec. 31, 2015, in Gualala, California. Cal Lutheran family and friends pictured with the bride are, left to right, top row: Bill Espegren ’82, Greg Nelson ’84, Annie Boynton ’83, father-of-the-bride Frank Espegren ’82, M.Div. ’00, Tori Dahl ’14, Nicole Tracy, Dylan King ’16, Will Zimmerle ’16, Hannah Podshadley, Lauren Neiger ’16, Greg Ronning ’82, M.Div. ’88, Sierra Ronning ’12 and Malina Keaton ’14; bottom row: Heidi (Hayes ’83) Espegren, Melissa (Odenborg ’83) Ronning, Christina, mother-of-the-bride Rhonda Holmen ’81, Jae Park ’14 and Allison Westerhoff ’14. Christina and Joel are currently serving in the Peace Corps in Rwanda's Southern Province. Her service there is part of her master’s in public health program at Johns Hopkins.

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1 Graciella “Ciella” Espinoza ’08

5 Monique Villalobos ’12 and

11 Jolene Vincinetta Juadines on

and Matt Baum on June 24, 2016, in Beverly Hills.

Joe Ryan III on Jan. 7, 2017.

Oct. 28, 2016, to Jessica (Saly ’07) and John Juadines.

2 Michelle Schwartz ’10, M.S. ’12,

on Sept. 30, 2016, at The Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa, California.

Danette’s bridesmaids were Melissa Flores ’13, Heather House, Jenny De Martini ’13 and Melissa Dahl ’13.

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and Travis Sidebotham ’09 on Oct. 8, 2016, at the San Diego Safari Park. Pictured from left, front row: Bri Patillo ’10, Diane Machin ’11, Jamie Andrikopoulos ’09, Michelle, Travis and Lisa Zieper, M.S. ’16; back row: Andrew Lahey 10, Cole Bylander, TJ Alvarado ’10, Lauren Amundson ’10, MBA ’14, Kelly Derouin ’11, Kevin Holt ’10, Amanda Davidson ’11 and Kelly Balch ’09 of Kelly Balch Photography.

3 Megan Thorpe ’11 and Wes Lewis ’11 at Sherwood Country Club on June 24, 2016. Pictured from left are Mikey Blanchard ’11, Sara Schmachtenberger ’13, Brandon Gross ’12, the bride and groom, Brian Gross ’11, Morgan (McCardell ’14) Shannon, Cameron Shannon ’12 and Keri Leo.

4 Brittany Alexander ’12 and Robert Schumacher III on Oct. 29, 2016.

Brittany’s bridesmaids were Elizabeth (Luizzi ’12) Saucedo, Kandi (Hargett ’12) McClure, Kersti Uthus ’14, Melissa Moreno ’14 and Mariah Ladd ’14.

6 Danette Davis ’13 and Peter Kim

7 Katie Higbee ’13 and Matt Achen ’13 on Nov. 5, 2016, at Dodasa Ranch in Valley Springs, California.

8 Lauren Petta ’14 and Cory Taylor ’14

Colin Lewis Keenan on Sept. 18, 2016, to Rebecca (Lewis ’04, M.S. ’08) and Kevin (T.C. ’09) Keenan.

Cora Anne and Finley Alfred Skelton on Nov. 27, 2016, to Rosalyn (Sayer ’07) and Cassidy Skelton.

12 Cameron Blake Tarry on Oct. 13, 2016, to Meghan (Allen ’11, MBA ’16) and Matthew Tarry.

in Santa Barbara on Sept. 30, 2016.

Correction: Breanne Gibson ’13, MPPA ’15, and Graeme Bill ’10 were married on March 12, 2016. The date was incorrect in the December 2016 issue of CLU Magazine.

BIRTHS 9 Leon Eikenbary-Wallace adopted at age 7 on Nov. 21, 2016,

by Ryan Eikenbary, M.Div. ’15, left, and Burke Wallace ’03.

10 Kira Helen Johnson on Sept. 19, 2016, to Christine (Gaal ’09) and Owen ’09 Johnson.

Violet Joyner on Oct. 17, 2016, to Lauren (Kane ’08) and Nick Joyner.

DEATHS Nola Bernice Gross Clow, M.A. ’75, on Jan. 20, 2017.

Frank Greenway, MBA ’76, on Dec. 4, 2016.

Nancy Kaye Grubb, M.S. ’10, on Dec. 27, 2016.

Marcia (Kretzschmar ’64) Mustoe on Dec. 16, 2016.

John N. Swanson, MBA ’74, on Sept. 28, 2016.

Carolyn Sue Ziebell, M.A. ’76, on Jan. 9, 2017.

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Vocations

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call your bank In order to empower others, privileged people need to work with our oppressed brothers and sisters. We can start by refusing to finance the pipeline that endangers drinking water at Standing Rock.

BY PAUL BENZ ’08 As we arrived at Oceti Sakowin Camp in a long line of vehicles last December, our driver, a retired Army NCO named Dave, rolled down a window to hear the questions of a smiling Lakota man: Are you carrying any weapons?

No. Are you carrying any drugs?

No. Are you carrying any alcohol?

No. Welcome home, brother.

Our group of seven from Berkeley and Idaho Falls was joining at least 7,000 people from around the world to stand in solidarity with the people of the Standing Rock reservation, who do not want the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) anywhere near their home and water supply. Deliberate about not draining resources from the camp, we stayed in Fort Yates, North Dakota, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and hauled in a trailer with food, propane, water, firewood and other gifts.

Inside Oceti Sakowin, which is named for the Seven Fires Council of the Sioux nation, children were snow-sledding on a hill. We saw them just beyond a makeshift fence, covered in art, that surrounded the teepees, tents and trailers housing 32 CLU MAGAZINE

water protectors and their supporters.

We adults soon got to work, forming a small train to take supplies to a donation tent. I handed a bundle of firewood to a Lakota man, who said, “Wašté, brother.”

I recognized the word from Dances with Wolves, a 1990 movie my father (a Lutheran pastor) had taken me to see three times in the theater. Growing up in our household, bedtime stories were often about folks like Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth.

My group then attended an orientation led by two Lakota women who informed us that we were at the largest gathering of indigenous people in memory. Indigenous people from all over the world had come, and the Sami of Norway had inspired a large Norwegian Bank to divest from the DAPL. Imagine if we could do the same: convince Wells Fargo and Bank of America and Chase to invest in infrastructure projects that showed love of one’s neighbor.

Five of us came as chaplains from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley – Cal Lutheran’s Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary is a member school – to pray with and support the water protectors. We came to say with our actions as people of faith that we loved them and supported their right to have protected drinking water and sacred burial grounds.

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Bringing good news to the poor, as Jesus said in Luke 4, means taking risks, getting uncomfortable, and suffering.

We’d been preparing. In the fall at University Lutheran Chapel, our Gospel readings, psalms and liturgy were accompanied by readings from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, as the congregation engaged in learning about anti-racism as spiritual practice. A group of nine people from PLTS had joined a peaceful march asking the Army Corps of Engineers to deny the permit for Energy Transfer Partners to build the DAPL. If I’m not ashamed of the Gospel, I reflected then, I should take action to show that I as a future church leader love my neighbor – even when that is controversial, even if it means civil disobedience.

Bringing good news to the poor, as Jesus said in Luke 4, means taking risks, getting uncomfortable and suffering. That’s what Jesus did, and that’s what Oscar Romero, Dietrich Bonheoffer and Dr. King did. I also wanted to follow the examples of ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton and Bishop Kirby Unti, as well as Bishop Guy Erwin, who mentored me when I was a student at Cal Lutheran. I felt the encouragement that I know would have come from Professor Jarvis Streeter if he were alive. I went with the blessing of University Lutheran Chapel and its pastor, the Rev. Jeff Johnson, who also attended Cal Lutheran and PLTS. The day before leaving for Standing Rock, I listened to a Luther scholar’s sermon on Matthew 3: “It’s what you do with

your life that matters. Bear fruit worthy of repentance.” It was time to go.

Once I arrived, I found that I’d come with unhelpful expectations. Lori, one of the women who led our orientation, reminded us that Lakota had been at the encampment long before the influx of protesters and would be there after we left. We would get to leave – that simple fact was a reminder of privilege.

I went to Oceti Sakowin with a notion of what organization and results should look like shaped by my own cultural perspective as a white male American. The expectation that organization and results will look a certain way is, well, colonial. People in my place often forget that, while our great-grandparents worked hard, they farmed land that had been taken from America’s first people. While our grandparents worked hard, they had access to jobs, education and homes that others did not simply because of the color of their skin.

At the Sacred Fire center, clergy bundled in winter gear were among those listening to two men on horseback, descendants of Crazy Horse and Big Foot, who were adorned with feathers and dignity. A non-military helicopter had been circling the camp in spite of a no-fly order.

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Seven hundred different indigenous peoples are represented here. If you believe that life is sacred you are here. We see today that man has gone too far. This is an opportunity to be on the right side of history. The prophecy says water will be like gold when a white buffalo is born.

The first white buffalo was born in Janesville, Wisconsin. All the fracking has to stop. Water is the first medicine. To respect and forgive are following medicines. We are asking for Obama to honor the treaties. Čhékiya means to cry out and send your voice in prayer. Our prayers will only be answered if we humbly stand together.

We’re going to see a lot of global disasters; a lot of sickness. All the fracking around Yellowstone is going to trigger it. We have to unite in prayer.

A flock of geese in a V formation flew over the crowd. It was something out of a movie.

Later that same day, Sunday, Dec. 4, the Army Corps of Engineers in a major announcement denied an easement allowing the pipeline to cross Lake Oahe, which brought work to a halt. People were cheering.

When we departed on the following day, however, 18 massive poles were still standing to light the pipeline construction. Energy Transfer Partners didn’t face the same swift legal 34 CLU MAGAZINE

accountability that the Morton County Sheriff was exacting upon the nonviolent water protectors, who had been pounded with water cannons in sub-zero temperatures. One person’s arm nearly had to be amputated. Is this justice?

To make progress in my vocation of empowering our oppressed siblings, it’s crucial to be mindful of white privilege, and crucial to know that empowerment is something you do with someone, not for someone.

When we as church leaders read Matthew 25:34-45, and as a Christian-affiliated school, we are challenged to identify who “the least of these” are in our world today: “Whatever you do to the least of these you do to me.” This would be easy if Jesus just showed up robed and bearded as we might imagine. But he appears instead in the form of the least of these: Lakota children who play in the river and drink the water threatened by the DAPL. Jesus appears in the people of Flint, Michigan, whose water has been contaminated by industrial pollution.

Jesus appears in the children of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, who sort garbage and beg and are counted lucky if they go to school.

Jesus appears in the dozens of unarmed black men shot by police in the USA.

Benz (left) with a Ugandan friend, Julius Turyambureeba, at one of four water tanks made possible through an international fundraiser.

Jesus appears in the victims of domestic violence who may bring children back to a violent man because the state or federal government defunded transitional housing for survivors.

Jesus appears in the children of illegal immigrants, and Jesus appears in the mentally ill and homeless who rely on mercy and who sleep in doorways and on sidewalks.

When we ignore them we ignore Jesus. “Loving your neighbor means having your neighbor’s back,” said the Rev. Johnson.

What is obvious to some will always be denied and disputed by others. It was obvious to me that remaining silent when the DAPL was threatening the Lakota people’s water was not loving my neighbor, and that such silence would continue 500 years of oppression against indigenous people on this continent. We as a church must bear fruit worthy of repentance. We must love our neighbors by having their backs. How many of us will call Wells Fargo, Chase, Bank of America, Citibank and go through the inconvenience of taking our money instead to a credit union or a bank that is not funding Energy Transfer Partners’ construction of this pipeline?

Paul Benz ’08 is a first-year M.Div. student at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and an Evangelical Lutheran Church of America Fund for Leaders Scholar. He served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Uganda from 2013-16 after co-star roles on Criminal Minds, House and with Cal Lutheran’s own Kingsmen Shakespeare Company.

LINKS Cal Lutheran business students gather at Simi Valley’s Museum of Military History in February to present their plan.

Photo by Andy Holzman for Southern California News Group Six Cal Lutheran MBA students are “trying to give the VFW a big shot of Geritol,” according to the commander of VFW Post 10049 in Simi Valley, California. Upon learning that the Veterans of Foreign Wars post was facing declining membership, large repair bills and potential loss of its museum space, the students from the School of Management decided to spotlight the 50-year-old nonprofit service club for their senior project.

They unveiled a comprehensive plan in February to a handful of aging vets inside the Simi Valley Town Center military museum. The 86-page business plan to revive the post calls for a new GoFundMe campaign, a charity golf tournament around Veterans Day and, as a last resort, leasing out the VFW post and paying rent for a newly combined post and museum. Five of the six MBA students on the project are foreign nationals: Jantana Promsawad, Apinop Haruhun and Krittaphat Panthong of Thailand; Maitha Bubshait of Saudi Arabia; Yu Zhang of China; and Cressie Steketee ’11 Thomas of Orange, California. If successful, their plan could help save the veterans post and mall museum through a new arsenal of financial, marketing and community outreach tools. It could also provide a model for other declining veterans clubs. Featured in the Los Angeles Daily News (see goo.gl/9dQfVe), Ventura County Star, Pacific Coast Business Times and Simi Valley Acorn.

COMING UP Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration Featured speaker: Michael Berenbaum Sunday, April 30, 4 p.m.

Samuelson Chapel Holocaust scholar, rabbi, writer and filmmaker Michael Berenbaum headlines a program celebrating the 90th birthday of Holocaust survivor Clara Knopfler. Donations will support the Clara Knopfler Jewish Leadership Scholarship.

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Decommissioning and Commissioning Service Saturday, May 27, 10 a.m.

A worship service at Chapel of the Cross will be followed by a procession down the hill to the new space.

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Clara Knopfler Jewish Leadership Scholarship

California Lutheran University has long been committed to promoting and increasing diversity, including its growing community of Jewish students, faculty, staff, friends and donors. This is a place where all faiths, cultures and beliefs are welcomed and supported.

Clara Knopfler is a Holocaust survivor, renowned speaker and author of the memoir I Am Still Here, My Mother’s Voice. In honor of her contributions to education, Jewish life on campus and peace among all people, Cal Lutheran has created the Clara Knopfler Jewish Leadership Scholarship to support the growth of Jewish student leaders on campus.

“Being in Hillel at Cal Lutheran has been an amazing opportunity to grow as a leader and build wonderful relationships. I have formed a family through Hillel and cherish the fact that I can be so active in the Jewish community in such a unique way.”

Rebecca Gold ’17 Cal Lutheran student Former Hillel club president Hillel club members pictured with Clara Knopfler (center) and Rabbi Belle Michael (right) at Knopfler’s 90th birthday celebration.

Support students like Rebecca by giving to the Clara Knopfler Jewish Leadership Scholarship.

Learn more at (805) 493-3158 or CalLutheran.edu/generation.