ISSUE 14 - VOL XCII - MAY 26, 2016

PACIFIC UNION COLLEGE

CAMPUSCHRONICLE

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AJ SCARPINO: A MOVIE SYNOPSIS

GETTING TO KNOW PUC'S SENIOR CLASS

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A LETTER FROM OUR SA PRESIDENT

THE SENIOR ISSUE

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This newspaper has a tradition of creating a Senior Issue, which is dedicated to the graduating class. This issue is for every one of you who dedicated a few years — maybe four, maybe more, maybe less — of your lives to being part of the PUC student body. We honor you and your unique accomplishments through these pages, with the words and pictures from and for you.

To every individual student of PUC, even those who are not graduating just yet, this campus would not be the same without you. You make a difference in every word you say and in everything you do. Whether you are leaving after this year or if you will continue here next year, you are so valuable. Your presence in

the world and on our campus is a gift.I will be graduating soon with the senior class,

and I can say truthfully that I will miss this school. PUC is home. Where else can I find a peaceful forest full of hiking trails and beautiful views, just a few minutes’ walk away? Nowhere can compare. What other community in the world has so much love between the professors and students, where you treat us as your own family? Thank you for your love, your guidance and your support. I am so grateful for you, and I will miss you.

As this year publishing the Campus Chronicle comes to a close, I would also like to thank my staff, who have all become more than just colleagues, as dear friends of my heart. Thank you for your dedication, your creativity and your passion in helping to create another year in the life of the Campus Chronicle. We have overcome challenges together as a team and as a family. I couldn’t have done this without each one of you.

Thank you also to our Campus Chronicle advisers, Professor Thew and Professor Rai, for your advice and your support, and for talking to me at odd hours when we were trying to push an article online before the normal publication day. Thank you for supporting journalism and everything we believe in as a student newspaper.

Thank you to everyone at PUC for the opportunity you have given me this last year to be the Campus Chronicle editor. The last 12 months have been long and all-consuming, but this time has been so

rewarding. I have enjoyed every part of creating these 15 issues, from last June to now. Now it is time to pass on this role to Glo Besana. To our readers, know that you are in good hands.

PUC, you are in a time of incredible change right now, and that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Changes happen every year, every month and every day. These changes lead us into the future, a future we can all look forward to with hope and promise. We should never be afraid of change, because staying where we are is stagnation. As our senior class graduates, we will face many changes in our lives as well, and although it may be scary at the start, I know there are good things ahead for this graduating class and for PUC, too.

In moving forward, we can learn from the mistakes of the past and those who have come before us. We have so many who can show us the wise path, but we also have our own wisdom to guide us, as well. The paths ahead may be uncertain, but we have God with us. So PUC family, whether you will be leaving at the end of this year or staying, now is the time to be a pioneer in the truest sense. We will forge ahead through the unknown future because we must, but we can walk with God and with each other to the place we are meant to be.

Take care,

Editor-in-ChiefTara Hattendorf

Assistant EditorTaylor Pittenger

Layout EditorTaylor Smith

News EditorJJ Nash

Features EditorJanet Morales

Fitness & Sports EditorMalek Sheen

Opinion EditorGlorianne Besana

Copy EditorsEmily Mathe Kevin Tran

Faculty AdvisersLynne ThewMichelle Rai

Cover PhotographerTara Hattendorf

QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? Email thhattendorf@puc.edu

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To the people who make this place Home —If you spend enough time with me, you’ll learn a

couple things. Number one, I’m a goofball through and through. Most of the time I can’t be taken seriously and with good cause. I budget roughly half my time to pinching Robell or scaring the poop out of Maddie. The second is that I’m an awful student. If we share a class and you ask me what’s due, my response is likely to be “I don’t know,” or “We had something due?” accompanied by a shocked expression and the onset of delirium. I rarely buy books, miss more class than I should and still think Wikipedia is an acceptable source for my 10-page research essays. It’s always been this way, even when the most I had to do was an odd number of simple multiplication problems in third grade. I am not an academic and I am not proud of my GPA — but I am so proud to call this campus my Home.

School, academically speaking, is everything to some and nothing to others — I’m somewhere in between, I think. I’m just not very good at it. PUC has taught me something important, though: my worth goes beyond the grades I see on Canvas. I’ve gotten my share of emails from the TLC wondering why I have a D in a particular class and each time

I do, I print out a Taco Bell application because I figure the end has finally come and I’ll have to drop out and flip quesadillas.

Somehow, miraculously, I am still here. I am thankful for that, because some of my favorite memories are of this campus. These favorite memories form at strange times. Sometimes it’s 1:30 in the morning and our team is packing up from the latest event or it is midnight, the Grind is closed and just the glow of office lights illuminate the conversations of a few weary SA officers. It is tough, the work we do and the sacrifices we make. At the end of the day I tell myself it is worth it — and it has to be because otherwise I have nothing on which to fall back.

We devote our time and energy to things that matter to us — things that give us tangible results. We like to see an output when we give input. That’s why serving on SA and as its president this year has been such a privilege — I get to see the results of my work. I don’t feel that way about academics.

My point in all of this is not to convince you stop doing homework or going to class, but to suggest there is much more to this experience than scholastics. Our theme this year is “Home,” but what that means does not stop when the year comes to a close. Home

is about community, comfort, friendship, laughing and loving. Home is exploration and discovery. Home is finding a place.

My place, I have discovered, is not in the classroom. It is somewhere behind the scenes of an event, pushing faders and turning knobs. My sense of accomplishment is tied to what I can do with my hands and feet. The dirtier they are, the more cuts and bruises I get, the better I feel. If this is you — if your grades are low but your talents are high, do not give up — do not lose hope. Find your place. I promise it is here waiting for you.

This Home we create together is made of many kinds of people, and of course, all of the things about Home can be found in the classroom with the scholars, on the courts with the athletes and wherever else people have found their place. Make no mistake though: no matter who we are, what our talents are or where we find our place, we are all part of this hill, this campus and this Home. I am so proud of us.

Best,Nic

Dear Seniors,This is a love letter, so brace yourselves. A few short years ago, nobody would have thought

that I’d be the one with something to say to you right now. I was the shy girl sitting at the back of the class, my nose in a book. Headphones on and hoodie pulled tight over my face, just playing it safe. I could go days without speaking actual words to another human being — never mind loving words. Thanks to you, that has changed.

It took a trip around the world for me to be able to look back at PUC and really appreciate what we have here. There is so much talent on this hill, and so much to celebrate. As a student missionary in Micronesia I woke up every morning well aware that hundreds of peers and classmates back at home could easily take my place and do a much better job than I was doing. You inspired me to be better.

You are the athletes, the writers, the preachers and the teachers. I’ve seen you in the senior recitals, the short films and awards ceremonies. I’ve watched in admiration as you got accepted into the nursing program, landed that internship, ran for Student Association or senate, or received your pilot’s license. I’ve watched you grow up with me.

From those earliest freshman memories, we’ve hit

the ground running. We ran to the cafeteria three minutes before closing and discovered those late-night burrito lines. We ran together in PE, shortly after realizing we still had to take PE in college. We ran to colloquy and then ran right back out again 50 minutes later. At the end of the quarter we ran around together frantically looking for worship credit. Through all of this, two questions remain unanswered: why does PUC have so many stairs, and how did I get so lucky to be here?

I absolutely love this life that we’ve created together. Amid the craziness that is college, you showed me your humanity. It was in the small moments, the carpools and the group texts. When we cheered for each other at games, or wrapped around each other in times of devastating loss. While I can’t pretend I’m not exhilarated to be graduating, I will miss this life.

If you’re anything like me, you might be sitting back right now and questioning your ability to make important life decisions. Particularly, questioning those decisions that led you into senior year thinking that signing up for a gazillion student clubs, multiple campus jobs, applying to grad school or not applying to grad school, taking a full load of classes AND trying to look fabulous for your last ever yearbook photo was a completely realistic life goal. You may be

questioning why you said yes to this or no to that … and wondering how previous generations of seniors made it look so easy.

Well, class of 2016, we’re about to find out. We’re about to accomplish what up until now has

only been a dream. We’re about to ring that bell. We’re about to drive down that hill for the last time, the giant church organ blaring at our backs. Whether you’re the first in your family to attend college or the latest in a long line of honored alumni, this milestone is worthy of celebration. It’s a celebration, not only of past achievements here at school, but of promise.

Here at PUC we’ve learned how to make promises. We’ve promised to do the reading before class. We’ve promised to abide by the student life agreement. In a few weeks we will dole out hugs in Commencement Grove and promise again to stay in touch. I’m only asking for one more.

Promise me that you won’t just play it safe. Promise that you won’t let your beautiful talents stay contained on this hill, and that this life we’ve created doesn’t have to end on June 12. Amid the craziness that is post-grad life, do for the world what you did for me. Look for the humanity.

And maybe write it love letters.

By Nic Miller, SA President

By Miranda Mailand

Find Your Place

For the Seniors, from the Senior Class Officers

The outgoing Student Association officers from 2015–16: Taleah Tyrell, Executive Vice President; Madison Bishop, Social Vice President; Tara Hattendorf, Cam-pus Chronicle Editor; Robell Manna, Religious Vice President; Michael Lawrence, Financial Vice President; Nic Miller, President; Sarah Martinez, Video Producer; Jordan Delarmente, Public Relations Vice President; Sierra Driver, Yearbook Editor. Photographer: Sam Delaware.

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Hard at work in a Fisher computer lab surrounded by a semi-circle of hard drives, lenses and a notebook labeled “Pigeons,” AJ Scarpino works on the finishing touches of his senior thesis. Waiting to be interviewed, his college story brims on the tip of his tongue. Scarpino regales his journey through college as if it were a coming of age narrative, as it truly was.

The story begins in the heart of an energetic 8 year old in an aunt’s wedding. An uncle enters the room dressed to the nines in an undoubtedly earned military uniform. For the next ten years, young Scarpino is determined to follow in the footsteps of his prestigious uncle. He joins the civil air patrol program until his first year at Central Washington University, when he continues onto the Army ROTC. Up to this point, his life is set. Everyone he’s known moves on to lead successful lives in some form of military service. But Scarpino hits a standstill.

One eventful summer working in Juno, Alaska, Scarpino tastes a new freedom not offered in the confines of Army Prep. He loves it. (This is the point in the story in which we see the famous AJ beard come into fruition — a true symbol for youth, passion and lumberjacks.) Cue crisis mode one: psychology into law and justice. Scarpino’s ties to the strict traditions of the military life and the freedom civilian life butt heads. His solution is compromise. But soon enough, he realizes that the two forces cannot be balanced, at least for him to be truly happy. For the first time, he chooses himself. He ditches law and takes up theatre. In the span of two years, he switches from psychology to law to theatre — all a slow climb into finding out what he really wanted.

Then we introduce the romantic subplot. She was graceful, ethereal and leapt straight out of a fairytale. She was love-at-first-sight material. Scarpino knew the gateway to her heart: a smoothie punch card with his digits. In what could be the smoothest (pun intended) play in history, a relationship began. Unfortunately, she was going right into the world that Scarpino had just left behind — scheduled to leave for five-month training. Scarpino writes to her every single day in classic "The Notebook" fashion. But she doesn’t return the same person he fell in love with. Heartbroken and lost, cue crisis mode two: the road to PUC.

With his college life virtually collapsing, Scarpino searches for a new start. There was nothing worse than the constant reminder that everything he worked

for — the job, the dream, the girl — slipped away from his fingertips. Luckily, his family was already looking to move from Washington to California, so the transition seemed to be fate. One tour of the campus and he was set to transfer in Spring quarter 2013 in his third year of college. Seeing that he either has no interest or talent in the dramatic arts, Scarpino takes a bat at communications, realizing his need to make people happy. Cue crisis mode three: the father’s fall. Literally. In the midst of selling his family’s home, Scarpino’s father trips and lands himself in the emergency room. A full two states away, Scarpino is powerless in mediating the situation. He still harbors guilt in the fact that his siblings were thrust into adulthood during his absence. PUC serves as a sort of halfway home while his family transitions into California as well.

Then comes an especially eventful summer working in a pizza place near Anaheim, California. So to recap: he’s had his heart broken but still manages to make countless connections with random people because of his effervescent personality — to the point that he is even offered a fairly stable managerial job at said pizza place. But no, Scarpino has his sights on bigger and better things.

Cue crisis mode four: the silver lining. That summer, Scarpino spends countless movie theatre runs on his own — a personal hobby. This is when he realizes what he had been missing in his long search for the “right” major: himself. Back at PUC, he inquires about the film program and the rest is history. Well, not quite. What first began as a major for interest became a major for a career. A year into his final major (which was a personal record on staying with one), Scarpino hears an emotionally triggering speech from professor and longtime mentor, Rajeev Sigamoney. It essentially covered the importance of connections, inspiration and determination that Scarpino had previously faced in his arduous college journey. Everything clicked. Moved to tears, he finally realizes his life makes sense. What began as a catastrophe of freshman and sophomore years turned into a lifelong realization of what he wanted and who he was.

Now we come to the epilogue of this impressive narrative: "Pigeons." Scarpino gains its inspiration from the idea “that there’s a huge miscommunication between younger people and older people.” The story, while still in secrecy, was originally based on the idea

of a rebellious biker gang that were viewed as outcasts. The culmination of his own personal narrative is deeply rooted in the script. On the topic of college Scarpino advises, “Take your time. You’ll figure it out. But you’ll have four years to figure out your entire life. It’s not fair to kids … it’s a burden.” But he continues with a glimmer of hope, emphasizing the importance of finding oneself. College is a place out of the world, one in which we are allowed to find out who we are and what we want. For Scarpino, it was to “be happy for people.” His films reach out to the hearts of the audience and touch their souls and minds.

After a wonderful interview (which even turned into a set of questions to myself from the ever-curious film major), Scarpino closes with an inspiring mantra. “All we have is now … this moment right now. … Yesterday is just a story and tomorrow is just a dream but right now is all there is.”

Next, he plans on leaving for Europe and staying until his visa expires or until they kick him out. With the typically unstable job market of the film industry, Scarpino is just as optimistic as ever — knowing that nothing can take away his passion for his field. He plans to document his journey in his YouTube channel: Austin Scarpino. His undoubtedly amazing senior thesis "Pigeons" premiers in the Diogenes Film Festival in St. Helena on May 26th. While this may be the end of this particular era of his life, keep a look out for the sequel to the AJ Scarpino story. It’s a guaranteed blockbuster.

College is where personal identity is created — a place where you take into account the past and present to prepare for the future. Senior year is when all of the pieces come together to form the beginning of a new adventure. For senior Bryan Soderblom, Pacific Union College has not only changed his life academically, but spiritually and philosophically as well. As a double major in aviation and business, as well as pre-law, with honors, Soderblom has experienced every corner of the school. After freshman year, he took on four jobs while juggling up to 18 credits. However, he encourages incoming freshman to “work less, play more.”

Although education is the goal of graduation, Soderblom recognizes

the importance of building relationships. “When I showed up as a freshman, I made it my goal to be friends with as many people as I could,” he said. “I would go sit with strangers in the café every day, and weirded some people out, but I made a lot of good friends.” Friends are essential to fellowship and a walk with Christ, especially when there are so many questions to be answered.

When asked about the effect PUC has had on his spiritual life, Soderblom said, “I came as a conservative Adventist, and I leave as largely agnostic. … I have found God, but I have also found that God does not reside solely in Adventism, or in any specific group of people. God is bigger than

our petty arguments, and God is more important than keeping the Sabbath or following all the rules. I think that the best things we can do are to act justly, to love mercy and to try our best to walk humbly with our God (Micah 6:8).” The beauty of college is the ability to create morals and structure to support future experiences.

Soderblom regards PUC with fondness, saying, “The people make the place, and I loved both.”

By Aaron Jebb Hernandez

By Eryn Pongs

AJ Scarpino: A Movie Synopsis

Bryan Soderblom: “Why not do all you can possibly do?”

AJ Scarpino's senior thesis, "Pigeons," is premiering at the annual Diogenes Film Festival May 26.

Bryan Soderblom presents his Honors project, Get Your Head in the Clouds: The Application of Expe-rience Design in the Collegiate Flight Training En-vironment” in the Paulin Hall choir room May 20. His project investigated and recommended changes to PUC's aviation program.

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Sacha Fierce

The “Normal” College Student

Sacha Samuel is a fifth-year graduating senior who has really been involved in the Pacific Union College community and enjoyed her time here at PUC. I sat down to interview her before she heads off into the real world.

Tell us a little bit about yourself.I am Sacha Samuel. I am 23 years old. I am a

communications major with an emphasis in public relations.

What are your future plans? Where do you go from here?

My future plans are to eventually become a news anchor, however long that takes. So hopefully you’ll see me on TV.

What was PUC like when you first got here?PUC was amazing and still is amazing, and

surprisingly I don’t want to graduate because I love it here so much.

What do you love about it?I love the spiritual environment. I love the friends

I’ve made; I think that’s definitely what made my experience the best. And I couldn’t ask for better professors because they have all been great mentors to me, and they’re always available to talk, inside or outside of office hours. You can call them at any time, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be about school; it can be about your personal life here. I love how close

everyone is.

So what do you think is your legacy at PUC?I think my legacy would be the little skinny loud girl

that loves to talk. But that’s just me — I don’t know if people see me as that. I think what I leave behind would come more from the audience’s perspective because the students that go here are the ones to decide what that would be. But I will be remembered!

What are some great memories from PUC?Getting the offer to speak during Week of Prayer.

I felt like I was able to be vulnerable in front of the whole student body without being judged. I love my on-campus jobs. My bosses are very understanding and awesome to work with.

How has PUC changed you?PUC has made me into a better leader, and I feel like

I’m able to take more initiative in different situations than I would have in high school. In high school I would have let people walk all over me, but here you have to learn how to hold your ground — stand on your own. In college, when you get stuck in a situation, there can be a lot of miscommunication with students, faculty and stuff like that.

What are you going to miss about PUC?Ooh! That’s hard! I’m going to miss everything!

Everything except for colloquy.

As another class of seniors graduates from Pacific Union College, some fourth or fifth-year students may be wondering when they will finally get to see their own degrees. As in many other areas, students compare themselves with the supposed “normal” and feel disappointed when they don’t perfectly match the cardboard cutout. Although being different is nothing to be ashamed of, are they really the odd ones? Research says no — these students are, in fact, the norm.

Actually, the “typical” college student in America is very different from what one might expect. Attending college part-time, delaying enrollment and being a single parent are all quite common. Unlike the movies, “typical” college students are older, have more responsibilities to balance and usually work at least part-time. Half of part-time students enrolled at public four-year institutions, two-thirds at private nonprofit four-year institutions, and over three-quarters at private for-profit four-year institutions are at least 25 years old.

As for “super seniors,” they are also in the majority. The Department of Education reports fewer than 40 percent of college students graduate within four years. Almost 60 percent of students graduate in six years. At public institutions, less than one-third of students graduate “on time.” At community colleges, 5 percent of full-time students earn an associate degree within two years and just over 15 percent earn a one- or two-year certificate “on time.” Nationally, only 50 out of over 580 public four-year institutions have full-time students who graduate “on time” more often than they don’t. Being a “super senior” is in fact so common that education policy experts now changed the benchmarks for bachelor’s degrees to six years and associate degrees to three.

On the other hand, it’s advantageous for institutions to help students graduate quickly and efficiently. Graduations rates can impact colleges’ national rankings and are used heavily when recruiting new students.

Additionally, all this extra time is costing students, parents, and tax payers. Students who borrow money for tuition — but don’t graduate “on time” — take on far more debt in those “extra” years. Just two extra years increases debt by nearly 70 percent. National student loan debt is in the trillions and exceeds credit card debt and auto loan debt combined. That doesn’t even include the money parents borrow to help their kids pay for tuition, books, food and housing.

There are many reasons for delaying graduation. The majority of full-time students don’t take 15 credits per semester. Each year, almost two million students start their first year of college by taking remedial classes for zero credit — including more than half of two-year students. Lastly, almost half of bachelor’s degree recipients who transfer lose at least some of their credits — and 60 percent of all bachelor’s degree recipients transfer. Many more reasons exist, such as overcrowded but necessary courses, as well as the very common practice of changing majors; all contribute to the new normal of older students and longer college careers.

Students who are registering for yet another year at PUC can know that they are not alone in their struggles to stuff 24 credits into a quarter, or balance everything on their plate without tripping and dropping it all. They have not failed in achieving the cookie-cutter college experience because, sadly, what they are experiencing is the norm all across America.

By Malek Sheen

By Andrea James

Although known for her energy and enthusiasm, Sa-cha Samuel says changes in PUC's spiritual environ-ment "caused me to become more spiritual which en-tail made me mature into a better person."

"Super seniors" like Tee Maxwell, who is finishing his fifth year at PUC, are becoming more and more the norm for college students in America.

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QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONDENTS

Leanna Arredondo, Communication, two years

Janae Bowman, Marketing communication, five years

Lauren Cline, Theology, four years

Aubrie GerardHealth communication and

health sciences, four years

Tara Hattendorf History, political studies and ethics,

and more; four years

Stephanie Jin Biology, four years

Sophia Kwon, Biology, four years

Emily Mathe English and communication, four years

Daniel Morales Communication and Spanish,

three years (one in Spain with ACA)

Jessica MulyatnoHealth communication and health sciences,

three years

Lianne Pak Biology, three years

Pascale PéanIntercultural communication with an

emphasis in French; four years, but this is my fifth year in college (I studied abroad in

France my sophomore year).

Taylor Pittenger Religion and education, four years.

Amy Rivas Psychology, four years.

Evan Smith Chemistry with biochemistry emphasis,

four years and a quarter

Spencer Swetnam Health sciences, pre-physical therapy;

three years

Dominic YoungHistory, political studies and ethics,

minor in business; four years.

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ADVICE TO YOUNGER SELFArredondo: Don't worry so much about pleasing people, the ones who love you will love ALL of you.

Cline: Get involved, embrace failure, don’t compare yourself.

Gerard: College is a good time of discovery and one that you won't be able to repeat.

Kwon: College is an exciting and challenging time. Make it easier by surrounding yourself with people that love and care about you. Get outside of your own concerns and stresses and try to make someone else's day better.

Pak: Tests are way easier if you study for them. Even easier if you study more than a day before.

Péan: Don’t worry about your major or pre-professional plans freshman year. Just get your generals started on and find out what you really like.

Rivas: Enjoy freshman year. You will never have that much free time. Also, remember that being alone is not equivalent to being lonely.

Smith: Watch less Netflix, make friends with the classes below you and visit Yosemite more.

Young: Use a planner, you keep missing assignments! You could’ve graduated with a way better GPA if you had a planner!

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT PUCHattendorf: What is the functional purpose of PUC WiFi 5.0 versus 2.4? What is the password to the Tomb of Lazarus? What happened to the on-campus phone lines? What are the pennies on the stairs outside of Paulin? What are the oK stickers? Why is money not prioritized to residence hall repairs? Will the new/old Irwin Hall renovation/extension ever come to be? What ever happened to getting AT&T towers in Angwin?

Mathe: Why does it sound like there is an angry dwarf living inside the radiators?

Morales: Why Bon Appétit? Does the soccer team have a curse?

Pittenger: Where does my money go?

Smith: Who came up with the art in Chan Shun?

Swetnam: Why is room check necessary if I am 21+?

HOW HAS PUC CHANGED?Jin: Become a lot less clique-y and more open.

Kwon: Over the course of my four years here, PUC has changed for the better. I have seen passionate, service-driven students do their best in bettering PUC's campus life, academic life, and social life. Also, am I the only one who thinks the caf food improved drastically?

Morales: Personally for me it hasn’t. I adapted spiritually, appreciate the beautiful campus and its everlasting views that surround us.

Mulyatno: I feel like PUC has changed in diversity.

Smith: PUC’s rock climbing wall died.

Pak: PUC hasn't really changed. You just start to realize so much more about PUC.

Péan: It feels like PUC has lost some of the student-led activities and traditions that made time here feel like a uniquely “college” experience. Things like throwing people in the fountain for their birthday, bikini caroling, and the student-led, student-focused church service (The Gathering) really made it feel like PUC had a great vibe that you would expect from a college.

Rivas: During my time here, PUC has taken steps backward with anything that goes against Adventist norms. I hope I can proudly state in the future that I attended a campus known for being LGBTQ+ accepting and where professors are encouraged to engage in challenging conversations with students. Until then, keep trying PUC.

Young: Fusion groups are now called life groups?

HOW HAVE YOU CHANGED?Arredondo: I've learned more about God's love for me and those around me, and it had made me want to be a vessel for Him to share that with people.

Bowman: Since I have been at PUC I have become more independent and willing to take on jobs or tasks that challenge me and push me out of my comfort zone.

Cline: I don’t honestly know if it has or if the change is me.

Hattendorf: I don’t think I’ve changed so much as I’ve discovered who I am and reclaimed that. But I have gotten better at alphabetizing thanks to my time working in Admissions and putting together this list of senior responses in alphabetical order.

Jin: Became more independent.

Mulyatno: I have changed by being more independent and more responsible with my time management.

Péan: I’ve become more confident in who I am as a person and have become more open-minded. I think confidence is a part of growing up (which is why I think the elderly could literally care less).

Rivas: How have I not changed? The biggest change was finding my career calling in therapy/counseling thanks to the help of the Psychology and Social Work (PSW) Department and GASP.

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YOUR LEGACY AT PUCArredondo: Hopefully someone who was Christ-like that just loved loving on people.

Hattendorf: Helping student voices be heard on campus.

Mathe: All the news stories on the PUC website with my byline, from my time working in Public Relations.

Pittenger: To quote Hamilton, “What is a legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.” But for real, my legacy is fulfilling the prophecy that I was going to do great things.

Young: I created a bill that emails your cafeteria card balance each day. So I guess I’ll be remembered for that. Oh! I also created the jazz ensemble as well.

WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU'D DONE DIFFERENTLY?Bowman: I wish I would have started out the in the major I am ending with. I also wish I would have taken more fun classes that had nothing to do with my major.

Gerard: Planned my classes better, overloading sucks!

Jin: I wish I had worked on myself more rather than trying to please other people a lot of the time, balanced social life better with academics, slept more....

Kwon: I truly don't wish that I had done anything differently. Every success was a blessing that I couldn't have gotten on my own, and every failure was a lesson that taught me how to try harder on things that mattered, or care less on things that didn't matter.

Mathe: I wish the people I met my sophomore year had been the people I met my freshman year.

Morales: Academically nothing! Two degrees in three years sounds good, but I do wish I would have lived on campus rather than commute daily.

Mulyatno: I wish I would have joined clubs and been more active in outreach.

Swetnam: What I wish I would have done differently was get more involved with student senate. This year I learned how important senate is and what a difference students can make for their school.

WHAT WILL YOU MISS THE MOST?Bowman: I will miss a lot when I leave PUC. I will miss living five steps away from my friends. I will also miss all of my professors who have become more like family members.

Cline: I will miss the people the most and the outdoors.

Gerard: What I will miss the most are the professors and the campus here.

Pak: Definitely all the chill people and professors that made my years on the hill so much better. I will also miss being a Napa neighbor and Himalayan Sherpa Kitchen.

Pittenger: Writing for the Campus Chronicle, Dr. Sheldon and Tara Hattendorf

Swetnam: The thing I will miss the most about PUC is how verbal PUC students are in bringing fairness to our campus. Students at PUC are not afraid to have their voice heard. Two other things I will miss are our vespers program and PUC's nature. Loma Linda cannot compare.

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Department Senior Thesis HighlightsSenior year is a year of finalities and possibilities. The

future looms with adulthood, but besides the degree you get, what else signals senior year? The answer: thesis projects. Select departments at Pacific Union College require students to present a final project, a summary of the time spent on academic work, — something meaningful. Here are some highlights from the senior class:

History• Timothy Giang: “Tuol Sleng: Pol Pot’s Prison

and Propaganda Machine”• Trent Broeckel: “Mes Que Un Joc, More than

a Game: Francisco Franco’s Politicization of Spanish Football After the Civil War”

• Kenneth McKelvie: “The Causes Behind Growing Anti-Filipino Sentiments which led to the 1930 Watsonville Riots”

• Sarah Kim: “Clandestine Operations: Heroin, Corsican Gangsters, and the CIA”

Honors• Brooke Manley: “Seventh-day Adventist

Women and The Value of Desire: Sexuality is about Power”

• Harrison Cale: “Self-portraiture and the Artist: A Personal Journey Through the Honors Program”

• Emily Mathe: “Three Faces of a Wanderer: The Persephone Myth in Poetry”

• Bryan Soderblom: “Get Your Head in the Clouds: The Application of Experience Design in the Collegiate Flight Training Environment”

English• Kiara Smith: “Bridging the Gap: Crossing from

Innocence to Experience”• Jonathan Chow: “Labrador”• Laura Helms: “Lies, Deceit, and Friars:

Deception and Morality in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure”

• Alisha Webster: “Alexia the Unbreakable”

Music • Bethany Costa: Vocal Recital• Andres Rodriguez: Senior Horn & Piano

Recital• Hillary Allen: Degree Voice Recital• Zachary Seifert-Ponce: Guitar Recital

Visual Arts• Senior Thesis Exhibitions featured in Rasmussen

Art Gallery• Diogenes Film Festival Senior Thesis Block

*not all departments or projects featured

By Glorianne Besana

2016–17 SENATORS