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Olympic Champion, Activist and Humanitarian | Understanding the World Through Sports and Recreation | In 2006, international journalists gathered around a relatively unknown skater, preparing for the usual lines about the long journey to winning an Olympic gold medal and thanks to mom and dad and his coach for supporting him.
Ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Games – the Chinese Embassy in Washington contacted Cheek to inform him that his previously issued visa was revoked. The official who called Cheek stated simply that he was “not required to give a reason” for revoking visas. Cheek planned to attend the Games to support the more than 72 Team Darfur athletes competing in Beijing, while also drawing attention to the ongoing Darfur genocide and what China and the international community could do to stop it. Based on comments
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Making Marty is no easy task. Martin Luther sculpture at PLU, Monday, Aug. 15, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Spencer Ebbinga, associate professor of art and design, has been busy working on a special project: 17-inch statues of Martin Luther. These colorful gems are hidden around…
. My father, a Lutheran pastor, was also a craftsman and amateur artist, creating everything from furniture to great welded steel monstrosities. There were always opportunities to hold, sand, weld or fix something in the garage. In high school, my parents enrolled me in drawing and painting classes at one of the local community colleges, and it was all of these experiences that eventually led me to the art department at the University of Kentucky. I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
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Earth & Diversity Week is an opportunity to explore the interconnected relationship between diversity, justice, and sustainability and how these values experienced in our contexts today. Earth & Diversity Week is hosted annually during the week of Earth Day and features Earth Day lectures, campus…
in the northwest United States, and the unique ways the sea has influenced their culture and identity. Reid prepared the following abstract for his lecture: “Twenty-five years ago, the Makah Nation successfully hunted a gray whale. This action drew the ire of animal rights activists who often rooted their criticism in racism and stereotypes of Indigenous authenticity. Drawing from the tribal nation’s historical and contemporary relationship with the sea, this talk will focus on Makah statements
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uu94p78Pz0 ‘Sunrise’ and Stardom By Sandy Deneau Dunham One amazing Sunrise is shining quite a spotlight on Luke Olson ’16. Olson and his band, The Olson Bros, are the new national champions of The Texaco Country Showdown songwriting contest, billed as the nation’s largest and…
.” They also filmed at Summit Lake and “a little part of (Mount) St. Helens toward the end.” The video, the song and the band are drawing a lot of attention near and far, and the possibilities are as vast as … well, a whole-sky sunrise. Olson said the band is scheduled to meet soon with a big-time music manager from Los Angeles who’s seen The Olson Bros perform. “One of our friends, his friend was friends with this guy who knew him,” Olson laughs. And then there are those Nashville meetings with
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TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 13, 2015)—When Katrina Hay was a child, her grandparents gave her a poster that depicted the structure of the universe and compared the sizes and shapes of its components. That wondrous poster remained in her mind throughout her youth and became a…
can see familiar summer constellations. Drawing the illustrations is the part that took the most time. However, it was fun to create them, and it is rewarding to see my work in print. What was your overall goal in writing Little Bear’s Big Night Sky? My goal with this project is to reach out to children with a positive message about science. Astronomy is one of my favorite topics; it is what led me to study physics. It’s natural for all of us to wonder about our place in the universe and to wish
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When it came time to find a college, Andre Jones ‘22 had options. He considered attending a historically black college or university, like Howard University or Morehouse College. Fortunately for PLU, the Tukwila, Washington native found himself pulled closer to home. His choice of schools…
abroad in Mexico and has been involved in a number of clubs, including the Black Student Union and the Lute Nation step team. Global Studies Program at PLUThe Global Studies Program educates students to engage critically and actively with contending perspectives on global issues, their origins, and possible solutions to global problems drawing on methods and perspectives from multiple disciplines.Jones is an advocate for the Act Six program and says he appreciates how it brings students like him into
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Each year, around 10,000 teams participate in The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling , an international contest where teams of undergrad students have 99 hours straight to create a mathematical model addressing a complex social or scientific issue. Each year, the top awards go to large…
straight and danced through the halls into the wee hours of the morning. A pivotal moment came early on the third day. After drawing up blueprints for an algorithm—which Matthew said they “lovingly” called the Optimal Node Interconnected Objectives Network, or ONION for short—they waited and watched as the code they had staked their entire paper on refused to run. They put sad music on and took a nap. When they woke, they realized they had enough evidence to continue their analysis without it and
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Earth & Diversity Week is an opportunity to explore the interconnected relationship between diversity, justice, and sustainability and how these values experienced in our contexts today. Earth & Diversity Week is hosted annually during the week of Earth Day and features Earth Day lectures, campus…
in the northwest United States, and the unique ways the sea has influenced their culture and identity. Reid prepared the following abstract for his lecture: “Twenty-five years ago, the Makah Nation successfully hunted a gray whale. This action drew the ire of animal rights activists who often rooted their criticism in racism and stereotypes of Indigenous authenticity. Drawing from the tribal nation’s historical and contemporary relationship with the sea, this talk will focus on Makah statements
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See all the projects and art that our Art and Design seniors have created.
degree at Olympic College. She’s intrigued by anything involving studio and fine arts. She has strong experience in drawing, painting, crafting and is learning graphic design.Portfolio Nicholas SpanglerBA, Studio Art | BS, Biology Nicholas Spangler has always appreciated the beauty and complexity of nature. When choosing subjects to study, he found both biology and art to be equally important to how he sees and interacts with the world.Portfolio Kayla SpenceBFA, Graphic Design | Specialized Marketing
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Olympic medalist turns the world’s attention to Darfur and human rights issues By Barbara Clements In 2006, international journalists gathered around a relatively unknown skater, preparing for the usual lines about the long journey to winning an Olympic gold medal and thanks to mom and…
drawing attention to the on-going Darfur genocide and what China and the international community could do to stop it. Based on comments made in 2009 to the Washington Post, in which Cheek was described as one of the few activist-athletes left, China will likely be hearing from Cheek again. Chinese is one of his minors at Princeton. Cheek will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Wang Center Symposium: Understanding the World Through Sports and Recreation on March 4-5. Read Previous Uganda Blog: Day
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