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passion is very evident, Hacker told her former student in front of a class of current Lutes. “I can see it in you,” Hacker said. “It’s your life. It keeps you going.” McCarthy said she talks almost every day about what she learned in her sports psychology class at PLU, taught by Hacker. She said it is where she learned how to deal with both successes and failures. “Natalie has all of my esteem and respect,” Hacker said. Moving forward, the rower is still set on the ultimate goal: getting to the Rio

studies warm to the importance of investigating and sharing the stories and experiences of women in the Holocaust. “For many decades following the end of WWII most historians were men and they talked to male survivors of the Holocaust, so most of our perceptions of what the Holocaust actually was, and what living in a concentration camp was actually like, have been from a male perspective,” Griech-Polelle explained. “This isn’t about creating a hierarchy of suffering to suggest women suffered more

last buses leaving for the villages. Some are seeking to prolong their stay in the air-conditioned environment, trying to avoid the 90-degree weather outside. I am looking forward to getting out and tasting the sea-salt air mixed with the aroma of the pine trees in the park—an unforgettable sensation. A pair of kids zips along the line to the cashier, piercing our individual time bubbles as they go. They cut to the very front, and we all look at them. Time stands still. Two boys, disheveled and

Grog Zoo.  After I graduated from PLU, I felt a need to give back to the school that gave me so much. I made the conscious decision to start the Improv Theatre program at PLU (in 2007) and while doing so I ended up connecting with two of my three cohorts during their improv classes with me.  So, while PLU wasn’t the direct inspiration, it had a hand in fusing the relationships for our thriving group. How did improv lead you to consulting and your work with The Yes Works? What drives my passion for

shared openly on the web? How you design your assignment will depend entirely on your unique needs. If you’re worried about the time commitment of reading and assessing blogs, consider the following ideas and strategies: If possible, start small. A class blog can be supported by rotating one or two student authors each week. If appropriate, skip the analytic grading and assign simple participation points for blogs mainly used for reflection or journaling. Don’t forget to post a few short comments

PLU Religion class visits Sikh Temple Gurudwara Singh Sabha Posted by: Marcom Web Team / February 20, 2016 February 20, 2016 By Lace M. Smith, captions by Aimee HamiltonPhotos by John Froschauer Aimee Hamilton’s undergraduate course, Religion and Culture: Contemporary Religions of South Asia, gathers for a morning site visit at the Khalsa Gurmat School in Kent. Khalsa Gurmat is a nonprofit school that emphasizes Sikh history, Punjabi language, computing, art and math. The school also functions

area aptly named Island in the Sky. Our skin grew tan and leathered – or just plain red in some cases – and our spirits clicked the refresh button after a grueling front-end of the semester. A diverse range of backgrounds and majors were represented in our numbers, but we came, in the end, to rove as one cohesive pack. I, personally, felt deeply thankful to lead this incredibly enthusiastic, charismatic, and positive bunch, remarking on reflection with another guide that we could not recall on

/Halvorson) The Code.org event was live-streamed in front of a festive crowd of educators, entrepreneurs, and technologists. Our speakers included Alice Steinglass (President of Code.org), Hadi Partovi (Co-founder of Code.org), Melinda Gates (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Jake Baskin (Executive Director of the Computer Science Teachers Association), and Brad Smith (Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal Officer). Great boisterous groups of local school children were also present, and at one point they

institutional reform, but to remain focused and persistent. He said King epitomized that approach, staying remarkably focused on the end goal of equity for all and avoiding an “us-versus-them” pitfall. Jodock is eager to meet Lutes and call them to courageously do just that – “to create justice, wholeness and peace in the world,” he said. Read Previous PLU religion professor Seth Dowland discusses his new book “Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right” (Podcast) Read Next Lutes at the Legislature

two credits, and an instructor will get in touch. Students taking lessons must attend six concerts throughout the semester and must play for a panel of faculty members at the end of the semester.Camera Equipment For Lutes aspiring to be the next Spielberg, Instructional Technologies has the equipment you need: Just visit the Instructional Technologies counter on the first floor of the library to check out equipment such as cameras and tripods.Clubs and Involvement PLU has 70 different clubs, which