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: May 16: Move Out begins!!!! May 16-25: Small donations accepted in residence hall lobbies May 19-25: Goodwill trailers and drop boxes will be located outside of residence halls May 16-June 2: Small donations accepted in South Hall lobby May 19-June 3: Goodwill clothes & furniture trailers located outside of South HallWhat the Office of Sustainability WILL Take: Any toiletry products, opened or unopened Carpet & rugs Televisions & electronics Furniture & other household goods Old clothing, even

wide, on both national and international scales. We kicked off our trip in St. Louis, MO, examining how the drought that has been plaguing the Midwest this year has impacted industry that operates on the Mississippi River. After four days in the heartland of America, our plan was to head south to New Orleans, covering Mississippi related stories on our way and conclude with four days spent around our nation’s most influential port. With a full schedule of interviews and b-roll collecting, this was

defensible answers here. The vicious circular explanation is that hardly anybody cared about these diseases because hardly anybody – in the industrialized world anyway – cared about these diseases. They afflicted the billions of invisible poor in Africa, Asia and the rest of the developing world. What finally made the health of the developing world appear on our radar screen was not some new political movement or mass enlightenment. What happened, very simply, is that some powerful, high-profile people

January 18, 2008 T-shirts make a splash in Brazil It’s a simple T-shirt, black cotton with silk-screened words. The white “Sojourner” across the chest identifies the PLU students as temporary guests in another country. The phrase “global citizen,” screened in Portuguese, English and Spanish on the back, represents the countries the students are visiting – Brazil and Argentina. The students are investigating the impact of globalization on South America. They are one of 27 groups currently

South Puget Sound, from Centralia to south King County and west to Aberdeen. Funding awarded in 2012 from the St. Louis-based Cornelsen Family Charitable Foundation funded a mobile health van that provides outreach to the elderly and underserved. FNP students use the health van to conduct depression screenings at senior centers, skin cancer screenings, blood glucose screenings with diabetes education, and falls assessment and prevention education. The AENT grant will provide additional resources to

vehicle and a bus in Seattle; 50 people were sent to area hospitals. Nine people, including several first-year students and a teacher, were killed by a gunman at Umpqua Community College on Oct. 1. Seven other people were wounded in the attack in Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland.       Read Previous PLU Ranked a Top 10 “Value Added” College Read Next Trans-Rights Scholar/Activist Dean Spade Speaks at PLU Nov. 3 COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you

naturally seek out people whose life experiences might mirror their own.  And, I’ve teared up with a room full of tears as a young black female student told us, “Because of all this, I don’t know if I want to have children.” Jonathan Adams '16 presented the Student Address at PLU's 2015 Convocation on Sept. 8. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) The most recent story of racist tragedy is this summer’s mass murder of the Charleston Nine at Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.  You’ll all remember

Professional Trainings, Keynotes, Therapeutic Support, and Gender Equity and Transgender Curriculum Development, and Consultation. Before joining PLU, Talcott also served as the Executive Director for Community Youth Services of Pierce County, a South Sound organization that empowers youth at-risk and their families to meet their goals for safety, stability, belonging and success by providing a continuum of individualized services and advocacy. Please join the Office of the Provost and the Center for

for Lizzy J’s, a boutique jewelry company. She wasn’t quite sure how to feel. “I come from literally as far away from South Georgia as I can get,” she said. “When they said they wanted a ‘southern charm’ t-shirt, I said ‘Is there any way we can brainstorm this? I don’t know what y’all do around here.’” Their brainstormed list yielded designs that now appear in thousands of stores around the U.S., including The Opry Store. Fallin attributes a lot of her success to PLU — especially Avila. “[Avila

March 1, 2012 In mid-February the student radio station KCCR changed names to LASR. KCCR is now LASR In mid-February the student radio station KCCR changed names to LASR. An unveiling of the new call sign took place in the Cave with Portland band, Tango Alpha Tango headlining and student group Mister Master opening. The change in name was sparked by the understanding that an AM station in South Dakota had the same name, said Katy Allen-Schmid, LASR’s general manager. “Although they probably