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on the global impact of sports and recreation, including Olympic gold medalist Joey Cheek, who has used the international stage to turn the world’s attention to the plight of the population of Darfur. The event will feature numerous international thinkers on the global impact of sports and recreation, including Olympic gold medalist Joey Cheek, who has used the international stage to turn the world’s attention to the plight of the population of Darfur. Cheek will give the keynote speech at the

students are representing PLU this year. There are Alexis Briggs ’12 (left) and Ashley Skinner ’13. (Photo by John Froschauer) A few days and many hours later, the pair, along with their debate coach, Professor Melissa Franke, will land in Botswana to compete against the world’s best in the World Universities Debate Championships. More than 320 debating teams, along with 150 judges, will converge on the land-locked county’s capital, Gaborone, for a week of debate preliminaries. PLU’s Speech and Debate

stories in the “Speak Out” portion of the event in The CAVE directly following the cheerleading. They are welcome to share their stories—whether they are survivors or simply want to talk about their reason for attending. Student Involvement and Leadership Programs Coordinator Aaron Steelquist will close with a speech about the “It’s On Us” campaign and the importance of being an active bystander. “As long as sexual assault still happens on college campuses, PLU included, it is important to hold Take

fidelity, and discouraged critical reflection” (293). Turning to PLU, it is my perception that increasing numbers of students enter my classes seeking a comfortable confirmation of their views, traditions, and habits of thought rather than pursuing the uncomfortable challenge to those views, which is the sign of real intellectual exploration. Many of these same students claim to have selected professional paths even before arriving on campus and are thus less interested in courses whose primary purpose

. PLU’s student media is in the forefront of journalism standards, and I was given the opportunity to stand in front of students and professors from around the country and talk about it. I spoke to a full room and answered questions at the end for 30 minutes. That, as my advisor Joanne Lisosky said, is the mark of a successful speech. The audience was engaged, and I’d promised to stay in contact with several of them as they attempted to go home and converge their newsrooms. Not only was the trip

cello to pursue a steadier paycheck, when fate stepped in. Huertas, who has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from PLU, had worked fairly steadily immediately after graduation. His first credits included roles in the Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Speech and Debate and the Seattle premiere production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, but when work started to become scarce, he decided to take a break from acting at least, he said, “until I was financially secure enough to be a starving artist

Trinidad,” she said. “And I’m leaving as a world citizen.” Her commencement speech was addressed to her mother, who died six years ago from cancer. In it, she reflected on her time at PLU, her experiences in Botswana and where she’ll go from here. She charged her classmates to carry on the legacy of PLU. “Take your bag of PLU experiences and put them on your back,” she said. “Do with it what you can, make with it what you like and create a masterpiece that is worthy of a global citizen.” Both her time

slave system,” would have replaced slavery. Coclanis argued that by the 1870s or 1880s without a civil war slavery would have evolved into something else, and he emphasized this by ending his speech with a quote by T.S. Eliot. “This is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper,” Coclanis said. Many who attended Coclanis’s lecture said they appreciated the different perspective through which he analyzed slavery. “I thought it

immediately after graduation. His first credits included roles in the Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Speech and Debate and the Seattle premiere production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, but when work started to become scarce, he decided to take a break from acting at least, he said, “until I was financially secure enough to be a starving artist again.” Thankfully, that was not to be. “I got a text from a friend saying the second national tour of the Broadway musical Spring Awakening was

endeavors with Pacific Lutheran University. Natalie Mayer wanted to build on that good work by endowing a lecture series that addressed what she saw as a growing need — the spike in racist and anti-Semitic acts across the United States.The inaugural Natalie Mayer Holocaust and Genocide Studies Lecture, taking place on May 2, hosts language scholar and international expert Dr. Lid King, who will discuss how hate speech has flourished on the internet and detail how we must work to build a counter