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Olympic medalist encourages symposium crowd to make a difference By Barbara Clements Joey Cheek was sprawled out on a couch in 2005, wondering what he was going to do with a free afternoon after training all morning in an Austrian skating facility, when a BBC…
than 72 Team Darfur athletes competing in Beijing, while also 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. At the symposium, Cheek, now 30 years old, deflected questions about what happens after Princeton. He has
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Todd Sheridan Perry ’92 worked on many of the Gollum scenes in the second Lord of the Rings movie. How Todd Sheridan rose from PLU to become one of Hollywood’s most successful special effects wizards By Barbara Clements Remember the scene in the “The Lord…
captured his imagination and took him to a land, far, far away. “I was always drawing stop-motion movies and little drawings and cartoons in the sides of my textbooks and stuff like that,” he said. “And I was always borrowing my Dad’s video camera.” In high school, Perry took every art class he could find. And when he ran out of art classes, he started crafting coursework through independent study. He did the same thing at Pierce College, and then transferred to PLU. It was here his future career got
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PLU Makes Strong Showing at National Race & Pedagogy Conference By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications The 2014 Race & Pedagogy National Conference in Tacoma Sept. 25-27 features more than 2,000 local, regional, national and international participants—including a large contingent from Pacific Lutheran…
in schools over the last 30 years. “The question is asked: ‘Does a focus on test scores and graduation rates adequately represent the consequences of racial segregation in our schools?'” Cunningham said. The session also will present the results of a 10-year study of a school district that had its desegregation order lifted in 1999 and then stage a critical conversation between the authors of the study and a panel of critical scholars and civic leaders about questions raised by the study. Drawing
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How and why do you choose allyship even when it is unpopular? Katie Monsen ‘96 and Emily Davidson ‘98 (links to full interviews here and here)
(now husband) Forest. By the time she was a senior, she was writing a recurring column in The Mast with Jason Thompson, which twice argued against the anti-queer editorials from editor-in-chief Lindsay Tomac in 1996. In one issue, she countered the editorial by drawing on Jesus’s teachings, refuting the idea that Lindsay’s approach was rooted in true Christianity, and urged readers to “Love my neighbor as I love myself, in a way that respects the needs of my neighbor.” Katie told me a story that
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 15, 2016)- Art makes people feel. Art offers a window into the hearts and minds of those who create it, and invokes emotion for those who view and admire it. For Edvard Munch, those feelings were complicated and, often times, dark. “…
the student exhibit ignited a curiosity to dive deeper into Munch’s background beyond “The Scream.” “You get an immediate visceral, emotional reaction,” he said of Munch’s art. “It punches forward.” Iverson’s work is emotional, but more complex — drawing on lots of details to evoke feeling. “I tried to pare it down to make it more simplistic,” he said. He is submitting two pieces, one he previously finished and another he is still working on. The works are meant to convey grief. One is
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Symposium 2012 Suggested Readings Maude Barlow, Blue Covenant (The New Press, 2007) (Available at the PLU Bookstore for purchase) Maude Barlow has for decades been a leading voice arguing that access
explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context.” Shelagh D. Grant, Polar Imperative: A History of Artic Sovereignty in North America (Douglas and McIntyre, 2010) “Based on Shelagh Grant’s groundbreaking archival research and drawing on her reputation as a leading historian in the field, Polar Imperative is a compelling overview of the historical claims of sovereignty over this continent’s polar regions
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PLU mathematics professor Jessica Sklar is one of 23 collaborators creating a notable work of art, soon touring the nation. Called Mathemalchemy, the installation celebrates the beauty and creativity of mathematics. The finished piece will be about 16 x 8 feet in area and 9…
testament to creativity, problem-solving, and dedication. Many of us don’t realize that art or math works aren’t typically creations of instant genius. Instead, drawing the perfect nose or proving a new mathematical result may take hours, days, or years of learning, effort, and repeated attempts. Sklar was inspired to work on the project by her interest in humanistic mathematics: “The notion that mathematics is, at heart, a human endeavor.” She also got involved as part of a lifelong mission to
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Earth, Sea, Sky: Selections from the PAC Featuring work in a variety of media, this exhibition showcases expressive, realist, and even abstract landscapes drawn from PLU’s Permanent Art Collection.
2024-25 University Gallery ScheduleThe Gallery is free to visit and is open 8am to 4pm, Monday – Friday or by appointment. Jump to the University Gallery Season Archives. Windows on the World: Objects from PLU’s Collections September 18, 2024– October 16, 2024 Opening Reception: September 18, 5-7 pm Drawing from all across campus, this exhibition spotlights a range of remarkable historical objects, artworks, and scientific specimens. Come explore the amazing diversity of PLU’s collections
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Facing History 101: A Workshop for Educators (preregistration required) 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Designed and led by Fran Sterling, Senior Research and Development Associate for Facing History and
. Only a minority of the parents survived to see their children again. What happened in the lucky families that were reunited? Drawing on her own family correspondence, Professor Heineman will discuss the difficult path to reestablishing family ties. Elizabeth Heineman, Professor and Chair Department of History, University of Iowa Convener: Lisa Marcus, Associate Professor of English Scandinavian Cultural Center, AUC Closing Reception – All are Welcome 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Comments from Paul Shapiro
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Facing History 101: A Workshop for Educators (preregistration required) 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Designed and led by Fran Sterling, Senior Research and Development Associate for Facing History and
. Only a minority of the parents survived to see their children again. What happened in the lucky families that were reunited? Drawing on her own family correspondence, Professor Heineman will discuss the difficult path to reestablishing family ties. Elizabeth Heineman, Professor and Chair Department of History, University of Iowa Convener: Lisa Marcus, Associate Professor of English Scandinavian Cultural Center, AUC Closing Reception – All are Welcome 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Comments from Paul Shapiro
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