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the value of literature and writing is even more paramount as we move forward, because it’s acting as kind of a resistance to forces in our culture that want to reduce or simplify experience,” Barot said. “What literature does is restore complexity to the things that people feel and do and think, and celebrate complex emotional, social, intellectual experiences.” As for the future of the Rainier Writing Workshop, Barot looks backward and forward, always with the founders’ vision—and achievements
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congestion on the rise, new strategies for moving people from one place to another will be necessary. Among the transportation options under consideration is higher–speed inter–city rail service that would better connect urban areas such as Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia. Sidetracked: Redefining Rail investigates the possible effects of higher–speed rail in the Pacific Northwest. OVEREXPOSED, 2011Overexposed, is a documentary about “compassion fatigue,” a condition that particularly
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when he moved to Washington, to get acquainted with the country where his life started. Drews was born in Spokane and has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Canada. He currently lives in Surrey, British Columbia, with his wife, Yvette, and their 7-year-old twins. “I have this birth certificate that says I am American and a passport that says I am an American,” Drews said. “So what does that mean? And to find out what that means I had to live there.” However, once it became obvious that Drews needed
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Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Cover Story By Sandy Deneau Dunham RESOLUTE Editor I n the mid-1960s, The Beatles invaded America, and The Deacons occupied Pacific Lutheran University. The association is not as far out as you might think. Both bands: introduced a distinct sound and/or accent (oh-so British vs. … well, a trace of Norwegian); broke serious ground (one redefined rock ’n’ roll; one played at PLU’s first true rock ’n’ roll dance
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types distributed throughout the British Empire, including British North America where they were used to print the Declaration of Independence. Some of the collection’s oldest type was cast in unusual sizes, pre-dating the industry’s effort to standardize toward the end of the 19th century. Notable wood typefaces include Art Gothic, which debuted in 1887 with mixed reviews, and Mikado, some of which is celluloid and especially rare since the enameled pieces were only manufactured for roughly 15
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the NSF grant and a recent partnership with the University of Washington, Waldow’s polymer experiments are being used to create organic transistors based on polymers. While batteries store energy, transistors control the flow of and amplify electric currents. They are crucial elements of nearly all modern electronics. Waldow and his team hope to find ways to improve organic transistors for possible use in biological and medical applications. “What’s really satisfying is to see students realize
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primary school and laid the foundation for the gymnasium (the process of “exercising the mind” in what Americans would call high school). If you have been educated in a public school, you are a beneficiary of the Lutheran reform of education. While modern universities value academic freedom – the protection of scholarly research and teaching from external pressure – it was Lutheran reformers who insisted that the primary gift of religion is freedom of conscience rather than unthinking obedience to
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student choreographers include Avelon Ragoonanan, Elizabeth Maloney, Kelsey Roberts, Helen Garman and Miranda Winter. The guest choreographer is Carla Barragan. She has choreographed a modern work based on a tale from the First Nations Peoples of the Pacific Northwest, entitled Raven and The Man That Sits on the Tides. Barragan received her MA in dance education from Teachers College Columbia University in New York and her BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase in New York. In 1990, Barragan launched her
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exhibition celebrating this remarkable document opened on May 17, 2014 (the constitution’s 200th anniversary), at the Eidsvoll Center in Norway—and now that same exhibition will hold its exclusive U.S. premiere at Pacific Lutheran University’s Scandinavian Cultural Center. The exhibition, 1814-2014: Red White and Blue–Norwegian Constitution, American Inspiration, is made up of works by 10 renowned Norwegian modern artists—together it’s a visual exploration of themes ranging from freedom and stability to
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professors there taught me how to become not only a better scholar but also a more thoughtful and engaged human being.” Loberg, whose area of expertise is modern European history, centered her article on the perspectives and uses of the city streets of Berlin during the 1920s and ’30s. She discusses how the city landscape translated and revealed the struggle of the political and economic crises of the period. By using different types of research tools, including police reports, photographs, newspaper
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