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different views of contemporary life are represented and performed through this masking tradition. Today the lipiko can be representative of a wide variety of characters including, animals, mythical characters, men, women, Makonde and outsiders (Bortolot).  However, this new approach to the mapiko has created some tension between the younger and older generations. According to Alexander Bortolot, the older generations believe the dance has diverged too much from tradition, while the younger generations

different views of contemporary life are represented and performed through this masking tradition. Today the lipiko can be representative of a wide variety of characters including, animals, mythical characters, men, women, Makonde and outsiders (Bortolot).  However, this new approach to the mapiko has created some tension between the younger and older generations. According to Alexander Bortolot, the older generations believe the dance has diverged too much from tradition, while the younger generations

Program at Goddard College. A prolific writer and editor, she is the author of No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy (University of Nebraska Press, 2011) and co-editor of the well-regarded craft anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Penguin/Plume, 2007). She has served as a Writer in Residence for a number of institutions, including the Richard Hugo House and five U.S. National Parks and has been the recipient of a number of organizations including

of the Apocalypse: End Times and Resilience in Contemporary Mexico,” Villoro is perhaps that nation’s keenest political commentator. During his subsequent, more intimate session with students and faculty members, Villoro addressed a wide range of issues that included Mexico’s recent history of drug cartel violence, its representation in his fiction, as well as a more general discussion on literature. The gathered students, some of whom have been reading Villoro’s short fiction in Professor

Ten Years of the Visiting Writer Series This year marks the tenth anniversary of PLU’s Visiting Writer Series, a program that brings several working writers to campus every academic year. Co-founders Rick Barot and Jason Skipper, the poetry and fiction professors respectively, were hired by the English Department partly for their experience in creating and running successful writers series at other universities. “We started on it the summer before we came to Tacoma. One of our first

Alumni Board Letter – Resolute Online: Fall 2016 Search Features Features Welcome The Saint John’s Bible Hospitality Reformation Listen Called to PLU Women and the Holocaust On Campus Discovery Discovery Attaway Lutes Research Grants Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Alumni Board Letter Bjug Harstad Day of Giving Alumni Award Winners dCenter Alumni Weekend Alumni Profiles Class Notes Class Notes Family and Friends Submit a Class Note Calendar Calendar Calendar Highlights Alumni Board

dCenter Alumni Weekend – Resolute Online: Fall 2016 Search Features Features Welcome The Saint John’s Bible Hospitality Reformation Listen Called to PLU Women and the Holocaust On Campus Discovery Discovery Attaway Lutes Research Grants Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Alumni Board Letter Bjug Harstad Day of Giving Alumni Award Winners dCenter Alumni Weekend Alumni Profiles Class Notes Class Notes Family and Friends Submit a Class Note Calendar Calendar Calendar Highlights dCenter

women. She specialized in teaching methodology and curriculum development, as well as statistics, tests and measurements. Darren Hamby ’87 PLU Regent and alumnus Darren Hamby ’87, ’92 passed away in July 2022. Hamby was a proud PLU graduate who remained connected to the university throughout his life and career as a volunteer, donor, mentor, former Alumni Association president, and dedicated Regent at the start of his 11th year of service. As a PLU undergraduate, Hamby majored in human resource

Printing Madame DupinLast fall, Students in French 401, “Women and Print in Early Modern France,” got to try their hand at something really new (or old?!): letterpress printing. The occasion was momentous.  They were putting into print, for the very first time, the manuscript words of Madame Dupin. Dupin is best known as the châtelaine of the beautiful castle of Chenonceau in the Loire valley, and for saving this historic site from destruction during the French revolution by allowing

Bjug Harstad Day of Giving – Resolute Online: Fall 2016 Search Features Features Welcome The Saint John’s Bible Hospitality Reformation Listen Called to PLU Women and the Holocaust On Campus Discovery Discovery Attaway Lutes Research Grants Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Alumni Board Letter Bjug Harstad Day of Giving Alumni Award Winners dCenter Alumni Weekend Alumni Profiles Class Notes Class Notes Family and Friends Submit a Class Note Calendar Calendar Calendar Highlights Bjug