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  • In recognition of the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran reformation, throughout the 2016-17 academic year a wide range of academic, community and artistic events at Pacific Lutheran University will address questions and concepts relating to Re•forming. UPCOMING EVENTS Second Annual César Chávez & Dolores Huerta…

    intimacy and inspires collaboration. Sponsored by the Center for Gender Equity. Fall Forum on Sexual Assault and Violence Sept. 27 | 3:45 – 5 p.m. | AUC Regency Room The PLU community continues open dialogues on sexual assault and violence on campus in an effort to expand community understanding and advocacy, while also increasing the safety and care of our community. Sponsored by the Title IX Working Group. Guest Speaker: Representative David Sawyer Sept. 28 | 1:45 p.m. | Xavier 201 Rep. David Sawyer

  • Learning perspectives About a dozen students silently sit in a semicircle around a Makah woman, as she shows them how to make a cedar bracelet. Students mimic her as she holds several foot-long strands of cedar bark strung out from her mouth to her hands.…

    ,” “I’d been here a long time ago,” or “I heard this is the most underrated J-term trip.” Senior Eden Marsicek couldn’t agree more with the last statement. “It is,” she says plainly. Once the students arrive they are nervous about what is to come. But the Makah calm them quickly with the epitome of “with open arms.” The Makah have an open and strong sense of community. Family gatherings are like Thanksgiving, Adams said, but there is no awkwardness between generations. “Everyone’s always looking out

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 6, 2016)- Travel from the shores of Puget Sound to the fjords of Norway with the exhibition Edvard Munch and the Sea , on view exclusively at Tacoma Art Museum April 9 through July 17, 2016. This is your opportunity to dive…

    Stratton Gould Fund. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.× Edvard Munch (1863-1944), On The Waves of Love, 1896. Lithograph, 123/16 × 16⅜ inches. Epstein Family Collection. Photo by Mark Gulezian. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.× Read Previous PLU employee Logan Seelye to share his story of triumph, struggle and faith at TEDxTacoma Read Next PLU community members raise funds and awareness at Relay For Life COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear

  • veteran: vet-er-an (n) \ ˈve-tə-rən a veteran – whether active duty, retired, discharged, or reserve – is someone who, at some point in their life wrote a blank check made payable to the United States of America for an amount “up to and including their…

    Press. Pryce, Pryce, D. H., & Shackelford, K. K. (2012). The costs of courage : combat stress, warriors, and family survival. Lyceum Books. Coll, & Weiss, E. L. (2015). Supporting veterans in higher education : a primer for administrators, faculty, and advisors. Lyceum Books, Inc. Gordon. (2018). Wounds of war : how the VA delivers health, healing, and hope to the nation’s veterans. ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press. Driscoll, & Straus, C. (2009). Hidden battles on unseen fronts 

  • Originally Published 1999 “The Artist, the thinker, the hero, the saint —who are they, finally, but the finite self radicalized and intensified? . . . The difference between [them] and the rest of us . . . is a willingness to undergo the journey of…

    the kind of knowing that cannot be unknown. For our students this is a process of reconstituting themselves as human beings, a process of disintegration and reintegration, for some welcome, for others not. For all, however, it is a process that usually involves their experiencing a sense of tension and even betrayal of family, peer group, social class, ethnic community, religious denomination, or political ideology. Whether and how students negotiate this process depends on many things: among them

  • The Spanish word, Duende (du-end-ay), has come to refer to the mysterious power that art has to deeply move a person. Soon-to-be graduates in the Department of Art and Design chose this word to rally around for their senior exhibition in the University Gallery, opening…

    has held a special place in Sara’s life since a young age. At five years old, her favorite book was Cristina Bjork’s Linnea in Monet’s Garden, and it was apparent to her family that art was no passing interest as she pursued working in a variety of mediums. Whether she is working in photography, mixed media, acrylic, or oil, her work is typically figurative in nature and often consists of unconventional portraits. Sara’s work has been shown in multiple juried exhibitions through PLU’s University

  • Spring, 2022 This issue marks an important transition for the Division of Humanities. As of this summer, the Humanities programs —English, Languages & Literatures, the Language Resource Center, the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, the Parkland Literacy Center, Philosophy, and Religion— will merge…

    prepare one for a life of “thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care.” Writing 11 years later, with continuing economic and social uncertainty, I must also report that we’ve faced serious budgetary challenges at PLU, which have had a profound impact on the humanities. Next year we will sadly not be offering degrees in Classics, German, or Nordic Studies. All of our programs have seen reductions, and this spring some colleagues are completing their final year of teaching earlier than they had

  • TACOMA, Wash. (July 23, 2015)—During the Aug. 2-12 Rainier Writing Workshop, more than 100 students and faculty will gather at PLU to participate in classes, workshops, readings and other creatively immersive activities. The 10-day workshop, the annual summer residency of Pacific Lutheran University’s Master of…

    . Kitchen, who passed away in 2014, was the co-founder of the Rainier Writing Workshop at PLU. She authored four essay collections: The Circus Train; Half in Shade: Family, Photography, Fate; Distance and Direction; and Only the Dance. She also wrote a novel, The House on Eccles Road, winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize from Graywolf Press, as well as a critical study of William Stafford, Writing the World. She also edited (with Ted Kooser, former U. S. Poet Laureate) an anthology of bird poems: The

  • In honor of Women’s History Month, we are “commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.” ( https://www.womenshistorymonth.gov/ ). This exhibit includes a short list of just a few women’s first achievements in the past six…

    everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she’s gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love.” — provided by the publisher Native country of the heart : a memoir (PS3563.O753Z46 2019) “Writer and activist Cherríe Moraga’s love letter to her ‘unlettered

  • If season two of Sanditon showed us anything, it is that the eyes are easily deceived. After a season full of emotional manipulation through gaslighting and rakes disguised as men of gentility, the final episode retained a few surprises, including the revelation that Charles Lockhart…

    In the Eye of the Beholder: Georgiana and her Portrait Posted by: ramosam / July 26, 2022 July 26, 2022 By Elsa Kienberger If season two of Sanditon showed us anything, it is that the eyes are easily deceived. After a season full of emotional manipulation through gaslighting and rakes disguised as men of gentility, the final episode retained a few surprises, including the revelation that Charles Lockhart (Alexander Vlahos) himself was the heinous family relation after Georgiana’s inheritance