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PLU students. × “You could say that the entire reason I’m here is because of her.” Professor Brown describes himself as a big horror movie fan and recently co-wrote (with Matthew Anderson, MA, from the University of Austin at Texas) an academic article on religious narratives in Ghostbusters (1984). As Professor Brown explains, you can go through the spiritualist literature of the 19th and 20th century and find five prevailing views/opinions on the spiritualist movement. “We basically analyze

literature and history, says “I basically do all my research on the internet, the PLU library database list is my best friend right now.” Regardless of whether students currently reside on or off campus, they find a use for Mortvedt Library’s resources. But as useful as the library is, in the Humanities there’s also great merit to be found in the input of one’s peers. James notes that “interacting with other students is super useful.” Discussion and collaboration might seem harder to partake in during

have transformed the modern world, including electrical power systems, battery storage, motion-picture cinema, and sound recording–just to name a few. Every year, the Edison Awards committee receives hundreds of nominations, and after a lengthy process they determine gold, silver, and bronze winners within different categories of science and industry. (For the 2018 awards, they received and reviewed over 3,000 entries.) Checking out the list of nominations and winners is a great way to quickly

karaoke, with the actors grabbing microphones and singing modern songs to further the plot. The show originally opened in Glasgow in 2017 at the Tron Theatre, before gaining the support of eight regional producing theatres to produce a nationwide tour of the show. It officially moved to the West End on 15 October 2021, with a premiere set for 2 November 2021 at the Criterion Theatre. After reading this #DigitalAusten tweet written by Elsa, I was inspired to see the show. I spent a delightful Sunday

my generation passes there will no longer be eyewitnesses to an event that may yet be defined as the greatest crime in modern history,” Kurt Mayer wrote. “I am telling my story because we must continue to learn from the lessons of the past.” And thanks to people like Mayer – and Browning, Ericksen and numerous other members of the PLU community – PLU continues to ensure that future generations will also learn these valuable, and essential, lessons. — this story was compiled with additional

ways the diets of medieval Benedictines were very different from those of the average modern-day American. “It’s good to remember,” said Dr. Torvend,  “that the lives of these communities were guided by the daily motion of the sun and moon, by the changing seasons of the year. They did not fly pineapples in from Hawaii or Costa Rica and hothouse tomatoes from Canada. They lived with what we would call a macrobiotic diet: a diet that would change with what was available at different times of the

that focused on environmental ethics.In many ways the diets of medieval Benedictines were very different from those of the average modern-day American. “It’s good to remember,” said Dr. Torvend,  “that the lives of these communities were guided by the daily motion of the sun and moon, by the changing seasons of the year. They did not fly pineapples in from Hawaii or Costa Rica and hothouse tomatoes from Canada. They lived with what we would call a macrobiotic diet: a diet that would change with