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I volunteered to serve because of 9/11. On September 11, 2001, I was attending high school in a city where many of the inhabitants commute into New York City for work, a beautiful city that looks right across the water into Manhattan. My dad worked in the city and the majority of girls attending this small, private school had at least one parent working in the city as well. I was standing by the window during the break period between classes, waiting to start History class (of all things), when

staff alike have signed pledges saying they will work, actively, to prevent sexual assault. And now, from Olson Gymnasium to Ramstad Commons to the Anderson University Center, signed Lute pledges are hanging all over campus. Warwick said organizers thought the campaign was an especially good fit for PLU because of the work being done on campus around active bystanders. For example, at the beginning of the 2014-15 school year, new students and athletes attended a workshop on bystander training. And

characterizes too many contemporary visions of higher education. When education is conceived in terms of the instrumental reason of a market-driven world, students become consumers, acquiring discrete packets of knowledge or skills. Education is reduced to training. Higher education becomes a Flatland where costs are conceived in terms of time, inconvenience, and money, but where the student as person —because in a two-dimensional world there are no persons— remains untouched. Ironically, the same kind of

language with comfort and discomfort, Alys delicately forms a path for herself between class and national allegiances. Pride and prejudice around social classes form the basis for Alys and Darsee’s initial dislike of each other as it does between Elizabeth and Darcy, yet Alys’s conflict with language is part of what ultimately makes Darsee so appealing to her. He has studied outside of Pakistan, read international literature extensively, and feels caught between worlds just as she does. His gift to her

Rainier Writing Workshop Begins Aug. 2—Along With Free Public Readings by its Esteemed Faculty Posted by: Sandy Dunham / July 24, 2015 Image: Participants in the 2014 Rainier Writing Workshop attend a lecture in Nordquist Lecture Hall. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) July 24, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, 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

yourself up,’ ” says Stacia Vierra ’12, a social worker for MultiCare Tacoma Family Medicine who previously served as the director of a shelter for survivors of domestic violence. Vierra first experienced a calling for social work and advocacy while working at PLU’s Center for Gender Equity. Psychology classes taught her to stand up against injustice and oppression, center inclusivity, and amplify the voices of historically marginalized community members. Since earning a master of social work degree in

new classes, and learning and updating (when needed) all the procedures in the department! But now I have a semester behind me, and we have finished settling into our new home, my wife Catherine, daughter Madison, and I are carving out more time to explore the Tacoma and Seattle area. We just attended our first Seattle Opera production, a stellar performance of Tosca! We like to hike and ride our bikes. My wife and I like walking on one of the ferries and spending a few hours on the water

East side where I graduated from Lincoln High School. My life was shaped by the love of my family, too little money and the social upheaval of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. I went to work after high school but eventually decided that I wanted to go to college. However, I could not pay very much for tuition so I started taking classes at community colleges. PLU was the first university to offer me a loan, and that became one of the deciding factors in attending PLU. While our paths

Sept. 20 | 5:30 p.m. | Garfield 208 An informal discussion among students, staff and faculty about how to listen critically and be an active citizen in the upcoming election. Sponsored by the PLU Diversity Center. Get Real! – Gender Equity Training for Relationships that are Empowering, Awake, and Loving Sept. 23-25 | All Day  Workshop that helps participants to shed negative gender conditioning and discover new forms of authentic relating that cultivate mutual trust, integrity, responsible

.-4 p.m. from April 20 to May 27. Seventeen students will be exhibiting a variety of pieces in an array of mediums. Jenny Kimura, has nine book projects appearing together in a library archive exhibit. While some of the books are from her previous classes at PLU, she created three books specifically for this exhibit with the book “All the Things They Never Told You: a College Guide Book,” as the cornerstone. “It is a culmination of everything I have learned during my schooling, and was a test of