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happen to have been two of my closest PLU friends. My friendship with Doug and Alan began when we were randomly assigned to the old, wooden one-story Evergreen dormitory on lower campus. We felt lucky, priding ourselves on the cohesiveness within this dorm and our dorm’s accomplishments on campus—from dramatic transformations of our H-shaped building for homecoming weekend to success in intramural athletics and influence in campus politics. During those four years I hung out in Doug’s room almost
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single level with flexible classroom space, media, and remote connectivity teaching equipment. How do you feel about these improvements? It’s great! We constantly move around in our labs since we often go from one workstation to another. But the improvements to the classrooms are also a safety thing. Sometimes we have sharp objects or hazardous materials we are working with, so being in a lecture-type setting creates a hazardous situation. One thing we had a struggle with was the example dissections
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, and engage topics that include, but are not limited to, social justice struggles present and past, migration, race, gender, sexuality, memory, trauma, and the politics of language. Capstone Presentations, 2017: Collin Yadon, Kate Hall, Elmer Coria Islas, Dr. Giovanna Urdangarain The Latino Studies minor engages many of the same topics, but with a special focus on the experiences of Latino/a/x communities in the United States and its transnational and cultural borderlands. Elective courses offer
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only living through the crisis themselves, they are also engaged with it intellectually from the unique vantage point of their area of expertise and able to provide explanations for information we receive from the media. Can you share a couple of examples of how faculty members will be approaching the topic from different interdisciplinary perspectives? For one, we know from the daily news that the U.S., as a nation, has been challenged by an ongoing struggle with public compliance with mask
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the debate. Eckstein traveled to Tokyo, Japan, to present our research at the Tokyo Conference on Argumentation, joined by argumentation scholars from all over the world. There, the work gained insight from scholars that will help shape continued research and works. Stephen Llano, associate professor and director of debate at St. John’s University, attended the conference and was particularly positive. He wrote to Eckstein and said the analysis of the use of social media as a resource and
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the larger publication can republish the work of Just Security contributors. Dr. Shanks Kaurin only learned of this republication from the influx of hate mail she received following the release. “The media is a business and they are trying to drive traffic, but [the Newsweek title] was very inflammatory and didn’t really reflect the content of the article,” Dr. Shanks Kaurin explains. “A lot of people were reacting, as many of us do, to just the title and hadn’t read the article.”Despite the
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The Printed Arts at PLU are Alive and Thriving Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / February 21, 2012 February 21, 2012 The 2013-14 academic year has been full of celebrations of the printed arts. PLU’s Elliott Press celebrated its 30th anniversary; the Boge Library was established, with a collection of books on graphic design, typography and calligraphy; a one-day book arts symposium will grace PLU’s campus on March 15; and on March 12, the University Gallery hosts an exhibition celebrating Wayzgoose
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Peace and Conflict students shed light on Reconciliation Day Posted by: Todd / April 1, 2013 April 1, 2013 On Thursday, April 11th from 9-10pm, the MBR Amphitheater will transform into a glowing globe. As part of Reconciliation Day, students are encouraged to place a candle on a conflict or peace-building effort that is taking place in the world. Alongside peers, faculty and fellow community members, students will get the chance to informally discuss what reconciliation and peace really mean
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Art and the Holocaust: Understanding Aesthetic Experience as Empowerment Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / November 20, 2013 November 20, 2013 What role can the experience of art play in our understanding of the Holocaust? We attempt to answer this question Thursday, March 14 at 3:40pm in Lagerquist Concert Hall, as Assistant Professor Heather Mathews examines artworks as tools of empowerment. First we look at paintings and objects made post-war to address the issue of German guilt, and end with a
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the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. González is the author of Paisanos Chinos: Transpacific Politics among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico, published by the University of California Press. His work has received the Oscar O. Winther and Bert Fireman Awards from the Western History Association. He is currently working on a transnational history of the Chinese sworn brotherhood, the Hong Men Chee Kung Tong. In 2016-2017, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Taipei, Taiwan.
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