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.” Sharlene also highlights the relationships cultivated in the center by recognizing the wonderful tutors that volunteer their time week after week, supporting and empowering students. The Parkland Literacy Center offers a small glimpse into the extraordinary things PLU students are doing in Parkland, but it also reminds us of all the incredible people living in this community. PLU’s mission encourages this kind of engagement, but it is not always easy. These students are making it happen by building a

part marketing, part outreach and part behavior change. “The students in the Sustainability Office were shocked,” Cooley said. “It completely changed how the sustainability office operates.” It also reaffirmed to the three campus leaders that their efforts in approaching sustainability in a multidisciplinary manner worked. “When one group breaks the mold, everyone else is like ‘Hey, we can do this,'” Smith said. This past spring, those involved with reDesign House began to examine how other

wanted to live.” Ultimately, it was decided to kill the baby, a girl, after she was born. Today, at nearly 80 years old, Friedman is still haunted by that decision. “I tell you this so you can understand how inhumane those times were,” he told the audience. “The worst part is I have to take that guilt to my grave.” The Russians liberated the family in March 1944. They returned to Brody in July 1944 to find the once bustling community of 15,000 Jews reduced to less than 100. His family was the only

percentage of students studying abroad. When students involved in near-campus or in-state J-term programs are included in this number, the percentage jumps to over 50 percent, Sobania noted. In general, “PLU has made a conscious decision to talk about “study away” rather than “study abroad,” Sobania noted in his report to NAFSA. “We do so because the South Puget Sound is so richly diverse that one does not need to travel more than a few blocks to have a cross-cultural experience.” PLU also offers

on D-Day in 1941. The motivation of  company officials, including IBM’s president Thomas Watson, was not so much ideology, as money. “It was a business decision,” he said. Read Previous The value of the bourgeoisie Read Next Care for the world, service to mankind COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS A family with a “Bjug” legacy of giving and service September

right decision, he admits now, 10 years later, it still turns over like a well-worn stone in his mind. “It was the right thing to do, but I’m going to have to live with that for the rest of my life,” he said. The book chronicles Hrivnak during his time in the in Iraq, when Hrivnak was a captain and flight nurse in an Air Force medevac unit charged with caring for U.S. casualties. Hrivnak first started writing the book – although he had no idea his musings would end up in newspapers, a documentary