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speaker I was surprised and happy. Thinking back to my own PLU commencement many years ago, I suspect that some of our graduates may not recall my remarks; but I hope they do remember the pride and respect we all feel for their outstanding accomplishments. Graduates, please join me in a standing ovation to your family and friends for all of the love and support they have provided to help you get here today. Now, I would like to take a few minutes to share my thoughts on how the PLU experience affected
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the river to remove human influence. It was becoming increasingly clear that, as far as the Mississippi River was concerned, as a society, we have come too far with our technological advancements to ever go back. After this explanation, I remember thinking to myself there’s that ripple effect again. Saying thank you to Neal Day and Thebes Landing, we hopped back in the mini van and continued to Cairo, IL, a town several miles south. Cairo had experienced devastating flooding some years ago and had
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information of the archaeological site to life with living people interacting in that space. Andrews: I came to PLU the same time when Stasinos got his tenure-track position, and that’s when we met. But I did not contact him until I met one of his students who was swiping people in at the front desk of the Names Fitness Center. The day I noticed she was drawing her hands, I asked who her professor was, and that is how I connected with Stasinos. I had been thinking for a while that I wanted to find
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. I would also say that many of us are thinking about how to keep the special character of a residential liberal arts college community as vibrant as possible. In my own experience, there’s a tipping point around 4,000 or so above which the community changes character and feels a little more city-like and less intimate. *Note: All comments are moderated PLU must focus on value and try to find a way to deliver and maintain value rather than trying to cut the cost of operations.I would argue that
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Recruit Organisms in Carr Inlet12 Isabella York & Milo MatsudaSociety for ScienceLemelson Early Inventor Award $100 Demonstrate entrepreneurial thinking by developing a tangible invention method, process or device with market potential.PioneerOyster Heat Redundant Cage7 Kevin ShenU. S. AirforceCertificate of Achievement US Air ForceOutstanding Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)OlympiaTAMING THE OBLIQUE WING: Improving Fuel Efficiency by Developing and Flight Testing an Oblique
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critical musical skills, develops part independence, improves listening abilities and exposes you to important repertoire.Concert AttendancePlease familiarize yourself with the concert attendance requirements in your music student handbook. A list of all concerts can be found online through the music homepage. Attend concerts early and often to enrich your musical appreciation and education and to avoid any last minute emergencies. Music is an art the happens in a certain time and place for your
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. 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
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contenido , the content, the students discussed: Tradiciones indígenas ; indigenous traditions. Eventos — ella como testigo ; events as Menchú witnessed them. Descripciones de la violencia ; descriptions of the violence. Historias personales de la concientizacíon ; personal stories of how she developed a critical consciousness (or in millennial speak, they joked, how Menchú “got woke”). And, fittingly, género literario del testimonio ; literary genre of testimony, which privileges memories and
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’ mother is also an intimate understanding of the U.S.-Mexican diaspora by the celebrated coeditor of the groundbreaking anthology This bridge called my back. Moraga’s memoir begins with her mother, Elvira Isabel Moraga, who as a child, along with her siblings, was hired out by her own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. The lives of Cherríe and her mother, and of their people, are woven together in a story of critical reflection and deep personal revelation as Moraga charts her own
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requirement, but its core and elective courses are primarily taught in English. Courses marked with the HISP designation are taught in Spanish. Courses marked with the LTST designation are taught in English. Major in Hispanic Studies A minimum of 36 semester hours beyond HISP 102, including: Language and Composition 4-12 semester hours of Spanish language and critical writing for second language or heritage learners. Students with prior background in Spanish should consult the Language Placement Guide for
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