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no “animal studies program” in any American university. In fact, the phrase “animal studies” does not even exist except as I am here using it informally. Even making the comparison between animals and historically oppressed people is much more likely to offend the people involved than ennoble the cause of animals. This even though many feminists, like Carol J. Adams in The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Continuum 1990), have argued animals and women have both been
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where one might have thought they would: with other metaphysical beliefs. We all have beliefs about what there is, what is of value, and how knowledge may be obtained, that play a crucial role in our worldview. Though they are not closely tied to experience in the way a low-level scientific theory is, most of us would insist both that we really did have some reason for accepting them, and that we were open to being shown wrong. They are beliefs on which we continually act, not waiting around for
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focus of my time at PLU. The most important memories I’ve made here center on the relationships I’ve built with professors, and the times when I’ve been challenged to dig deeper into the material and to think in completely different ways. The experiences I cherish most are those when I’ve sat in the classroom, listening to a lecture, and that theory I’ve been studying so hard to really understand finally makes sense, all the pieces finally fit together. Professors like Dr. Huelsbeck, Dr. Eric Nelson
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May 22, 2013 For the 2012-2013 academic year, 877 students will have graduated from PLU. Spring Comm
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