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time, Watts enjoys hosting game nights and watching movies with her friends — creating a space where her friends of color can feel free to be themselves. Nayonni Watts '19, pictured here with her project exploring the history of the Black Student Union and African-American students at PLU, hoped her student-led production “Spectrums of Color” would shine a light on people of color with neurological disorders. She enjoys watching cartoons such as “Steven Universe,” “Craig of the Creek,” and wants to

commissioned for them. In 2012, The Lyric Brass released a CD “American Music for Brass Quintet” which includes works by Gwyneth Walker, Charles Ives, David Snow, and a new work written for the group by Sy Brandon. Read Previous Sacred concerts highlights faith and music Read Next Celebrated composer and PLU alumna Cindy McTee visits campus LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU

valued sustainability when she came across a sculpture. Shaped like a triangle, it was made from various recycled items and had lights powered by a solar panel. “I was amazed at the fact that the population uses so many plastics, and the amount of recycling bins are far and few between,” she wrote. “However they are available and way easier to find than in the Houston airport.” In order to make a difference – and avoid having recyclable garbage lining the street, like in São Paulo – each American

spending time in a specialty tea shop, tasting, learning about teas, how to prepare them, and the types. The owner was a remarkable woman. What has been the reaction to you, when they find out where you are from, that you are an American? The people are so eager to help. They are very earnest. They will stop and try to help and will personally, sometimes physically, take you to where you need to go, rather than just point. The taxi drivers often try out their English. Many people will just want to stop

last week. “It’s a sobering and grim topic,” Bergman said. And one without easy answers. Illegal wildlife trade ranks right behind arms and drug smuggling as the most profitable and sizeable illegal trade in the world, Bergman said. Although laws have been passed in the U.S., Europe and in Mexico and South American countries, the trade still persists and flourishes, he said. Often it’s still legal in countries, though it may be illegal right next door. A total ban on the trade of an entire species

., a small town which clings a point of land on the Olympic Peninsula. Each is carrying a sensitive directional microphone aimed at the canopy of a Sitka Spruce stand. About 100 feet above the trail, a chit-chit-chit sound drifts down. It’s the call of a particular type of North American Crossbill-unglamorously named “call type 10.” Predictably, the types range from one through ten, with type 10, the elusive bird over our head, having been described in scientific literature only 18 months ago

mind. He then woke up in jail. Still alive, but changed. It wasn’t the last time he would end up in jail. It had been his first demonstration as a field officer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It was the early 1960s in Mississippi. As a civil rights activist, he was there to lead a peaceful protest condemning the murder of an African American man whose supposed crime had been registering to vote. Zellner, now 72, shared his story with students last week as the kick-off for the

then finally the US. The family came to New York, North Carolina and then Oregon. “I remember really buying into the American dream that if you work hard enough, you can achieve your dreams,” said Elbaum, who graduated with four degrees from MIT. He also urged listeners in the CK to make a choice, when they witness injustice, mob action or even bullying, to act. “All of us can choose whether we are on the side of fairness and tolerance,” he said. Read Previous Visiting Writer’s Series – Eric