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religious beliefs to critical scrutiny requires viewing theism as a hypothesis, and that the provisional and tentative acceptance this would allow conflicts with the decisive adherence the theist owes to God. As Alasdair MacIntyre has put it, The acceptance [of Hebrew-Christian belief] must be of a kind compatible with the practice of worship. Thus it cannot be in any sense a conditional or provisional acceptance, for this would perhaps make it possible to say, “O God, if there is a God, save my soul

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echoed her frustration. Audrey Knutson ’07, a political science and global studies major, said 10-year-old Marimaua Muya can verbally comprehend what is said but has difficulty understanding what she reads. The Bantu children are still trying to adjust to life in the United States. During one tutoring session, Knutson asked Muya to locate Tacoma on a map of the United States posted in a corner of the classroom. Standing on a chair, Muya’s focus was on the Midwest. She needed prodding from Knutson to

buying tickets to Uganda again, this time with his girlfriend and fellow Lute, Margaret Chang, ’07, a global studies major. Kennedy at first couldn’t find his fellow organizers, but with new confidence, headed into the slum and quickly found them, including Ocitti. But the field they’d used for the first tournament was gone, now the home of an office complex. So they found another field outside of town and another at a nearby school. When the bus arrived to take spectators to the school, the kids and

said. When he returned from Chengdu, he was hooked. China was “like studying a puzzle,” Ford says. And a puzzle that drew him in with its people, its art, history and politics. His intellectual curiosity simply wouldn’t let him put the topic or the place, aside.  He  future was going to be linked to international studies; he just couldn’t wait to get back. He did manage to go back in 2011 to study ethnic minorities in China. It was Professor Adam Cathcart, who happened to be in China at the same

valuable spring break experience that opened his eyes and shifted his perspective. Now, upon returning to PLU, he brings that perspective with him. “After witnessing these different sorts of case studies, I am now able to reflect back on how Tacoma and Parkland were created,” Dobies said, “how certain vices have played out in the development of where we live.” Megan Grover, manager of short-term study away programs, said this alternative spring break is just one of the many ways Lutes can study away

Scandinavian studies from PLU in 1982. Then, she eventually earned a master’s degree in archives and record management from the University of Washington in 1987. In her time as archivist, Ringdahl was responsible for massive amounts of cataloguing and collecting university history. She started the Scandinavian Immigrant Collection, which includes pictures, artifacts and interviews from 280 Scandinavian immigrants. Ringdahl also was an early member of Northwest Digital Archives, partnering PLU with larger

. Ambassadors are individuals that for whatever reason cannot be released back into the wild. At that point, their options are euthanasia or becoming an ambassador and spending the rest of their lives in captivity where they are used for educational purposes. Ambassadors are an essential part of wildlife education because they allow the general public to develop a relationship with an individual. Numerous studies have shown that relationship greatly increases the likelihood that individuals will do

our students doing some form of study abroad. Ten years ago, that figure would have been among the best in the country.  Today, though, many other colleges have caught up with us and even surpassed us—note that St Olaf boasts of two thirds of their students doing study abroad. We can blindly race St Olaf and aim for three quarters by 2020, or we can aim to do more robust study abroad, and/or increase the percentage of international students we have, and/or develop a broader intercultural relations