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Experience Heritage Speakers Embrace Firsts Together Veteran. First-gen. Trans. Academic. Archives © 2018 Pacific Lutheran University | All Rights Reserved X Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Vimeo VOLUME 5, ISSUE 2 – SPRING 2018 SENIOR EDITOR Kari Plog ’11 WRITERS Kari Plog ’11 Debbie Cafazzo Karen Miller Christian Caple Genny Boots ’18 PHOTOGRAPHER John Froschauer VIDEOGRAPHER Rustin Dwyer CONTRIBUTORS Justin Buchanan ’12 Rhiannon Berg ’18 Joshua Wiersma ’18 COURTESY PHOTOS Charles Bergman EXECUTIVE CREATIVE

On Campus Discovery Class Notes ResoLute Staff Recent Articles Defining Success Build It and They Will Come Grant Power Alumni Profile Once a Lute, Always a Lute Archives © 2019 Pacific Lutheran University | All Rights Reserved X Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Vimeo VOLUME 6, ISSUE 2 – SPRING 2019 CO-EDITORS Debbie Cafazzo Lace M. Smith WRITERS Debbie Caffazo Thomas Kyle-Milward Tad Monroe ’97 Kari Plog ’11 Rosemary Ponnekanti Vince Schleitwiler PHOTOGRAPHER John Froschauer VIDEOGRAPHER Joshua

Kari Plog ’11 WRITERS Kari Plog ’11 Christian Caple PHOTOGRAPHER John Froschauer VIDEOGRAPHER Rustin Dwyer CONTRIBUTORS Claudia Berguson Tim Sherry ’67 Joshua Wiersma ’18 COURTESY PHOTOS Greater Tacoma Peace Prize Jonathan Nesvig ’67 EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR Simon Sung ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Lace M. Smith WEB TEAM Logan Seelye Sam O’Hara ’16 Chris Albert CLASS NOTES Kathy Allen ’17 PROOFREADER Rebecca Young EDITORIAL OFFICES Neeb Center 253-535-8410 resolute

to local and global hunger, Christian art and architecture, and Christian rituals. As the university professor of Lutheran Studies, he teaches courses and seminars on Martin Luther, the Lutheran Heritage, Women Reformers, Lutheran higher education, Lutheran art and music, and the Reformation. He also serves in the International Honors Program and, on occasion, teaches a January Term course in Rome, Italy. In addition to his work in the academy, Dr. Torvend also serves as a theological consultant

techniques and the grievance process. This mandatory training is held every year. PLU workforceIn October, diversity of PLU workforce is measured at its highest level in at least a decade. Women comprise 40.6% of the faculty and 56.3% of overall employee group. People of color make up 8.8% of the faculty and 12.0% of the overall employee group. SAPETThe first training of the Sexual Assault Prevention Education Team (SAPET) takes place at the Women’s Center. 2000 New hiring workshopFaculty hiring

experience of centuries past. Though we cannot recreate life as it was, by examining German literature we learned of perspectives toward how people of the time interacted with their world – an inquiry that can inform how we choose to interact with and process our world today. A thought that remains poignant from our German literature readings comes from Hrotsvitha von Gandersheim’s Dulcitius. The men in this play demonstrate their ability to physically control the three sisters. However, these women

, Gloria Anzaldua, Malcolm X, Aldo Leopold, Vine Deloria Jr., and Angela Davis. In addition to including more figures in the canon of American philosophy, this opening up of the tradition opens up philosophy itself.  Women and minorities can be seen as philosophers.  People primarily seen as activists can be seen as doing philosophy.  The daily and personal matters in one’s life (family, sexuality, sexual identity) take up new significance as they are situated in the centuries long conversation that is

Oaxaca was a different experience. “I really didn’t know anything about Oaxaca.” The state of Oaxaca is rich in diversity, with sixteen distinct indigenous communities with their own languages and culture. Alexis firmly agrees, “Not everyone in Mexico speaks Spanish.”  The Oaxaca program is grounded in social justice, exploring complex and developing human rights issues and movements, including indigenous peoples, women, workers, and more. “I saw development projects for indigenous peoples…and I have

with students during the Wang Center Symposium "The Countenance of Hope" at PLU, on Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) We have courses that engage the perennial philosophical questions and present implications for our contemporary contexts. We ask students to examine their own ideas, commitments, lives,  and assumptions; they learn how to think and read texts critically, give analysis and generate and charitably defend their own arguments while considering possible objections and

1 – WINTER 2017 SENIOR EDITOR Kari Plog ’11 WRITERS Kari Plog ’11 Zach Powers ’10 Kevin Knodell ’11 Mark Albanese PHOTOGRAPHER John Froschauer VIDEOGRAPHER Rustin Dwyer HOMEPAGE ANIMATION Hans Fleurimont CONTRIBUTORS Andriana Fletcher ’10 Allison Rise ’12 Sonja Ruud ’12 Jacob Taylor-Mosquera ’09 COURTESY PHOTOS Wang Center Charles Bergman Theodore Charles ’12 Dom Calata ’08 EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR Simon Sung EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CONTENT DEVELOPMENT Lace M. Smith WEB TEAM Logan Seelye Sam