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PLU Hebrew Idol competition returns with more student-produced films than ever before Posted by: Kari Plog / March 30, 2016 Image: Associate Professor of Religion Antonios Finitsis honors one of the student groups at last year’s Hebrew Idol finale event. This year’s PLU Hebrew Idol competition has yielded 12 videos, more than ever before. (Photo by John Froschauer) March 30, 2016 By Brooke Thames '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March 30, 2016)- Dr. Antonios Finitsis didn’t

Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (April 26, 2016)- Joel Zylstra said Pacific Lutheran University’s partnership with the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity began with a cup of coffee at 208 Garfield four years ago. Zylstra, director of Center for Community Engagement & Service (CCES), said his perception of Habitat for Humanity was fairly narrow before sitting down with Elliot Stockstad, former director of Habitat’s homeowner services. Zylstra says he saw the organization as one that merely came in

Commencement 2016: Students will carry PLU’s mission into their post-graduate lives Posted by: Kari Plog / May 19, 2016 Image: Graduates celebrate following PLU’s 2015 Commencement ceremony. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) May 19, 2016 By PLU Marketing & Communications staffTACOMA, WASH. (May 20, 2016)- It's the season for awards, banquets, recognition and a whole lot of celebrating for Pacific Lutheran University students as they approach Commencement 2016.The ceremony will mark the culmination

yes, will you be able to combine that with your work at ASPLU? I would like to find more ways to intertwine my academic passions and ASPLU. I’m really interested in social justice and advocacy in an academic sense. I just finished a Wang Center research grant in Oaxaca, Mexico. I did an internship with a microfinance organization and did research about a small town in Oaxaca. That seems like it would be totally different than ASPLU, and in many ways it was, but I also did a lot of the same

Lutes come full circle as they return to PLU campus to film pilot for TV series where indie-film sensation ‘The Gamers’ began Posted by: Kari Plog / October 26, 2016 Image: The fantasy characters from the film, “The Gamers.” The original cast and crew will return to PLU to film a TV pilot based on the movie. See a preview of the new TV series below. (Photo courtesy of Don Early, Dead Gentlemen Productions) October 26, 2016 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 27

July 7, 2008 Next of kin: the ethics of eating, capturing, and experimenting on great apes One of the pressing problems of our times is the future of the great apes. All of the great apes – chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans – are endangered. Their habitat is quickly shrinking, but more urgent, their numbers are fast approaching an unsustainable low. Currently, the main threat is the bush-meat trade (which also involves the logging of African forests). It is now thought that the

June 16, 2009 Matters of Faith By Patricia O’Connell Killen, Ph.D. Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Professor of Religion At PLU, students talk about spirituality. They think about the meaning of life – human experiences of love, joy, creativity, success, suffering, death, of making and keeping commitments, of extending oneself on behalf of others. Students grapple with the meaning of integrity. They seek to find a purpose, something that is, in the words of some of my former students

November 12, 2012 Shane Gutierrez takes a corner kick at PLU’s new soccer complex. Photo by John Froschauer. Fields of Dreams Changes to PLU’s athletic facilities will improve not only the student-athlete experience, but the experiences of all students By Steve Hansen In many ways, the season-opening 4-2 victory over Trinity Lutheran College was like so many women’s soccer matches on PLU’s lower campus. It was a beautiful blue-sky summer day with gray-and-white striations of Mt. Rainier

, for which psychologist Daniel Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel prize in economics. It proposes that people aren’t always trying to maximize benefits, but are paying attention to a benchmark. In this case, the benchmark is par. “Do golfers pay attention to par? Yes, they sit in it,” Reiman said. This is in contrast to neoclassical economic theory that says that people are always trying to better their situation given the constraints they face. The Economics of Golf was split into two sections in order

, adolescent, and sexual maturity, and bring them a new visceral incandescence–through the symbol of a car, and the context of abuse. In response to a precise question about “playing the pedophile,” Sorenson replied saying, “If I had to describe Uncle Peck, my description of his character would not be pedophile. “Yes there was at times a lot of apprehension. But I would remember and think to myself he is a scared man who has a twisted definition of what a loving relationship is. He thrives on feeling