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An Open Letter: Transgender Day of Remembrance Posted by: Thomas Krise / November 17, 2016 Image: Transgender Day of Remembrance, which occurs annually on November 20, is a day to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia and to bring attention to the continued violence endured by the transgender community. November 17, 2016 Dear Campus Community: This Sunday, November 20th, is the annual observance of the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Founded in 1999, TDOR is an
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Innovating for Access: PLU lives out its mission by blazing new trails Posted by: Zach Powers / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 By Zach Powers '10ResoLute EditorHe was working by age 8, picking cherries and apples under the Yakima Valley sun. In the spring he worked as a smudger. He’d sleep overnight in an orchard and when the alarms rang he’d sprint to light the smudge pots that warmed the trees before the fruit froze. By age ten, it was his job to clean the bathrooms and fill the machines at a
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August 5, 2010 Why eating at PLU is not your typical college dining experience By Chris Albert At PLU, eating isn’t just a cafeteria experience of hot dogs and French fries. You can get those too, but not every college dining experience also includes menu items like Korean tacos. By the way: Don’t call it a cafeteria. It is kind of a bad word around PLU’s Dining and Culinary Services, said Erin McGinnis ’90, its director. PLU has significantly remodeled its University Center, ensuring its
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The Parkland Literacy Center Posted by: hoskinsk / May 7, 2020 Image: PLU’s Parkland Literacy Center, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. (Photo/John Froschauer) May 7, 2020 By Grace Rowe '20Political Science MajorThe Parkland Literacy Center (PLC), created in 2018 by English Writing Professor Scott Rogers and Hispanic Studies Professor Bridget Yaden, is located on the western edge of PLU’s campus.The PLC, as it’s called, offers after-school tutoring in all academic subjects to Keithley Middle School and
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physicians, what this all can look like and what the medical field is all about. Is connecting with working doctors and others in the field a big part of what the club does? Yes it is. Recently we’ve had a lot of alums come in who are currently in medical school, or physicians sharing about their experience of applying to medical school, how they prepared during their undergrad years, and just talking about the process and easing people’s anxieties about medical school. Everyone in the club is excited
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PLU alumna addresses diversity, equity, inclusion as inaugural administrator at Pierce College Posted by: Kari Plog / May 2, 2018 Image: Oneida Blagg ’82 and ’91 May 2, 2018 By Helen Smith '19PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 2, 2018) — Oneida Blagg — Pierce College’s first director of equity, diversity and inclusion — says her commitment to those issues started long before she pioneered this new position at the community college.Blagg’s parents raised her to be politically aware
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& Student Connections has gone virtual to make sure resources to help you through those and related issues remain available despite remote learning and physical distancing mandates.Kevin Andrew, PLU’s Director of Career, Learning and Engagement, is part of a Connections team that helps Lutes build their own career vision — then connects them to the opportunities, resources and people that can help make those dreams a reality. We connected with Andrew to explore Alumni & Student Connections’ virtual
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to lead the team.So when Pacific Lutheran University dedicates its new baseball-field press box to Kittilsby on May 3, he’s pretty sure he is not being honored for his athletic prowess. Jim Kittilsby ’60 “I’m humbled and elated and extremely honored to be recognized,” Kittilsby said. “But it’s got to be for my behind-the-scenes work, if anything, because I certainly wouldn’t be recognized for my coaching record or my batting average as a three-year-starting Lute outfielder in the late 1950s. To
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Sustainability in Monastic Communities Posted by: alex.reed / May 22, 2022 May 22, 2022 By Joy Edwards, ‘21 (Religion and English Major)Originally published in 2021Dr. Samuel Torvend spent his sabbatical during the 2019-20 school year researching environmental consciousness and sustainability in early medieval monastic communities. Early medieval monasteries were built to last, he emphasizes. “When these monastic communities were established, they did not think they were going to be there for a
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deepening the fears of immigrants and immigration advocates about what’s to come. With a stroke of his pen, President Trump could also end Obama’s move to protect from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. More than 740,000 people voluntarily undertook a background check and received renewable two-year work permits under that program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). If the program is canceled, those permits could be allowed to expire
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