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McIntyre ’74, also graduated with a degree in education from PLU. After teaching in various places around the country, McIntyre now teaches theater arts in the Seattle Public School District to middle school and elementary age children. “I like to say I walked across the stage twice,” she laughed. “My mother was pregnant with me when she graduated.” McIntyre auditioned on a whim. “I figured, why not?,” she laughed. And she was glad she did. “It was such an awesome experience, working with so many
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of my life giving it away,” fits well with her new dream. She’s currently working on distribution deals for African hot sauce and wine. Eventually, she plans to import the African products to America, sell them as gourmet and reinvest the majority of the profits into different areas of Africa, such as education. “I’ve learned the concept of enough,” she said. “You take what you need and with the rest of it, you bless others.” Cunningham is hosting “Why Africa Matters” on Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. at the
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needy Parkland families. “Every day I realize the importance of food. It infiltrates everyone’s life,” Mares said. The university encourages students to study away and live lives of service, but it falls short of engaging students with the Parkland community, Mares said. The garden aims to open the Lutedome and better connect students with their neighbors across the street. “Knowing about the farm and the garden create a larger perspective,” Mares said. “It’s an education in how to grow food, what
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Sponsorship for major symposia, annual lectures, seminars and workshops that are crucial to a flourishing academic culture and extend the explicitly academic resources of the university out into the community. “I can’t emphasize enough how important these development opportunities for academics and mission are,” Killen said. “They make it possible for PLU to move into the future with it’s own kind of Wild Hope, profoundly rooted in its Lutheran tradition of higher education.” Killen calls PLU a global
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around by us every time there was a discussion about remodeling Eastvold,” said Rev. Dennis Sepper, University Pastor. “PLU and Lutheran higher education put such a high emphasis on pluralism and diversity that I believe if we’re going to invite students of different faith traditions to our school, we should at least minimally provide for their spiritual needs in terms of a space to pray.” But according to Sepper, it wasn’t until Alazadi spoke to the diversity center that the idea got pushed off the
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Wang Center for Global Education, also showed a series of videos about Tutu, South Africa and the creation of apartheid. The roots of the separation of races landed with the Dutch immigrants who came to the southern tip of Africa in the 17th century. The actual doctrine was established by the National Party in 1948. The apartheid was a legal system that curtailed the rights of the majority ‘non-whites’ in South Africa under the rule of the white minority. Tutu was born in 1931, and at first wanted
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, Malloy worked in public health in New York and Washington, D.C., before moving back to the Northwest to further his education. Malloy attended Seattle University Law School, studied intellectual property law and took a position at the Infectious Disease Institute. He stayed there until his recent move to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where he’s now operational leader in its Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division. “This position involves a lot of international health activities, which is
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Colleges for Veterans list released in September. PLU’s six-year graduation rate for military-affiliated first-year students is 86.4 percent, compared to 56 percent for Education Department numbers reported in the Military Times. Earlier this year, PLU hired its first Director of Military Outreach, Army veteran and Tacoma resident Michael Farnum, who is responsible for increasing PLU’s engagement with current and prospective military and veteran communities; increasing enrollment of military-affiliated
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and international honors. Waste Not is the latest in a series of MediaLab films that have tackled big, highly topical issues such as religion, water, oil and immigration. All of those productions have been supported by PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education and other on- and off-campus organizations such as the School of Arts and Communication, The News Tribune, KWA and others community partners. In addition to gaining valuable experiences in filmmaking, the Waste Not team also learned a great
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