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Award Recognizes PLU Speech and Debate Team as one of the Best in the Pacific Northwest https://www.plu.edu/comm-media-designarts/news/2015/02/07/award-recognizes-plu-speech-and-debate-team-as-one-of-the-best-in-the-pacific-northwest/

Award Recognizes PLU Speech and Debate Team as one of the Best in the Pacific Northwest Posted by: Todd / February 7, 2015 February 7, 2015 Pacific Lutheran University’s Speech and Debate team returned from competition at Western Washington University with major honors: The team earned a coveted debate sweepstakes award for the 2014-15 season—its first such award since 2005—which honors PLU’s performance over the year at tournaments in the Pacific Northwest. PLU beat out rivals including

Award Recognizes PLU Speech and Debate Team as one of the Best in the Pacific Northwest https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2015/02/06/debateaward/

honors: The team earned a coveted debate sweepstakes award for the 2014-15 season—its first such award since 2005—which honors PLU’s performance over the year at tournaments in the Pacific Northwest. PLU beat out rivals including Willamette, Lewis & Clark, Whitman, the University of Puget Sound and the University of Washington. Austin Ballard, a junior, was awarded third top speaker. First-year debater Noah Gerlach took seventh in the junior division. First-year debater Sam Altenberger and sophomore

Commemoration, Culture, and Coco: Exploring Día de Muertos in Mexico – Oaxaca Program 2017 https://www.plu.edu/oaxaca-2017/commemoration-culture-and-coco-a-journey-exploring-muertos-in-mexico/

after seeing the new Disney Pixar movie Coco (2017). Four friends and I had the opportunity to see Coco shortly after its release at a local movie theater in Oaxaca. Other than knowing that it was a Disney movie about México, I knew very little about the story. Without giving away too much, Coco follows the story of a young boy whose passion it is to play music. He gets tangled up visiting the grave of his idol, and suddenly finds himself in the world of the dead. In this world of the dead, he gets

“Show Me the Money!” Q&A about salary increases, funding new initiatives, and budget accountability. https://www.plu.edu/president/news/2016/04/12/show-me-the-money-i-answer-your-questions-and-comments-about-salary-increases-funding-new-initiatives-and-budget-accountability/

– 3,450, so I think we need to see where the Strategic Enrollment Management Advisory Committee (SEMAC) lands in terms of its final recommendation this spring, and what the Board of Regents ultimately adopts at its May meeting. I believe that the 43 positions we cut last year was the right number to achieve our aims for this academic year, but optimal enrollment and student retention are fluid challenges, and successful enrollment plans are living, active documents that should be referred to regularly

Feminist Student Union and Asian Pacific Islander Club ‹ Resolute Online: Winter 2016 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2016/what-was-it-like/feminist-student-union-and-asian-pacific-islander-club/

challenge, it was also our motivation to work harder. Our efforts paid off when we produced our first annual API Club event in our second year. We were one of the stronger cultural clubs on campus, so other clubs looked to us for support in brainstorming and planning their own events. We were also fortunate that our club advisor was the director of Student Involvement and Leadership and the Multi-Ethnic Resource Center. As a result, we had the support of campus administration, a big victory in its own

Programs https://www.plu.edu/hispanic-latino-studies/programs/

, and engage topics that include, but are not limited to, social justice struggles present and past, migration, race, gender, sexuality, memory, trauma, and the politics of language. Capstone Presentations, 2017: Collin Yadon, Kate Hall, Elmer Coria Islas, Dr. Giovanna Urdangarain The Latino Studies minor engages many of the same topics, but with a special focus on the experiences of Latino/a/x communities in the United States and its transnational and cultural borderlands. Elective courses offer

What exactly is a ‘CAPSTONE’? (And how will it get me a job?) https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2013/09/27/what-exactly-is-a-capstone-and-how-will-it-get-me-a-job/

specifically how tigers lap up liquids – as part of a PLU capstone project. Two years ago, physics major Matt Hubbard ’13 became intrigued by the subject when he encountered research taking place at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which analyzed the roughness and size of a tongue and its relation to water-column pull and strength. “I liked the fact that you could take a field of complex mechanics and relate it, in a tangible way, to an everyday occurrence,” Hubbard said. He worked on his project for

Resolute Online: Spring 2015 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2015/

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Resolute Online: Spring 2015 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/static/spring-2015/

Resolute Online: Spring 2015 Home Features Germany J-Term Women’s Center at 25 Jehane Noujaim It’s On Us Attaway Lutes Editor’s Note On Campus Discovery Research Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Alumni Profiles Homecoming 2015 Twin Cities ‘Waste Not’ Seattle Connections Easter Egg Hunt Night at the Rainiers Alumni Events Class Notes Family and Friends Submit a Class Note Calendar Home Features Germany J-Term Women’s Center at 25 Jehane Noujaim It’s On Us Attaway Lutes Editor’s Note On

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