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. The Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra performed in the Professional Ensemble Concert category. The 50-minute set included pieces from the 2017 album Infância (meaning “childhood” in Portuguese) as well as a new piece composed especially for the conference. Performers included a face familiar to PLU Jazz followers – former Director of Jazz Studies, David Deacon-Joyner on piano. Other talented performers included Greg Yasinitsky from Washington State University (tenor sax), José Aponte from University of

voice area, and Jean has historically been part of that area and has contributed to that excellence that we enjoy,” Robbins added. In acknowledging her contributions to excellence, PLU created a new talent award in her name: “The Jean Kopta Artistic Achievement Award for Vocal Talent.” The award will be given to three deserving voice students starting in the fall of 2011. Helping others is a fundamental goal of Kopta. “This award and its ability to help students means the world to me,” Kopta said

lecturer was journalist Martin Jacques. Bell is a professor of ethics and political theory at Tsinghua University, in Beijing. His latest book is China’s New Confucianism: Ethics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society (Princeton University Press; new edition, 2010). Bell’s book addresses how communism in China has lost its capacity to inspire the Chinese. And what’s replacing it may very well be Confucianism. He’ll explore the reasons for the Confucian revival in China and discuss his proposals for a

, when a new logo will be unveiled and featured on all of PLU’s athletic uniforms and gear. Now we will all still be known as the Lutes, mind you, but the logo will be of a knight. “It’s focusing on the big picture,” said Laurie Turner, PLU Director of Athletics. “It creates an identity with one mark associated with PLU athletics.” Before this fall, athletic teams also had varying lettering of PLU or Lutes. That too will change to one standard design using the word “Lutes.” The knight-Lutes logo, and

October 20, 2011 Chris Fry ’91, of NW Wood, cuts a plank on his mill in Tacoma. Fry milled the wood from trees cut this summer into panels that now adorn the new Studio Theater. (Photo by John Froschauer) Transforming logs into artwork By: Barbara Clements To the casual observer, the higgly piggly stacks around his five acres may seem a jumbled mess. But to Chris Fry, ’91, each stack of wood, each plank, is a work of art, just waiting for the right stain, cut or use. That was certainly true of

economy. More than 10,000 PLU alumni make their home in the area. And more than 3,500 students enroll at PLU every year and the university employs 700 faculty and staff. “I thank you for recognizing and holding up the essential and critical role of education in the context of economic development,” he said. “And, there is much to celebrate.” But he expressed pause in celebrating. As the PLU president nears the end of his 20 years at the university, he expressed concern about the future of a “new

Bjerke, chair of the Board of Regents, turned to Assistant Professor Spencer Ebbinga, who unveiled a bronze bust of Anderson. PLU’s president looked surprised for a minute and then began to laugh. “That’s really something,” Anderson said. Not missing a beat, Bjerke noted that that was a high compliment from the self-effacing North Dakota native. The bust will have a new home in the newly renamed Loren and MaryAnn Anderson University Center. Anderson said that he usually “cultivates the art of not