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. “At the time I was doing a general music major and considering minoring in communication or business,” he said. “But through those conversations with Youtz and my work with LASR, I realized that combining those two elements and creating a new major would open my schedule up for doing things like internships and individualized study courses that would create a better educational outcome.” During his junior year, Lindhartsen had the opportunity to intern at an all-ages concert venue in South Tacoma

November 3, 2008 Election could bring health care reform As an estimated 47 million in the United States remain uninsured and health care costs continue to rise, Americans are becoming increasingly concerned about access to affordable, quality health care. Presidential candidates are talking about reforming the health care system, although few details are forthcoming. For the first time since the early 1990s, the U.S. political environment offers the real possibility of fundamental health

she DJs at Lute Air Student Radio (LASR). We caught up with the busy senior to learn more.How has your PLU experience prepared you for your future? My PLU experience has prepared me by letting me have hands-on experience that I know I wouldn’t have gotten at a bigger university. Through MediaLab and several other communications classes, I’ve had the opportunity to work with and create content for real clients. Because of this, I have been able to start a portfolio of projects I’ve worked on to

with economic hardship, and still dealing with anxieties about what might come next.PLU’s curricular disruption became official on March 7, with the announcement that all classes would move to remote learning. Over the following weeks, faculty and students adjusted, those studying away returned home early, and we all learned more than we had planned about videoconferencing. This has been a season of disruption. However, PLU’s Division of Humanities worked hard in this time to continue the most

of a young man of Lencan indigenous and Honduran backgrounds, who was awarded asylum under US law after enduring and escaping gang-related violence. Expert witness testimony is a way that sociocultural anthropology scholars are applying research for real-world results.   Levy’s concern and care for Honduran people is rooted in both academic research and personal experience. “I fell in love with the people and the country, even before I met my partner,” he says. “People were friendly, welcoming

Major Minute: Paul Sutton on Education Posted by: vcraker / August 18, 2021 August 18, 2021 Dr. Paul Sutton, Ph.D., Professor of Education, shares why it’s a great time to study education and why PLU is a great place to do so! Read Previous Major Minute: Tom Smith on Theatre & Dance Read Next Major Minute: Sergia Hay on Philosophy LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride Index: What does that mean? November 21, 2024 YouTube Short: A quick campus tour and Lute lingo with Zari Warden

hazy and I couldn’t believe my eyes. How could this be real? MediaLab’s Overexposed documentary team interviews stay-at-home blogger mom Jeannett Gibson at her home in Santa Maria, California on Tuesday, May 31. I didn’t know what to feel or how to react. I kept telling myself this is real, but I couldn’t fathom it and I kept coming back to the idea that it was just the set of a film. Amidst the devastation, though, I found a glimmer of hope. People – people cleaning up their lawns and people

poster campaign and it gained national attention. The posters could be found all over Tacoma and Pierce County in 2013 and 2014. For the rest of her time at PLU, Jessica was a commuter advocate for The CAVE. “Ultimately, the dCenter is a space where you learn and feel challenged. Or, you feel welcomed away from the outside world, but also keep your awareness of the real world. Not all places are like that.” For Jessica, part of the way the Center welcomed and supported her was by providing a home

club featuring “real men.” The strip-tease side job forces the men into a exposed situation, where they struggle with their own identity in a society where an individual’s job is everything. The PLU Theatre department’s production of The Full Monty takes on identity as laid-off mill workers find strength in performing as male strippers. “What’s more vulnerable,” Clapp said, “taking your clothes off in front of people or losing your identity?” This is the first time PLU has ever produced The Full

,” “lyrical” and “must-haves for every collection.” “Less than 7 percent of children’s books published last year were written by authors of color,” says Wendy Gardiner, PLU’s Jolita Hylland Benson Endowed Chair in Elementary Education. “Which is a real and ongoing problem in publishing because all children need diverse literature. It can open up a whole world for them—letting them see their experiences represented in books, see new perspectives, disrupt stereotypes, and celebrate human experiences. So