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,” “The Middle,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “American Horror Story,” “Fargo” and many others. Morrison’s “I Can’t Help But Wonder” was placed in an episode of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” — a show hosted by Jerry Seinfeld — featuring Barack Obama. As for that Car Pros jingle that’s probably still playing in your head, it’s one of Morrison’s many creations for commercial advertising. Morrison, along with business partner David Ulfers, have developed commercials for myriad companies: restaurants, car
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to the community. They charged tenants “social rent,” meaning they were required to do community service in exchange for discounted rates. Volunteer activities include a weekly community cleanup that benefits Phoenix’s Evans-Churchill neighborhood. “So that’s written into their leases,” Duncan explained, “and then a portion of our proceeds each month — collectively, as a group of 10 tenants — goes towards a charity that we rotate.” Groups that the Churchill has benefited include Native American
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internships to students pursuing fields of study related to the environment or Native American nations.Knapp has served as a G.R.E.A.N. club officer, is currently co-chair of the Student Sustainability Committee, and is a leader of the Tacoma hub of the Sunrise Movement of young people fighting for intersectional environmental justice. She is also the incoming ASPLU Environmental Justice Director. We spoke with Knapp on her award, the opportunity it provides her, and her goals for the incoming school year
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weekly feedback and regular focus group opportunities to connect with students and instructors to help co-design the future of PLUS 100.DataFest Competition The Quigg Award will also go toward the expansion of PLU’s Data Science program through its DataFest Competition. DataFest is an annual competition sponsored by the American Statistical Association and hosted at various universities across the U.S. DataFest is an opportunity for students to work on collaboration, data wrangling, visualization
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universities across the U.S. Eight Namibians who were part of this sponsored program graduated from PLU. Laura Sorgenfrei ’08 with her grade 1 support class at Van Rhyn Elementary in Windhoek, Namibia. In the years since, this history of educational exchange has continued via USAID grant-supported teacher development programs, study away programs and Fulbright scholarships. Yet the Uukumwe Project is unique—not only for its focus on teachers, rather than students, but also because for every American
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, ‘Teacher, he looks like us.’” Delos Reyes was also very aware of how she was seen by students—how she didn’t fit the image of the white American they expected. Delos Reyes became comfortable telling students about her heritage, and she appreciated being able to travel to a country with distinct urban and rural regions that reminded her of the Philippines, where her parents were born. Throughout Delos Reyes’ life, music has been a thread connecting her upbringing to her education. “My whole family is
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her junior and senior years after serving as Resident Assistant (RA) in the Spanish Wing in Kreidler. Part of the draw to becoming an RA was that Ash knew she could connect with the Hispanic community in new ways. This wasn’t just about service; it was also about exploring her own identity as a Mexican American and understanding more fully the issues impacting minority students. This experience launched her into becoming student body president, where she was a champion for change on campus
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opportunity to memorialize the people murdered because of transphobia, and to bring attention to the continued violence and prejudice endured by the transgender community. Transgender people cannot be visible only when they are being mourned. As recent activism reminds us, their lives matter, not solely their deaths. Rita Hester—whose murder in Massachusetts on November 28, 1998 prompted her friend, Gwendolyn Ann Smith, to create the Transgender Day of Remembrance—was an African American trans woman. The
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community engagement as my students begin to ask who is shaping their perceptions of what should be valued in life as life is lived within a particular economic fabric (capitalism: the unimpeded pursuit of personal or corporate wealth) and American individualism (the autonomous self alone holds value). Does anyone oppose charity? Thirty years ago, one might have said, “Not most people.” But such is not the case today as many members of Congress, along with emerging candidates for the presidential race
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. The onset of the Cold War and a new American foe developed a new ‘vanilla’ monotheism, which central doctrine centered around being the opposite of Godless Communism and the Soviet Union. Why I Majored in Religion: I decided to major in religion after discovering that in order to understand why human societies behave in the way that they do, you have to have a foundational understanding of how religion has impacted the way in which people think, act and communicate. For me, majoring in religion
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