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Why Study English?Written works preserve our history, describe our current reality and color our future beyond imagination. Whether you aspire to analyze literature or write it, the study of English offers a versatile and challenging major. Through reading we have the opportunity to live a thousand lives, while writing with care and imagination can reveal new self-truths. A disciplined experience with the written word develops broad vision, fresh insight, and the more sophisticated skills of
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James – Gender, Sexuality and Race Studies Alternate #5: Rebekah Mergenthal – History Faculty Executive Committee AppointmentsTITLE IX COMMITTEE Katrina Hay, Physics (seat expires 2025) UNIVERSITY DIVERSITY COMMITTEE TBD UNIVERSITY SAFETY COMMITTEE TBDFaculty Committee Roster
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Fleet Forces Band and his session will be about his experiences playing around the world. Additionally, US-born, Tokyo-based Christopher Hardy, an expert in hand drums, will discuss his music and his career in Tokyo. Trumpet students will have a fantastic opportunity to work with Manu Mellaerts, professor of trumpet at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium. Our PLU Professor of Trumpet and Music History, Dr. Zachary Lyman, said, “I am extremely excited to welcome Manu Mellaerts to PLU and to
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was my admiration for how Icelanders view the earth and how those values affect their conservation efforts. When there is a deeply rooted connection to your land and its history, there is a stronger motivation and passion for protecting it at all costs, and that was so cool to experience firsthand.What an amazing takeaway! How has this internship informed your future?AS: This internship has offered me incredible experience for what I want to do. The way I describe my niche is environmental
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I’ll get a wider sense of what the election means on a broader scale,” said political science and global studies double major JuliAnne Rose ’13. “It’s an election that everyone has a lot of stake in. Everybody has a lot of opinions and I have a lot of my own opinions, and so it’s going to up my anticipation level of what the results are going to be. It will kind of feel like I’m part of the history more than if I were to just cast my vote.” Read Previous The connection between the Sun and the
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budget, transportation bond and a number of education issues, the third and final special session of the 2015 Washington Legislative Session, the longest in the state’s history, was adjourned last Friday. Particularly significant to PLU and its students, the new budget will sustain funding of the State Need Grant program (SNG) for private university students.* The new budget ensures that, for the next several years, SNG awards for present and incoming Lutes will be the same dollar amount as the 2014
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PLU NEWSStudents from PLU and Tacoma’s Lincoln High School work together to fight racismThe J-term history class “Fighting Racism in the United States 1896-2016” paired PLU students with students from Lincoln grades 9-12. The course challenged them all to critically think about daily experiences with institutionalized racism and how to effectively confront those experiences. Read Previous ‘The Monologues’ at PLU: Students reimagine famous Eve Ensler play in their own words Read Next Dialogue
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this country’s Army and making us better prepared to lead soldiers.”Learn moreInterested in getting involved with SaLUTE? Contact Michael Farnum at mike.farnum@plu.edu for more information. Read Previous Black History Month at PLU Read Next PLU honors retirement of 53-year archivist, longest-serving employee with well deserved ‘hullabaloo’ COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window
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come together as a people and be at peace with one another. Never before in the history of man have we needed more than now, commitment to the proposition that we can chase from the face of this earth poverty, hatred, ugliness and pollution; and that we can make this earth a garden and a place of peace.” Prior to his service at PLU, Dr. Wiegman taught at numerous Lutheran schools and universities, served as an aide to a Nebraska Congressman, worked with land grant colleges in extension programs for
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dive into difficult conversations about race relations in the United States.“The consciousness of this country is shifting,” says Cunningham, who works in the PLU Campus Ministry office and partners with the university’s Center for Graduate and Continuing Education to produce People’s Gathering events. “Where we are right now in our nation’s history and our national rhetoric, we need to learn how to talk about race. Most of us learn about race on our own, and that can be really difficult.” Each
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