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The Legend of Sankta LuciaLucia was born to a wealthy family of the nobility in Syracuse on the island of Sicily in the year 284 AD. Her name derives from lux, meaning light. Her father died when she was still an infant and her mother raised her in the new Christian faith. At an early age, Lucia made a secret vow to remain a virgin and to devote her life to serving Christ and the poor. When she came of age, her mother wanted her to marry a man who was not a Christian. During this time her
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About the Scandinavian Cultural CenterWhat is the SCC?Located at 12180 South Park Avenue in Tacoma, the Scandinavian Cultural Center is a 6,700 square foot facility housed on the first floor of the University Center at Pacific Lutheran University. Completed in May 1989, the Center features a great hall, three exhibit galleries, and a demonstration kitchen. A 25-foot-high, custom-carved Viking ship prow serves as a dramatic visual statement, welcoming guests to the Center. The Cultural Center
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NEWS Check out the latest campus, local, national, and international news at MAST MEDIATHE MAST The Mast is PLU’s student-run newspaper. It was first printed in 1924 under the name The Mooring Mast. The unusual name of the newspaper came from the USS Shenandoah, a U.S. Navy airship. In nearby Fort Lewis there was a large mooring structure for the airship and the students derived the name from this in honor of the famed ship. CONTACT US Send a direct message. We read your message everyday, so
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THE MATRIXMATRIX.PLU.EDU The Matrix is a highly collaborative, intensely experimental, and thoughtfully provocative conversation starter. It is not an echo chamber. It is not a newspaper. It is not simple and it does not simplify. It is social justice in process, in progress, in conversation. It is not the final word. LEARN MORE ABOUT US ON OUR WEBSITE CONTACT US You can contact us via email here: matrix@plu.edu
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Revisiting the Visiting Writer Series: the 15th Anniversary Edition Posted by: hoskinsk / May 6, 2020 Image: Visiting writer and author Minal Hajratwala visits Wendy Call’s class at PLU, Tuesday, March 6, 2018. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) May 6, 2020 By Wyatt Loranger '21English MajorThe 2019-2020 academic year marks the 15th anniversary of the Visiting Writers Series, the English department’s annual program bringing writers from various backgrounds to Pacific Lutheran University. Most visits
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Registration appointment: Sign up for your PLU ePass if you haven’t already, and start checking your PLU email. Complete the Learning Community (Housing) Application. Whether you’ll be living on- or off-campus, this must be completed! Submit your Online Payment Agreement Complete the Meningococcal Release Acknowledgment Request your New Student Registration (NSR) appointment: Request your New Student Registration appointment – there are lots of spots in June and the beginning of July – first come, first
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Registration appointment: Sign up for your PLU ePass if you haven’t already, and start checking your PLU email. Complete the Learning Community (Housing) Application. Whether you’ll be living on- or off-campus, this must be completed! Submit your Online Payment Agreement Complete the Meningococcal Release Acknowledgment Request your New Student Registration (NSR) appointment: Request your New Student Registration appointment – there are lots of spots in June and the beginning of July – first come, first
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U.S. Congressman Rick Larsen shares how interactions with constituents has changed him.
lot about intentional listening.” Larsen said one thing he’s learned, especially with constituents, is the importance of staying in the moment and resisting the urge to start brainstorming solutions while he is listening. “My brain always flips into ‘OK what do we need to do about it, and how,’” he said. “That can sometimes be to my detriment because it gets in the way of my listening.” Larsen, a democrat, represents Washington’s 2nd Congressional District, which includes all of Island and San
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By:Brooke Thames '18 January 12, 2018 0 Carl Petersen ’04 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2017/01/carl-petersen-cover-1024x427.jpg 1024 427 Brooke Thames '18 Brooke Thames '18 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2016/05/brooke-thames-e1464106633496.jpg January 12, 2018 May 15, 2018 Carl Petersen ’04 In a lively yet ominous steampunk world, a boy and a bully clash in the classic struggle of good and evil. The stakes: bravery
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Two years before he founded the only local peace prize in the nation, Thomas Heavey ’74 was in the middle of a war.
the world and more. This year’s laureate focuses her work on clean water and sanitation projects in rural Bolivia. Pennye Nixon is founder and director of operations for Etta Projects, an organization created in memory of her daughter, who died when she was 16 in a bus crash in Bolivia just three months into her Rotary International exchange program. Nixon believes that quality health care and sanitation create peaceful conditions, in which stable communities can progress and grow. “Peace is the
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