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March 21, 2011 Stories of real people give a face to atrocities As Noemi Schoenberger Ban looked at her mother, one last time, the message was clear, Ban recalled. “Her eyes told me to take care of myself,” Ban said. And then her mother, baby brother and younger sister were gone, lost in the line that was going toward a barracks to “take a shower.” It was only weeks later that Ban realized what had really happened to her family in Auschwitz concentration camp. Ban told her story to a hushed

said. Nelson, himself had a mild case of pulmonary edema he had to overcome. It can be fatal, if not taken care of properly. He listened to the doctors and treated it by dropping altitudes and taking the proper pharmaceuticals. “They have doctors up there,” Nelson said. “They green lighted me and there I went.” “It can be a big danger if you come down with that because you can’t really move,” he said. “I guess I took a risk by doing that, but it didn’t feel like that at the time. “There was time

been, quite simply, recognized as one of the most important figures in public health.   Shaping the global health care discussion Foege became executive director of The Carter Center in 1986 and continues to serve the organization as a senior fellow. He has served on the PLU board of regents and received an honorary doctorate from PLU in 2000, when he was the university’s commencement speaker. He helped shape the global health work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and remains a champion of

early retirement package in the 1980s. “But I’m going to be 83 years old this summer and I think I’m getting old,” she said. “I need to kind of retire and take it easy for while.” But taking it easy may not be in her DNA. “I want to do something different,” she said. “First I want to do nothing, but then I want to go through my papers. I have my own immigrant collection.” She also has plans to clean out her house, digitize photos, take care of her garden, maybe sell her house, visit friends and

, service, leadership and care — for other people, for their communities, and for the Earth.” I am grateful that our faculty members versed in immigration law and the constitutional rights of individuals are strong voices on our campuses, in our communities, and on the national stage. I am also grateful for the work in the Student Life Division, and in our Student Services and financial aid offices to provide resources and referrals to our students. A web site has been created for undocumented students

think that is all I can ask for. What skills are you gaining from this experience? I definitely feel like my professional development has gone up quite a bit in terms of what it means to work in a professional setting, and how to hold myself to a certain standard in a working way rather than an academic way. I definitely think that has been a bit of a struggle – shifting from being a student to “this is your job.” I’ve been trying to work on my time management skills, but it is a little rough.What

the world,” Frey said, adding that optimum access to teaching, learning and living spaces is necessary to fulfilling the institution’s mission. “Renovations and repairs that are ADA-compliant serve everyone. It means that all students have access to space and, ultimately, to the diversity of voices that speak in the classroom. That’s the positive.” Shared knowledge is key to the process, Orr stressed: “It takes all of us to figure it out. I need the input, understanding and communication amongst

and much more interested in getting down and dirty in the trash (after donning thick leather gloves of course). Comments before the sort ranged from “I don’t like the looks of this lab,” to “eew,” to “Oh great, this is one of my favorites.” The students even learned a few things during the sort. Yes, paper that has been stained by food can be composted. You can recycle milk cartons and potato chip bags. You can’t recycle plastic bottle caps or plastic forks. McConathy also reminded students to

. The Chemistry faculty plan to have webcasts from the NMR lab to teach local college and high school students about the NMR spectrometry. Undergraduate students, who usually do not have access to such a powerful instrument, will find that having used the spectrometer-one of the first of its kind located in a West Coast undergrad institution – will help them land future jobs, the professors said. “This is really going to be the crown jewel of the instruments in our department,” Waldow said when the

in the nation that hires a full-time police officer, Berger, to in essence be the police chief of a small town. PLU contracts with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department and pays the department for Berger’s position. As such, he has inside access to the workings of the office and how to report problems quickly and to the right person. When two projectors were stolen from PLU’s multimedia lab last year, one of PLU multimedia employees noticed that two identical projectors appeared on eBay. Berger