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Students crammed into PLU’s Studio Theatre on April 17 for the 2014 edition of PLU’s Hebrew Idol Live finale. Even the stairs and aisles were filled as the audience clapped, cheered and laughed its way through the event, hosted by Tommy Flanagan ’14 and organized by Religion Professor Antonios Finitsis. PLU Hebrew Idol reflects the knowledge students have gained in Finitsis’ introductory Religion and Literature of the Hebrew Bible course. Each year, students are required to apply their interpretations

accessible to all students,” PLU provost Joanna Gregson said. The ARTS committee’s findings indicated that standardized tests aren’t always the best way to measure student potential and capacity, and can reinforce inequities in access to higher education. Additionally, such tests don’t determine whether a prospective student will be a good fit for PLU — and can actually unintentionally filter out students. “We know from the literature that standardized test requirements pose a significant obstacle for

Wolf, New Voice in Chinese Women’s Literature Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang, translated by Karen S. Kingsbury Danish The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally Dutch The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, translated by Michele Hutchison French The Lover by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Caribbean Writers A Season in Rihata by Maryse Conde, translated by Richard Philcox (Guadeloupe) Memory at Bay by Evelyne Trouillot

contribution relies on decades of experience in intersections of religion, disability, health, and healing. An associate professor of early and medieval Christian history at PLU, Llewellyn Ihssen is the program director of IHON-Oxford. Llewellyn Ihssen uses critical disability theory in her work on ancient, late antique, and medieval religious texts.  After earning an undergraduate degree in English literature and secondary education, Llewellyn Ihssen worked in special-education classrooms. Yearning to

years, I’ve developed a course for our International Honors program, and I’ve learned all sorts of amazing new music doing that. I’ve done the same for our Nordic Studies program and learned all sorts of great Scandinavian music (from Grieg to Heavy Metal) that I would not have known about without teaching that course. Now I’m working on a similar course in film music for our new Film Studies program. Would you share your favorite memory from a performance? When I was eight years old, I performed

. “That was done very deliberately when we were creating the menu,” McGinnis said. “We wanted to create amazing dishes using simple local ingredients.” Coffee and those morning pastries (thanks to the PLU bakery) are still on the menu and the coffee is provided by Valhalla in North Tacoma, with selections like Organic Viking and Valkyrie blends. It should fit nicely with the Scandinavian Shop in the Garfield Book Company. But 208 Garfield is so much more than a coffee shop. The name will become

present his final lecture, titled “Hitler’s Pink Victims: Robert Oelbermann and the Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi Germany,” April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. The inspiration for the lecture started in 1996, when Torvend visited the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C. As a part of the permanent exhibit, visitors receive an identity card of someone killed during the Holocaust and Torvend got Oelbermann. “He was a naturalist, a filmmaker and was a director of a youth group

design work and process. You can reach Professor Tsuneoka at jtsuneoka@plu.edu. Research and Teaching Interests Prof. Halvorson: Where did you attend college? Can you share a few research or professional interests with us? Prof. Tsuneoka: I graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo with an English Literature degree, and then I came to Seattle to study graphic design. I graduated from Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle) in 2002. Since then, I have done a lot of design work for corporate advertising

and process. You can reach Professor Tsuneoka at jtsuneoka@plu.edu. Research and Teaching Interests Prof. Halvorson: Where did you attend college? Can you share a few research or professional interests with us? Prof. Tsuneoka: I graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo with an English Literature degree, and then I came to Seattle to study graphic design. I graduated from Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle) in 2002. Since then, I have done a lot of design work for corporate advertising clients

started five years ago, for Finitsis’ Religion 211 class, Religion and Literature of the Hebrew Bible, and students were charged with the task of reflecting on the contemporary relevance and significance of the biblical material they were studying. Finitsis collaborated with Nick Butler, instructional technologies team manager, to bring the project alive. Today, it has morphed into a project and competition where students spend a great deal of time developing a story and creating videos that reflect