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  • August 15, 2012 Game On! Some of the ‘Stuen Accommodators’ get loud – it’s what they do. From left to right: Kory Miller ’14, Amy Delo ’15, Chris Guiducci ’14, Steffi Mack ’15. By Steve Hansen Chris Guiducci ’14 likes to yell.  So does his intramural team. It all started when Chris got together with some people from his residence hall to play in a co-ed volleyball league. At the time, they didn’t know each other that well, and they certainly weren’t used to interacting as teammates. The play

  • footage you can.” For communication and women’s and gender studies double major Kortney Scroger ’14, it’s a whirlwind of activity and excitement. “It was kind of crazy. All I remember is just a bunch of cameras and flashing, and people running around when it came close to crunch time,” said Scroger of last year’s election night party for I-1183 at the Clarion Hotel in Seattle. Election night is entirely new kind of experience, even for students like Heather Perry ‘13, who is majoring in communication

  • , but I’m right there for everything that happens,” Foss said. “I know about every fossil that’s being discovered before it hits the news. I know who is working where and on what. That’s the excitement of it, being on the edge of everything going on in paleontology.” × Foss juggles a variety of hats in an average week at the office, ranging from policy expert to to public relations officer. “I spend a lot of time helping to develop policy as well as reviewing other proposed policy, thinking about

  • , but it’s multiple campuses, as well as other work on top of that. It can be wild. Some weeks I’m in court, some weeks I’m at board meetings, some weeks I’m traveling to conferences. There is no such thing as a standard. What do you enjoy most about your work? Really, I enjoy the variety. Every day is an opportunity to learn something new, and that works well with my personality and also with my desire to move on to new things constantly. I have a hard time doing the same thing over and over again

  • partnership often identify non-certified candidates already working in the schools to enroll in PLU’s program, said Vanessa Tucker, assistant professor of education. She said schools recommend people with the expectation that they will be hired into full-time positions once the certification process is complete. “The program supplies the teaching force with non-traditional students,” Tucker said, “people who would be wonderful additions to our field.” Wade is certified to teach special education and

  • experiences the sting of systemic oppression when in Norway. “It’s difficult for me, on an emotional level, to identify as white,” said Storfjell, who has spent significant time in both countries. In Norway, he said, “I always knew I was Sámi.” This experience informed his passion project: a new Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) program and minor at Pacific Lutheran University, set to launch in fall 2018. In fact, the opportunity to create such a program was part of what convinced Storfjell

  • earth to mediate between man and God. The Bobo people have lived in western Burkina Faso for centuries and are believed to be one of the oldest groups in the area. They are a rural, decentralized people, and agriculture is a primary part of their day to day existence. The dry season (tagaho) and harvest time (birewa danga) are two major times of the year when ceremonies involving masks occur. A central tenant of the Bobo belief system involves maintaining and restoring the balance of the world

  • child of survivors of the Holocaust who will tell his parent’s story. His father not only survived, but was on the “Exodus.” This ship reached Palestine in 1947, despite opposition from the British government, a year before the creation of the state of Israel. Brill’s mother survived the Warsaw Ghetto, despite being a very young girl at the time. She used her so-called “Aryan” appearance and quick wits to survive as an illegal courier, moving in and out of the ghetto. She later moved to Israel

  • child of survivors of the Holocaust who will tell his parent’s story. His father not only survived, but was on the “Exodus.” This ship reached Palestine in 1947, despite opposition from the British government, a year before the creation of the state of Israel. Brill’s mother survived the Warsaw Ghetto, despite being a very young girl at the time. She used her so-called “Aryan” appearance and quick wits to survive as an illegal courier, moving in and out of the ghetto. She later moved to Israel

  • child of survivors of the Holocaust who will tell his parent’s story. His father not only survived, but was on the “Exodus.” This ship reached Palestine in 1947, despite opposition from the British government, a year before the creation of the state of Israel. Brill’s mother survived the Warsaw Ghetto, despite being a very young girl at the time. She used her so-called “Aryan” appearance and quick wits to survive as an illegal courier, moving in and out of the ghetto. She later moved to Israel