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  • by Jenna Stoeber Christmas break is nearing, and with it comes a chance for faculty to catch their breath after a long and hard fall—before revving back up for another semester. The holiday break is ideal for exploring new methods of teaching, so why not…

    pyramids. Click to view larger. For students of literature, it can be thrilling to see how the people and places in a work of fiction can crossover into the real world. This is especially true for books where location plays an important role, such as in James Joyce’s classic, Ulysses. Using a map like the one below, students can follow, chapter-by-chapter, as the protagonists journey around real-life Dublin. Click on the locations in this interactive map to see how context has been applied. Likewise

  • PLU Center for Media Studies and MediaLab students Amanda Brasgalla, Olivia Ash and Valery Jorgensen (L to R) conducting a video interview. New Center for Media Studies Takes the Classroom Into the Community By Natalie DeFord ’16 Communications Major Like many college students, Olivia Ash…

    Ash, a communication major whose emphasis is PR/Advertising, “which has made me realize that radio is definitely in my future.” Ash is among several dozen PLU arts and communication students who will participate this school year in the new Center for Media Studies,  an initiative that formally launches this fall. The goal of the center is to invert the school’s arts and communication classrooms by providing students with more opportunities to apply their skills and knowledge in real-world settings

  • Some people spent their COVID lockdown time learning to bake homemade bread or bingeing TV shows or, frankly, just trying to survive. Pacific Lutheran University junior Jasneet Sandhu spent the spring of 2021 learning to row and launching a business out of her family home.…

    Student-athlete makes entrepreneurship look like a piece of cake Posted by: vcraker / May 25, 2022 May 25, 2022 By Craig CrakerAsst. Sports Information Director Some people spent their COVID lockdown time learning to bake homemade bread or bingeing TV shows or, frankly, just trying to survive. Pacific Lutheran University junior Jasneet Sandhu spent the spring of 2021 learning to row and launching a business out of her family home.The Sandhu Cake Company is the brainchild of Jasneet and her

  • Theatre, as a communal form of art, is an ideal forum in which to experience the kind of shared compassion that helps us persevere in difficult times and bring us closer together. The opening night of PLU’s Rabbit Hole, on March 9, 2012, provides an…

    to them,” Desmond said. Rabbit Hole, offers a real, raw journey that author David Lindsay-Abaire describes as “not a tidy play.” “During the course of the play, each of the five characters has to learn how to deal with a variety of very challenging situation,” Desmond said. “Regardless of how they act (and react) to each other and to the circumstances, it is ultimately compassion for themselves and for their fellow human beings that allows the characters to move on in their lives with some

  • They call it the crows nest. On the top floor of the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, the PLU costume shop is abuzz, preparing for Macbeth, which opens with a student preview on May 8. The new space is, for all involved,…

    granted creative control. “Usually Kathy picks the designs and fabrics, but I have undertaken projects where there were no designs or fabrics,” Schultz said. This really comes down to the scale of the production. Costumes for ‘Macbeth’ hang ready for rehearsals … and then the real performances. For Macbeth, Anderson has optioned dark tones. “There’s lots of blood, lots of killing, but there needs to be some light moments as well,” she says, smiling. “She’s really come alive in this new space,” Schultz

  • LOCK-DOWN DRILL THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 17-21, 2012 Pacific Lutheran University will be conducting a campus-wide lock-down drill during the week of September 17-21. This is a critically important drill. Your participation and cooperation are essential. The drill will be initiated by Campus Safety and…

    shooter incident. SAFETY DURING THE DRILL Always communicate, “This is a drill.” when carrying out the drill. If a real incident happens during the exercise, be sure to communicate to others and Campus Safety, “This is a real emergency.” There will be no live-action dramatizations during this drill. Thank you for your careful attention to emergency preparedness. Please contact the Emergency Programs Office at 538-6042 or wamboljm@plu.edu with questions. Read Previous “A University of the First Rank

  • Theatre, as a communal form of art, is an ideal forum in which to experience the kind of shared compassion that helps us persevere in difficult times and bring us closer together. The opening night of PLU’s Rabbit Hole, on March 9, 2012, provides an…

    to them,” Desmond said. Rabbit Hole, offers a real, raw journey that author David Lindsay-Abaire describes as “not a tidy play.” “During the course of the play, each of the five characters has to learn how to deal with a variety of very challenging situation,” Desmond said. “Regardless of how they act (and react) to each other and to the circumstances, it is ultimately compassion for themselves and for their fellow human beings that allows the characters to move on in their lives with some

  • They call it the crows nest. On the top floor of the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, the PLU costume shop is abuzz, preparing for Macbeth, which opens with a student preview on May 8. The new space is, for all involved,…

    granted creative control. “Usually Kathy picks the designs and fabrics, but I have undertaken projects where there were no designs or fabrics,” Schultz said. This really comes down to the scale of the production. Costumes for ‘Macbeth’ hang ready for rehearsals … and then the real performances. For Macbeth, Anderson has optioned dark tones. “There’s lots of blood, lots of killing, but there needs to be some light moments as well,” she says, smiling. “She’s really come alive in this new space,” Schultz

  • Poster 1 Poster 2 Poster 3 Poster 4 [Exhibit has closed.] Mortvedt Library is hosting a new popup exhibition from the National Archives ,  Rightfully Hers, “commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19 th Amendment. Rightfully Hers explores the history of the…

    /disqualifications, such as the intersection of gender and race with citizenship (who counts as a citizen?), land ownership (who owns real estate? how much real estate qualifies?), religion (e.g., in various states Baptists, Catholics, Quakers, and non-Christians were banned from voting), age, and literacy. “Following the 2016 election, the fight for voting rights remains as critical as ever. Politicians across the country continue to engage in voter suppression, efforts that include additional obstacles to

  • Greg Youtz: Composing for the cannery – of boxcars, rhinos, and grapes By James Olson ’14 In 1973, a 17-year-old Gregory Youtz departed from Sea-Tac International Airport and landed in France. Meritoriously skipping the third grade, the young composer had afforded himself the luxury of…

    I mean this was the real world. It gets wooly.” It was on this stretch that Youtz began discovering a compassion towards the global circumstance that would one day become manifest in the body of his work. In Katmandu, Youtz and Unsoeld landed a gig housesitting for John Seidensticker who was, at the time, conducting post-doctoral research on tigers and jaguars in the Tibetan backcountry. Seidensticker, who is now the head of the Conservation Ecology Center at the Smithsonian’s National